Mech Designers Have a Future

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The former Imperial general has been reborn. This time, she has decided to live properly. Turns out that noble, self-sacrificing business of saving the world and dying alongside the Zerg in her previous life was never suited to a weak, pitiful, helpless single like her.

After being reborn, Chu Hua set three goals for herself: stay alive, make money, and find a partner.

Taking all practical factors into account, including salaries in other fields, she decides to become a mecha engineer. It's basically a support role that picks up kills on the sidelines, the kind of person whose specialty is cheering on her teammates. Sounds pretty sweet.

Besides, they say top mecha engineers can sell a single sketch for a million. That's more than she used to earn in a whole month as a general, working herself half to death. She's green with envy.

First, she'll do routine mecha repairs and make some money. Later, she'll switch jobs, fiddle with mecha, and make some money. Just think of those prospects! Isn't that a much brighter future than working herself to death as an infantry fighter?

That's how it was supposed to go, anyway.

But life is unpredictable.

At the live broadcast of the tournament, the commentator was speaking excitedly.

"Congratulations to First Military Academy for taking another point! Looks like everyone is fired up for this year's tournament..."

The First Military Academy uniforms flashed across the screen, and the comments started flooding in.

[First Military Academy's team is really strong this year, but isn't their lineup a little weird? They're all infantry fighters. Where are the mecha engineers? Are they that confident?]

[Could the person above please open the home page? There's an introduction. That Chu Hua is a mecha engineer.]

[??? The one fighting the most viciously???]

[Are mecha engineers all this aggressive these days?]

[Well, based on my perfectly sound reasoning, this is definitely a scheme by First Military Academy. They deliberately registered their strongest infantry fighter as a mecha engineer to lull their opponents into a false sense of security. See? Someone took the bait and just handed them a point!]

[Tsk, tsk, that's so devious. The Federation's Sinister Military Academy has a new name.]

[...No way. They can falsify that?]

Later, Chu Hua demonstrated mecha repairs on the spot, proving she really was a mecha engineer. And yet no one believed her.

[Is it really that strange for an infantry fighter to know how to repair mecha these days? A team isn't helpless just because it doesn't have a mecha engineer!]

[Exactly! Since when is being self-sufficient a bad thing? Infantry fighters can repair mecha too.]

Every infantry fighter watching the broadcast: No, we can't.

The people who had initially wondered why the team had no mecha engineer quietly shut their mouths.

From then on, Chu Hua was nicknamed "the strongest infantry fighter suspected of being a mecha engineer."

Chu Hua: She's really not an infantry fighter!

P.S. I may occasionally make minor edits to the wording, mostly to details in the phrasing that don't seem quite right on a later reread. They won't affect the plot, so feel free to ignore the change notices.

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