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PHASE 16 . OLD MEMORY

Adnan opened his eyes slowly. He realized that his body was now lying in a room in between

his vision is still faint. Occasionally he grimaced when he heard a noise coming from outside the 5x5 square meter room. The young man wanted to get up, but the pain he had gotten a while ago was still tightly gripping him. Eventually, a doctor entered the room.

“Alan?” Adnan frowned looking at the man who was now approaching him.

“That's small, yes, this room?” Alan asked back. He sat next to the young man who was trying to get up.

“It is better not to wake up first,” he said later, “lukamu has not healed properly.”

Adnan still frowned to endure the pain. Alan himself let out a long sigh, looking hard at the young man nearby.

“What Hubert did to you is out of bounds,” he said, “he shouldn't treat you like a slave.”

The young man in black paled for a moment. “I am indeed a slave here, Alan,” his ideal.

“But this is really outrageous, Adnan!” sergeant Alan, “not supposed to be a leader oppressing his subordinates

like this!”

“What's wrong,” says Adnan. He lay back down after several failed attempts to get up from his position. Gusts

a long breath burst through from his breathing hole for a moment.

“This is also to account for my father's past actions,” he continued.

Alan widened his eyeballs. His mind was tied to something that happened a few years ago. It seemed, the young man nearby had already begun to know the reason for his existence here. After a few seconds, Adnan chuckled as if laughing at himself.

“But ... It's funny, ‘kan?” ask the doctor. “What do you think I should be responsible for

my father's past mistakes, huh? I don't even know what he did back then.”

The doctor was flinching. He was confused as to what to do at a time like this. He just doesn't want to talk too much. Because if so, of course Adnan will ask him a lot about the secret he has.

“Nby the way ...” Adnan looked up, turned his gaze towards the door, “outside what is it? Noisy

once!”

Alan frowned while turning his attention in the same direction as Adnan. “Hubert launched an attack after he almost killed you,” he said, “i think, this will be a very long story considering Hubert is so selfish and wants all his dreams achieved.”

Liur Adnan swallowed perfectly. His eyes are slightly widened. “Attacks?” the scales.

The doctor nodded and looked back at him. “Attacks to eastern alliance,” timpaly.

Adnan gasps. The net was back in the air for a moment. Under these circumstances, he certainly could not

anything. Of course— according to him— who led the assault team was his own partner. Frederick Add's.

“I expected it,” said Alan, “Erick was indeed deployed to lead this attack.”

***

The missile continued to be launched some time ago to a large spot. The spot-protecting Tarnnet was nearly wiped out when several aircraft managed to locate its transmitter point. Clibanarii, who was on guard there, has now chosen to protect the APC carrying the refugees. Some of the Clibanarii shot back at the iron birds that had attacked them since.

“They are insistent once, anyway!” a young man controls one of the planes. “Sial!!”

“Captain!” one of his colleagues from another plane.

That Clibanarii should be able to be destroyed with a regular bullet, ‘ right?

“Captain Add!” exclaim his partner again.

Frederick Add—youth the—stomped. He exhaled for a moment before finally responding to his companion who was on another plane.

“What's up?” tanyakanya.

“Don't we have to switch course?” His partner asked back. “If we don't change the formation, they can read the tactics and weaken us.”

Erick flinching. His mind was still attached to something else, not to this attack. Of course, he wanted

the office that his father intentionally gave him. As a captain who led a mission, Erick certainly would not have turned it down. However, the other side of his mind was thinking about the fate of his colleague who was now stranded at the base and waiting for his father's final decision. The young man could not just let go of Adnan to be returned to Cosmo.

His brain still remembers meeting with his father some time ago after he drove Adnan to medical for treatment.

“Ke Cosmo, and Dad just agreed to it?!” erick half-stropped at his father.

Hubert who leaned his butt on the desk sighed for a moment.

“It's better than it keeps disturbing the scenery here,” he said later.

“Dad!” hardik Erick's. “Sarkan is there! Aware!”

The brown-blossomed man turned to his son who was standing not far from him. “I realized it much earlier than you,” ideal, “Adnan would not know if Cosmo people could lock their mouths.”

“If they can't do it, then Dad will make the boy can't do it either,” Hubert replied. “By being physically that weak, do you think he can control Sarkan if the two manage to meet, hm?”

“Dad can't be sure, ‘kan? So what's Dad doing it for?” the brunette young man.

Hubert was unmoved, not chiming in on his son's questions.

“Dad,” call Erick. “Adnan is my partner, even now. If Dad did anything

make him have to die like the incident earlier, then I will not hesitate to give a warning to Dad.”

Erick stared intently at his own father. Meanwhile, Hubert groaned and chuckled for a moment.

“You should know yourself, Erick,” said Hubert turned his body to face the young man. “Tanpaku, you won't taste your post, Nak—”

“And without Professor Harris, Dad also can not be a commander like now,” cut Erick deftly. He looked straight at Hubert, making them look less like father and son talking to each other.

Hubert widened his eyeballs for a moment. Erick's words just now were able to clamp down on his speech space. The man was like a sturdy nail standing at his present point.

A few seconds both of them were unmoved, silent, and immersed in each other's thoughts. Hubert began to step up, walking towards his son. Until he was next to Erick, his steps stopped. His hand patted the young man's shoulder for a moment.

“Mission,” said, “if you successfully complete this mission, then I will not torture Harris' son while he is at Cosmo.”

Erick was still silent, not even looking at the father who was right next to him.

“Destroy Spot Ankaa,” says Hubert again. “She is the biggest spot belonging to the eastern alliance that is still left at the moment.”

Erick yelled, time and time again, bluffing himself. The cockpit space that only fit one person felt like a vacuum to him. No one could hear his growl, except for his colleagues who were on another plane who could hear it through earphones. They were silent to each other with their own minds. No one knows what kind of problems are plaguing the new captain's brain until he can shout so fast, even though the communication link is still actively working.

“Captain,” call one of the plane pilots.

Erick can hear it. The voice of a woman who may be older than him. He cleared his throat, and returned

straighten his body.

“Focus on your mission,” said the woman. “We will help you.”

The brown-blossomed young man fell silent again. His eyes looked straight at the cockpit windshield. A long gust of breath broke through perfectly from his nostrils for a moment.

“Destroy the spot,” clean up.

The woman gulped for a moment. “You don't want to destroy those rats too?” tanyanya doubt.

“No,” Erick replied firmly. “Our mission just destroyed the spot, not them.”

The woman grieves. Upset because of his deepest desire must be done only because of the edict of the young man older than him.

“Alright,” timpannya while fixing the communication device that is linked in the ear. “Destroy the spot!!!”

“Understanding!!” his colleagues were on another plane.

Jason was still trying to protect the APC as the iron birds shot towards them. However, something strange happened. The planes maneuvered close to the spot and directly launched missiles into the territory that became their protector.

The net was blocked for a moment. Jason was only able to swallow the saliva and let the spot crumble. Thick smoke murmurs formed shortly after the big bang occurred. Luckily, he and his entourage had been quite far from the range of the explosion.

“Lieutenant!” exclaimed someone who showed half his body out of the APC he had been riding since. Pathways

his communications are connected to Jason's earphones.

Jason looked at the girl. Adara seemed undaunted by this reality. I don't know because he already has

getting used to it, or because of something he can't even explain right now.

Adara fixed her earphones so that the communication connection continued to run. “You can hear me?” ask the man who still controls Clibanarii near the APC.

Jason cleared his throat for a moment. “What's up?” tanyakanya.

“Protect us during the trip,” tell the girl. “We will be heading towards the south where base

branch is there.”

The disheveled man was unmoved. He could see the girl's face from the cockpit screen clearly. Jason began to imagine what if one day Adara replaced his late father. According to him, the girl has been matched to control the Paladin now. However, he himself did not expect that a war would actually happen. His fear of a past war may have to be accounted for at this time.

“Captain, you can hear me, ‘kan?” ask Adara, make sure if the signal is not cut off just like that.

Jason cleared his throat. He smiled, still looking at the girl's face.

“You look like Richard,” murmured, “not easy to guess.”

***