"A, a date?!"

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Mitsui Honoka's eyes widened in surprise. She looked at Fang Zheng and then at Kitayama Shizuku.

"Shizuku, you two, when did your relationship become like this?"

"Calm down, Honoka."

Compared to the panicked Mitsui Honoka, Kitayama Shizuku seemed very calm. She first comforted Mitsui Honoka and then looked at Fang Zheng.

"What's the meaning?"

"Let's just go have some coffee and talk about something."

"that's all?"

"Yeah, when a man and a woman go out, isn't that a date?"

Having said that, Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Honoka Mitsui.

"How about you come along?"

"Eh? Aa ...

Although she was very surprised, after school, Honoka Mitsui followed Shizuku Kitayama to the cafe, where Fang Zheng was already waiting for them.

"Hey, you guys are here."

Looking at the two of them, Fang Zheng chuckled and waved at them.

"Sit down."

After hearing what Fang Zheng said, the two nodded and sat down. Mitsui Honoka looked at Fang Zheng a little embarrassedly, then looked at Kitayama Shizuku, who stared at Fang Zheng with an unchanged expression and asked.

"What's the matter?"

"It's like this. I was given a difficult task by my superiors."

Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and soon the waiter brought drinks and cakes to the two girls. At the same time, he spoke.

"You should know about the paper competition. The school wanted me to participate because I had previously co-published a paper with Kitayama Industry on the generalization of flying magic and the core of automatic calculation. Although I didn't really want to do such a troublesome thing, I finally agreed with reluctance."

"So you hope to work with father again?"

Kitayama Shizuku quickly understood what Fang Zheng meant, and Fang Zheng nodded.

"After all, we have a history of cooperation, so this is normal. Besides, you know I am not interested in those troublesome things."

"That's true... But what is the topic you proposed this time?"

"How about the practical application of general-purpose flying magic?"

"Practical?"

When Kitayama Shizuku heard the title Fang Zheng threw out, she was stunned for a moment.

"But hasn't general-purpose flying magic been put into practical use?"

After the Nine Schools War, the military also made a commission to Beishan Industry, and Beishan Industry also took advantage of its fame after the Nine Schools War to start promoting its products. They divided their products into two levels. The flying skateboard was a primary product for the market, and then the second-generation product modified by Fang Zheng that did not need a skateboard and could fly directly with the help of airflow. However, due to excessive consumption of magic power, it was changed to a product for high-end magicians and the military.

"That was just a sample made to prove the magic of flight. It's like I made a light bulb to prove that electricity can emit light. But just because a light bulb can emit light, it's impossible for us to use electricity to emit light."

"That's right... do you have any idea yet?"

"Of course, I'm ready."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng took out a data storage disk, and Kitayama Shizuku inserted it into her personal terminal and began to read it carefully. However, as she read, Kitayama Shizuku's expression became more and more strange. After reading the entire plan, she looked at Fang Zheng with a complex and speechless look.

"Is this the practical application of flying magic?"

"That's what I said, that's what the headline said, and that's what others believed."

Fang Zheng spread his hands, squinted his eyes and looked at Kitayama Shizuku with a smile.

"Isn't that enough?"

“…Indeed, this is enough.”

Noticing the look that Honoka Mitsui was giving her, Shizuku Kitayama nodded and silently changed the subject.

After that, the three of them did not discuss this issue anymore. Instead, they drank coffee and talked about some interesting things in life. Then Fang Zheng said goodbye and left. After saying goodbye to Mitsui Honoka, Kitayama Shizuku returned home as quickly as possible and called her father.

"Father, I have something I want to discuss with you. It is very important."

"Oh? What's that?"

"It's about Kasugano. He just found me and said he wants to cooperate with Kitayama Industry again. This time the topic is 'The Practical Application of Universal Flying Magic' which he will present in the paper competition."

"Oh? That's good. No problem. I'll tell the R&D department to cooperate fully... Then I have a meeting to attend..."

"Father."

However, before Kitayama Shizuku's father could finish his words, he was interrupted by Kitayama Shizuku.

"I suggest you come back and take a look at this plan from Kasugano."

"……Um."

Although Kitayama Shizuku's tone did not change, Kitayama Chao seemed to hear something from his daughter's voice, so he was silent for a moment and then changed his tone.

"Indeed, no matter what, he is an important partner of ours. Okay, wait a minute, I will arrange the company affairs and then go back immediately."

After a while, Kitayama Chao finally returned home. Seeing her father coming back, Kitayama Shizuku hurriedly stood up, and her face, which was always expressionless, seemed to relax a little - in fact, ever since she said goodbye to Fang Zheng, Kitayama Shizuku has been quite nervous, and it felt as if what she was holding in her hand was not a plan, but a major secret related to national security.

Although on some level this is true.

Now that she sees her father, Kitayama Shizuku can finally put down the burden in her heart.

As for whether his father would bear this burden, that was his problem.

"Okay, where is the document on 'the practical application of universal flying magic' that you mentioned?"

Kitayama Chao certainly didn't know that his daughter had turned out to be a black-hearted person. He looked at Kitayama Shizuku with doubt and asked. He knew his daughter very well and knew that she was not the kind of person who would talk nonsense and was very obedient and sensible. Knowing that she was busy with company affairs, she still insisted on him coming back, which meant that this plan was not ordinary.

"Here."

Kitayama Shizuku handed over the data storage disk in her hand, and Kitayama Chao took the storage disk and inserted it into the terminal, then opened it and read it. At the beginning, his expression seemed a little careless, but in the middle, Kitayama Chao's face was serious. He even got up and walked into the study, and then locked himself in the room. After nearly two hours, Kitayama Chao finally walked out of the study with a serious face.

"Who has seen this plan? Where did he give it to you?"

Looking at his daughter, Kitayama Chao hurriedly asked, and Kitayama Shizuku thought for a moment and answered.

"It was in a cafe near the school. Only Honoka and I knew about the file. I was the only one who actually saw it...assuming Kasugano didn't show it to anyone else."

"That's good..."

Hearing Kitayama Shizuku's answer, Kitayama Chao breathed a sigh of relief and gave a bitter smile.

"Practical application of flying magic? It's amazing that he could come up with that idea."

"Actually, it's true. After all, this is indeed used for flying..."

After several hours, Kitayama Shizuku finally calmed down and was able to make a joke.

"Well said, but these technologies here...are you really sure that he..."

"I believe Kasugano is not the kind of person who speaks without thinking. If he is not sure, he will never give this plan, father."

Kitayama Shizuku certainly knew why her father had such a strange expression, it was naturally because of the plan.

Indeed, Fang Zheng did not lie to them about the core content of this plan. It did say that it was the "practical application of flying magic." To put it bluntly, it was to use flying magic to make something fly.

But the problem lies in the thing itself.

It was a... robot.

It's not that there are no robots in this world, but according to the terms of this world, they are not called robots or mechas, but are called "upright chariots." As the name suggests, although this thing is in human form, it does not walk on its feet. Instead, it has tracks on its feet to move forward like a tank, and is equipped with various weapons on its body.

This thing was invented in Eastern Europe and is used to sweep away infantry in urban areas.

So when Fang Zheng said that he wanted to use flying magic to verify the flying robot, there was actually nothing wrong with it - that would be strange!

There is a big problem here, okay? !

First of all, how can a robot fly using flying magic? What is the power source? How to operate it? How to design it with CAD? These are almost all new topics, involving many difficult problems, many of which have not even been proposed yet - people in the steam power era would not have nothing to do but think about how to develop an anti-gravity system, right?

It can even be said that many of the magic engineering problems in this document are no less difficult than the "Three Major Magic Problems of the Aggravated System", but Fang Zheng actually solved them all... To be honest, if it wasn't written by Fang Zheng, Bei Shanchao would definitely think it was some kind of fantastical statement.

But now...all this is true!

Thinking of this, Bei Shanchao also felt a great deal of pressure. If this thing was really made, even if it was just an experimental machine, he could imagine what it would bring.

And this is what Bei Shanchao is most excited about!

After that, Beishan Chao left home in a hurry and went to the company again - for Beishan Industrial, this was almost the biggest project since its establishment.

In fact, no one knew that this was just a poison bait thrown by Fang Zheng.

After all, Fang Zheng has always been an advocate of giant ships, cannons, and drones. How could he have nothing better to do than build a Gundam and slap himself in the face? If this were in China, Fang Zheng would not have taken out such a stupid robot, and would have directly used a star destroyer and a swarm of drones. But this is Japan, and he didn't intend to leave the good stuff to Japan, so he came up with such a "beautiful-looking" Gundam construction plan.

In fact, this was also Fang Zheng’s strategy.

Fang Zheng will definitely give all the technologies he developed to his country, but how to give them is a problem. Although he can secretly transmit them through Zhou Gongjin, think about it, if the technology he just developed is suddenly the same as the one on the other side, then unless there is a problem in his brain, he will definitely think that someone leaked the information, right?

So Fang Zheng came up with this idea.

He first took advantage of the Japanese "Gundam complex" to create such a prototype, and Fang Zheng was sure that with the mentality of the Japanese, once they discovered this "powerful and easy-to-use" creation, they would definitely increase their investment in it. At that time, Fang Zheng could make Japan embark on the path of militarism again - after all, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it also felt that it was very stable, stupid tape, cute big breasts.

If they were given a Gundam, the Japanese military would definitely want to reach for the moon.

Once Japan decides to increase its R&D investment in Gundam, the prototype they create will certainly include a lot of confidential technologies from the Japanese magic world - so Fang Zheng just needs to wait until they are done, then steal one and send it back.

It's the same principle as when Zeon stole the Gundam.

In this way, even if the other side came up with some technology, Japan would only think that they were reverse-engineered, and would never think that the inventor of this technology was actually an insider sent by the other side...

But... this play also requires the other party's cooperation.