December U.C.0094.

Kikka arrives at her family’s home in Shizuoka. Letz points out that she’s late and Kikka replies that shuttles and connecting flights keep getting delayed due to Char’s meteorite drop. Airlines are still recovering from the effects. There’s a lot of debris in orbit and the weather is fairly unstable. Letz comments that it’s been a year and a half already. Sitting around a kotatsu, Letz asks how college life is on Luna. Kikka says that she has different interests than the Lunarian kids, but she can study literature all she wants. Letz says that he hears she won some sort of award and she says that yes, it’s the Mount Fuji Rookie of the Year Award and that they’re going to be publishing her winning work. Letz is amazed that she’s making her debut before graduating. Kikka asks where mom (Fraw) is.

Fraw is in another room on the phone, declining an offer that was made to her. She says she has a young child and can’t venture to Side 1. She hangs up and goes and greets Kikka, apologizing for not being there to welcome her. Kikka asks what was going on with the phone call. Fraw says that the Federation Forces asked her to attend a war memorial next year. Kikka asks why and she explains that they’re going to put Amuro’s name on the war memorial. He was previous listed as MIA, but has now been officially recognized as having died in combat. Since Fraw was a member of the White Base, they wanted her to give a speech at the ceremony since she lost both a husband and son in the war. The speech would be to honor the sacrifices of the aces who fought for peace.

Fraw says that it doesn’t feel real that Amuro is dead. She says that to the world he may already be a “dead ace,” but she doesn’t remember him as a pilot anymore. He was just some boy from the neighborhood who was too lazy to take care of himself. She tells Kikka how her family came to take care of the boy on account of his dad constantly being away and Amuro having no life skills. She remembers how she had to remind him to eat. Letz chimes in that he remembers that, how Fraw always rushed him to eat a sandwich. She says that she thinks that if it hadn’t been for the Zeon attack, he probably wouldn’t have ended up piloting a mobile suit. She goes on to say that Amuro became a ‘good soldier’ because he himself hated war more than anyone else. The real Amuro was fighting to protect those on the White Base. People don’t see him as a human being unless they’ve been close to him. Kikka says that she wants everyone to know exactly what kind of person Katz looked up to (Amuro).

Several days later, Kikka tells Fraw she has to talk to her. She says she is thinking of taking a leave from her college studies. She says she wants to meet as many people as possible who were involved with Amuro and collect their memories and feelings about him. She wants to compile them into a book. Fraw asks whether she intends to write a biography. She says she does, and that she’s never written non-fiction before, nor has she conducted interviews, but she wants to try. She thinks it would be her own way of saying goodbye to Amuro. Kikka seeks Fraw’s approval, but Fraw says she’s already decided and there is no point in stopping her. She says her father (Hayato) knew this day would come. She gives her an envelope and says there’s someone she should go to. Someone she knew well.

Kai Shiden.