“All in all, My Lords, you should restart from scratch.”
Seeing Babbage’s appearance becoming increasingly absurd, Sir Tristan quickly advised.
“How can that be!” Eikou protested excitedly, “I finally managed to build Miss 2B, how can I just scrap her?
Wouldn’t that make all our hard work for naught?”
“Sir Eikou… you finally admit that you deliberately made it this way.
Although I appreciate Babbage’s new appearance, that wasn’t our goal at all, was it?”
“Hiss, I can’t refute that…”
“Teacher Babbage could wake up at any moment.
Next time, we must rebuild him properly, restoring him to his original form,” Tristan said earnestly.
“I truly beg of you.”
“Even if you say that…”
Eikou glanced at Babbage’s current appearance and suddenly felt a bit troubled.
“By the way, do either of you remember what Teacher Babbage originally looked like…?”
“I’ve completely forgotten as well,” Sir Gawain said regretfully.
The three of them fell into an awkward silence.
After repeatedly modifying several versions, their original impression of Babbage had long since become unrecognizable.
“I think I still have a tiny impression…” Tristan said cautiously.
“First, Teacher Babbage’s image was closer to dark gray, and in certain situations, he could even transform into a train engine (Dead Heat Summer Race!
event).”
“Sir Tristan, do you mean that if we redesign him based on the appearance and structure of a black train engine, we might be able to get close to his original form?” Eikou asked seriously.
“Precisely.”
“A train engine, huh…” He nodded thoughtfully.
“I think I understand.
Let’s do it, Sir Gawain.
I think I know how to modify him now.”
“As you wish,” Gawain replied.
The two of them carried Babbage back to the manufacturing workshop.
Listening to the banging and clanging sounds from the workshop, Tristan suddenly had a very bad premonition.
About half an hour later,
The two of them carried out the newly manufactured Babbage again.(TL: it A Train from the boys yeah…)
“Ah, we really worked hard,” Eikou said, crossing his arms.
“Here’s the ‘train engine’ you wanted.
You’re welcome.”
“This is the most popular train engine model in recent years.
Witness it,” Gawain echoed.
“It is indeed a train engine…
but this is even worse than the previous version.
This isn’t even a robot anymore.
What exactly are you doing?
Do you really want to throw me into the fire pit?”
Eikou shook his head heavily and said, “Actually, we had our difficulties this time.
We didn’t have enough materials, and we lacked experience.
The train engine structure you requested was simply too complex, so we compromised.”
“What you’ve built is clearly a hundred times more complex than a regular train engine!
Truly, it makes me incredibly sad…”
Tristan let out a heavy sigh, the melancholy in his brows almost overflowing.
“Ah, I shouldn’t have expected you to handle this.
I’ll have to do it myself.” He plucked a mournful tune on his harp strings.
“This is a battle where only success is allowed, otherwise, we’ll all go to jail.”
“Only you will go to jail.”
The two of them said in unison.
“Ah, I…”
“Stop playing the harp, Sir Tristan.
We’re just joking with you,” Eikou said with a smile.
“How could we let a friend go to jail?
Come on, this time, the three of us will work together to perfectly put Teacher Babbage together and earn his forgiveness!”
“Exactly, Lord Tristan is also an important member of our Round Table.”
Gawain also said with emotion.
The three of them once again carried Teacher Babbage into the workshop.
“We don’t have much material left, so this should really be the last modification.
There’s no room for error this time, so the three of us must do our best to give Babbage a satisfactory explanation.”
[You used Hero Creation E]
[Gawain’s strength temporarily increased.]
[You used Blessing of the Lake E]
[Gawain and Tristan’s various attributes temporarily increased.]
“Whew…”
Eikou had already used all the skills he could.
Whether they succeeded this time depended on their luck.
He silently took out a wrench, while Tristan handed Sir Gawain a welding Noble Phantasm and a safety mask.
“Let’s begin.”
[The three of you gave your all in the workshop to restore Teacher Babbage to his original state.]
[Please make two consecutive checks: a Luck check and an Endurance check.]
[Endurance Check D, Success.]
[Luck Check E, Great Success!]
“What, a Great Success?”
[Just at the critical moment of restoring Babbage, you suddenly had an epiphany.
Not only did you master the principles of assembling machines without instruction, but you also finally recalled the original appearance of Charles Babbage.
You performed exceptionally well, and the repair progress was unusually smooth.
You completely repaired Babbage in less than half an hour!]
[You learned ‘Steam B’]
[You have gained a new understanding of steam technology, which will allow you to perform better in future exams or manual projects.]
Perfectly repaired.
He even learned a new skill.
The three of them looked at the newly manufactured Charles Babbage as if they had been reborn.
“Unbelievable, we actually did it.”
“The Babbage unit we built this time is simply perfect.
This time, we’ve truly perfectly replicated his original image,” Eikou exclaimed.
But Tristan rubbed his eyes in disbelief, “…But why do I remember that Teacher Babbage didn’t look like this?”
“Your eyes are too small; you don’t pay close attention to people,” he said, pointing at Babbage’s current appearance.
“This is clearly Teacher Babbage himself, a one-to-one replication, a perfect restoration down to the pixel level.
Don’t you agree, Gawain?”
“Haha, Sir Tristan is clearly overthinking it,” Gawain said confidently.
“I swear on my holy sword, this is absolutely Teacher Babbage’s original appearance!”
“How embarrassing, Sir Tristan, you don’t even know what your teacher looks like.
Don’t talk to us anymore.”
“Um, ah, but…”
Tristan looked at Teacher Babbage’s current appearance.
“Did he really look like this before?”
…[After some time, the police arrived after receiving a report.
They first sent the unconscious Teacher Babbage to a repair shop, and after hearing the specific situation, they sent you to the Chaldea Police Station.]
[In front of the police, you and Gawain spoke eloquently, saying that if anyone was to be arrested, it should only be Tristan, and why should you two be dragged into it.
However, the police said that you had unauthorized cosmetic surgery on someone and altered their appearance without their permission, which was also a very serious offense.]
“I still think we didn’t do anything wrong.”
In the interrogation room, Eikou said righteously.
The main point was to have a clear conscience.
“Officer, you can accuse us of accidentally harming someone, and you can accuse us of mishandling many things.
But how can you fabricate charges out of thin air, saying that we arbitrarily altered someone else’s appearance?
We merely used the most professional and meticulous mechanical technology to restore Teacher Babbage’s appearance.”
To this, the officer just sighed helplessly.
“How do I put this…
do you really think you didn’t do anything wrong?” he said.
“Officer, I believe there’s nothing wrong with our actions!”
Gawain took on the stance of a debater entering the arena, suddenly standing up.
His muscular physique of 1.8 meters startled the officer opposite him.
“On this matter alone, I can guarantee with my holy sword that we absolutely precisely and rigorously restored him according to his most authentic image.
If you ask me, it is ‘Charles Babbage should look like this.’ Anyone who sees him now will say that he is Babbage himself!”
“But,” the officer seized on that word, “that’s precisely the problem!
You restored him a bit too rigorously, didn’t you?!”
“This damn restoration is too three-dimensional!”