Murrue glanced at the people in Dawn Desert, and it was clear from the conversation just now that the other party knew a lot about them.
Seabook chuckled and looked up at the Archangel beside him.
"The Earth Alliance's new special-purpose ship, the Archangel, was chased by ZAFT Military's Creuset Team all the way down to Earth.
This gray mobile suit is the latest prototype mobile weapon of the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam. This one, however... it's strange, it looks so familiar..."
Seabook's last words weren't heard by others; he was muttering to himself. Cagalli, beside him, also looked at the Gundam Barbatos next to the Strike Gundam with a puzzled expression.
From the information she had found in Orb, there was absolutely nothing about a mobile suit called Gundam Barbatos. What kind of mobile suit was it?
Seabook shook his head, shifting his gaze from the identity of the Gundam Barbatos, and said to Murrue,
"Since both sides know each other's identities, let's get straight to the point. You've encountered difficulties, haven't you? What are your plans?"
Murrue lowered her head slightly, her hat brim obscuring most of her face.
"If we tell you, will you help us?"
Seabook curled his lips into a smile, looking at Murrue and the captain who was slowly walking out.
"If you truly want our help, then put down your guns."
He looked up at the two Gundam units.
"And those two pilots as well."
Murrue shrugged, the smile on her lips confirming she had already guessed he would say that. She looked up at Gundam Barbatos and said,
"Mikazuki, you've worked hard. Come down."
Mu La Flaga then said to Kira Yamato,
"Kira, you come down too."
Kira Yamato was the first to leave the cockpit, stepping onto the simple hoisting rope to land.
However, just as he took off his helmet to reveal his true face, Cagalli, behind Seabook, slowly looked astonished.
"It's you!"
Everyone was startled, then they saw Kira Yamato being slapped by an enraged Cagalli.
Mu La Flaga swallowed, asking in a low voice,
"What's going on? Do these two know each other?"
Murrue frowned as she looked at Cagalli; a faint memory seemed to surface in her mind, then she suddenly clapped her hands.
"I remember now! Wasn't this child with Kira Yamato at Heliopolis initially? So she's a girl?"
Kira Yamato, who had been slapped, also remembered, his face filled with shock. He hadn't expected to meet Cagalli here; it was too much of a coincidence.
Just then, Gundam Barbatos's cockpit opened. Mikazuki undid his Alaya-Vijnana System and picked up the coat behind him. Under the gaze of the Dawn Desert group, he stepped down from Gundam Barbatos's arm and leg.
Seabook was stunned when he saw Mikazuki's appearance, a scene flashing in his mind.
"Tekkadan?"
Mikazuki's ears twitched, and his pupils slightly contracted.
Murrue looked at Seabook in shock, exclaiming,
"You know Tekkadan?"
Seabook didn't respond to Murrue, his gaze fixed on Mikazuki, who was rushing towards him.
Mikazuki stopped abruptly in front of Seabook, saying in a deep voice,
"Who are you? Why do you know Tekkadan?"
Seabook carefully scrutinized Mikazuki for a few moments. Seeing the coat draped over Mikazuki's back, he became even more certain, nodding heavily.
"I once met a young man dressed similarly to you. His coat had that red floral emblem on the back, just like yours. He helped me when I was in trouble.
You are... Mikazuki Augus, right?"
Mikazuki's brows furrowed deeper.
"How do you recognize me?"
"That young man had a photo, a large group photo. After seeing you, I remembered... he talked a lot about his family, Tekkadan...
The background of that photo was... that mobile suit. It's just that the mobile suit in the photo was much more damaged than it is now."
Seabook said, looking up at Gundam Barbatos behind Mikazuki.
A photo?
Mikazuki lowered his head and thought carefully. When he remembered something, he happily looked up.
"Is it that one...?"
Then, Mikazuki inexplicably turned and ran towards Gundam Barbatos. He entered the cockpit, opened the storage cabinet, and rummaged through the bullets inside. At the very bottom, a photo, though somewhat dirty, lay perfectly preserved.
He grabbed the photo, put on his earpiece, and jumped down again, coming before Seabook and holding up the photo in his hand.
"Is this it?"
Seabook took the photo; the content was exactly the same as the one he had seen before.
"Yes, that's right, it's this one. It's exactly the same as the one I saw. The young man I met is this one."
Seabook pointed at the sixth burly man to Mikazuki's left in the photo. Mikazuki took back the photo, looking at the person Seabook pointed to, and murmured,
"Akihiro...?"
"Yes, Akihiro Altland. You truly are partners."
Murrue and the others also approached curiously, seeing the large group photo.
In the photo, the damaged Gundam Barbatos knelt in the background. Mikazuki, in the center, seemed to be sitting on a storage box, his collar being held up by a silver-haired man closest to his left.
Mikazuki still clearly remembered that this photo was taken after they had dealt with that bird and before Gundam Barbatos was sent to Jupiter.
Orga Itsuka was holding his collar because his entire right side was paralyzed at the time, and he couldn't sit steadily on the box, so Orga Itsuka was supporting him to prevent him from toppling over.
Murrue meticulously observed the photo, looking at Tekkadan, whom Mikazuki called family. As she knew, most of Tekkadan were children the same age as Mikazuki; adults were few, only two or three.
Among them, the two girls on Mikazuki's other side gazed at Mikazuki in the center with strange, tender expressions...
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