Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 18 The Abyss of Despair and the Diva of Hope ([-])

In the next few days, Siegfried fulfilled his promise well.Although ZAFT did not catch up, he never participated in the maintenance work of GINN, and unlike Strike Gundam, the maintenance team could not maintain this 'enemy' mobile suit alone without his help.

But even though Siegfried refused to pilot the GINN, because he was living and boarding on the Archangel, and he didn't want to eat and drink for free, he still undertook the maintenance of the battleship in the maintenance squad.

Sergeant Marduk, who knows the ins and outs of the matter, can't blame the boy's choice, so that GINN is now an existence that everyone in Ganaku can't avoid. Everyone knows the conflict between Bucky Lulu and Siegfried, but everyone Everyone can feel the anger of the teenager, so the atmosphere of the whole Ganaku has been maintained in such an awkward way.

After routinely finishing the day's tasks, Siegfried returned to the dormitory, but found Kagalli standing aside awkwardly holding her clothes.He and Kira were originally assigned to a single dormitory due to the driver's preferential treatment, but firstly, Kagali's identity is too sensitive to share with other people, and secondly, the two of them did not feel any discomfort in the process of getting along with each other on a daily basis. , so this four-person dormitory is still assigned to the two of them.

After this complete turnaround, Siegfried considered that there were still a large number of civilians on the battleship, and his daily needs were already extremely tight, so he offered to return the privileged dormitory, but there was no reply from the bridge side.

"Aren't you going to take a shower?" This point has always been Cagalli's bath time. In order to avoid embarrassment, she would choose to finish her personal cleaning work before Siegfly came back, but it was unexpectedly delayed today.

"The entire ship has just been notified that due to the shortage of living supplies, personal bathing has been changed to once every three days. Not only water resources, but also food is not enough. The catering for non-combatants has also been reduced again and again."

In fact, the evacuation of the Archangel was very hasty, and no supplies were received in Artemis.If it wasn't for the brief collection of supplies before the collapse of Heliopolis, and after accidentally taking in so many civilians, ZAFT wouldn't have bothered chasing them, and would have lost their fighting power from starvation.

"Oh, let's wash it the day after tomorrow." Siegfried doesn't pay much attention to this problem. Under special circumstances, washing every three days can fully meet his needs, but the problem of shortage of supplies is like a time coordinate, which made him think of the next Down where they're going.

'Finally, I still have to go to the grave to survive. ' Secretly sighed at the mischief of fate, it was obviously a boat full of living people, and they had to go to that place to grab supplies from the dead.

Contrary to Siegfried's indifference, Kagali kept sniffing her arm. Seeing the boy walk in without paying attention, she subconsciously moved a few steps away.

"what happened?"

"I didn't take a shower. It just smelled."

The girl's faltering answer made Siegfried look squarely at this guy who couldn't see the slightest "girly feeling" in his whole body. Because of the characteristic of Kajiali, Siegfried often chooses to sleep together after getting used to it. Forgot the other party's gender.

"I haven't washed it all day. It won't smell"

The girl's voice became smaller and smaller. Unlike the pampered Fleur, Kagalli is not unable to live this kind of life.But it is even more different from Siegfried's "ignoring gender". As the time spent in the camp increases, her sense of gender difference between the two parties increases every day.

Before he could finish speaking in a low voice, Siegfried went directly to the girl's side. He didn't know if he did it on purpose, but he sucked out his voice on purpose, and then looked at Kagalli seriously, "Well, it doesn't smell like that. ,Do not worry."

"Damn it, smell yourself first!" Feeling her face was so hot, Kajiali picked up Hello and threw it at the nasty boy in front of her.

"Hello, hello, stupid women are shy."

Regardless of Siegfried's sighs and Kagalli's shame and anger, Mario finally decided to go to the gravel belt to obtain urgently needed living supplies. From the perspective of a member of the battleship, Siegfried has no moral high ground to criticize this behavior , but when assigning tasks, his request made the entire bridge feel overwhelmed again.

"You said, you want to team up with Natal?"

"Yes, I will participate in the material handling work, but I request to be in the same group as Second Lieutenant Bucky Lulu."

"But you."

"Some problems have to be solved, don't they? Captain Ramias."

Mario looked at Bucky Lulu with some embarrassment, but this capable soldier agreed to the proposal without thinking too long.In her opinion, no matter how good Siegfried's reasons are, she doesn't feel that she has done anything wrong, but letting the precious combat power go unused is not in line with the current situation of the Archangel, so since the other party has the intention of reconciliation, Of course she would gladly go.

"Don't go, that place is not suitable for girls."

Seeing Kagali who was about to squeeze in before departure, Siegfried felt dizzy for a while. No one on the entire Archangel knew what kind of hell they were about to face. Looking at the naive With a pure and eager expression, Siegfried hesitated for a while, and after trying to dissuade him to no avail, he could only take Kagalli with him.At least, in this place, she can get in touch with the 'reality' of this world early.

Without any accidents, after the transport fleet of the Archangel entered the gravel belt, what appeared in front of everyone was a huge wreckage, or, it was a man-made object that once existed as a continent, the PLANT agricultural satellite-Junius 7, debris.

Just when everyone was so shocked by the tragedy in front of them that they were speechless, Siegfried took the lead and was the first to formally enter the core area of ​​Junius 7. Under his influence, no matter how much he resisted in his heart, the others also followed suit. Followed up one after another.

Cars, houses, and all man-made objects, broken and intact, appeared one by one in front of everyone on the Archangel, as if reminding everyone that this was once the home of 24 adjusted people.

The subsequent search operation was also very unsuccessful. The transportation team that recruited a large number of non-combatants was almost unable to move an inch in this hell on earth.

"Second Lieutenant, why don't you go?" In the other group, Mi Li had already vomited in the helmet and fainted. Thor's face was also pale. Siegfried had to let them go back to the ship first, but Katya on his side Li completely lost the ability to speak, and Bucky Lulu seemed unable to continue the search mission.

"me."

"Go on, Lieutenant, the resources we need, the things we need to survive are inside, go on, Lieutenant Natal."

In the original plot, although this kind of scene felt uncomfortable for her who was born as a professional soldier, it was far from unbearable.But now, under the unemotional urging of the young man, for the first time, the resolute Bucky Lulu suddenly felt a trace of fear.The source of this fear was that in front of the three of them, the well-preserved corpses of the mother and daughter were floating in mid-air, without the slightest expression of pain on their faces.

"Second Lieutenant, is this the justice you want?"

"It's not like that."

"You want to say that they are adjusters and monsters in the sky. Therefore, your joint army has sufficient reasons to target an agricultural satellite. Second lieutenant, come and touch them to see if they are monsters. Maybe they are just monsters. What about hibernation? Maybe you will be killed when you touch it."

"Enough!!! Enough!!!"

After repeated stimulation, Bucky Lulu's spirit was on the verge of collapse, but Siegfried seemed to feel that it was still not enough, so he suddenly pushed her behind, causing her to lose balance in a weightless environment, and her whole body was facing towards the ground. The mother and daughter in front floated past.

"Don't! Don't!"

The shrill female voice struck Siegfried's eardrums through the radio, and just before Bucky Lulu was about to touch the 'scene from hell', the boy grabbed her space suit.

"Look carefully, second lieutenant, this is the army that insists on justice in your heart, because 'obedience to orders is the bounden duty of a soldier', so as long as the commander gives orders, even if they use nuclear bombs to attack agricultural satellites, they will execute them without hesitation. What an excellent soldier A model, isn't it, Natal?"

Is Siegfried scared?Of course, he was also afraid. If he didn’t feel this kind of scene, he probably had a mental problem. Before departure, he specially applied for a tranquilizer in the infirmary on the Archangel. With some psychological preparation, he was able to tear Bucky Lulu's pride wantonly under tremendous psychological pressure.

Originally, Siegfried just planned to use Junius' environment to let Bucky Lulu understand that civilians are often unable to protect themselves. I hope they can take care of them when they hand over civilians to the Eighth Fleet in the future. With a little more care, maybe that tragedy can be avoided?
But until everything was no longer a two-dimensional picture, but actually appeared in front of his eyes, Siegfried felt that a valve in his heart had completely lost control.

Originally, the encounter in the restaurant was not the end. One day later, the little girl's mother came to him again with a sandwich made by herself with simple ingredients, just to thank this man who 'wanted to run away to find Hilde from the beginning' Young man, this young man who lived in his own hotel for a few days but is so familiar with himself, has protected himself for so many days.

The emotions that were forcibly suppressed by the tranquilizer boiled but could not find an outlet, and the panic about the future continued to grow in his heart. In the end, all this could only become Siegfried's mental torture of Bucky Lulu, tearing her apart piece by piece. Faith on which to live.

Kagalli, who was leaning on her side, kept trembling, and the subtle vibrations were transmitted to Siegfried's heart through the space suit. At this time, the boy could only clenched his teeth tightly, forcing Kagalli to Faced with all this.

"A flower that has withered once cannot bloom again, and so is life. When your country can't protect its people, then, welcome to hell."

(End of this chapter)