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Rhodes felt his brain becoming increasingly clear, and began to hear more whispers of the undead. His perspective detached from his body and flew higher and higher.

Jegan, Junius 7, Earth, the solar system... until only pure white remained before his eyes.

"..." Ross seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't make any sound.

"Zizi..."

Something like white noise from a radio exploded in Ross's ears.

"Edit...514...Rods...missing..."

The originally noisy white noise gradually began to turn into a feminine and rather lazy electronic sound.

"Got you."

Rhodes then fell into a coma.

……

"Don't look here... Don't look here... Leave quickly..."

Kira turned on the sniper mode of the Strike Gundam. The special sighting system in front of him was directly connected to the composite camera on the beam rifle, staring intently at a Kin that was wandering in the sight.

The original operation of collecting supplies went quite smoothly. Although it was delayed a little due to the moment of silence, everyone still acted very quickly.

But as luck would have it, Kira discovered a civilian ship that seemed to have been destroyed, and a Jinn wandering near the civilian ship.

What's even more terrible is that this Jinn is a two-seat reconnaissance model. If he discovers it, he might call for reinforcements and attract a large number of ZAFTs.

Although Kira is a talented pilot, he has no information to keep the working engineering machine under the siege of ZAFT.

At this time, an engineering aircraft was pushing the collected supplies and flew past Kira.

In Kira's wide-open eyes, Jin En seemed to have noticed something and turned around, seeing the construction machine that was transporting supplies.

The engineering machines of the Earth Army and ZAFT are of different models, so Jinn immediately discovered that this was an engineering machine of the Earth Army.

Just as Jin En was about to fly over and prepare to aim and fire.

A beam of light appeared from the lower left corner of Jin En and accurately hit Jin En's head.

The reconnaissance-type Jinn relies on a special head to communicate over long distances. Once it is destroyed, he will lose the ability to call for help.

"This beam of light...Rods?"

Seeing the scene before him, Kira couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Then, he remembered what Ross had said.

"Go hit them in the limbs!"

Kira fired two accurate shots, and Jin, who was still adjusting his posture, lost both arms in an instant.

"Rhodes...Rhodes? Can you hear me?" Kira forcibly connected to Rhodes's communication channel, but received no response.

"Ms. Natal, Ross and I have disabled a reconnaissance-type Jinn, but I can't contact Ross. Can you go check it out?"

While sending the location to Bakirolu who was on the engineering machine, Kira controlled the Strike Gundam with a gun, aimed at King's cockpit, and slowly protected the engineering machines away from the area.

At this time, Kira saw a lifeboat floating on the side, which had lost power.

……

"The location is nearby... Is that Jegan?"

Bakilulu and Saiyi were operating an engineering machine and approaching the location sent by Kira.

At this time, they saw that Jie Gang was standing on the ground of the ruins of Junius No. 7 with his right hand holding a gun raised high, his head monitor raised up and looking upwards, and his legs apart.

"This is Natal, can you hear me? Roz?"

"Saiyi, you continue to operate the engineering machine, I'll go take a look." Natal frowned when she heard the silence in the communication, detached from the engineering machine, and floated towards Jigang.

"Bridge, this is Natal. We've spotted Jegan, but he's not reacting, and neither is Ross." Natal floated over to Jegan's cockpit. "How do we open the cockpit door? I need to check Ross's condition."

"What?" Malu was obviously a little surprised.

Christina on the side sighed, as if she had expected it.

"Ms. Natal, there should be a cover near Jegan's hatch. Lift it open and enter the password. Then pull the lever under the password dial to open it." Christina's voice came from the communication. "The password is 0079"

Bakilulu took a quick look at the Jegan's cockpit and spotted a distinct rectangular "mark." Sure enough, it was the cover Christina had described.

"Pfft..."

After a series of operations, Baki Lulu finally opened the cockpit door of Jegan.

What came into view was a cockpit design different from the Strike Gundam. But the next second, Bakilulu saw Ross lying unconscious in his seat.

It must be said that this ghost who could induce Ross's movements was very considerate. She controlled Ross's body and helped him put on a helmet when Ross lost consciousness, thus preventing Julius No. 7 from having another cosmic ghost appear.

"...Rods has fallen into a coma for unknown reasons. We're taking him back to the Archangel now." Baki Lulu pursed her lips, a complicated expression on her face. "Saiyi, drive the engineering machine over here. We're taking him back."

……

It felt like floating in a sticky sea, and my body seemed to have lost its strength.

In this white space, Rhodes's consciousness was sometimes good and sometimes bad, always in a chaotic state.

But soon, he felt a little electric stimulation in his brain, but it was not intense, enough to wake him up.

When Ross regained consciousness, he found a... giant blue Haro? With dark circles under his eyes?

"What a rude thought! Can't Hello have dark circles under his eyes? Working overtime is painful!"

This giant blue Haro seemed to be able to read Ross's mind and responded to his inner thoughts.

"You are……"

Ross had only said two words when he was surprised to find that he could speak.

"Courtyard Pursuit Division, number AP61781. If assigned normally, I would have been your assistant 20 system years ago."

The blue Hello in front of him had yellow-green lights in his eyes, but his tone was a little lazy.

"Courtyard? Helper?"

Rhodes was still a little confused, but at least he was certain that the big guy in front of him didn't want to kill him.

"Why would I want to kill you? Every Courtyard Executor is invaluable." Blue Harrow wiggled the two oval "ears" on his head and began to speak. "The Courtyard is an organization dedicated to hunting down the Lord's Dimension. It was founded by the World Will that was harmed by the Lord's Dimension and is supported by the majority of World Wills. The main function of the Courtyard Executors is to maintain the Courtyard's operations, hunt down the Lord's Agents, and repair damaged world lines."

"The reason you didn't follow the normal process and ended up here is because when your soul was being guided to the courtyard, a mad agent of the Lord God blew up a world line. You were swept here by the wave and identified as a native by the world. If you hadn't just resonated with the brainwaves of those cosmic ghosts and broken through the signal barrier of this world bubble, I wouldn't have noticed you were still alive."

Speaking of this, Big Blue Hallo's tone was a little sleepy.

"Also, the bombed world line and its related derivative world lines are still being repaired. The repair department has been working overtime for at least 30 system years."

"Emm... I roughly understand." Ross felt that his worldview had been cleansed. Although the idea of time travel itself was very mysterious, the emergence of two opposing time travel organizations was not... unacceptable?

"It's not a mutual confrontation. To be more precise, it's the Courtyard that's hunting the Lord." At this point, Big Blue Hallo clearly expressed disdain for the Lord's Dimension. "Those Lord's Agents are terrorists wreaking havoc everywhere. They've already led countless worldlines down a path of self-destruction. While we're capturing and executing them, we also have to repair those worldlines."

"Speaking of which, I want to ask. Why did you choose me?"

Rhodes was very confused by this.

"To be precise, it's not that we chose you, but that we can only save you." Big Blue Hallo's eyes flashed.

"On the surface, it looked like you were killed by a falling space station, but in reality, two agents of the main fantasy gods were fighting in your world. By the time we arrived, your world bubble had been blown up by them, leaving only your soul intact."

"I'm already going through the formalities with this world, and you'll be back on track to join the courtyard soon." Hello moved the "ears" on his head.

"On track?" Rhodes was a little confused.

"Yes, normally you should have gone to the weapons research and development department in the courtyard and comfortably worked on the ironwork, but now you're working for the Pursuit Department. Never mind, my pass is ready. I'll check the timeline of this world..." Haro's eyes began to flash a yellow-green light. "You have your own factory here, right? We'll meet there when the time comes."

For some reason, Ross always felt that this Haro was eager to enter this world to find him.

"Assistants in the courtyard without executors will be assigned to the logistics department to organize data," the blue-haired girl began. For some reason, Ross sensed sleepiness in her. "I've been working overtime for 20 consecutive years. Where else do you think those dark circles under my eyes come from?"

"Such a good paid vacation, oh no, it's an opportunity to mentor a newbie, how could I let it go?"

----split line----

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Volume 1: Chapter 11: Does Kira have the causal skill to pick up the lifeboat?

"Why did he suddenly fall unconscious?" Mariu was puzzled as she watched the deactivated Jegan being brought back by the engineering machine. "Christina, is Ross suffering from some illness?"

"...Do you believe that ghosts exist in the universe?" Christina looked at the messy hangar. The people in the hangar were busy sorting and transporting supplies and storing the machines, and the life capsule that Kira picked up by the way could only be put aside for the time being.

In fact, at the beginning, Kira was also thinking about whether to capture the crippled King, but Bakirolu said that there were not so many Marines on the Archangel to guard the prisoners, and the Archangel had already begun to evacuate the area, so the matter was dropped.

"Space ghosts? Isn't that just some urban legend?" Mu stood beside Christina and Malu, looking at the newly secured, powerless Jegan. "We're all adults, do you still believe in this kind of thing?"

"...Okay, let me put it another way you can accept." Christina didn't force Malu and Mu to believe in the existence of space ghosts. After all, they didn't see Ross's reaction when he passed by the ruins of Julius No. 7.

Presumably, Ross's coma this time was due to the same reason as before: seeing the ghost of Julius No. 7.

"You can understand that there is a very strong magnetic field or some kind of radio wave in the wreckage of Junius 7. In short, there is such an interference source, and the reason is unknown." Christina picked up the tablet in her hand and began to check Jegan's life detection device.

"Rods's brainwaves are stronger than those of normal people, even those of Adjusters. In Julius 7's environment, Adjusters might feel sad, but Ross will see... some not-so-good things due to the interference, which will put a lot of pressure on his mind." Christina breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the data displayed on the tablet.

The data showed that Rhodes' brain waves began to gradually decline after a period of peak, and eventually entered a stable state. Apart from excessive sweating, there was no major problem with his physical condition.

"...Is that so?" Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, glancing at Jegan, who was standing quietly in the hangar. "Why didn't he tell us? Otherwise, Captain Malu or I would have stopped him from leaving..."

"If he had told you, you wouldn't have come here to get these supplies." Christina looked at Mu and Malu, who were watching Jegan. "It's precisely because he considers you his companions, and to keep them alive, that Ross chose to come here."

"If you want to thank him, then live well and keep on living." Christina said this, turning to look at Jegan, who was standing quietly in the hangar. "Like me, even if only a broken body remains, you must live on so that you can do something for him."

"Is that so..." Mu shrugged helplessly. "You know, people like us don't know when we'll die on the battlefield."

"But I will do my best to survive. Captain Malu will do the same, right?"

"...It's hard to say about this kind of thing, but I'll try my best."

Marlu glanced at Bakilulu who brought the Marines to the hangar, then turned to look at Christina.

"Speaking of which, I've seen the Archangel's surveillance footage before. Were the prosthetic limbs you're wearing specially made by Ross? I don't recall any prosthetic limbs of this specification being circulated."

"...To be precise, except for my brain, my entire body was made by Ross." When she said this, Christina lowered her head slightly, and her long red hair slightly blocked her eyes, making it difficult for Malu to see Christina's eyes clearly.

"When he rescued us from that hell, all we had left were our brains."

"In order to turn us back into 'normal people', he created our current bodies, including the weapons we requested to be installed in them."

"In fact, we've already prepared ourselves mentally for the possibility of no longer being able to live as humans, but Ross said..."

Christina raised her hand and placed it on her heart.

The tactile system gave her the feeling that the bionic mechanical heart was beating regularly, just like her previous body.

That's the feeling of being "alive," or rather, that's the feeling of Christina being a "human."

"Eating, sleeping, breathing... these are things we should all experience. No matter how imperfect we are, he will still turn us back into 'humans'."

Christina looked towards Jegan, her eyes fixed on the cockpit of Jegan who was surrounded by doctors.

……

When he was brought back to the hangar by Bugilulu in an engineering machine.

Rhodes was still chatting with the dark-eyed Haro in his own mental world.

"In short, the body that the courtyard creates for you is the embodiment of your soul's concepts."

Hello's tone was like that of a corporate slave who had been working overtime for several months and suddenly felt relaxed as if he had a long vacation.

"And within your body, the courtyard will permanently grant you two things: the evolutionary seeds that strengthen your body, and the abilities manifested from soul concepts."

"Is this also the reason why I became a new human and was able to create Jegan myself?"

Only after talking with Harrow did Rhodes understand the origin of his "talent".

"To be precise, this is the foundation, and your uniqueness has transformed it into a magnificent spectacle."

Harrow suddenly changed his relaxed tone and became serious.

"There's no shortage of geniuses in the courtyard. Whether it's the new humans or that conceptual skill called 'Power of My Thoughts', they've all appeared before, and there are quite a few of them."

"And your specialness lies in the evolutionary seed in your body, which allows you to transcend the evolutionary path of ordinary people and reach a higher average level."

Harrow suddenly projected a route map from his eyes and began to explain.