"What is this?"

The lion stared at the gold artifact trampled under the paws of the black-and-white dog, which looked like a small miniature of the blood-stained spear on the left side of the table.

Perturabo looked away, licking his nose, and the lion took the opportunity to grab his weak-hearted brother's tail—small in his palm but as good as he had ever felt.

"Oh? Avoidance questions are not the answer, I ask you what is this? The lion now seemed to show the appearance of his proud eldest brother Leon El Johnson, the lord of the First Army, a few thousand years ago, "Perturabo, what is this?" ”

"This is, uh, a memento, and it's in my custody right now. While what we've just experienced is throwing almost all the answers in your face, if you can't see them, then it's not time to turn around, and it's wise not to keep asking, just as I'm not going to take a loudspeaker and go around touting your 'collections' on The Boulder and the Indomitable Truth. Besides," warned the Lion, the Lord of Steel, "if you really can't resist catching me by the tail, don't touch the rest of my body, or I'll beat you all over your teeth, and you love to die fat with a carrot." ”

"Oh?" The lion sneered, but he did change the subject as requested, "Perturabo, this threat is only effective if you have proof of it and can make you believe you. How are you going to prove it's me now? - Without me here to endorse you, any of my sons will shoot you the moment they see you. After all, the four-legged stuffed creatures who can speak human language can't prove that they are human, and there are definitely enough aliens and aliens they have eliminated. ”

Leon's leaf-green eyes were full of sarcasm, "I need a better answer" and "Are you the pen for me", but there was no suspicion - no thinking creature would have any suspicion of his essential motives after seeing what Perturabo had shown him, which was why Leon now felt relatively comfortable and relaxed in his sheepdog brother's company.

But think about Ruth and his two wolves...... It seems like two she-wolves? …… Stop! Leon El Johnson! You should learn more to control yourself, meditate and concentrate, as your son Zabriel suggests, than to learn the bad habit of the brother who turned from steel to stuffed in his intermittent conversation with Perturabo.

"Hehe, that's right, so the place we're going to next is obviously a alien building, right? And your offspring, who are adept at destroying Xenomorphs, now inhabit it and defend it as their home. ”

The lion was silent for a moment, "That's right. "But there are some things that we have to do, and we have to take the initiative and be quick, so that misunderstandings will not be solved by themselves without explanation, and the end cannot be expected to be achieved by fate itself." ”

"That's why I think you're pretty good right now, Leon." The dog nodded and said, "Although you also think that the reality left to us by our unreliable old man is a desperate place, you are still willing to stand up and lead humanity, your position is still firm, and your ability to act is as strong as ever." ”

"A truly amazing breakthrough in the interpretation of words, my brother, did I just receive a compliment from Perturabo, the Lord of the Fourth Legion? I really should have recorded it. ”

"You don't have a chance, because I'm not going to say these words a second time." The black and white dog said coldly, and jumped on his eldest brother's shoulder, allowing himself to sit on his shoulder, hanging his tail.

"Do you have to let me meet my children like this?"

"If your offspring sees that you have become a tolerant person with a dog on your shoulder, then I think you can choose not to follow my freedom when you say, 'I will not hold you accountable, as long as you do not start or continue to harm humanity.'" It will be more convincing. ”

“…… It sounds like and doesn't sound like what I would say, but I'll add it to my remarks in a moment. ”

"Very well, now let's go meet your children, Leon. Remember to bring the newly recovered Kai with you. ”

"Why take him? I had planned that since you're going, maybe just take Lohawk and my mortal guards. ”

"You're going to need Kay, Leon. It's like it was in ...... In the planning, Vogrim also has his own job. ”

"Clear instructions, Peturabo, if you have also ...... before"

"No if, Leon, don't try to win from fate, but let you make fate triumph."

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As Birds contacted the destination of their trip, Echo Station, floating on the vague edge of a nebula, its commander finally agreed to let Leon land on a shuttle after a deeply disloyal conversation, apparently though they were both lost dark angels, and the former Knight Captain even seemed to have raided the area to make ends meet.

Undoubtedly, when the seven Dark Angels, who were in fact still secretly expecting a glimmer of anticipation (it must be noted that they had subconsciously formed a formation to be inspected in front of the tarmac), saw the male lion not wearing armor, but with a shepherd dog coiled over his shoulder, four of them let out angry shouts, three raised their weapons, and the head knight, Guain, whose face turned red with extreme disappointment and anger at being deceived.

"Birds! How dare that damn bug fool me again! Claiming to have been promoted to Knight Chief by Lord Luthor at the moment of Caliban's promotion, his gaze sternly scanned the lion and his two Astarte guards, as well as the mortals behind him, the lion guards refused to take half a step away from their targets after the previous incident, and Leon also felt that he was responsible for these mortals.

"Chief Knight Birds has not deceived you," the lion stepped forward, "and I am glad to see each and every one of you here, my children. ”

The human tone contained in this sentence was so sincere, comforting, and kind that the dark angels with torn armor on the opposite side began to become a little agitated.

As Perturabo had told Leon, Kai's sudden speech was a powerful convincing convincing former companion to put aside their doubts and entanglements and return to the lion's command, and the Apothecary brothers' question about Lohawk's failure to take off his helmet was well answered, as for the shepherd itself......

"I have informed my brothers of all that I have felt, and have reassured them of their doubts, Your Highness." Echoing the outpost, among the seven men at the Echo Outpost, the ancient techno sergeant, wearing rusty red power armor with a mechanical arm, explained this and greeted the lion with his special metallic voice with a modified mechanical tone, and his words had the characteristic joy of Martian believers, "I have never been more joyful since the destruction of Caliban seven hundred and thirty-seven years ago, for today, the glory of the Om Messiah is with you. ”

The lion pursed his lips, his beard obscuring some of his micro-expressions, and he nodded solemnly as he glanced at his brother, whose apparent little secrets were beginning to become too much.

"Don't look at me like that. I do have more money now than I did at the beginning. When the shepherd dog began to speak, many of the Dark Angel veterans present showed subtle and varied instinctive combat reactions, "Your heir is really a litter of small potatoes...... The more you dig, the more you dig. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, sail fast to Kamath to join Zabriel, and he'll bring you some of your heirs, and the veteran you've been awake in the time you've been awake is a hundred times more than all the gains of the First Legion in 10,000 years. Ah, by the way, don't forget to ask him about the details of his trip. Finally, this time I'll take over your navigation for the time being. ”

Leon frowned and tried to ask further about the brother who was apparently in Ji-joo's hands, but the dog patted him and motioned for him not to ask here, causing the eyes of the newly returned heirs to widen.

The lion's communicator sounded, and a distress signal from Kamath was informed to everyone present.

(End of chapter)