Seeing the look on Lacus's face, Felix reached out and took her small hand, changing the subject.
"Lacus, when the war is over, let's go on a date."
The word "date" reached Lacus's ears, and she temporarily set the other matters aside. A smile appeared on her face as she nodded at Felix.
"Mm."
Seeing Lacus set those matters aside for now and smile again, Felix breathed a sigh of relief. Still looking at her, he asked,
"Where should we go on our date?"
Hearing his question, Lacus played with Felix's hand as she considered where they should go.
As she thought, Lacus made a suggestion to Felix.
"How about we go see a movie?"
"No problem." Felix nodded slightly and readily agreed.
Seeing that, Lacus continued.
"After the movie, how about we get ice cream at a really good ice cream shop in District One of Aprilia City?"
"No problem." With affection in his eyes, Felix agreed without hesitation.
Lacus continued talking animatedly, listing the places she wanted to visit on their date. Felix agreed to every place she mentioned.
While the two discussed where to go on their future date, along the space route toward the Moon—
ZAFT's reinforcement fleet was advancing at high speed in an orderly fashion.
Aboard the Vesalius within the fleet, Rau Le Creuset looked over the contents of a document in his hand, lightly tapping the table with his fingers as he calculated something.
As he considered it, Rau Le Creuset thought,
I need to find a way to get my hands on Providence's safety lock key!
Thinking of this, Rau Le Creuset's masked face showed a troubled expression.
At the moment, he had absolutely no idea how to go about it.
After pondering fruitlessly for a while, Rau Le Creuset temporarily set