Gundam Astaroth and Gundam Gomory

After the first batch of Rat Hunter Saint Machines underwent repairs and switched to kinetic weapons, they returned to the front lines.

However, they found that their second-batch comrades had not achieved particularly good results with kinetic weapons either, leaving them feeling discouraged.

The Rat Hunter Saint Machine pilots discovered that against the armor of Baili, Leiying, and Shiden, 120mm Kinetic Rifle rounds had to hit the same spot three to five times in succession to penetrate their armor.

A single rocket launcher round could blow away their outer armor, exposing the internal frame.

Anton began deploying the second batch of MS units.

Pamuzhuba was astonished upon seeing the internal frames of those MS units on the screen. Not only could the frames continue operating normally without armor protection, but rifle rounds below 120mm could not harm them in the slightest.

They had to use solid melee weapons—massive hammers or high-frequency chainsaws—to destroy the frames.

Pamuzhuba immediately ordered the newly recorded footage sent back to headquarters.

Mellis put on a specially customized Sparta Battle Suit II and prepared to pilot Gundam Astaroth. He saw Captain Maoxile, who had also donned a customized Sparta Battle Suit II, preparing to pilot Gundam Gomory.

Maoxile had originally been an intelligence spy, but an accident during a mission had left her completely paralyzed. Once her country learned she was no longer useful, it abandoned her.

Neither her superiors nor her former colleagues came to visit her or offered her a single word of comfort. Maoxile knew she was nothing but useless trash, tossed into a garbage bin.

Disheartened, Maoxile knew she could only spend the rest of her life lying in a hospital bed.

After Maoxile had been bedridden and paralyzed for over a year, a stranger suddenly pushed open the door to her