p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 200%; mso-outline-level: 1;" align="center""The Neo UN has dissolved!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThe announcement came from the Commander. Kazuki Makabe silently applauded along with the other members, but he also knew the truth. Yes, the Neo United Nations had dissolved, but it had done so long ago. Now it was just a morale boost for fellow soldiers. No one even noticed when Kazuki scanned the room in silence. He had been a simple bystander for many years now—he even brought coffee to the mechanics. He was neither the commander nor his right-hand man. Even the one thing that brought him recognition as a pilot was long since gone. Fafners had not been used in battle for decades./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanPeople were beginning to forget about the outside world and now were only content with the mundane happening on their little island 'paradise'. Wadatsumi Island was in peace for countless years now./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanem style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"Too long,/em Kazuki solemnly thought as he looked down at his hands, the marks of his duty now but faded away. The only ones left in his generation were Misao Kurusu and Koyo Kasugai. They comforted him when he needed it, and at this moment was a better time than most that he needed them by his side./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanKazuki almost expected for the battle alarms to go off and for CDC to give him commands, but to no avail. The ex-ace pilot chuckled in spite of his own style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanBut still, Soshi was here, and that was style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThis was the third time that he had seen Soshi Minashiro reborn, and it was starting to take its toll on him. When would he see em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"his /emSoshi again? His lifelong friend? Kazuki continued to watch the Commander talk of negotiations, but by this time it was drowned out by the shrill sounds of battle alarms ringing throughout the whole of the underwater fortress known as Alvis./p
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