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Rei laughed heartily, and he slowly floated back, facing the young people's gazes.

"Just being good at piloting a mobile suit isn't enough to win a girl's affection. By the way, having similar interests is rare. Most of the time, girls will focus on your appearance, your demeanor, your conversation, and your manners. If you want to find a partner, it's best to start with these aspects."

"Why did it suddenly become about imparting love experience?"

Mirialia couldn't help herself, but she admitted that what Ray said was absolutely right.

Your so-called inner qualities can only be seen after you get along with each other. If you want to get along with each other, at least you won’t make people feel disgusted or want to stay away from you at first sight.

"Because a beautiful love relationship is what people truly pursue."

Rei crossed his arms and nodded. His unconventional behavior was effective.

An older brother who loves to joke is easier to get along with no matter how you look at him. If the atmosphere becomes bad if you don’t talk, let him talk all the time!

"Thinking back then I also"

Rei thought about it, well, I can’t continue, so I’d better not say anything.

What we say and what we actually do are completely different, not to mention that we are all in the same army.

If you look down and see each other, you will see each other again. If something really happens, it will be extremely embarrassing. It is better to consciously avoid danger.

"right?"

"What is it?"

Sai complained, not understanding what the man was saying.

"Anyway, let's go eat."

Rey used his back brake again, hitting the wall and bouncing off it again.

While he was interacting with the students, the Archangel also determined its direction of progress.

In the case of a shortage of supplies, the only place where the Archangel can replenish its supplies is Junius 7, and it must be very safe here. ZAFT finds it hard to imagine that anyone would go there to use the things of the dead.

In this case, Junius 7 has been floating there for almost a year.

We are now in a state of war. The Earth Army cannot deal with these things, and ZAFT has no time to do the follow-up processing.

If you look at it this way

"I really don't want to go there at all."

In fact, Mu was not clear about the situation over there. No one on the Archangel had actually seen what Junius 7 looked like now.

Although the Earth Army's propaganda said that they attacked ZAFT's logistics base, that was just what they said.

There are no photos or videos, doesn't that prove that Junius 7 is not a place that can be shown to anyone casually?

If the victory was truly as great as what was advertised, it would have been widely publicized to boost morale. However, it was only mentioned for a short period of time at the beginning of the war.

If you really get there

Mu is not as frivolous as he seems. He only recently learned how the people of neutral countries view their Atlantic Federation.

Is hegemony really like this?

Going to Junius 7 should give you the answer, but no one knows what impact that answer will have.

"Then I'm going to rest first."

Leaving this sentence, Mu left the bridge.

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Chapter 18 Under the Skin

Click, click, inside the cockpit of the Golden Heretic is Rey, who is programming the OS using the machine's built-in program.

Does the driver need to do this personally? At least when Rei served in the AEU army, he had a one-stop service.

However, as a test pilot of the Akebono Society, Ray also learned this knowledge under the guidance of the technical staff. Although he could not develop an OS from scratch, he had no problem making certain modifications to the existing OS.

Besides, it’s a different era now. If you make a mistake, just roll it back.

At this moment, Rey's eyes reflected the various letters and symbols on the screen, and his ten fingers moved skillfully on the keyboard.

It was this action that made Ray mutter to himself:

"Wow, I'm really good at this."

The memories of both sides are very clear. If this situation can happen a few more times, wouldn't he become an invincible all-rounder, a person with magical innate knowledge?

But the plot doesn't seem right. Shouldn't the protagonist in this kind of work of traveling to another world and being reborn start from infancy?

Even if it wasn't from infancy, it shouldn't be like this, not to mention the plagiarized works that became popular all over the world and became legends. At the very least, he would have returned to his student days and started a sweet love life with several beautiful girls.

How come he's driving a killer weapon and fighting on the battlefield? I haven't seen the Golden Heretic transform into a beautiful mecha girl.

"Novels are all lies."

A moment of distraction, Rei found that he could not understand the OS data on the screen.

He slowly rolled back the progress and saved it, then shut down the Golden Heretic's system and leaned back in his chair.

The blacked-out screen revealed the environment inside the cockpit, which was cramped and dark.

Rey opened the cockpit door and left while grabbing his hair.

The tranquility of the maintenance room was disturbed by the sound of the hatch opening, which startled the people in front of the cockpit door.

"Wow!"

"Ok?"

Rei walked out of the cockpit after hearing the sound. He looked left and right but didn't see anyone. He looked up and saw Kira, whose body was shaking and was pushed out by the thrust when the cockpit opened.

"Sorry, I didn't see you just now."

Ray said as he kicked his feet, hugged Kira who was floating in the air, and then followed inertia to reach the ceiling and pushed again, and the two of them descended to the foothold together.

"Thank you, thank you."

Kira, who was released, thanked him shyly. He was just a student and had some experience in zero gravity, but not the experience of living in a zero gravity environment every day.

What's more, this is not a normal place, but the interior of a warship.

If someone had told Kira two days ago that he would be boarding the Archangel, he would have thought they were dreaming.

But not only did he get on board, he also saw what he was bound to see sooner or later.

Since this Heresy is a MS developed by Orb for its own army, then as a citizen of Orb, he will one day see the Heresy.

Although Kira had mixed feelings about this, Orb declared peace and said it would remain neutral for the sake of peace.

Weapons, MS, the Earth Federation, isn't this the opposite of peace?

Thinking of this, Kira's expression became gloomy again.

Rey thought about the time. After sleeping for six hours, he got up and went to the Golden Heretic to try to adjust the OS, and then met Kira here.

It's easy for him to explain himself, but the only reason Kira hasn't fallen asleep in this situation is because he is under too much psychological pressure.

Then Ray casually talked about his own affairs:

"Come to think of it, I originally worked at the Dawn Society just to make a living as an Adjuster, but I never imagined that one day I would actually step onto the battlefield."

Kira was stunned for a moment, then he reacted.

"Eh?"

Adjuster? What? Ray is also an Adjuster?

Kira wasn't the selfish type who didn't care about others, so he could understand the atmosphere among his friends.

Although his friends who were involved in this war like him did not say it, they were resentful towards the Adjuster in their hearts.

If ZAFT hadn't attacked Heliopolis, how could we have ended up like this?

The friends are all naturals, while Kira is an adjuster.

His friends don't treat him as an outsider, but Kira is an adjuster after all, not to mention that he has also met Athrun who has become a ZAFT soldier. He will involuntarily try to understand ZAFT as an adjuster.

Until just now, he had been holding back all his words in his heart, thinking that no one could understand, but now he subconsciously spoke out his heart:

"We clearly migrated to Orb to escape discrimination and war. If Orb joins the Union, what will become of us?"

Kira and his friends understood the blunt words Ray had said before.

Orb is a country on Earth. To say that the United Nations can crush Orb is a bit of an overestimation of Orb.

As Rey said, Orb joining the alliance is an inevitable trend.

All the friends except Kira accepted this fact, but Kira was different from others. His background determined that he would think about these things.

There are many adjusters like him in Aubrey, and they all come here because they believe in the concept of peace and neutrality promoted by Aubrey.

Once Orb joins the Earth Army, what will these adjusters do?

The answer is nothing, no big deal.

Rei could understand Kira's thoughts, which were nothing more than a sense of guilt related to the concept of compatriots.

To be honest, he thought it was quite strange that Kira could have such thoughts, especially in such a tense environment, how could he still think about all these things?

"Kira, both the Eurasian Federation and the East Asian Federation have Adjuster citizens. Orb and PLANT are just one of the places where Adjusters go."

Ray decided to be honest and said he didn't think the Adjusters joining Orb had any particularly noble ideas.

"The only reason an Adjuster joins Orb is to live a good life."

This is a very realistic topic.

"People don't really believe in Orb's ideals; they simply don't care. Many Adjusters have their own lives, and their lives are decent enough, so they can't resonate with PLANT."

I haven't suffered any harm, so I don't understand what you are saying.

"And these people choose Orb to make themselves feel comfortable. They just want to live a good life, so they all raise the flag of neutrality."

Ignore it and use it as an excuse.

"But this is human nature. No one wishes misfortune upon themselves. Everyone wishes for happiness and peace. So, you shouldn't feel that this is a betrayal of your compatriots just because you're also an Adjuster. You're not a PLANT citizen, so how can you be considered a betrayal?"

Rey knew his words sounded selfish, but wasn't that reality?

It’s like when we see some bad news, we can’t do anything except vent our emotions, and only a very small number of people will take action.

Most people do this anyway, so why don't you do the same?

"But"

If Kira hadn't met Athrun, he would have been convinced, but unfortunately he couldn't forget his childhood friend who had joined the battlefield.

So he kept thinking, and thus noticed a contradiction in Rey's words:

"We are just running away."

Kira saw through this, and what Ray was saying was that everyone does it, so it's okay for you to do it.

“If everyone does it, does that mean it’s the right thing to do?”

To know the answer, we must ask another question:

"How did the war actually start?"

Doesn’t it start once the war is declared?

Rei didn't respond with such perfunctory words. Ultimately, why had the Earth Federation declared war on PLANT? Was it simply because of the long-standing friction and conflicts between the naturalists and the regulators?

Of course not. If this contradiction is really so big that it cannot be adjusted, the regulators on Earth would have tried every possible way to fly into space and immigrate to PLANT.

Before, when they were in Artemis, Garcia would not say to Rey that we give preferential treatment to Adjusters. After all, the Atlantic Federation's vicious hostility towards Adjusters is only the Atlantic Federation's own business.

To put it bluntly, if pure malice could trigger such a war, black people would have been exterminated long ago.

Rey, who has also thought about this, was able to summarize the complex economic and political situation in a short sentence:

"Because the Atlantic Federation cannot allow the rise of an adjuster nation in space that could affect the world situation."

The Atlantic Federation does not want an independent country in space that it cannot interfere with, and the destruction of Junius 7 is proof of this.

What do you, PLANT, want to do with agriculture? Are you trying to completely break free from Earth's self-sufficiency? If you dare to engage in agriculture today, you'll dare to engage in the military industry tomorrow! That's outrageous!

This is indeed the case. PLANT has developed MS.