Chapter 375 - 376: Beautiful Girls Don’t Use the Bathroom! (Bonus - for 50 Power Stones)

Chapter 375: Chapter 376: Beautiful Girls Don’t Use the Bathroom! (Bonus Chapter for 50 Power Stones)

"Ohhh! Inori! Inori!"

Cries of "Inori! Inori!" rose from below the stage.

Even the "Desert Tiger," wearing a shirt and waving a glow stick, had mixed into the soldiers and was roaring along with everyone else...

In My Boyfriend Is a Pilot, the "pilot" actually referred to an MS pilot.

That made the song hit the soldiers even harder.

"Huh. She’s usually so quiet and expressionless, but I never expected her to be this cheerful at a concert," Mu said.

"You’ve never watched one of Inori-san’s concerts before?" Murrue asked.

"A few of the younger guys liked her, but I never really watched much myself. Mm, I saw a little, but it didn’t feel anything like this."

Sometimes gentle and graceful, sometimes lively and cute.

But in everyday life, she seemed rather lazy.

"How should I put it? The Songstress-san you see day to day feels like she’s in... ’power-saving mode.’ Oh, right, right. Every time Songstress-san gets into an MS, Kira carries her up there... Wait, what are those looks for? Why are you staring at me like that?!"

The looks Murrue and Badgiruel were giving Mu made him squirm.

He couldn’t stand being looked at like some kind of scumbag.

"..." The concert continued.

After the lively songs at the beginning, the later part settled down, and Inori changed back into her usual Goldfish Outfit.

"Oh, right, right. Songstress-san’s Crow-Feather Outfit is actually the boldest one. It’s basically just a few feathers covering—uh..."

Under the strange looks from Murrue and Badgiruel, Mu shut his mouth.

"Young people these days really are daring."

Looking at Inori, Murrue briefly wondered whether she was really in her twenties or already in her thirties or forties.

Forget a Crow-Feather Outfit that was covered by only a few feathers. Even this Goldfish Outfit was something she could never bring herself to wear.

Even if she were like Kira and wore that skintight latex MUV Protective Suit every day, Murrue would absolutely have to put two more coats over it.

But these youngsters, Cagalli included, seemed perfectly willing to go all out.

Come to think of it...

Murrue thought to herself, "If Mu wore a P.A.R.A. Protective Suit that enhances Naturals, would he be able to pilot the Strike too...?"

"Mm? Why are you looking at me?" Mu asked, puzzled.

"No, it’s nothing."

Murrue turned away.

No.

Just imagining that scene was enough to blind her.

[Why do I suddenly kind of want to see it?]

[Don’t! Absolutely not!]

[Thank you, production team, for not showing us that eye-searing scene.]

[What a relief. Orz]

[I just want to know whether Lacus is still wearing that invisible MUV Protective Suit underneath.]

[Yeah, come to think of it, Lacus does have one of those, right?]

[What’s the difference between P.A.R.A. and MUV anyway?]

[P.A.R.A. is obviously for enhancing Naturals, right? Is MUV for Coordinators?]

[Feels like it. Lacus got the MUV one.]

[P.A.R.A. has a built-in catheter system. Now I just want to know whether MUV has one too.]

[Holy shit, Lee Sin, you just asked the million-dollar question.]

[I want to know too.]

[Right, does the MUV suit have a built-in catheter system or not?]

[If Lacus has never taken it off, doesn’t that mean she’s never needed to use the bathroom?]

[Let me tell you a fact: from Episode Zero until now, Kira has not gone to the bathroom even once. That proves—yes!]

[What anime is going to show you somebody using the bathroom in the first place?]

[Beautiful girls don’t use the bathroom!]

[But even if you did need to go, wouldn’t you have to take off this kind of one-piece suit completely?]

[Both protective suits have two layers. The outside has some metal parts, while the inside is a pure bodysuit. It doesn’t seem to have any openings, so the only opening is probably the neck.]

[Ohhh, so that’s why Inori wears the Goldfish Outfit. It’s convenient! Just pull it aside and you can use the bathroom.]

[Hehehehehe.]

[Holy shit, they all got muted.]

[The super mod is awesome.]

[Bring down judgment upon these indecent bastards.]

[You reap what you sow.]

[DI! VINE! JUS! TICE!]

[The messages all got deleted. What did they just say?]

"She really is popular."

On the screen, Inori was being cheered by a huge crowd, while Athrun, shown on the stage display, wore an utterly serious expression.

He was watching the screen very carefully and attentively.

However, Athrun’s main focus was not Inori, but the red Astray behind her.

Lacus smiled serenely, set Athrun’s bouquet aside, then made a "shh" gesture toward the Haros outside the door.

"Unacceptable!"

"Unacceptable!"

The Haros that had been arguing noisily immediately lowered their voices.

Athrun had assembled all of those Haros. In the past, every time he came to visit Lacus, he brought one along as a gift.

He simply had not expected them to become so noisy once there were so many.

After learning that Lacus did not like being disturbed while listening to music, Athrun installed a special volume-control system. Whenever Lacus made the gesture, their volume automatically dropped.

"Um... are they causing you trouble?"

Athrun noticed what Lacus had done.

Lacus had once said she liked Haros, so Athrun had never thought much about it. Whenever he finished building one, he simply gave it to her.

Thinking about it now, that had been rather stupid.

But Lacus only smiled. "They’re probably so excited because our guest is Athrun. You really haven’t visited our home in a long time."

"...I’m sorry."

Athrun lowered his head.

His first instinct was to assume that Lacus was blaming him for neglecting to visit.

But Lacus’s surprised reaction made Athrun realize what had actually happened.

Lacus had not been blaming him at all.

Realizing that only made Athrun feel even guiltier.

But... something still felt strange.

This Lacus was like a princess from a fairy tale.

Living in a castle, unaware of what was happening outside.

"Lacus."

Athrun spoke.

"Mm."

"Do you know where this concert is being held? Do you know... what kind of lives the people there are living?"

Athrun asked the question.

"Mm?"

Lacus froze.

"Lacus, have you ever looked into how people outside PLANT live?"

At Athrun’s words, Lacus’s expression also became serious.

It was an extremely earnest expression.

"Sorry. Maybe I’m being a little... oversensitive." Athrun felt as though he had lost his composure.

"No, Athrun. That’s a very good question. You’re asking because what ZAFT is doing in North Africa is actually... an invasion, aren’t you?"

Athrun said nothing.

At that moment, another song ended.

"Thank you all very much for coming today."

Inori looked into the camera.

Yet her eyes seemed to pass straight through the camera and look directly at Athrun and Lacus on the other side.

"Next is the final song."

"I dedicate this ancient ballad to every person living on this land."

"Please listen—Scarborough Fair."

"Eh?" Lacus, however, looked surprised.

"What is it?"

"It feels like there’s one song missing compared with the album that was just released?"