Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 749 Choice and Redemption

"This is not your responsibility alone, but I know I can't persuade you, so I just brought someone who can hold you back. Don't thank me~"

Siegfried took a closer look and realized that Cagalli was sent to him by Lacus. In the sea of ​​GN particles that almost covered half of the earth, Lacus, as a tuner, became the first direct beneficiary. That was why she was able to sense Siegfried's determination to sacrifice himself and accurately deliver the 'Anti-Heroic Phantasm' to him in time.

However, Siegfried noticed that behind Lacus' gentle smile, she seemed to be forcibly suppressing some emotion. After a moment, he came to his senses and realized that Lacus must have noticed the abnormality in Kira's body.

But with the safety of the Earth and even all of humanity at stake, she had to use tremendous self-control to completely suppress her emotions, lest Aslan and the others notice anything and affect Siegfried's control over the Moonlight Butterfly.

However, as the enthusiasm of the crowd for the 'savior' gradually faded, many people began to realize that something seemed to be wrong.

The huge Möbius strip formed by the Moonlight Butterfly, with GN particles as the bond, did not dissipate after decomposing Genesis. Instead, it was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. Maliu Ramias, who was in charge of Ptolemy, had received five or six inquiry calls including from Bakilulu, but she could not give any useful reply as she did not get an answer from Hilde.

"About Kira."

After hesitating for a while, Siegfried still planned to confess Kira's physical condition to Lacus. Unexpectedly, the other party did not even give him a chance to finish his words, and directly blocked the answer that both of them knew with a counter-question.

"If the world is destroyed, does a person's life or death really matter?"

"Lux"

In the quantum world composed of GN particles, Siegfried felt Lacus' emotions very clearly for the first time. Since they met, she had always worn a mask against her will, and he had never taken off his preconceived filter. Until now, relying on the special environment of "mutual understanding", Siegfried discovered that apart from the halo of the goddess, the surging emotions under Lacus Klein's calm face ultimately showed that she was just an ordinary 20-year-old girl.

"So, what exactly do we need to do to make this thing stop?"

Taking a deep breath, before Cagalli could figure out the riddle between the two of them, Lacus directly revealed the answer, which was the fact that the Moonlight Butterfly was infinitely close to being out of control, and this loss of control would destroy the entire human civilization.

"I'll initiate a quantum leap with Phoenix, and then seal this thing in the turbulence of time and space."

"how about you?"

"Me? Hilde and I brought this thing, so it's only natural for me to clean up after it."

"What I'm asking is, what are you going to do? Abandon Hilde, Cagalli, and Lars, and never come back again!"

Lux looked into Siegfried's eyes calmly. For some reason, at this moment Siegfried suddenly found that the space-time anchor in his body showed signs of stability. This discovery made him hesitate. After all, if given a choice, who would be willing to abandon his wife and children and travel to an unknown world?

“I won’t allow it!”*3
They answered in unison, but this time even Lars joined in. Unlike Cagalli, Lars' voice was clearly tearful. After all, in terms of identity, Siegfried also had the identity of 'the child's father', so Lars could not accept that this short reunion would end in a farewell forever.

"What did Sister Hilde say?"

Compared to the two girls who were so concerned that they were in a panic, Lacus placed her hope on the universal wish-making machine Hiramon. Instead of counting on Siegfried's "power of thinking" to come up with a solution, Lacus obviously believed that Hilde would be able to come up with a reasonable solution.

"I tried many methods, but the Moonlight Butterfly was out of my and Siegfried's control after it was activated, so..."

Although Hilde did not finish her words, everyone understood what followed that sentence. No one would think that Hilde was encouraging Siegfried to sacrifice himself. The answer that was not spoken out loud was obviously the only solution at the moment.

"Is there really no other way?"/"Can I replace Siegfried?" A familiar voice sounded in the connection of brain quantum waves. Everyone looked in the direction where the voice came from. It was the broken Defender of Glory in Phoenix's hand.

"My body is almost completely quantized. In that case, let me leave in Siegfried's place!"

At this time, two-thirds of Kira's body had been corroded by the green GN particles, but because of this, when Siegfried transformed into a data processing terminal, he also passively felt the light in the human heart.

In fact, before Lacus intervened, Kira had already discovered that the Moonlight Butterfly was in danger of getting out of control, but on the one hand, at that time his mind was still immersed in the miracle created by all mankind just now, and on the other hand, he also knew that his body had undergone irreversible changes, and even if he wanted to do something, he was powerless.

However, Hilde's words illuminated Kira's heart. Since quantum leap is inevitable, why doesn't he take the initiative to replace Siegfried as the core of the leap and take away the Moonlight Butterfly in one wave? This is also the only way he can think of to break the deadlock in a short period of time.

"Judging from your current physical condition, it is far worse than Siegfried's. Once you leave this world, the possibility of coming back is close to zero. Have you thought it through?"

While everyone was thinking, Hilde was the first to respond, and her tone showed that she had already agreed with Kira's plan. The so-called careful consideration was more like a ruthless disclaimer.

After all, on one side is her biological brother, and on the other side is just a semi-stranger who is slightly familiar to her but not even a friend. There is no need to think about which is more important.

"I've thought it through. Consider it my atonement for all this."

Through the long river of time opened up by Siegfried, Kira witnessed with his own eyes everything that Yulian Hibiki did before he was born, and the impact of this personal experience was far greater than what Cruze felt when he narrated it to him. Therefore, Kira's final battle was more like a desperate charge of self-abandonment.

"Kira."

There was a slight tremor in Lacus' voice. She knew very well that Kira was also one of the many war criminals in Compass. It could even be said that with Orphie and others having died in battle, Kira, who had escaped alone, would most likely have to bear the sins of the entire Compass.

Even if Genesis was stopped by the "light of the soul" caused by Siegfried, a crime is a crime, and even Lacus herself cannot give the explanation of "it's better to just let it go". What's more, if she were in her position, even her act of exonerating Kira would be regarded as abuse of power for personal gain in the eyes of those who are interested.

"Sorry Lux, I tried to be a good person and failed, then I tried to be a bad person and failed as well."

Just as Kira himself said, as the strongest man in the CE world, he is neither extremely good nor extremely evil. After meeting Lacus, he once thought that he had found the meaning of fighting, but Siegfried's sudden appearance made Kira have different thoughts.

'It is the hero's duty to fight.'

With this idea in mind, a huge gap appeared in Kira's body between the appearance of the strongest adjuster and the gentle and kind heart. This gap once made him live in endless self-doubt.

The appearance of Frey and her copies further exacerbated this phenomenon, until finally he gave up on self-salvation, indulged in the illusory world given by Van Dyson, and stood against his former partners.

"Siegfried once told me that with great power comes great responsibility. I used to think of the strongest adjuster as a curse, but now I finally understand the meaning of this sentence."

The Glory Defender broke away from Phoenix's grasp, and then moved behind the golden MS with its remaining power. "I want to try to save the world once, too, Mr. Hero."

"Hey Kira!"

"Lacus, Kira Yamato, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)