As Thor kept drilling through the ELS Mother-Child Body's shell.
Perhaps the Mother-Child Body had sensed the properties of the ELS DG Cells within Thor, because it sent out a consciousness that reached his mind.
Watching the Mother-Child Body's shell, small ELS floating units continuously fused into it, and its healing speed was nearly keeping up with the rate of destruction.
Thor felt that dialogue was still necessary to resolve this.
So he released his Mental Guard Skill and communicated with it directly.
"Who are you? Are you one of my kind?"
"Mother-Child Body? Were you the one calling me?"
"Yes, that's right. Young kinsman, why are you hurting me?"
"I don't want to hurt you. I only want to find an opportunity for the race behind me, who call themselves humans, to speak with you and seek a chance for peaceful coexistence."
"Do you want me to merge with him?"
"Not merge with you, but with your main mother body. Let it and all the individuals it has fused with, including you, gain the ability to communicate in ways other than assimilation and fusion.
That way, many conflicts and destruction caused by the wrong methods of communication can be avoided."
"What a strange idea, and such a strange ability. But since it is the request of one of my kind, let him come in. I will open a passage."
After Thor persuaded the innocent ELS Mother-Child Body, he immediately stopped attacking with his drill hand.
A hexagonal passage then unfolded across the Mother-Child Body's shell, leading directly to its core.
"Go, Setsuna. I've already communicated with the ELS Mother-Child Body. The rest is up to you!"
"...Don't worry. Leave the rest to me!"
After hearing Thor's call, Setsuna froze where he stood for a moment.
But when he saw the passage opening in the Mother-Child Body's shell, and the surrounding ELS units had all stopped attacking, a trusting smile curled at the corners of his mouth before he flew straight inside.
Tieria, standing nearby with an incredulous expression, asked Thor, "Thor, what exactly happened? Did you just have a dialogue with the ELS?"
"Yes. The other side reached out to speak with me, so I asked it for a chance to communicate in another way."
"Since you could communicate with it, why didn't you go have the dialogue yourself?"
Looking at Tieria's puzzled face, Thor answered with a smile, "Because my heart isn't pure enough, and I can't bear to let you all go."
"Tch, you shameless womanizer!"
Then, as Setsuna opened the Dialogue Space, his exchange with the ELS Mother-Child Body began.
On the battlefield elsewhere.
One ELS unit after another also stopped attacking, crouching in place as they quietly awaited the Mother-Child Body's orders. At the same time, the assimilative corrosion affecting all mobile suits and warships came to a halt.
Then, in an instant, aside from the ELS units that had already merged with humans, all the others flew back to the Mother-Child Body's side.
The ELS that had fused with humans also went dormant inside their bodies, becoming a part of them.
Moreover, these ELS units, which used sunlight as their source of energy, rapidly fused into a massive flower symbolizing peace, floating in the orbit between Earth and Mars.
A gigantic lily, so enormous that it could be clearly seen with the naked eye even from Earth.
At that moment, Setsuna piloted the [00 Gundam Quantum Type Full Saber] out of the Mother-Child Body that was still gathering together.
"Setsuna, how does it feel?"
"Yeah, very good. And I've also obtained the cosmic coordinates of the ELS main mother body."
"Good. Go without worries. Everyone and I will wait for your return on Earth. See you in fifty years!"
"Yeah, see you in fifty years!"
After Setsuna nodded.
He controlled the [00 Gundam Quantum Type Full Saber], holding its sword with its left hand, while sending six GN Fangs beneath the machine.
He activated Quantum Burst Mode once more.
As a spatial gate formed beneath its feet from the six combined GN Fangs, Setsuna leaped into it using his Quantized Quantum Leap Ability.
He became a streak of light and vanished from everyone's sight.
At that moment, the ELS Mother-Child Body's consciousness reached out again.
"Young kinsman, just as you said, that truly is a very interesting ability."
"See? I didn't lie to you."
"Yes. As a gift of thanks from an elder, I have separated a core to give you as a gift for your growth."
As she spoke, a seed core the size of a watermelon flew out from the passage in the ELS Mother-Child Body's shell that had yet to close.
It slowly floated toward the [Gundam Haliel].
"Thanks."
Although Thor felt that Setsuna had just pushed him far down the seniority ladder, he still began assimilating and absorbing it right in front of everyone without the slightest hesitation.
He obtained all the information and data gathered by this ELS group since its birth, as well as abilities such as commanding and controlling ordinary ELS units, assimilative symbiosis, complete mimicry, and opening a Black Hole for travel across the universe.
If Thor had not acquired the Miniature Celestial Computer, he felt that even the original Veda and Zea would definitely have been unable to store the data collected across dozens of galaxies over billions of years.
At the same time.
Whether it was the New World Federal Government's forces that had narrowly escaped death in space, or the civilians sheltering on Earth, all of them cheered wildly at the appearance of this lily symbolizing peace.
On the way back, Thor wore a mischievous grin as he said to Tieria, Regene, Graham, who was lying there like a corpse, and the Solar Squad members:
"Let's head back. We still have to give everyone a surprise later."
"What surprise?"
"Se~cret~!"
Faced with Regene and the others' curious expressions, Thor deliberately kept them in suspense, only to receive Tieria's disdain.
So, without another word, he had the Ptolemaios 2 use Crimson Burst Mode to hurry over and quickly reach Thor's vicinity.
Then, aside from Tieria and Regene, everyone else stared as though they had seen ghosts at Aeolia and the other historical figures among the Celestial Being Organization's elders.
Tieria wore an expression that said he had expected this all along, then shot Thor a contemptuous glare.
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