Ed stared at the ceiling dully, his pupils empty and empty as if they had lost focus. The girl who was his nominal adopted daughter not long ago snuggled up beside him, her soft and slender index finger twitching feebly.
As if to make up for all the time lost over the years, Minerva recklessly squandered her physical strength and tried everything she had seen, heard, wanted to say, and wanted to do. Even in the few short breaks, due to Edd's lack of key self-defense functions, she can still easily continue to give stimulation through various means.
However, after more than ten hours of high-intensity exercise, no matter how young, energetic and energetic Minerva was, he couldn't hold it any longer. The bangs were messily stuck to her sweaty forehead, her rapid and greedy breathing revealed her weakness at the moment, and the muscles all over her body were sore from lack of oxygen.
As the concentration of dopamine in the body gradually decreased, Ed's eyes finally began to recover. No matter how confused his thoughts were, he had to stop Minerva's reckless actions now. It doesn't matter how he has an S2 mechanism, Minerva is a living human being.
"Take a rest, Minerva, if you continue, I'm afraid it will cause permanent damage to your body." Seeing the girl's tired look, Ed whispered distressedly, "Take a hot bath and eat something. , get a good night's sleep. I can't run away anyway, you don't need to hurt yourself."
Hearing the sound, Minerva struggled to stand up and looked at him with a complicated look in his eyes. Just when Ed was about to say something, the girl suddenly lowered her head to cover his mouth, biting his lips fiercely, until the smell of blood spread on the tip of her tongue before she stopped panting.
"Don't speak to me in that tone..." Minerva looked at him with begging eyes, "We've done everything, I've done everything they've done, and it's all like this, hasn't it been conveyed? Is it there? Is it still not possible after all this?"
"Minerva," Ed guiltily avoided the girl's gaze, "you listen to me..."
"Why?" Minerva interrupted, shaking, "Why can't I just love you like CC?"
"Enough, Minerva, give yourself some dignity." Nanali's voice came from the direction of the entrance together with the sound of the mechanism's movement, and the young woman with a rapier on her waist stepped into Ed's field of vision. , "Mr. Lingos is not a superficial character who gets carried away by sperm, what's wrong with admitting his failure honestly?"
"Sister Nanali?!" Minerva hurriedly rolled over and got out of bed, standing between Ed and Nanali, "Please give me a little more time, I'll be able to—"
"The time is up, I've complied with the agreement, it's your turn next." Nanali looked over the messy bed across Minerva's body, and raised her eyebrows involuntarily, "Even the pillow you gave me is also It's dirty, how can I use it in the future? I can't continue to sleep after washing it, right?"
"I'm sorry, I'm a little carried away." Minerva, who knew that she was wrong, blushed, but still stubbornly looked directly at Nanali, "But can we stop here? After the success of revenge, there is only emptiness left. , I don't want Sister Nanali to be like that."
"Do you want to go back on it now? Or do you think it doesn't matter if you've finished your elder sister's long-cherished wish?" Nanali narrowed her eyes suddenly, put her left hand on her waist, and tapped the scabbard with her five fingers, "After I got rid of it, I became a lot harder to speak. Well, Minerva, but it's not good to be too selfish."
Eddard suddenly sounded a warning sign, but before he could say a word to remind him, Minerva fell into Nanali's arms softly with a "pop".
"The little girl is easy to be rebellious when she grows up, do you know this better than I do?" Nanali hugged the girl in her arms and gave Ed a charming smile, "The final scene of the revenge drama is about to start, I will be there Waiting for you on the final stage. See you, Mr. Lingus."
Minerva was the "hostage" - Edd understood this instinctively, watching Nanali turn away.
"By the way, can you come alone?" Nanali said without looking back, "After all, this is the ending that only belongs to us."
When Eddard was freed, Nanali had been away with Minerva for more than two hours. A maid with an oriental face entered the secret room according to the instructions left by Nanali to untie him, took him a bath and changed clothes, and told him that a guest was looking for him. Following the maid into a reception room, Ed saw an unexpected person appear in front of him at a glance.
"What a coincidence." CC put down the teacup in his hand and nodded to him calmly, "I only arrived fifteen minutes ago, and I didn't expect you to be here."
Eddie sat down beside CC restlessly, and his thoughts that had finally been sorted out became a mess in an instant, and the maid in the reception room didn't even notice that he bowed behind him and left.
"The breathing suddenly became disordered, the eyes were erratic, and the two hands looked like they didn't know where to put them." CC's golden pupils flashed a dangerous light, "Did you do something to hurt me?"
Ed was stunned, what should he say now? I was forced by Minerva, and I am confused and helpless and don't know what to do? He knows how much someone so arrogant and arrogant CC has sacrificed for him so far, doesn't it feel a little shameless to say this to her now
"Yes, I did." Ed raised his head and took a deep breath. "Me and Minerva—"
"Okay." CC smiled and put his index finger on his lips, "Needless to say, I know you're not feeling well either."
"I..." Ed suddenly responded, "You knew it would turn out like this?"
"I guessed 60-70%." CC picked up the teacup and took a sip, "No matter how indifferent I am, I watched her grow up, what else can I do? Kill her?"
Seeing Eddie's silence, CC helplessly sighed, Minerva's question could only be figured out by Eddie himself: "By the way, Alice has been sent home, and Ikari checked and said it's okay. Qi was clamoring to come and was stopped by me, she finally remembered that TurnA was demolished by you and now she can't leave the moon."
"Thank you." Ed rubbed his eyebrows.
"Also, don't let the messy women call the house in the future." Seeing Ed sitting up straight like a erring elementary school student, CC couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and even his cold voice contained a faint smile. I mean, "I'll let you go this time because of the special circumstances. I won't be an example next time."
Ed suddenly felt that his eyes were a little wet for no reason, and his throat seemed to be blocked by something.
"Go, you can only solve this by yourself." CC propped up his body and put a light touch on his lips, "I'll go home and wait for you."
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Through the window of the cabin, a huge building with a strange shape can be seen from a distance, proclaiming its existence in the universe. Five concentric rings with different radii slowly rotate around the main control room at the center, and the outermost ring is 20 kilometers in diameter. This is the Wheel of Angels, the largest spectacle ever created by the ELS planet.
Ed's spaceship sent a login request to the fleet stationed on the Wheel of Angels, and a blue-and-white MS approached shortly after. The people on the ship quickly recognized that this MS was the famous Hi-ν Gundam, which belonged to Colonel Amuro Ray, the deputy commander of the special forces stationed in the Wheel of Angels.
When it comes to Hi-ν Gundam, there is a rather interesting historical allusion. This body was originally scheduled to carry six wing-shaped floating cannons, but before the design was finalized, Eddard asked Amuro a question about how many floating cannons you can fully utilize at most, and Amuro immediately asked him how many you could hold at most. Going up, as a result, the wing-shaped floating cannons on the body were added to the current twelve.
"Adrian, what happened?" Amuro's voice sounded directly in his consciousness, awakening Ed from the distracting reverie, "It feels like you are… not mentally stable? Better I haven't seen you like this in years, do you need me to do something?"
"It's just Minerva's business, don't worry, I can solve it." Ed responded vaguely, "Has Nanali been here?"
"Your Majesty? It's been a while." Seeing that he didn't want to say anything, Amuro didn't ask any more questions. He wouldn't foolishly intervene when it came to the women of the Lingus family. After she came, she stayed in the core and didn't leave. She has the same authority as Commander Bright, second only to you, and I can't control her."
"That's right, I'm looking for something for her." Ed tried to pretend to be natural, "You can do your own thing, I'll go to the general control myself."
After saying goodbye to Amuro, the spacecraft sailed into the depths of the Angel Wheel and finally docked at the core unit. Ed disembarked alone and walked to the main control room firmly. At this position, the induction of Nanali and Minerva was clearly discernible. As he went deeper, the number of people nearby gradually became less and less, and when he reached the door of the main control room, there was no one at all, and it was conceivable that they were dispersed by Nanali.
Speaking with conscience, Ed felt that he was actually sorry for Nanali. Nanali trusted him back then just like Minerva now has Nanali, but he wanted to kill her brother in front of Nanali's face. While he would have made the same choice no matter how many times he had to do it again, the damage to Nanali was real.
However, despite his betrayal of Nanali, at the critical moment, she still did not hesitate to bet on her own life, betting on a meager to slim hope, and giving him life again. In other words, if it wasn't for Nanali's almost self-sacrificing effort, all of humanity would have become LCL by now.
So Ed has always been ashamed of Nanali, and the guilt is even increasing day by day. So no matter how many times Nanali repeated her revenge, he never wanted to escape her revenge. So until now he was convinced that Minerva was Nanali's means to draw him out, and would never play any role in his and her repertoire.
That's why he couldn't believe his eyes when Nanali put the irrefutable facts before his eyes.
"Mr. Lingos, you are finally here." In the empty main control room, Nanali and Ed stood opposite each other, "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Beside her, Minerva slumped weakly on the ground, leaning back against the instrument barely able to lie down, her eyes were cloudy, obviously someone had been drugged. The girl didn't seem to notice Ed's appearance, and was still murmuring: "Sister Nanali, stop, this is different from what we said..."
"Of course it's different, because I added a show to myself." Nanali laughed softly and followed Ed's line of sight to Minerva, "This is to ensure the authenticity of the revenge drama, lest you misunderstand me and Minerva sings double reed. I've waited nine years for this day, why don't you give it your all?"
"Is it necessary?" Ed looked worriedly at the girl with sloppy eyes, "It doesn't matter how you hurt me, why bother involving Minerva?"
"Hurt you? How could I want to hurt you?" Nanali's eyes widened in surprise. "And doing so will only make people who love you sad, it's not revenge at all. I want to see you. Your sadness, your pain, your despair, your tears, of course you should hurt the people you hold dear."
Nanali's sincere attitude was conveyed along the consciousness without any reservation, and every word of hers was unquestionably sincere. Ed was startled, and the NT radar in his mind started to call the police frantically: "What do you want to do?"
"You generously forgave your brother's life back then, so I also want to give you a chance." Nanali pulled out the rapier at her waist with her left hand and raised it forward, while staying at the gold Karam hanging on the wall. The samurai sword here pouted, "Let's fight, let the one with blood on the sword win first. If you win, I will return Minerva to you unscathed, and our story ends here. ."
"If I lose?" Ed walked to the wall under her gaze, and slowly pulled out the knife from the sheath, the blade was cold.
"I put a small bomb near Minerva's heart, and if I lose, I will detonate it." Nanali smiled and licked the corner of her lips. "Maybe she is lucky and won't die?"
"Are you crazy?!" Ed looked at her in disbelief, "Do you think I'll let you go after doing this?!"
"What you want to do after that is your freedom, even if you want to kill me, it doesn't matter, I just want this revenge drama to end." Nanali flicked the blade and made a crisp sound, "Brittany I have already left a will, and it will never affect your plan, it is my honor to die at your hands."
"You're really crazy..." Ed, who had made up his mind, walked back to his original position and stood facing Nanali with a knife. Amuro is not in the induction, and he has no confidence to send a distress signal before Nanali hurts Minerva, so he can only rely on his body's instinct to fight.
"If you say it's crazy, let it be." Nanali's five fingers gripped the hilt of the sword. "But isn't it you who made me like this?"
In an instant, the cold light flashed, and the dynamic vision was completely unable to keep up. Ed can only follow NT's feeling and backhand, but by coincidence, he bounced off the opponent's blade.
"I could have lived a peaceful life with my brother, I could have silently continued to admire you, I could have been my queen happily, I could have cooperated with you to accomplish your great cause of saving mankind, but all the good things are in me Isn't it you who is destroying with your own hands in front of you?"
The swords collided violently in the air again and again.
"You know what? I adore you, I despise you, I admire you, I despise you, I long for you, I despise you, I trust you, I suspect you, I am close to you, I hate you, I adore you, I Hate you, I...!"
The sound of metal crashing was incessant.
"Speak! Why don't you speak? It's not like you at all, hurry up and use your most proud sophistry to silence me!"
With a bang in his head like an electric shock, Ed swung out a knife that completely followed his instincts, and the blade miraculously bypassed Nanali's defense and stabbed her between the eyebrows. Nanali smiled, and slammed her head towards the tip of the knife without dodging.
Seeing that she was about to stab her head in the opposite direction, Nanali tilted her head slightly, the blade of the blade slid against her cheek, and a bunch of hair drifted away.
Immediately after a sharp pain came, Ed looked down and saw that the rapier had penetrated his right shoulder. Nanali let go of the hilt of the sword and threw herself into Eddie's arms by the inertia of the forward charge, and the two foreheads collided lightly.
"I'm better than you." She showed a childlike innocent and pure smile, then pulled away and quickly retreated, a small remote control appeared in her sword-wielding hand, "Go and say goodbye to Minerva?"
Just as Ed threw the rapier out of his shoulder and charged towards Nanali, Minerva's body vibrated violently with Nanali's movements and collapsed to the ground. A cluster of blood flowers bloomed on her chest, and the pungent smell of rust permeated the entire main control room.
Ed's mind went blank for a moment, he flew to Minerva's side, and took her into his arms. The girl choked hard, and the bright red blood stains started from the corner of the girl's mouth and smeared across her white neck until it submerged below the collarbone.
"… Uncle Ed?" Minerva seemed to finally regain some consciousness, struggling to raise her arm, "Don't hurt… Sister Nanali… she…"
"Don't talk." Ed immediately took her raised hand. "There's a doctor stationed on the wheel of angels, we'll—"
"Don't be like this, Uncle Ed..." Minerva shook her head weakly, her upper and lower eyelids squinting, "I... can I be like CC... can I love you?"
"..." Ed's vision was blurred, and he could only choked up and nodded.
"That's great..." Minerva smiled and closed her eyes, her voice barely audible, "I love..."
The next second, self-blame, pain, remorse, despair, and monstrous negative emotions slapped Nanali's sea of consciousness continuously. The shock wave after wave made her breathing faster and faster, her face flushed more and more, her two trembling uncontrollably slightly. In the end, with a twitch of her body, Nanali let out a low and tactful moan, and the warm liquid wetted the cotton fabric and slowly dripped along the inner thigh.
"Mr. Lingos," Nanali looked at the lost man in front of her with a blurred gaze, "the taste of revenge is really wonderful, don't you think?"