Am I the only one in this team who is not Ultraman?

Take the renovation of King Joe Bridge as an example. Although it is the highest priority project, many places can only find out how to change after the renovation begins. At this time, reports need to be written and applications need to be submitted. If there are any changes in materials and funding, it will take more time. A whole process takes at least two hours to run through TPC.

But as long as Leo is there, all he needs to do is have Vice Captain Leo read it, nod, and a single phone call is enough to get the entire department to cooperate. The defense team directly under Director Sawai has this special power.

Vice Captain Leo, you've really had a tough time.

Daigo and the others couldn't help but sigh. Apart from the half-day off they had taken earlier, it seemed like Leo hadn't had much rest at all. He must have worked really hard.

"Has anything unusual happened since last night?" Leo took a sip of tea.

"No, most of the monsters that appeared from last night until now have been defeated by Zetton. Some were killed outright, leaving not even ashes, while others were taken away like before."

Komon shook his head. Zetton could defeat monsters faster than their defense team could launch an attack. They even absurdly thought that Zetton was more motivated to protect the Earth than they were.

"I don't know why, but Zetton seemed unusually irritable last night," Daigo muttered. Zetton's fighting style wasn't as concise and efficient as usual; it was as if he was simply venting his frustration.

Leo was aware of this. Zetton was mainly upset last night because she hadn't achieved good results in the battle against Maga the Fire Demon. She believed that her carelessness had led to the situation. In addition, Leo had cut off contact with her, so it was normal for her to be particularly irritable.

But you can't blame Zetton for this. Maga Grand King was one thing, but who could have imagined that Maga Flame Demon would absorb Ultraman Taro's cards and so many Kirieloids? With Taro's power and moves, the Kirieloids' fighting skills, and Maga Grand King's body defense, it was naturally difficult to deal with.

However, no matter how Leo interprets it, Zetton cannot forgive herself for any mistakes. In this respect, she and Leo are the same. It must be said that Reiblood has a good eye, choosing Zetton as Leo's initial monster. They are just like peas in a pod.

"By the way, Daigo, why don't you take tomorrow off and go with Rena? I've already spoken to Captain Megumi about it."

This matter was mentioned before. Leo felt that he might be very busy in the future, so it would be better to arrange the agreed vacation for Daigo first.

"Ahem." Captain Stringman coughed twice at just the right moment, and was about to say something when Leo looked over. "Captain Stringman, you have a cold? Go to the infirmary later. You have a day off the day after tomorrow, and your child's parent-teacher meeting is the day after tomorrow morning, don't forget."

As he spoke, Leo took out two restaurant vouchers from his pocket. "These are vouchers for the top floor of a restaurant in Ginza. I got them through a friend."

Gento was genuinely touched as he looked at the two meal vouchers in his hand, but the problem he wanted to point out was that he had also arranged a vacation for Leo.

"Remember to buy your wife a gift. Your son said that last year you gave her a casually bought dress, so how about a necklace this year? Let everyone give you some suggestions on the style. Our ESCG salaries really don't warrant that."

After all, it's a profession where sacrifice can happen at any time. ESCG's salary is enough to cover everyone's frequent hospitalizations. Captain Gento is just always busy and occasionally forgets about these things, so the preparations are often rushed.

Looking at everyone's gaze, he felt a little embarrassed but also very touched, never expecting that everyone would care about him so much.

"And you, Fujimiya, I'm giving you half a day off this afternoon. Go see your girlfriend; she's probably still shaken."

Leo had mixed feelings about Fujimiya. He really didn't expect that one of his teammates was actually an Ultraman, but he couldn't reveal Fujimiya's identity. He would have to help cover for him in the future.

“Don’t be envious, Meng. Your vacation is one day after Captain Xianren’s. I’ll give you two days off. You didn’t even tell your parents about joining ESCG. Remember to call them later.”

When his name was called, Meng lowered his head in embarrassment. The work at ESCG was dangerous, and he didn't dare let his family know. In fact, he was the only one present besides Leo who had voluntarily applied to join, even though he was already on the shortlist.

My dream's parents were unaware that their child had joined the most elite but also the most dangerous defense force. They only found out this morning when they saw the news and immediately contacted Sky Base to relay the message, hoping their son would call to let them know he was safe.

On his way here, Leo personally called Meng's parents to say that he would do his best to protect their child. Meng's parents said that they just wanted their son to make a phone call, not that they were dissatisfied. Leo then arranged a vacation for Meng to relax.

Leo had also arranged vacations for the others, such as Hong Kai, Fujiwara, and Komon, though they were slightly delayed. They had been hospitalized multiple times in just half a month since the company was established, and Leo was worried that they would be under too much pressure if they didn't get a break. He also needed to provide them with psychological counseling. These were all paid leave and were not counted as regular leave.

"Let's take a group holiday next month; a half-day holiday shouldn't be a problem."

After Leo gave all the instructions, everyone's gaze towards him completely changed. Vice Captain Leo, great!

"And what about you, Vice Captain?"

"What's wrong with me?" Leo looked at everyone in confusion. Komon gestured, "What about your vacation, Vice Captain?"

“I’ve already had a day off. Captain Gento gave me half a day off, and then Director Sawai gave me another half a day off… Why are you all looking at me with pity?”

Leo scratched his head. "I don't have a partner to keep me company, so of course I'll stay at the base."

“I didn’t either,” Fujiwara Juri said, and everyone suddenly looked at her with surprise. Fujiwara Juri realized that she hadn’t told everyone about this yet. “Some of the information in my documents wasn’t written by me. I was too lazy to write it, so I gave it to a colleague. He probably took those rumors seriously.”

Fujiwara Juri does not have a boyfriend. She only has a very close friend at the Monster Research and Protection Center, or you could say a confidante. They are very close, but the friend has a girlfriend. Fujiwara has clarified this many times, but no one believes her. Over time, she has become too lazy to explain anymore.

Since everyone's vacation plans were already made, Leo's vacation naturally had to be postponed. Before Gento could even tell Leo that a vacation had been arranged for him, Taishin called.

"Vice Captain Leo, this is the armory. Could you please come over here?"

"Okay, I'll be there soon."

As Leo spoke, he stood up, picked up the large bag of unopened snacks, and glanced at the somewhat surprised Meng. "Don't look. Whether you can get on the plane alive after going to the armory depends entirely on the attitude of the maintenance crew."

Thinking of the dangerous smile Hebikura had given her before, Imu nodded quickly, deeply understanding Leo's good intentions.

Nowadays, the most popular Leo in the repair team is a member of ESCG, and the most hated are also members of ESCG. They often can't help but sigh at how different people are.

Look at Vice Captain Leo. He always brings gifts when he comes and helps with maintenance. Most importantly, he has only crashed a handful of times. The only time he crashed, the Flying Swallow II exploded. He never caused them any trouble. What a good person he is!

Hearing Leo say that, everyone felt quite embarrassed, but Leo wasn't wrong. If it weren't for Leo raising their average favorability, they felt that the next time they went to the armory, what awaited them wouldn't be fighter jets, but Captain Hebikura's Snake Heart Style swordsmanship and Grandpa Ye Hu's Fierce Tiger Fist.

"Oh, right." Before leaving, Leo pulled out a plan and placed it on the top shelf. "This is the exercise and training plan I wrote for our team and the Silver Star advance team. Remember to take a look."

The best flying skills in the entire ESCG belong to the Silver Meteor Vanguard Team led by Maki Shunichi. Leo had specifically talked to them about this before, and since these guys haven't had their holidays yet, he's arranging it for them this afternoon.

Leo also felt that his teammates really needed to practice their flying skills, otherwise they would be crashing every day in the future.

Chapter 63 The Completed King Joe Bridge

After nearly half a month, the renovation of King Joe Bridge was finally completed. However, because they were too busy, they didn't have time to hold any celebrations or opening ceremonies. They simply invited Leo to take a look.

Given the speed of the armory, completing the modification in half a month was actually quite fast. After all, King Joe was something they had just acquired, with no references, so the modification plan could only be figured out little by little. At the same time, they also had to repair those fighter jets.

The most noticeable change in the Armory-modified King Joe compared to the original is the color scheme. The original gold has been significantly reduced, replaced by a simple white and black color scheme. The chest area features blue super-hard armor, which houses the prototype Max power system that Dr. Yamata worked overtime to assemble.

The left hand retains the original five-finger design to ensure dexterity, while the right hand adopts the design scheme of the Texas beam cannon. Oh, because it is a function of the Max power system, it feels more appropriate to call it the Max Cannon.

According to Dr. Yao's calculations, King Joe's cannon, when fully charged, is estimated to be more powerful than the Delta Force's, and its destructive force per unit area is also greater.

"This is our King Joe, it's so cool." Looking at this big guy, Leo couldn't help but exclaim. Then he sensed a bit of displeasure coming from Galactron. Well, was it because they were all robots?

"Right?" Staring at the dark circles under his eyes and his haggard face that made one wonder if he might collapse at any moment, Captain Hebikura's smile became even more sinister. "I also think King Joe is the best!"

"It not only improves output power and flexibility, but also retains a faster disintegration combat module than before, which can be switched to four fighter jets to flexibly deal with combat situations."

Even though his eyes were blurry from staying up all night, Grandpa Ye Hu managed to come over. They were all quite satisfied with the completion of King Joe, and even very proud and pleased with it.

"Of course, this is also to meet the need for emergency deployment by directly replacing parts when necessary, haha."

All four components of King Joe are equipped with the anti-gravity system researched by Imu, greatly enhancing its maneuverability.

"The only drawback is that neither our designed AI system nor the machine's original AI system can fully utilize the performance of the King Joe."

Hebikura felt helpless about this. There was nothing he could do. The development of AI technology was strictly controlled because there had been cases in the past where AI went out of control and caused major disasters. Moreover, it was also unreliable to entrust the control of a powerful weapon like King Joe to AI.

"How's the driver selection going?"

"It's a bit difficult. The various values ​​of the modified King Joe are not only higher than the original King Joe, but even exceeded our expectations. Dr. Yamao's Max power system brought a six-fold increase to King Joe, not three times!"

This means that if TPC's modified King Joe encounters the old King Joe of the Pedanians, the former can simply dismantle the latter as junk. It's just unknown how much of a difference it will have compared to the black King Joe that Redell mentioned.

"Such output power needs to be limited. Normally, when fighting monsters like Golzabal, the original King Joe's output power is enough."

“If it’s a tougher enemy, like Garula, then I can unleash three times the power, but if it’s Silvergon… I need to go all out.”

Even now, everyone in TPC still considers the Silvergon they defeated back then as an ordinary individual of the Silvergon race. To date, no other Silvergon has appeared for reference, so they have no idea that they actually destroyed the Silvergon King.

“But wouldn’t an average driver be unable to handle that?” Leo understood everyone’s concerns.

“That’s right.” Old Master Ye Hu put in two drops of eye drops. “Ground combat is one thing, but if it’s aerial combat, ordinary pilots simply can’t withstand that kind of power, which is why we came to you.”

Leo was originally chosen by everyone at ESCG to be King Joe's pilot. During his assessment, he scored full marks in all aspects except driving, and his physical fitness was rated as extremely excellent.

As for the inherently flawed driving skills? Well, at least it won't cause King Joe to crash, which is better than those guys who crash planes all the time. This is the consensus of Grandpa Ye Hu and Captain Hebikura, not to mention that Leo drove very smoothly when fighting Garula.

"So when do we start testing?"

"Let's wait half an hour, we need to catch up on some sleep."

Hebikura couldn't help but yawn. They and the entire maintenance team had been working non-stop for a long time without sleeping. Dr. Eight-Tails even collapsed into the stone coffin. But King Joe was everyone's hard work, so no matter what, everyone had to see it move for the first time.

"Eat something before you sleep. I brought a lot of snacks." Leo pointed to the large bag of snacks he had brought. Ye Hu and He Cang did not refuse his kindness. They were indeed a little hungry and could not sleep on an empty stomach.

"Wow, King Joe is really cool." Leo couldn't help but look the big guy up and down. "He looks really strong."

After Leo finished speaking, he suddenly sensed that Zetton, Dimaga, and Galactron seemed a little unhappy, but only a little. Galactron's emotional fluctuations were not obvious, Zetton deliberately controlled the emotions flowing towards Leo, and Dimaga simply looked down on this thing.

"So, how about it, are you confident if we modify King Joe for the battle?"

Leo asked in a low voice, "If King Joe is working at three times the original power, then he is indeed very strong, but not that incredible. But working at six times the power, then it's really hard to say."

“Seven out of three,” Dimaka said, picking his teeth. “I can cut it into thirty-seven pieces.”

“I’ll split it 30/70 too,” Jaden said expressionlessly. “I can dismantle seven of these things in thirty seconds.”

Galactron looked outside through Leo's vision, and after a period of core analysis, he came to a conclusion: "The AI ​​level is medium, the auxiliary system level is low. Conclusion: This machine can directly hack into the system and paralyze all its functions within three milliseconds."

Why does it feel like everyone's talking about really planning to demolish King Joe? Leo scratched his head. King Joe was a monster he had always liked. Well, it should be considered a monster, anyway. He was shocked when he saw King Joe overpower Seven. He had always put King Joe and Zetton on the same level.

However, later on, Miss Zetton proved her worth with her actions, so Leo no longer thought King Joe was that great. It's just that few boys don't like robots; it's almost in their nature.

However, Zetton and Demaga were not exaggerating. Although King Joe's output power had changed, the material it was made of was still Pedanium alloy, and its defense was no different from the old model; it was just that its power was greater.

As long as it's not a defense like King Maga's, where a single beam of light can barely scratch the surface, it wouldn't be difficult for Zetton and Demaga to defeat the modified King Joe. However, if they were hit by King Joe's Max Cannon, it would be extremely dangerous.

Therefore, Galactron is indeed the best choice for an enemy like King Joe. She can completely paralyze King Joe's auxiliary and AI systems. If King Joe adopts full AI control, Galactron can directly seize control.

Wait a minute, if that's the case, then why should I be afraid of the Black King Joe army of the Pedan aliens?

Leo suddenly realized a crucial point: what if the Pedan aliens directly led their army in, and Leo then used Galactron...

This isn't some distant enemy; it's clearly a kind-hearted person delivering goods right to our door!

"Vice Captain Leo, what's wrong with you? You suddenly started laughing... It's scary."

Taixin, who used to belong to SKaRD, couldn't help but glance at Leo. The vice-captain, who had become a popular character in TPC, had given off a chilling feeling when he smiled just now, as if he was plotting some kind of conspiracy.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something to be happy about, cough cough, don't mind it."

So, his smile was scary? He'd better keep a straight face from now on. As Leo said this, the voices of Dimaga, Zetton, and Galactron echoed in his mind.

"Leo is so handsome."

"Exactly, exactly. The boss isn't scary at all."

"Based on system analysis and comparison, Leo's facial data is excellent among humans, and he is considered handsome."

However, to be honest, Leo can occasionally show a scary side, but that's not how Zetton and Dimaga see him at all.

Since there was still half an hour before the testing of King Joe Bridge began, Leo certainly wouldn't just sit idly by and watch. He took the initiative to join in helping with the repairs.

Aside from the fact that Unit 1, piloted by Gaim, was damaged by an Ultra Bomb in another dimension last night and was beyond repair, Unit 2, piloted by Captain Gentoo and Gai Kurenai, crashed as soon as it was repaired and is now in a state of needing repair again.

If it were Gento or Kai, they would probably be scolded by the repair crew. But everyone is much more lenient with Leo, since he's still wearing bandages and always helps out whenever he comes.

"The Lightning team's fighter jets are repaired too." Leo picked up his tools and joined in the repair work.

"Because it's relatively easier. Its transformation structure is simpler than the Flying Swallow series, and its main attack method is a combination of live ammunition and lasers. The Flying Swallow II can't do that."

"Oh dear, Vice Captain Leo, you're still injured. We can handle this kind of thing."

"Don't worry, it's not that serious. Let me help you. Everyone works so hard all the time."

Leo wasn't actually injured; it was just a disguise. He could still handle some light work without any problems.

"It is certainly dangerous for us pilots to fight monsters on the front lines, but everyone in the logistics work behind the scenes is also working very hard. It is because of everyone's help that we are able to fight without any worries."

As the repair crew ate the snacks Leo had brought, they couldn't help but nod, tears streaming down their faces. Look at what Vice Captain Leo said, look at his understanding of human relationships—he really knows how to navigate social situations!

The logistics work is tough, often involving overtime, and we can't be mentioned in the news like the defense team members, let alone enjoy any kind of fame. Few defense team members come here as often as Leo.

"If we're going to renovate King Bridge, we should definitely let Vice Captain Leo drive it."

"That's what I think too. Although everyone says that Vice Captain Leo's driving skills aren't outstanding, I think he can definitely drive the King Joe well."

"If it weren't for Vice Captain Leo driving King Joe, I wouldn't be responsible for repairing it."

Seeing everyone's expressions that said, "Vice Captain Leo, use King Joe Max Cannon on the monster," Leo couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. If we're talking about the initial testing of King Joe, no one else was more suitable than him, because Leonis's physical attributes were sufficient to test King Joe's maximum values.

However, Leo sometimes struggles to pilot King Joe. When facing powerful enemies, assimilating with Zetton and the others is more effective in enhancing combat power.

If I were to take over the driving position at King Joe, wouldn't it be appropriate to have Galatron design an AI system to be readily available?

As time passed, Hebikura, Yehu, and the Armory members who had been busy all night finally caught up on some sleep and then rushed over. It was clear that they were very much looking forward to King Joe's first test, and they even changed into new clothes.

Leo also changed into a combat suit specifically for testing data and walked into King Joe's cockpit, specifically the area around his chest.

"The cockpit is a bit smaller than I expected." Looking around, the cockpit was just big enough for Leo to stretch out his arms.

"There's no other way. Given that we need to install both the Max propulsion system and the anti-gravity system, this is the best optimization solution we can think of, and it won't be too crowded."

Captain Hebikura's voice came through his ear. If he could, he would love to drive the King Joe, which he had personally modified. Unfortunately, while his physical condition was good, his mental state was not.