When the BUSTER III officially arrived at its predetermined location near the Silverheart Fleet, the Eltreum was ready for the usual welcoming ceremony.

In terms of military rank, of course, the two lieutenant colonels can't afford to be a parade welcome of this level, but if Amano Kasumi's identity as a hero who saves the earth is taken into account, then even if this ceremony is several times more solemn, it is understandable.

Of course, relatively speaking, the most appropriate and appropriate may be another hero who saved the world, and Noriko Takaya's tearful embrace may not be possible.

In the original book, because I didn't know that my sister was flying here, I didn't adjust my stunned state of mind for a long time, and it didn't appear that I was quite at a loss. Noriko Takaya knew from the beginning that Kasumi Amano would return to the Silver Heart Fleet and fight alongside her, so this time she didn't need the latter to be affected to separate the crowd, and she herself stood at the forefront of the team from the beginning.

After the old man Tashiro said the word "welcome", the plane heroines couldn't wait to hug each other.

The old Admiral and Roger, who were originally standing in the middle of the two, were not so embarrassed, and the advantage of having another pilot on the third plane was reflected here. Lieutenant Colonel Reiko Kashiwagi responded with a standard military salute to the reception of the old admiral, instructor and other fleet comrades. Although she was not the protagonist of this welcome ceremony, taking the initiative to stand up for the show was very effective as the icing on the cake. In short, when Noriko Takaya and Kasumi Amano ended embracing, the warm applause of everyone seemed to have never stopped.

At least the respect is truly heartfelt, not just driven by process and atmosphere.

Many of DG's telepathic clones came to the same conclusion, and Roger was noncommittal, but he didn't go out of his way to raise the bar in public or private psychic links.

Jung's side has recently made up for many of the settings of the original books on the plane, including the first and second parts of the "aired", the novels and comics derived from them, and the so-called stillborn mystery settings. Because according to the usual awkward character of the original producer, although it can't be seen on the surface in the first part, in fact, the current "Earth" has been in a mode of civil strife, and the Silver Heart Fleet is just far enough away.

But what if it's not far enough from Earth right now?

What if the existence of the Samsara team brought more variables of division to the loose alliance of human beings that were already divided for various reasons, not to mention that there really was a powerful empire with a unified empire under the name of an empire? For example, some of the forces that were originally unhappy with the country are now also unhappy with the Soviet Union, which has become stronger than the original because of Jung's existence?

Although absolute force can easily crush everything, as long as the combat effectiveness and technology of the Silver Heart Fleet itself do not deteriorate, then the more time drags on, the less it will be enough to see on the other side of the earth. However, if the loss of the fleet itself exceeds that of the original book in the decisive battle at hand, it seems that it will cause even more disgusting variables than the so-called original setting.

In the above hypothesis, the composition of the Silverheart fleet itself is clearly quite important. Not to mention anything else, the number of Sizla troops has long exceeded the TOP troops of that year, and the pilots who were painted with the markings of various countries on the RX-7 back then certainly played the role of the main force and even the middle and low-level commanders. There are only three fixed colors of the Sizila body, and the Adidas RX series of the year will definitely not appear, but the power behind these aces has not been divided into three parts?

(Well, even if it's divided into three, isn't it just as complicated?) ）

"I think it's better to brainwash directly, if you need it, I can provide a clone with similar functions, and it won't lose its function because we leave this plane after the decisive battle."

The proposal from DG was politely rejected by the future first president, and Jung actually hesitated for a long time to make this suggestion, and in the end, if it were not for the strange constants of the plane itself, he might have really chosen to agree to it.

This genius girl's self-confidence has never been very strong, she doesn't think that she or the Silver Heart Fleet will always be able to hold the field for the next 12,000 years, and even said in private, Jung still doesn't think that she can really develop Nono, that is, the sixth-generation level decisive weapon. If there is any way to do it once and for all, even if it is against one's own principles or conscience, it should not be a big deal, right?

After all, with Li Li's role model and reference, Jung felt that he had always been the innocent ordinary high school girl he was back then. And as long as the instructors don't return at any time, and the two plane heroines are still trapped in the long river of time, even if her own behavior is a little out of line and the means she takes are a little extreme, no one will be able to stand up to stop or oppose her.

But in the end, it's over.

It's not out of cleanliness, or because Jung has a serious lack of confidence in himself as mentioned before, so he feels that as a half-baked intellectual side reincarnation, before the big task and big scene at the end of the main story, if he is still distracted by some things that will happen in hundreds of thousands of years, it may directly affect the completion of the task in front of him.

Patronized the monitoring and brainwashing, but he accidentally hung up in the decisive battle of the silver heart, or there were side effects of brainwashing and control, the overall combat strength of the Sizla troops declined, and the losses of the whole fleet really greatly exceeded expectations...... Isn't this a standard self-digging grave?

Shaking his head imperceptibly, Jung began to direct the welcome party that had not yet ended, following the normal process.

After Kasumi Amano greeted Admiral Tashiro, First Mate, Coach Roger and others one after another, and then exchanged a few words with his former comrades, my sister returned to Noriko Takaya's side again. Everyone knows that the pair has not seen each other for half a year (fifteen years), and there must be a lot of private things to say, so the behavior of the two of them leaving the scene early was tacitly approved by everyone.

Next, the Admiral and the First Mate had every opportunity, and although Roger actually had nothing to do, he also had to put on a posture of being busy with official business. According to the order of command, the rest of the process was left to Jung. We can't brainwash ourselves, but we must also carry out ideological and political work, right? It is certain that she will not be able to preside over the pre-war mobilization meeting in the future, so before the decisive battle, this is probably the last relevant meeting that Jung can lead alone.

As for Kashiwahara's side, there is no objection to this, from a certain point of view, she herself does not belong here, she is the standard "inexplicably superfluous" part, and now she has a nominal companionship with Jung, so Kashiwahara deliberately keeps pace with Jung, which makes a certain instructor who received DG's broadcast very helpless for a while.

No way, it's not so much that Kashiwahara is overwhelmed, but that the biggest burden outside the situation is Roger himself.

He can pretend to walk away on the surface, and if he doesn't go away, he can't do much more than a normal dead person. He can eavesdrop on the removals of the heroines of the plane, and even if he doesn't want to listen to DG, he will directly relay the relevant content. He can also launch a counter-charge against the cosmic monsters that have not yet been officially assembled in the Silver Heart......

Well, that's right, as long as you don't die, you might be able to cause a lot of trouble to the enemy. As for whether this completely brainless behavior will have any adverse effects on the original plan for the decisive battle, if he can accurately calculate this, he will not be Roger.

Well, although it is completely different from the silent tragedy that spreads among the normal people of the whole fleet, Roger, who finally realized that his sense of existence is thin again, now has a certain sadness in his heart.

"You're really too idle."

"It's better to be idle and do nothing than to make trouble for you, right?"

"OK, this can barely be considered your acquaintance."

"It's really not easy to get this kind of literal praise."

……

At the same time that Roger and DG began to routinely raise the bar, the two plane heroines sat face to face in Noriko's bedroom, as in the original book, and began to hand over all the supplifies brought by the elder sister to Noriko this time.

The thousand paper cranes were carefully picked up by Noriko and found a suitable and secure place to hang them.

Normal greetings, the current situation of the Okinawa women's high school, there are not many questions to ask, and the response from Kasumi Amano is as comprehensive and thoughtful as ever, and it has quickly established the impression that Noriko is more intuitive than 3D images.

After that, it was Kimiko's own letter.

Obviously, he has entered the age of the universe, and he still has to use the handwriting method, but Noriko can actually understand the persistence of his best friend back then. The daughters are already at the age of entering the study of Chongnu, and the letter from Kimiko, who is over forty years old at the moment, is not as straightforward as in the original book of the plane, such as "Maybe I won't be able to see you again in my lifetime, but you must come back when the child is still alive" and other depressing lines obviously will not appear. At best, it's just some "take care of your body" and the like.

It seems a little polite and distant, but it doesn't even need to be reread a second time, fifteen years ago, or even twenty-five years ago, the heart of a close friend who was more mature than Noriko has been properly transmitted to Noriko's side. The fact that the mother who had to send her daughter away when she pulled down her face is now almost desperate to send her cherished daughter to Okinawa Girls' High School, is enough in itself, isn't it?

If you add the previous introduction of my sister, Akai Takami had excellent grades in school, and it seems that she has become one of those "idle chatters" who stand in the position of the leader of the same age and even the whole school. It's normal for Noriko Takaya to finally start rereading her best friend's thoughts with her eyes moist. Amano Kasumi, who was sitting opposite, could only do at the moment, and all that he could do at the moment was to watch silently.

At the end of Kimiko's letter, it was mentioned that a photo of Takami Akai, who had reached the age of eighteen, would be attached. Then what appeared in the hands of Noriko Takaya was a rather quaint and nostalgic, 3D audio-visual electronic photo frame. Under the nudge of her fingers, a three-dimensional image of Takami Akai, who was dressed in a uniform and looked like Kimiko's charm back then, was smiling and waving to the heroine of the plane.

“…… Aunt Noriko, I'm going to come back early......"

"I've told you, it's not an aunt, it's a sister......"

Recklessly, he responded to the above sentence in a low voice, and in just a few seconds, he was already in tears.

"Let her cry well." My sister didn't say anything to comfort her, not only because she was empathetic enough, but also because before she could make any moves, Roger, who rarely took the initiative to speak, directly sent the initiative just now to the private channel through DG. Then, without even asking any further questions, the coach's further explanation came from Amano's ears, "The only thing that didn't conform to the strict demeanor of a soldier back then was that he often showed off to us with his daughter's audio photo frame......

With Amano's ability to understand, of course, he can understand what Roger wants to express in an instant. And the Noriko in front of her, who was still crying in a low voice as much as possible, was no longer the little girl who was impulsive and desperate to step on her father's battleship more than twenty years ago.

Although from a subjective standpoint, Noriko Takaya's age is only about two years older.

I can go back, but the smiling faces on the frame will never be seen again.

"Sometimes, what you should hate more is to tell you the truth of the so-called plane in advance, me." Roger's voice rang out from the private channel again.

My sister's response was a little low, but it didn't carry any crying or anything like that, or rather, there was a faint hint of a smile, "Coach, I really didn't know how to say that you can be so slender before." ”

Although the smile was clearly comforting, Roger decided not to continue the conversation.

The so-called growth, put on others, and what you have experienced is really not the same thing at all.

Whether it is himself or Jung, the endless struggle that has spanned thousands of years on the plane of the great sword—well, the latter is actually far from that long—can't bring the same degree of maturity that the sister in front of him has achieved in just fifteen years. This weird Urashima effect looks even more tragic.

However, it seems that it is not very valid to put it on Li Li's side. That purple-haired old woman seems to have been obviously not a little different from her own side since the first meeting of the Beta plane. Originally, I thought that it was just that a certain intellectual-side reincarnation experienced too many task planes, and the accumulated time passage was even more considerable. But now it seems that it is more than that?

Forget it, Roger thinks it's pointless that he doesn't have anything to do to compare these boring details, since his sister has dealt with it as well as ever, and he has accidentally exposed the voyeur face who is always listening, so it's better to know each other and shut up quietly.

So the next moment, or rather a short period of time, there was no sound in Noriko Takaya's bedroom except for the occasional low sob.

Even so, Noriko Takaya is already much stronger than she imagined or in the original book. After all, in the latter's related information, the first heroine of the plane, who had not had time to wake up from the surprise of Kasumi Amano's appearance on the third plane, cried directly after reading the letter from her best friend.

That's what an ordinary girl should do, isn't it?

"Whether we want it or not, we always change a lot of things that were originally a given. And the correctness or justice of this change itself is also difficult for us to directly control. ”

This time, it was Roger's voice that rang out from Jung.

What she didn't say, or what she hadn't fully realized, was that the assimilation task itself was probably the "culprit" that could change the mission plane itself more than ordinary reincarnation tasks.

There is no need for DG to remind him, and Roger can also judge from his memories that in the original BETA plane, with Chen Yi, an existence that can barely be regarded as "cautious", how much change can be brought to the world that was originally in despair. As for Li Li, not to mention, for the sake of her assimilation plane, she could not mind pulling another mission main plane to accompany the burial.

Although the comparison between the above two cannot be simply idealized as the gap between the reincarnation on the force side and the reincarnation on the intelligence side, Roger also does not dare to guarantee that the current leap peak plane, which has been basically unrecognizable so far, will have an incalculable mutation after these reincarnators complete the main line or assimilation task.

But then again, those things weren't very important in the first place, just like the only thing that could make Roger feel guilty in his face was the Admiral of the High House.

As a result, DG's ridicule reappeared, "Only? This is because Kasumi Amano didn't marry a certain coach like in the original book, so someone has revenge and no guilt? ”

"If she really gets married, her fate may be even more miserable, right? In every sense...... "That person raises the bar as fast as ever, and then because it's fast, it's even more unscrupulous." By the time he found out that this kind of lifting would only make his position more embarrassing and his end more miserable, it was already a little late.

Jung had already acquainted himself away from the disputes within the spiritual link, but Amano Xia, who should not have heard the private channel, suddenly opened his mouth on the public channel, "Coach, DG, I'm not in a hurry. ”

There is a strange sentence between the lines, which does have the effect of extinguishing the fire to some extent, but in another way, it obviously deepens the sin that has put Roger in danger.

Then, when everyone was distracted, the sobs of the first heroine of the plane had gradually disappeared into the bedroom.

……

"Sister, the coach is smiling much harder than me."

"That's probably the hard work he doesn't even notice."

In the DG didn't monitor.,Or pretend to be a special line between the heroines.,Noriko Takaya's voice is still slightly crying.,And my sister's side isn't much better.,At least the low level is enough.。

"It's really much more difficult to save a world than to destroy it."

"And, of course, guards."

"So, at least Jung's side, he'll wait until we get back, right?"

"Yes, she will be able to wait. Certain. ”