Chapter Summaries

Sparkle prepared to enter the second set as Inori Yuzuriha, using a Destiny Card that gave her the background of a Fatima and setting the project in the Gundam SEED world. The anime project was approved, and she arrived at the start of the story, on January 25, CE 71.

• Sparkle suspended the Naruto World and returned to the original stage, where she prepared to open Set 2.
• Sparkle used the Inori Yuzuriha Character Reincarnation Card and selected a Local entry, spending 10,000 Popularity Points.
• Sparkle chose piloting as the Destiny Card trait and used the Hourglass to adjust her entry time.
• Sparkle drew the Fatima background from Five Star Stories, despite its overlap with Lacia.
• After negotiations with the client, Sparkle secured approval for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED—Void Diva, opening January 25, CE 71.

Inori Yuzuriha entered the Gundam set in an artificial body and discovered that she needed to build an operating system to control it. After emerging from the Black Secret Coffin in the Mendel Ruins, she began a year of mecha-piloting training before her role in the story.

• Sparkle's vision filled with images of Mana Ouma giving Yuren Yamato mysterious data, followed by a history of Inori Yuzuriha's creation and the Mendel Institute's destruction.
• Inori Yuzuriha learned that her role had been upgraded to an important supporting character, while party a required idol elements and requested a prequel promotional chapter.
• Inori Yuzuriha upgraded Lacia's Character Card to Lv.3, gaining a Quantum Terminal and a Metamaterial Nano Factory.
• Inori Yuzuriha woke inside the Black Secret Coffin at the Mendel Ruins and crafted a simple operating system to control her artificial body.
• Inori Yuzuriha began a 360-day tactical mecha-piloting course, pushed open the Black Secret Coffin, and fell into an empty dormitory.

Inori Yuzuriha trained at the Imperial Guard Guardian Training Academy, refining her combat calculations and customizing a Performance Outfit before preparing to lay out the script for “Chapter Zero.” Meanwhile, Rau Le Creuset and Juri Yamazaki searched abandoned Mendel Colony for a rumored weapon and found a black coffin-like object.

• Inori Yuzuriha assessed the academy’s Tactical Fighters and found its lessons and combat plans easy to analyze with Super AI and Fatima.
• Inori Yuzuriha developed a faster mental model for evaluating tactics while adapting to her body and studying the world’s military training.
• Inori Yuzuriha received a Guardian Enhancement Suit, then customized and fused it into her Goldfish Suit for combat and idol activities.
• Inori Yuzuriha optimized her piloting techniques during practical training and decided to find Kira after returning to the SEED World.
• Rau Le Creuset and Juri Yamazaki searched abandoned Mendel Colony for their employer’s rumored weapon, and Rau found a black coffin-like object floating before them.

Inori Yuzuriha revealed how she had used a staged news trail and a viral music video to draw attention to herself and the Black Secret Coffin. ZAFT seized the coffin from Rau Le Creuset and Juri Yamazaki, while Kira watched the video in Heliopolis as ZAFT’s fleet prepared to pass nearby.

• Rau Le Creuset and Juri Yamazaki found the Black Secret Coffin at Mendel Colony, but ZAFT soldiers surrounded them and forced them to leave it behind.
• In February CE70, Kira watched news about Junius 7’s destruction, and Miriallia recommended a popular Phantom Diva music video.
• Kira played the video, whose ethereal song and footage of a pink-haired girl caught the viewers’ attention.
• Inori Yuzuriha used Lacia’s directing expertise to create an online presence despite lacking a legal identity in this world.
• Inori spread word of a world-destroying Black Coffin at Mendel, posed as a mysterious client to alert the Scrap Merchants, and ensured ZAFT intercepted the intelligence.
• ZAFT’s fleet prepared to return to PLANT by a route passing near Heliopolis.

Inori Yuzuriha’s altered music video accompanied a staged ZAFT warship crash into Heliopolis, where Kira caught Inori as she fell from the sky. The ZAFT captain negotiated with Heliopolis over the damaged ship while concealing the Black Coffin, as Kira took the unconscious Inori home.

• Inori Yuzuriha released an MV with its timestamp altered to make it appear that Mana Ouma had existed more than a decade earlier, while Black Coffin-controlled robots disrupted the ZAFT warship and Heliopolis.
• The ZAFT warship crashed into Heliopolis at a calculated angle, and Inori fell from the sky as the MV ended.
• Kira rushed outside and caught the gently floating Inori, then carried her to his home while his adoptive parents remained stranded in Orb.
• The ZAFT captain told Heliopolis that damage from an Earth Alliance attack had caused the warship’s crash and asked that the Black Coffin remain secret.
• The Orb representative agreed to negotiate compensation but insisted that ZAFT could not keep its armed warship in Heliopolis for long.

Kira learned that ZAFT’s ship had collided with Heliopolis, then met Inori Yuzuriha after she woke in his room. Inori asked him to make a contract and warned that an invasion had begun, but Kira did not understand what she meant.

• The ZAFT captain and the Orb representative agreed to form a joint inspection team to examine the damaged ship.
• Kira saw an official notice about the ZAFT ship’s collision, and his school announced that classes and work would be suspended the next day.
• Kira woke in the morning and found that Inori had regained consciousness in his room.
• Inori introduced herself to Kira, then asked him to make a contract with her.
• Inori said an invasion had begun and that unlocking permissions was the only way to stop it, but she refused to explain further.
• Kira offered Inori food and different clothes, then brought her the Rice Cooker Robot, which she thanked him for.

Kira learned that the AI had come for Inori Yuzuriha and tried to keep her from leaving, wanting to help despite the danger. Inori asked him to become her master and use her, leaving Kira stunned.

• Inori Yuzuriha told Kira that ZAFT had found the Black Monolith and that a rampaging AI had infiltrated its ship.
• Kira cooked breakfast for Inori Yuzuriha and introduced her to Dolly, while she called them both cute.
• On the ZAFT ship, the captain and first officer discovered that an unmanned GINN had started moving after the terminal was infiltrated, and an explosion rocked the hangar.
• Kira saw something fall from the sky as Inori Yuzuriha said the AI had come for her and prepared to leave so he would not be endangered.
• Kira grabbed Inori Yuzuriha and said he wanted to help, so she asked him to become her master and use her.

Kira tried to save Inori Yuzuriha, who revealed she was an artificial lifeform before protecting Kira from a GINN attack. With the GINN closing in and Inori unable to escape, Kira agreed to become her master, and Inori began forming a contract with her.

• Kira tried to persuade Inori Yuzuriha to accept her help, but Inori revealed she was a machine and jumped out the window as a GINN pursued her.
• Kira followed Inori with the little robot, and Inori shielded her from the GINN’s attack, leaving Inori wounded.
• Inori denied being a Coordinator and explained that she could not escape because the GINN had locked onto her.
• Inori asked Kira to become her master and authorize her full functions, and Kira agreed so she could save Inori.
• Inori began a contract with Kira, identified as Kirayamato, and bit her hand to collect her life traces.
• The Allied maintenance crew panicked as equipment malfunctioned and the ZAFT GINN moved without anyone controlling it.

Inori Yuzuriha and Kira lured the rampaging GINN into a lower-level hangar, where they found an unfinished Gundam frame. As the GINN resumed its pursuit, Inori climbed into the cockpit and prepared to operate the frame herself.

• The GINN annihilated Heliopolis's Mobile Armors and caused guided missiles to turn against one another, prompting the Orb representative to realize it was heading toward the Akatsuki Foundation.
• Inori Yuzuriha and Kira rode a self-driving taxi to a site surrounded by construction machinery, with the GINN following them.
• Construction machinery evaded the GINN's fire, piled onto it, and forced it through the collapsing ground into a lower level.
• Inori led Kira through the lower level to an unfinished Gundam frame after telling him that the others had evacuated.
• Inori entered the frame's cockpit to serve as its operating interface, and Kira noticed the Rice Cooker Robot nearby.

Kira piloted the unfinished Gundam Frame with Inori Yuzuriha’s help and fought a GINN despite the machine’s failing power and damaged structure. He destroyed the GINN at the last second, and the Gundam Frame shut down.

• Inori Yuzuriha gave Kira a VR headset and linked his movements to the Gundam Frame as a GINN attacked the workshop.
• Kira evaded the GINN, retrieved a prototype Beam Saber, and continued fighting after the cables were cut and a fifty-nine-second power countdown began.
• Kira dodged the GINN’s missiles and close-range attacks, but lost the Gundam Frame’s left arm and was left with twelve seconds to win.
• Kira entered SEED mode and used Inori Yuzuriha’s scan of the surroundings to launch a final attack as the Gundam Frame rapidly fell apart.
• Kira severed the GINN’s arm and rammed it into an elevator shaft, where the rising elevator crushed it as the countdown reached zero.
• The Gundam Frame ran out of power, and Inori Yuzuriha helped Kira remove the VR visor.

Inori Yuzuriha’s commissioned Chapter Zero ended with Kira escaping, the incident at Heliopolis being obscured, and Lacus Clyne appearing in a final scene that boosted the work’s popularity. After the broadcast, Inori reviewed the lively audience response and received three rewards from the production team, while preparing for the story to move into its main plot.

• Inori Yuzuriha and Kira escaped while Rice Cooker Fu Neilu erased Kira’s personal information, and the audience watched the aftermath at Heliopolis remain unexplained.
• A pink-haired girl appeared with Haroplas, and the final footage revealed her to be Lacus Clyne listening to the MV.
• Chapter Zero ended with one million Popularity Points, and Inori Yuzuriha noted that she would have less authority to alter events once the main story began.
• Inori Yuzuriha checked the comments and found that viewers were especially interested in her song, while party a had already begun selling three plastic models.
• The production team awarded Inori Yuzuriha the opportunity to distribute her MVs, a center position for OP/ED 1, and an exclusive story production opportunity.

Kira and Inori Yuzuriha prepared to make music videos, and Inori began vocal training with Hatsune Miku. The official broadcast then opened on a peaceful morning on Heliopolis, where Kira woke Inori before their filming and live broadcast.

• A client offered Inori Yuzuriha a share of sales profits and protagonist-level screen time in exchange for promoting Funnel model sales.
• Kira asked Inori what she wanted to do, and she invited him to film an MV and become her manager.
• Inori used her actor benefits to arrange vocal training with Hatsune Miku.
• The official broadcast of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED—Songstress of the Void began, with viewers reacting to the opening scene.
• Kira woke Inori in their Heliopolis home and reminded her that they had an MV shoot and a live broadcast scheduled.

Kira and Inori shared a quiet morning in neutral Orb while a broadcast discussed the war between Earth and PLANT. The story shifted to Athrun and Yzak infiltrating Heliopolis, where they learned Inori Yuzuriha was holding a concert.

• Kira prepared breakfast while Inori changed into her Goldfish Suit, and they watched a broadcast about the balance of power between Earth and PLANT.
• Inori noted that war was happening outside, while Kira said their neutral country remained peaceful.
• Athrun remembered meeting Kira as a child and woke when Yzak challenged his apparent complacency.
• Athrun, Yzak, and Nicol waited in Heliopolis as ZAFT spies for equipment and intelligence about Earth Alliance mobile suits.
• Athrun told Yzak that Orb's Diva, Inori Yuzuriha, was holding a concert and was popular in PLANT, where Lacus liked her songs.

Yzak, Athrun, and Nicol waited for their mission while watching Inori Yuzuriha perform “Aimo” on a public broadcast. The performance left Athrun stunned by the pilot in the music video, while Inori used Mind Induction to captivate the audience at her concert.

• Nicol explained that Orb’s music videos spread through PLANT despite attempts to block them, and the three watched Inori’s broadcast.
• Athrun and Nicol discussed the two versions of “Aimo” as Inori sang the Bird Person version.
• Athrun recognized the female pilot in the music video as Kira and wondered if Kira had a sister.
• Tolle and Miriallia watched the concert and recalled that Miriallia had recommended Inori’s music videos to Kira.
• Inori used Mind Induction to foster admiration among the concert audience, having learned the ability came naturally to her.

After Inori Yuzuriha performed a song that viewers interpreted as an anti-war lament, she realized she could take greater creative liberties as Orb’s Diva. She left the concert with Kira and friends, while the story’s preparations for the coming attack on Heliopolis continued behind the scenes.

• Inori Yuzuriha sang “Departures—A Love Song for You,” and viewers debated its lyrics as a remembrance song and an anti-war song while her Popularity Points rose.
• A director approached Inori Yuzuriha and Kira about adapting her music video into a film, but Kira declined on the grounds that Orb was neutral.
• Inori Yuzuriha reflected that Orb’s strengthened defenses prevented Cruze’s team from repeating its original frontal assault, though she had leaked information to help them infiltrate earlier.
• Tolle gave Kira more documents from Professor Kato, who expected Kira to help again the next morning.
• Kira, Inori Yuzuriha, Tolle, and Miriallia went out to dinner, where fans recognized Inori Yuzuriha and Tolle complained about the attention her fame brought.

Inori Yuzuriha and Kira met Tolle and Miriallia at a restaurant, where Athrun spotted Kira and became convinced his childhood friend had turned into a girl. Athrun rushed after them, but the blond girl he grabbed was another lookalike, leaving him even more confused.

• Kira explained that she and Inori had turned down Orb officials' partnership offer despite Inori being called Orb's Diva.
• Athrun, Yzak, and Nicol watched Kira and Inori at the restaurant, and Athrun fixated on Kira's resemblance to his childhood friend.
• Inori revealed that she had chosen Kira's stylish clothes, and Tolle realized Kira's old boyish outfits had been her attempt to look fashionable.
• Kira, Inori, Tolle, and Miriallia parted ways, and Athrun ran after Kira despite Yzak reminding him of their mission the next day.
• Athrun grabbed a blond girl he mistook for Kira, apologized after she yelled at him, and realized she was yet another lookalike.

Cagalli mistook Athrun’s attempt to explain that she resembled Kira for a pickup line, while Kira and Inori left without the childhood friends recognizing each other. The next morning, Kira and Inori met Tolle and Miriallia at the station, where Frey joined them.

• Cagalli confronted Athrun after he mistook her for Kira and grabbed her hand, and Nicol apologized on his behalf.
• Kira bought ice cream for Inori, and they left the shop through another exit before crossing paths with Cagalli and Athrun.
• Athrun told Nicol and Yzak that he had been looking for his old friend Kira and resolved to complete the next day’s mission without affecting civilians.
• Yzak warned Athrun that he would be held responsible if anything went wrong with the mission.
• Kira and Inori met Tolle and Miriallia at the station the next morning, and Frey arrived to greet them.

Kira and his friends spent time in Heliopolis as Murrue Ramius and Mu La Flaga discussed the arrival of a ship carrying the G units and the mystery of a self-moving ZAFT GINN. The chapter ended with Athrun’s team beginning an operation to reach the Akatsuki Foundation and Kira taking Inori on a tour.

• Miriallia and the other girls teased Frey about receiving a letter from Sai Argyle, while Murrue Ramius and Neumann arrived behind them.
• Inori Yuzuriha taunted Kira about Frey’s hatred of Coordinators, and Kira reacted defensively because he had hidden that he was a Coordinator from Frey.
• Murrue Ramius and Mu La Flaga watched a ship dock at Heliopolis, and Mu recalled the mysterious GINN known as the Reaper that had once defended Orb.
• The captain said the five rookie pilots selected to operate the G units could go ashore, while Mu stayed behind because his presence would attract attention.
• Athrun and his companions donned disguises and began their operation to reach the Akatsuki Foundation before the Alliance received the G units.
• Tolle asked Kira to show Inori around, and Kira reflected on his childhood, when he had been without a gender.

Kira and Inori Yuzuriha entered the Akatsuki Foundation while a staged account revealed Cruze investigating the Black Secret Coffin and Heliopolis. Kira then joined his classmates at the research group and encountered Cagalli, who was visiting Professor Kato.

• Kira and Inori Yuzuriha entered the Akatsuki Foundation, where surveillance tracked Kira's group but did not show Inori.
• Cruze told Frederick Adas that ZAFT had recovered the Black Secret Coffin from Mendel before losing it, and he suspected a GINN had been destroyed by 'G.'
• Inori Yuzuriha watched the staged events and used Lacia's abilities to influence the script, leading Cruze to inform the Council before acting on Heliopolis.
• Kira arrived at the research group with Tolle and Miriallia, and Sai handed him additional work from Professor Kato.
• Kuzz and the others recognized Inori Yuzuriha, while Sai explained that he had mistaken Cagalli for Kira when she first arrived.

Inori challenged Cagalli’s belief that Orb could remain neutral and argued that war stemmed from irreconcilable political contradictions, not machines alone. She revealed that Cagalli’s actions and presence in Heliopolis could put others at risk, leaving Cagalli shaken by the charge that she only thought about herself.

• Cagalli blushed after realizing she had mistaken Inori for someone else, while Sai changed the subject and Inori explained her view that machines were extensions of human will and a form of human advancement.
• Cagalli said machines only brought war and argued that Orb could stay out of conflict by upholding neutrality, but Inori asked whether Orb could remain neutral if ZAFT destroyed the Earth Alliance’s spaceports.
• Inori used Mind Induction to push Cagalli to consider how political contradictions caused war and criticized her for ignoring the consequences of her actions.
• Inori identified Cagalli as Cagalli Yula Athha, daughter of Representative Chief Uzumi Nara Athha, and questioned whether she had considered the risks of leaving Orb and being discovered in Heliopolis.
• Inori accused Cagalli of caring only about her own sense of morality and failing to consider how she could become the fuse that ignited a war.