Chapter 247 Cruze Was Tricked

On the other side, not long after the Vesalius set sail, Aslan, who was tossing and turning in bed, came to Cruze's office to report that in the previous battle, he disobeyed orders and attacked without authorization. If you produce any results, you will naturally be questioned and even punished.

"Aslan Sara comes to report!"

"Well, come in."

Aslan entered the office, and Kruse, who was writing a combat report, said without looking back: "The collapse of [Heliopolis] kept me very busy and delayed the conversation between you and me."

After finishing the combat report, Cruze turned around, folded his hands on the table, and his tone was very calm, without reprimanding Aslan at all.

"Yes! I'm really sorry about the battle just now!"

"I'm not going to punish you, but I want to hear your explanation, because this action is so uncharacteristic of you, Aslan."

Cruze did not punish Aslan because he was the son of Speaker Sarah. Aslan has always been a model soldier after joining the army. He has outstanding abilities, maturity and stability, is loyal to orders, and has never asked for his identity. Better treatment or arrogance.

But this time, he uncharacteristically disobeyed military orders. There must be a reason why he had to do so.

"..." Aslan was silent, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"You were right next to that machine when it started up?"

"I'm very sorry...Some unexpected things made me shaken, which made me unable to report to you." Aslan replied. After thinking for a while, Aslan was still prepared to report truthfully, but Aslan was prepared to conceal it. The existence of Yang Hui only reports on Kira's situation.

First, Yang Hui's identity is too sensitive, and international disputes may arise if he is not careful. Although Orb participated in the MS development plan of the United Earth this time, Orb also has a cooperative relationship with PLANT and ZAFT, but there are not many people. I just know it, so this incident cannot completely push Orb to the enemy's position.

Second, he is not sure where Yang Hui is now. What if he is not on the Archangel? Then wouldn’t his report be self-defeating?

Third, Kira and Yang Hui are both good friends of Aslan, but compared to Kira who is just a pure friendship, Yang Hui is very kind to him and the Sara family.

"Then tell me, what can make you shaken?"

"Yes, the last machine, the person driving it is called Kira Yamato. He is my friend from elementary school on the moon, and he is an adjuster."

"Huh?"

"I never expected that I would meet him again on that occasion, so I wanted to confirm it no matter what..."

"That's right. War is such an ironic thing. It's reasonable for you to be shaken. You two had a close relationship, right?"

"……yes."

"I understand. In that case, you don't have to go into battle next time."

"Eh?"

"There's no way you could point a gun at him, and I don't want you to do such a thing."

"No, Captain, I..."

"Even though he was your former friend, since he is now an enemy, we must destroy him. I think you should be able to understand this, right?"

"Kira...Kira must have been manipulated by natural people! Although he is very good, he is always confused and a good man, so he must not have realized that he was being used by others..." Aslan's words were not I don't know whether he is persuading Cruze or himself. It should be him more. After all, he cannot accept the fact that he is Kira's enemy. "So, I want to persuade him. After all, he is also an adjuster! Trust him. You will definitely understand us.”

"I understand how you feel, but what if he doesn't listen?"

"Um..." Hearing this, Aslan lowered his head and replied in a low voice, "If that's the case... then... I will kill him..."

"In that case, I'll give you a chance."

"Yes! Thank you very much!"

"Go ahead."

Aslan left gratefully, but Kruse was lost in thought.

Because... the name Kira Yamato felt inexplicably familiar to him, as if he had heard it somewhere.

Don't underestimate this vague sense of familiarity. Cruze is a very purposeful person. People who can be remembered by him will never ignore ordinary people among all living beings. The fact that he can be remembered already shows that this name is special. ordinary.

But Cruze thought hard and couldn't remember the specific circumstances of the name Kira Yamato for a while.

"Write it down first. Aslan might really be able to bring him back. You should know by then, but..."

Putting Kira's affairs aside, Cruze returned his energy to combat. Logically speaking, even if he couldn't catch up with the Archangel now, he should have found its traces. However, no news came from the bridge at this time. It shouldn't be.

"Addis, have you found any trace of the enemy ship?"

"not yet."

"Where are the friendly forces we contacted before?"

"No communications received either."

"It's strange..."

Cruze was very confident that his judgment would not be wrong, and just in case, he also contacted friendly forces to set up an ambush circle on the route from Heliopolis to the lunar base, regardless of the other party. Whichever path you choose, you should make some discoveries.

"Where did it go..." While thinking, Kruse opened the space map again and rethought the Archangel's traces.

This time, he discarded all his previous judgments and started thinking from scratch.

First, Artemis, the original target, was ruled out. They were now in a position where they could already see the existence of the [Umbrella] with the naked eye. If the Archangel was really the same as he expected, it would be impossible for there to be no trace at this time.

The next one to be ruled out was the route to the lunar base, for the same reason that there was no trace and the time was no longer right.

Then, Cruze began to rule out all the Earth military bases and military fortresses far away from the lunar base, and finally... Cruze frowned deeply as he looked at the empty universe map.

"No, after ruling out all the impossibilities, there is actually no other choice. Did I overlook something... huh?" Suddenly, Cruze's eyes focused on a blank area in the universe map.

"I remember this space..." While thinking, Cruze overlapped the civilian space map with the military space map, and there was an additional logo in the blank space, "Scrap Recycling Merchants Union? Is it... unlikely?"

Cruzer believes that most of the natural people in the Earth Army are people who are not very capable, but are self-righteous. It is impossible for them to leave the military fortress of the friendly forces and go to the level of the Scrap Recycling Merchants Union for help, but...

There is a saying that goes, eliminate all impossibilities, and the remaining results, no matter how incredible, are the truth.

"Is there anyone else? Kira Yamato? This name... shouldn't be, Aslan said that he is just an ordinary student, so... who else?"

Thinking of this, Cruze is basically sure that there are other masters on the Archangel who are not from the Earth Army, and they have led him into a misunderstanding.

"Addis."

"Captain."

"Change the route immediately and correct the target to S32 space domain."

"S32 space domain? There is nothing there, Captain..."

"I misjudged the target of the enemy ship. Just change the route. I won't make the same mistake again this time."

"This... I know."

Captain Addis was very puzzled by Cruze's decision, but he still obeyed Cruze's order. He respected Cruze very much and did not look down on him because Cruze was not an adjuster. On the contrary, since Cruze became the captain, he has led them to complete countless tasks and made many contributions. He recognized his ability very much.

"Well, inform the friendly forces and ask them to move."

"Understood."

After the communication ended, Cruze looked at the space domain map and smiled faintly, with a gloomy and dangerous curve at the corner of his mouth.

"Haha, interesting, unknown opponent, can fool me, I really want to know your identity... [Heliopolis], Orb, wait! Could it be!"

Cruzer thought of an impossible possibility again, and the curve at the corner of his mouth became more and more weird and dangerous.

"It should be you, right? I can't think of anyone else except you. Interesting, really interesting. If it's really you... then this ship must be destroyed. I really look forward to which direction the world will move in? Haha, haha, hahaha..."

...

A few hours of silent sailing passed quietly.

Along the way, Malu and others were very nervous and dared not relax for almost a moment. Even if they took turns to sleep, they slept in their clothes and greeted the attack of the ZAFT army as soon as possible.

When the Scrap Recycling Merchants Union entered the detection range of the Archangel, everyone was relieved. No matter when ZAFT's attack returned, at least they arrived at the first target.

However, at this time, everyone was a little nervous again, because on the same route, an unknown ship was approaching rapidly.

"A large heat source has been detected, presumably a battleship engine, 500 meters away, yellow zone 33, 17, mark 02 C, route 0 to 0."

"Is it on the side? It's heading in the same direction as us!"

"Has it been discovered?"

"But it's still far away."

"The target is about to overtake our ship, and the target information cannot be confirmed."

"Cannot be confirmed? Is it a ZAFT ship?"

"This... There is no record in the database. Judging from the size, it is a civilian ship, but it is a battleship engine, and its speed... exceeds our ship!"

"How is it possible!?"

Everyone was shocked. The Archangel is the Atlantic Federation's most advanced high-speed battleship. ZAFT's Nazca class is originally a high-speed ship setting. It is not surprising that it can catch up with the Archangel, but how can a civilian ship have a speed faster than the Archangel?

"Is it a scrap recycler's ship?"

"Cannot be confirmed."

Malu and others did not dare to be careless and immediately sounded the alarm of the first-level combat configuration.

"Hmm? We should be arriving at the Scrap Recycling Merchants' Union now, right? How come we were caught up here?"

"Yang Hui..." Kira looked uneasy. Although he decided to help Yang Hui, he was still nervous when the battle really happened.

"I'm not sure it's the enemy yet. I'll go to the bridge first." Yang Hui comforted, "But let's be prepared."

"Well, I know."

"By the way, remember to wear your driving suit."

"Okay."

Yang Hui came to the bridge and asked what happened, and the result was...

"Thor? Mirialia? Saiyi? Kaz? Why are you here? And... wearing military uniforms?"