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

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.

His hair turned silver-white, his eyes turned blood-red, and his fair, almost transparent skin made him look like a god descended from the heavens.

This footage, recorded by the surviving MS camera, was quickly presented to Plant's conference table.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: To be honest, I originally wanted to write about Gundam UC, but after watching the last few episodes of Quarks, I got so excited that I rewatched Reverse Duck, but in the end, I messed it up a lot... SEED wasn't a long story, so I finished it in five days, but I might write about the entire world of Super Robot Wars.

988

707. An existence that overturns worldviews

Target of inclusion; Unknown evidence 02

Plant locality, Apolirios (April), Joint Council meeting scene.

The silent Siegel Klein was showing all the councilors in December the surveillance footage intercepted by King from the MS unit that survived Junius 7, and without a doubt, this was what left these elite Coordinators speechless.

The so-called Unknown Evidence 01 is the skeletal remains of extraterrestrial life brought back by George Glenn, a pioneer of the Coordinators, during his voyage to Jupiter. This evidence is currently displayed in the Council as proof of the correctness of the Coordinators elite and their ambition to explore the future of the universe.

Ultimately, this evidence merely proves that unknown life exists beyond Earth. While it has greatly shaken the authority of various religions on Earth, it is by no means something that overturns our understanding.

At this moment, the evidence presented to all Plant members was far too subversive—not only subversive, but also overly religious!

In the ruins of Junius' destruction, a giant radiating white light stood there, and on his shoulder, a boy whose entire body seemed to be filled with an aura of 'divinity' turned his head to look at them, as if sensing their prying eyes.

"...Speaker Siegel, could this video evidence be a misleading and fabricated video by the Earth Federation?"

One of the councilors looked at Speaker Siegel, considered his words for a moment, and said...

“They couldn’t have tampered with it. We arrived at the scene immediately when the Junius 7 accident happened.” Siegel said, his finger tracing the top of the video, his expression complex.

"Moreover, this boy... the identity of Unknown Evidence 02 also confirms that he is a citizen of our PLAN."

—Messiah Elson

Many of the members of parliament present had this name on their minds.

The son of Senator Moses, a child prodigy quite famous in Plant, is a person with outstanding talents in many fields. At the same time, he is also known for his precocious and even eccentric personality.

Why is he here? Why has he become like this? Why can he appear in a vacuum?

If this video is genuine, then the PLAN members present at this moment are undoubtedly filled with unanswerable questions—or rather, bewilderment stemming from a confusion that is too challenging to their worldview and basic common sense.

Snapped! ! !

The conference room door was violently pushed open, and Patrick stormed in expressionlessly, his dark-circled eyes gleaming as he spoke in a deep voice.

"They're gone. Moses and his group secretly left April City three days ago. All we know for now is that they're heading towards the L4 colony satellite area!"

He hadn't slept for days and nights. Since learning of the destruction of Julius VII and the death of his wife, he hadn't rested for a moment.

"This is a premeditated betrayal!" a Sala faction member of parliament stood up angrily.

"They must be traitors sent by the Earth Alliance!!!"

"Absolutely impossible!" Siegel denied with a resolute tone.

"Moses, a comrade who has acted alongside Patrick and me since the very beginning of the Zodiac Alliance, would never betray us! Moreover, if he were to betray us, he wouldn't have asked Patrick and me to set up defenses at Junius 7 beforehand!"

Both he and Patrick showed expressions of pain and regret when this was mentioned.

Moses had told them long ago that Junius 7 was likely to be attacked by the Earth Alliance, but they did not send many reinforcements—because, in the final analysis, the L5 colony with 120 colonies was too large, and their ZAFT forces were simply not enough!

This was an attack that even if anticipated, it would have been impossible to prevent. If the Earth Alliance had used nuclear weapons, even without attacking Junius 7, they could have destroyed other places. Ultimately, a fully mobilized PLAN held absolutely no initiative or advantage!

"Natural persons must pay the price for their actions!" Patrick growled, his face contorted in a grimace.

"As for Moses...Siegel, I don't believe he would betray us either, but we must get an answer to what he and his son did!"

A somber atmosphere permeated them. In any case, the most important thing at this stage was to prepare for war against the Earth Alliance!

As for the truth of what happened in Junius VII—to put it bluntly, it's nothing more than a matter concerning the dead, and ultimately it has to take a backseat to the living.

Soon, the resolution to wage war against Earth was passed unanimously by a collective vote, and Siegel strictly forbade the dissemination of information about the truth of Junius 7.

The Blue Universe as we know it today was originally composed of a group of extreme environmental organizations and religious figures, and these religious fanatics hate the Coordinators so much because of the unknown evidence that George Glenn brought to Earth.

Releasing such a video now is tantamount to stepping on the faces of these religious figures and humiliating them, telling them that the unknown being closest to the Son of God in their faith is actually a Coordinator.

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Siegel was unwilling to allow the war to escalate unchecked, and even though he knew his hopes were dashed, he still tried his best to hold back the chariot of time and space.

Soon only Siegel and Patrick remained in the conference room, sitting there in silence.

Just then, there was a knock on the conference room door, and Lux ​​walked in.

“Father, I think you need to see this. This was sent to me by the Messiah…”

Lux glanced at Patrick, and at Siegel's prompting, directly plugged in a USB drive.

Soon, a floating video appeared in the center of the conference table, and there appeared Moses Elson.

“Siegel, and Patrick, by the time they saw this video, my physical body had already perished.”

Moses, leaning on a cane, seemed to look at his two old friends through time and space, and said softly...

“I know you have many questions, so I will answer them all. I have left behind materials containing the knowledge brought by the Messiah, and you will receive them soon.”

"Yes, you should already know what happened to Junius 7. Messiah knew it long ago; he foresaw that Junius 7 would be attacked by a nuclear bomb."

Boom! Patrick slammed his fist on the table, biting his lip so hard it bled, his eyes fixed on Moses.

“I know you will resent me, but how could I not want to tell you? But it’s no use, I can’t control the Messiah, and no one in this world can control him.”

"Because he is not a Coordinator, and he is not even human."

Moses uttered words that shattered their worldview.

"What I'm about to show you might shatter your worldview and is completely unscientific, but it really happened right before my eyes..."

Siegel, Patrick, and Lux, and then we see the scene of Tsurugi's 'birth'.

He had no father, no mother, or rather, his mother was just an artificial womb. He was conceived remotely in an empty culture tank, as if by divine inspiration.

Born after seven days, it left the incubation tank on its own and was able to speak at birth.

“Messiah was the name he asked me to give him; he never hid his purpose,” Moses said softly.

Messiah Elson, the name itself points to a single meaning.

Messiah, also known as the Savior, the Anointed One, or Christ.

Even in this new era where traditional beliefs have largely faded away, many people still know and even believe in this ancient Christian legend. Or rather, this belief has never disappeared, but has almost completely integrated into the blue universe.

Elson—EL in Hebrew means God, and Elson means the son of God.

So this name is basically a self-introduction—I am the savior, the son of God!

"Absurd, ridiculous, it's a complete insult to my intelligence..." Patrick stood up, shouting almost hysterically.