Kira spoke.
"Yeah."
"Then we should get moving too."
"Yeah."
"...First, let's rendezvous with the Archangel." Kira returned to the cockpit.
Freedom turned around and vanished into the storm.
Then the scene shifted to space.
Lacus had also finished meeting with the Lacus Faction.
"New York..."
At that moment, Lacus received news that New York had been destroyed in a nuclear blast.
She could not help covering her mouth.
No one understood the consequences of New York's disappearance better than Lacus. Something terrible was about to happen.
Lacus's sources were well informed, but because Le Creuset had taken control of the Atlantic Federation, internal information was difficult to leak.
By the time Lacus learned of it, the Earth Alliance's officials had already settled on a unified statement.
It had been a terrorist attack involving Coordinators.
They could not say much else, but the N-Jammer Canceller had definitely been supplied by PLANT—that was what they claimed.
They had completely forgotten that they had used nuclear weapons in the previous battle.
"Miss Lacus." Aisha suddenly leaned close and whispered into Lacus's ear.
"—We're being followed?"
Lacus frowned.
"I'm afraid it's more than that. I'm afraid someone betrayed us."
Without a doubt.
This indicated one thing: there was a traitor within the Lacus Faction as well.
Or rather, there were people who subscribed to another ideology.
—Could someone be trying to kill her?
Lacus knew her identity was special. She was the daughter of PLANT's "founding father," as well as PLANT's songstress.
If something happened to her, there was a high chance someone would make use of it.
But Lacus felt things were not that simple.
Though it sounded somewhat narcissistic, Lacus believed that her value alive was far greater than her value dead.
"Aisha."
Lacus suddenly stood up. "I have a plan—"