episode_0099

I am an instructor.

A person who teaches students.

Although the main scope of teaching is AS manipulation techniques, as a teacher, you cannot just ignore the mistakes of your students.

For example, in the case of Hanae.

Hanae was born in Japan, but her detailed knowledge of Japan is weaker than mine.

I grew up in Starlight Colony since I was a baby, so unless I had my knowledge corrected through direct conversations with native Japanese people, I was bound to retain the same errors.

In the case of samurai.

‘Samurai also use bows.’

There is a strong image of samurai using only katanas, but some samurai use bows as their main weapon.

That’s because I usually use things like katana, tachi, or reverse bladed swords.

The problem is whether to correct it or not.

Rather than telling Hanae, ‘Actually…’, sometimes it’s better to just move on.

Hanae has clearly achieved results, and if you expose the truth to Hanae and provide her with related knowledge, her mood will inevitably drop.

However, mistakes must be corrected.

[Uhm… Lavender, who defeated me. Would you like to go to Paladin and tell him?]

Like right now.

[If Paladins hate Japan, I will gladly beat up samurai!]

“No.”

Lavender tried to use me as an excuse to pressure Shingung, but Shingung started writing novels on his own again.

“Do you hate Japan?”

“I neither hate it nor like it. It is true that my identity lies in that country on Earth, but that does not mean I deny everything about Japan.”

In response to Hanae’s cautious question, I immediately revealed my personality.

It’s not pro-Japanese, but it’s not anti-Japanese either.

Actually, because I am from the Universal Century, I don’t have any particular feelings of dislike.

Although there have been times when the person I disliked was from a specific country, for me, Cloud, there is only one case where I dislike a person from a specific country.

“Shingung is that damn…huh. Even if I make a fuss, it’s not like I hate the Sagittarius Colony.”

“I see…”

“But now it looks like they are starting to hate Sagittarius Colony as well.”

“Well, over there…”

Lavender came out of the interrogation room with a squeak.

“That man, I can’t understand him at all. Before the rematch, he said he would become Korean first.”

“Being Korean doesn’t mean you can fight with me.”

I won’t tell other students, but you could say the opposite is true.

When you go abroad, the thing you have to be most careful about is Korean people, a saying that was commonly circulated in internet communities 200 years ago.

I agree.

It was not a foreign country, but an alien world, and the universe was the same.

“Did Shingung say anything else?”

“Yes. I think I fell for the provocation, but I think I was more shocked by not being able to unite with the instructor. I kind of pulled out a special move.”

“That’s right.”

Lavender mentioned her priority for merging based on her victory.

He claimed that he would choose himself as a disciple over Shingung, and that the reason was ‘because Lavender won against Shingung.’

But what is the use of all those arguments?

Shin Gung is banging his head against the wall by himself over a national issue, not a question about the skills of the AS pilot…

“Lavender. Can you ask Fenrir to cause an electric shock in the room?”

“Ah, ah…! Wait a minute!!”

Lavender hurriedly manipulated the panel, and soon purple lightning flashed from the panel on her wrist.

Puzzle!

The lightning instantly jumped through the glass window of the interrogation room and stunned the maniac, who was banging his forehead against the wall, with electric shock.

“Jace. Andy. Please move the shrine to the infirmary immediately.”

“Oh, yes!”

Jace and Andy followed my instructions and went straight into the interrogation room.

There was no characteristic burnt smell when a person was shocked by electricity.

If it had just been an electric shock, it would have been okay, but fortunately it was Fenrir’s ether shock.

“I will call the medical officer. Jessie, on one. The two report the situation to the medical officer, and then work with the officer to place restraints on Shingung’s entire body to prevent him from harming himself.”

“Gu, arrest?”

Jesse, who is usually lively, swallows his saliva and asks.

“Uh, to what extent…?”

“Have you ever seen people confined in special rooms in mental hospitals?”

“……Oh, no.”

“I have seen it before. They… put a mask on my mouth and made it impossible for me to move my limbs.”

“Okay. Like a mummy in a pyramid…”

It’s bitter.

Everyone is looking at me with an expression like ‘What is a mummy?’

‘After I retire as an AS pilot instructor, should I start teaching as an earth anthropologist?’

It is quite sad that the new generation born in space or raised in space do not know the culture and history of our beautiful Earth.

And that’s probably why a crazy person like Shingung appears.

‘There is no future for a people who forgets history.’

that word.

Wouldn’t it be possible to look at it a little more broadly?

There is no future for Spacenoids who have forgotten the Earth.

Called.

* * *

After a while.

While the members of the Green Camp platoon received a separate lecture from Instructor Aria after completing the restraints on Shingung, I changed into my spacesuit and boarded the Rafale.

[Instructor. Rafale, can I drive it?]

“It won’t explode.”

Lavender asks through the line.

At the same speed as Rafale next to me, Lavender slowly drove the Soul Gainer and flew through space side by side with me.

“And is this what you drive? You are the one who lifts me and moves me.”

[lol….]

Actually, I rode the Rafale, but I wasn’t flying it.

The Rafale’s engine is turned off, and the communication device inside is a separate device attached to the Rafale’s main power.

The Rafale I am riding is currently flying with Lavender’s Soul Gainer mounted on its back like a flight unit.

To put it more bluntly, it would be correct to say that it is carried around like a piece of luggage.

Why Rafale?

The capsule port was a bit odd, and after driving the small ship out, there were no small ships left.

However, to climb into Lavender’s cockpit,

‘It’s a bit like that.’

In many ways.

[Hey, instructor. I have a question.]

“Um, what is it?”

[There is a merger, right? Merge is when two gases merge into one, right? Then…is Paladin stronger when combined, or stronger when not combined?]

“Specifically?”

[yes?]

“If you look at the Paladin heyday, there is no difference between the two.”

When operating alone without combining.

And when it merges with a horse-like body and runs through space.

“When not combined, it has the advantage of being able to fight as a humanoid and basic form, and when combined, it has the advantage of leaving the maneuvers to the partner and only having to move the upper body.”

[Uhm….]

“In one word, both are strong. There is no way to determine superiority or inferiority.”

1+1 does not always equal 2.

The merger between gases is like that.

“And I was a paladin…so there was a reason why I pretended to be a lancer and rode a horse.”

[For what reason?]

“Intimidating, and aggro.”

[yes?]

The reason I rode a horse.

[Wasn’t it because of mobility? As a lancer?]

“In terms of mobility, it might have been better to just fly around with a jetpack on the back. Riding a horse through space? Rather, it could have reduced mobility.”

[then….]

“To stand out.”

It was just to attract attention.

“To be precise, the main purpose was to make the enemies think, ‘What is that guy?’ There was also an attempt to gather aggro towards me. It was after I became the owner of the Lancer that I became a Lancer in earnest.”

Looking back, I realized that there was a separate reason why I started riding horses in earnest.

“Lavender. Let’s assume there is an AS with a cavalry spear in the middle of enemy lines. What do you think? Let’s put aside the Paladin thing for a moment and think about it.”

[Hmm…is it a beam rifle in the shape of a cavalry? You would think so.]

“That’s usually the case.”

In fact, such AS also exists.

There is an AS with a design that resembles a red dragon, with a red cape fluttering, holding a cavalry spear in one hand and a circular shield in the other.

In fact, the most powerful weapon is a long-distance attack that collects etheric energy in the shield and bombards, but the dragon looks like a knight, so it attracted attention on the battlefield.

“By the way, lavender. What would happen if the aircraft appeared riding a horse below? And in the middle of space.”

[…….]

“Okay. There will be a lot of attention. Even if the color is white, which contrasts with the color of the universe, it would naturally have made it more exposed to enemies.”

[Because it’s white and not a protective color… Isn’t that telling the enemy to ‘kill me’?]

“That’s right. That’s why the Aces’ planes are white.”

It is not simply a coloring problem that has come down from ancient times.

“Ace Pilots have often decorated the exterior of their AS with white since ancient times. There were many cases of creating primary color designs that appropriately mixed white with blue, red, and yellow.”

Although I was hit by the enemy’s beam rifle attack several times, there were many cases where I benefited from making the armor ‘different’.

“The white seal is the symbol of Ace. Mixing blue is the icing on the cake. But then a cavalry in a horse-shaped aircraft appears from space?”

[…….]

“We didn’t combine to become stronger. Just….”

I remembered.

At that time, my seniors had a marathon discussion for 8 hours about my ‘flight unit’ and why they made a white horse with horns.

“Because it’s cool.”

White Lancer running through space.

“I gave all the reasons.”

At that time, I was 15 years old.

“First, I thought about style and came up with a reason why it should be that design. Why should a Paladin become a White Lancer?”

reason.

Because it’s cool.

It’s like putting a tiger pattern on the chest of a super robot.