On weekend mornings, Ed slept until he woke up naturally, and picked up the phone on the bedside table to check the time. It's already breakfast, but it's still early to have lunch, so I can relax a little bit.

He leaned sideways cautiously, looking at Lux's peaceful sleeping face, and even the sound of his breathing consciously converged. Sleeping in is a normal thing for C.C. or An Qi, but it is very rare for Lacus, whose life is extremely regular.

Is it too tired? He meditated in pain, but he didn't know what Lacus was up to. For a moment, he even had the urge to look at her phone while Lacus was asleep, but it was just an impulse and was immediately restrained.

Everyone needs a private space. It is not that the relationship between men and women can be established without taboos and do whatever they want. Take the most insecure C.C., she will only take the initiative to turn his mobile phone when she expresses happiness or dissatisfaction, and before doing so, she will definitely consult him and give him enough respect.

They are all very important, living people to him, not dolls that are put on the bed when they are useful and hung on the wall when they are useless. It was he himself who said that he encouraged everyone to pursue their own hobbies and lives, and now he is suspicious of not believing the other party but appears to be back.

After figuring this out, Ed stopped entangled, and stared at Lux's sleeping face in peace and admired it. The exquisite face that has been genetically adjusted looks like a flawless artwork no matter how long you look at it, and the pink hair feels sensational even after getting used to it. Further down, you can see even more beautiful scenery, but Ed stopped his sight-Lacus was already very tired, and he didn't want to pull the opponent excitedly to do exercises early in the morning.

I don’t know how long it has been, the girl—should it be a young woman now? ——'S eyelashes moved slightly, and the eyelids opened in the next second, and his beautiful aqua-blue pupils stared at him. At this time, C.C. will usually ask you what you are looking at proudly. An Qi may be silly, but Lacus didn't say anything, just smiled softly at him.

"Good morning, Ed." She asked softly, "What time is it?"

"It's a long time before noon, I don't want to get up." He yawned pretentiously, "Anyway, I won't go to work today, lie down with me."

Lacus could hear this kind of obvious lie without opening the disc's eyes. She straightened out some messy hair after the night passed, pretending to find nothing, snuggled into Ed's arms and responded briskly: "Then there is no way. That's it."

Ed feeling the temperature in his arms, he hesitated for a while and decided to slap aside: "I think, is Roland promoted you too quickly? I have been promoted from spokesperson to director in less than two years. Don't you want to become a minister in two years?"

"Is it more than enough to be Minister of Foreign Affairs with my ability, or do you also believe in the rumors that I am an idol vase on the Internet?" Lacus put her index finger on his lips and smiled to stop his explanation." Don’t worry, I’m having a great time now. I can realize my ambitions and what I can do for this family. There is nothing happier."

Lacus was talking about this, and Ed had no choice but to stop. Of course he can also force the head of the family, but such self-satisfaction behavior is meaningless.

"Actually, you should have more rest." Lacus changed the subject without a trace. "Since I'm busy planning the curtain call for Heaven and Human recently, I should put things aside in the laboratory. Minerva is complaining about your being with her. Time is getting shorter."

"I have the S2 mechanism, it is invincible in the world." Ed said indifferent, "Even if I don't sleep for a month--"

"That won't work, the body will not be tired, and the spirit will be tired." Lacus corrected him seriously, "Speaking of it, I suddenly thought, have you ever considered that Livonz Almack came out to disrupt the curtain call performance. possibility?"

"Isn't he busy looking for the box, why is he here in the muddy water?" Ed frowned and followed her thoughts for a while. "But what you said is not completely unreasonable. , I changed my action plan this afternoon. It would be ashamed to be caught off guard."

"You have to guard against baldness before the age of thirty." Lacus twisted a bunch of her long hair and gently scratched it on his chest. "But something like a box, a genius nearly a hundred years ago. Hidden it in the vast solar system, I always feel that it is impossible to find..."

"Yeah, even Aeolia has no clue. Finding a needle in a haystack is easier than this. Laplace's Box? It's named, and it's not a one-man..." Ed's voice stopped abruptly, "Why Can't act according to the script?"

Lux did not understand, but did not interrupt, but quietly watched him organize his thoughts.

"No matter how I toss the world, it seems that it will come back strangely in the end. Since it is called Laplace's Box, why won't it return to the story of the unicorn?" Eddy got up from the bed and lifted the quilt. Opening a corner, the spring light by the side was exposed, "I was preconceived. The thing about Xia throwing a satellite in the distance, and the thing about Stella sinking in the lake near it, all flew like this or forced to go around it, so why can't it? Or Bist?"

"Biste?" Lacus repeated it again. "The Cardias Biste of SEELE?"

"Bistre, as one of the three founders of SEELE, has as few dramas as a cousin. For nearly a hundred years, it has been low-key and has no sense of existence. This is simply unreasonable." Ed kept talking to himself, " E·A·Ray, why can an incognito person even hide Aeolia? There must be a helper, and it was originally to hide Aeolia. It makes sense for Bist to continue to play stupid. It's Lei's death."

"So it's very likely that the box is in Bisite's hands?" Lacus did not matter during the reasoning process, she only cared about the conclusion. Husband’s reasoning is often incomprehensible, but the conclusions are almost all correct. She believes Ed is fine. "I remember the rumor that he was divorced not long ago."

"What?!" Ed grabbed his mobile phone and searched for related information, but only found some gossips according to netizens' revelations. There was no formal news report. No wonder his news assistant did not report it. "That's right. That's it. Recently, Livonz has been too much. He deliberately divorced in order to protect his wife and children. This is not a rumor, it is very likely to be true."

"Then act quickly," Lacus said impatiently. "We must hurry before Livonz."

"But the matter of heaven and humans is imminent." Ed said, "It's the day after tomorrow. After Silok is done, I will come to talk with Bist in person with Aeolia. Bist is theoretically his own. Don’t fall into a hostile relationship by accident."

Lacus didn't talk too much, but got up neatly and put on clothes.

Ed has no time for him to take care of him. He is still thinking that the plot has come back to this problem. First of all, there is a very serious problem. It is reasonable that Aeolia made 00 Gundam and Silok made Teo, but TurnA was made by Yang Wenli. Is it a coincidence that Roland appeared in this world? ?

Thinking deeper, since no matter what the plot is going to come back, is everything he has done so far because of his own choice, or is it just going through the plot in the dark? He thought he rejected Yang Wenli's memory because he had free will, but is he really free? Is there a way to prove it?

Not to mention the proof, there are countless examples of all kinds of foreshadowing. He and Yang Wenli said that the FLAG of the establishment is not bad, so the existence of Minerva and An Qi itself was not established by the establishment of the FLAG?

"So you are free, your existence, your Geass, your life... Ed, you must not understand."

"Ed? Ed!" Lux exclaimed from her side, "Your eyes!"

He woke up from a state of ignorance and blankly accepted the small mirror handed by Lux who had just put on his underwear. One of his own eyes in the mirror lit up with a blood-red bird pattern, and Geass activated it on his own without turning it on. At this time, he suddenly realized that he couldn't feel anything in his NT induction. Then he tried to control Geass and found that the size of the silence aura could be adjusted, but he couldn't turn it off.

"Geass runaway is a normal phenomenon, it signifies that my abilities have improved. It will be fine after a while. Please consult CC for details. She sold me the things." He gave Lacus a reassuring smile, "But I seem to... …Mute yourself too?"

At this time, the bedroom door was knocked "dangdangdang" suddenly, and the rapid frequency clearly conveyed the knocker's mad mood. Lux hurriedly opened the door, and it was Minerva with tears on his face that appeared at the door. The little girl was crying and her eyes were red and distressing.

She didn't even look at Lacus, and rushed to the bedside and plunged into Ed's arms. The words burst into tears: "I, I suddenly can't feel Uncle Ed, I thought, I I thought Uncle Ed was gone, me, me..."

Ed lightly hugged the little girl, and while stroking her little head, he said softly, "I'm sorry, I scared you. I have a little problem recently, and it will be fine after a while. Minerva is relieved, I won't leave you behind."

"Yeah." Minerva sobbed in his arms and nodded. "Even if I can't feel it anymore, I know that Uncle Ed will not lie to me."

Although the scene in front of her was very warm, Lacus still had to interrupt them cruelly: "Ed, you put on your clothes first. Minerva is not young anymore, it is very bad for her growth."

After recovering, Ed let go of the little girl, and awkwardly pulled the quilt on her body. Minerva smiled with tears, craned his neck and quickly kissed him on the face, turned around sensibly and ran away.

And Ed's mind was interrupted by Minerva's chaotic thoughts, and he gave up thinking about it. He always felt that he would go crazy if he continued thinking about it.

"When I was so young, I didn't understand anything. She already knows how to tell her words and act by ear. Ed, are NTs so precocious?" Lacus continued to wear clothes while speaking, "I heard CC said that although you are also It's very precocious, but it's not so early. Thinking about it, it's actually a bit scary."

"You think too much, how old is Minerva?" Ed laughed dumbly, and then got up, "The little girl is more sensible, and the rest is just acting on intuition."

Lux thought for a while, did not refute, just shook her head silently.

"By the way, I just made a temporary decision. I'm going to watch the closing performance of the Celestial Man on the spot." Ed throws away the uneasy thoughts, "Since I have been banned, I will not be discovered by Sirocco. , Just let me go to the scene."

"Why?" Lacus asked puzzledly. "Didn't they always handle it well?"

"For Camus, otherwise." Ed sighed speechlessly. "Since the script might come back, I'm afraid he will go crazy and no one can control him. Although I still don't like him, I really say married. It's time to let this kid be the best man. If he is dead, he can't tell the truth."

"What's the name of that word, what do you often use to describe C.C.?" Lacus turned her head to think, "Um... Tsundere?"

"certainly not!"

Early in the morning two days later, the Iserlen was boarded.

In the briefing room, the ACEs were full of energy, and Wu Fei was making the final mobilization speech: "...I really asked the old man, what does Iserlen mean, and the old man asked the doctor about this question. That's what the doctor said, Yi Sherron is an indestructible and indestructible symbol, meaning that as long as we are united, believe in our partners, and uphold justice, we will never be knocked down by foreign enemies."

"Wait, isn't it a stubborn thing, and it has a moral?" Ed, who was standing next to Wu Fei, asked in surprise, "How did he explain the magical conch and SpongeBob squarepants to you?"

Wu Fei replied solemnly: "The magical conch symbolizes endless knowledge. It urges the soldiers to train hard while not forgetting to learn culture. SpongeBob SquarePants is some kind of creature in the deepest part of the ocean. It is indescribable and unimaginable. Encourage soldiers not to stick to the old rules and dare to think outside of the problem."

"...As expected of him." Eddy silently gave a compliment to Yang Wenli of Heaven in his heart, "I'm sorry to interrupt you, please continue."

Wu Fei was not a talkative person, and the mobilization speech was quickly over.

"Wait, I have a problem!" Camus rushed to raise his hand before Ed spoke. "Why Dr. Lingoes is here, I can understand, but why can't I feel you? And why did you want it early in the morning? With sunglasses?"

"Pay attention to discipline. Issues that are not related to actions will be discussed privately after the meeting." Ed decisively chose to ignore him. "Let me just say a few words below."

"Cut." Camus bowed his head wearily, "I have tried so hard, and I still aim at me."

"This is our last action. I hope everyone will stand on the last post. Please come happily and go back safely. Don't set up a strange FLAG." Ed looked at a few immature or mature Face, mixed feelings for a while, "Thank you very much for your hard work, and I assure you that everything we do is meaningful."

At this moment, even Camus didn't make any mistakes, and listened to the lecture honestly, Wu Fei couldn't help showing a gratified smile.

"The top priority of this operation is to kill Silok, and I will personally take the command. If communication is not possible due to the Minovsky particles, the foolish action plan I entered for each machine shall prevail. Below I Tell me about each person's specific arrangement." Ed said sternly, "Kira Yamato."

"exist."

"You only have one task-to fight Amuro. This is a task that no one can do. Only you can complete it. Regardless of the outcome, you just need to play style and level. The longer the time, the better."

"Yes!"

"Uraki Hiroshi."

"exist!"

"You are responsible for controlling the battlefield, dragging the ACE, cleaning up the miscellaneous soldiers, and protecting the mothership. I know that the task is very heavy and the pressure is very high, but you are the king of the illusion. In addition, the marksmanship of the Lund Bell team is very accurate. It will definitely not hit us, just concentrate on dealing with Titans."

"Yes!"

"True Asuka."

"exist!"

"You are responsible for killing Silok, you can only win, not lose."

"……Yes!!!"

"Camus Vidan."

"Can I report the funeral banshee attack?" Camus asked expectantly, "The old man can testify. I have been training these days and I have become very skilled!"

"You have used Unicorn NT-D." Ed looked at him calmly, "Do you think you can control NT-D now?"

"...No." Camus went into depression for a moment, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't ask, you never expected anything from me, I know..."

"You are responsible for being a firefighter. I don't worry about Kira. If there is a problem with Honghezhen, you can support it." Ed smiled at him slightly, "If you don't use NT-D, don't start it."

Camus' eyes slowly widened little by little, and finally let out a fascinating brilliance: "Yes!"