This pocket watch was the means he had thought of for communicating with Lady Camilla.
Her sudden appearance in the Difference Engine earlier had truly startled Elliot.
After all, seeing his own cheat act outside his control was bound to be alarming.
Fortunately, things were not as he had imagined.
When he put the Difference Engine Core back into the Difference Engine and started it up, Lady Camilla disappeared from the machine.
Had he not happened to cut the Difference Engine's power and restart it, he really would have had no way to communicate directly with Lady Camilla.
The explanation began with Lady Camilla's current state.
According to Lady Camilla, she had now sacrificed her physical body and become an existence called a [Mechanical Spirit].
She could exist within machines imbued with Elliot's spirituality and jump freely between them.
"Come to think of it, why my spirituality? How is that determined?" Elliot asked his pocket watch.
[Didn't you infuse the Badge with your spirituality when you succeeded as Family Head? That serves as the standard. A Mechanical Spirit serves only the Family Head and can emerge freely from any machine you use.]
After saying this, Lady Camilla even made a show of sighing: [Once you find a wife, she should take my place. I suppose I'll disappear then.]
The corner of Elliot's eye twitched.
Somehow, he always had the feeling that, although Sterling's Path made it easy to lose one's emotions, both the Old Duke and Lady Camilla displayed intense emotions.
He had once asked Lady Camilla about this, and her answer had been: [This is proof that we live in this world.]
In any case, after learning this, Elliot had specifically ordered a Machine Priest to make this pocket watch, which could display text.
According to Lady Camilla, if