Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran used the Variable Fighter’s speed and aerial fire to hold off Renard’s Annihilation Angel and Guren Gishin, but neither side could damage the other. Renard revealed that the battle had been a diversion to capture Chidori and Yani, and Xiao Ran began sending a message while confronting him.

• Xiao Ran discarded the Variable Fighter’s armor and missiles to escape Guren Gishin’s beam, but found that his remaining weapon could not seriously damage either enemy machine.
• Xiao Ran transformed into Fortress Mode and fired from above, forcing Annihilation Angel and Guren Gishin to evade and move the fight into the air.
• Xiao Ran and the two enemy machines reached a stalemate, and Renard contacted him over the public channel.
• Renard admitted he had lured Xiao Ran away to keep him occupied while an operation elsewhere targeted Chidori and Yani.
• Xiao Ran aimed at Annihilation Angel, sent a message by keyboard, and accused Renard of stalling before warning him that villains talked too much.

Xiao Ran, El-Elf, and Luo launched a coordinated attack on Annihilation Angel and Guren Gishin, with Luo’s Super King of Haro Movie Bullet colliding with Renard’s λ-DRIVER shield. The resulting explosion buried Guren Gishin and drove Annihilation Angel into the ground, leaving Xiao Ran and arriving Variable Fighters unable to see what had happened through the smoke.

• A golden fireball formed as Luo’s Gundam Astray performed the Super King of Haro Movie Bullet and descended toward the enemy mecha.
• Xiao Ran and El-Elf attacked Guren Gishin with their Variable Fighters, piercing its defenses and damaging its armor as it tried to escape.
• Renard activated Annihilation Angel’s λ-DRIVER and raised a powerful shield against Luo’s descending attack.
• Luo’s attack collided with Annihilation Angel’s shield, creating a massive explosion and shockwave that battered the Variable Fighters and drove Guren Gishin toward the ground.
• Annihilation Angel and Gundam Astray crashed into the ground amid another enormous explosion, burying Guren Gishin beneath rubble and obscuring the battlefield in smoke.
• Several Variable Fighters arrived and stopped nearby, staring at the destruction as Xiao Ran struggled to assess the outcome.

Xiao Ran sent El-Elf and Mithril to check on Chidori and Yani while he, Sousuke Sagara, and Luo faced the three battered enemy machines as they gathered power for another clash. Luo’s golden Gundam Astray launched a named sword attack against Guren Gishin, and the chapter ended as he followed it with Flash Palm.

• Xiao Ran ordered Sousuke Sagara to stay and fight while El-Elf led the others to confirm Chidori and Yani’s safety.
• Xiao Ran identified a λ-DRIVER in one enemy machine and assigned Sousuke Sagara to face Annihilation Angel while he attacked Guren Gishin and Luo engaged the other machine.
• The black smoke cleared to reveal Gundam Astray transformed into gold, Annihilation Angel badly damaged, and Guren Gishin gathering energy.
• Luo charged Guren Gishin with his energy sword as its pilot unleashed Jidu Shunyu Sword.
• Luo named his attack Kikuichimonji Slash and clashed with Guren Gishin’s sword, then leaped in with Flash Palm.

Luo, Sousuke Sagara, and Xiao Ran defeated Renard and the Guren Gishin pilot, ending the battle at the cost of severe damage to their units. Xiao Ran rescued the unconscious Renard and flew away, while Sousuke captured the other pilot and Luo recovered Gundam Astray before heading back to his Research Institution.

• Luo struck Guren Gishin's head with Gundam Astray's Flash Palm as Sousuke Sagara pierced Annihilation Angel's energy dragon and hit the unit with a two-stage attack.
• Guren Gishin's pilot ejected as the defeated unit crashed, while Annihilation Angel lay crippled and Renard was left unconscious inside its cockpit.
• Xiao Ran cut away Annihilation Angel's limbs and exposed its cockpit, then carried Renard to safety and recovered the unit before it exploded.
• Sousuke Sagara arrested the surrendered Guren Gishin pilot and departed with him, while Luo bombarded Guren Gishin until he could recover it.
• With Gundam Astray badly damaged and Luo exhausted, Luo headed toward his Research Institution.

Xiao Ran rushed Renard to a hospital, then learned that Participants had taken Chidori and Yani hostage at the Lin Quan Family estate. He confronted the hostage-takers and began counting down, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Xiao Ran brought the gravely injured Renard to a hospital, ordered the staff to save him, and placed the hospital under lockdown.
• Xiao Ran learned that Renard's attack had destroyed major military forces and that El-Elf had defeated four Participant units at the Lin Quan Family estate.
• El-Elf told Xiao Ran that Participants had taken Chidori and Yani hostage, and Xiao Ran ordered the captors to surrender or die.
• Xiao Ran arrived at the ruined estate and faced the six Participants holding Chidori and Yani while El-Elf and aircraft stood by.
• Xiao Ran began counting down as one Participant grabbed the girls by the necks, but another stopped him and walked toward Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran negotiated with six participants to secure Chidori and Yani, then completed the campaign against Amalgam and Jiulong while preparing to visit Renard and the imprisoned participant. The chapter left Renard paralyzed and guarded, Amalgam destroyed, and Xiao Ran turning his attention to the two men he wanted to obtain.

• Xiao Ran agreed to pay the six participants three thousand Merit Points each and signed an accord securing Chidori and Yani's safety and silence about Unit 678.
• Xiao Ran paid eighteen thousand Merit Points, reunited with Chidori and Yani, and let the participants leave the ruins safely.
• Xiao Ran resumed the Accord Conference while nations cooperated to dismantle Amalgam and arrest its associates.
• Tessa returned to care for her paralyzed brother Renard, who remained silent after waking.
• Xiao Ran tracked down Jiulong and killed him in his Variable Fighter, then waited until the threat was over before visiting Renard and the imprisoned participant.

Xiao Ran recruited Puente, a captured Super Zone participant, by offering to help him complete his missions. After discovering that they could not form a cross-region team, Xiao Ran invited Puente into a new Super Zone branch of the Burning Legion and considered ways to work around the restrictions between zones.

• Xiao Ran visited the imprisoned Puente with El-Elf and asked about his missions.
• Puente revealed that he had been tasked with bringing back Chidori Kaname, stopping the Accord Conference, protecting Renard or killing Xiao Ran, and lifting the world's nuclear energy restriction.
• Xiao Ran offered to help Puente complete his missions in exchange for joining his team, and Puente accepted.
• Xiao Ran canceled a forced team invitation after learning it would erase Puente's mission experience and learned skills.
• Xiao Ran invited Puente to join the Burning Legion and established a Super Zone Legion Branch with a ten-member limit.
• Xiao Ran considered whether the Legion Headquarters and Scrap Dealer skills could help overcome cross-region restrictions and enable joint development.

Xiao Ran brought Puente and Luo into the Burning Legion and appointed Puente to lead its Super Zone operations. He then tried to persuade the paralyzed Renard to abandon his plan to reset the world and join him, but left without an answer.

• Xiao Ran recruited Puente into the Burning Legion, made him responsible for the Super Zone, and released him from prison.
• Xiao Ran invited Luo into the legion, and Luo accepted, hoping to work alongside Puente and gain the legion’s support.
• Puente brought Chidori to Renard, while Luo took Puente to the Research Institution for technical exchanges.
• Xiao Ran visited Renard and challenged his belief that resetting the world would change its fate, raising the possibility that the world had been reset before.
• Xiao Ran offered to heal Renard and take him to witness the other side of the world if he joined the legion, then left to seek another way to recruit him.

Xiao Ran completed Main Mission Three after helping secure peace and restoring nuclear energy, then explained the world’s repeating cycle to Renard before preparing to leave. Renard chose to seek the truth for himself and asked Xiao Ran what he had to do.

• Xiao Ran helped conclude the Peace Accord, had Luo deactivate the N-Jammer, and received mission notifications confirming his success and maximum favorability with Yani, Teresa Testarossa, Chidori Kaname, and Sousuke Sagara.
• Xiao Ran declined to return to Prometheus immediately and told Renard that the world’s resets created parallel worlds that collapsed in a repeating cycle, with Whispered technology passed between them.
• After Xiao Ran left, Renard was shaken by the explanation and wondered whether he was merely a chess piece in an endless cycle.
• Xiao Ran arranged matters with Hayashimizu Nobuyoshi, met Chidori Kaname, Yani, and Tessa, and prepared for his eventual return to the world.
• With only hours of Retention Time remaining, Renard asked Xiao Ran to show him the truth of the world and explain what he needed to do.

Xiao Ran tried to recruit Renard, who had deduced that Xiao Ran and his technology came from another world. Renard’s awakening triggered a twenty-four-hour mission to protect or kill him, and Xiao Ran began moving him to safety as Renard asked whether he should become a follower or a participant.

• Xiao Ran offered Renard a place on his team and explained the sacrifices and opportunities involved.
• Renard reasoned that Xiao Ran and his companions came from another world, and asked what joining them would require.
• Prometheus declared Renard a specially awakened native and issued missions to kill or protect him within twenty-four hours.
• Renard accepted Xiao Ran’s protection, and Xiao Ran decided to move him somewhere safer.
• El-Elf told Xiao Ran that he, Luo, Langba, and Puente were preparing their units and arranging to meet at the research institute.
• Renard asked Xiao Ran how followers differed from participants and which role Xiao Ran wanted him to take.

Xiao Ran explained Prometheus and the choice between becoming a participant or his follower to Renard, who had awakened as a participant and would enter Prometheus in twenty-four hours. With the possibility that other participants might target Renard, the group gathered at Luo’s institute and prepared their mecha.

• Xiao Ran told Renard that becoming a participant would place him in the Super Zone and likely prevent him from returning to his world, while becoming a follower would let him stay with Xiao Ran.
• Xiao Ran described Prometheus, its zones, missions, and participant abilities, then gave Renard a Super Zone Newcomer's Manual that Renard could not read.
• Xiao Ran took Renard to Luo’s research institute, where Puente was waiting and led them to Luo.
• Puente recalled Renard’s skill with unfamiliar technology, including helping develop the Energy Bird technique using T-LINK and λ-DRIVER.
• Luo urgently had the Technicians adjust the available mecha in case participants came to kill Renard before his twenty-four hours were up.
• El-Elf and Luo arrived with Chidori and Yani, and they studied Renard with curiosity.

Xiao Ran prepared to leave the Full Metal Panic world, making arrangements for his allies before he and the others departed. After the mission settlement in Prometheus, he discovered Renard had chosen to become his follower and began contacting Luo Ba and Puente.

• Xiao Ran sent Chidori and Yani to the safety of Danner's Son and told Tessa, Hayashimizu Nobuyoshi, and the others that he would leave temporarily.
• Luo and the Technicians prepared four machines, while Xiao Ran assigned the pilots and handed the Research Institution over to Doctor Peroz.
• Xiao Ran, El-Elf, Luo, Luo Ba, Puente, and Renard flew into space until the twenty-four-hour mission to protect Renard ended.
• Xiao Ran received an S final evaluation and chose four rewards from the settlement options.
• Xiao Ran saw that Renard had joined his team as a follower, watched him recover from his injuries through datafication, and contacted Luo Ba and Puente.

Xiao Ran and his group visited the Super Zone’s Legion Hall to establish a Burning Legion branch and arrange its facilities. After purchasing a headquarters, factory, and supplies, Xiao Ran was left considering a lively liaison officer’s offer to join his legion with her sister.

• Xiao Ran and his group met Puente and Lang Ba in the Legion Zone and entered the Legion Hall together.
• A flirtatious liaison officer learned that Xiao Ran was a Real Zone participant and teased him before discussing his legion and Faction Territories.
• The liaison officer offered to join Burning with her sister for ten thousand Merit Points per month so they could work and explore Xiao Ran’s Faction Territories.
• Xiao Ran asked the liaison officer to handle his branch setup first while he considered her offer.
• The liaison officer purchased a small headquarters and factory and arranged supplies for one million five hundred thousand Merit Points, with a portal to the Faction Territory included for free.

Xiao Ran hired Angie and Anqi as Burning Legion employees to use their Super Zone connections and local knowledge. With his group’s Retention Time limited, he asked the sisters to help them find Super Robot Mecha and other specialized goods.

• Xiao Ran paid to establish a Super Zone branch for the Burning Legion, which surprised the Legion members who had returned from missions.
• Angie persuaded Xiao Ran that she and her sister could provide local connections, shopping guidance, and help with a Super Zone shop, and he agreed to hire them.
• Angie and Anqi signed employment contracts with the Burning Legion for ten thousand Merit Points per rest period.
• Anqi offered to show Xiao Ran and his group around, and Xiao Ran listed the mecha, components, technology, materials, and bloodlines he wanted to acquire.
• Angie said she had already noticed sellers offering many of the items Xiao Ran needed in the Trading Zone.

Xiao Ran explored the Trading Zone and learned about its specialized weapons, repair items, armor modules, mecha components, and upgrade system. After a day of browsing, he left without buying anything, including a costly Elite-grade Getter.

• Xiao Ran compared the Trading Zone’s specialized Super Robot equipment with the more versatile goods of the Real Zone.
• Xiao Ran learned that mecha repair items were expensive, unavailable in the Real Zone, and worth keeping in reserve.
• Xiao Ran examined costly armor modules and learned how their resistances, limitations, and upgrade bonuses worked.
• Xiao Ran learned that Super Robot mecha could be upgraded in the Industrial Zone by meeting requirements specific to each mecha.
• Xiao Ran saw unusual components, recognized several mecha from anime or games, and declined to buy the white Elite-grade Getter.

Xiao Ran bought a mass-produced Prototype Getter to study its technology, then spent another million Merit Points on an Epic-level machine and a Technical Blueprint from the same stall owner. He left the Trading Zone with three valuable acquisitions and arranged for Puente to stay in contact with the seller.

• Xiao Ran studied the Prototype Getter’s specifications and confirmed that it had a Getter Ray Reactor and could be piloted by either one Elite Pilot or three ordinary pilots.
• Xiao Ran purchased the Prototype Getter for 300,000 Merit Points, then persuaded the stall owner to reveal two more items.
• Xiao Ran paid one million Merit Points for an Epic-level machine and a Technical Blueprint.
• Xiao Ran asked Puente to exchange contact information with the stall owner so the seller could send future offers to the legion.
• Back in the temporary Living Zone, Xiao Ran showed the group the Epic-level machine and Technical Blueprint, explaining why he had bought them.

Xiao Ran explained why he had spent 1.3 million Merit Points on Getter mechas and an active alloy blueprint, arguing that the technology could help his team reproduce the mechas. He revealed to Luo that his main goal was the Getter Ray energy source, and the chapter ended with plans to adapt the fleet and research facilities for larger mechas.

• Xiao Ran’s group examined the Getter NEO and Active Alloy Technical Blueprint, and Luo argued that the blueprint could produce a material unlike those sold in shops.
• Xiao Ran explained that he had bought the technology to analyze the Getter mechas and potentially reproduce their combination system and armor.
• Xiao Ran learned that Puente’s Guren Gishin was destroyed and said they would prepare a Fine-grade mecha for him if it could not be repaired.
• Luo recommended modifying the ships’ hangars, creating a Super Robot Research Department, and integrating the research institutions, and Xiao Ran put him in charge.
• After the others left, Xiao Ran told Luo that the Reproduction Type Getter’s Getter Ray was the main reason he had bought the mecha.

Xiao Ran explained the value of the Getter items and led a shopping trip through the Super Zone, buying skills, research mecha, and representative components while failing to find a suitable bloodline. He left Puente one million Merit Points for the Legion and future mecha needs, and Prometheus returned Xiao Ran, Luo, El-Elf, and Renard to the Real Zone, where a figure rushed toward Xiao Ran.

• Xiao Ran explained to Luo why Getter Ray, the Getter armor blueprint, and Getter NEO were worth buying and listed the skills, technology, components, and bloodlines they should seek.
• Xiao Ran ordered Renard to rest and left the Living Zone with Luo, Puente, Angie, and Anqi to continue shopping in the Trading Zone.
• Xiao Ran bought twenty Guts skills, several combat and Guts-boosting skills, two Normal Class Zoids, and a heat-ray chestplate and drill arm.
• Xiao Ran found no suitable bloodline, gave Puente one million Merit Points for the Legion and future needs, and took Luo's Wolf Type Mecha.
• Prometheus teleported Xiao Ran, Luo, El-Elf, and Renard back to the Real Zone when their Retention Time ended, and a figure rushed toward Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran reunited with his team, heard how their reckless mission had worried Sheryl, and welcomed Renard as a new member. He organized the Legion’s next training and missions, including a trip to El-Elf and Saki’s world to bring someone out, then planned an extended stay in their territory while seeking Bloodline Serum.

• Xiao Ran caught Sheryl as she rushed to embrace him, and she immediately teased Renard and scolded the team for their dangerous mission antics.
• Cruze explained that Graham had fought an opponent for three days, Basak had destroyed allied drones, Cruze had tried to destroy Earth, and Zechs had started a revolution.
• Cruze confirmed that the team had found no trace of the mercenary organization Xiao Ran had asked about, and Xiao Ran formally introduced Renard to everyone.
• Xiao Ran reviewed the Legion’s mission results, assigned combat training, and asked Luo to help Renard study Prometheus technology.
• Xiao Ran announced that the team would visit El-Elf and Saki’s world in a week to bring someone out, then remain in their territory for at least two years.
• Xiao Ran asked the Legion to search for Bloodline Serum because he wanted a suitable bloodline ability.

Xiao Ran completed a week of combat training, then entered the Enhancement Room to advance to A-Class Pilot and upgrade his Innovator Bloodline to Pure Innovator. He awoke with greatly enhanced attributes and several new abilities, including Quantum Shock and Quantum Assimilation.

• Xiao Ran arranged for his companions to search for a suitable bloodline and spent a week training with Cruze and the others to complete his B-class proficiency.
• Luo brought Renard to study Prometheus technology under Old Luo, while Renard focused on the legion's technologies.
• Sheryl ordered everyone to rest after seeing how exhausted they were from training and studying.
• Xiao Ran entered the Enhancement Room with his companions watching and used an ordinary S-rank evaluation to advance from B-Class General Piloting Skill to A-Class General Piloting Skill.
• Xiao Ran spent a Special A-rank evaluation and 500,000 Merit Points to upgrade Innovator (True) into Pure Innovator.
• Xiao Ran regained consciousness after the enhancements and discovered his improved attributes and newly awakened abilities.