Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran organized UNION’s response to the Gundams, prepared a secret MS development facility, and contacted Aeolia about stolen technology and a possible traitor within Celestial Being. He then learned that Sashers and his remaining followers were under guard and considered how to upgrade his own units.

• Xiao Ran told Colonel Jett to make Graham commander of the Gundam investigation team, support him, and establish an R&D department beneath headquarters within a week.
• Xiao Ran contacted Aeolia, reported the recovered technology and a suspected high-ranking traitor in Celestial Being, and asked him to conceal the unmanned units from VEDA’s database and recommend a deputy.
• Aeolia agreed to prepare the unmanned units and said someone trustworthy would contact Xiao Ran the next day.
• Naluo reported that Sashers and his followers had been moved to a base with neck bombs and that Sashers was being monitored; Xiao Ran ordered her to help train Hong Long and obtain simulation pods.
• Xiao Ran went to the Gods’ base and considered fitting Lightning Aegis and Black Hawk with Solar Furnaces, while planning how to bring the two units there securely.

After Celestial Being expanded its personnel and began modifying more mobile suits, Xiao Ran received two unexpected recruits sent by VEDA. Their arrival left him wondering how Hiksa Fermi and No.874 could be present.

• Celestial Being was declared a terrorist organization, expanded its workforce to over three hundred, and activated its second base as its technicians modified machines and production lines.
• Xiao Ran considered recruiting a talented technician of his own while overseeing the ongoing machine modifications.
• The day after Xiao Ran spoke with Aeolia, Hiksa Fermi and No.874 arrived to assist him under VEDA's orders.
• Hiksa said VEDA had sent him to help Xiao Ran pilot Gundam Kyrios and showed him the collar bomb that kept him under VEDA's control.
• Hiksa explained that VEDA had revived No.874 by creating a new body and restoring her consciousness.

Xiao Ran recruited Hiksa and 874 into Celestial Being’s secret support organization, assigning Hiksa to assist him and 874 to train pilots under the name Hana Yu. After Tartaria announced its withdrawal from the UNION, Xiao Ran prepared to accompany Graham’s force in response while keeping his departure secret.

• Xiao Ran explained the secret organization’s independence from VEDA and recruited Hiksa and 874, who agreed to follow his orders and keep the organization confidential.
• Xiao Ran assigned Hiksa as his adjutant and secretary and sent 874, now named Hana Yu, to train Hong Long and other selected pilots.
• Tartaria announced that it was withdrawing from the UNION and would resist any military or political pressure.
• Colonel Jett informed Xiao Ran that UNION headquarters planned military suppression of Tartaria, and Xiao Ran decided to go with Graham while concealing his departure.
• Xiao Ran told Hiksa that he was the UNION’s Major General in the Japanese Special Economic Zone, then headed to the airport with Hiksa and Hana Yu.
• Graham reported that the Anti-Gundam Investigation Force had selected ten pilots and prepared to deploy, and Xiao Ran authorized him to arrange the operation while prioritizing safety.

Xiao Ran led Gundam Kyrios in a devastating attack on Tartaria’s capital and nearby military facilities as the other Gundams intervened in three coastal cities. After Tartaria surrendered and the mission advanced to its withdrawal phase, Xiao Ran learned Exia Gundam had been surrounded and rushed to help.

• Xiao Ran received Miss Huang’s mission plan, boarded Hong Long’s plane with Hiksa and Hana Yu, and flew to Celestial Being’s base before departing in Gundam Kyrios.
• Xiao Ran and Setsuna traveled toward Tartaria together, while Exia Gundam and the two Arios Gundams began attacking Tartaria’s coastal defenses ahead of Gundam Kyrios’s arrival.
• Xiao Ran used Gundam Kyrios and its ten GN-BITs to destroy Tartarian MS in the capital, then attacked a nearby military base.
• The Ptolemaios reported that Tartaria had withdrawn its declaration and requested UNION aid, advancing the mission to phase five.
• Xiao Ran learned that Exia Gundam was surrounded and headed toward Setsuna’s location while telling the two Arios Gundams to withdraw according to plan.

Graham’s Flags trapped Setsuna’s Exia Gundam at sea, where Graham tested and criticized the young pilot before withdrawing when Xiao Ran arrived in Gundam Kyrios. The next day, Xiao Ran appointed Hiksa as his deputy and told Graham that Setsuna’s pure conviction might make him a true Innovator.

• Graham and the Special Investigation Team’s Flags surrounded Setsuna’s Exia Gundam and forced him to fight within a confined area.
• Graham attacked Exia Gundam, criticized Setsuna’s impulsive tactics, and ordered the other Flags to bombard the Gundam while avoiding its torso.
• Xiao Ran arrived in Gundam Kyrios and used its GN-BITs to halt Exia Gundam, then ordered Setsuna to retreat as Graham’s team withdrew.
• Xiao Ran introduced Hiksa to Colonel Jett as his replacement deputy and ordered Jett to prepare Hiksa for the role before taking command of the Second Base.
• Xiao Ran questioned Graham about the encounter and said Setsuna’s pure conviction might make him the first true pure Innovator.

Xiao Ran prepared Celestial Being for a future confrontation by strengthening its support forces while Graham and Zoe agreed to wait before revealing themselves. After Celestial Being rescued passengers stranded on an orbital elevator, the nations accelerated their secret military preparations, and Xiao Ran returned to the organization’s base for a new intervention mission.

• Xiao Ran asked Zoe when Celestial Being should act, and she advised keeping its forces concealed until the hidden enemies and new mobile suits became clearer.
• Xiao Ran ordered Graham, Zoe, and Hong Long to support Celestial Being in space while its Gundams underwent maintenance, and Graham affirmed his loyalty even if they had to oppose the UNION.
• Xiao Ran told Ptolemy that headquarters had ordered the Anti-Gundam Special Investigation Team’s appearance in Tartaria and that he could not control its personnel.
• Celestial Being rescued more than two hundred passengers trapped in detached orbital-elevator modules, improving its reputation but revealing Arios Gundam’s ground-to-space sniping weapon.
• Xiao Ran sent modified mecha and GN-X units into space as Celestial Being acquired transport ships and prepared them for conversion.
• After the AEU announced joint exercises with PMC and Xiao Ran received an intervention mission, he returned unnoticed to Celestial Being’s base and piloted his mecha toward the rendezvous point.

Xiao Ran met Ian, Lockon, and Setsuna on the island to receive new equipment for the Gundams. The chapter ended with Ian revealing that his apprentice, Shirin Hyde, was working with Xiao Ran and warning him to keep his hands to himself.

• Xiao Ran arrived at the island and greeted Ian, who asked whether Xiao Ran had used the functions Ian added to his mask.
• Ian showed Setsuna Exia Gundam’s new GN Swords and explained that Arios Gundam had received a GN Full Coverage Shield.
• Ian revealed Gundam Zabanya, a support unit for Gundam Kyrios fitted with four GN-BITs, and Xiao Ran startled the others by jumping from the cockpit before landing safely.
• Ian explained Gundam Zabanya’s equipment and operation, then told Xiao Ran that his apprentice was working with him.
• Ian named his apprentice as Shirin Hyde and warned Xiao Ran not to try anything funny with her.

Xiao Ran arranged for Hong Long to interrupt Miss Huang’s meeting with Billy Katagiri, revealing that both had been probing the Anti-Gundam Special Investigation Team. Billy and Miss Huang discovered that they were both Celestial Being comrades, while Billy explained that the Aegis followed Alex’s orders and stayed separate from VEDA.

• Xiao Ran told Hong Long to reveal Billy’s identity and direct Miss Huang to ask him about the Anti-Gundam Special Investigation Team, while warning her to keep Aegis matters confidential.
• Hong Long approached Miss Huang and Billy, revealing that Alex knew Miss Huang was probing the team and inviting them to speak elsewhere.
• Billy and Miss Huang realized that each had joined Celestial Being, and Billy explained that Alex had recruited him, Graham, and Professor Raphael into the Aegis support organization.
• Miss Huang told Billy that she had joined Celestial Being years earlier to regain a sense of purpose.
• Billy explained that Aegis members were forbidden from contacting VEDA and followed only Alex’s orders.

Miss Huang learned that Tianshen was a secret organization Alex created to protect Aeolia’s plan from unforeseen threats, while Billy explained the Special Investigation Team’s connection to Celestial Being. After struggling to control Gundam Zabanya, Xiao Ran received Haro’s warning that mission time had begun, and the Gundam pilots launched.

• Billy told Miss Huang that Tianshen operated independently of Celestial Being’s normal structure and followed Alex’s orders.
• Hong Long explained that Tianshen existed to guard against threats to Aeolia’s plan, and Miss Huang agreed to keep its existence confidential.
• Billy described the Special Investigation Team against Gundams, explaining that Graham commanded it and that it would still act against Celestial Being when ordered.
• Xiao Ran found that coordinating Gundam Zabanya through Gundam Kyrios produced errors because the combined machine exceeded his C-class Piloting Skill.
• Haro warned Xiao Ran that mission time had begun, and Xiao Ran, Setsuna, Lockon, Tieria, and Hallelujah launched their Gundams.

After Celestial Being destroyed the AEU and PMC’s forces, coordinated bombings worldwide turned public opinion against it, while the three major powers withheld the terrorists’ locations. When another attack struck the Japanese Special Economic Zone, Xiao Ran ordered a sweeping security response and urged the UNION President to help find the bombers.

• Xiao Ran completed the intervention against the AEU and PMC, leaving their machines wrecked across the battlefield and bringing Main Mission Two’s destruction count to seventy-eight.
• As the Gundams returned, coordinated bombings erupted around the world, and an organization threatened further attacks unless Celestial Being stopped intervening.
• Celestial Being’s reputation collapsed amid public protests and news reports blaming it for the attacks, while its members searched for the terrorists.
• After more than thirty bombings killed over a thousand people, another attack hit the Japanese Special Economic Zone, and Xiao Ran angrily ordered local commanders and Intelligence Department to investigate and patrol.
• Xiao Ran asked the UNION President to help locate the bombers, and the President said UNION had found one gathering point but could not act until it identified the others.

Xiao Ran authorized Zoe to lead an operation against the group behind the bombings, and the attack ended the public crisis while revealing that the AEU and Humanity Federation were preparing another move against Celestial Being. Back at Heavenly God, Xiao Ran showed Sheryl Hard two unfamiliar units and assigned her a task.

• Xiao Ran let Zoe investigate the bombings and ordered her to take Sashers without exposing their units.
• Zoe obtained authorization for ten GN-X units and coordinated an assault on three bases with the participants.
• Footage of attacks on two Armed Faction bases and a disguised transport vessel spread online, and reports credited Celestial Being with ending the bombings.
• Officials from the Humanity Federation and AEU discussed the failed distraction and their preparations for a new operation, while Celestial Being's pilots remained unaware of who had acted.
• Xiao Ran returned to Heavenly God's base with two units, where Old Man Raphael and Billy began studying them.
• Xiao Ran introduced Sheryl Hard to Lightning Aegis and Black Hawk and gave her a task.

Xiao Ran learned that UNION, AEU, and the Humanity Federation were preparing a joint operation to capture Celestial Being’s Gundams, and he warned Ptolemaios while arranging to leave his post in space. He slipped back to Celestial Being’s First Base, leaving the coming operation and its battle unresolved.

• Old Man Raphael praised Sheryl’s engineering talent, agreed to study Xiao Ran’s machines, and discussed installing Solar Furnaces in them.
• Xiao Ran received orders to lead a secret mission at Sky Ladder Orbit and sent Naluo’s forces into space to prepare.
• The UNION President told Xiao Ran that the mission was a three-nation operation to capture Celestial Being’s Gundams, placing Sky Ladder Orbit’s forces under his command.
• Graham suggested that someone could wear Xiao Ran’s mask and impersonate him, allowing Xiao Ran to leave space without abandoning his post.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the operation plans, warned Ptolemaios that the three nations were searching for it, and sent Naluo its coordinates.
• Xiao Ran left Sky Ladder Orbit in disguise and returned to Celestial Being’s First Base.

Xiao Ran prepared for the uncertain joint operation while Old Man Raphael investigated how to equip the Black Hawk with GN technology. After Graham reported that the operation had begun, Xiao Ran launched in the Black Hawk and raced into space.

• Xiao Ran identified four participants' mecha as modified Strike Gundam-type units and recognized the fifth as an upgraded Ginn.
• Xiao Ran ordered Graham to manage the five participants and instructed the Celestial Being pilots to monitor the Ptolemaios.
• Old Man Raphael began modifying the Lightning Aegis but found that installing Solar Furnaces in the Black Hawk would require extensive changes, so Xiao Ran requested external Particle Storage Tanks instead.
• Graham messaged Xiao Ran that the joint operation had begun, prompting Xiao Ran to prepare the Black Hawk for a sortie.
• Xiao Ran launched the Black Hawk using its Particle Storage Tanks and thrusters, then accelerated rapidly through the atmosphere and into space.

The three-nation allied forces surrounded the Ptolemaios while most of its Gundams were undergoing maintenance, leaving Miss Huang with few options. She sent Exia Gundam and two Kyrios units to defend the ship and requested support from Alex and VEDA, while Xiao Ran remained unaware of the crisis as he prepared unmanned fighters.

• The three-nation allied forces detected and surrounded the Ptolemaios, which had only Exia Gundam and Kyrios Gundam ready to sortie.
• Miss Huang struggled to protect the ship and its crew, then ordered Exia Gundam and Kyrios Gundam to deploy and requested support from Alex and VEDA.
• Miss Huang assigned Lockon to pilot Gundam Kyrios, with Haro, Hallelujah, and VEDA assisting him in controlling its GN-BITs.
• Exia Gundam and the two Kyrios units deployed as the allied forces closed in on the Ptolemaios.
• Xiao Ran, unaware of the Ptolemaios's message, released and configured three 9V-GHOST unmanned fighter jets before continuing toward the ship.

The Ptolemaios and its three Gundams were overwhelmed by the Tri-Nation Allied Forces, and Exia Gundam and Gundam Kyrios were captured. Wang Liu Mei confirmed reinforcements had arrived, allowing the Ptolemaios to counterattack as the incoming GN-X units and Angel Throne Gundams devastated the enemy formation.

• The Tri-Nation Allied Forces split the Gundams apart and pinned them down while battering the Ptolemaios with nearly two hundred MS units.
• Felt reported that the second echelon would take thirty minutes to arrive, and Miss Huang sent Wang Liu Mei a message while hoping Alex would come to their aid.
• Felt announced that Exia Gundam and Gundam Kyrios had been captured, but Wang Liu Mei replied that reinforcements had arrived.
• Hong Long contacted Miss Huang, who ordered the Ptolemaios to launch all its GN Missiles as GN-X units and the Angel Throne Gundams entered the battle.
• The reinforcements devastated the Tri-Nation Allied Forces, destroying more than sixty machines, and Graham ordered the Special Investigation Team to retreat.

Xiao Ran used the Black Hawk’s missiles to devastate the Three Nations Allied Forces, then sent its unrestricted 9V-GHOST drones to attack the scattered survivors. With the ordinary forces in chaos, the battle between the Participants began in earnest.

• Xiao Ran fired two hundred missiles into the Three Nations Allied Forces’ formation, destroying or crippling many standard MS units.
• The missile barrage left the battlefield filled with fireballs and wreckage, while notification chimes sounded repeatedly for Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran lifted the restrictions on the three 9V-GHOST drones and activated their weapons.
• The drones overwhelmed the remaining allied forces with their speed and Gatling fire as the scattered units struggled to defend themselves.
• The Three Nations faction’s Participants had held back much of the GN-X team, and the Participants’ battle now began in earnest.

Xiao Ran and Celestial Being turned the Tri-Nation Allied Forces’ attack into a rout, but the opposing participants stayed behind to pursue their conflicting mission to capture or destroy a Gundam. As the participants’ battle began, Xiao Ran withdrew to rearm the Black Hawk and returned with thirteen GHOST-9V unmanned fighters.

• The GN-X formation, Xiao Ran’s Black Hawk, and three unmanned fighters devastated the Tri-Nation Allied Forces, freeing the captured Gundams and forcing the fleet to retreat.
• The Tri-Nation Allied Forces participants stayed on the battlefield because their Main Mission Two required them to shoot down or capture a Celestial Being Gundam.
• Naluo and the four-person squad’s captain ordered the Heavenly God faction participants to attack, and both sides opened fire.
• Xiao Ran sniped at the enemy from a distance, then flew the Black Hawk away from the battlefield with its unmanned fighters.
• Xiao Ran released ten more unmanned fighters, installed a new heavy armor backpack, and returned with thirteen GHOST-9V fighters.

Xiao Ran and the Celestial Being forces turned the battle against the Three Nations Allied Forces by deploying unmanned fighters and Black Hawk’s High Explosive Rounds. The allied participants retreated with heavy losses, while Xiao Ran headed to Ptolemaios and warned Red Dragon to keep Naluo from pursuing too far.

• The Three Nations Allied Forces participants struggled to find an opening against the Gundams as their remaining GN-X units fought alongside them.
• Xiao Ran sent thirteen unmanned fighters into the battle, then used Black Hawk to lock onto four enemy mecha and launch eighty High Explosive Rounds.
• Xiao Ran’s missiles and the unmanned fighters destroyed three mecha and killed two participants, while several other enemy units were damaged.
• The GN-X units and Celestial Being Gundams pressed the damaged participants, forcing the surviving allied mecha to regroup and retreat.
• Xiao Ran warned Red Dragon to tell Naluo not to pursue too deeply, then piloted Black Hawk toward Ptolemaios.

After helping Celestial Being survive the Tri-Nation Allied Forces’ attack, Xiao Ran met with Miss Huang and Ian aboard the damaged Ptolemaios and discussed repairs, future missions, and the Unknown Units. He then warned Tieria that a high-ranking traitor within Celestial Being may have leaked information to the enemy.

• Xiao Ran docked the Black Hawk with the damaged Ptolemaios, entered the ship, and thanked Miss Huang and Ian for checking on the crew.
• Xiao Ran explained that his red-GN-Particle units came from Solar Furnaces without filtering systems and said Celestial Being’s forces would support future intervention missions.
• Miss Huang and Ian decided the damaged Ptolemaios would return to Tiandu for repairs, while the remaining Gundams continued operations and later relocated to the Japanese Special Economic Zone.
• Lockon apologized for the Black Hawk’s damage, and Tieria asked Xiao Ran about the Unknown Units; Xiao Ran described them as a secret support organization’s machines.
• Xiao Ran warned Tieria that a high-ranking Celestial Being member could access VEDA and might have betrayed the organization, leaving Tieria shocked.

Xiao Ran revealed that Celestial Being’s hidden plans were being directed by a higher authority, then brought Tieria, Setsuna, and Lockon to visit the organization’s base. After learning about the base’s capabilities and the battle’s losses, the group began assessing the damage and personnel casualties.

• Xiao Ran told Tieria that higher authority had kept Celestial Being’s true purpose from him, prompting Tieria to request a visit to the base.
• Setsuna and Lockon joined Tieria, and Xiao Ran departed with them in the Black Hawk alongside the two Gundams and thirteen unmanned fighters.
• On the way to Earth, Xiao Ran destroyed the wreckage of the remaining mobile suits so the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces could not recover them.
• The group descended safely through the atmosphere, and Lockon was astonished by the Black Hawk’s capabilities and stable flight.
• Xiao Ran showed Tieria, Setsuna, and Lockon Celestial Being’s developed base and introduced them to its several hundred personnel.
• Nina requested her promised reward, while Nalo reported three lost machines, recovered Solar Furnaces, and two personnel killed.