"What are you planning to do?" Cagalli asked Yang Hui hurriedly.
"Nothing, just fulfilling my promise."
"You bastard!" Cajiali looked at Yang Huifeng's calm look, and her anger rose again. "You are looking for death!"
"Really?" Yang Hui asked Cagalli calmly. The cold tone and attitude scared Cagalli. She loosened her collar and stepped back.
"伱... Do you know that a natural person cannot pilot a mobile suit!? Do you know that the other party is..."
"[Desert Tiger], Andre Butterfield, so what?" Yang Hui straightened the folds of his clothes, very plain and indifferent, "Cagalli, you said you grew up with me... you
Have you really understood me?"
"you……"
Yang Hui simply ignored the unreasonable Cagalli and looked at Kira instead.
"After the battle begins, you and Mu will be responsible for protecting the Archangel, and leave the [Desert Tiger] to me."
"But [Jean]'s performance is no match for Baku." Kira worried that even the modified [Jean] could not match Baku in the desert. "How about you..."
"No, that's your body." Yang Hui knew that Kira wanted to give the Strike Gundam to him, so he decisively refused.
"But you..."
"Don't worry, a mere tiger can't kill me."
Kira was still uneasy and wanted to persuade him again, but Yang Hui didn't give him a chance at all, turned around and escaped from the crowd with Lyle.
At this time, Sai looked complicated, quietly got rid of Thor and others, and approached Yang Hui.
"Yang Hui, can a natural person really drive a mobile suit?"
"...If you just want to prove yourself, then I advise you to give up." Yang Hui answered Sai while looking at the information on the PAD without raising his head.
Sai wants to pilot a mobile suit, not because he has a high level of consciousness, he just wants to prove himself, prove that he is no worse than Kira, prove that he can also protect Fleur, and want to use this to make Fleur change her mind.
But Sai is not Kira. Even after the OS that can be used by natural people becomes popular, Sai will not be as powerful as Kira.
Whether he is a natural person or an adjuster, Kira is special. Even Aslan cannot rewrite the auxiliary system according to the battlefield environment like Kira does in battle, let alone the top adjuster ability.
Yang Hui wouldn't care why he wanted to pilot a mobile suit if he was a stranger, but Yang Hui already regarded Sai as a friend, and he didn't want Sai to take risks because of a dispute of temper.
"Why!?"
"War is not a game. You should know how fierce the battle is when driving a mobile suit."
"Of course I know this! But Kira..."
"You are not Kira, and you do not have Kira's consciousness, nor have you experienced his pain, and..."
"Is it because he is an adjuster!?"
"..." Yang Hui stopped flipping through the information with his fingers and raised his eyelids to look at Sai, "Even among the adjusters, Kira is the most outstanding existence. Do you understand this?"
"I... why... I obviously just want... I just don't want to lose to him..." Sai lowered his head and cried, clenching his fists so hard that his nails almost pierced his skin.
"If Kira dies in battle, will you be sad?" Yang Hui asked Sai.
"Of course not..." Sai wanted to say "no", but the last word was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it. Does he really hate Kira? Not really, although he was very angry that Kira snatched her away from him.
Fleur is gone, but... Sai hates himself even more. He can't fight like Kira, can't protect everyone and Frey like Kira.
"If you die in the battle, Kira will be very sad, because you are the reason why he fights despite the pain. It's not Fleur alone, it's you, Thor, Mirialia and Kaz,
It's Malu, Mu, Natal...it's all of you."
The plain voice was like a heavy hammer hitting Sai's heart, knocking the cracked persistence into pieces.
"Emotional matters are your own business. I won't interfere and I can't interfere. But Sai... I hope you don't forget that it was you who made him suffer, but it was you who helped him get to where he is now.
you."
In the end, Sai left in despair. His mind was very confused and he needed to be alone.
"I find that you like to put knives in other people's hearts now, Yang Hui, have you become so wicked now?" Lyle teased.
"If young people want to grow, they must experience setbacks."
"Haha, you were not like this before, Yang Hui."
In the past, Yang Hui would also help his companions grow together, but both his methods and attitude were much softer than this. Before his companions had fully grown up, he would do his best to shoulder all the pressure and fill all the loopholes.
but now……
From Kira to Cagalli, from Cagalli to Sai, the methods and attitudes are quite radical, using the most cruel methods to stimulate them to move forward. If they cannot move forward, they will fall into the abyss.
"So I'm also growing up." Yang Hui sighed. Although he didn't want to admit it, Yang Hui had finally become the person he once hated most. He had discovered this problem long ago, but fate would not let Yang Hui stop, nor would he let him
He changed direction, pushing him forward.
"Bullshit, you just don't want us to help you share the pressure!" Lyle yelled.
"..."
"So what if we don't have enough time? What if we don't have enough manpower? Is everything now more difficult than when a dozen of us fought against the whole world?"
"……well."
"So Yang Hui..." Lyle patted Yang Hui's shoulder and persuaded him earnestly, "Don't carry everything by yourself anymore, and don't always worry about our safety. This is our choice. I, Mo, Ti
Yelia, including Huang and Wang Liumei, we were prepared at the moment of selection."
"……I know."
"Then you should respect us! Yang Hui, you are contemptuous of our consciousness!"
"..."
Yang Hui just stared at the bonfire in a daze. Lyle was no longer interested in scolding anymore. He spat, turned around and left. But before leaving, he turned his back to Yang Hui and said something, which made Yang Hui's body tremble.
.
"The emperor and Wang Rumei have been worried about you."
…
"Crackling~"
In the silent night, only the sound of burning firewood was heard, and even the bleak wind disappeared.
Yang Hui kept looking at the bonfire, his eyes dimmed, and his mind went into memories, recalling everything in the past.
In the Gundam OO world, I just came to a familiar yet unfamiliar world, and joined [Celestial Being], fighting against the world with my companions, focusing on hatred, and finally exiting quietly with all the hatred.
In the Gundam AGE world, despite being at an absolute disadvantage, they developed technology, taught their younger generations, fought bravely, became heroes, led their companions to break through life and death crises one after another, and finally won the war.
And now...
"Pa~!"
A slap hit him hard on the face, and his lost eyes regained their clarity.
"Oh, I'm really... an unqualified commander, right? Mavis."
[Based on the commander’s current behavior and status, yes.]
"Haha, when did it start?" Yang Hui laughed at himself.
[Based on the commander's mission execution record, it was determined that the commander's dereliction of duty began when the accident occurred with "Yulin Luchel". ]
"Yulin...?"
His thoughts went into memories again, thinking of Luna Gundam being hit and Yulin's life or death uncertain. At that moment, Yang Hui's heart seemed to have stopped beating, and he realized what a terrible word "lost" was.
After that, Yang Hui changed. Even he himself was not aware of this change. On the surface, he still worked together to unite everyone and work together.
In fact, Yang Hui silently placed more pressure on himself and left more dangers to himself.
After arriving in the world of Gundam SEED, he determined to enter the political circle that was once the most hated, assumed the responsibility of a country, made plans, implemented plans, came into contact with more and more dark sides, and carried out more and more shady instructions.
Under the dual pressure of self and the outside world, I become unscrupulous and radical, not explaining too much to others, and not caring whether others understand.
[Commander, you cannot afford the rebuilding of Promes Fortress alone.]
"..."
"Pa~!"
He slapped himself in the face again to make himself more awake.
"Really, when did I become so timid? How shameful!"
Shouting to the sky highlighted the depression in his heart. Yang Hui suddenly felt that his heavy heart became lighter, and the smile on his face returned to its former cheerfulness and confidence.
"Just do whatever you want! Why do you think so much? Lyle!"
"Thinked it through?" Lyle walked out from the shadows on the side. He had never left. He was just hiding in the dark to observe whether Yang Hui would change.
Just like what he once said to Graham.
"We are testing the world, and the world is testing us."
Now, not only the world, but also as companions, they are observing Yang Hui's changes. If this continues, Lyle will really doubt whether his original choice was correct.
"I figured it out! To hell with the international situation and external oppression! Isn't it just a fight against the whole world? The worst case scenario is to do it again!"
"Yes, at worst, we can do it to the whole world again! It's not like we haven't done it before!"
"Let's go! Go to bed, I'm exhausted these days."
"Get out! I'm the one who's tired the most, okay! I'm your bodyguard, I have to stay awake even if you fall asleep!"
"Then let's sleep together...ah! Disgusting!"
"You bastard! You obviously said it yourself!"
…
The next day, Yang Hui found Ma Liu, Baji Lulu and Mu again and gave them a commission.
"In the name of Orb, I would like to entrust everyone on the Archangel to escort me and the little princess of the Orb Asha family, Cagalli Yula Asha, back to the country on the way to the Alaska base, as a reward.