Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

But after he killed that man a few years earlier, thinking he could continue his world-destroying plan in a different way this time, the 'god' who had turned into a child appeared in his dream.

Without a word of nonsense, Kruse offered him his utmost loyalty.

The reason? It's simple: Kruse wanted to live, or rather—at least he hoped that he would suffer less after his death.

He hates humanity and wants its extinction, ultimately because of the sins he derives from humanity. The narcissistic man's incomprehensible dreams, coupled with a despicable biologist who cuts corners to create super-Coordinators for personal gain, result in this monstrous creation using inferior cloning technology.

Destined to die young and age prematurely, even if he escaped his shackles, he wouldn't live a long life. It was the despair of not being able to live that defeated Kruse.

But now, Kruse has a new option, and—he also has to work on what will happen after his death.

Before throwing him back, Tsurugi had given this madman quite a beating. In a sense, the fact that he could still hold onto his world-destroying madman ideas was quite admirable.

“You are absolutely right. Humanity must be guided by a great person to enter the true paradise.”

Kruze is now a complete supporter of Dongjiang, after all, who wouldn't want to be loyal to a truly omnipotent holy son?

The other one—Gilbert Durandal—remained silent for a moment.

"Will you take care of this world forever?" he asked softly.

"No, I'll leave once I've finished saving the world. Of course, I'll come back occasionally if I remember." Tsurugi shrugged.

“I know your dreams, your plans, and to be honest, they’re just nonsense. Current technology can’t create the society you want, though—I can allow you to pick a piece of the Instrumentality universe to experiment with.”

Gilbert Durandal is also one of the most eccentric and extraordinary beings in this world, and this guy, whose voice is exactly the same as Char's, is determined to establish a 'Kryptonian society'.

He believed that people's dissatisfaction with the world stemmed from their inability to find their place in it. Based on his knowledge of genes, he advocated for destiny planning that involved assigning careers based on genetic analysis.

To put it bluntly, he plans to use genes to establish and define career paths in a society, and then build a perfect, ideal society.

This dream will undoubtedly be 99% distorted into the absurd caste system. But it's not entirely impossible; if he could truly achieve absolute equality of social resources and perfectly adjust his genes, it wouldn't be out of the question.

But the reason this extraordinary person has such an ideal is actually because he was forced to separate from his girlfriend Talia due to PLAN's marriage control laws. Because he was cuckolded, he embarked on this path...

However, since constructing a suitable testing ground within the anti-universe's thought process was merely a fleeting idea for Tsugumi, he generously granted this promise from the Holy Son to his most powerful biotechnology researcher.

“Your generosity puts me to shame; I will follow you until my last breath,” Gilbert said respectfully, bowing his head.

"Very good. Let's prepare to finalize our Unit-01. Then—let's guide the souls of Blood Valentine toward the First Paradise of rest."

With a wave of his hand, Tsurugi began his plan to save the world!

A year has passed in the blink of an eye.

On January 1, CE70, PLANT's delegation to the Earth Council was attacked by terrorists after the deadline for its demands had passed, resulting in the death of one delegate. Although the Blue Universe issued a statement acknowledging the operation, it was clearly orchestrated by the council's member states, and PLANT halted the export of supplies.

The council member states, which relied almost entirely on PLANT for resource exports, were suddenly plunged into a shortage of supplies. As if by prior agreement, they immediately launched further propaganda against the Coordinator threat, intensifying the anti-Coordinator wave.

On February 5, at the urging of the UN Secretary-General, PLANT and the member states prepared to travel to the moon for a consultation meeting. However, a bomb attack occurred in Copernicus, the lunar city where the meeting was to be held. Representatives of the Earth member states attending the lunar meeting, as well as UN leaders below the UN Secretary-General, were killed in the attack.

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Whether it was luck or misfortune, or perhaps the entanglement of some hidden forces, Speaker Siegel Klein was late due to a space shuttle malfunction and thus escaped unscathed.

On February 7th, the Atlantic Federation, representing the member states, declared the terrorist attack on the lunar conference to be carried out by PLANT, asserting it was a declaration of war by PLANT against Earth and all humankind. Simultaneously, it, along with the Eurasian Federation and the United States of East Asia, jointly issued the Alaska Declaration.

The 'Earth Union' was thus established, replacing the United Nations and becoming the first theoretically unified global government in human history.

Everything unfolded as Dongjiang had predicted, but did Siegel not take any precautions against it?

Yes, but it's useless—because, as Tsurugi said, there are far too many bastards and incomprehensible things hidden in both sides of this world.

It's as if the Atlantic Federation is responsible for all the problems in the story, but the establishment of the Earth Federation would not have been possible without the recognition of the other two giant nations. In other words, the attack on Copernicus was definitely not an act of the Atlantic Federation alone.

The top leaders of all countries on Earth have long been in cahoots, and the so-called military-industrial complexes that dominate wars are merely the surface-level part. The underlying reason, as Tsurugie said, is that it is a decision made collectively by all of Earth's people to divert attention from internal conflicts.

None of the countries on that blue planet are innocent—of course, PLAN's hands aren't entirely clean either; at the very least, their people must have been involved in the Siegel space shuttle malfunction.

Considering the possibility of some hidden power or library involved in the manga or the movie, Tsugumi had no interest in it and didn't want to get involved.

He hated delving into the hidden backstories and worldviews of these troublesome entities. What was the point of investigating them? In the end, they were all destined to be wiped out by him anyway.

Whatever schemes or plots you're up to, go talk to my Human Instrumentality Project!

Tsugumi chose to completely indulge and let things go, only spending that year perfecting her 'Unit-01'.

The astronomical sums of supplies mobilized came partly from Moses's own pockets, but most of it actually came from the miracles he had just received.

Its name is — Turning Water into Wine

More than a decade of preparation has been for this moment.

Plant, a secret base within the Mendelian colony satellite that should have been abandoned long ago due to a biochemical virus leak, is the very base that Tsuruga laid out years ago, a base that no detector could find.

"The Earth Alliance has declared war on PLAN, Your Majesty," Kruze said respectfully upon arriving.

"Then let's get ready to take our first step and announce my presence to the Coordinators."

Inside the enormous, pitch-black factory, beneath a colossal structure draped in black cloth, Tsugumi's right hand swirled a glass of water, watching it gradually transform into an LCL solution the color of orange juice. She stood up.

Let us raise high the banner of salvation!

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A spaceship drifted silently around the perimeter of the colony. Perhaps to avoid detection, the warship had its engines shut down, facing the massive man-made structure before it. This was the Earth Alliance warship, the USS Roosevelt. Currently, this warship had arrived in the outer airspace of Junius 7 to carry out a special mission.

Further away, forces from the Earth Alliance were engaged in combat with ZFAT mobile suits guarding the perimeter of Julius 7.

No one noticed the warship's approach; thanks to its costly mirage system, no one could detect its presence in the dark depths of space.

At that moment, the captain of the USS Roosevelt looked at the huge man-made colony slowly rotating in the distance, a hint of fanaticism flashing in his eyes.

At the same time, a mass-produced Möbius fighter jet, the mainstay of the coalition forces, flew out of the USS Roosevelt and quickly flew towards the Junius 7 ahead.

Beneath Mobius, a special bomb was mounted; the prominent yellow and black markings on its body indicated what kind of bomb it was.

Nuclear bombs, weapons of mass destruction that had not appeared since the final nuclear event in the early years of CE, reappeared before the world on a night that should have been filled with warmth and romance. And the target was Junius 7, an artificial colony inhabited by more than 24 people.

"Go... destroy that ominous hourglass... for a world pure and blue!!!"

The captain, watching the approaching flash of light, clenched his fists and roared, suppressing a voice trembling with excitement and madness.

It was only at this point that the Coordinators inside the satellite discovered the approaching Möbius.

"That weapon—a nuclear bomb?!"

Renoia Sara stared palely at the weapon attached to the Möbius under the monitor screen. She was a well-known agricultural scientist at Plant and also Patrick Sara's wife.

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The captain, watching the approaching flash of light, clenched his fists and roared, suppressing a voice trembling with excitement and madness.

It was only at this point that the Coordinators inside the satellite discovered the approaching Möbius.

"That weapon—a nuclear bomb?!"

Renoia Sara stared palely at the weapon attached to the Möbius under the monitor screen. She was a well-known agricultural scientist at Plant and also Patrick Sara's wife.

But at this moment, she wasn't concerned about her own life or death, but rather the 240,000 Coordinators of Julius 73, and the future that embodied the self-sufficiency of PLANT and its liberation from the constraints of the Earth Federation.

In the distance, the MS units that had noticed the joint attack were rushing towards it frantically.

"Stop it, you damned humans!!!"

"They're all ordinary people!!!"

Fear, screams, anger—even if they pushed the thrusters to their limits, they still couldn't keep up with the speed of a nuclear missile launch.

"Hahaha, die, you monsters in the sky!!!"

Accompanied by the hysterical screams of the Möbius pilot, he pressed the trigger without hesitation, a signal that sealed his destruction and death.

The nuclear weapon hanging below Möbius, trailing a plume of flame, hurtled toward Junius 7.

In an instant, a massive and deadly halo erupted, its light illuminating the entire dark universe like a miniature sun. The crew of the Roosevelt and the Coordinators residing on Junius 7 stared wide-eyed at this once-in-a-lifetime, magnificent and dazzling spectacle.

“Aslan…” Renoia instinctively covered her head, sobbing softly for her son’s name as she faced death.

However, at that very moment—

Click~~~

A sound like gears jamming echoed in this void, and then everything fell into a stagnant gray.

The Coordinators on Junius 7 realized they were not dead. They opened their eyes and stared blankly at the sky. Before them were still the exploding nuclear flames, the destroyed outer walls of the colony, and even the stars in the deep space of the universe were clearly visible.

The colony had been destroyed, and death awaited them, but in the instant before death came, time froze.

Renoir, along with all the Coordinators, and even the Naturals aboard the Roosevelt, gaped open at the same time.

Because right there in that nuclear blaze, a tall, slender giant stood.

It was about sixty meters tall, with purple armor and a bright green glow covering the joints of the armor. It held a scarlet spear in each hand, one like a crossed spiral, and the other with a huge spear blade.

MS...?

Renoir pondered whether this was ZAFT's secret weapon, but she quickly dismissed the idea, because the cessation of time flow around them was not something that 'technology' could bring about.

Then, in the next moment, something even more astonishing happened. Beside the steel giant, a tiny figure slowly emerged—and then, he appeared before everyone.

"Messiah?!"

"Sacrifices of Junius VII, your lives have ended." Tsurugi calmly gazed at the 7 people before speaking, her voice reaching their ears without uttering a word, as they stared in shock, disbelief, and even wondering if they were going mad.

"However, I will bring you death and rebirth. Your souls will enter my EVA and experience a perfect dream in the negative universe until I save the world and you will be reborn in Eden."

Calm, slow, as if a god were bestowing mercy upon humanity from above, but he did not give them the power of choice, for they were already dead.

"I must be dreaming. How could such a thing happen?" The Coordinator scientist stared at the boy in front of him, trying his best to touch him, but his efforts were in vain.

"Monster! Monster! You're a monster from the sky!" The captain of the Roosevelt screamed and fired at the boy in front of him, but he could do nothing.

The next moment, the towering EVA raised the Spear of Longinus and the Spear of Cassius high in his hands, causing them to clash.

A white light enveloped everything in an instant, and everyone felt as if their bodies were being immersed in warm water, followed by the detachment of their souls.

"Messiah, who exactly are you—" Before her body could dissolve into a soup of life and her soul could vanish, Lenoria looked at the Messiah before her and uttered the question.

“I am Messiah.” Tsugumi, having completed her Apostle transformation, looked at her and said softly.

"Have a sweet dream, and when you wake up, the world will be as gentle as a dream."

Time flowed on, the nuclear bomb exploded, the light engulfed everything, and all was silent.

Only the giant, shimmering with white light, stood quietly amidst the void and ruins. Tsurugi, perched on the shoulder of the pseudo-deified EVA, gently turned her head.

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