Gundam SEED: Poetry of Tomorrow

Chapter 71 Junius Seven
at the same time.

Ino, Kira and others wearing outboard work clothes also came to a frozen and broken land covered by vacuum.

It looks a bit like a rural landscape somewhere in the past.

Withered and frozen wheat stood upright to form a pale farmland, and farm-like buildings were scattered scattered in the cold and lonely world.

The central axis tower was horribly broken, and the torn high-tension strings were scattered like floating threads.

With a little self-repairing glass stuck to the remaining broken outer wall, this colonial satellite that once belonged to PALNT was preserved intact in the vacuum.

Surrounding this land is sea water that boils due to decompression, but is frozen in an instant, emitting little reflections in the darkness as if protesting in anger at the fate of this colonial star.

The empty scene in front of me is even more frightening than the dark space of the universe.

Standing in this tragic moment that seems to be frozen, my body feels as if I have returned to a home without my family.

The people with flashlights unconsciously slowed down their steps and walked along the road towards a house that looked like a storage room.

As soon as the door opened, Mirialia screamed in fright.

The corpse of a mother seemed to be protecting her child, bending her back and hugging her child tightly to her chest.

Hidden in their mother's arms, they could not tell each other's gender.

But there is a doll with missing eyes in this messy house.

The indescribable sight in front of them made everyone froze in place as if frozen.

It was like opening a certain Pandora's door.

The flashlight shone around.

The people who once lived on this colonial star have all suffered the same fate as the mother and son.

This is the appearance of Junius No. [-], and it is also the place where Bloody Valentine takes place.

One of these people is Lenoa Sara, Aslan's mother and the wife of Patrick Sara.

The history of PLANT can actually be regarded as a history of subjugation and subjugation.

Adjusters who have been persecuted by natural humans all over the earth turn to the universe to find a place to live.

On the grounds of 'repaying construction costs', the Earth requires the adjusters who migrate to PLANT to produce energy and industrial products on a large scale.

At the same time, in order to better control PLANT, the sovereign state explicitly prohibited PLANT from producing weapons and food, as well as any products related to them.

The overlord country treats food as feed and controls PLANT with a "feeding" mentality.

After the relationship between the two parties deteriorated, PLANT cut off the export of energy and industrial products to the earth, and the earth stopped exporting any food to it.

Facing the increasingly tense food crisis.

Speaker Siegel Klein decided to start food production in PLANT and transform the 7th to 10th districts of Junius City into a grain production base.

And in the ensuing war.

The grain production base on Junius 24 was attacked by a nuclear bomb from the United Earth Army, and none of the 3721 residents of Junius [-] was spared.

Standing on the now frozen old beach, Mirialia spread out the flowers in her hands.

Of course, there were no flowers on the Archangel, so she, Thor and others made these paper flowers using colored paper.

A little girl among the refugees also came over to help them fold.

On the sea that solidified into angry waves, small colorful flowers danced.

Once upon a time in this place, people like them ran, laughed, grew and breathed.

On the frozen ground or in the ship, people prayed silently at the same time.

Maybe it's just to appease their conscience, but at least they all feel they should do it.

It is a graveyard, the earth's—and the mark of their sin.

"Is this the source of your pain and resentment——"

Standing on the ruins, Ino looked at the flowers slowly floating above his head, and unconsciously reached out to touch his heart.

The re-beating heart let out a suffocating cry as soon as I stepped here, like a helpless baby calling for its parents.

Indescribable pain spreads from the depths of the soul, and its darkness is like a deadly poison corroding this twisted body.

All the good things that flashed through my mind turned into despairing sadness at this moment, which weighed heavily on my heart. Every beat of my heart brought pain and suffocation that penetrated deep into my bones.

Ino Kamal No. [-] is actually an extremely kind and emotional personality.

His memories were filled with beauty and hope, and Ino had never found any dark images in No. [-]'s memories.

Even when he was bullied and isolated by his natural classmates and teachers, he accepted it with understanding and consideration, and worked hard to make others accept him.

Silly and innocent, pure and pitiful, but also so kind that it's suffocating.

Even if they were later driven out of their homes and out of the earth by natural humans.He doesn't have much resentment towards natural people. He is still thinking about how to let natural people and adjusters coexist peacefully in the future.

But it's like bottoming out.

As kind-hearted as Personality Three was once, how miserable he became after Junius.

"Ino, what are you doing here?"

Kira's voice pulled Ino back from the abyss of No. [-]'s memory.

Ino opened his mouth and replied in a hoarse voice: "Let me take a look."

"What are you looking at?"

Kira couldn't help but look stunned when she heard Ino's hoarse voice.

Ino didn't reply.

Instead, he started searching along the vague path in his memory in this frozen world shrouded in darkness.

But as far as the eye could see, everything was dark and cold, and there was no way to find it.

at the same time.

"Aslan."

Not long after leaving the meeting hall, Aslan heard a familiar voice.

Aslan immediately saluted reflexively: "——Your Excellency Speaker Klein."

"Because of our relationship, there is no need for you to give me such a formal courtesy."

Siegel Klein, who had just put the communication device in his pocket, said with a smile.

"No, this is...uh...sorry."

When Aslan heard this, he was shocked by his actions and quickly put down his hands in panic.

"There's no point in apologizing to me."

Klein smiled bitterly and showed a look of regret: "I was just about to say that you finally came back, but now the child is away due to work. Really, when will you two have time to meet!"

"Yes... I'm so sorry."

Aslan, who didn't know how to respond for a moment, lowered his head.

Klein laughed again. However, he accidentally spotted the figure at the entrance of the parliament, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared: "——Things are going to get serious again. It's not that I don't understand what your father said."

A trace of tiredness appeared on his gentle face.

Siegel Klein is a conservative, completely opposite to Aslan's father.

Throughout the year, he worked hard to suppress the opinions of radicals such as Patrick Sala.

"We are going to pursue the newly built ship and mobile suit. The forces of Laconi and Bolt will be integrated into my command, and they will leave the port in 72 hours."

Cruze, who was walking out of the parliament hall while talking with Patrick, quickly came over when he saw Aslan and Siegel Klein.

After finishing speaking, Kruse saluted Speaker Klein and said, "Sorry for being rude, Mr. Speaker Klein."

"Yes!"

Aslan heard the seriousness and urgency in Captain Cruze's tone. After saluting Klein again and saying goodbye, he quickly followed Cruze away.

Patrick Sala, who was left alone, walked up to Siegel Klein.

The two looked at each other for a while, and then looked at a huge monument in front of them.

"Evidence01" - commonly known as "Whale Stone".

In CE18, a huge stone was brought back from Jupiter by an exploration ship.

At that time, it aroused great public opinion on the earth because it proved that there are life forms outside the earth. Since then, this stone has been called the proof of existence.

"...Our own problems have not yet been solved, and now you are expanding the war wantonly. What exactly do you want to do?" Sigurd Klein asked in a low voice.

There are many problems with adjusters nowadays. Although adjusters have the ability to be self-sufficient to a certain extent, they still cannot completely escape from the earth.

In addition to resource issues, the adjuster's own reproduction problem is also a sharp knife that always hangs in the adjuster's mind.

"That's why we have to resolve everything as quickly as possible."

"The war has burned too many lives. The endless expansion of the war will only burn everything."

"Just end it before then."

After saying that, Patrick Sara turned to Sigel Klein and said, "Are you still so naive that you think you can heal all pain with the power of words?"

(End of this chapter)