Gundam EXARE

If you really don't want to develop a relationship, stop using sweet words every day.

However, habits are subconscious behaviors, and sometimes even we cannot control them.

"That's actually a contract. It's just a euphemism for working to pay off a debt. It sounds nicer."

Ray immediately started to make excuses, and then Lux took out her phone and said:

"Then let me help you calculate how much you have to pay me back."

In this case, let us get along as creditor and debtor.

"Wait, I remember now, we are indeed good friends. Haha, did you forget that I was sitting in the first row cheering you on during your last concert?"

“The last time I did a live online concert.”

"My concern for you is always in the front row!"

"I see. Thank you!"

"Aren't we good friends? This is what I should do."

Rei smiled brightly, and what came out of his mouth was one nonsense after another.

But the same is true for Smiling Lux. Her last concert was an offline concert.

Both of them were talking nonsense, Ray was well aware of this, while Lux found it quite amusing.

The words out of your mouth have no meaning and are not a performance. There is no need to take them seriously. Just say whatever you want and talk about things that have never happened.

After all, Lux herself had no topics to talk about. She was not aware of the current trends, and she didn't understand what was normal for men and women of this age to talk about.

It would be nice if I could keep rambling on and on until I get tired of it, but unfortunately I can’t.

So Lux said at this time:

"It's this late, do you want to have lunch first?"

Wouldn't a person who wakes up after 12 noon be hungry?

"It's not good for your health to be hungry. Let's talk slowly after we finish eating."

Lux was considering things from someone else's perspective, which made Ray think of something and feel strange.

How does one say it? Except for your mother, no other woman will always think of you.

Most people would not connect the two things together, but Rey had already had a strange association, so he now had a very strange expression.

"I'm a little flattered."

"Is it that exaggerated?"

Lux, who thought Ray was joking, smiled back, but this was not good.

The gentler the smile, the more warmth it gives people, the smile of the Virgin Mary, the mother.

Did I get my head smashed in the fight with the Aegis?

Rey quickly shifted his attention. He found that Lux's expression at this moment was completely different from when she was on the Archangel. It was not the lively smile of a young girl at all.

The actors on the stage faithfully play their roles. What are they thinking at this time?

Dividing line

"It's just a clown."

This is how Mariu evaluates herself. Previously, there was a conflict between the Archangel crew led by Neumann and the soldiers of the Alaska base.

The reason was the gossip surrounding her. Only the crew members of the Archangel knew how much pressure they were under at the time.

To Neumann and the others, were these ignorant soldiers spouting obscene language seeking death?

Okay, if you want to be beaten, I will fulfill your wish, so the two sides really started fighting.

Then there were even more outrageous rumors, saying that she had just let it go and it was better not to mention it.

In short, when others have already been prejudiced against you, no matter what you do, it will be useless and they will just treat you as a clown.

And this relationship is mutual, because the crew of the Archangel also thinks that the other party is a clown.

Here comes the key point, there is something that Malu just can't figure out.

Take the Archangel as an example. If there are conflicts among the members on the ship, she will definitely find a way to resolve the conflict. Unity is the most important thing.

But the top management of the Alaska base seemed to not care about any of this and let the situation develop.

One-way love is the most torturous and disappointing.

Malu came to the Alaska base with a strong sense of mission, but all she got was being ignored.

It would be a lie to say that she wasn't disappointed. Her sense of responsibility made her feel even more sorry for the crew.

It was at this moment that Malu couldn't help but think of what he had talked about with Rei at sea that night.

Between the lines, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the Earth Army's top brass and his suspicion of the ZAFT's top brass. Just like a person, if the brain dies, the whole body will be doomed.

Although as a soldier he shouldn't think this way, Mariu did doubt the brains of the Earth Army.

Just when Mariu was having a headache, a communication came from the upper echelons who seemed to have forgotten about the Archangel long ago.

The content was simple, asking her to go with Baki Lulu, and finally conveying a new order.

That's true. There were already reports from the base the day before yesterday that the ZAFT army was going to attack.

ZAFT must have known about the arrival of Archangel and Assault at the Alaskan base, so they decided to fight quickly and end the war in one fell swoop before the Earth Army could mass-produce MS.

This is where the Archangel comes in. Although she has no interest in competing for credit, fighting is the only way to save face for her subordinates.

Unfortunately, when Malu met with her superiors, she was disappointed for the second time.

Because she was ordered to standby, Baki Lulu, the deputy captain of the Archangel, and Mu, the MS pilot, were assigned to other units.

Mariu had no idea what was going on, but judging from the current situation, the Archangel seemed to have been abandoned by the higher-ups.

It is obviously the most advanced warship, but it is treated as if it were a fragile item.

Chapter 86 Justice

Rei used a lunch to sort himself out.

But it was Lux who spoke first:

"Rei, you should also be aware of the difficulties PLANT is facing now."

In fact, Rey had already thought of several sentences at this time, either to pull, refute or change the subject, but there was no need because he knew what kind of person Lux was.

Both of them had disguised themselves, he pretended not to care, and Lux ​​pretended not to understand.

Since I don't plan to escape anymore, I'll express my thoughts:

"Extreme ideas, marriage control."

These are all things that Rey can see on his mobile phone. The extreme ideas are naturally the supremacy of the adjuster advocated by Patrick, and marriage control is more interesting.

Why is this practice, which is hundreds of years behind the times, allowed to be carried out in PLANT? Because of propaganda.

Rey has long said that the media is a cheap propaganda tool for the government. As long as a person listens to the same propaganda every day, he may believe it in less than a year.

Just replace marriage control with extreme ideas and you will know what the result will be.

"I think Patrick Sala is taking PLANT into the abyss."

Rey also noticed one thing, Patrick Sala was the Chairman of the Defense Committee and Speaker of the Parliament.

"Now the speaker has grasped both political and military power with both hands, and is only one step away from dictatorship."

You could say this was a special situation during wartime, but then again, Rey didn't know what kind of person Patrick was, and he couldn't just blindly trust him.

Since you don't believe it, then you're worried.

Hasn't he seen enough idiots so far?

Radical, stupid, selfish, weak, never overestimate the bottom line of human beings.

"If PLANT loses the war, there will naturally be no follow-up. If PLANT wins the war, then the entire PLANT will become a one-man show under Patrick, who has unprecedented prestige."

A hero who leads the country to victory in a war deserves this kind of treatment!

But this hero was full of racism, and Rey didn't trust such people.

"The Earth Federation's brakes were removed a long time ago, and PLANT seems to be about the same."

If two cars without brakes collide with each other, unless both cars are smashed to pieces, the remaining car will continue to run around, crushing everything it touches until it is destroyed.

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“I want to build a wall.”

Lux seriously said what Ray was thinking, using this wall to block the out-of-control car that was running rampant.

During the time she returned to PLANT, she quickly learned about the domestic situation from her father.

The father and daughter had exactly the same opinion. They both thought Patrick was stepping on the accelerator hard and didn't know whether the brake was still on.

If the car can't be stopped from the inside, the only way to stop it is from the outside.

The girl, without her disguise, expressed her thoughts using metaphors, but this thought made Ray hesitate.

"you?"

There was doubt in Rey's tone, as if he didn't believe in Lux's ability.

Korax remembered her time on the Archangel, and how the young student soldiers had behaved when Rey disappeared, which showed what kind of person he really was.

When the students took off their uniforms and reunited with their parents, Rey's departure proved that Lux was right.

"I."

This was Lux's brief response. The communication between the two was like a riddle, and Ray had already guessed the answer. He actually didn't like this kind of thing because he had seen it too many times.

To be fair, Kira and his friends' experiences were far from miserable.

Do you think it's sad that teenage boys and girls are caught up in war?

Did you know that babbling babies are killed in war?

Rey had seen this firsthand in the Middle East, and if it weren't for it, he wouldn't be the man he is today.

He never used pain as a weight for comparison, but simply found that the same pain was repeating over and over again.

Kira and the others were dragged into the war.

Lux is going to jump into the war on her own initiative.

It must be a mad world where innocent children pay the price, but that's the world they live in.

Ray followed his thoughts and spoke of his unforgettable past:

"I used to be a soldier."

He actually hoped that many people would jump out at this moment and put a clown nose on him, laughing at him for living in a dream so far, saying that he was just a character in a TV show and his whole life was a complete lie.

If that were the case, then all the deaths we've witnessed would have been lies.

"I fought under the flag of my country, convinced that I was the one who was right."

Rei closed his eyes, unable to forget.

"The flag was so dazzling that I couldn't see anything else except the brilliance, let alone the shadow under my feet."

Blindly believing and following others, he was once a watchdog no better than a mad dog.

"Until one day I stopped and looked back, I realized that the brighter the light, the deeper the shadows. When I looked away from the flag, I saw the darkness that had always existed around me."

Rey used to keep finding excuses to justify it because he couldn't abandon the things he once stood for.

"It turns out that everything I have always upheld is just a joke. Justice is a concept that can be defined by people, and so is heroism."

Ace pilot, isn’t this a combat hero in the army?

“When I was little, I wanted to be a hero. I thought I could defeat monsters, uphold justice, and protect others.”

Later, Rey really became a hero, but he was a different hero from the one that appeared in his mind as a child.

Who did he save? If he kills enough people, he becomes a hero.

"I'm gradually losing my understanding of the concept of a hero, and I don't know what justice is."

Two years ago, I would never have imagined that he would be like this now. People will not always be ignorant.