February 1, CE71, around 19:00 standard time
The exhausted Siegel·Klein finally returned to his home in April First City.
Sitting down in the study, Siegel·Klein, who had already filled his stomach a little on the way, was about to review the afternoon meeting, when the voice of his daughter Lacus·Klein came from the door of the study.
"Father, can I come in?"
"Please come in, Lacus."
With the sound of the door opening, daughter Lacus appeared as usual under the guidance of pink Haro, holding coffee and a sandwich in her hands.
"I'm sorry, because I don't know when Father will come back, so I can only prepare something like this."
"What you said is really helpful."
I picked up a 'Lacus handmade sandwich' from the tray and stuffed it into my stomach. I took another sip of coffee to refresh myself. Siegel·Klein felt much better immediately.
Looking at his daughter who was waiting quietly with a coffee cup, Siegel·Klein picked up another sandwich, and then went straight to the point and shared today's situation with his daughter and political heir Lacus·Klein.
"Although thanks to the emergence of 'Celestial Being', the situation has been reversed compared to before the emergence of 'Celestial Being', the overall situation of Supreme Council is still not optimistic.
The proposal to initiate formal contact with 'Celestial Being' was rejected at 4:4:4;
Rau Le Creuset also passed the test without any danger;
ZAFT's long, medium and short-term plans were all successfully passed;
Moreover, Creuset Team will strengthen in the near future and go after Archangel;
Although the proposal for the strengthened Creuset Team to conduct an armed investigation against 'Celestial Being' was barely dismissed, considering that 'Celestial Being Formation Declaration' is wanted for Creuset Team, if 'Celestial Being' takes the initiative to attack Creuset Team, conflict is still inevitable."
For Lacus, who is already familiar with today's Supreme Council agenda, his father's few words corresponded to such quarrels, as if scenes were unfolding before his eyes.
"So, Uncle Patrick still can't accept 'Celestial Being' at all, right?
The emergence of 'Celestial Being' still hasn't been able to bridge the differences between us, right?"
In response to his daughter Lacus's "cut to the point" inquiry, as a father, Siegel showed a superior wry smile, took a vicious bite of the sandwich, swallowed it, and described to his daughter Lacus the "chicken-and-duck" conversation he had with Patrick·Zala after the meeting.
After Lacus calmly listened to his father's description, he mentioned his engagement with Athrun as if he was talking about someone else's affairs.
"It seems that the engagement between Athrun and I will also face huge difficulties.
I hope to have a good chat with Athrun tomorrow to see if there is still room for redemption in the whole matter."
Faced with Lacus's "calmness", Siegel showed an expression of distress for her daughter.
"Lacus, now that the matter is over, let's give up our engagement with Athrun.
Sacrifice your personal happiness for a possibility that almost no longer exists..."
Faced with his father Siegel's concern, Lacus was very good at smiling and responded to his father with a soft voice.
"In order to achieve true peace, Plant must not go in the direction of extreme racism!
Now it is only the situation that has forced Uncle Patrick to go to extremes.
As long as the engagement between me and Athrun remains, there is still room for recovery!
Besides, Athrun is in first-class condition in all aspects and is undoubtedly an 'excellent object';
If I were not the daughter of the Clyne Family, I might not be worthy of this young master of the Zala family, right?!"
Facing her daughter Lacus's "winking", Siegel also tried to smile while saying "unintentional" remarks.
"My Lacus is so beautiful, and she is also the singer of Plant. With Athrun, a brat like this, it really gives him an advantage."
After tacitly discussing the topic, Siegel first finished the sandwich in his hand, and then discussed the topic of 'Celestial Being' with his political heir and daughter Lacus.
"But speaking of which, why didn't we think of it before the 'Celestial Being' reminder?
Although the opponent is Earth Alliance, Earth Alliance is not just one country;
Moreover, the suspicion of 'Blue Cosmos' is so obvious that we actually always believed that it was formed spontaneously."
Regarding the self-blame of his father Siegel, Lacus softly expressed his opinion, which can be regarded as a relief for his father's self-blame.
"After all, we didn't originally expect that it would really intensify to the point of war; and the three major countries on the Council were able to maintain a consistent position when facing us.
After the war started, the opposite sides all had the same flags and equipment, and it was really difficult to distinguish the differences between the three ZAFT;
After all, in the final analysis, ZAFT is just an armed militia organization.
As for 'Blue Cosmos', if I remember correctly, it was established before your father was born, right?
The existence of this organization is so natural for those of us in the game, and those of us who have faced Natural's hostility since birth are increasingly convinced of it."
Lacus's calm analysis even slightly exceeded Siegel's expectations.
In this state of mind, not only worried about his daughter's personal future, but also pleased that he had a political successor, Siegel simply threw the biggest problem he was facing directly to Lacus.
"What you said makes sense, Lacus.
Now we need to establish contact with 'Celestial Being' as soon as possible and complete the necessary communication.
It may be difficult for the proposal to formally communicate with 'Celestial Being' to be passed by Supreme Council in a short period of time;
For us in ZAFT, who only have a small number of supporters, it is difficult to have appropriate informal contact channels during the war..."
As for his father Siegel's doubts, Lacus seems to have already thought about it.
"There are informal channels, right now!"
Facing her daughter Lacus's determined expression, Siegel also reacted.
"You mean, you personally participated in the preparations for the memorial ceremony for the Junius Seven incident?
This is too dangerous! Silver Wind is just an unarmed civilian ship, and you may not encounter 'Celestial Being' in Debris Belt. What if you encounter Earth Alliance's troops or even just an escaping Archangel!"
Lacus took a sip of the already cold coffee and responded to his father Siegel's worries with a smile.
"We have to race against time to establish contact with 'Celestial Being', don't we?
And since 'Celestial Being' claims to have the predictive ability of 'Newtype', he must be able to predict our decision."
"But, if 'Celestial Being' cannot predict it..."
Regarding his father Siegel's worries, Lacus showed a wonderful smile, put down the coffee cup on his father's desk, and stood up holding the pink Haro.
"'Celestial Being' must be able to predict it.
Otherwise, they will not be the 'Celestial Being' we need.
Are you right, Haro."
"Haro! Haro!"