Anna came down again, this time in the light blue dress that her maid gave her. Looking at her Angela nodded in appreciation.
"Now my daughter looks like real daughter. A beautiful elegant lady." She said praising her.
Anna noticed they haven't started eating yet. Clearly they were waiting for her. So she took her seat facing her mother. Soon the maids brought in the breakfast and they started to eat.
Anna was very careful to eat in a gentle ladylike manner not to anger her mother anymore. However, there were minor slips that garnered lectures from her mother.
Thankfully, no one brought back the matter of the uniform again.
After breakfast, Anna waited in her room for a while. She was more than eager to test out her new magic powers. But she was careful enough to wait until her parents got busy with their work.
After that she dismissed Ciel. She wanted to carry out her operations alone, though in the game Ciel was supposed to make her character as the villainess' trusted sidekick.
After she made sure that no one was left around, she quickly changed back to her uniform and went outside. She ran to the mansion back garden.
Once there, she first tried out her puppeteering magic. She visualized a beautiful woman body and materialized it. She touched its skin. It was soft and warm just like a human woman.
This was her quirk, there is no way a man at heart is going to make male troops. After all his Nazi chic paraphilia was in full swing now.
She made a few more and dressed them in summoned Wehrmacht soldier uniforms. She also armed them with German military equipments like the Kar98k and MP40.
Experimenting with the puppets she found out that she had to keep all her focus on one to make sure it performs all its function.
There was no way she could control more than one. What's more, keeping all her focus in one means even she couldn't do any extra task. So it was a highly impractical system other than using for hazardous tasks.
Thinking for a while, she decided to put some her computer science programming knowledge to use. After as a computer science engineer during the 2020s previously she had seen and designed many smart AIs as his graduation projects and games.
Anna sat cross-legged on the grass, the crisp uniform back on her shoulders, her puppets standing in eerie silence around her. The Kar98ks and MP40s gleamed faintly in the sunlight.
To anyone else, it would look like a squad of soldiers awaiting orders. She touched the nearest puppet, closing her eyes.
"Alright, let's try this like pseudo-code." Her voice was a whisper as she outlined the rules, almost like she was teaching a beginner class: "If enemy appears → aim weapon → fire until target down.If no enemy → stand guard. If damaged → retreat behind ally."
A faint glow shimmered along the puppet's body. It straightened, almost as if something clicked into place. Anna's heart raced.
"Did it... actually take that as a command?" She stepped back and tossed a stick into the bushes.
The leaves rustled, and instantly, the puppet raised its rifle and snapped into a firing stance—though no bullet fired, since Anna hadn't specified that. Anna clapped her hands together, grinning like a mad scientist.
"Yes! It's primitive, but it works. I can actually 'hardcode' behaviors into them instead of babysitting every single move!"
She quickly tried another, layering in slightly different logic. This one she ordered to patrol in a set path, scanning left and right every few steps.
Now she thought about how to make the codes efficient. Specially since she was using lifeless puppets as troops, she had to be extra careful while designing their logic.
She rushed back to her room, took some papers, a pen and ink and then returned back to the garden where her squad stood awaiting.
She sat down on the grass and started to draft codes. How to differentiate enemy from allies or civilians, how to handle the weapons in their hands etc. All these had to be checked carefully to avoid any accidents.
It took hours to draft a code she thought was perfect for her small squad of troops. She'd code the officers later and more robustly.
Thanks to magic, applying the pseudocodes practically on the puppets became much easier and simpler. She could just touch the puppets and the codes imprinted themselves as she wanted.
Soon her puppet squad was ready for action and she took them on a patrol across the town for final check. They worked perfectly, though attracting some side glances from the people.
The troops were even able to catch a pickpocketer from amongst the civilians without hurting them or the pickpocketer.
Anna was happy with the patrol results. After returning back, she wrote some other codes, after all the troops needed to 'serve' her at night as well, of course secretly.