Ed and Lux have been under house arrest at the Turlington base for almost a week. Although there is no freedom in life, and even the treatment of food, clothing, housing and transportation is very good, but he is deprived of all means of communication, and as long as he leaves the house, he will be accompanied by two enthusiastic soldiers. So Ed would prefer to be alone in the room every day—sometimes two.
According to Graham, after he lost contact, the moon somehow received the news for the first time and notified the Earth Federation to assist in the rescue. After the Earth Federation captured the image of the Eternal's descent through spy satellites, it deduced the landing location and ordered the Turlington base to send a rescue force. Graham was the first to find himself in the search and rescue mission.
With the light of identity, Ed had already brushed his favor to a very high level before meeting him.
Ed still clearly remembers Graham's original line, "As one of the two people I respect most, it is fate that you and I can meet like this on the vast Pacific Ocean!" and Lux heard There is a slightly subtle expression after this line.
Incidentally, another person Graham looked up to was Amuro Ray.
In Ed's opinion, Graham is very cute, he can say whatever comes to his mind, it is very easy to deal with him, and he will occasionally say some pleasant lines for himself to complain.
And he is currently Ed's main source. For example, Moon was very dissatisfied with the unwillingness of the federal detainees to hand over, and he showed Ed the video that Roland published publicly. This is the first time Ed has seen Roland angry like this. He felt a little warm in his heart? But there is absolutely no bend, no matter what, Roland in the video is also a menswear.
For example, he told Ed that Orb was gone again. Hey, why say it again
But Graham is also a very principled person, strictly abiding by the discipline, and did not help Ed to contact the outside world.
At this moment, Ed is typing something on the notebook that only he can understand. This is the number of times that he has deduced the possibility of human beings to strengthen ELS. Of course, the laptop's network card was removed. Lux sat next to him, and even though she didn't understand what he was doing, she still looked at him silently.
The moment he saw Graham, he remembered who the father of the Adjuster was, and then there was one more ELS to worry about. As for expecting Momo to understand each other with OOQ and ELS, first of all, does Momo really exist? Secondly, who will do the quantum OO Gundam? Finally, what if ELS doesn't want to understand each other with you? Instead of counting on these utterly ethereal things, count on yourself.
But the result of the deduction was rather hopeless. With the current technical level, it was almost impossible to get the ELS in his memory. Even Moonlight Butterfly is not 100% insured. He doesn't know whether the nanoworm decomposes the ELS first, or whether the ELS erodes the nanoworm first.
However, Ed was no longer surprised by the appearance of ELS. It makes a world of difference whether there are aliens or not, it doesn't matter if there are one or two. And he probably understood the structure of this world.
"Lux, suppose there is such a story." He closed the notebook and looked at the girl beside him, "Every once in a while there will be new and stronger enemies around the protagonist, endless, and the background settings of these enemies are endless. It must be different. What would you say about the story?"
"Huh?" Lux didn't understand the metaphor, she put her finger on her cheek and tilted her head cutely, "Is the story bad? It's just to let the plot go on indefinitely. In the protagonist's opinion, this The world should be discontinuous."
"Then let's add another setting. Whenever a new enemy appears, the protagonist can always find the previous foreshadowing in various corners and nooks, indicating that this kind of enemy has always been there, not made up now. What do you think of that?"
"...The author's malicious intent?" Lux thought for a while before giving the answer, "It's as if the author was telling the protagonist that it wasn't my fault, it was just that you didn't discover it yourself."
Sure enough, Lux thought so too, and Ed nodded in agreement. According to this line of thinking, there must be other things that will emerge after ELS. Should I make something to record which FLAGs have been established before
There was a knock on the door, and Graham walked in with Ed's permission.
"Dr. Adrian, you are indeed in the room. Your daughter is in excellent condition today too!" Then he showed the same surprised expression as Lux who had just discovered Eddie's side, "Miss Klein is also with Dr. Together? Sorry, Dr. Adrian's presence has taken all my attention and I didn't even notice you."
"Captain Aika, please don't mind." Lux smiled politely, "It's also very interesting to see the interaction between the captain and Mr. Ed."
Here Graham's "your daughter" refers to V2, from another line after the two met: "Is this Dr. Adrian's daughter? What a beauty, I really want to kiss Fang Ze!" If a passer-by hears this, they will probably call him an idiot and call the police.
After Ed was "protected" by the Federation, V2 was "custodial" by the Federation Army, but Graham promised him: "As a soldier, I can't evaluate the actions of the Federation Army, but I will definitely protect Dr. The safety of you and your daughter, this is my promise as a man!" The words that came out of Graham's mouth were somehow reassuring.
"Doctor, Aub's government-in-exile is about to arrive at the base. Do you want to come and see it with me?" Graham invited him at this time. "Of course, Miss Klein can also go with you."
When Graham had no assignments, he would occasionally come back and invite Ed to go out for a walk, look at V2, etc. At this time, the few people at the door who were in charge of monitoring him would not follow.
"That's great, let's set off immediately." Ed readily agreed, "I remember you said that Aube only ran out of one ship, and the administrative building where the representative of Ashar was located was washed away by missiles and died on the spot?"
"That's right, the head of the government in exile this time has his daughter Kagali Yura Asghar, who was said to have escaped because she was having a private meeting with Brigadier General Kira Yamato, but Brigadier General Yamato also failed because of this. It can organize an effective counterattack in the first time.”
There are too many flaws, Ed can only sigh: "Emotional entanglement is always the fate of every ACE..."
"This is too profound." Graham gave a thumbs up. "As a Virgo, I feel the same."
After a while, the three came to the port, and a battleship just finished docking not long ago. There was a row of officers in charge of reception on the shore, and the epaulettes were the start of the school officials. No wonder Captain Graham had time to hang out with him.
The gangway was lowered, and it turned out that Cagalli and Kira were walking at the front. Cagalli is actually pretty good-looking. She is wearing a long dress at this time, with a sad look, I really feel pity. Kira took her hand and walked down the gangway step by step, and came to the federal officers to start a conversation.
Looking at Cagalli like this, Ed suddenly thought that Lux was in a similar situation, right? Losing her father and losing her country, would she be in a relationship? He looked worriedly at the girl beside him. The girl noticed his gaze, seemed to understand what he meant, and gave him a sweet smile.
After watching it for a while, everyone felt that it was not interesting, because it was too far away to hear what was being said. Graham sent Eddard and Lux back to the room and left.
"Where's the politician's daughter..." Lux looked thoughtful. "Mr. Ed, what do you think Miss Ashar will do?"
"I guess she still wants to return to the country, but what can you do with only one boat." He looked at Lux and felt that she still thought of himself, "Do you think she has hope?"
"It's difficult." Lux shook her head and smiled in a self-deprecating manner, "The core of the government in exile now is Miss Ashar and Brigadier General Yamato. I am afraid that the people in the government are also shaken, and not everyone wants to restore the country. She may be able to sell herself to the Federation and become a puppet government, after all, there are still many high-level 'princesses' in the Federation. "
"What would you do if you were Cagalli?" He was curious about this.
"Cagalli?" Lux glanced at Ed in surprise. "Does Mr. Ed like this kind of neutral type? But Miss Ashar is really good-looking."
"...Slip of the tongue, it's Miss Ashar." Women are so sensitive to names, he vaguely remembered having a similar conversation with CC, "She's not my type."
Lux looked at him with a smile from the corner of her eyes for a while, and returned to the original topic: "If I were her, I would settle a marriage relationship with Brigadier General Yamato as soon as possible. At least the government in exile has to settle down first and have a backbone."
But they are brothers and sisters, so they can't be together... Wait, old Ashar just died this time. I wonder if he told Kagali the truth beforehand? Wouldn't it be great fun if there was one
"But it's unavoidable to sign a treaty that humiliates the country after the event. Whether she can even keep her innocence in the negotiations with the Federation can only depend on her luck." So, why don't you sell yourself to the moon. What do you think, Mr. Ed?"
After that day, Lux became what she is now. What happened on the island was a little embarrassing. At that time, Lux's emotions seemed to be out of control, and she was also a little impulsive. Afterwards, everyone rationally didn't mention it again. After that, Lux continued to be cute when she was supposed to be cute, but she never hesitated to show her side as a statesman, and occasionally she would deliberately say things that people didn't know how to answer.
In general, it has become more "aggressive" as she predicted before. For example, to this question, do you think the answer should be yes or no.
"Obu killed himself, they can only ask for more happiness." The correct answer is to change the topic, "Let's consider our own affairs first, His Royal Highness Roland said that, it is estimated that the Federation will start in a few days. handed over."
After all, how can Moonlight Butterfly lose
He recalled the news that Graham had told him before he left, that the Federal Army headquarters would send someone to the Turlington base tomorrow to discuss the acquisition of Aub's remnants. The so-called remnants actually mainly refers to Kira himself, and the Federation of this level of combat power wants to be under his command no matter what.
"Do you know the person sent here, Paptimas Siroc, Mr. Ed?" Lux looked worried, "Obviously he is only a major, but he is in charge of such an important matter, so he should not be an ordinary person."
"I know. This person is Hyman's confidant and a ruthless ambition. He has ACE driving skills, understands scientific research, and is a newcomer. In short, it is very difficult to deal with. He was also responsible for the previous capture of the Justice Gundam."
Ed couldn't explain very well how he knew Sirocco was involved in the robbery of justice, but Lux never asked him about the source and credibility of all kinds of intelligence, or even looked at him with a playful expression like CC did. It is speculated that the analysis will only be done directly on the information given.
"If such an important mission fails, he can continue to be in charge of an equally important mission. This person should be trusted by Brigadier General Hyman. I am afraid that this time he has the meaning of making him guilty." Lux looked directly into Ed's eyes, her pupils With a pitiful and moving gaze, "What I'm worried about is that he is here not only to take charge of Aub's disposal, but also to take care of me. It's really unreasonable to be left hanging for so many days in my capacity, this should be a way to deal with me. great opportunity.”
"Lux..."
"We are not relatives after all, and the Federation may take me away with a strong attitude." Lux gently held his hand, and a soft touch came from her palm, "Mr. Ed will protect me?"
This look, this action, are all unnecessary. It had been agreed long ago that she already knew Ed's answer, but she wanted to show it to him on purpose, to let him say it himself.
"...I will protect you."