Gundam Fire Still

Gundam's War Remains, Chapter 24

But if you think that this kind of attention will lead to isolation or even hostility, it doesn't really exist. . It was as if all of the boy's efforts had been wiped out by the delicate manipulation he had received in the fertilized egg before he was born.

It wasn't a pleasant feeling, but other than that, as far as the boy himself was concerned, the identity of the Adjuster didn't pose any special problems.

But only in Orb was that the case. The computer's screen still showed the light of a war thousands of miles away, with smoke billowing from buildings, burning wreckage scattered on the streets that couldn't be seen from their original appearance, a few inconspicuous lines of fire from the panicked running crowd, and the occasional screech of high-speed objects slicing through the air and the low sound of gunfire in the background. Kaohsiung, somewhere in East Asia, was a city that the teenager would have recognized even without having to listen to the plaintive narrator, a city that had been caught up in the war and had been the subject of in-depth coverage on Orb TV.

Compared to the surrounding, grassy campus bathed in artificial sunlight, what was happening on the screen was not real to him, and he was aware of the well-known fact that the cause of the war that was happening thousands of miles away was just the difference between a natural person and an Adjuster.

It confused him somewhat, after all, that here, also under the sunlight of the colonial satellite, Adjusters and Naturals were enjoying a common peace. Even Adjusters had times when they couldn't figure things out.

"Yo, what's the new news." The teen's familiar voice sounded from behind.

Junior skillfully sidestepped the computer screen and showed the latest webpage to a friend in the same research group "Same as always, Thor."

"Wow, it was like this last week, so wouldn't Kaohsiung have fallen by now?" The naturist teenager casually commented, though the shooting never stopped in the background noise of the news.

"Isn't Kaohsiung very close to the mainland? Is there going to be a problem?" Thor's girlfriend's tone took on a slight note of concern.

"How could it be?" the natural teen smiled as usual.

The teenager closed the computer with a grin, he somehow felt a little bad about the subject. After all, it was just a war in a distant place, and there was no reason to let it spoil his friend's mood, which was probably why, after all, naturals were more susceptible to other things than adjusters.

But why was he himself thinking of another friend? Back to Plant's Adjuster Friend, the country he was in was, at the moment, a part of the war as well.

The teenager smiled to himself, originally he didn't want the war to disturb his friend's mind, but it ended up clouding his own mind instead, which was probably a disadvantage brought about by the Adjuster's over **speed* of thinking.

There was no doubt that there were many advantages to being an Adjuster compared to disadvantages, but right now, if the young man had to speak for himself, it was probably something to do with that girl, and it was true that a performance that was out of the ordinary could sometimes attract her attention.

The tall red-haired girl is playing with her companion, not paying attention to the teenager's sight, which is probably good news, after all, if the words of the girls playing in front of the playful words of the information provided by the correct, the teenager himself is already in a disadvantageous situation.

It wasn't that he hadn't heard that Plant was enforcing a forced marriage law, but to the teen that was a fact that was as equally lacking in reality as the war, and the teen who had caught the girl's eye early on had never understood Plant's message that the Adjuster lacked human affection.

"You're up against a tough opponent, keep up the good work." Friendly whispered so.

Even the grinning Thor could already see that, and the teenager realized that even if he was an Adjuster, it was still difficult to hide the feelings that actually existed inside.

Sey, who was also a familiar name to him, this slightly older student was in a way the leader of their seminar group, in any case, there was no need for this so-called competition, the teenager thought.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing. The only thing he could do was to attract the girl's attention at certain moments by virtue of his own abilities that exceeded those of others.

Even if he could deceive himself by saying that everything the opponent had came from his parents and family on Earth, how much of his own Adjuster's body came from his parents' contributions? Not many people can afford the high cost of genetic adjustment, and when you think about it, your parents who you haven't seen for many years are just living a normal life.

Even for adjusters, some things were unavoidable.

"Could you excuse me?"

There was an unfamiliar female voice from the rear, and what immediately came into view was a short-haired female with sunglasses.

Though young and bespectacled, speaking in polite terms and dressed in nothing special, she, like the two males behind her, was full of defiance. The tone of the words, the voice, the way she walked, including the way she stepped into the public electric car, it was hard to tell what was wrong, but the adjuster boy could clearly see the anomaly, but that was as far as it went, his mind wandering, or the girl's beating red hair, or perhaps the task Professor Kato had assigned, this small sense of violation was just put aside.

But soon, the memory of this sense of dissonance resurfaced in his mind, in Professor Kato's office, he saw another stranger.

Originally did not pay special attention to that person, but the young man was afraid to look directly at the friend considered to be his "rival" Sey, or appear to be interested in such gossip, Tor, he had to look away, so just right on another pair of eyes. The same eyes with an awkward sense of defiance.

He recalled the stranger sitting alone in a corner when he'd first walked in, his crushed hat showing thick, hard blond hair underneath, and an all-too-obvious air of lifelessness. And now the stranger's lifted eyes showed a sharp, not at all gentle gaze.

So the young man realized something, the three similarly offending people he had met on the road before, also showing sharpness and intensity in every move, out of step with the everyday atmosphere of the place. Likewise, the person who had a momentary stare with him now had turned his face away, but he could see anxiety in that gaze, some kind of anxiety mixed with anger. Why would someone with such a look in his eyes come to his instructor, Professor Kato? He asked himself a question.

Perhaps another question, why would someone so out of place be here?

Suddenly, a violent shock hit from the floor, and with a loud bang that no one expected, several of the teens in the fight were unsteady on their feet and almost fell to the ground.

The adjuster boy was the first to stabilize himself with his excellent motor nerves and ran for the hallway window. That was the quickest way to know what had happened, it was never the impact of a meteorite, his reasoning told him so. Immediately, his eyes confirmed it.

Though he didn't want to believe it, there was no questioning the possibility that the shadow that had sliced through the window was firmly imprinted on his retinas, and his brain immediately gave a conclusive result. A large, heavy humanoid with head horns and thrusters behind it were features that could never be mistaken, and Ginn, the main mobile arm of the Zaft army, was slicing through the center of Orb's colonial satellite, rifle in hand.

He realized immediately what was happening.

Maybe that's the downside of an adjuster, being the first to realize what's going on, the first to know that the everyday has been shattered, and the first to feel the pain of loss.

Probably only an Adjuster could think too much about something useless in this brief moment, and he also knew what he had to do.

"Take refuge!" The teenager shouted, a clear voice no less than an order to the crowd that had gathered in panic, and the corridor leading to the emergency corridor was immediately filled with people.

But the teenager's keen powers of observation made him notice the strange stranger visitor, running in the opposite direction.

He subconsciously chased after the stranger who was running in the wrong direction.

Professor Kato was the best control engineering expert in Orb.

Recently his team has been preparing some procedures,

The Professor, as well as Heliopolis, have had some strange visitors.

The young adjuster's brain was running at high speed, and he knew he was approaching some kind of truth, some kind of truth he didn't want to know.

-------- This is the author's dividing line --------.

The country the Union Army calls ORB, and the natives call it Obu, just to reflect the difference in language and culture. Upcoming exams, updates to save character, above

2. the mess.

CE71, 24 January, ORB Joint Chiefs, Colonial Satellite Heliopolis, Port Area

Second Lieutenant Fred Young. Young.

"So, welcome to Heliopolis, Captain, how's everything going?"

"It went well, the unloading is complete and we will soon be on schedule, the crew has disembarked first and I'm sure you will allow them to relax a little after the long voyage."

"It's okay to relax, just get on the boat on time."

"Oh, and by the way, in other news that might interest you, there are two boats out there."

"Is it theirs?" Fred. Young frowned "You should have told me earlier, Captain."

"Oh, it's nothing really, they weren't planning on coming in." The captain said with a relaxed look on his face, but Jan just nodded silently and hung up the comm.

"Something went slightly wrong, and I think I need to make a phone call." Jan turned around and gestured apologetically to the young woman with sunglasses accompanying her, "Better be prepared for things to get messy."

He then took out his mobile phone and began trying to remember what he had learned in training about how to make a call in a public place without being overheard.

On the same day, the Dawning Society's Combined Forces Station.

Lieutenant Roy Gale. Gale.

"Listen, Chief, the lines aren't very secure, but you must be informed as soon as possible." Jan's voice came through the handset.