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"name?"

"Cheng Zhen."

"Race?"

"Humanity."

"Department?"

"Mecha system."

"Okay, next question, gender?"

"……male."

"Qihahahahaha—!"

The black-haired boy sat in his seat silently, watching Reina, who was having a good time asking and answering questions.The leader of the treatment team of the Ysu battleship, his fellow human beings, just performed a very devoted self-interpretation.

And Cheng Zhen, who was being played, looked at Reina who made himself laugh and cry, and asked calmly.

"Is it interesting to play quizzes by yourself?"

Reina, who was lying on the table with a smile, raised his head and squeezed out a few tears. "It's really not interesting. But if it weren't for this, you wouldn't be able to say a word until now. I'm lonely by myself."

The captain of the human treatment team quickly walked over to the black-haired boy and sat down.

"It's rare for me to be called to accompany you. Don't lose face like this."

"You don't need to monitor me, and you don't need to get any information from me." Cheng Zhen, who had been expressionless since he was abducted to the Ysu battleship, said. "So, I don't think there is anything I can say to you. If I have to say something, there is only one thing."

"Which point?" Reina was curious.

Turning sideways slightly, Cheng Zhendao looked at the human treatment team leader with his deep black eyes. "Your last question is not funny at all."

"..."

Reiner, who played two roles in a self-questioning role, was frustrated, hurt that his humor did not resonate with the only audience.While comforting himself, Reina saw Cheng Zhen beside him who was silent again, and couldn't help but put aside all other emotions, and sighed softly.

"I didn't come to spy on you, nor did I come to talk to you. I was just contributed as a companion. Can you stop being so defensive to me? When we met last time, didn't we get along very well?"

"...Sorry, I'm not in the mood to chat right now." Looking at the starry sky outside the window, Cheng Zhen suddenly thought of something. "But, if you're willing to..."

"Don't! Don't! Don't! I will never tell you!" Before Cheng Zhen could finish speaking, Reina refused three times.

Turning around and looking at him inexplicably, Cheng Zhen asked. "Why didn't you wait for me to finish?"

"Don't wait for you to finish! If you want to ask me about the current battle situation, as a member of the army directly under the emperor, it is absolutely impossible for me to leak information." Looking at Cheng Zhen's disappointed look, Reina couldn't bear it. said comfortingly. "But to be honest, if you ask me I don't know anything. The treatment team is never involved in these things, we only do what we are supposed to do."

"Really?" It didn't take long to be disappointed, and Cheng Zhen didn't have much expectation.Glancing at the human treatment team leader sitting beside him, he spoke again. "So, in this war, which side do you hope to win?"

Renner smiled bitterly. "Your question is much sharper than mine just now."

As a direct subordinate of Rhine, but as a human being, it is indeed a question worth discussing which side Renner will lean towards.However, no matter which side he chooses, he will inevitably end up with a reputation of disloyalty and injustice.On one side is Rhine, who has a sense of affection for him, and on the other side is his compatriots. It has to be said that it is difficult to choose.

"I'm just lucky now. Fortunately, I'm not a combatant. Otherwise, it's really not an easy thing to attack my compatriots." Reina sighed and said again. "Master Rhine has been kind to me. It stands to reason that I should swear to his side. However, I don't want the human army that took part in the Battle of Klein again after a lot of difficulty. I don't want them to be defeated in this battle. How to choose is really contradictory."

"No matter where you lean, the outcome of the war will not change because of your choice." Cheng Zhen said. "Or let me put it another way, which side do you think has a better chance of winning, the emperor class or our allies?"

"Then there is only one answer." Looking back at Cheng Zhen, Reina said with a rare serious face. "Master Rhine will win."

"……you sure?"

"This judgment was made after I had learned Lord Rhine's tactics for so many years, and I didn't favor any side. According to the current situation, the top ten academies and the Alliance Army will lose this war."

Cheng Zhen fell silent for a long time before he spoke. "Perhaps, there is a turning point that you missed."

The human army has not yet appeared, and Cheng Zhenxin still has a hope in his heart.

Reina, who couldn't bear to snuff out this little hope, kept silent, and sat silently in the room with the black-haired boy.

Until the sound of the door opening broke the silence.

"Master Rhine wants to see this human being." A soldier directly under the army walked in, nodded slightly to Reina, and then said to Cheng Zhen.

"plz follow me."

Standing up from his original position silently, Cheng Zhen followed the soldier until he was about to leave the room when he heard Reina's voice.

"I said before that I came to chat with you, and it's true. Lord Rhine specially ordered me to come and check on your situation. I know that you may be a little dissatisfied with him now, but Lord Rhine brought you here with absolutely no malice." Rhine He must be thinking of something else.Reina thought silently in his heart.

Cheng Zhen, who was walking out behind the officer, paused slightly.

"I know."

As soon as the voice fell, the door of the room fell behind the black-haired boy, isolating the outside from the room.

"Hey—" Reina collapsed on the backrest without strength, took a deep breath and said. "I really don't understand what these two people are thinking."

One brought a captive back without warning, then left the captive himself.The other was caught and kept silent for a long time, thinking that he was holding a grudge in his heart, but he didn't expect that he didn't take it to heart at all.

If these two people are alone, I don't know what kind of scene it will be.

Reina, who sighed alone, did not imagine the scene in front of him - Rhine and Cheng Zhen sat face to face and had dinner together.

Calculated according to the time of the core star field, it is indeed dinner time.But these two are indeed the only ones who still want to eat on the battlefield.It's the height of the battle right now, sit down to dinner while everyone is fighting.Cheng Zhenke is not used to this matter at all.

Looking at His Excellency the United Front Commander sitting opposite him and eating gracefully, the black-haired boy silently admired the other party's free attitude in his heart.But he himself was not in the mood to eat at all.In particular, after such a long time, why is there still no movement from the human army that should have arrived long ago?

"Aren't you hungry?"

Cheng Zhen, who was lost in thought, suddenly heard a low magnetic voice asking.He looked up and saw Rhine, who had taken off the goggles, was looking over with those light golden eyes.

Cheng Zhen was not used to this very light color.

"I don't want to disturb your meal, please don't mind me." Cheng Zhen responded, controlling the emotion in his voice.

Rhine glanced at him, and picked up the blood-red drink on the table.

Just when Cheng Zhen thought he had let him go, he heard another sudden voice.

"Why haven't the human army and other assistance forces arrived yet?"

Almost for a moment, Cheng Zhen thought that the other party's pair of different-colored eyes had seen through his mind.He barely controlled himself so that he didn't jump up from his seat, but after he calmed down, he was even more astonished.

Rhine knew that he was waiting for reinforcements from the human army, did it mean that he had expected this a long time ago? !In other words, the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, is it because this man used other tricks?

Are reinforcements on the way?Annihilated by other troops sent by this man? !Cheng Zhen, who couldn't help guessing like this in his heart, looked at the person sitting opposite him in surprise and suspicion.

"Don't look at me like that." After taking a sip of the blood-red drink, Rhine looked up at the black-haired boy in front of him. "Do you think that I will miss your plan?"

The mecha team first broke through the blockade of the meteorite belt, and then took the opportunity to let the aid army take a short detour, and then waited for the mecha team to stall for time until the aid army arrived.Such a strategy actually has a very fragile loophole.

As long as the enemy sees through the strategy and destroys the aid troops first, there will only be a dead end for the allies.

Could it be that this war is really doomed? !

For the first time, loss permeated the bottom of my heart, and Cheng Zhen's eyes dimmed.Just one person, one person is enough to shatter all his previous self-confidence.This person is Rhine Bertutin.

Looking at the lowered black-haired boy, Rhine spoke slowly.

"Annihilate the aid troops in one fell swoop and cut off your retreat. Indeed, this is what I thought at the beginning."

Hearing the man's voice, Cheng Zhen gradually calmed down.Now, he is more thinking about how to deal with everything after that if he is really defeated.The human army cannot restore the identity of one of the three major forces, how to solve this?

"However, I couldn't do it."

Yes, it really didn't work out.Reality is always cruel.No, wait!The sentence just now was——!

Raising his head suddenly, Cheng Zhen looked at Rhine who had just said that sentence, and said in a difficult tone.

"What did you mean by that sentence just now?"

Looking at those surprised but sparkling black eyes, Rhine first talked about him from left to right. "That's the only time you don't use honorifics."

"……Your Mightiness."

"What I'm saying is that although I sent the fleet to ambush the aid troops again, I didn't succeed in stopping them all."

Light golden eyes of different colors stared at the black-haired boy. "Humans, although weak, are not a race that can be easily ignored. You should be glad that you have a group of trustworthy companions."

The aid force did not fail, or at least part of the aid force broke through from the imperial ambush.Cheng Zhen, who got the news, finally breathed a sigh of relief.The feeling that the burden was almost all on the body before was finally slightly relieved.

After all, this plan was proposed by him. If it fails in the end, as the proposer of the plan, Cheng Zhenxin must bear a lot of guilt and accusations.But now, he couldn't help but feel relieved by the excellent performance of the friendly army.

Rhine looked at such a black-haired boy, and said softly.

"Always put the responsibility on yourself. If you continue like this, you will never be able to defeat me, Cheng Zhen."

Staring into the suspicious eyes of the young man looking back, His Excellency United Front Commander said indifferently.

"You don't trust your companions at all, at all."