"Yes, yes! Hello! Stella! Aiyin laughed happily. www.biquge.info Seeing this, Lin Yiyan knew that this first step of simple communication was completed, and the remaining favorability needed to get along for a long time!

"That's it! I'll prepare dinner for you, and you can have a good talk! Lin Yiyan said to them.

"Let's go!" Grace drove Lin Yiyan away like a person, and then smiled and came to Stella's side, muttering in a low voice, "I'll tell you, Stella, Yi Yan ......"

"Grace, how can you speak ill of Yi Yan!" After listening, Aiyin persuaded Grace.

"That's right, Brother Yi Yan is very good, how can you be like this! Grace is so nasty! Stella also nodded seriously.

"Wow, I was hated in the first place, it's really ......" Grace instantly turned black and white.

"Poof, I can't imagine Grace will be joking!" Aiyin smiled and rubbed her sister's cute head, "It's good that you didn't put on any emperor's shelf!" ”

"The country is gone, although it has survived, what kind of king does the concubine still need to put on the throne!" Grace grumbled as she looked at her sister and pouted dissatisfiedly.

"That's not bad if you think so!" Aiyin smiled, looking at Stella's puzzled look, Aiyin simply told Stella about some things, only to hear Stella shout in surprise, "Wow, it turns out that you are still the king of a country, so amazing!" ”

"Hey~!" Seeing the little girl's adoring eyes, Grace cocked her chin triumphantly.

"Less stinky fart!" Lin Yiyan, who walked in with the food, looked at Grace's movements, shook her head quite amusedly, and said, "Hurry up and eat!" ”

"Cut~! You care about me! Grace glared at Lin Yiyan and retorted.

"Yes, yes! What do I have to do with you little kid! Lin Yiyan urged, "Eat!" ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" Grace shouted excitedly.

After that, Lin Yiyan played with Stella, Aiyin, Grace and others, while hiding honestly, and lived a small life of arguing with Grace and reading books during the day, which can be regarded as very leisurely. It fully shows the life style of a super scholar, and constantly studies all kinds of magic.

In this case, half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and it came to April 15th.

After nearly a month of rest, the Archangel's hull was finally completely repaired, and finally did not want to stay any longer, so it sailed out of the port of Yushu Island in the early morning of this day with a standard base of supplies, sailed out of the waters of the Orb Country under the cover of fog, and set out on the road to Alaska again.

However, just like the Journey to the West, you can get immortal Tang monk meat if you eat it, not long after setting sail, the Archangel was once again targeted by the ZAFT side who had already been guarding the area around the Orb Sea. Then a major war inevitably ensued.

In this battle, the youngest of the Aslan team, the green-haired Nigaul. Amar was killed in battle. Then, two days later, on April 17, the Sara team launched another interceptive attack on the Archangel in the Marshall Islands. As a result, Miliaria's boyfriend, Kira's good friend Dol Nick, was killed in battle, Kira Yamato himself disappeared, and the Gundam pilot on the ZAFT side, Golden Retriever Eelsman, became a prisoner, and Aslan lost contact.

It's a lose-lose situation. After receiving the news, the Orb side immediately dispatched a special plane overnight to conduct search work in the combat area, looking for Kira's possible whereabouts. The result was unsuccessful, but the next day, April 18, Aslan was found and rescued in a humanitarian spirit back to Orb, waiting for ZAFT personnel to come and receive him.

After that, the Archangel was never attacked again, and sailed safely all the way to Alaska......

In the distance, Lin Yiyan, who was watching all this from afar, sighed slightly, and put down the outstretched hand again, although they didn't get along for a long time, Lin Yiyan knew that they were all good people, but in this world, there were too many dead people, and Lin Yiyan couldn't save everyone. And only this battle is the turning point of all the fates of this story.

Meanwhile, in Albatolos, the airship departing from Orb on the other side, Cagalli was sitting and looking out the window. When she heard that the Archangel had sent a request for rescue in distress, she volunteered to go. In the driver's seat was Chisaka.

- That guy should be fine, right......?

Cagalli's mind came to mind with Kira's parting smile. It's been less than two days since they were separated, and they haven't been together for a long time, so for some reason they feel very uncomfortable, and Cagalli can't help but worry about his safety. Maybe it's because Kira's expression is always a little sad.

Albartolos lowered the altitude. The location referred to in the distress request is one of the Pacific Islands not far from Orb. The airship landed on the shore of the island. Impatient to even open the hatch, Cagalli grunted down the beach, and then took her breath away in shock.

Pieces of charred iron were scattered everywhere. Trees were in large swaths of the ground, and the ground was marked by deep and large chisels, and everywhere you could see sand that had melted into glass by the beams of light. The waves washed over the head of an MS. In the center of the blast, the Strike Gundam turned to an iron-gray body, lying to the ground, unable to move. The fierceness of the battles that took place here is clear just by looking at the scene in front of you. Cagalli froze in place.

"Is it a red mech that blew itself up......?" Chisaka's self-talk on the side made Cagalli wake up suddenly. Although it was unformed and fragmented, the head on the shallow shore was indeed the Holy Shield Gundam. The face of the boy piloting the mechage seemed to appear in front of Cagalli's eyes. It was the face that was quite calm under the light of the campfire.

"Yes...... Is that guy ......? The soldiers who arrived first gathered around the cockpit of the Strike Gundam that had fallen to the ground. Seeing this, Cagalli flew away as if she were pulling her legs, and her heart ached.

“…… Kira! ”

Kira - What happened to Kira?

"Cagalli!" Chisaka's voice caught up. Ignoring his call, Cagalli boarded the Strike Gundam and pushed away the soldiers who were watching from the cockpit.

"Don't go! Cagalli - ! Anticipating the tragic situation in the cockpit, Chisaka grabbed Cagalli so hard that she didn't want her to see inside. But she had already squeezed through the wall and got a glimpse of what was going on inside the cockpit.

"Kira-!" The scene in front of her made Cagalli gasp, the driver's seat was almost melted down, and the interior was burned to the ground. She had expected to see something, but the part that scared her the most didn't happen.

"Kira......?" The teenager who served as the driver is gone. Cagalli took a step back in surprise. Chisaka also thought that he would see Kira's body, so he hugged her with a sad face.

"Cagalli ......," but Cagalli cried out, "that guy...... He's not here! It's just an empty shell! ”

"What......?" Chisaka also looked into the cockpit in surprise.

"Probably exploded...... Where did the bombing go...... No, I can't imagine that he jumped out of the plane and escaped! Cagalli's face once again flashed with hope and concern, as she hurriedly searched around the body. Chisaka also changed direction completely, giving new instructions quickly and neatly.

"Search the neighborhood as soon as possible!" The soldiers scattered around, and Cagalli followed them in their search. She stepped over the fallen tree with her hands and feet, and kept calling Kira's name anxiously. After a while, someone shouted loudly in the direction of the coast, as if something had been found.

"Colonel Chisaka! Opposite the sandy beach! ”

"- Kira?" Cagalli ran in the direction of the sound, and saw a figure lying on the ground in the shallows in the distance, and she felt hope and anxiety weigh heavily on her chest, and her heart seemed to explode. Kira - Is she still alive? Or is it ......?

However, what she saw once again subverted the suspense. The man who fell on the shore was wearing a red driver's suit. One of his hands was bent at a wonderful angle, and the waves crashed against his helmet. Beneath the mask was a face I'd ever seen—a face that was silent in the firelight.

Cagalli stopped in confusion.

- Aslan......! The man lying on the bed moved, moaning faintly. Cagalli pointed the gun at him, restrained her emotions and lowered her voice and asked, "Are you awake?" ”

Aslan, a young soldier in a shirt and lying on the bed after an emergency, heard her voice and immediately sat up reflexively, but his expression was distorted by the severe pain. Albartolos' accompanying physician had already treated him, and it was not too serious, except for a fracture in his left arm and multiple traumatic injuries throughout his body.

Perhaps because his mind was not yet clear, Aslan looked around blankly and looked at Cagalli with a defenseless expression, as if he had just realized that the gun in her hand was aimed at him. Cagalli walked to the hospital bed with her gun in hand, stopping at a distance long enough to meet the attack.

"—This is Orb's flying boat. We found you lying on the beach and saved you. Hearing Cagalli's explanation, Aslan still asked with a blank face at first, "Orb? After a while, he slowly showed a mocking smile, "What does neutral Orb want me to do?" Or is it - now an Earth Army? Are you going to ask me to surrender? After he lazily finished asking, he leaned back against the head of the bed. Cagalli is unhappy on the one hand, and puzzled by his sloppy attitude on the other. However, there is a question that needs to be asked to him first.

"There's something I want to ask you......" she barely suppressed the tremor in her voice, and asked straight to the point, "You're the one who killed the Strike Gundam, right?" (To be continued.) )