The next day, dressed in the same outfit she wore when first meeting Wang Hu, Cagalli stood at his doorstep with bloodshot eyes.
The words spoken by the man in this house yesterday had kept the young girl tossing and turning all night.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The thunderous knocking reflected Cagalli's agitated mood as she pounded violently on the door.
"Coming, coming."
Hearing the near-door-breaking commotion outside, Wang Hu opened the door shirtless, his sculpted upper body on full display, clearly displeased.
"Do you know what time it is? Stop that banging."
"Pervert!" Cagalli's blood-red eyes glared at the man who opened the door as she spat out these two words coldly.
Her eyes then quickly scanned Wang Hu's body up and down before she pushed past him familiarly.
Entering the room, she sniffed the faint minty fragrance in the air, looking somewhat surprised.
"You actually sleep alone?"
"What else?" Wang Hu yawned as he followed behind the girl.
"No princess came sneaking into your bed at night? And here I left my door unlocked for someone."
"Scumbag." Cagalli stared at Wang Hu with the same look one would give a lacewing insect, completely devoid of any mood to banter with him now.
"Put these on." Bending down to pick up Wang Hu's clothes, Cagalli threw them at his face while urging him impatiently.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Without bothering to hide from Cagalli, Wang Hu took the clothes from his head.
Right in front of her, he proceeded to dress himself piece by piece.
"Hmph." Seeing his shameless behavior, Cagalli turned away angrily.
Though his body was undeniably attractive enough to make one drool...
But who am I?
The daughter of the Orb Lion, future representative of the Orb Union.
I, Cagalli Yula Athha, will never succumb to such carnal temptations.
Slurp
Soon enough, the handsome man and the beautiful girl—
In any case, Wang Hu and Cagalli walked side by side down the street.
"Didn't I say? If you wanted, I could take you directly to the Gundam."
Wang Hu couldn't understand why Cagalli still wanted to see that professor first. Was this the so-called correction force of the worldline?
Did these siblings, who nearly committed incest, have to meet ahead of schedule?
"My father isn't the kind of person you think he is."
Cagalli shot a sideways glare at the man beside her, still hung up on what he'd said yesterday.
About deliberately leaking information to let ZAFT attack this place, and how her father would let the Coordinators massacre people on this satellite just to silence the Allied Forces' accusations!
"The professor must know something. I won't just take your word for it."
"Oh." Hearing the stubborn girl's response, Wang Hu didn't insist further.
If you won't believe it until you see the coffin, why should I exhaust myself worrying about Orb's affairs?
Do whatever you want. My concern only extends to those behind me.
I've said all I needed to say anyway.
Thus they walked in silence, with nothing particularly noteworthy happening along the way except encountering a beautiful red-haired girl.
"Beep." Cagalli swiped a card to open the door to a laboratory.
At this moment, Wang Hu finally encountered the original timeline's Child of Fate in this world!
"Tolle? Who are they?" Kira, the brown-haired boy, stared at the two uninvited guests and asked his friend beside him.
Who were these two?
Curious gazes landed on Wang Hu's handsome face and the shorter, hat-wearing figure.
"No idea," Tolle replied, equally curious.
Staring at Wang Hu and the obscured face of Cagalli, Tolle suddenly recalled something and exclaimed.
"Oh, right! The professor did mention yesterday that a new student would come to see him today."
"If he hasn't returned yet, we're supposed to let them tour the lab freely."
"But..."
Tolle paused mid-sentence. The professor had mentioned one person—why were there two here?
Who was the student the professor referred to?
Just as Kira and Tolle were puzzling over the situation, Miriallia, the only other girl in the lab and naturally outgoing, stepped forward proactively.
"Hello, we're the professor's students. May I ask—"
"Hello, I'm Wang Hu, and this is Cagalli."
Wang Hu had quite a favorable impression of this girl, though her eventual fate wasn't particularly great.
His gaze shifted past her to Tolle—another decent kid, responsible and warm toward his friends.
A shame his ending wasn't good either.
Though not quite to the level of a "green pasture," there was still a tinge of it.
After all, Miriallia's choices, from a normal person's perspective, were hard to comprehend at first glance.
"Huh?" Noticing Wang Hu's stare, Tolle grew uneasy and instinctively checked his outfit.
For a moment, he wondered if he'd dressed oddly in his hurry to leave home.
"Uh, I'm Tolle. Is there something wrong with me?"
Finding nothing amiss but still unsettled by the man's gaze, Tolle couldn't help but ask directly.
"No, not at all." Wang Hu smiled and was about to offer some vague reply when—
Suddenly, a violent tremor shook the ground, catching everyone off guard.
"Was this because of me?"
Swiftly shielding the bewildered Cagalli beside him, Wang Hu eyed the shuddering walls.
His arrival had altered Cagalli's timeline compared to the original worldline.
Had the two key figures barely met when ZAFT's attack began?
"Wang Hu... were you telling the truth all along?"
Cagalli had little interest in the lab's occupants to begin with, and ZAFT's assault left no time for interaction.
Now facing the worst-case scenario, her face paled instantly, overwhelmed by deep regret.
If regret medicine existed in this world, she'd pay any price for a whole bottle!
"Regretting it now?" Covering Cagalli's head protectively, Wang Hu calmly waited for the tremors to subside.
"This quake was likely caused by ZAFT Forces attacking the Gundam transport convoy."
"Rather than regret, you'd better pray the enemy this time has some sense of morality."
"Otherwise, the other side might casually blast a hole in your satellite, heh heh heh."
"ZAFT Forces? A Coordinator attack?"
Worse than the girls—at least the two girls present.
Like Cagalli and Miriallia, they hadn't reached the point of collapsing in fear.
But the guy named Katz, this seemingly ordinary boy.
First, he was scared pale by the tremors from the attack, then he heard that the Coordinators—now demonized by propaganda—had launched an assault.
He completely collapsed onto the ground.
"It can't be... Why would those Coordinators attack a Colony Satellite? We're a neutral nation here," Katz muttered, looking as if his world had shattered.
"Right." Kira's expression was also grim. He glanced subtly at his friend, wanting to say something to explain.
"Whatever." Wang Hu didn't scorn Katz for his embarrassing reaction.
After all, the other was just an ordinary, normal person, and his current behavior was perfectly normal.
Wang Hu couldn't bring himself to stand on the shore and mock someone who was drowning.
"Rather than debating whether it's real or not, seeking shelter is the wise choice right now."
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