Reputation and the Young Girl

Back to Thor.

After receiving Android Stark's design blueprints for the [Valkyrie Gundam], Thor shamelessly changed its colors and gave it a tiger head, turning it into a blue-dominated [Valkyrie Tiger].

He then calmly stored it in his Storage Space, displaying it alongside Blitz Gear, Master Gundam, Darkness Heresy, Taurus Gundam, Vanguard Savior, and other units as part of his collection.

Elsewhere.

After submitting a functional prototype and design data for the [Zudah], the 603rd Technical Evaluation Unit received unanimous praise and serious attention from the Principality of Zeon's military leadership.

This greatly infuriated their competitor, the [Zeonic Company].

Thor, who had repeatedly ruined their plans to suppress the [Zimad Company], likewise earned the hostility of the [Zeonic Company].

Though they could not openly move against Thor, they began using more indirect methods to praise him to death.

While making snide remarks and loudly promoting Thor's reputation,

they also spread claims such as, "If a fierce general like Thor were on the Earth battlefield, he could surely repel, or even counterattack, the Earth Federation Army's forces through his strength alone."

They wanted Thor to suffer humiliation and die on the Earth battlefield.

After all, at this point in time, there were not many Mobile Suits capable of flight on the Earth battlefield, and their mobility was poor as well.

Against fierce firepower, it was not nearly as easy to evade attacks as it was in space.

Thor gave a crooked smile and easily saw through their scheme, but he went along with it and allowed them to raise his profile.

Before long, the Principality of Zeon's upper ranks also began attaching immense importance to Thor, who could destroy an Earth Federation Army fleet by himself.

On one of the Principality of Zeon's Colony Satellites.

A twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl with