Gundam SEED: Poetry of Tomorrow

Chapter 45 Can you pilot Strike Gundam?
"Aslan Sara reports for duty!"

Aslan, who was summoned to the captain's room, saluted respectfully, but captain Cruze just calmly folded his fingers together.

Due to the need to bring subordinates for meetings like this, this captain's room is extremely simple and monotonous, with no sense of the owner's personal characteristics at all.

"I should have talked to you earlier. Do you know why I called you here?"

Cruze faced Aslan and spoke calmly.

"Yes... I violated the order and acted without permission. I'm very sorry!"

"The dead cannot be resurrected. I have no intention of punishing you. I just want to hear your side of the story. You know, what you did is so unlike you."

Aslan bowed his head stiffly and said nothing.

Cruze stood up and put his hand gently on his shoulder: "If his subordinates cannot report correctly, Aslan, no matter how wise a leader is, will make mistakes."

"I'm very sorry...I was shaken by something unexpected..."

Aslan sighed with struggle on his face, suppressed the tremor in his voice, and said loudly: "The person piloting the aircraft that failed to be captured is called Kira Yamato, and he is my student at the Moon Infant School. A friend…is also an adjuster.”

"I really didn't expect that I would meet him again under such circumstances...so I wanted to confirm it again anyway..."

Because of the battle, Aslan was not completely sure that the pilot of that machine was Kira.

It's just that he had this hunch and guess.

Kruse listened silently, pondered for a long time, and sighed: "I see... war is really ironic..."

He walked back to the table and sat down again: "No wonder you are wavering. He should be your very good friend, right?"

"Yes……"

"I understand, in that case. Then you don't need to participate in the next attack."

Aslan raised his face in surprise.

"You can't point a gun at someone like that. Such a result will bring many tragedies, such as Ino... Of course, I personally don't want you to do that."

"No, Captain! That's..."

Aslan shook his head violently and leaned forward to Cruze's desk excitedly: "If the driver is really Kira, then he must have been used by a natural person!"

"He is very good, but he likes to be in a daze, and he is also a cowardly and introverted guy. If it is him, he must have been taken advantage of by natural people unknowingly. So, I... I want to convince him! He is also an adjuster, There’s no way you don’t understand my intentions!”

"I understand how you feel Aslan...but what if he can't listen? What if that driver is not the friend you say you are?"

Cruze put the cross on the table, his eyes covered by the mask stared at Aslan's face and said calmly: "What happened to Ino cannot be placed on you, but if you didn't hesitate at that time, this Will everything change again?"

There was a flash of struggle and pain in Aslan's eyes.

"Of course, all this is just to accuse me. After all, you were not included in the original plan."

Halfway through his words, Kruse suddenly changed his tone and said, "But don't forget your military identity, Aslan."

Aslan's face turned gloomy.

"You can leave now."

Cruze said calmly.

"I...I will attack him!"

Hearing this, Aslan seemed to have made up his mind, and said decisively: "If the pilot of that machine is Kira, and I can't convince him, I will attack him!"

"So please give me a chance, Captain Cruze!"

Cruze didn't answer immediately after hearing this, but just stared at Aslan calmly.

Facing Cruze's gaze, Aslan did not choose to retreat, but looked back with burning eyes.

"Well, I hope you won't disappoint me."

"Yes!"

Aslan stood up and saluted, suppressed the struggle in his eyes, turned around and left the room.

"If so, you still won't be able to do it, Aslan Sara—"

When the door is closed.

Kruse chuckled and gave his conclusion: "But this is fine."

While talking, Kruse looked at the battle report file compiled on the computer.

When the advantages and protective means that a force relies on for its survival disappear, the people who rely on it to protect themselves should become panicked.

The panic of the weak will reduce them to humility.

The panic of the strong will drive them into madness.

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"Is this the good thing you told me?"

In the hangar of the Archangel, Ino couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth as he looked at Keen who was making preparations not far away.

"Rather than relying on others to save you, people with power should be more willing to take their lives into their own hands, right?"

Mu La Flagg said with a smile.

"Sorry, I'd rather lie down." Ino answered straightforwardly.

The people on the opposite side are Yitzhak and Diego. Let me drive a Keen to fight them, or a Keen that has not been completely repaired. If I want to die, will I give myself a shot?
"...I admit that this machine is a little shabby, but with your strength, you can provide remote support after all."

Mu La Flag also knew that he was forcing others into a difficult situation, but he would not have made such a move if he had no other choice.

"Hehe~"

Ino chuckled.

"That's all I'm saying. If you really don't want to, forget it. I just hope you won't regret it when you die together with the battleship."

Mu La Flagg did not offer much persuasion.

Ino is not Kira.

He has his own reason for fighting, and this reason cannot be shaken in a few words.

"..."

Looking at Mu La Flag's leaving figure, Ino shook his head and prepared to go back to sleep.

With Kira's strength, although the Archangel will encounter some dangers and difficulties later on, they are generally harmless problems.

I was so idle that I ran out to risk my life.

"Um, Mr. Ino, right?"

However, just as Ino was about to leave, Kira, who was preparing the Strike Gundam, suddenly stopped him.

"It's me, what's wrong?"

Looking at the still immature Son of Destiny, Ino stopped subconsciously.

"Hello, my name is Kira, Kira Yamato."

Kira Yamato floated in front of Ino and introduced himself.

"I know, I heard Captain Flagg say this." Ino replied.

"Well, I have a question for you."

Kira met Ino's gaze and asked, "Do you know Aslan Sara?"

"Aslan Sarah?"

Ino was stunned, should I say that he was indeed a good gay friend?

Actually the first question is this.

"Don't you know?"

"We know each other, of course we know each other, he and I are still classmates and alumni." Ino replied.

"That, so he is also a mobile suit pilot, right?" Kira asked again.

"I know what you are going to ask. Yes, the pilot of that Aegis Gundam is Aslan Sara."

Ino did not argue with Kira, but directly told him the answer he wanted to know.

"Is it really him? Then in the colonial satellite-"

"It's him too. He has been the pilot of that machine since he took it away."

"..."

Kira fell into silence and confusion after hearing Ino's affirmative answer.

"War is always accompanied by tragedy, you just get used to it."

Ino patted the shoulder of the destined child who would prevent the war in the future.

I will definitely leave the battlefield and start my own life in the future.

However, compared to living in a war-torn place, living in peaceful times is safer and more comfortable.

And if we want to end the war, this guy in front of us is an indispensable and powerful material resource, but he is still very immature now.

"..." Kira pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Although that guy M. La Flag is not a son of a man, he has a saying that is very good. When you have the power to protect everything, please don't be stingy with this power. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. There will definitely be a rainbow after that, so work hard!”

After Ino finished speaking, he no longer had the interest to stay any longer. Now he still had to think about what would happen after arriving at Artemis.

"Can you pilot Strike Gundam?"

"what!?"

　Follow the ship or follow ZAFT——

　　I can't make up my mind what to do——

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　　You guys said that if I snatched Kira’s Strike Gundam——hehe

　　
　
(End of this chapter)