Chapter 52: The Stars Shift (2)
Something must have gone wrong, right?
When she heard her ex-best friend's request from any point of view, the plane heroine subconsciously almost responded directly with this sentence, but fortunately, after at least more than a year of growth in subjective time, Noriko Takaya urgently asked Jung for help, and then accepted Kimiko's request in a very official statement.
Although she knew very well in her own heart that the fifth-generation space battleship Eltreum could not exist as the last hope of ordinary humans, Noah's Ark. A cosmic monster that can be mastered even by a dimensional knife, no matter what tracking method it takes, it will definitely be able to lock on to the movements of humans, the "cosmic pest".
Although Eltreum is large, it is only ten times the length of Exelion, and it is difficult to say whether it can achieve true self-sufficiency, and if you simply choose to flee, you will be forced into desperation by billions of cosmic monsters sooner or later.
IT'S LIKE JUNG KNOWINGLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY REVEALED, SOMETHING LIKE A COLONIAL FLEET IN A CERTAIN CROSS PLANE.
Well, although Jung's paraphrase itself lacks credibility, especially under the premise that the various materials provided by DG are full of "the so-called primordial plane dead house stinks", even if the Soviet genius girl has been active in the MF plane as Brera, except for a small part of the plane common sense that can be experienced by herself, other aspects are simply ignorant. The only difference between her and Noriko Takaya is that she herself did not deliberately deceive the latter, and DG and Roger, and even Easley, the traverser, were all deliberately teasing her......
And to be honest, someone's serious injury and coma at this time are also original sin.
Even if Roger didn't restrain DG's ability to release false information at will, he could at least make some of the most basic corrections, and he could recall directly from the episode of "Eltreum's function was misunderstood".
Well, in fact, the unreliable plan is only the Silver Martial Arts Association as "corrupt officials and corrupt officials fleeing in the wilderness". Anyone with a modicum of common sense will understand the "last resort" position of the planners. Of course, understanding does not mean agreeing, and even from the fact that it must be opposed, etc., that is, the more irrelevant other situation birds.
All in all, although Noriko Takaya, who is a cosmic hero, knows more "dimensional truths" than Kimiko Akai, who is a civilian, the confusion in her heart is no less than that of the latter.
What about understanding that Eltreum is the most desperate weapon of the human side? Even if Jung had told her and her sister that the survival rate of the entire Silver Heart Fleet was much higher than that of the Exelion Fleet in the original plane, now with the help of these reincarnators, it may be possible to reduce the losses of humanity in more ways and maximize the chances of victory.
But that's just a possibility.
With Coach Roger still lying unconscious in his Hakone ward, who else would be foolishly optimistic because of the commitment of the Samsara team?
Obviously, I have made up my mind, and I will never let anyone sacrifice in vain in front of my eyes!
Obviously, he has already boarded GUNBUSTER and has been able to activate this miracle machine that is capable of defeating everything in the "original plane".
Obviously, I have unconsciously believed that I and my sister are indeed the so-called plane heroines.
What can it be, and nothing has changed in the end?!
No, in fact, the so-called original plane has changed.
It was Coach Roger who changed with his own life, not just an incompetent protagonist like me, who could only act as a bystander.
What should I do to explain to Kimiko?
In the slightly messy dormitory of the women's officer of the Space Army, Noriko Takaya's heart is far less stable and firm than the right hand that picks up the phone.
"Hey, Kimiko? …… Is it Hyomi? …… I'm Noriko's sister...... Sister, not an aunt! ”
"Hyo-mi, tell my mother for me...... Sorry......"
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At the same time, in an RX series hangar at the Okinawa Girls' High School, the lighting fixtures that were supposed to be turned off after school were always on, and no school staff came to interfere.
The reason is simple, Kasumi Amano, a lieutenant of the Earth Space Force who has just graduated, is in a nostalgic activity of revisiting his hometown. And because my sister's classmates were generally two years older than Noriko Takaya's, there was no one to accompany this heroine who returned home. As for the idle people such as fresh students, they were also confined from the relevant area from the beginning.
The RX-7s painted in three colors in the hangar seem to be no different from the ones that Kasumi Amano herself piloted. My sister doesn't even need to stop to observe, and she can roughly tell that the average lifespan of these organisms is probably more than ten years.
"These bodies are really well prepared." Kasumi Amano, who had been pacing slowly between the ranks of the RX-7, paused, his eyes slightly lowered, "I've always heard about it, but until I see it with my own eyes, I realize that you really care a lot more than everyone thinks." That's right, Kashiwahara. ”
"In the past ten years, the resources of the entire earth have been tilted towards the design and construction of Eltreum, and the RX-7 series airframe is a classic version that has been tested in actual combat, although it will probably not have a chance to appear in future space warfare, but it is still good enough as a novice training machine." The answer from the direction of the door was also unfazed, although my sister did not look back, and did not ask why the high school coach who had taken a long leave to accompany him in Hakone appeared here.
But the next moment, my sister, who has always been perfect in terms of etiquette, slowly turned around and came back, facing Reiko Kashiwahara, an old man of the same age who had not been seen for ten years. "You don't seem to have changed much."
"You and Noriko Takaya, aren't they the same." Different from Kasumi Amano's graduation suit, Kashiwahara is wearing a very ordinary sportswear at this moment, wearing an ordinary whistle with an ordinary rope on his chest, and an ordinary old-fashioned military hat on his head, which does look like an ordinary hot-blooded coach.
Except for the fact that Kasumi Amano deliberately pointed out, "there is almost no difference in appearance from ten years ago".
Moreover, if my sister hadn't deliberately pointed this out, it would have been even more difficult for the Okinawan female high school staff who have been with Kashiwahara day and night for ten years to find out. After all, by the standards of ordinary human women, when they are about nineteen years old, they are almost "in place", and other things such as temperament and makeup originally depended on time to accumulate. Kashiwahara had never participated in the expedition in the first place, and he had never married or had children after all these years of teaching his students, so even if he was nearly 30 years old on his household register, it was understandable that he had a slightly longer shelf life.
However, if she still retains this appearance in another fifteen years, it is estimated that it will arouse some suspicions.
IN FACT, IN THE ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE SO-CALLED PLANE, IF IT WEREN'T FOR AMANO XIA'S DELIBERATE CHANGE OF HAIRSTYLE AND DELIBERATE MAINTENANCE OF A STRICT TEMPERAMENT, LIEUTENANT COLONEL OTA AT THE TIME OF THE SILVER HEART DECISIVE BATTLE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH OLDER THAN LIEUTENANT OTA IN THE LEAF64 DISTRICT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.
What the? Kimiko, you say?
Come on, Hyomi is about to make soy sauce, and a young mother, who is an ordinary citizen, has been worrying about her daughter's future for many years. I'm afraid that even if I have a little spare time, I will be wasted on the Eltreum construction project with my head up and looking up at the starry sky, and I will be frowning all day long and dressing as a standard ordinary housewife, so I don't look old, right?
Of course, these two strongest people in Okinawa women's high school chose to meet in this warehouse full of memories, obviously not specifically to discuss skin care issues. Even for my sister, this "meeting" itself was quite unexpected-
Coach Roger couldn't have woken up so quickly, and now wasn't the perfect time for him to regain consciousness. Kasumi Amano, who knew something about the original plane, knew very well what was supposed to happen in this world. The escape battle that was originally a crushing victory of GUNBUSTER was turned into a war of annihilation by Roger, and the cosmic monsters that were killed were 100 times more than the "original...... As long as the high-level of the Earth Space Force has reached the elementary school level of mathematics, they will definitely notice all kinds of strange things in this battle.
From all points of view, it would be better for Roger to wake up at a time when the absolute defense plan for the solar system was formulated.
The facilities at Hakone Hospital were not bad, and Jung was relieved to return to the Soviet Union to take care of his personal affairs. My sister and Noriko are going back to school for a graduation ceremony specially prepared for the two of them, so it makes sense that Kashiwahara, who was supposed to be in charge of the summer training, should take a long leave to serve at Roger's bedside.
Well, it does seem to be, after all, Kashiwahara, who has been staying on Earth, is nominally inferior to an ordinary TOP troop member, and she can go to take care of Roger as an "ordinary student ten years ago", and she has Jung and DG behind it. This kind of small action under the table did not deliberately hide it from my sister's side, and it was precisely because of this that the latter noticed that Kashiwahara had "no age change" compared to other acquaintances when he first "reunited" in Hakone.
"I guess, you rushed back here to kill people to hide your age, right?"
"I haven't seen me for ten years, and my sister's level of telling jokes has really improved a lot."
"So, what is it about sticking to a long-sleeved sportswear style in the scorching heat?"
"If you use the word "parody show", maybe it's more direct."
It seems that Kashiwahara has no intention of going into the warehouse, and my sister doesn't seem to be going to go out of the door. The conversation between the two is not too loud, and it is even clearer on Amano's side that even if neither of them speaks, the exchange of similar content can still go smoothly.
The reason is quite simple and clear, since returning to Earth, the spiritual link that originally only existed between the reincarnation team and the heroines of the plane has been added to a new "personal terminal" so plainly and quietly. Compared to Noriko Takaya's slightly surprised state of mind at the time, Amano Kasumi's side can almost be described as no surprise.
Although, this is another accident created by Roger's willfulness and completely detached from the original plane work.
Then, the conversation continued.
"No, no, it's not clumsy, not at all. And I don't think you're imitating Coach Roger. ”
"This, you and Noriko Takaya are still the same."