The new Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker resolutely followed through on some of the matters told him by the elders of the Jedi Council, and took Padme on his way on the first night, got a high-speed ship with no legal registration information, and quietly left the planet of Coruscant in the middle of the night, without informing anyone.

No one knows when they left......

For the Jedi, who originally belonged to Coruscant and was above all the official governing bodies, Anakin had long been very familiar with the way Coruscant attacked and intercepted smuggling ships, so his blatant official 'smuggling' behavior avoided all legal inspections and patrol ships without using any privileges, and left the capital of the Galactic Republic quietly.

Maybe Anakin did a good job of secrecy, maybe Padmé didn't have that kind of positioning device on his body, maybe some bounty hunter was scared out of his mind? Most likely, of course, is that the new ship he chose is flying so fast that the bounty hunters can't catch up at all?

So, on the way back to Naboo, Anakin and Padmé were completely unhindered or hindered in any way, and arrived at Nabu a few days later, and after meeting the new queen of Naab and handing over some work, they once again ran to the beautiful mansion in the Star Lake district of Naboo, where they had stayed for a short time, and lived in it without shame.

Today, it's the eighth day that Anakin and Padmé have been here......

There was no one else in this beautiful place except Anakin, Padmé, and a few servants and cooks, which made Padmé, who had been disturbed by the Galactic Republic, the Separatist Alliance, the Split, the War, and the endless hunt, feel a lot more relieved, she no longer had to worry about those things, and was finally able to stay with the person she liked again, although their status with each other still made her suspicious?

"It's beautiful......"

In the distance, the starry Milky Way above the sky was reflected on the vast lake, and then reflected by the sparkling lake, and the sparkling dots between the sky and the lake echoed each other, making the starlight and the Milky Way scenery more and more fascinating, so that Padmé, who was leaning on the railing, was almost a little drunk.

"Anakin ......"

"You say, if there are not so many strife in the galaxy in the future, and there are not so many fights and misfortunes, we can always live here like this, don't worry about anything, and live like this every day, how nice would it be?"

Although Padmé herself felt that life was unlikely to happen to her and Anakin, it didn't stop her from fantasizing.

“……”

"There will be a day!"

"Padmé, I solemnly assure you that in the name of Anakin Skywalker, there will come a day!"

"When the time comes, we can always live here like this, without having to worry about anything, and live leisurely every day, rowing, playing, picking wild fruits, and then at night, just like this, watching the scenery here, forever ......"

After squinting slightly and speaking firmly, Anakin took two steps forward, walked to Padmé's side, stretched out his hand and directly wrapped his hand around the waist of the other party in a light gauze nightdress, and just looked into the distance with each other, looking at the stars in the sky and the gorgeous lake scenery in the night.

"Hah!"

"Anakin, you're really good at coaxing......"

Unable to resist the domineering hug, Padmé turned her head to look at Anakin's resolute cheek for a long time, before finally smiling and shaking her head and leaning her round side face gently against the other's strong shoulders.

She knew that the other party was just a sweet word to comfort her, that kind of thing couldn't happen, but, in this situation, she didn't plan to expose him, she wanted to enjoy the comfortable sense of security at this time, and then didn't think about anything.

"If ......"

"Anakin, I'm talking about what if...... If that day happens, I think I'll be very happy......"

Yes, that's just if.

Because she Padmé Amidala is Naboo's senator, it is foreseeable that this position will stay with her for a long, long time...... And Anakin is indeed a Jedi Knight who is not allowed to have marriage and family, and she and him are destined to have no results in the future, especially after her affairs are settled, and then there is no need for protection, at that time, presumably the number of times she and he see him will become less and less with age, and more and more estranged, until each other will only exist in each other's memories forever?

"Yes!"

"Padmé, you know what? That little Führer of the Federation of Heroes, that little guy Anne Hasta, you should remember, right? ”

After hesitating and thinking about it, Anakin continued:

"...... then"

"She gave me a gift, and she said that as long as I have it, I can have whatever I want in the future, and I can change everything with it, including your fate and mine!"

"So, Padmé, don't worry, one day, I will give you the life you want, and we will live happily ever after, here, on this beautiful planet!!"

Anakin himself didn't believe in that kind of thing before, but now, he has become more and more convinced, and has made up his mind that he will do his best to achieve it as soon as possible, and change the fate of him and Padmé because of it!

“！！”

"Gifts? What kind of gift, can you show me? ”

Hearing that it was about the amazing little fellow, the gift that Führer Anne had given to Anakin, Padmé couldn't help but be a little curious...... You know, she also had a good relationship with that little guy back then, why didn't she give her a gift before leaving?

She still took good care of that little guy, and also provided all kinds of conveniences to the hero Federation garrison Nabu Xing, but as a result, they said that they would withdraw and forget it, but there was no gift from her? Therefore, in addition to curiosity, she couldn't help but ask a little unbalancedly.

"I'm sorry!"

"It's not here now, but don't worry, you should be able to see it after a while!"

Looking sideways at Padmé, who was leaning against the crook of his arm, Anakin didn't think much about it, and directly assured the other party, and was ready to show the other party his secret at an opportune time.

"Hey!"

"Are you trying to surprise me?"

After staring into Anakin's eyes for a while, and seeing that there was no desire to deceive or prevaricate, Padmé, who was still a little unbalanced, nodded and pressed his cheek to Anakin's strong arm again.

"Alright then!"

"Then I won't press you for now, but Anakin ...... The view is so good today, let's go boating! ”

Thinking that the other party was giving that mysterious little gift to Padmé who fell in Coruscant, he didn't think much about it, and directly put his hands around the other party's neck, and then pleaded like a coquette.

The atmosphere was good today, and it was safe here in Naboo, and it had been days since there had been another terrible attack like Coruscant...... So, Padmé felt that between her and him, it seemed that they could go further, rowing a small boat to the center of the lake, where to enjoy the beautiful lake and sky, and at the same time to sublimate the already strong relationship between her and him?

“……”

"I'm sorry, Padmé, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it today!"

Reluctantly, Anakin shook his head regretfully and gently pushed Padmé's gaze away from him, then pulled his lightsaber out of his waist as he muttered it.

"You!!"

"Anakin, they ...... Here they go again?! ”

Seeing Anakin take out his lightsaber, the clever and clever Padmé didn't know what was going on? So, after the untimely disappointment at first, she came back to her senses and instantly became nervous, and while clutching the placket of the other's clothes, she began to turn her head and scan around, trying to spot some attacker who did not know where to hide in the darkness.

"Hmm!"

"Padmay, you go and rest first, stay in the room and don't come out, leave it to me outside!"

After gently patting the back of Padme's cold hand in a cold sweat and motioning for the other party to let go of him, Anakin persuaded with a relaxed expression.

"But!"

"Anakin, do you need me to call for backup? In a maximum of ten minutes, Naboo's royal pilots will be able to come to our aid! ”

Padmé's face changed, and he walked to the door of the specially remodeled room for the first time, and looked back nervously before entering.

"No, you don't!"

"There are very few of them, only three, and I can deal with them!"

Using the Force to perceive it, Anakin shook his head and rejected Padmé's offer when he realized that there were indeed only three enemies, and that he felt that he should be more than enough to deal with on his own.

"That ......"

"Then Anakin, you must be careful!"

After turning around and tiptoeing to kiss each other, Padmé walked to the room and locked the door without being verbose.

However, she did not fully listen to Anakin, but as soon as she entered, she contacted a special service squadron in the Nabu Royal Military Camp and informed her of her situation, telling the team to be on standby 24 hours a day and take full responsibility for its own safety.

“……”

Anakin ignored Padmé's slightest gestures, and after making sure that the other man had made it to the safety of the room, he grabbed the hilt of his lightsaber and walked down the terrace facing the lake without saying a word, towards the garden behind him.

Soon, Anakin was in the beautiful back garden of the lakeside mansion, and stood under the dim streetlamp without speaking, just looking at the three bounty hunters emerging from some kind of light refraction stealth device that was not very useful to the Jedi, and asked:

"You ......"

"Looks like you're not here to kill Padmé?"

Yes, looking at the three guys who came out in front of him wearing the iconic armor that obviously belonged to the Mandalorian, and then looking at the purposeful movements of the other party faintly surrounding him, Anakin knew that it seemed that the enemy who was attacking this time was not the one he thought, the ones who wanted to be ruthless to Padmé?

That's right! ’

'Anakin Skywalker, we're actually here to kill you!' ’

As soon as Anakin finished speaking, the Mandalorian in the middle, who was holding a DC-15 blaster rifle in both hands, said directly and gloomily, but it was also possible that because he was wearing a helmet, his voice was a little dull?

“！！”

"Kill me? Who asked you to kill me, and how much bounty was given? ”

After a moment's pause, Anakin suddenly felt a little inexplicable.

If Padmé used to be the queen of Naboo, he had irreconcilable contradictions with the Trade Alliance, and also caused the fiasco of the Trade Alliance, arrested the governor of the Trade Alliance, and later had a hard time with the members of the Trade Union in the Galactic Parliament, directly or indirectly led the Galactic Supreme Court to sanction the Trade Union several times, and even directly ' Instigated the army of the Heroic Federation to attack the Trade Alliance several times, so that the Governor of the Trade Alliance hated her to the core, and wanted to take her head at any cost, so who did he Anakin provoke to the point that someone wanted his life as a Jedi?

To be honest, he was very interested in this question, so he decided not to do it for the time being, and let the three bounty hunters in front of him live for a while.

'Humph! ’

'No bounty! And no one let us come either! ’

The other man on the left replied in a cold voice with a small DC-15S blaster.

"No one instructed you, so why?"

Anakin was even more strange, just looking up and down the three guys in front of him with puzzled eyes, all of whom were using the standard equipment of the 'Second Republic Army', but were wearing Mandalorian armor.

'It's easy! ’

'I heard that you single-handedly slain more than two hundred hunters, including a dozen powerful Mandalorians...... We don't believe you'll have that kind of power! ’

So, here we are! ’

"I see......"

"You're trying to challenge me so you can prove your prowess?"

Anakin remembered some of the Mandalorian legends, so he suddenly felt a little abrupt.

So to speak! ’

'You can do it, and we'll fight you fairly, three against one!' ’

The Mandalorian on the right, who was holding an unknown model blaster, said this and opened the safety of his blaster.

“……”

"You're brave, you're going to die if you challenge me!"

Anakin doesn't understand, the other party wants to shamelessly play three against one, so what fairness is there?

Thankfully, he wasn't planning on a fair fight with the bounty hunters who had annoyed him for a long time, so he wouldn't mind anything they said.

'Humph! ’

'Our ancient Mandalorian people were known for killing Jedi and attacking Jedi Temples, and now we won't attack the Jedi Temple, but we can attack you! ’

'Anakin Skywalker, show your lightsaber, or you won't stand a chance!' ’

With that, the three Mandalorian slowly dispersed, and after forming a semi-encircled formation, they turned their respective guns at Anakin.

“……”

"I guess you haven't been attacking, so you probably want to know how I killed your Mandalorian in the first place, right?"

The other party had the opportunity to shoot at him early in the morning, but he never made a move, and even when he was flirting with Padmé on the terrace just now, they had the opportunity to snipe directly from a distance, but they led themselves here, so Anakin tried to guess, and at the same time waved his hand and popped his lightsaber.

'Not all right......

'Humph! ’

'No more nonsense, just let the horses come!' ’

Obviously, Anakin might have guessed part of the right, but the three Mandalorian didn't explain much, just clutched their blast weapons and pointed their guns at Anakin and waited.

"It's a pity that you found the wrong opponent today!"

"If you're ready, I'm going to attack......"

Anakin habitually swung the lightsaber in his hand, allowing the beautiful blade of the plasma beam that ejected to be magnetically restrained to form a blue round shield in the dark night, and prepared to attack.

“……”

However, Anakin, who had played a sword flower, did not rush forward, but squinted and silently stared at the three enemies in front of him.

‘……’

‘……’

‘……’

The three Mandalorian were also in no hurry, and they surrounded Anakin at a half-and-a-half angle of sixty degrees...... Because they knew that the Jedi's Force would sense their attack path and react in advance, even refracting or deflecting their blast beams, they weren't in a hurry, they wanted to wait for the enemy to rush up and move on one of them before firing.

“……”

‘……’

In this way, the two sides silently confronted each other from a distance of thirty or fifty meters, and the air began to permeate the air with that infiltrating and murderous atmosphere.

“！！”

"Do it!!"

After a moment of confrontation, when the Force told Anakin that the three Mandalorian in front of him were not simple, they seemed to be the kind of strong and experienced guys, and if he dared to act rashly or casually rush forward, he would definitely die a miserable death...... He finally couldn't help it, and in the moment when the three Mandalorian were slightly stunned, he directly opened his mouth and snorted coldly and gave an order that made the enemy inexplicable.

Sou~! Sou~! Sou~!

↗↘→

Almost at the same time as Anakin's order, three precise and vicious spines shot out from the flowers behind the three Mandalorians, instantly piercing the Mandalorian steel armor and piercing their necks, and under the effect of the highly toxic toxin, the three elite Mandalorian staggered in disbelief, and they all threw away their weapons and fell to the ground with their throats clutched.

At this point, under the effect of that paralyzing toxin, they didn't even have the strength to pull the trigger and aim...... Even, within three seconds, two unlucky Mandalorian who had been directly pierced through the carotid artery were still lying to the side motionless, apparently dead.

“……”

Seeing the enemy's terrible situation, Anakin didn't speak, but walked step by step to one of the Mandalorians, who was not dead, still clutching the spines in his throat, and trembling and reaching out to say something to him or grab something.

"...... Now"

"You should know how I defeated the two hundred or so bounty hunters, right?"

After sighing lightly, an elite stinging snake with a height of four or five meters and a very hideous and strong appearance finally appeared behind Anakin, who had just used its weak Force to steal behind the three of them, and successfully used a spine shot to easily kill the three self-righteous Mandalorian in front of him.

Not to mention the three in front of him, in Anakin's opinion, even thirty or three hundred more are useless! Because, this lake area has long been protected by a large number of swarm units he has laid down, and he just deliberately let these three weird guys in, but who thought, they are actually here to deal with him?

'You ......'

The Mandalorian wanted to say something and reach out to grab Anakin's ankle, but Anakin silently swung his lightsaber and decapitated his head in one fell swoop, ending his pain of being spine-pierced in the throat and trying to fight the toxin.

“……”

Looking at the three Mandalorian who had fallen and the guy who had his head cut off by himself, Anakin didn't say anything, but stepped forward and stabbed two swords in the throat of the spine thorn in the body of the other two Mandalorians, creating the illusion that the other party was killed by him, and completely eliminating those important evidences, the spine spur.

"Go ahead!"

"Keep lurking, don't be easily spotted by the Naboo, and don't let the bounty hunters get a chance to get their hands on it!"

After saying that, Anakin walked towards the mansion without looking back. At the same time, the huge elite stinging snake behind him began to fade gradually after emitting a 'hissing' sound, and it quickly used the weak force obtained after evolution to directly disappear into stealth again.

However, the unmistakable rustling sound of its crawling and the indentations of its massive weight on the turf on the ground had betrayed its existence.

“……”

The three corpses behind him, Anakin, didn't care, and didn't let the swarm drag them away, because he knew that Naboo's royal guards were coming soon, and he thought it would be better to leave them to deal with them?

And now, he needs to go back to explain the information and report to Padme, and I don't know, is she still in the mood to let herself accompany her to the boat?

Presumably......

It must be that there is no such leisure and leisure, right?

But it doesn't matter, Anakin is not in the mood to accompany the other party to the lake at night, the scenery is good, but in his opinion, it is better for him to spend more time on contacting and planning his insect swarm, the night is his rare time alone, swimming in the lake or something, he can go again during the day?

However, what Anakin, who has some upright emotional intelligence, doesn't know is that at this time, in an orbit in the galaxy on the edge of the outer ring of the Milky Way, where Naboo is located, several huge spaceships suddenly jumped out of faster-than-light flight, and looking at them, they are the kind of trade alliance motherships with the characteristics of the trade alliance that surrounded and almost occupied Naboo ten years ago, converted from a transport merchant ship converted into a ring island?

As for why they jumped to this place instead of heading directly towards Naboo, it is unknown for the time being.

......

'Report! ’

'Your Excellency the Governor, you have arrived in the system where Naboo is located, do you want to move forward and conduct a blockade and landing operation on Naboo?' ’

In Cambridge, one of the Trade Alliance motherships on the Ringball Island, a green-skinned ceremonial robot approached Governor Newt Gunley and reported.

'Hum ......'

'Don't worry, Naboo is already in the bag, but I'm going to go back to Geonosis first, there is what I want, you should do the necessary reconnaissance here first, and at the same time do a good job of camouflage, so that the Naboo people don't find out about our arrival!' ’

'Then, wait for my attack order?' ’

Governor Newt Gunley's protruding red eyes fixed on the beautiful Naboo star in the hologram for a long time before he gave the order to hide and scout at the green-skinned ceremonial droid.

'Yes! ’

'Your Excellency, I'll go and arrange ......'

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