episode_0067

Climbing the red moon

Honestly, this is a gamble.

Any kind of AS, it is not a simulator, but riding directly is a life-threatening task for me.

‘Is it worth it?’

there is.

Some may question whether they are risking their lives because of a contract with a colony that has only been in service for a few months, or even less than two months.

‘It’s not just because of that.’

I will die someday.

My life is short, and death is slowly approaching me.

Then, right before I die, I just want to leave this world and leave something behind.

I chose.

Green Camp.

The five talents that this Starlight Colony pulled out by squeezing all its remaining resources.

‘Actually, it feels close to being one person.’

As an educator, it’s hard to say this, but I have a strong feeling that there is one person and the rest.

‘One as a pilot. One as an instructor.’

I decided to leave my mark at ‘Special Forces Green Camp’.

This applies not only to Lavender Whiteley, who plays Green Camp’s pilot and ace, but also to others.

‘Aria Milky Way.’

If I want to leave my essence as a pilot to Lavender.

After I retired as a pilot, I decided to pass on the educational know-how I gained while teaching several students to Aria.

For future students.

For the future.

And about a retired soldier who left his hometown and even had his record erased, I hope to leave my mark on someone.

“…….”

Place your whole body in the chair and cockpit.

[Hey, Paladin. How do you like your heart?]

“I didn’t know it could be implemented exactly like this.”

A familiar and heavy feeling.

Even the grip and weight of the control sticks are similar.

[of course. You directly handed over the data in your memory to me.]

Originally, this place was not the cockpit of the Red Moon.

The person who previously used it used the seats of the aircraft, which were modified to their own unique specifications, to the Red Moon, rather than the seats shared by the Space Federation Forces.

What is it like here now?

Same thing.

It is a ‘pilot-customized seat’ that has its own specifications and is not compatible with other aircraft.

The same shape as the cockpit I rode before retirement.

However, all the lights flashing in the cockpit are not the electronic lights that ASs have, but the lights of ether that are all sparkling red.

“It’s really easy to look at.”

[Isn’t being comfortable a bad thing? Are you saying we’re getting closer to ‘this side’?]

“It wouldn’t be a bad idea to test it out.”

The visor is still worn.

The lower visor is open and the back of the head is empty, but the visor somehow gives me the feeling of a ‘helmet’.

“Is it right or not to re-debut as a pilot? Is it right for waste to remain waste?”

[I don’t know if it’s okay to help myself like that. Hehehe.]

“You were the one who suggested that such a scoundrel ride first, and you were the one who picked me up after I agreed to ride.”

[…….]

The light goes out for a moment.

The world was still all red, but as the light gradually disappeared, deep darkness began to appear.

stillness.

It is a cockpit and gas machine made of a mass of ether that has no substance, so when the light of ether disappears, all that is around is ‘space’.

[Listen carefully, Cloud will get better. Although I received help from you, I personally was seriously hurt by your mare.]

“I know. The spear belonged to him, but I was the one who controlled it.”

[You do know that the moment I pick you up, that guy may suddenly appear on the battlefield, right?]

“Of course. Even taking that into account, I am sitting here.”

[why?]

“That’s right.”

Pull the control stick.

“I ride you, you hit me, and that guy comes.”

There is only one thing I am afraid of.

“Do you think you can beat us?”

My life stops.

[and. This is why that crazy bitch goes crazy.]

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

[That bitch would be nice. They took the strongest man in the universe and used him as a pilot for several years. I’m just so jealous.]

“Are you being sarcastic?”

[I’m serious. I read your inner thoughts to some extent through the information you gave me.]

The red moon licks its lips and openly expresses regret.

[I’ve only tried the man she’s been writing about for years once. Ah, what a shame.]

“Is the Ether Bus basically making crude jokes towards humans? No. Fenrir didn’t say that.”

[…Are you saying I’m worse than that mutt right now?]

“A little more humane than Fenrir…”

[If you’re trying to tell me that you look older, I’ll kill you?]

“Try to kill him. Instead, I will let go of this control stick.”

[Ugh…!!]

The cockpit shakes left and right.

You start to tremble much more than if you take off from a catapult, and if you make a mistake, it shakes so strongly as if you’ll hit your head somewhere.

[it’s okay. Get ready. You know that when you lift the barrier and start to transform, it will be revealed immediately, right?]

“Ah.”

today.

The red moon surrounds Starlight Colony.

[Instantly the entire universe knows. The red moon was hiding another ether bus.]

“Actually, for whatever reason, everyone will know that there are as many as two Creation Trees in a small colony on the edge of this universe.”

Emerald Yggdrasil, a green tree that has taken root in the Starlight Colony, is releasing energy indiscriminately for the colony’s self-sufficiency.

“And now, beyond the red moon lies the power of the Taurus colony.”

[You said Maria, right? Former member of the Galaxy Unit. Have you ever fought with me?]

“Nothing.”

[Hey. If there’s a guy like that as the leader, isn’t it just full of idiots?]

“Even if the top management is incompetent, there is no law that says the working staff below are also incompetent.”

Among Maria’s abilities, the most outstanding ability is her ‘survival power’.

[Is it a parasite?]

“I was the first to be bitten.”

[Hey.]

Perhaps because it was in a cockpit made of ether, the red moon gradually understood what I was thinking even before I could express it verbally.

[So just as from your point of view you are one of her ex-girlfriends, from her point of view you may not be her ex-boyfriend?]

“It could be my ex-boyfriend.”

[I’ll put twice as much on it!]

In other words, synchronization is progressing quickly.

“Are you ready?”

[Are you asking me? I’m always ready okay? Or are you answering yourself?]

“That too. Because….”

Hold on to the control stick until you get out of this cockpit.

“You never know what might happen, so prepare for all situations.”

[Wow, I have some worries in my head.]

“We need to create response simulations for at least 13 situations. Not just one person’s life is at stake, but the entire colony.”

[Then first, after attacking the Taurus Colony’s power.]

Beep beep.

[What are you going to do with those wild cats who are waiting for Taurus to fail behind you?]

In front of me, on the red ethereal monitor, several screens began to flash.

[Taurus sent something like a shuttle to the Red Moon, and at this point, about an hour later, the Red Moon suddenly released its defenses. This is what has been agreed upon up to this point.]

” Regarding the Red Moon strategy.”

[There has been no discussion at all about another ether bus in Starlight Colony?]

“War will break out.”

Click.

“It’s okay.”

The number of opponents is not the strength of the 12 Constellation Colony.

“Unless there is a special ace like Shingung, the result is out.”

[That’s amazing. I don’t think I’ll ever lose.]

“Of course.”

Since I would do anything to protect myself, I decided to take bold action once I climbed into the cockpit.

“Let’s go, Hongryeon.”

[Larger.]

With the twinkling of ether, aircraft data began to twinkle on one side of the panel.

[JWH-0626. …Custom.]

A familiar silhouette.

[Wide area annihilation type.]

A familiar weight.

[ah. I can use whatever color I want, right?]

“Is there a need to do whatever you want?”

already.

“It’s a red moon.”

Flashing.

* * *

Taurus Colony Special Corps extra-large ship, Maclops Bridge.

“……What is it?”

An hour has passed.

When there is no response and the people behind there begin to shrug their shoulders, wondering if it is just over.

“Ahead, high concentration ether reaction!! It’s a new pattern!!”

“!!”

Everyone looked at the monitor as a voice rang out on the bridge.

“That…!”

“Red Moon, barrier lifted!!”

Passs.

The barrier disappears.

The ether that was drawing the sphere disperses like fog, and the core of the red moon leaps forward and begins to emit light.

“Red Moon….”

“No!!”

An operator shouted urgently.

“Pattern, deep green! It’s an emerald!”

“What?”

Maria almost lost her mind.

“Why is the reaction of the Emerald Ether Bus, which disappeared 70 years ago, now-”

Buuu!

A monitor on the bridge, something moving across the black space.

“That…!”

[The promised time has passed, Captain Maria!]

The mark whose voice is heard through Sound Only is a pilot belonging to the Gemini Colony.

[I don’t know what it is, but we eat the ether bus!]

“Ugh, violation of the agreement…!”

[You guys eat the red moon! We’ll eat heart green! Haha!!]

Maria clenched her fists.

“This is so bad…!”

Who would have thought that Sim Rok would appear?

Who would have imagined that there would be another Ether Bus here?

I imagined it.

There was a joke that the reason the Red Moon protected Starlight Colony like that was because there was another Creation Tree down there and it was to protect that Creation Tree.

“That was a joke, damn it!!”

Maria got up from her seat.

“All troops! Do your best, Starlight Colony-”

P-yung.

A red trace cutting through the darkness.

[W-what…?]

The pilot’s aircraft, which ran out of the Gemini Colony at the fastest speed, suddenly became incapable of combat.

“Well, that is…”

“Ma, that’s ridiculous….”

The core of the red moon, the red sparkling sphere, began to split apart like cracking an egg.

“White Lancer…no, red…?”

In the red moon, the body awakens.

“Mode. Grand, Zeon?”