Slowly, a car with a smoked rear seat enters the floor where the underground vendor lift is permanently installed.

Usually there were only trucks and vendor cars, and it was a luxury car that I didn't usually see there.

Typically, they come in through the front entrance of the lab or through a stakeholder gate.

However, that was not the case this time.

"You arrived a little early."

It was Tatsuo Kobayashi, Dean of the Department of Applied Engineering at the Shiraishi Institute of Special Steel.

The president of the head office and overseas companies waited in front of the security station where they checked suspicious people inside the company in the face of tension they had never seen during their visits.

The car stops and the driver comes out of the driver's seat.

A man I have seen on several occasions, he was the guardian of Yugo Shiraishi, the top Shiraishi of Shiraishi products that I talked about on the phone yesterday.

I'm sure he was there when he got in and out of Yugo's car.

He opened the rear seat door in a natural motion.

(I'm so glad...!

I swallowed your spit and waited for the moment now or now.

He made a fool of himself every time he watched TV, but he felt like he could see only a part of the feelings of the fan group waiting to leave when the international celebrities landed at the airport.

"I'm sorry. Mr. Monkura.Is this it?

"Yes, I'll show you around."

I thought you were young.

Your voice is young and clear.

(It was said a lot, but was it still a young person?)

On various verification sites, we anticipate the figure of the "Knight of Light Speed".

Among them, age was also speculated.

As for Kobayashi, he recommended a figure around 30 years old, but his family didn't give up that he was “crazy” from his late teens to his early 20s.

Well, as a result, the family seems to be right.

He hid behind the gate and could not see from the woods, but he could see his feet coming out of the car to the ground.

It is a foot wrapped in a suit.

Then, as soon as the gate warehouse deviated from its front, a "Knight" appeared in front of Kobayashi....

"Uhhhh!? Piero!?

A silhouette that looks like a man in a suit about 180 feet tall.

There's nothing particularly strange about that, but a cheap clown mask sits on my head.

Kobayashi also knows that this clown mask was a precursor to "knights" with information from "knights" repeatedly circulated in wide shows.

I heard that the identity was classified, so I thought I'd hide my face.

However, it was about that level of recognition in a fine ordinary mask and sunglasses.

There's an unexpected clown mask.

(Here, this is certainly quite scary.Somehow I want to escape instinctively....)

Try desperately to retain a backward body and maintain a tight smile.

I don't suppose you know such a struggle.

"Knight" and "Clown" stand in front of Kobayashi.

"Ah, thank you. Yugo Shiraishi introduced me to you and I will take care of you today.Um... I'm embarrassed to say it myself...He's called the Knight of Light Speed, yes.

"Oh, I've been expecting you.You can come in from the elevator for loading supplies over there.I'm preparing my card key for suspicious activity, so please take this. "

"I'm sorry. No, I think you need to catch me first if you're going to take measures against a suspicious person, haha."

"No!! That's what we do!!Please don't be rude!!Hahaha!!

As for the bush, it was a light joke, but it had the opposite effect.

Conversely, the tingling air flows.

(Yabee, it looks super-sweet.Hah, that's why I didn't want to come...)

The bush under the mask sighs in the mask to keep it from leaking out.

Seeing such silence, Gankura breaks it.

"Well, it's funny to talk in the basement like this.Let's go inside and talk."Knight, I'm sure you'll be tired of being rocked by a car for a long time."

"Yes, that's right. All right, this way!

Kobayashi, melted from the rigidity, guides visitors.

Somewhere, anxious to go first, the bush followed almost everywhere.

(Somehow, it's incredibly uncomfortable...)

When the clean hallway came after the Kobayashi guide, the goldfish graciously followed.

However, as I was passing through the hallway, I felt several signs across the doors on both sides.

I suppose I was going to hide from where there was no noise at all, but there was a mole in the bush.

There is also a glimpse of the blinds slightly open from the outside of the window stretched out in the hallway.

Let's be clear.

Very uncomfortable.

Is it closest to the right answer to be watching bears and lions being transported, rather than being seen by entertainers?

"Hah...."

A sigh that nobody could hear disappeared in a clown mask.

He sighed an unknown number of times into the mask and walked through a long hallway to his destination room.

It looks like a space for meetings and meetings, rather than a general meeting room.

"Please sit down and wait.Now I'm going to call the team leader for each piece of special equipment. "

"Um, no, you don't really have to make it like that.I just need one or two more sets of the same thing easily.If you can make it up to Tequito...You don't have to do such a big thing... "

"Absolutely not!!

"Ooh!?

All of a sudden, the bush starts screaming loudly.

Located opposite the table, Kobayashi's face was slightly red and his eyes were also bloody.

Meanwhile, Gankura is sitting on the chair in a manner that does not concern me.

"We are sure to deliver more than you expect.Please sit down and wait. "

"Yes, yes."

A suspicious clown mask sitting under pressure from an old man in work clothes.

A mysterious sight spreads there.

Concentrate, Concentrate!

There's a group coming in with a light knock.

Everyone enters the room saying, "Excuse me," but the line of sight will not be diverted from the clown mask suspect.

They brought in bundles of paper and thick binders that each could not hold in their hands, with the same momentum as a mover.

From the rear, the clerk comes in with a drink for the number of people.

If you take such a simple response from a customer, you will feel very cramped.

A clerk leaves a gently served hot cup of coffee on the table.

By the way, the clerk was desperately managing his interesting self.

I will add here that my body was acting very unnaturally.

(I mean, how can I drink coffee with my mask...)

If you think about it carefully, it is a clown mask that almost covers the front of the face, so it is not a specification that can be used for meals, etc.

The people sitting did not realize whether they were busy preparing for each other.

"Now, let's introduce ourselves briefly..."

That's why the conversation started without noticing it.

"Here's what I designed as a prototype with the concept of…"

"Hah, hah..."

What Mao is showing now is a presentation from the person in charge of the last Shield department.

Additional materials will be handed over in the form of half-baked materials that were handed over earlier with “Spear", "Axe" and "Armor (by part)".

Perhaps the basic specs, the materials, and even the color rings on the design patterns are written in detail.

The Mao replied in a careless manner because the various documents packed throughout were spinning around in his head.

The first university notebook that was given to you for use in your memo is running out of power to write it down and is becoming more inert and listening.

"... how about that?There are four kinds of plans that we think of as “shields.”Is there anything that bothers you?

"... um, can I ask you something?

Apart from talking a little with the spear I first presented, the Knight of Speed of Light, who had lost sight of the material and remained silent, opened his mouth for the first time in a long time.

None other than the presenter had made every effort to read the concept while staring at the materials of other departments with holes, but everyone looked up to the "Knight of Light Speed".

(Yep. It's super tough.Something.... yeah, I feel mad...)

It may be good to be enthusiastic about work, but I think there are limits.

It feels like a little bit of a scratch to be stared at with a bloody eye, and even if you wait with a rough nose, you won't get a distracting line.

"Well, you guys are thinking about a lot of amazing plans, but honestly, I don't know if I'm going to use them.Somehow, I wish I had something that I could actually get. "

"You mean prototype samples?Yesterday and today, that's pretty good.... "

"No! If it's for verification, I can make some!!However, because the painting and design are not yet finished..... "

A loud voice echoes through Kobayashi's words in the conference room.

It was the Axe who said that.

We first tried to make some appropriately based on the overall balance and calculation of the load when combined with the pattern itself.

I was just testing what I could do with it in a separate building by combining some of them.

"Ah, now I'd like to actually show you...Besides, I think there's a slight difference of opinion between you and me. "

"What is it?

Mao asks, leaning her head slightly in a clown mask.

"Why are you decorating so gloriously without saying any of this?As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to ask you to be more plain, plain and dull. "

"" "" "" Yes?

Everyone, including Kobayashi, puts a question mark on their head.

I wonder what the clown mask in front of me is saying.

Speaking of which, the party is turning around and showing themselves a page with four different “shield” design proposals that have just been presented.

"Look, this looks like a lion on the front.You don't need this kind of decoration.There's no point in hitting each other with such a fine thing. "

"Mm-hmm!?

Well, it's not completely pointless.

There is also spiritual inspiration and intimidation of the other party.

It is almost impossible here, but some luxury products have incorporated magic formulas into the target drawings of the design and improved their performance.

It takes a lot of restraint to buy it lined up in a shop with the salary of a soldier like Mao.

That's why some of my colleagues used to put their hands on cursed gear and lose their scalp.

"Please remove this silver coloring from the list of candidates.No, it's rather a matte finish, isn't it?

"Well then, as for the Knight of Light Speed equipment..."

"? No, because I'm not standing on a runway like a model?It's dangerous because such a prominent object is more likely to be targeted, right?

"Hah, hah..."

Looking at the materials, Mao gave me a bad look.

There are people who look at it and gently lower the materials.

He is the head of the Armor department that I presented at the beginning.

Sometimes things cover the whole body, and the department with the most people in charge had various opinions.

This is an upgraded version of the “Normal Specification” based on the original provided as a sample, which is more hobbyistically refined.

With the “special specifications” plan, which was created as a completely different plan, we have already started prototyping some of the parts, even though it is actually just an external type.

Although we intend to continue packing internal armor while actually checking for defects when measuring or wearing it, it has the advantage of being able to be used immediately by transplanting armor material from the original.

It is the work of Kaishin where everyone upgraded various parts from 3D scanning all night long.

However, it is a "good old man who did his best without shame" and "good luck with our dreams".

Uplifting the momentum of the current "Knight of Light Speed" speech, he threw it into his envelope while apologizing to everyone in the department.

People's thoughts were often different.