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>Bright: That "thing" isn't my daughter. Its just something that wanted to twist me, just like her mother! "Love?" "Wanting what was best for me?"

Breaking down into a broken laugh, Bright collapses to his knees, he begins to slam his fist into metal blow, bloodying his hand with each strike.

>Emma: Captain! Someone, you have to-
>Hassan: Just let him have this. He...told me what this was about.
>Emma: What do you mean?
>Bright: After the One Year War, my career was being constantly monitored. Any attempt to advance, controlled from outside my sight. Trying to form a new relationship with a woman...ruined by forces outside my control. She told me that we could not be together, and yet she continued to keep me from having a life of my own...and then she saddles me with a child that only intends to control me further...?!
>Asherah:...Daddy~...!! I...I love-
>Bright: No you don't. You never knew me. You were taught to make me love you...just to appease the insanity of monster of a mother of yours. Newtypes...all your kind know is how to rip away the futures of others for yourselves! My duty...my duty was to the Earth Federation! I failed that duty...!
>Judau: You done...old man?
>Bright:...Just about.

Grabbing for a pistol from his coat, Bright places the gun to his head.

>Bright:...I'm sorry, Asherah. I can't do this any-

Clinging her face against Bright's stomach, Asherah gently cries as Bright begins to lower the gun.

>Asherah:...I will never be a parasite again! No matter how much you hate me...I will never, ever take from another again! Not like mommy did!
>Bright:...I wish I could believe you. I just...wish I could believe-

Judau pulls the gun from Brights hand, before knocking him out cold with a strike to his head.

>Judau: Go home and be a family man, Bright.

[Asherah has planned to joined the AEUG]