"Ahhhh--!!"
… is a hallucination.
Leon looked at his spread hands, they were clean, but why was there a lingering fishy smell? While stunned, the door in front of him opened, he instinctively rolled to the side, and aimed the gun at the person who opened the door. The voice fell from the top of the head: "Great, you really came to kill me - made me wait for a long time..."
Child? !
His eyes widened, and the other party looked at him fearlessly. The thin and short body was only covered with a pajama, and the eyes were deeply sunken. The haggard child was standing in front of him, staring at him for a long time, and a smile appeared in the big blinking eyes.
"Hey, kill me - is that gun a toy?" Leon aimed the gun at his head again.
"I won't show mercy because of the gender of the enemy."
"Understood...," the boy nodded, "but you seem to have something to ask me?"
"… "
"It's not too late to kill me after speaking. I can't escape anyway. Come in, I can't guarantee that a bug will be installed outside." He followed the boy into the room and closed the door. There was only a laptop computer for communication in the scattered rooms that could hardly be seen inside the room—he was using it to send out eavesdropping signals, right
"Tell me, why do you live here?"
"Can't you remember--? Even me, you forgot? The place where you first carried out your mission, against-- the anti-government gathering here in secret..."
"Shut up!!" Leon raised his gun, "I'm going to kill you."
"Kill it. Yeah, kill me and I won't remember the pain and forget all about the past. Come on, shoot --" The boy stepped forward, aiming his gun at the location of his heart, "Aim A little bit, that way it won't hurt a lot."
Hands are shaking. Leon found that his hands were shaking so much that he didn't even have the strength to pull the trigger. "hateful!"
"...Really... You can't kill me, because, do you still remember that you are my own brother?" The boy raised his head expressionlessly, grinned, and showed a smile that was completely inappropriate for his age.
"...!" The gun fell to the ground, he knelt down and hugged the boy "It's you!? Ya!"
"Brother..." The boy looked at him for a long time before leaning into his arms again, "I saw my brother's back on TV today, I'm very happy. But I don't know how to meet you, So I managed to hack into the national military secret website--I think in this case, 'WORLD' will let people come here to kill me... Maybe, I can meet my brother... So... "
"Idiot!!! Why are you doing such a dangerous thing?! If it wasn't me who came here──then you're likely to be killed!"
Ya only kept shaking her head, rubbing against the boy's chest like a spoiled child.
"Brother, leave 'WORLD', because of it, you killed your parents... What's wrong, bro──?!"
"…!"
He pulled the bangs on his forehead and lost the original look in his eyes, and propped up the floor with one hand: "How come, I killed, killed myself—I, I have no memory, so... is it me?"
AKAI -- dipped in warm blood, stroke after stroke, foreign and unfamiliar text -- under the dim flashlight, two blurred faces, and, and a heart-piercing voice -- Dad, Mom --! !
AKAI-- A-KA-I──
Is it me, are those things that I do with my own hands...
No wonder the smell of blood on his hands never disappeared.
I see.
"Brother, let's escape, to a place where no one can disturb us, just like before."
Leon wiped the tears from Ya's face: "Don't cry, Ya."
The boy showed a look of surprise: "Ah, brother, did you agree?"
"I can not."
"… why?"
"I can't answer you."
"elder brother… "
"Do you hate me... I can't quite remember the dark past, sorry, ya..."
"Don't say it... Brother, sure enough, no one can stop you, even the younger brother you love the most..." The boy's voice was getting lower and lower, "But, if I live, I will hinder you, so... goodbye Now, brother." He suddenly picked up the gun, aimed it at his chest, and pulled the trigger.
All but for a brief moment, the warm red liquid splashed on his hand, just like in the past--the images overlapped, quickly separated, separated and overlapped again.
"Ya!!" The body that fell in his arms was so thin and thin, the body temperature from the clothes faded little by little, "Ya... You cheer up, I'll call an ambulance!"
A weak hand grabbed the corner of his clothes, "It's useless, bro... bro... already..."
"elegant!"
"As long as my brother is happy...as long as my brother..."
"Ya!!" The boy lowered his head, let go of his hand weakly, and there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"──Ya!!!" The boy hugged the cold and stiff boy, no matter how much he called, he didn't open his eyes again.
rain.
It dripped dripping down the corner of the eaves. Looking up from below, the bright silver threads all over the sky covered the dome cage with a thin layer of spun yarn. On the runway of the airport, the gray transport plane slowly taxied up into the sky. A face stuck to the glass window stared blankly at the drizzle outside.
"Brother!" The small figure flashed. He rubbed his eyes - the owner of the voice was gone... only the clouds obscuring his vision.
"You're a terrible kid. If I hadn't found out in time, the police would have caught you... You have no sincerity to thank your benefactor..." The boy beside him was still chattering, "Hey, I said you were listening!?"
"Am I happy..."
"Hey?"
"No, I'm not qualified for that... I..." he muttered to himself as he left his seat.
"Lyon..."
"Forget it, Yadi. Let him be quiet for a while, he just lost his only relative." The gray-haired old man sat next to the boy at some point.
"Eh? Wow! Grandpa...?!" The boy named Yadi almost jumped up from the chair, "Why are you here, Grandpa?"
"Yoah, how could my precious grandson say such rude things - am I so unpopular?"
"No. There may be a war recently, so it's not very safe for transport planes to travel in space."
"That's right, I was invited by Chairman Canis..." The old man stroked his short beard.
"Yeah, it's not so much a party, it's a secret weapon!"
"Hey, kid, who did you hear that from? I never said that." The old man's face changed in astonishment.
Yadi smiled slyly: "Is this—isn't it written clearly on your face?"
"...you little bastard!"
"What's that? You need such a large transport plane to transport it. It won't be a mobile suit, right? No - at least three planes can be installed on such a large plane."
"Hehe, mobile suits have indeed made great achievements, but they consume too much energy, the design is too complicated, and the maintenance is too expensive, so they have been eliminated, because the angels brought back this time have not awakened, so they had to be packaged as a whole. ."
"Awakening?" Yadi opened his mouth wide, "So..."
The old man, who noticed what the child was asking, patted his palm and smiled: "Yes, awakening. They are super fighting machines that have their own consciousness, can change their shape, and have self-healing ability. Just like their name, they can also transform into humans. ."
"Consciousness?!" Yadi's eyes widened curiously. "Hehe, it will choose to control its Master. So using skills that don't suit its taste will cause it to go berserk. Angels' natural hobby is killing."
"Sounds scary... Grandpa, you won't let me and Leon be your experiments, will you?!"
"Right on my mind."
"Wow... Help! Grandpa, you are so cruel! Unexpectedly, unexpectedly..." The boy immediately turned into the mode of crying. The old man ignored him and glanced at the starry universe outside the window.
[It's really fascinating to stare at the stars from here--might not be able to see it before long, which is a shame, especially for kids who've never seen the universe. ]
The stars outside the window are like diamonds scattered on a dark curtain.
[Leaving the ancient planet for the first time, the universe turned out to be like this, deeper and more beautiful than what I saw on TV. ]
Leon leaned on the railing and watched, [I really want Ya to come and have a look. It happened because of me... I...] He lowered his head and clenched his fists, [why can't remember the past -- just a little fragment. Why am I still here - I should have killed everyone and destroyed WORLD, because I was involved in this organization and that's why I lost so much... But I'm so weak... Damn! ]
"Do you hate it? WORLD made you bereavement."
"… !Who?"
The man who walked out of the dark had his hands behind his back.
"You want revenge but don't have enough power, do you," the man grinned slightly. "If I lent you my power, would you use it?"
"What do you want to say?" Leon raised his gun reflexively and aimed it at the oncoming man.
"This transport plane is carrying two new fighting machines, any of which is capable of destroying half of the world. If you destroy Canis, WORLD will only become an eternal legend. Do you want to try it?"
"Who are you and why did you tell me such a thing?"
The man shrugged: "My name is Lao, and I can be considered an undercover officer in WORLD."
Leon's index finger has squeezed the trigger: "Tell me, are you not afraid that I will kill you?"
Law laughed. "You won't. Come with me if you want revenge. If you don't believe it, you can also not follow me."
After all, he turned to leave.