The Sword-type BIT on Justice Gundam's left shoulder sprang out the moment it turned into a red streak of light, swiftly closing around the long sword in its right hand and combining into an even larger Beam Sword radiating red light. At a speed so terrifying that the mecha's frame began to tremble and groan, Justice Gundam transformed in the blink of an eye from prey surrounded on all sides into a grim reaper hunting between illusion and reality, like a Phantom Clone.
This force of more than a dozen units, including Freedom and Justice customs, became Xiao Ran's testing ground after he realized that he had relied far too heavily on the GN Dragoons in battle. Once the GN Dragoons were restricted, he could clearly feel his combat ability decline, so it was time to pick up what seemed to be his original fighting style again.
Back in the beginning, before Xiao Ran had started using Floating Weapons, he had piloted the Black Astray and Lightning Aegis with lightning-fast combat methods, fighting and maneuvering even against greater numbers of enemies. Those memories resurfaced now. Back then, he had only been using C-class mecha and possessed only C-class Piloting Skill, yet he had still fought smoothly against countless enemies in the world of Super Dimension Fortress Frontier.
Later, however, he had shifted to a firepower-crushing style centered around Floating Weapons. The two were almost entirely different combat styles. But not using something did not mean forgetting it, nor did it mean Xiao Ran's skills had deteriorated. Fully exploiting a mecha's strengths was itself a mark of proficiency, and choosing different combat methods for different enemies and situations was also a manifestation of skill. In the past, Xiao Ran had never encountered a truly evenly matched opponent capable of giving him