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August and Hestia didn't stay long in the K-On! world.
It was getting late, and the girls needed to take their evening baths. They couldn't really stay for that. August had already accidentally walked in on the older sister. Doing the sa with the younger one would definitely cross a line and probably get him electrocuted.
"Ever since I t you, my luck has been through the roof!" Hestia cheered, throwing her hands in the air as soon as they stepped back into their apartnt.
She really felt like her luck had skyrocketed. Even with a few small setbacks, the Hestia Familia had grown surprisingly smoothly. Recruiting two amazing girls from another world gave her plenty to brag about.
"Don't let it go to your head," August warned, noticing her smugness threatening to reach critical mass.
"You absolutely cannot ntion Yui and Ui to anyone. If you do, it's going to bring us a mountain of trouble."
He had to stop her bragging before it got out of hand. If he let her keep talking, their interdinsional travel secret would be all over the front page in Orario by morning.
"Yes, yes, I know! Relax, I'm just talking," Hestia pouted. "I'm not stupid."
She obviously wasn't going to leak her Familia's ultimate secret.
"But hey, August… what exactly is K-On!?" she asked. "I rember you ntioning it before."
Saying that, she pulled out the modern smartphone August had given her and opened up her downloaded video library. When she found the ani series and the episodes started playing, her eyes went wide.
"So cute!" Hestia squealed, watching Yui's clumsy debut on screen. "Ahhh, recruiting her was definitely the right choice!"
It was a slice-of-life ani about girls playing music, and it was really wholeso. Compared to the dark, gloomy magical girl shows August had warned her about, this cheerful music series felt like a breath of fresh air.
August watched Hestia get sucked into the ani, but didn't stop her.
Based on the current tiline, Yui and Ui were on their late February break. Once spring rolled around, Yui would be enrolling in Sakuragaoka High School. That was exactly when the canon plot would begin.
"You keep watching. I need to make a call and handle a transaction," August said.
Hestia just nodded absently, her eyes glued to the screen.
August walked over to the window. During his short ti in the other world, he had "borrowed" a multi-ton shipnt of gold bullion. Keeping all that gold in his inventory was pointless, so turning it into cash to pay off his military debt was his main goal.
The call connected almost instantly.
"August, what do you need?" Commander Jas's gruff voice ca through the speaker. He clearly had not expected August to call again so soon after their last hardware exchange.
"I've secured the gold to pay off my requisition order," August said bluntly. "If you have the ti, send soone to pick it up."
This was his way to cover the huge cost of his military equipnt.
"August… you really don't need to be in such a rush," Commander Jas replied.
August had just delivered a huge batch of powerful healing potions. To the military and the governnt, those potions were priceless. Even though modern weapons were expensive to make, the amount of high-quality potions August provided more than made up for it.
For the military, a dicine that could instantly heal severe chemical burns was a miracle. As long as a limb wasn't totally gone or a head wasn't destroyed, the potions could visibly heal huge injuries in seconds. They were the best resource anyone could ask for.
Honestly, with August now offering tons of gold on top of everything else, Jas felt a bit embarrassed to even take it. August had personally healed their injured veterans, so the military owed him a huge debt of gratitude.
"No, business is business. Let's keep things clear," August said, not letting Jas refuse. This was an official deal. He had signed the forms and planned to honor the contract completely.
"August, I…" Jas sighed, realizing it was useless to argue.
"Right, moving on to your order," Jas shifted gears. "The fighter jets you requested have been prepped and transferred to the hangar. How do you want to handle the handover?"
The decommissioned but upgraded fighter jets were ready, but August would have to fly them himself.
"Actually, Commander… could you contact the airbase engineers and see if they can modify them for ?" August asked, proposing a new idea.
"Modify them? What kind of modifications?" Jas was instantly intrigued. Piloting modern fighter jets pushed the human body to its absolute physical limits. To hear that August wanted custom modifications was highly unusual.
"Right now, my physical classification falls under the 'Adventurer' category," August explained. "Based on my current stats, my bodily durability and G-force tolerance are significantly higher than a normal human's. The standard safety limits built into those jets don't apply to ."
August had done his research. The only reason modern fighter jets had capped speeds and maneuverability constraints was to keep the squishy human pilots from blacking out or dying from extre G-forces. The jets were designed around human fragility.
But people in Orario were different. If you took away the limits of the human body, a fighter jet's speed and power could be increased many tis over. August didn't just want a few changes; he wanted the engineers to remove the safety limiters and really boost the performance.
"You want us to uncap the performance paraters?!" Jas was genuinely startled by the sheer audacity of the idea.
This wasn't just a small upgrade. It was basically building a custom, extrely powerful aircraft just for August.
But then Jas recalled August's stamina. The kid had healed dozens of amputees back to back without breaking a sweat or showing any sign of collapse. His physical enhancent was undeniably real. If that were true, he could really pilot a jet pushed far beyond normal human limits.
"I still want this first batch as-is," August clarified. "But for the second batch, I need the specs pushed to the absolute maximum."
"Understood. No problem," Jas agreed. "Whenever you have the ti, let know. I'll arrange the schedule."
Jas realized he needed to personally escort August to the experintal aerospace base for physical testing. If August's 'Adventurer' physique surpassed the military's most elite special forces operatives, his G-force tolerance would be off the charts. Jas could already imagine the engineers losing their minds when they analyzed August's biotric data.
"Great. Thank you," August replied, pleasantly surprised by how readily Jas accommodated the request. The first batch was ready to go, and the custom second batch would just take a bit more ti.
"Don't ntion it. Just doing my job," Jas replied politely.
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