"It's a destroyer, probably the engine was damaged..."
Most of the wreckage floating in the gravel belt is of earlier types.
"There's not much damage, there should be some ammunition or something..."
Sai spoke to Pal on the control seat.
They were initially resistant to "grave robbing", but that resistance was soon replaced by the excitement of riding on a working boat for the first time.
This feeling, like treasure hunting, is irresistible.
"Hey, I hope everyone inside escaped safely..."
The large empty hole in the engine department looked like an empty tomb.
"Strike Gundam" accompanied Thor, Miria, and the small boat driven by Noel into the gravel sea.
After passing around a wreckage that looked like the outer wall of a spaceship, an extremely strange sight appeared in front of them.
"ah……"
"Wow……"
"……This is……?"
Kira, Thor and others shouted at the same time.
In front of him is a frozen land.
It's a bit like a rural landscape somewhere in the past.
Withered and frozen wheat stood upright to form a pale farmland, with only scattered farm-like buildings preserved almost intact in the vacuum.
Surrounding this land is sea water that was frozen in the moment it boiled due to decompression, as if to be making a silent protest against the tragic and indignant fate of this colonial star.
The central axis tower was horribly broken, and around the high-tension strings that were torn apart like floating threads, there were very few broken outer walls and a small amount of self-repairing glass...
Kira and others, wearing outboard work clothes, descended to the land covered by vacuum.
Facing this miserable land, everyone was speechless.
The empty scene in front of me was even more lonely than the dark space of the universe. It was as frightening as if I had returned to a home without my family.
They unconsciously walked softly and walked along the road towards a house that looked like a storage room.
As soon as the door opened, Mirialia screamed in fear.
Kira looked at the floating objects in front of him as if frozen.
It looked like a miserable woman who wanted to protect her child. She bent her back and held the child tightly to her chest.
Hiding under the mother's arms, Kira and others could not tell the gender of the child. There was a bear cub with missing eyes floating next to the woman, which was probably the child's puppet.
The unspeakable tragic scene impacted everyone's heart.
The people who once lived on this colonial planet have now suffered the same fate as this mother and son.
This is what "Junius 7" looks like - the place where "Bloody Valentine's Day" takes place.
"Noel, where are you going? Don't leave the team without permission!?"
Suddenly, when Kira and others were looking at the city in front of them in a daze, Mariu on the bridge discovered that a working boat broke away from the team and approached rapidly in another direction. She was so frightened that she hurriedly called through the communicator.
"Noel?"
Kira and others came to their senses after hearing this and hurriedly looked around for Noel.
However, after a moment, Kira quickly discovered a working boat floating in the distance through optical imaging.
"Noel! You..."
"I'll go find him! Thor, you guys start collecting things first!"
Kira interrupted Malu's words and looked at Noel who was walking further and further away. After giving instructions twice, Kira quickly started the engine and chased after him.
"Noel, you..."
Kira piloted the Strike Gundam and quickly caught up with Noel. However, when he was about to say something, the scene in front of him completely froze him in place.
It was a torn fragment, glowing with a ruined and desolate emptiness in the darkness.
The only lonely door is simple and gray, giving off a sense of simplicity and old age.
However, what really made Kira freeze was the same figure floating in the darkness as before, but this was a woman wearing a nun's costume with broken hands.
Judging from her broken arms and bowed back, she should have been holding something.
but now·····
Just when Kira was shocked, the work boat in the distance suddenly opened slowly.
Noel, wearing airtight clothing, stepped out of the boat.
As the gas spurted out from his back, Noel slowly floated in front of the woman wearing a nun's costume.
Looking at the familiar face in front of him, Noel stretched out his hand to grab it but took it back nervously.
"Aunt Sister...I...Noel, I'm back!"
Noel, who had been escaping for a long time, grinned and couldn't help but close his eyes. The tears in the corners of his eyes could no longer hold back and slowly slid down. He stretched out his limbs and floated in this broken world.
"Noel?"
Through the optical image of the machine, Kira saw the teardrops floating in Noel's helmet and the trembling and cracked smile. He seemed to have discovered something.
Noel floated around the nun like a corpse.
Until—a few minutes later—
Noel, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his eyes and bowed to the nun.
With the gas spurting from his back, he turned back to the working boat. After looking at the floating figure with nostalgia, Noel got directly into the small boat and started the working boat.
"Noel, you..."
Kira looked at Noel's boat and couldn't help but ask, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't know how to express them.
"Kira."
"Um?"
"You must become stronger in the future."
"Wha...what? Stronger?"
"Promise me, you must be strong enough to change the world - or stop everything!"
"What does this mean?"
"Because the future of this world depends entirely on you and... From now on, your future road will be more difficult. You must never let me down..."
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"Aslan."
PLANT, shortly after leaving the meeting, a voice called Aslan.
Listening to this familiar voice, Aslan reflexively saluted and said, "Your Excellency Speaker Klein."
"Don't give me such a formal courtesy." Siegel Klein waved his hand and smiled.
"No, this is... uh——"
Seeing the other party's instructions with a wry smile, Aslan was shocked by his actions and quickly put down his hand in a panic.
Klein stood under the monument, the Whale Stone, and said to Aslan with a wry smile: "I was just about to say that you finally came back, but now the child is away due to work. Really, when will you two come back?" Is there any time to meet?"
"Yes... I'm so sorry."
Aslan, who didn't know how to respond for a moment, lowered his head.
Seeing this, Siegel Klein suddenly laughed again and said, "Haha, it's useless for you to apologize to me."
However, just at this moment, Sigel Klein caught a glimpse of the figure standing at the entrance of the parliament. The smile on his face disappeared instantly. Thinking about everything, a trace of tiredness appeared on his gentle face, and he said: "Things There's going to be a big fuss again... It's not like I don't understand what your father said."
He is a conservative and is completely opposite to Aslan's father.
In this short period of time, he has been working hard to suppress the opinions of radicals. Although he has often played the role of negotiating with the earth in the past, this time...
Cruze, who was walking out of the parliament hall while talking with Patrick Sala, spotted Aslan. After saluting Patrick Sala, he turned around and walked over and said: "We are going to pursue the newly built ship and MS Racconi. The team with Bolt will be merged under my command. We will leave the port in seventy-two hours."
As for Siegel Klein, Kruse turned a blind eye as if he didn't notice his existence.
"Yes! - Excuse me, Mr. Speaker Klein."
Aslan saluted Klein again, then turned and followed Kruse away.
Patrick Sala, who was left alone, came to Klein's side, and the two looked at each other for a while.
"We don't have that time, and our own problems have not yet been solved. What is your purpose of deliberately expanding the war now?"
At the meeting, Siegel Klein discovered early on the synergy between Patrick Sala and Kruse, as well as Aslan’s endorsement.
But in the face of this situation, Sigel Klein was helpless. Although he was the speaker, it did not mean that this was his say, and it did not mean that he could interfere with the wishes of the members.
"Just because we don't have time, we have to solve it as soon as possible!"
"Wouldn't it be better to sit down?"
"We have sat down for a long time, but what have we gained? Do you want me to put aside the tragedy of Junius and face the smiling faces of those natural people?"
Siegel Klein couldn't help but feel nervous listening to Patrick Sala's words. It turned out that the incident had such a huge impact on him.
