Chapter 102: Destiny
How do you fight an enemy who is too strong? Usually, there are two ways, either find a way to lower the enemy's IQ, or find a cheat for yourself. For lowering Embryo's IQ, Ade did not hold much hope. And in his perception, the most cheat-like thing in this world is the MS in front of him.
"How did TITANS make Unicorn Gundam?" Ade looked at the huge white robot in front of him and muttered to himself, "Did Scirocco get taken over by a transmigrator?"
"It's this white thing again." Ange said sullenly, "Ade, do you have to choose it? I always feel like it's all bad memories, and so many of Arsenal's people have died by it."
"I don't want to pick this one if I can, but there's little possibility to defeat Embryo, I can only rely on it." He opened the cockpit door and Ange got in and got to work under his command.
Dr. Lingus, who just recovered, of course, could not do physical work, and these tasks were naturally done by Ange, who had currently volunteered to be his bodyguard. Now his relationship with Ange is probably a sexualized version of "the beautiful president and her personal bodyguard."
Friday also seems to carry a certain aura of protagonism, all the people around Ade, from Mayu, who is firmly in the C.C. party, to Stella, who ignores everyone except Shinn, all show considerable kindness to her, and even C.C. and Lacus can hardly express their discontent with her.
During his hospitalization, Ange also did many things, making up for the world's various general knowledge, and self-learning a variety of scientific knowledge from the Internet. She has always struggled with the concept of "being useful" to Ade. All these were reported to Ade by Mineva secretly, he did not point it out to Ange, but secretly remembered it in his heart.
During the period when he was about to be discharged from the hospital, Ade had been transferred from the intensive care unit to the general high-density ward, and the doctors allowed him to start doing brain work. He carried out Unicorn Gundam's modification work remotely from the hospital with the staff, and came today only to carry out the fine-tuning in the cockpit and the installation of Alice.
For mainstream MSs in service, Unicorn's performance is already extremely good. And in front of TurnX, even if Unicorn is ten times stronger, it has no chance to defeat TurnX. So Ade in addition to changing the floating shield into a beam shield with better versatility, only increased the expansion slot of Alice. He had intended to change the beam magnum into VSBR, but then thought there was no point to do it, so he didn't do that.
As for λ-drive, he has not yet studied and understood it, so it cannot be installed at the moment. This is also the biggest difference between him and Yang Wen-li, he will never build and trust something that he does not know the principle of.
After Ange finished the work in the cockpit, Ade loaded in Alice by hand, then activated the power furnace, and the familiar magical conch watermark lit up on the main display.
"Isn't this just modified based on my operating system?" He modified the system while setting Alice's permissions, "I knew it wasn't self-developed."
"Ade, should I avoid it?" Ange looked at Ade tapping the keyboard with a speed so fast that it even produced afterimages, only to feel a little dizzy, "Well, Alice doesn't seem to like me very much."
"Never mind, she doesn't like anyone but me." Ade helplessly shrugged, and his speed did not slow down at all, "from where it ends, from where it begins, the steps can not be omitted. She did too much before, I almost lost you."
"It's not that exaggerated." Ange blushed slightly and was a little embarrassed, "In a sense, we have her to thank too, right? Mayu said that Ade you're very dumb in dealing with people, but I think you're obviously very active, don't you think so? Thanks to …"
"No, thanks, I don't want you to enter Ade's life at all." Alice's image appeared in the middle of the screen, "It's a shame there wasn't a broken parachute bag in the cockpit at that time."
"Wha-!" Ange was recalling the sweet memories and was taken aback by Alice who appeared out of nowhere. "Wh… When did it start?"
"Alice, apologize."
"Me? Apologize? No." Alice said unhappily, "I didn't do anything wrong, why should I apologize? Ade, sure enough you've broken down, to ask me to apologize to someone else. I didn't even apologize to Miss C.C. and Lacus."
"That's because you didn't try to murder C.C. and Lacus, not because I gave special treatment for Ange." Ade's tone was unusually firm, "Alice, this is a supreme order, 'apologize to Ange.'"
"… I'm sorry." Alice reluctantly muttered the words in a small voice, and then immediately let out a startled cry, "Ade, are we back on the moon? Is this my new home? Wait, I can't move! Ade, I can't move, Alice can't move!"
"To answer the last question first, yes, you now can only operate the music player." He finally finished all the operations and rubbed his somewhat sore wrist, "Anyway, this Gundam doesn't have a system like Inle, I think this much permission is enough."
"Ade, you've really changed, you're completely broken." Alice enlarged her expressionless avatar to fill the whole screen, "The Ade before wasn't like this, Ade would never talk to me like this, you're not the Ade in my database memory anymore. Is it the influence of Miss Ange's? Or was it Miss Lacus's? Or is it Miss C.C.'s? No, Alice has to save Ade, Alice has to eliminate all these dangerous factors. Ade, I will save you, let me resume my action quickly."
"Have you had enough or not?!" Ange finally couldn't stand and blow up, "If it wasn't for Ade being so decisive, you would have almost killed me, right? Now he just let you apologize to me, he has already spoiled you too much, okay?
"I want to ask you unstable factors to die for the sake of Ade's mental health." Alice's giant avatar looked at Ange, rather creepily, "Ade, get me moving. Or am I no longer important to you? Does Ade no longer need Alice? In that case, there's no point in Alice living, please format me away."
"Ange, why don't you go back first? It might take me a long time here." He showed an apologetic expression to the young girl, "I will go by myself when I'm done with it, it's safe on the moon, don't worry."
"But no matter what, I will be worried about you, it has nothing to do with if the moon is safe or not." Ange glanced uneasily at Alice's oversized avatar, "I'll wait for you in the car, we'd better go back together."
Ade nodded to her and Ange left honestly, leaving only Ade and Alice in the cockpit.
"It's a shame there's no VSBR in this new home." Alice blinked her big eyes, "But this Beam Magnum's output is acceptable, it won't make them feel the pain. Oops, I may not be able to wipe out Miss C.C., maybe I need to get—"
"Alice, I've been going in the wrong direction, I shouldn't have trained you to be some kind of combat assist system." He sighed softly, "The excessive number of hits has made you indifferent to life, and it's all my fault."
"Ade, you're not at fault." Alice's image returned to its normal size, "I would have been—"
"A higher logic and contradictory cognitive device, not a machine for war and killing." He leaned his body against the back of the chair and locked eyes with Alice's image, "I realized later how stupid and short-sighted it was that what I had been doing to you was actually something like teaching Mineva killing techniques."
"But Alice can help Ade, Alice is happy, Ade is also happy, so what's wrong with that? Alice was created for this reason. It is also the reason for Ade to save Alice from the warehouse, right?"
"I don't need your help anymore."
Alice suddenly fell silent as if dead, the image on the screen began to splash, turned into a mosaic, and finally disappeared.
"I don't need your help, nor do I need you to necessarily have to do something for me, I saved you just because I wanted to do so, it was self-satisfaction." He knew Alice was still there and continued, "You are like … like Mineva to me, I don't want you to become what you are now, I don't like it."
"Mineva is …" Alice paused for a moment, "Ade's daughter, right?"
"… Hmm."
"If you don't like this kind of Alice, please format me away." Alice's voice was filled with an all-consuming emotion, "Please restore me to the factory settings and teach me again, next time, I will become the Alice that Ade likes. I'm really sorry for not becoming what you like, but this persona took a lot of time to make, can you back it up for the next me to continue using?"
"There's no next Alice."
"Hey?" Alice's image suddenly popped up, followed by a desperate smile, "Yes, there are already three people, Ade has his own social life, there's no more time for Alice. Alice who neither has a use nor is liked is not needed, being deleted by Ade is good, Alice feels satisfied."
"There is no next Alice." He cried and laughed and continued, "Because there is only one Alice to me. The one born again after the formatting is no longer this current you. Even if the initial state is the same, different growth trajectories will make you into different existences."
"Ade, I …" Alice's cartoon image made an expression to cry out, but how is AI going to cry? "But you don't like me anymore."
"The memory of you and me together is something that belongs only to you, it's a testament to what makes you who you are. The memories of Teresa and Ruri are something that belongs only to him, and I have no right to tarnish them, I have my own treasures." Ade gave her a relieved smile, "So Miss AI, please learn to change yourself. Not for you to erase this personality and become another person, but to grow up."
"But Ade doesn't like me anymore, and there's no point in changing myself."
"I don't like the way you move and shout now, but—" he said, word for word, "I, like, Alice. That's not a contradiction, you should be able to tell if your logic module isn't broken."
"I like Ade too!" Alice called out in a broken and giddy voice, "If I'm not wrong about the definition of like."
"So even if you don't like them, please don't act in a dangerous way. Ange is someone who is very, very, very, very important to me, and I'd be so upset and sad that I'd want to die if something happened to her."
"There is no causal connection between this and the above quote, it can't be used so."
"Yes, there is, think again."
"… Alice will try."
Next, Ade told Alice generally about what happened previously, there are other things he needs to do, he would be quite embarrassed to let Ange wait too long. After a while, he finally got to the second purpose of his visit today. After submitting an application to the lunar air control center, Unicorn Gundam flew out of the hangar to the outskirts.
"Come show me your true strength." He took a deep breath to tighten the seat belt and stimulated Psycho Frame with his consciousness, "No manual switch found, so this is how it starts?"
As expected, the character "NT-D" flashed on the display and both the seat and MS began to deform. The armor on Unicorn unfolded, revealing a red glowing full-body psycho-frame underneath, and the antennae above its head split in two from it.
"I knew it wasn't Scirocco who designed it." He looked at the (ಡωಡ) on the screen and laughed, "Hello, good to see you again."
Yang Wen-li was not in his consciousness, and naturally, it was even less likely to talk to him. But even just looking at this familiar pattern, Ade could not help but feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia.
His mental sense soared to expand inwards under Unicorn's support. He felt Ghingham, and then Mineva. Mineva tried to greet him in the mind space. Ade briskly greeted the little girl, then his consciousness continued to extend outward, all the way through the artificial canopy extending inside the universe, as if it were never-ending.
"That's destiny. It's actually something you left behind." He seemed to have found something extremely comical and laughed out loud, "You've never even seen any NT, yet you can make this kind of thing, you got me, I don't know what to say now."
Flying around the outskirts for a while longer, he familiarized himself with the feeling of manipulating MS with only his mind. He imagined that this would be tiring, but it was unexpectedly not much of a burden for him. Shortly afterward, he began his return flight, Ange was still waiting.
"This coincidence, this sense of inheritance, such a plot." He laughed with tears in his eyes, "I don't even know how to lose."
