I got reincarnated and got mistaken as a genius.

Chapter 08 - Coffee, Power Suit, and Alice-chan

Today's school agenda are only physical examinations and some explanations about the lessons we will be learning. Seems like regular classes will start from next week... Since we still have some free time after the aforementioned academic briefing and physical examinations, the teacher told us to spend some quality time to get to know our classmates better.

"Fuhi! Fuhihi!" ED : Pig-like laughter. You know who it is.

Sitting in front of me is Saitou-kun. It's not like I don't like him or anything. It just feels weird when two boys sitting just by themselves in the cafeteria drinking coffee. I wanna try talking to that girl with thin presence, but I can't afford to leave Saitou-kun alone.

"A bond within men is the most solid thing in the world!"

...Is what Macho said, but in his case, I think what's solid about that muscle-brain is just his muscle.

"So, all the previous types of Military Power Suit doesn't have emergency escape mechanism?"

Saitou-kun looks excited as he asked me about that. That's right, I was in the middle of explaining to him the concept of military power suit developed by Mom. It turns out that Saitou-kun is a big fan of military stuffs. I noticed he was mumbling about something like that, so then I told him about the power suit Mom developed, and he really went crazy with that topic. Back to the power suit topic, just like Saitou-kun said, the earlier version of military power suit didn't have the emergency escape mechanism. One day, Mom saw a picture I draw, a picture of a person jumping out from the back of power suit.

"What, is this?"

She asked me that, and I told her it was an emergency escape mechanism.

"...Eh..."

She was frozen still. After a while, she came back to her sense and laughed as she said it's not necessary. Her argument is that, the main usage of military power suits are to penetrate right into the middle of the enemy formation, so if the pilot were to abandon the suit, the pilot will get caught or killed immediately.

...No, Mom. Come on, you know things doesn't work that way. I desperately tried to explain why it's necessary to have an emergency escape mechanism.

Training new pilots needs lots of funds
You can reduce the pilot's anxiety if you can guarantee the ability to escape
In case the pilot succeeds in returning, the pilot can bring back lots of useful information.
Actually there are more reasons, but those three are the main considerations.

Yet, she's still overly concerned about the post-ejection, and it was really starting to get bothersome.

"Then why don't you just wear another powered suits inside those powered suits?"

It was a sudden idea that randomly popped out of my mind.

"Ah..."

After that, she locked herself in her room for half a day. When she got out, she called to me like, "Kou-chan, how's this?", as she showed me a design of a new powered suits, where the pilot wears a reinforced exoskeleton suit before entering the main suit. As for the emergency escape, the pilot basically has to tear the upper body part of the power suit by hand from the inside. Honestly, I think it's lame...

Can't it do something like, where the attached parts goes Dokkan! after detaching and gets purged over? Hearing that, Mom looks down as she went back into her room. A few hours later, when I'm starting to get worried of what kind of dinner are we having today, Mom came out again and showed me another design.

"How about this!? Upon activation, all the joints are ignited to purge the outer parts. With this detachment system, the purging of the parts can also be used to attack enemies.