Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 757 Hilde's Judgment (Part 1)

"Hand over the Phoenix key."

"Hey?"

Instead of holding the meeting on the bridge, which has a holographic projection, Hilde chose the rarely used and poorly equipped operations briefing room. As soon as Siegfried entered, he noticed that the atmosphere seemed a bit off. Not only was Ras, who always went along with him, looking extremely serious, but even Shin Asuka's face showed obvious panic. Before he could say anything, Hilde hit him on the head with a stick.

"Effective immediately, your qualification to pilot an MS is revoked. I will decide when it is reinstated."

"Why? Did Lux ​​say something to you?!"

Although Siegfried stubbornly insisted on demanding an explanation for a moment, Hilde not only did not back down, but the anger emanating from her was even noticed by Marius, a Natural. After a few seconds of eye contact, Siegfried lowered his head and handed over the Phoenix key.

“I know you can bypass the key and forcibly summon Phoenix. Make a promise that you will never do so without my permission.”

Knowing her younger brother's capabilities, Hilde did not stop after obtaining the key. Instead, she further blocked all of Siegfried's escape routes. After a few seconds of silence, Siegfried finally complied with her wishes and made a promise.

"I need to know why, right? Lux must have told on me!"

"My lord, Lux is doing this for your own good."

"For my own good? Why should I need her to do anything for me! Just look at the lousy things her mother has done."

As soon as he said it, Siegfried realized something was wrong. He knew very well that Lux and her mother were two completely separate individuals. In fact, Lux was also one of the victims in the compass chaos. His indiscriminate attitude was a form of displaced anger, and this displaced anger should never have happened between him and Lux.

"Found a problem?"

"I"

Just as Siegfried finished speaking, Lux, the person involved, entered the briefing room. It was only then that he noticed that the self-blame in Lux's eyes seemed to carry a different meaning. At the time, he subconsciously took it as her guilt towards what she had done to her mother, but now that he thought about it, given Lux's character, she wouldn't have made it so obvious if she really felt guilty.

“I retrieved your brain quantum wave data from Phoenix. At first, it showed everything was normal, but later I did a deeper analysis based on the time points provided by Lux and found that there were two hidden amplitude changes.”

"You mean there's something wrong with my brain's quantum waves?"

Before Hilde could answer, Lux walked straight to Siegfried's side and then took Siegfried's right hand with her left hand. Although it wasn't a strange interlocking of fingers, the subtle touch still made the person subconsciously want to pull away.

"Be good, don't move."

Under Ras’s complicated gaze, Siegfried finally resigned himself to his fate and gave up the struggle. Hilde then stopped keeping everyone in suspense and explained one of her motivations for convening the meeting.

The first opportunity for Siegfried's two amplitude changes was when the wormhole opened, and the second was when Hilde completely locked the dimensional wall of the wormhole. In terms of specific manifestations, it was when Phoenix dismantled G-Fred and slapped Macho across the face and used his brain quantum wave to knock out Nia'an's node.

After discovering the anomaly, Hilde used Lux's ability to examine Siegfried again and came to the conclusion that the spacetime anchor in Siegfried's body had not been completely stabilized. In addition, his previous Soul Banner physique was not cured but forcibly separated and left in the quantum space. Therefore, at the two moments when the wormhole opened and closed, an unknown number of consciousnesses crossed the spacetime plane and invaded his body through brain quantum waves.

"All right."

After Hilde finished speaking, everyone fell silent. After that blatant battle, the ordinary people on Ptolemy's ship already knew of the existence of the 'other world.' The shock was no less than the devastating blow to universal values ​​when George Grey revealed his identity as a Coordinator. Now, the situation on the other side of the wormhole was unknown, or rather, after witnessing their pursuit of Lacus and Kira, even if someone announced that the other side was a peace-loving human regime, probably no one would believe it, because humans are inherently skeptical of everything unfamiliar.

Moreover, the current CE world has only just emerged from three world-ending crises in three years. The Human Revolutionary Alliance has finally seen a glimmer of hope for unification. Marius has every reason to believe that as long as she submits the battle report truthfully, Mina will definitely list the other side as a high-risk target.

"Okay~"

A gentle female voice broke the silence. Siegfried turned his head and found that Lux's eyes had changed from self-blame to care. For a wild child who had lived with Hilde since childhood and was constantly fighting even after getting married, this was an emotion that felt extremely unfamiliar to him.

"What's better?"

"Please take a good look at your own heart, Siegfried."

Lux's fair hand did not loosen its grip. Siegfried exerted a little force and found that Lux was using so much strength that unless he also used force to break free, it would be impossible to shake her off directly. With Lux's prompting, he found that his emotions had miraculously calmed down a lot.

At the same time, the dampness in his palm indicated that Lux's manipulation of the tuner's abilities was not as easy as it appeared. Once he understood this, he completely gave up resisting and let Lux hold his hand.

"So where did this consciousness come from?"

"We don't know for now."

"Whose consciousness is that? We have no idea."

"Yes, we don't even know if it's one person or multiple people."

"Damn it, what bad luck!"

After changing his tune in time to avoid being beaten, Siegfried understood what Lux meant by "it's all right". From the beginning, he had harbored unusual malice towards Marcho and Niaan, but perhaps because his past experiences were too famous, or perhaps because everyone was still immersed in the shock of the first living person traveling through the world, only Lux noticed his abnormality and reminded Hilde in time.

This conclusion is not good news for the CE world. Siegfried is now the world's number one fighter on the surface. Moreover, after comparing with other worlds, Hilde also found that apart from life forms like Setsuna who have fused with ELS, or non-human monsters like Kyoji Kashu who have fused with DG cells, Siegfried is already a being who can do whatever he wants in most worlds.

However, his abilities are weakened to some extent after leaving his original plane. The most obvious example is that he lost his quantum ability when he traveled through the UC. Otherwise, he could have easily dealt with the inexperienced Amuro in A Baoa Quta by himself, without needing to cooperate with Char.

"Which prince or princess dares to scheme against me?"

Just as someone was about to spout some outrageous remarks after realizing that there was a backdoor in his body, the pressure on his hand made him realize that his lawless days were over. After forcibly changing his mind for the second time, he once again signaled to Lux with his eyes whether she could let go, but she simply turned her head away and avoided his threatening gaze.

"Perhaps it's the one you met? It's also possible that the other person doesn't like Gundams from that world."

"Really?!"

"You don't need to understand things about other dimensions so thoroughly!"

(End of this chapter)