Yandere

To forge this Imperial Battle Body of yours.

The entire empire had been pouring money into it, at a pure loss!

If not for your guidance—your frequent corrections that set those researchers on the right path... the expenditures would have increased more than tenfold!

Over the past year, a very small number of people had also begun to criticize you, suspecting that you were no longer the wise and mighty Emperor of old.

That Emperor's soul had been imprisoned within a rotting body, yet his will had remained lofty and sacred, dazzling like the sun!

But what about now? You were spending the taxes of imperial citizens to forge a flesh-and-blood body inferior even to a medium tank, all just so you could return to youth.

Even if such a you regained health and youth in the flesh, the soul inside would still be rotten!

That Emperor of old was truly gone...

For the sake of the plan's success, those who spread such chaos-inducing remarks were quickly shot.

They would not live to see the empire's glorious tomorrow.

"Finally, finally, I have obtained this power."

You clenched your fist. Though technical limitations meant it differed somewhat from the nine-meter musclebound giant originally envisioned, this body was still far more ferocious than your former vegetative one!

Seeing that success had finally come, one of the loyal ministers around you at last raised a question. "Your Majesty, why must you forge such a biological war body? Its cost exceeds that of a steel construct of equal strength by ten thousand times. No matter how much we simplify it, we cannot reduce its cost to an affordable range..."

"You could clearly transplant your brain into a lifelike mechanical body. That would be better than a body of flesh, and you would still be