Chapter 75: End (Part II)

Li Boyong searched anxiously for traces of Beam CGUE or Raider, while also having to be vigilant about the surrounding wreckage, afraid of being killed by some old birds.

He had searched for quite a distance in the direction the two machines left, but still didn't find Shihe's figure. Instead, he was sneak-attacked by a Ginn once. If he hadn't maintained vigilance, he might have been stabbed in the cockpit by a Ship-Slicing Blade.

However, that Ginn was also at the end of its rope, and was shot and exploded by Li Boyong with three shots after the sneak attack failed.

Li Boyong called Shihe while searching, but in the bad communication conditions, he didn't receive a reply, which made his heart keep sinking.

As time passed, the chaotic and cruel Jachin defense battle also began to enter the final tail end.

The combat power belonging to the Kusanagi and the Eternal had basically suppressed the surrounding ZAFT forces, providing an opportunity for Justice and Strike Rouge to break into the interior of the Genesis fortress. Athrun and Cagalli met Patrick Zala, who had been assassinated by his subordinates, in the fortress command center.

Subsequently, after learning that the fortress's self-destruct and the third Genesis were bound together, Athrun piloted Justice Gundam, attempting to self-destruct inside the fortress, wanting to use this to stop Genesis from firing.

Magnificent, 2887 Athrun!

It's just that the disheartened Athrun ultimately chose not to self-destruct with Justice under Cagalli's persuasion, but boarded Strike Rouge and left the Genesis fortress.

Outside the Genesis fortress, the battle between Freedom and Providence also entered the final stage.

Rau Le Creuset's mouth-cannon ultimately failed to completely disrupt Kira's mind, and he was counter-killed by Kira at the muzzle of Genesis.

Subsequently, the Genesis fortress self-destructed, and the energy flow fired from the Genesis muzzle detonated Providence. Under the influence of the nuclear explosion, this energy flow failed to form a destructive shelling on Earth through mirror reflection, avoiding the great disaster of life on the surface being charred.

And in PLANT, the imprisoned Clyne faction suppressed the ZAFT National Defense Headquarters and sent a ceasefire request to the Earth Alliance.

Given that the Earth Alliance had already suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight again, and the fact that the leader of the radical Blue Cosmos, Murrue Azrael, had already died in battle, the Earth Alliance accepted this ceasefire request after confirming that Earth had been relieved of the crisis of being destroyed by Genesis.

The Second Battle of Jachin Due, which lasted for nearly two days, finally came to an end.

Colorful retreat signal flares were fired into space from the surviving warships, exploding like fireworks, illuminating the space full of wreckage.

"So beautiful..."

Shihe muttered to herself while looking at the fireworks composed of many signal flares, with a smile of surviving a disaster at the corner of her mouth.

Li Boyong also showed a knowing smile, somewhat understanding Shihe's feelings.

It's just that this scenery might not be very beautiful, at least the wreckage under those lights was ugly enough.

But!

These lights also meant the arrival of peace!

Although the two armies should only have announced a temporary ceasefire now, anyone with a discerning eye could see that both sides were already unable to fight again, and the signing of a ceasefire agreement was only a matter of time.

"It is so beautiful!"

Li Boyong spoke, but what he said was not the scenery in front of him, but the girl he was staring at.

"What are you looking at!"

Shihe was a little embarrassed by his staring, and reached out to push his helmet away.

"What do you think?"

Li Boyong didn't mind, just smiled and put his helmet against Shihe's helmet again, continuing to look at her, as if he couldn't look enough.

The battle was over, and he could finally hold Shihe in his arms and have a sense of openness, instead of on the streets of Orb, where he could only secretly hold hands when Shihe's teammates weren't paying attention, so he naturally had to look enough now.

"How dare you!"

Those shy words came through the helmet. Whenever Shihe couldn't listen anymore, she would glare at him, then push Li Boyong's helmet away, cutting off the path of sound transmission, and then Li Boyong would immediately stick over like a dog-skin plaster.

Li Boyong and Shihe embraced head-to-head, drifting in this universe.

Looking at each other, it was as if only each other remained in the world.

"Speaking of which, why did you quit the Earth Alliance?"

Shihe felt that she couldn't continue to let Li Boyong talk on his own. Although she admitted that she felt a little happy listening to it in her heart, it was also numbingly cheesy.

"Well... I really couldn't stand the way the Earth Alliance used nuclear missiles without scruples, and then I clashed with the Archangel. You also know that I was assigned to the Archangel before, so I simply quit the Earth Alliance."

Li Boyong told the general story, but cleverly skipped the topic related to Natarle Badgiruel.

Shihe didn't know Li Boyong's little thoughts at this time, but when she heard him shoot Azrael, her eyes couldn't help but reveal a trace of brilliance.

Blue Cosmos is an organization that persecutes Coordinators. I don't know how many compatriots died directly or indirectly from the planning of this organization.

Now Li Boyong killed the leader of Blue Cosmos with his own hands, and his image suddenly became taller in Shihe's eyes.

While talking, Li Boyong tricked Shihe out of some personal information.

Although Li Boyong and Shihe were able to forge such a strange fate on the hostile battlefield and communicate their hearts.

But in fact, Li Boyong didn't know Shihe's personal information.

For example, he only found out now that Shihe had just turned eighteen not long ago.

Although he knew that Coordinators were relatively precocious, and there were many child soldiers in the ZAFT army, he really didn't expect that one of them was right in front of him.

In his concept, an eighteen-year-old girl is in the innocent and romantic season like a flower, but Shihe had already participated in this overly cruel war.

Thinking of that rainy night, when she was forced by him, desperately shouting "Mom" while entering the self-destruct password.

Li Boyong couldn't help but hug Shihe tighter, and cherished her even more in his heart.

Time passed, and the two people drifting in the universe said a lot, but the rescue that Li Boyong took for granted never arrived.

After Shihe shot down Raider, he barely restored some power to the Strike Dagger and sent himself near the Beam CGUE.

He saw that the state of the Beam CGUE was very poor, so he hurriedly rescued Shihe who was in a coma in the cockpit.

But when returning to the Strike Dagger, the power of that broken machine had problems again. Out of fear that the Beam CGUE would explode at any time, he hurriedly attached a small back thruster to himself and took Shihe away from the Beam CGUE.

After that, Shihe woke up, the Beam CGUE exploded, and brilliant signal flares like fireworks rose in the universe.

But the ceasefire order had passed for quite a long time, and the distress signal he sent out had been ignored, and there were no signs of rescue teams passing by nearby.

Li Boyong secretly glanced at the oxygen level gauge on his wrist, and his face changed slightly.

Shihe also noticed Li Boyong's expression, and she looked at the oxygen level gauge of herself and Li Boyong generously.

She smiled bitterly at Li Boyong: "It seems that our luck is really not very good..."

It shouldn't be!

Li Boyong couldn't understand how he encountered such a predicament so absurdly.

Survived such a cruel battle, and then he and Shihe had to die in this lonely universe?

Isn't such a story ending too cruel and too real?

How could Li Boyong be reconciled?