"Since you were alive, why didn't you come back sooner?! Thanks to you, I've suffered every hardship I could possibly suffer in this lifetime!" Flay shouted uncontrollably at Xia Ya, her voice thick with tears.
"I... After I regained the ability to act, I rushed back as quickly as I could..." Xia Ya's voice became awkward and flustered, utterly lacking the composed air he usually carried.
The video link on the main monitor fully connected, and their faces appeared clearly on each other's screens across the cold data transmission lines.
Every time she had encountered this Unicorn Gundam on the battlefield before, the icy killing intent forcibly implanted in her had weakened a little. Now that her memories had fully returned, the face she had once found utterly hateful while brainwashed had become warmer and more precious to Flay than anything else in the world.
If he had appeared a little earlier, if Destiny had not cruelly torn them apart, she could have stayed by his side all along. She could have stood beside him openly and fought alongside him like Jiliang did.
Flay understood that the root of it all lay in her own weakness. But surely she was allowed to demand a small bit of compensation from the man who had made her suffer so much, wasn't she? Flay sniffled, wiped away the tears on her face, and the willfulness and stubbornness that belonged to the old Flay rekindled in her eyes.
"One punch."
"What?" Xia Ya clearly had not processed it.
"Let me punch you hard once."
Flay pushed the control stick. The Goddess of Liberation Gundam slowly raised its right arm, curling its steel fingers into a fist and aiming it straight at the Unicorn Gundam ahead. Watching her movements and hearing the petulance in her