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Mikazuki put his tray down, a grain of rice sticking to the corner of his mouth. Murrue recovered and, while gently picking off the rice grain, smiled.
"Are you full?"
She took the grain of rice and, without any hint of disgust, put it into her own mouth and ate it.
Murrue herself didn't think anything of it, and Mikazuki also felt it was nothing. The two chatted back and forth.
But Natarle and Kira's table thought differently. They felt Murrue was being overly attentive to Mikazuki, even making such an intimate gesture. Could it be...?
Just then, Mikazuki's sudden remark made everyone who heard it almost fall onto the table.
"Do you want me to help you rob them?"
Murrue quickly waved her hands.
"No, no, no, no, it's not robbery! Why would you interpret it that way?"
Before Murrue could finish, Orga's roar came through the earpiece.
"Idiot Mikazuki, this isn't Tekkadan! Don't be so blunt!
No, wait! You're getting me off track! When did we Tekkadan ever rob anyone? We just fought them fair and square and took their supplies, that's not robbery!"
"Ah, I see."
Mikazuki suddenly remembered.
Right, they had honorably defeated their enemies and then plundered their ship's supplies. That wasn't robbery.
Probably...
Murrue gathered her scattered thoughts and reorganized her words.
"Since you have no objections, then we'll proceed with this. Although it feels a bit disrespectful to the deceased."
Mikazuki took a date from his pocket and slowly ate it.
"There's nothing to be sorry about. Dead is dead. They can't take anything with them, so leaving it behind is a waste.
Besides, once you die, you'll see the people who died before you, right? It's not too late to apologize to them then."
Murrue was stunned by Mikazuki's words. "Once you die, you'll see the people who died before you..." This perception made her feel somewhat unnerved.
"You... aren't afraid of death?"
Mikazuki spat out the date pit, then raised his eyelids and said leisurely, "If I wasn't afraid, I wouldn't be saying I have to desperately cling to life, would I?"
Murrue gave a self-deprecating smile.
"That's true..."
Mikazuki hopped off his chair, picked up his tray, and gazed out at the vast universe.
"Besides, even if I were to die, it wouldn't be now. I have to go back, back to that place... because I promised them both."
Inside Barbatos's cockpit, the dim Iron Flower flickered twice, and Orga's laughter rang out.
"That's right, you absolutely can't break promises to those guys."
Murrue watched Mikazuki's receding figure. The expression Mikazuki had just shown made her heart stir violently.
Just then, Fllay, Sai's girlfriend, whispered in Sai's ear, "What's wrong with that boy? He eats so casually after doing something like that. Doesn't he feel sick?"
Murrue's brows furrowed when she heard this. She looked up at Fllay and said coldly, "Fllay Allster, is it? Please understand one thing: that boy saved everyone on this entire ship.
If it weren't for him, you would be thrown into space to drift, just like those people he killed."
Fllay's face turned green and then white. She hadn't expected Murrue to say something so humiliating to her in front of everyone because of Mikazuki.
Murrue left after saying that. Those words weren't just for Fllay but for all the civilians.
In her opinion, Mikazuki, who had saved everyone, shouldn't be treated this way, with such gazes as if he were an anomaly, even if he himself didn't care.
The next day
The Archangel approached the asteroid belt, sending six work ships to the center of the belt to search for supplies.
Mikazuki piloted Barbatos and Kira piloted Strike for escort.
The closer they got to the center, the more astonished the people on the work ships and Murrue and the others on the Archangel became.
"This... Is this Junius Seven?"
Natarle opened communications and spoke to everyone.
"Transport ships 1, 2, and 3 stand by. Ships 5 and 6, each send one person to descend and investigate with me."
Kira hurriedly said, "I want to go down and see too."
"Permission granted."
An hour later.
The transport ships and two Mobile Suits returned to the Archangel. Mikazuki, wearing a space-pressure resistant pilot suit specially made for the Alaya-Vijnana System, which he had stored in Barbatos's cockpit, and an olive-green overcoat, came to the bridge.
As soon as he entered, he heard Kira's voice, full of anger.
"What if there are a billion tons of water? You saw it too, didn't you? That's where hundreds of thousands of people died. They're already dead; do we still have to disturb their final rest?"
At this, Mu spoke up.
"I know not everyone will be happy about finding water there, and we also want to avoid setting foot in that place as much as possible.
But we have no choice, do we? We are still alive, which means we truly need water to survive. Do you understand, Kira?"
Then Mikazuki floated over and uttered a sentence that made everyone in the Earth Alliance, including Murrue, shudder deep down.
"The ones who destroyed that place were the Earth Alliance, right?"
He paused and continued, "But it wasn't them, was it? And the ones who killed them weren't Murrue and the others, were they?
Which is more important, the dead or the living? Moreover, they are strangers to you. Dead is dead; there's no such thing as peace or not peace."
"Mikazuki..."
As Murrue tried to interject, Mikazuki continued, "Why are you here? On this warship, in that Mobile Suit? You're fighting because you have people to protect, aren't you?
If you feel uncomfortable taking things from those who have passed, then just apologize to them in person after you die and see them over there."
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