It's All for Survival [Mecha]

[The blurbs for my upcoming works AI and Under Heaven are at the bottom] [Revising and slowly editing the earlier chapters...] Blurb With the league approaching, a post appeared on the military academy forum, a place for gossip lovers. [Heard that a super cute little girl has joined the mech combat department at Charui First Military Academy] Students from all the schools gathered excitedly to watch. 1L: Is Charui First Military Academy so short on people that they need a little girl to put on a show? 2L: How cute are we talking? I won't believe it without a picture. 3L: Are they planning to use a cute girl to shake our army's morale? 4L: Hmph. A cute girl won't help her either. My school shows no mercy when crushing flowers. Then, during the league. 79L: "Everyone, why didn't you mention that this little girl's defining trait is that she's violent?!" 80L: T-T 81L: (╥╯^╰╥) * At first, Teng Tan simply thought this place was wonderful. The weather was nice, the place was nice, and the people were nice, too. She'd never had a home before, but now she did. How lucky she was. Later, she looked at the land stained red, the sky filled with smoke, and the soldiers holding the line to the death. She thought, I have to protect my home. Much later, Teng Tan realized that all the hardship in her past had been for the sake of meeting them, if only briefly, in her life. * I love you, my family, my friends, my star system. I swear this: the green olive flag will spread across every inch of land. The souls of heroes will no longer wander, and the foreign lands where their bones were buried will eventually become a country where they can rest in peace. * This is how she is described in The History of Charui: “She is the youngest general in Charui's history. She is the hero of this era, the undefeated God of War, and the firmest belief of Charui's soldiers.” Reader's Guide: 1. This is a very, very long novel! 2. The romance is barely there, and the author is terrible at writing romantic scenes, so please read with caution. 3. The female lead is designed to be top-tier. The people she meets early on aren't on her level, so please don't wonder why she's so powerful. 4. Most of the worldbuilding is made up by the author. Please don't try to find a serious explanation for it. 5. The author's logic is dead. Just enjoy the ride. PS: If you spot an especially obvious plot hole, point it out in the comments and the author will fix it. 6. The author is a beginner. If the writing is too poor for your taste, please go easy on the criticism. Upcoming Works Upcoming Work 1: AI Qi Xiaoyun is a poor boy from the slums. After spending a long time fighting in underground arena matches, he finally saved enough money to buy the cheapest mech in the store. The mech looked a little beat-up, but at least it worked pretty well. Qi Xiaoyun found it easy to handle, too. Only... Qi Xiaoyun's Diary: April 14, sunny. Took the junker to a match today and accidentally got its chest armor blasted by the enemy. I vaguely thought I heard a girl scream. I must be too tired. I'll take tomorrow off. April 16, cloudy. Took the junker to another match today. My opponent played dirty and cut off half the weird wires sticking out of its head. Maybe it's just my imagination, but the junker's shots seemed a lot more powerful after that. May 1, sunny. I've saved enough money, so today I'm going to get the junker repainted. Sure enough, a fresh coat of paint makes it feel like a new mech. It hits the other guy a lot harder, too. May 20!!!. Holy crap! The junker's alive! Alive! And it thinks it's a girl! What made it think mechs have genders?! May 28, rainy. The junker wants me to replace her outer armor, and insists on picking something shiny. Is it really appropriate for a guy like me to pilot a shiny mech? May 30, sunny. Damn, damn, damn! How can a girl mech use the monkey steals the peach move on a male mech?! What has she been looking at online?! Tomorrow I'll cut off her signal and lock her in a dark room! ..., cloudy. Goodbye, Junker. * Zhou Zhou knew her name was Zhou Zhou. It was built into her programming. So why had she woken up to find some little boy calling her Junker? Zhou Zhou thought he had to be crazy. What a joke. She's a once-in-a-century... no, once-in-a-millennium intelligent AI, and she's lowering herself to help a little boy like him fight, yet he has the nerve to call her Junker! Oh, get lost! It took Zhou Zhou a long time to realize that, though she was a once-in-a-millennium marvel, she wasn't an AI. Upcoming Work 2: Under Heaven PS: This story is told in third person. I am the Fourth Princess of Great Zhou, my father's most beloved daughter. I killed my father, slaughtered his favorite concubine, and wiped out his harem. I personally forced my younger brother to drink arsenic. I personally chopped off my elder brother's head and hung it from the city wall. I am the first empress of Great Zhou. This realm belongs to me now. Theme: Knowledge changes one's fate