"Hmph! I never thought ZAFT would worry about my life!"
Cagalli said something forcefully.
Silence fell between the two again, and the only sound in the cave was the crackling sound coming from the fire.
"Actually, we just need to grab the Earth Army MS developed by the Dawn Society. We didn't expect it to evolve to that point."
After a while, Aslan murmured as if explaining something, but also as if he was self-persuading.
After hearing Aslan's defense, Cagalli couldn't help but replied angrily: "Is it useful to say this now? And no matter what, the colonial satellite was destroyed because of your attack. That is a fact!"
"It is also true that Orb, who lied about being neutral, was building a mobile suit in Helipolis. We cannot just sit back and watch it fall into the hands of the Earth Army."
"This - the same goes for Earth! It's not because of your attack that the Earth was in such a mess that we...!"
"My mother—at Junius 7."
Cagalli desperately wanted to refute, but Aslan's words left her speechless.
Junius No. 7 - Cagalli naturally knows this term.
"It's just an agricultural satellite. So many innocent people on it died in the blink of an eye, even children... Are you asking us to endure it silently?"
Although Aslan didn't want to admit it, it actually made him rush to the battlefield and pull the trigger - revenge!
Cagalli also expressed dissatisfaction: "Many of my friends have died too! They died under your attacks!"
The two glared at each other.
After a long time, in Cagalli's sight, Aslan's passionate expression gradually calmed down, and he regained his previous calmness. He leaned his head against the rock wall and slowly closed his eyes.
Cagalli became anxious when she saw this, and hurriedly shouted: "Hey! You don't want to sleep, do you?"
"Um?"
Aslan opened his eyes and looked at Cagalli: "How could it be... I didn't sleep... I just moved as soon as I landed..."
As he spoke, Aslan's voice became smaller and smaller - just like the sound of breathing while sleeping.
"Hello--!"
It was outrageous to sleep in front of a free prisoner.
And this guy fell asleep in front of me. Doesn't that mean that this guy doesn't think that I will fight back at all, or that even if I fight back, I don't need to take it seriously! ?
However, as soon as this anger arose, it was crushed by Aslan's unprepared sleeping face.
Cagalli couldn't help but sigh and said: "You guys, don't leave the enemy alone and just sleep - this makes it difficult for me to do."
However, no matter how Cagalli called, Aslan still looked like he was sleeping.
"This guy, it would be nice if he stayed asleep -"
Cagalli's eyes paused on the young man's face for a moment, then subconsciously moved to the gun holster on his waist. She was shocked to realize that she was looking at a gun and then looked elsewhere uncomfortably.
Like a child who was afraid of being caught after doing something bad, Cagalli then tiptoed to the other side of the fire and sat back in her original seat.
“What a strange guy”
Until the moment he swung the knife, he showed mechanical precision and coldness, but he chose to stop after hearing his own scream, and even untied her restraints to let her move freely.
Indeed, since she is not part of the Earth Army, she has no value or rights as a prisoner.
But after all, he was the one who wanted to kill him. Why did he dare to leave him alone?
Of course, Cagalli couldn't do such a despicable thing as attacking a sleeping person.
In fact, even if he was awake, Cagalli felt that she couldn't kill him.
Could it be that the other party also felt the same way? Was it because he fell asleep like this without any warning because of his trust in himself...
Cagalli timidly looked outside, and MS's huge figure bathed in the moonlight came into view.
The deadly weapons that symbolized war and killing reminded Cagalli of the past.
The peaceful and lively city disappeared into the darkness of the vacuum——
In the desert city that was favored by Zhu Rong, people were fighting for freedom in a life that could only survive——
The boy's body was raised high after being kicked by Baku, and people's lives were trampled on in such a humble way————
Thinking about everything, Cagalli suddenly stood up wrapped in a blanket and walked slowly towards Aslan.
However, Aslan still did not notice her approach.
"Snapped--"
There was a sudden loud crackle from the fire.
Cagalli was startled, grabbed the pistol and retreated quickly, while waving the blanket towards the opponent neatly.
"Snapped-"
Aslan took off the blanket covering his head, and the blade of the knife in his hand popped out crisply.
"Feel sorry!"
Cagalli clenched the gun tremblingly, looked at Aslan's face and said with a sad face: "I don't want to shoot you! But...! But will it attack the earth again?"
Cagalli doesn't hate the unknown boy in front of her——
I even started to feel an incredible sense of intimacy.
But the faces of those dead companions emerged one by one in Cagalli's mind.
They died under ZAFT's MS with almost no resistance. If they don't take this opportunity to deal with this machine, there will be more victims like them...
Aslan stared at her face for a while and then said calmly: "Then you shoot."
After Cagalli heard this, she didn't know why, but her heart skipped a beat.
Because the soldier's wavering just now had completely disappeared, and the firm look in his eyes made Cagalli look at him sideways.
"I was the one who pulled the trigger in MS..."
Aslan told the real enemy in a calm tone: "I am ZAFT's combat pilot. It is impossible for you to touch that aircraft. If you insist on doing that, I will - kill you." you."
Cagalli looked at the other party in astonishment, her palms dripping with cold sweat could barely hold the handle of the gun. She did not grab the gun for this purpose.
She just wanted to take advantage and use it as a tool to destroy the mobile suit.
But looking at the other party's firm eyes and expression, Cagalli understood deeply that that alone was not enough.
The person in front of him was the one who pulled the trigger. Even if he destroyed the mobile suit, he would not give up the fight.
'Since you are the pilot of that mobile suit, you and I are enemies...'
Unintentionally, the words of the adjuster whom she had met by chance rang in Cagalli's ears.
This is the enemy...?
'It seems that we really have to fight until one of the parties is destroyed——'
The enemy general's words, which sounded self-evident at the time, now approached her with a completely different meaning. The funny thing was that she once thought it was just his self-justification.
The hand gripped the gun handle harder.
But in the next second, she threw the gun away with all her strength.
"you--"
Aslan's eyes widened in shock and he immediately jumped over.
"boom--"
When the sharp echo rushed into Cagalli's eardrums, she had already been knocked down by the soldiers.
It took her a while to realize what had happened. It turned out that the gun she had thrown had gone off.
"Are you a fool?"
Aslan, who was lying on top of her, couldn't help but curse: "How can an open bolt be thrown out!"
"Yes...I'm sorry..."
Cagalli was so shocked by Aslan that she could only lie there and moan.
Aslan got up in shock. After feeling the strangeness coming from his body, he couldn't help but glared at her: "What the hell is going on with you!"
"No, that is, that, I..."
Cagalli hesitated and didn't know what to say.
"That was... just now?"
At this time, Cagalli noticed that the soldier's driving uniform was torn on the side and there was blood seeping out.
"nothing."
"You're bleeding! You need a bandage!"
"It doesn't matter."
Aslan said as he stood up from the ground and reached for his escape backpack.
"I-I'll do it!"
Upon seeing this, Cagalli hurriedly followed and grabbed it. This guy seemed to be injured because he was protecting himself.
"I can do it myself."
Aslan is very worried about Cagalli at the moment. After all, someone who can throw a gun has such a brain...
"I said I'll do it!"
"Need not!"
"It doesn't matter! Let me do it!"
Cagalli hugged the backpack hard in her arms, stared at him with tears in her eyes, and said, "Otherwise, wouldn't I have always owed you a favor? At least let me repay a little!"
Looking at the tearful Cagalli, Aslan looked startled, then smiled bitterly.
But he seemed to have discovered something, so he quickly looked away and said, "Before that... do you want to put on your clothes first?"
After hearing what he said, Cagalli realized that she was only wearing underwear and immediately fell to the ground.
"No...don't look!"
"So I didn't watch it."
