The stars, but they become the gray wind

In a secluded forest outside London, a completely white aircraft was quietly parked in a clearing in the forest, with the doors on both sides of the spherical cockpit wide open. Carisi was leaning against the side of the main driving seat, with a look of great joy on her face, while Yuki was slumped in the co-pilot seat on the other side, with a look of being out of his mind and having no desire to live.

Finally, after a long pause, Yuki, who had barely regained his ability to walk, grasped the hatch handle and, with trembling legs, stepped off the aircraft. He angrily glared at the culprit who had caused him this.

"You're just flying a plane, are you going to die if you're not doing it properly?"

Yuki leaned against the cockpit with trembling legs and angrily cursed the stupid pilot Calisi in front of him.

"Ah!! But, stunt flying is really fun!!!"

"You big-headed ghost! You scared the hell out of me! Can't we just fly the plane properly?????"

Yuuki protested, shaking his fist at Carissa.

"But that Kovochu machine I made earlier was really cool!!"

"What normal pilot would suddenly perform the Kovouchu maneuver several times in a row the first time they get in a plane?"

"You can commit suicide if you want, but can you please not drag me down with you???"

Yuki was completely speechless at the guy in front of her who only thought about making trouble. If her body was not made of nanomachines and her ability to withstand the overload caused by gravity acceleration was far greater than that of normal humans, those few 9G overload maneuvers just now would have been enough to make her vomit.

After resting beside the aircraft for nearly an hour, Yuki, who had recovered, temporarily ignored the terrible memory of being in the sky and started to get down to business.

He gave the instruction to activate the optical stealth function of the anti-gravity aircraft in front of him, and watched the aircraft in front of him gradually become invisible. However, on the small holographic map of his vision as Gray Wind, the triangular rune symbolizing the aircraft was still next to him. Yuki nodded and closed the small map in the holographic vision with satisfaction.

"Let's go, let's go to this world's London and see for ourselves." Yuki waved to the eagerly awaited Carlisle, gesturing for her to follow. Together, they ran towards the edge of London, not far away.

From the 19th century to the early 20th century, London was known as the City of Smog. During this period, Londoners relied primarily on coal for fuel, producing copious amounts of smog. Furthermore, the technological development of this world was primarily based on coal-fired steam engines. The massive exhaust emissions from these steam engines and coal-fired power plants that powered the city further exacerbated the smog. Furthermore, due to climatic conditions, this smog lingered in the city for extended periods, forming a smog that blanketed the city and caused widespread distress.

People in this era have no awareness of environmental protection, nor do they know the damage that smog can do to human physical health. Therefore, most people on the street do not wear protective gear such as masks. Except for a small number of gorgeously dressed ladies and wealthy gentlemen who wear masks made of expensive fabrics, most workers wear simple clothes or even clothes with a lot of patches, and have almost no protective measures on their faces. Moreover, most of the workers that Carlisle saw seemed to be in a hurry, walking quickly in groups of two or three towards the gates of several nearby factories.

"This place really gives people a unique atmosphere of the First Industrial Revolution."

Carlisle looked at the teams of workers hurrying to work on the streets, the mysterious steam pipes dotted all over the buildings on the street, and the steam-powered cars passing by on the road, and sighed.

"It's indeed a city that reflects its times, but I think we'd better get down to business first."

"Don't worry. According to the information the drone detected earlier, the Albion Kingdom Business Registration Administration is only two blocks away from us."

"Let's go and start the first step of our plan."

.........

Five minutes later, the two entered the tall building with the sign "Kingdom Enterprise Administration." At the front desk, several female front desk staff in plain work clothes were sitting at their workstations, chatting. Upon noticing Carlisle and Yuki approaching, they immediately straightened their postures and smiled at Yuki, asking, "Hello, are you here to handle some business?"

"Yes, I'm here to register a company. My partner and I are planning to set up a new business."

The receptionist who was in charge of receiving the two people was slightly surprised and looked at the two people in front of her carefully; the clothes were very exquisite, and the fabrics used did not look ordinary. The two girls looked like first-class beauties, so young, and judging from their looks, they were probably rich daughters who used their family's money to start a business. The female receptionist at the front desk guessed the identities of the two.

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After going through a series of complicated procedures, the two successfully registered an overseas colony development company named Atlas in the kingdom. From now on, whether it is Calisi or Yuuki, they will act in the name of Atlas Company when conducting external activities. If outsiders want to find any information and clues about the two, they will eventually only find Atlas as a pseudonym.

"Now that the issue of the public identity has been resolved, the next step is to figure out how to contact those protagonists. Do you have a plan?"

Yuuki asked Carissa beside him.

"Yes, according to the intelligence provided by the drone, the princess and her spy team are currently attending an aristocratic academy in London. We just need to infiltrate that school and then find a way to create a few coincidences so that we can meet and get to know each other as two ordinary people with a little bit of a difference."

"The rest is easy. Exploiting information gaps, we'll gradually gain their trust and become their friends. This will allow us to contact their superiors, the Republic Intelligence Organization's Control Room. And then we'll wait for the right opportunity to confront them."

"But... I have a question. The security at that aristocratic school is pretty tight. How do you plan to sneak in? Disguise yourself and then sneak in?"

"Well... I have a simpler way... but... it's not very convenient to show it here. Let's find a more secluded place."

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After a while, the two found an empty alley and continued their previous conversation.

"Okay, now that no one's here, maybe it's time to show us your plan?"

"Before, when I was on the island, I was always researching the limits of our current bodies made of nanomachines. I specifically sought out Cabot, and she taught me some special skills, such as... using nanomachines to construct micro-wormhole portals..."

As she spoke, green lines appeared on Kalisi's face, and her pupils glowed green. A two-dimensional portal with a complex hexagonal structure, emitting green light, unfolded in front of Kalisi.

"It's a micro portal that can accommodate a single person. Since I'm not very skilled at it right now, the maximum distance it can travel is only a few hundred kilometers. If the amount or mass of objects passing through is too large, the distance will decrease. But if I'm just trying to infiltrate a school, it's more than enough."

Yuuki rubbed his head and carefully observed the portal in front of him, and complained to Kalisi, "Why does the appearance and effect of your portal look so much like the teleportation effect of the Necrons' Death Mark Assassin units?"

"They're all glowing green, with hexagonal, two-dimensional portals. They look a lot like the Necrons' Death Mark teleports, right? Even their eyes glow green when the teleport is active. Are you sure you're not cosplaying the Death Mark with this ability? I think with this ability, you could be a Grey Wind version of the Death Mark with a Neuroshredder."

"Although it looks like the Death Mark's high-dimensional space chamber teleportation, we don't have anything as convenient as a high-dimensional space chamber, at least not yet. It's just a simple micro-wormhole teleportation! The effect is just a bit like the Death Mark.???"

Carlisle could only complain helplessly about this.

Chapter 29: Does the routine of meeting love around the corner really work?

"But, can't you change the effect of this portal? The style of this thing looks too necrotic, doesn't it?"

Yuki looked at the portal in front of him that was made up of countless hexagonal lines, and asked Kalisi, whose cheeks were covered with green lines and eyes were glowing green. Kalisi spread her hands, looking helpless.

"If I could change it, I would have done it long ago. Besides, the effect of this portal was determined by that guy Cabot. If she doesn't agree, I can't change it even if I want to."

"After all this time, your teleportation skill has become Necromancer-like. Is this just Cabot's weird personal preference?!"

"It can't be helped. Who told us to have such an unreliable boss? She just thinks this portal looks good and won't let me change the effect of the teleportation."

""

Yuuki put his hand to his forehead and decided not to dwell on it for the time being.

"Never mind... the teleportation effect might be a little weird, but let's get down to business first."

"Also, in order to have a reasonable opportunity to meet the spy team later, we need to disguise ourselves a little..."

As she spoke, the dress on Yuki began to slowly change shape and style under the action of nanomachines, and eventually turned into a Victorian-era British-style women's dress school uniform.

"Since I sneaked into the academy as a student and met and got to know the princess, I naturally have to dress like a student!" Yuki said, raising his hand to lift the hair at the back of his head.

A while later, in a forest inside the London Academy for Nobles, Kalisi and Yuuki, wearing the academy's girls' uniforms, walked out of a green portal that appeared out of thin air. Kalisi turned around to close the portal, and the green lines on her face gradually faded, and her eyes turned from green back to their original purple.

"Well, Princess Charlotte and her spy friends are in that walled garden over there. I'm planning on using a chance encounter to get close to the princess."

"The chance encounter you mentioned...could it be...?"

"That's right! It's the classic story of bumping into someone and then finding love around the corner!!!"

"Isn't your method too contrived? Besides, whether you can gain the trust of that Princess II Jiuwen Shanbashan and her spy friends, it's not certain whether your contact method is reliable at all."

"Don't worry, just watch my performance later!" Carly said as she gave Yuki a thumbs up.

Fin Ling Si started to play chess——

Princess Charlotte with blonde hair and bangs had lunch in the garden with Ange and the others. Then, they led everyone out of the garden slowly from the gate. Just as Charlotte, who was leading the way, walked along the path along the outer wall of the garden and reached the corner, she suddenly bumped into a running girl with long purple hair who suddenly appeared from the corner of the wall. Charlotte was caught off guard and felt a pain in her forehead as her head hit the other girl's. She fell to the ground.

"Ah! Princess! Are you okay?"

Beatrice, the girl with bangs and a bun behind Charlotte, saw Charlotte being knocked to the ground by the purple-haired girl who suddenly appeared from the corner of the wall. She hurried forward to check and reached out to help Charlotte up.

"I'm all right, Beatrice; I just had a fall."

After checking and confirming that Charlotte was fine, Beatrice turned to glare at the purple-haired girl opposite who had also fallen to the ground, and scolded her emotionally.

"You, not only did you disobey the rules and run around the academy, but you even knocked down Her Highness the Princess. What if she was injured? Are you capable of taking responsibility for this?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were here, Princess. I'm so sorry for knocking you over. I really didn't mean to. I'm so sorry!!!"

After being scolded by Beatrice, the purple-haired girl found out that the person she bumped into was the princess of the Kingdom of Albion. She quickly got up from the ground and bowed repeatedly to Charlotte to apologize.

"Okay, Beatrice, I'm fine. The other party was just careless. There's no need to pursue it too much."

Charlotte reached out to stop Beatrice who was about to continue scolding the purple-haired girl in front of her. She turned her head to check on the purple-haired girl who bumped into her. She saw a scratch on her left knee under her skirt from hitting the ground just now. Charlotte frowned.

"It's okay. I know you didn't do it accidentally. And your knee is okay, right? I'll take you to the infirmary to treat the wound, okay?"

"It's okay, Princess. It's just a minor scrape. I'm glad you're okay. I can take care of my wound myself."

Seeing the carefree look on the purple-haired girl's face, Charlotte stepped forward, stretched out her hand and pressed her shoulder, saying seriously, "No, it's because of me that you got hurt. And don't ignore it just because it's a minor injury. If the wound gets infected, it will be terrible. I have to take you to the infirmary."

"Really, there's no need, Princess. I was angry about bumping into you. It's my fault. I accidentally hurt myself, so it's all my fault. There's really no need to trouble you."

Charlotte looked at the purple-haired girl with a frightened expression and said gently, "Are you afraid that others will know that you bumped into me? It's okay, I really don't care. If you really don't want to go to the infirmary, I can ask Anjie to help you with your wound."

"I'm sorry... Your Highness, I really don't want anyone to know that I accidentally bumped into you, but... is this... really okay?" The purple-haired girl looked at the girls behind the princess with a guilty expression and asked.

"It's okay, Anjie. Could you please take this young lady to the garden to treat her wound?"

"Okay, Your Highness." The girl with gray hair, blue eyes and glasses behind Charlotte agreed with a smile.

Then, Anjie, a gray-haired girl wearing glasses, walked over, grabbed Carlisle's wrist, and led her to a few tables and chairs with parasols in the garden. She asked Carlisle to sit on one of the chairs and said to her with a shy smile, "Please sit here and wait for me. I'll go get a medicine box."

"Thank you so much, Miss Angel."

After watching Ange walk into an inconspicuous warehouse in the garden to look for the medicine box, Carlisle revealed an imperceptible sly smile. In order to act more realistically, she deliberately used nanomachines to simulate the wound after the abrasion on her left knee, so as to get closer to the Principal spy team and create an opportunity to become friends with this spy team.

Kalisi looked up at a bare wall ahead. There, hovering above a darkened area, was an optically invisible drone, silently transmitting its footage in real time to Yuuki in another location. Kalisi raised her right hand and gestured an "OK" to the drone nearby. At the same time, she sent a message to Yuuki via the mind network, confirming that everything was proceeding according to plan.

.........

Meanwhile, Yuuki, watching the drone footage and the message sent by Carissa on the mind network, stroked his chin and said with emotion, "This guy's method actually works. Well, let's just follow her idea from now on."

Chapter 30: Did your plan work again?

After a while, Angel returned to Carlisle with a medicine box, opened it, and skillfully took out disinfectant alcohol and gauze to treat the wound on Carlisle's left leg.

After soaking the cotton ball with saline solution, Angel, who was familiar with treating wounds, used tweezers to hold the cotton ball soaked in saline solution to clean the wound on Kalisi's left knee. After cleaning the wound, Angel wiped the wound on Kalisi's knee with iodine disinfectant to prevent the wound from infection. Finally, she used a bandage to bandage the disinfected wound.

"Thank you so much, Miss Angel, and for bothering me with bandaging." Carly looked at the white bandage wrapped around her left knee, stood up and bowed to Angel in gratitude.

"It's okay, it's just a small thing, there's no need to thank me so formally." Anjie, who was wearing glasses, waved her hands and responded to Carisi's gratitude shyly.

"But Miss Angel's bandaging technique is really skilled. Does she often do this kind of wound treatment work?" Carly asked indirectly with an innocent expression.

"No...no, it's just a required course for being a maid to Her Highness the Princess."

"I see. As the princess's maid, you actually need to master these skills? Miss Angel, you are truly amazing!" Carlisle clapped her hands and praised the girl wearing glasses in front of her.

"Well...really...no, I'm just an ordinary maid, and the most inconspicuous one around Her Royal Highness the Princess." Anjie pretended to blush and responded to Carisi's compliment shyly and modestly.

"By the way, Miss Angel, we've been talking for so long, but I haven't told you my name yet? My name is Carlisle. I'm very happy to meet you. Can we be friends?" Carlisle asked sincerely.

"Of... Of course, I... I'm also very happy to be... friends with you." Anjie agreed to Carisi while continuing to pretend to be shy and stammering.

Upon hearing this, Carlisle stepped forward and grasped Ange's right hand with both of hers. With sparkling eyes, she said to Ange, whose face was so close to hers, "Really? Then we'll be friends from now on, Miss Ange."

"Just call me Anjie, no need for honorifics." Anjie answered with a blushing face, and inadvertently put some distance between herself and Carlisle, who almost had her face in front of her.

Seeing Carlisle being led out of the garden by her lover with a bandage on her left knee, Charlotte smiled and walked over to her. She took Anjie's hand and gently asked Carlisle, "Is your wound okay? Does it still hurt?"

"It's okay, Princess. It's just a minor scrape, and thanks to Miss Anjie, it doesn't hurt anymore."

"That's good, but I forgot to ask your name just now. Can you tell us your name?"

"That's right. I forgot to introduce myself to Her Highness. My full name is Carlisle Neptune. You can call me Carlisle if you want."

"Well, it's nice to meet someone like you, Miss Carlisle."

"No, no, it's my honor to meet you, Princess. And your maid, Miss Anjie, is truly amazing in every way."

Having said that, Carlisle paused for a moment and silently added in her heart, "Even as a spy, I really admire Ms. Angie's acting skills."

Of course, Charlotte and the other spies couldn't guess what the purple-haired girl in front of them was thinking. From their perspective, there was only a sincere and innocent girl named Neptune chatting with the gentle princess.

"By the way, I just had a great chat with your amazing maid. I even made friends with her."

"Oh, really? That's something to be happy about."

"Yes, it's my honor to be friends with such a capable royal maid!"

Carlisle responded with an innocent smile.

At this time, the school bell rang in the college. Hearing the bell, Charlotte and her group had to say goodbye to Carisi, whom they had just met.

"Oh, it looks like we have to go back to class. It's nice to meet you, Miss Carlisle. I hope we get a chance to spend more time together."

"Yes! By the way... Princess, I'm sorry for bumping into you today. Do you have time these days? I'd like to treat you to a meal as an apology and compensation."

"Well... as for time, yes, I would like to take this opportunity to get to know you better. It would also be a good opportunity for Carlisle to spend more time with my maid Ange as friends." Charlotte, who had originally planned to decline the invitation, suddenly felt Angel pulling her sleeve. Then Angel gave Charlotte a look that only the two of them could understand, indicating that Charlotte should accept the invitation first.

"That's great! I'm also looking forward to having dinner with the respected Princess!"

"It's getting late, and we have to go back to class. See you later, Miss Carlisle."

"Angie, why did you ask me to accept Miss Carlisle's invitation? Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, there is a guy named Carlisle. I never remember such a person in Queen's School Mayfair. His identity is very suspicious." Changing the image of a shy girl with glasses who pretended to be in front of outsiders, the girl with gray hair and blue eyes explained seriously.