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PHASE 17 . NEW CAPTAIN
“Are we going back now, Captain?” ask a woman who is Erick—'s partner for now.
Erick, the brown unraveling young man, still flew his iron bird position near the eastern alliance colony they had attacked since. His eyes looked closely at the state of the people of the eastern alliance with the APC and their Clibanarii. The focus sharpens when it comes to a girl who pops half her body out of the APC in order to communicate with her partner in one of the Clibanarii.
The girl looked strange. It was like giving orders to the controller Clibanarii nearby with
emphatically. Whereas, as Erick knew by now, the girl was not dressed as a soldier as she had seen in other military men. Just an ordinary white outfit that even looked like a school uniform, with a tie still encircling his collar. For a while, Erick's plane maneuvered near the APC, until in the final seconds, the girl looked straight at her plane.
They're face-to-face. Very clear cockpit glass makes Adara—the girl—can see the look of Erick very clearly.
‘Who is he?’ think Erick and Adara together.
They squinted at each other. Focus on each other for a moment. Seconds later, Erick
maneuvering the iron bird left the point, followed by other colleagues. Meanwhile, Adara, his eyes were still looking towards the departure of planes belonging to the western alliance that had destroyed the Ankaa Spot which was supposed to be their protector.
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Erick walked into one of the buildings at the base after parking his plane in the hangar. The first figure captured by his eyeballs was someone he did not even want to appear before him. The doctor who every day monitored Adnan's condition stood up while shaking his waist not far in front of him. The man wore a big smile, either to congratulate Erick, or to harass the brunettes. Erick himself was about to walk past him, before the doctor managed to block his arm.
“I want to talk to you,” said Alan, the doctor.
The brown-blasted youth still locked his mouth.
“This is about Adnan,” continued Alan.
Alan turned to look at Erick full of seriousness. He was convinced that the young man might refuse his request
this time. Another thing with him, Erick even thought if Alan instead wanted to mock him now and compare his performance with Adnan. The young man stared intently at Alan, making the doctor chuckle at him.
“Do not think badly of me,” rebukes Alan afterwards.
The bespectacled man sipped his coffee, moments after he and Erick decided to talk things out in the base cafeteria. The large room was not so crowded this second, considering the many troops sent to carry out the mission. There were only a few people, one of them the two of them, and a girl who was enjoying her lunch.
“Daddy is still selfish,” said Erick started a chat. While Alan began to listen to all his words.
“He still wants to send Adnan back to Cosmo,” he continued, “ini does not mean he took it off. His minions lived in Cosmo for a long time, after the war. Most likely Adnan was tortured there was very big if this all happened.”
“But why did you agree to it?” ask Alan. Both hands clasped the coffee cup, warming themselves from the cold temperature of the room.
“Daddy said, if I can complete the mission, he promised not to torture Adnan while in Cosmo,” Erick replied through.
Alan shook for a moment. “You just don't want everything you think to happen, ‘kan?” back then.
Erick clenched his hand that was on the table. His gaze was half subdued, enduring a turmoil within him. He shook for a moment.
“I just don't want war to happen,” he said. “War will only make everything go away, ‘kan?”
Alan is back. He saw the black coffee cup that he had been holding. It was the true mafhum felt by the young man now.
“Dad really wanted war. Just for the sake of wealth, just for the sake of power,” Erick later sagged.
“War is already raging after the big disaster happened, Erick,” said Alan began to open his mouth.
“And also, isn't this the best moment you can control Sarkan, ‘kan?” the cetus then, “it, ‘kan, do you want?”
Erick raised his eyes until they came face to face. “You know I can't control
Any Clibanarii, Alan,” his timpals are so serious. “I did all this because of Adnan. Not because of my own desire.”
“Really?” Alan showed a soft spot on one of the edges of his lips. “I thought, fruit fell not far from the tree,” continued, “how could you guarantee what you said just now, hm?”
Erick widened his eyeballs for a moment. His lips were tightly clenched. Alan was like throwing a nail
make him have to swallow the sharp object round and round. After a while, Alan let out a long sigh, trying to melt the atmosphere that was starting to stiffen.
The brown-spirited youth sipped his saliva. He was glued in silence, thinking about every word the doctor said.
“I think you already know how the war five years ago raged and finally put your father's ego in control of him,” Alan continued. He looked back at his coffee cup. “People like Harris .. shouldn't die silly in that war. And now ... I can already guess what the continuation looks like.”
The man looked straight at Erick. “Hubert will take advantage of Harris' son to bring the big war back,” he continued, “and now .. for the sake of launching his ego, he uses his own son.”
Erick got up from his chair and kicked the table instantly. His eyes were glaring at Alan. Breath and degup
his heart was hunting each other. The doctor's words made his emotions explode. Meanwhile, a girl who eavesdropped on their conversation since then also gasped. In fact, he has acted in such a way that his movements are not realized by the two people.
“Don't say as if my father was the mastermind of all these events,” scolds Erick emphasizing his every word. “You only know and deduce everything based on your perception only—”
“Hey.” Alan also reprimanded, cutting Erick's speech intentionally. He leaned his back and looked at the young man casually. “I live and survive among the conflicts deliberately created by those who are power-hungry, Erick. And Hubert, your father, was one of the few people who made the war five years ago happen. So ... do you think I still conclude everything based on my opinion, huh?”
Erick frowned, looking at Alan sharply in annoyance. Both of his hands clenched tightly and were ready
punched the man in the face whenever he wanted, but he caught the figure of the girl he knew sitting down and pretended to enjoy lunch. He looked back at the man sitting in front of him.
“So what you said! But I don't trust all your words that are too cornering my father, Doctor Alan,”
concluded fiercely, before the next split second he inched to leave the place. His aura was getting hotter, and of course he did not want the people in the cafeteria and the girl he saw earlier to be a witness over
his behavior just now.
Alan purified as he straightened his body. He sipped again, spending the rest of his coffee liquid for a moment.
“You heard it since earlier, ‘kan?” ask her to a girl who this second jerked in response to her,
“1st Division Warrior, Megan Crush?”
Alan turned his head, turning to look at the girl sitting not far behind his chair. The girl stared at him for a moment, before finally getting up from the chair and approaching Alan. The doctor greeted him with a big smile.
“You must still remember me, ‘kan?” alan asked familiarly.
“You are a senior doctor here. Little mice like me already know you,” Megan replied sounding low.
Alan laughed out loud, hearing the word little mouse referring to warriors like Megan made him think hard.
“What did you mean?” ask the girl without further ado.
“Hm?” Alan raised both eyebrows instantly. “Which word am I? I made a lot of froth in my mouth earlier.”
Megan looked straight at the doctor. He didn't respond to Alan's question just now. Until finally,
the man got up and swiftly patted her on the shoulder.
“Nothing interesting from my words,” he said as he stepped up his leg about to leave.
“Really?” selisik Megan stopped the step of the doctor immediately, “if not interesting, why Erick so emotional to you?”
Alan smiled faintly and let out a long sigh for a moment, then turned to face Megan. “Little mouse like you how do you understand if I tell you everything?” ledeknya while shaving the head.
Megan fell silent. His lips almost pursed when he heard the man's words just now. Up to a few seconds
then, he catches a different look in Alan's eye. The man seemed to signal her not to talk about everything in the cafeteria. Megan nodded and hurriedly followed the man out of the canteen.
“How?” the girl asked immediately after they came out of the canteen and walked down the corridor.
“Can't you wait till my room?” alan was a little upset.
Megan decided to lock her mouth. He realized how bad he was at babbling at possible things
it's none of his business. However, for the sake of something he could not explain, he still had to know the purpose of Alan and Erick's conversation some time ago.
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