"You still have the nerve to ask?!" Canaris roared.
"Hmm?!"
It was different.
Completely different.
Her opponent's presence had changed.
No, rather, she had "shown her true colors."
Countless drones surrounded her from all directions.
Freedom swayed through the air, evading the beam attack.
It was not Snow Lotus controlling those drones, but Kurenai.
Kurenai was not good at large-scale control, but the fewer units she controlled, the greater the performance she could bring out.
Yet even with Kurenai's support, Canaris still could not defeat Kira.
Or rather, Canaris was still at a disadvantage.
Canaris excelled at close combat, and the upgraded Chaos Gundam had reinforced that aspect of its design.
With a Beam Saber and Beam Shield, one for offense and one for defense, it should have been capable in both attack and defense.
But Kira held a Beam Saber in her left hand and a lance in her right, leaving Canaris unable to get close.
"Freedom isn't even a close-combat type of machine!"
Canaris could not help complaining.
"That has nothing to do with it!"
That lance seemed extraordinarily sturdy; even the Beam Saber could not cut through it.
Whenever she attacked, Kira would first dodge or block. If she got close, Kira would strike with the Beam Saber; if she stayed farther away, Kira would sweep with the lance.
The surrounding drones' physical ammunition was completely ineffective, while their beam weapons were blocked by Freedom's Beam Shield.
—Freedom itself was clearly a fragile machine, yet under Kira's control, it never took any damage.
"Stop this already! Do you really want to blow up Prague?" Kira asked.
"I'm not interested in that! I only know that I have to settle this with you! That is the meaning of my existence!"
"That has no meaning at all!"
"No! It