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

Aslan stared wide-eyed at the beautiful girl in front of him, with long brown hair, a supple figure, and a delicate face that bore a striking resemblance to Kira. His breath almost stopped.

What happened? My... my job... how could he...?

There were still five minutes before Kira discovered she had become a woman, but as for the love-hate relationship between her and Athrun afterward, that was none of Tsugumi's business.

The Kruze team, which was originally supposed to pursue the Archangel, naturally had no need to chase it since the Assault hadn't been taken away. Besides, they were in a hurry to bring Tsugumi, their number one wanted criminal, back with them.

Thus, it can be said that Tsugumi completely ruined the entire Gundam SEED storyline.

However, he did not see the phoenix that would revise history. He didn't know if it was too afraid to come or if it was brewing something big.

Well, let them come. Tsurugi was actually looking forward to seeing what difference they could make to his otherwise calm and inevitable salvation.

Three days later, they returned to Plant's home base.

Dongjiang was immediately placed under house arrest and placed under strict surveillance. That afternoon, someone visited Dongjiang.

"How interesting, Speaker Siegel actually allowed you to see me? Or is this some kind of honey trap?" Tsugumi looked at the big pink-haired girl in front of her and smiled casually.

Lux didn't speak, but simply bit her pink lips, her large, bright eyes fixed on Tsurugi.

"Don't look at me like that. I know what you're thinking, but Stormhold... oh wait, no."

Tsugumi made a joke that no one picked up on, and shrugged.

"You want to condemn my ruthlessness? You didn't expect me to be so charming."

"Messiah, have you never treated us as equals?" Lux suddenly spoke, her gentle voice as melodious as a song.

"I have always regarded everyone as an equal."

I treat you all with equal indifference, neither loving nor hating you.

It wasn't a lie; it was still consistent with her words and actions, but Lux remained silent and continued to ask.

"And what about yourself? Messiah, who are you?"

"A savior destined to save the world—that sounds a bit arrogant," Tsugumi said leisurely.

"I think I'm just a good person who sees you killing each other and harming too many people, so I intend to redeem you."

"Redemption...you mean what you did on Earth?"

"Lux, do you believe in the existence of souls?" Tsugumi asked, looking at the big pink-haired girl.

Do you believe in the feeling after death and the world? Regardless of faith, based solely on your feelings, are you willing to believe?

Lux nodded slightly. Her reason told her that the so-called soul and afterlife were superstitions that should not be believed, but her emotions made her hope for such a beautiful outcome.

"If an afterlife exists, then human life is nothing more than an exam." Tsugumi's fingers lingered on Lux's forehead as she whispered.

“Yes, Lux, this is the outcome of the world now. So to me, the lives of humans have little meaning or importance, and besides—I have never taken away their meaning.”

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"I just want you to stop, to temporarily halt your war, your killing, your hatred. Once I've cleaned everything up, you can continue your exams."

Tsugumi is doing things like a savior, but he doesn't see himself as a figure like Jesus. He actually has no sense of responsibility towards humanity, only a domineering decisiveness.

Organize, control, and adjust the human world, placing them in your own little world, erasing foolish and unnecessary conflicts. Control for a hundred years, then let things drift for a hundred years.

"So I think I don't actually love humans." Tsugumi spread her hands and smiled frankly.

"I just don't want to see those unnecessary tragedies happen. I don't love humanity, but I hate more violence and evil, no matter how you call it necessary, I don't want to see it."

"So I will control everything about you, nothing more. No love, no hate, nothing more, just like my job."

"So Lux, there's no need to comfort me. I'm never tired or weak. No one can stop me from doing what I do, and I have no conscience."

The truth, everything is the truth, no matter how much it sounds like the ravings of a madman.

Lux blinked her large violet eyes, stopped talking, and sat down gracefully beside Tsurugi, then began to sing softly.

Tsurugi squinted her eyes, quietly enjoying the melodious songs in her ears, until she let her human body slowly drift off to sleep.

Then when he woke up again—

Before him were beams of light and the twelve members of the PLAN council, completely surrounded by bulletproof glass.

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P.S.: To be honest, I feel like the overall traffic to the cat website has decreased by at least one-third recently...

994

713. The Universal Son and the Universal Jesus

"Messiah Elson".

Sitting in a chair surrounded by thick bulletproof glass, Tsugumi, dressed in a white straitjacket and bound tightly, spoke Patrick Sara's voice.

Of course, it wasn't just him; Siegel, Azaria, Ted, Yuri—in short, they were all uncles and aunts that Tsugumi had known since childhood.

“I haven’t been back here for about a year, and I didn’t expect to be treated like this.”

Tsugumi propped herself up slightly from her tightly bound body, then chuckled to herself and said...

"But that's good too. It seems that all the uncles and aunts will definitely not treat me like a child anymore."

“...You are accused of multiple crimes.” Patrick paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice.

"But this is not a public trial for you, Messiah. We just want to know the truth."

“Okay, go ahead and ask,” Tsuruga said casually. “I will answer everything I know.”

"The MS team protecting Junius 7 captured footage of you there on Bloodstained Valentine's Day, piloting an unknown MS. What were you doing there? Did you know in advance that the Earth Federation was going to attack Junius 7?"

Patrick clenched his fist and immediately asked the question that concerned him most.

"I collect the souls of the dead there," Tsugumi replied with a smile.

"As for knowing? Of course I know. Didn't I say it a long time ago? But none of you believe me, do you? Souls, saviors, you regard everything you don't understand as falsehood."

"The soul," Tsugumi uttered an absurd hypothesis that almost contradicted science, but the experts monitoring his brainwaves and physiological responses gave the answer that—

He really wasn't lying.

“Uncle Patrick, I know what you want to ask,” Tsugumi said leisurely.

"What you want to know is Aunt Renoa, isn't it? Her body has perished, but her soul is in my hands—this is not a threat, but a fact."

"If you wish, I can reunite you at any time, but the price is that your physical bodies will perish in reality."

"Death...does it mean turning into this kind of liquid?"

Patrick controlled his emotions; he knew some things absolutely could not be said publicly at this moment. He simply took out a bottle of orange-red liquid and said...

"Can't you figure out what this is?" Tsurugi tilted her head.

"...This liquid contains almost all the basic organic molecules, and the dissolved oxygen concentration is higher than that in the atmosphere."

At that moment, Gilbert, also an expert in genetics and biology, stood there and provided the answer he needed to give.

"That is why this is a substance that would never exist in nature, and the possibility of its synthesis is close to zero. This liquid is in complete conflict with existing science!"

How can substances transformed by the human body become a structure that is a mixture of almost all basic organic molecules?

Let alone the human body, it's almost impossible to create such a mixture later in life. This is because the mixing of multiple basic organic molecules would inevitably lead to mutual contamination and engulfment, and these 'solutions' would be a perfect sample of Earth's biological composition.

"This is the soup of life. Of course, when I am manufacturing it, I usually call it LCL solution—Link Connect Liquid, a liquid for connection and linking."

Dongjiang explained slowly.

"Perhaps to answer in a way that you can most easily understand, it is a primordial ooze from the very beginning of the earth, but it did not come from the earth, but from the ancestors of mankind, from... our 'mother'."

Yes, Tsurugi has started talking nonsense.

It wouldn't matter if he didn't make up any settings or anything, but doesn't this make him seem more sophisticated? Settings are meant to be used, right? Anyway, the people in the Gundam world don't really have any ancestors.

He's currently in a phase where he's extremely bored and looking for ways to amuse himself before he completes his mission as a savior.

As expected, Tsurugi's words sparked a great deal of discussion and uproar, especially among experts in biology and genetics, who were particularly excited.

"Human ancestors? What are those?!"

"Darwin's theory of evolution tells us that humans evolved from monkeys, and he was half right—humans did indeed evolve from another species."

Tsugumi looked at them, smiled, and began to recount the background story of EVA.

"The birth of humankind actually originated from a visitor named 'Lilith,' who crashed to Earth, and the offspring that reproduced from her essence are humankind."

"Even before that, there was a visitor named 'Adam,' who gave birth to a more perfect being who ate the Fruit of Life—the Angel."

"They were perfect beings, with eternal life and limitless energy, but lacked basic intelligence. And in the early days of Earth, it was the conflict between Adam and Lilith that led to the First Impact, the birth of the world..."

The scientists outside, who were listening to this, were dumbfounded. Good heavens, we were waiting for you to come up with some profound theories, how come you suddenly switched to creationism?!

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"What nonsense are you spouting? This is serious science, not a church!"

"Lilith? Adam? You're not suggesting that God created this world, are you?"

"Where did this charlatan come from? What are you trying to fool?!"

A commotion erupted outside, accompanied by disdain for the story of Dongjiang. Patrick raised his hand to stop the argument and said sternly.

"This is not the time for academic debate! Messiah, you have many more questions to answer!"

The latest update is now available on the book club forum; your interpretation is welcome.

"Please answer: On May 30th of last year, numerous eyewitnesses claimed that you were present in the war zone in Egypt and bore primary responsibility for the mass extermination that occurred there!"

"What explanation do you have for this?"

"Yes, I did it." Tsugumi readily admitted.

"...Including those Zaft soldiers?" Patrick said, his face almost contorted with rage.

"Yes, after all, I have to treat everyone equally," Tsugumi said with a smile.

"How can simply sending people on Earth to the other side of the soul be enough? To turn this world back into Eden, we must restore all of humanity to its original state."

There was still no trace of lying.

This fact sent chills down the spines of the surrounding members of parliament—unlike the scholars, they had actually seen the video of the 'shock' that had occurred in Egypt!

The sacred giant of light, the tree of life, the pitch-black vortex of hell, and the millions of tombstones of the cross of light that light up to the symphony of the Ode to Joy!