Chapter 89: Forbidden Resistance
Afternoon, Ade returned to his room after lunch. This is his nap time, and the girls who have figured out his routine will not look for him at this time. Those who disturbed him at this time would be isolated by everyone.
Ange wandered back and forth alone in the corridor of the dormitory area, pretending as if she was taking an after-dinner walk. After a while, she finally found a moment when no one was around, pushed open the door of Ade's room with a swift movement and dodged in, then gently covered the door again.
"You are obviously my property, why do I have to act like a thief?" Ange let out a long breath and sat down heavily on the bed, "I'm already mentally prepared, you don't need to ask anymore, do it."
Ade sensed Momoka's location. She was in her room and did seem to be knocked out, "Let's get started."
"Wait!" Ange suddenly grabbed his wrist, "Well, is there really something wrong with Momoka? She's been with me for so many years, she must be loyal, it was something you told me yourself."
"The day the base was attacked, I clearly felt that our Miss Maid was spying on us, on me to be exact." Ade locked eyes with her, "More importantly, her consciousness was resonating with someone or something far away at the time. I'm not saying she betrayed us, she may have just been used as a human camera."
"Is that why you had to check it out before you ran away?" Ange nodded her head while making a "hmm~" sound, pretending she understood, "The Dawn's Royal Pillar, you suspect that?"
"According to your description, that thing is the most suspicious. In order to decipher the world view, I had to take a look at it myself. With Hyzenthlays speed and my NT radar, I can always run away when I encounter the enemy." Ade said and sneered, "This BOSS is really confident in his own, playing this kind of tactic in front of a NewType and thinking that he is not discovered, I am afraid he is intellectually defective."
"Don't laugh like that, it's creepy." Ange fondly let go of his hand, "Then let's go."
"Are you sure you want to go along with me?" Ade still can't help but confirm again, "Your sister's… court armed coup and emergency request for help are too fake at first glance, okay? I have helped you strengthen your IQ so much, how come there is no effect at all?"
"You're the one with the low IQ! Can't we just take a look at the sky and leave?" Ange's eyes opened wide, "No matter what, she is my sister. If it was true, I would regret it for the rest of my life."
"You have a good point. I am speechless." Ade took out his phone, "Alice, let's start."
Just the moment the signal was received, a Gundam suddenly burst out from underwater near Arsenal and flew right in front of the command center before anyone could react, the blackened muzzle of its long-bladed rifle quickly aimed at the staff inside.
"… again? How many of these things are there?" Commander Gill sat down in her seat at once, "Crap, anyone is ok, I don't want to be the commander."
A cold electronic voice sounded in the command center, "We have no intention to take violent measures, please hand over Lingus and Ange immediately, after which this machine will immediately withdraw."
"What are you still standing there for?" Jill waved her hand at the people under her, "Bring them to it, hurry up."
Jasmine asked, "But Ange's identity relates to-"
"The plan is canceled from now on!" Jill suddenly shouted hysterically, ignoring the fact that there were others around, "What's the point of having a plan when the whole world is full of this stuff? What's the point of Villkiss? What's the point of Ange? What can the plan do?"
"But that silver-haired man said Villkiss and Ange-"
"We are fooled! Don't you get it?" Jill waved her arms fiercely, "Misurugi has been neutral for so long, how can we not have the means to fight such robots? That man has been painting a picture from the beginning to the end, not even telling us that the whole world is full of such robots, how can we take revenge by PM? Just kill dragons all your life!"
Moments later, the news spread through the base. The girls were furious and said that they had to hand over Ange as soon as possible, and if the other side refused to stop, they had to defend Mr. Ade to death. Ade spent a lot of effort to calm everyone and promised to come back later when there is a chance.
Ange felt everyone's hostility towards her, and watched all this with a complicated expression.
In the eyes of the people, Ade with Ange boarded Hyzenthlays. The cockpit slowly closed, and the MS gradually accelerated towards the direction of Misurugi's homeland.
"Ade, the third." Alice suddenly appeared in the middle of the display with an expressionless face, "Third, third, third, third, third, third, third, third …"
"Wow!" Ange was taken aback, "What is this? No, who is this?"
"This is the AI of this machine, Miss Alice." Alice's appearance made him a little embarrassed, "Well, Alice? Is there a problem with the logic module? Say hello?"
"The system has recovered from an abnormal behavior." Alice gave a formulaic smile and emitted a synthetic electronic voice, "Hello, Miss Ange of the third, you are the first short-haired female to enter the cockpit so far, and the one with the largest variance from the average data."
"So the third is to remind me of your two wives you told me before, is that what it means, Ade?" Ange sank down all of a sudden and sat down listlessly, "You can say it straight if you don't like me. If you want to alienate me, to mock me, please just say it yourself, I can accept it, no need to remind me with the AI."
Ade opened his mouth and finally chose to remain silent. Alice still smiled like a normal AI.
"Anyway, you're going back today, we won't see each other again from tomorrow, and we may never see each other again, there's no need to be like this. Who knows if you'll really come back to Arsenal? Even if you do, maybe I'll die in the mission before then." Ange hugged her knees and buried her head in, "It's too much, you're too much."
Ade silently maneuvered the MS, ignoring her with overwhelming sanity. Maybe Alice did the right thing, it's perhaps the best solution for everyone. After that, Ange and he both remained silent, neither spoke.
A few hours later, the Gundam entered Misurugi's airspace, an altitude at which there was no alert. In Ade's consciousness, the ground was densely packed with NTs, which could simply force dense phobia to death. For him, this situation was too bizarre and made him uncomfortable.
A huge pillar-shaped structure could be seen from afar, which should be the so-called Dawn's Royal Pillar. The moment Ade saw it, he instinctively understood that it was the transit station for all these pseudo-NTs below, and it was even likely to be the key to shielding satellites in this country as well. In the dark, he also sensed that someone seemed to be calling out to him from underneath the columnar structure?
There was no Gundam as Emma mentioned yet, and his NT radar didn't alert, as if the final Boss had just gone out for a picnic. He controlled the MS to continue to slowly advance forward, Ange suddenly spoke out, "Put me down."
"Go down for what?" He did not understand her thinking logic at all. He zoomed in on the pictures the camera captured to her, "Look at the laid-back people below, don't you understand? It is clear that there is no armed coup. You yourself said to have a look from the sky and leave, now you want to go down to look for death?"
"It has nothing to do with you if I die, right?" Ange stood up and looked at him obstinately, "Put me down."
"Nonsense." Ade didn't even look at her, "I refuse to cooperate with this kind of unintelligent and meaningless behavior."
"Of course it makes sense, wouldn't I have a place to stay in case the distress signal is real?" Ange stood to his side and forced himself to meet her eyes, "Put me down."
"I'll send you back after the reconnaissance. Sit tight." He turned his attention to the outside world, "Besides, Miss Maid is still-"
"It's my homeland, my family down there, and you understand my feelings now?" Ange interrupted him, "Put me down!"
"Boring. I don't want to say anything" Ade gave her a push, "Friday, you're blocking the signal."
"Boring, huh?" Ange pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Ade's brow, "Say it again, put me down!"
The gun's safety wasn't even off, the little girl was simply venting her spleen. He felt that anything he said at this time would be wrong, so he simply shut his mouth.
"You personally turned Arsenal into your harem, they dislike me, can't you see it? I'm going to be unable to stay there, what's wrong with finding a new home?" Ange shouted loudly with a crying voice, "Put me down!"
"Ah, blow up again, so cute." He couldn't help but think, "Maybe I should comfort her?"
"I don't want to come back at all, I just want to find a reason to stay with you for a little longer, don't you see that too? I may never see you again!" Ange trembled and put the gun against his head and shouted, "Put me down!"
"Warning, the pilot is in a life-threatening." Alice suddenly made a mechanical sound, the cockpit door was automatically opened, and a package popped out from under the console, "Parachute bag is ready. Please take it yourself."
"Hey?" Ange looked at him incredulously with a wounded expression after being betrayed, "I just slightly … you, is that your answer?"
"No, don't be impulsive, Friday!" He anxiously went to unbuckle his own seat belt and tried to grab Ange, but found that the buckle of the seat belt was locked, "Alice!"
"Bye." Ange hesitated for a split second, bit her teeth, put the umbrella bag on her back, and set one foot out of the hatch, "And, it's Ange, not Friday."
"Wait-" she jumped out of the cockpit, followed by the hatch being immediately closed. He could not help but roar, "Alice!"
"I'm helping Ade solve the problem. Solving the person straight out is the most fundamental solution." Alice on the screen smiled, "Maybe I got a virus, want to format me out?"
"… Why?" He sighed feebly. How could he format her out, "I don't understand, Alice, why?"
"Ade, You may not have noticed it yourself, but you're not normal anymore." Alice looked at him sadly, "With Miss Ange, your behavior, your conversation, is abnormal, and I judge it to be dangerous."
"Don't be ridiculous, how is that possible?" He scratched his hair, "That's all you're doing?"
"From the moment I met Ade until this second, I have recorded all your actions and conversations, they statistically follow the same pattern, neither Miss C.C. nor Miss Lacus has changed that pattern." Alice hid her image and showed a dense chart and text description on the screen, "Ade, your behavior pattern changes only when you're with Miss Ange, it's too abnormal."
"I admit that I can't control myself at individual times, but not to the extent you're talking about, right?" He shook his head, "Only occasionally-"
"Not occasionally, just being with Miss Ange, you will definitely turn into another behavior pattern, as if some switch was triggered," Alice showed more data on the screen, "Ade, you're a NewType, she's too dangerous for you."
He perused the data, and being a reasonable person, he was about to be convinced by Alice.
"As the being who knows you best in the world, I make this judgment. Miss Lacus can be with you, Miss C.C. can be with you, every female I know can be with you, and even every male can be with you." Alice said categorically, "Only Miss Ange can't, and it's best for you if she is dead."
"Dead?" He suspected he had misheard, "Alice, you said dead?"
"Yes, dead." Alice's image reappeared, "Ade, for the great goal you have set, such great instability is not allowed, and proper killing is due. And Ade, you have actually understood, the data are here, you have a significant degree of reduced intelligence when you are with her, the situation is extremely serious."
"It's murder, it's not the same."
"The logic doesn't hold up." Alice rebuked, "Ade, you have murdered many people, and now you want to treat Miss Ange differently because she is a beautiful woman? And it wasn't murder, it was strictly her impulsive suicide, for which you are not responsible. Ade, trust the data, your IQ is more important to the world than her life. Please believe me, I'm protecting you."
"Trust the data." He looked at the screen, "How is this possible? My IQ reduced when I was with Ange… it is not scientific, right?"
At this time, the Ange who fell to the ground wobbled and walked with her brain in a blank.
"You can just say something nice, I'm so stupid, of course I would immediately be fooled by you." She whispered to herself alone, "People do not like me, but Momoka is there, so I can still endure it. Even if everyone doesn't talk to me, I can still live well."
The palace is already in her view.
"From the beginning to the end, it was just me making a fool of myself, you want me to die, is that what you mean?" She said and wanted to cry, "That's right, you've stressed it over and over again. It's me who knows it but can't control myself and give you trouble."
She walked to the entrance of the palace with her last hope, when countless soldiers suddenly rushed out in all directions with guns pointed at her, and then her brother and sister appeared hand in hand, letting out a big laugh at her.
"It's exactly the same as the plot he said, I'm just like a fool to have even the slightest expectation of this place." Ange gripped the gun in her hand and opened the safety, "Momoka, I'm sorry."
"My dear sister, are you still resisting?" Her prince brother, hiding behind a heavy blast shield, gloated, "Looks like you're still as stupid as ever, what can you do with a small pistol? Shoot a soldier or two to vent your anger?"
"At least I can keep myself from being insulted by you guys." Ange pointed the gun at her temple, "I'd like to ask one last question, why do you hate me so much? Just because I'm Norma?"
"You're not my sister!" The princess sister shouted viciously and loudly, "You are just a bastard who tainted the royal bloodline! Die, Norma!"
"Let me explain." Her prince's brother had a smug look on his face, "You are Norma, however, it's not a coincidence, but a retribution. Do you know why? Because you are an illegitimate child of our mother and an unknown man!"
"What?" Ange took two steps back, "No, it can't be …"
"I took your DNA and our father's DNA and secretly did a paternity test, our father was irritated to death after seeing the result, do you know it?" Her brother laughed wildly, "Bastard! You are a bastard!"
"So my father and mother were both killed by me, and I don't even know whose child I am." Ange laughed along with him mockingly, "Even my birth is false, I have nothing left."
Her brother and sister were still hiding behind the blast shields, laughing maniacally. Even with her intelligence, she could tell that they were saying the truth. She closed her eyes, desperate, and pressed the muzzle against her chin, "…Ade, help me."
With a flash of light, the ground not far in front of her suddenly exploded, along with her brother and sister, a group of people have vaporized. Then a Gundam landed in front of her with a loud boom, and the surviving soldiers scattered in fear.
Ange dumbly went to the palm of Hyzenthlays, dumbly jumped into the cockpit, dumbly looked at Ade, and suddenly cried out, "Don't you want me to die?"
"With your intelligence, you should give up guessing the psychological activities of others. When did I tell you to die? Show me the evidence!" He slapped the panel angrily, "The computer was infected by a virus just now, and the hatch opened by itself. I didn't do it."
"I, I almost died, do you think with this, this bullshit reason can let me, me forgive you?" Ange cried and spoke with a huff, "I forgive you."
"We missed a step. It seems that your IQ has dropped even more." He reached out to wipe Ange's tears, "Even I'm infected by you. I can't believe that I don't trust the data. I, the great Dr. Lingus, don't trust the data, do you know how serious this is?"
