The next day, Ade was invited to Dakar with his wife Lacus.
Although Ade repeatedly stressed to the Federation not to publicize it, Char still deliberately made it known all over the city. The couple got off the plane and took a bus to the embassy of the Lunar government in Dakar, where numerous pre-arranged crowd actors stood on both sides of the road, looking at them.
"Ade, actually you can not force them all to rush back." Lacus in the back of the car leaned on Ade and whispered, "I don't care, really."
"I do." Ade took her soft, boneless hand in his, "Although it's a little bit of a thing for me to say, a visit is different than a trip, and I don't want to embarrass you. And well, let's be honest, I don't want it to affect my international image."
"And you know you have an international image?" Lacus smiled and teased him, "You can take out your phone right now and type your name into a search engine and see what the top ten most searched items are."
"AdeAde, I searched for it!" Alice shouted in his head, "Wow! Wow! Wow~! Do you want to know?"
"I don't want to know, thanks." Ade answered both at the same time and tightened Lacus's hand, "By the way, you stay at the embassy later. I'll go alone, to meet with… Quattro."
"You want to play this little trick to please me? You really are … let me how to say you?" Lacus sighed leisurely, "I enjoy it."
"Then I'll pick up again?"
"Hmm." Lacus softly responded and rested her head on his shoulder as well, "Ade, the angels have come out. What do you think we'll end up like?"
"I don't know." Somehow, he suddenly remembered Yang Wen-li, "but I have worked so hard, it's not too much to let me have a happy ending, right?"
"A happy ending…" Lacus reached out and touched her hairpin, "I like a happy ending too, so I'll also try my best. "
Lacus had said this kind of words countless times, if Ade didn't guess something from it, he would be a retard, but what can he say? Can he tie her up to force a confession?
"I believe you." He could only repeat the promise he made at the very beginning, on that deserted island, when she first showed her heart, "I believe you."
Lacus said nothing more, and in a short time, the car arrived at the embassy. Just as Ade was exchanging pleasantries with the embassy official, Lacus's cell phone suddenly rang. She took out her phone, looked at it, apologized politely, and calmly walked aside to press the answer button, muttering something inaudible.
After Ade completed the handover with the embassy staff, Lacus hung up the phone just in time to walk over to Ade with an easy smile on her face, "Cagalli asked me to bring her and the kids some specials, Ade, can I go downtown this afternoon for a stroll?"
"Of course you can. Just be careful." Ade readily agreed, "I'll go to the Federation then, see you tonight?"
Lacus tilted her neck and gave him a kiss on the cheek, smiling, "I'll see you tonight."
Returning to the car alone, Ade took out his phone and looked at the time, closing his eyes in pain, "It's early morning on the moon, ah, Lacus… what in the world happened that was so serious that you made such a low-level mistake?"
Twenty minutes later, Ade arrived at the executive building of the Federation headquarters. The suit-clad Char was personally greeted at the main entrance of the building, with a sincere smile piled on his face. Ade also immediately changed into a formulaic fake smile and entered the interior of the building side by side with him.
"I heard that Mineva was sent back to the moon by you?" Char asked while walking and pressing his voice, "Lingus, you're making it too obvious in order to keep us from seeing each other, aren't you?"
"This city has only been attacked by a monster, and we don't know if there will be the second monster. I have nothing to say if you want Mineva to stay in such a place." Ade glanced at him disdainfully, "A rat's eye is not enough for a plan."
Char froze for a moment and couldn't help but laugh in anger, "Well, well, Dr. Lingus is as eloquent as ever. Based on this point alone, you're far better than Dr. Aeolia and Dr. Minovsky."
"No, no, not even close to the 'late' Char Aznable." Ade responded, "He could explain that his heartless act of throwing the satellite was for the future of all mankind. Compare to him, I still have to learn much."
The two walked while talking and soon came to the door of the conference room, Char showed an ambiguous smile to Ade at the moment when he was about to push the door, "Lingus, the situation is serious, and there is no point for you and me to make futile internal consumption, so I intend to show you the sincerity of the Federation."
After saying that, he pushed open the door of the meeting room. A beautiful woman in full dress was standing in the middle uneasy.
"Let me introduce you." Char spread his arms and pointed vaguely at the beautiful woman in the middle of the conference room, "This is Queen Marina of the Kingdom of Azadistan."
Hearing the familiar name, Ade couldn't help but look at her for a while. The woman known as Marina had a beautiful face and a resolute look. Char looked tightly at Ade with an intensified sneer on his face.
"What do you mean?" Ade's face chilled and he asked in a stern voice, "I thought we were here to talk about the problem of the angels?"
"Oh? It seems that I misunderstood." Char raised an eyebrow, "I thought Dr. Lingus was a magnate who travels with his daughter and three wives?"
"So you're doing this to disgust me?" Ade looked at the confused Marina, and then at the smug Char. He was speechless and finally, all the dirty words he was going to bolt out converged into one sentence, "What a small-minded man!"
