"Xiao Ran, this is the gift I got for you. What do you think? Do you like it?"
Luo stood beside Xiao Ran, looking relaxed as he gazed at the black Mecha placed seven or eight meters in front of them, still not fully assembled. Although the MS was still in pieces, it had everything it needed—arms, torso, head, and legs. Luo had already checked it over. The frame was intact, the cockpit equipment was intact, and the drive modules were intact. Other than lacking a battery pack and weapons, and needing its systems completely reprogrammed, once the missing parts were found and it was assembled, it would be a brand-new machine ready for combat. Even if Luo did not have usable replacements for the missing components, the Archangel definitely did. Gundam Astray and Strike Gundam had a great deal in common, and much of their equipment could be used directly.
Xiao Ran was still stunned. He simply could not understand where this machine had come from. He could not be certain whether it was one of the two machines still in parts back on Heliopolis. After all, parts could be any color—green, purple, or even another red one. It would not have been strange for Luo to paint it black. But perhaps the machine itself had originally been black.
"Could there be a sixth black Gundam Astray besides the red, blue, gold, green, and purple ones? Though I seem to remember that the Green Astray's original colors weren't green either." Xiao Ran shook his head, feeling uncertain. He had read the side stories, but not all of them, and he did not know whether a sixth Astray truly existed in this world. The Gundam Astray was a machine equipped with the same backpack as Black Strike, yet carried two