This felt rather strange.
"You're not about to say that I look a lot like your fiancée, are you?" Setona quipped.
"You could tell?" Athrun had indeed wanted to make that remark.
Damn it, he couldn't hold it in.
"With that expression on your face, anyone could tell, couldn't they?"
Setona teased.
"..."
Was it really that obvious?
"Do you really have nothing to do with Lacus?" Athrun was curious.
"Of course not. Or were you hoping there would be something between us?"
Setona found it rather odd.
Though it was a little too much like a "shoujo manga" way of thinking, could it be that Athrun was treating her as a "replacement" for Lacus?
Author's Note:
Third update, bonus update 25~
Why Is There Foreshadowing Everywhere?
"If there's nothing going on, why do you look so alike?"
If it had only been one Mia, or Setona alone looking very similar to Lacus, Athrun could have understood it as a coincidence.
But for both of them to be so similar was a little strange.
"Isn't that only natural? Because we're all Coordinators." Setona did not think there was anything wrong with it.
"...All... Coordinators?"
What did that have to do with being a Coordinator?
Athrun was curious.
"Human aesthetics may differ, but generally speaking, they can be categorized into several broad types. There are hundreds of millions of Coordinators... If everyone's preferences were wildly different, that would be stranger."
Though there were several broad categories, aesthetic standards in human society ultimately converged.
Athrun froze.
Altering genes and modifying appearances sounded like simple matters.
But when genes were continuously adjusted and appearances altered so that descendants reached an ideal state... there would inevitably be several people who looked alike.
And the odds of that resemblance were far greater than with