Chapter Summaries

Cordelia met Long Fei hoping to impress him, but he dismissed her achievements and criticized her arrogance before promoting her to a C-rank researcher. She left humbled and was told to form a team, while Long Fei and Taoxiang discussed how he dealt with former national academicians.

• Cordelia arrived at Long Fei's office, where Taoxiang showed her familiarity with him and made Cordelia uneasy.
• Long Fei asked Cordelia to explain how she had reduced the new armor's manufacturing time and cost, then promoted her to C-rank researcher and allowed her to choose four researchers for a team.
• Cordelia questioned why she had received only a C-rank position despite being a former Wanluo Federation academician, and Long Fei insulted her work on the Terror Bird and challenged her pride.
• Cordelia asked why Long Fei needed researchers if he could develop so much himself, and he explained that they handled details so he could focus on new technologies.
• Cordelia left to form her team, and Taoxiang told Long Fei that he had crushed another national academician.

Long Fei launched red-blue military simulations across the Skywing Mercenary Group and tested the F91 Gundam, approving plans for new mass-production units. Meanwhile, Billy Amistad faced mounting business losses and planned to manipulate governments to regain access to foreign markets.

• Zhou Ya and Zhou Na fought Li Xiucheng in a simulated battle, drew against him, and learned that a system designed by Long Fei had improved his piloting.
• Long Fei and Li Jiaming organized monthly red-blue military simulations, which other countries began copying to prepare to fight the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Long Fei tested the F91 Gundam’s Bio-Computer, MCA Armor, biosensors, and Minovsky Hover System, then approved development of a mass-production model and a new directly subordinate unit.
• Long Fei also developed the Death Knight with an EXAM System for the Shadow Mad Dog Squad, with both new mass-production models still requiring improvements.
• Billy Amistad heard reports that Skywing Group companies were taking markets from his family’s businesses, then planned to encourage coups in democratic countries and install regimes friendly to the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic.

Long Fei continued investigating attacks on Skywing Mercenary Group escort fleets, with new evidence tracing the plot to a force linked to the Anglus Democratic Federation Army. After coups led to the seizure of Skywing investments in several Area 5 nations, the group forced the puppet governments to return the assets and withdrew its forces.

• Investigators traced the attacks through employers and investors to a corporation, conglomerate, or family connected to the Anglus Democratic Federation Army, though they needed to investigate further.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang discussed their future marriage, and he vowed to marry her after settling his career.
• Long Fei decided to continue investigating and developing the Skywing Mercenary Group while preparing to answer its enemies with limited measures rather than a full-scale war.
• Anglus agents backed coups in several Area 5 democratic nations, whose new leaders expelled Skywing investments, suspended contracts, or confiscated assets.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group demanded the return of its assets within forty-eight hours and threatened to attack the Anglus forces if they intervened.
• The Anglus Democratic Federation Army pressured the puppet leaders to return the confiscated assets, and the Skywing Mercenary Group withdrew; nearly half of the Anglus operations failed.

The Skywing Mercenary Group continued dismantling the Amistad Family’s hidden network while helping the elected president regain control of the Fifth District Colony. The president’s return sparked protests and a diplomatic dispute, with other countries divided over which leader they recognized as legitimate.

• The Amistad Family discovered that its puppets, controlled businesses, fleets, and ambush troops had been destroyed, while the Skywing Mercenary Group continued hacking its networks and uncovering its secrets.
• Li Xiucheng piloted Gundam S through battles against Anglus Democratic Federation forces, destroying enemy MS and warships before supporting the attack on the Presidential Palace.
• Skywing Mercenaries captured the president who had seized power and helped another figure return to office, then sent the defeated army to prisoner-of-war camps.
• Protesters supporting rival presidents clashed, and the Skywing Mercenary Group blockaded the opposition while the returning president arrested Anglus agents and nationalized the federation’s assets.
• The Anglus Democratic Federation condemned the intervention and demanded its assets back, while the president accused it of backing a coup and the Skywing Mercenary Group defended its paid mission.
• Countries split over recognition of the returning president, with the Democratic Nation of the Seventh District Colony supporting him and other democratic countries backing the politician who had seized power.

Anton and Dongfang Wudi fought Anglus Democratic Federation Army forces as eight powerful Space Turtle Mobile Armors entered the battle. Dongfang Wudi destroyed one with God Gundam’s Flash Hand, and the battlefield broadcast left viewers wondering whether God Gundam was the Skywing Mercenary Group’s strongest Gundam.

• Anton piloted Gundam Kimaris Trooper and destroyed Maganac units while Dongfang Wudi used God Gundam to defeat more than thirty enemies.
• The Anglus Democratic Federation Army deployed eight Space Turtle Mobile Armors, whose heavy weapons and armor threatened the Skywing forces.
• Crimson Aegis Gundam and Delta Plus each defeated Space Turtles by exploiting their mobility and attacking their weak points.
• Anton destroyed a Space Turtle by throwing his lance into its open cannon, causing its mechanisms to explode.
• Dongfang Wudi shouted the name of his finishing move, Flash Hand, and God Gundam charged through a Space Turtle’s Beam Cannon and shattered the Mobile Armor.
• A war correspondent captured the destruction on a live broadcast, and Anton remarked that only Dongfang Wudi could make God Gundam perform that way.

The Sky Wing Mercenaries battled Isogard, a massive Anglus Democratic Federation mobile armor with a powerful shield, heavy weapons, and retractable claws. As the fight turned against the Gundams, the war correspondent announced that Isogard was transforming.

• After the Anglus Democratic Federation's Space Turtle MA squad was defeated, its commander requested a stronger weapon, and Isogard emerged from a Colony Satellite.
• Isogard's beam barrage destroyed dozens of Jegans and Murasames, so Anton assigned himself, the Crimson Aegis Gundam, and the God Gundam to fight it while the mass-produced Gundams handled other enemies.
• Anton and the Gundam Kimaris Trooper discovered that Isogard's shield could be damaged by kinetic rounds, and the Kimaris Trooper eventually shattered it while Dongfang Wudi's Flash Hand attack was driven off by Isogard's whips.
• The Gundam Kimaris Trooper damaged Isogard with kinetic fire, but Isogard struck the Crimson Aegis Gundam with a retractable claw and nearly hit it with an Electromagnetic projectile before the God Gundam intervened.
• The God Gundam and Gundam Kimaris Trooper evaded Isogard's claws and counterattacks as the Anglus Democratic Federation war correspondent reported that Isogard was transforming.

Dongfang Wudi activated God Gundam’s Hot-Blooded Mode and destroyed Isogard with the Flash Sword. The Anglus Democratic Federation Army retreated, and the country it had supported surrendered, allowing its former president to resume power and honor the contracts with Skywing Group.

• Isogard transformed into a Mobile Armor and attacked the three Gundams with missiles and its Ship-cutting Saber, but God Gundam saved the Crimson Aegis Gundam from a fatal strike.
• Anton and Dongfang Wudi worked together to break Isogard’s shield, but its tentacle whips drove them back.
• Dongfang Wudi asked Anton and the other companion to hold Isogard off while he moved God Gundam away and played the song Battle Boy.
• The song stirred Dongfang Wudi’s emotions, awakening God Gundam’s Hot-Blooded Mode and its gigantic Beam Saber.
• God Gundam’s Flash Sword shattered Isogard’s weapon and shield, then split the Mobile Armor in two.
• The Anglus Democratic Federation Army retreated, the country it had supported surrendered, and its former president resumed power and continued the contracts with Skywing Group.

Billy met with Sayama Hidero of the Amaterasu Organization to discuss cooperating on new mobile suits and mobile armors. They left without an agreement after Billy demanded the organization transfer its technologies to his military-industrial enterprise.

• Billy learned the Amaterasu Organization had come to discuss cooperation, then agreed to meet despite his contempt for the organization and Long Fei.
• Sayama Hidero proposed jointly developing new MSs and MAs and showed Billy footage of Oni Yasha and Evil Oni fighting Gundams.
• Billy challenged Sayama Hidero for presenting footage that omitted the Amaterasu Organization’s defeat, and Sayama Hidero argued that both sides wanted to obtain Gundam technology.
• Sayama Hidero offered the organization’s Efficiency Boost Mode, frames, joints, and sensors, claiming they could improve Billy’s Mobile Armors.
• Billy demanded that the Amaterasu Organization transfer those technologies, and he had Sayama Hidero and his masked companion escorted out after Sayama Hidero asked for time to consult his leaders.

Kuroda and Sayama Hidero considered approaching the Morgan Family after Billy refused to cooperate. In Rosso Nation, Alonso dominated an MS Battle tournament with the Hyaku Shiki, then left with Cecilia just as something unexpected happened.

• Kuroda discussed Billy's prejudice with Sayama Hidero and considered seeking cooperation from the Morgan Family.
• Alonso persuaded Cecilia to take him to a gaming plaza in District 5 Colony to play MS Battle.
• Alonso exchanged points for the Hyaku Shiki and defeated several opponents using evasive maneuvers and surprise attacks.
• Alonso's Hyaku Shiki defeated the final Mk IIg by disappearing behind wreckage and striking from behind.
• Alonso ended his winning streak after ten matches, chose a cash reward, and left with Cecilia when something suddenly happened.

After a terrorist attack killed Rosso Nation’s president, vice president, and several ministers, riots spread across the country. Cecilia and Alonso took refuge in a Skywing Group arcade, where its security guards fought off rioters trying to seize their weapons.

• A terrorist attack killed Rosso Nation’s president, vice president, and the ministers attending an event, leaving the government paralyzed and the country in turmoil.
• Cecilia and Alonso fled looters in the streets and reached the arcade, where staff admitted them and promised to send them to Skywing Group’s main base.
• The arcade’s manager armed the security guards as rioters, including former employees, surrounded the building and demanded its weapons.
• A rooftop guard shot the riot leader, but other rioters attacked with Molotov cocktails, starting fires that spread into the arcade.
• The manager distributed guns and taught employees how to use them, and security guards shot rioters who broke inside.

Thugs attacked the arcade, forcing its security staff and employees to defend the building as they broke in with firearms. Cecilia killed several attackers and was nearly strangled before Alonso shot her assailant, but Cecilia was then struck unconscious as Alonso fired again.

• The chief and security staff defended the arcade against thugs who cut through the gate, threw Molotov cocktails, and climbed through the windows.
• Armed thugs broke into the second floor, and the chief told Cecilia to shoot anyone who entered the lounge.
• Cecilia shot the thugs who smashed into the lounge, then vomited after killing someone for the first time.
• A thug knocked Cecilia's gun away and began choking her, but Alonso bit the attacker and tried to protect her.
• Alonso shot the thug in the head, saving Cecilia, and she checked on him as he stared blankly at the corpse.
• Another thug struck Cecilia with a club, and as she lost consciousness, she heard Alonso fire and laugh.

Cecilia learned that Alonso had become violently aggressive after striking his head while trying to save her from thugs. A psychiatrist suspected Alonso might have a dual personality and said he needed long-term observation.

• Cecilia woke aboard the Sky Wing Mercenaries' fleet and learned that Alonso was undergoing a mental examination.
• After Cecilia was knocked down, Alonso killed several thugs and attacked a Sky Wing Mercenary before being subdued with an electric baton.
• Cecilia went in a wheelchair to see Alonso, who was asleep while a psychiatrist prepared his report.
• The psychiatrist told Cecilia that Alonso had been violently aggressive around weapons after waking, but later seemed like a different person.
• Cecilia explained that Alonso had witnessed their parents' deaths during the war, and the psychiatrist said Alonso might have a dual personality requiring long-term observation.

The Skywing Mercenary Group exposed the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic’s plot in the Rosso Nation, while Long Fei arranged tests to investigate Alonso’s other personality. After Alonso piloted the F91 without incident, his second personality emerged following a fall, and Long Fei confronted him.

• The Rosso Nation exposed the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic’s terrorist scheme, severed diplomatic ties, and inspired other restored governments to do the same.
• Cecilia agreed to let Alonso pilot an MS so the Sky Wing Mercenaries could test whether his other personality would appear.
• Alonso piloted the F91 with impressive Newtype abilities, but the test showed no sign of his other personality.
• Long Fei promised Alonso he could join the Sky Wing Mercenaries and pilot a Gundam if he earned good grades, then made a pinky swear with him.
• Alonso fell and hit his head, then spoke as his other personality and blamed his primary personality for the accident.
• Long Fei stopped Cecilia from approaching and asked Alonso whether he was the other personality.

Alonso’s calm personality explained how he and the Berserker shared control of his body, while Long Fei considered whether Alonso could join the Skywing Mercenary Group. Elsewhere, Sudcote Morgan and Sayama Hidero discussed a technology partnership between the Morgan Family and the Amaterasu Organization.

• Alonso told Long Fei that the Berserker would take control if both he and Alonso’s primary personality lost consciousness, and that the Berserker attacked Sky Wing Mercenary because he thought they had harmed Cecilia.
• Alonso explained that the Berserker might brutally attack people from the country responsible for their parents’ deaths, while he himself felt no hatred toward that country.
• Long Fei sent Cecilia to take Alonso to eat, then told Taoxiang that Alonso’s eligibility for the Skywing Mercenary Group depended on whether the Berserker’s violence could be controlled and how they handled Cecilia.
• Sudcote Morgan met Sayama Hidero to discuss exchanging technology and jointly developing MS units and conducting MA research.
• Sayama argued that the Morgan Family needed cooperation to compete against the Skywing Mercenary Group, while both sides concealed some of their intentions as they explored the partnership.

Long Fei used the wealth extracted from Metadeng Nation to fund numerous military research and development plans while keeping the defeated country under Skywing’s control. He reviewed the Skywing Mercenaries’ combat evaluations and approved Cordelia’s TR Series Gundam design revisions.

• Metadeng Nation’s treaties transferred its orbital elevator profits, tax revenues, and other assets to the Skywing Group while forcing it to pay inflated costs for equipment and reconstruction.
• Long Fei allocated the Skywing Group’s huge net income to military plans, including human augmentation, weapons, Newtype equipment, Mobile Armor, and the TR Series Gundam project.
• Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company and the Group’s other businesses used their profits to fund research teams, while Long Fei gave the Skywing Mercenary Group priority access to new technologies.
• Long Fei reviewed reports showing that Skywing MS pilots from space bases performed poorly in aerial and naval combat, and he oversaw small-scale Minovsky Hover System testing with Earth Sphere units.
• Cordelia reported to Long Fei that she and her team had joined the TR Series Gundam project, and he approved her design changes after reviewing her drawings.
• Long Fei recalled that Li Jiaming and the other generals had changed their minds about the project after seeing designs such as Silver Thunder.

Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group evaluated Mobile Armors for development, comparing their battlefield performance, suitability, and high manufacturing costs. Val. Valo, Big Rang, and four Newtype-use Mobile Armors were selected, while several alternatives were rejected.

• Commanders debated mass-producing GP03D after it proved capable of destroying three Isogards, but its redesign and production costs made the choice difficult.
• Long Fei's evaluations favored Val. Valo and Big Rang, which were selected for development and testing after planned improvements to their defense, firepower, and speed.
• The commanders compared Geym, Psycho Gundam variants, and Qubeley, rejecting Geym and Psycho Gundam MK III because of their limitations or expense.
• Full Armor Psycho Gundam, Psycho Gundam Mk II, Qubeley, and Mass Production Psycho Gundam were selected, with the first three assigned limited production and the mass-production model reserved for lower-rated Newtypes.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group planned relatively large production runs of Val. Valo and Mass Production Psycho Gundam, but fewer Big Rang units, while Long Fei worried about Mobile Armors' costs and battlefield vulnerability.

Long Fei oversaw tests of the upgraded TR Series Gundams while Cordelia tried to improve herself to become worthy of his attention. Meanwhile, the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic lost ground to the Cross Vanguard Army, and its military pressured the Amistad Family to improve the failing Space Turtle and Isogard units.

• Long Fei reviewed tests of the TR-1 Hazel variants, TR-2 Big-W, TR-3 Gihal, and the Hazler with Fwddod support units, then ordered the teams to continue the plan.
• Cordelia offered suggestions during the project meeting, became increasingly infatuated with Long Fei, and resolved to study harder so she could stand beside him.
• Long Fei boarded Taurus 2 and returned to the main base after giving his instructions.
• The Cross Vanguard Army and Skywing Mercenary Group battered Anglo-Saxon forces, while the Electromagnetic Spiral Gun proved devastating against Isogard shields and armor.
• After the Space Turtles and Isogards suffered repeated defeats, the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic demanded that the Amistad Family improve them or face canceled procurement contracts.

In Moonlit Wall Street, Long Fei negotiated with Hanxia Empire officials over Healing Gel sales and land for cultivating its ingredients, while refusing Xu Chaoyang’s request for political support. The chapter ended with Long Fei celebrating his birthday alongside his family, Taoxiang, Skywing executives, and Hanxia’s delegation.

• After Skywing’s Mobile Armors overwhelmed the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic’s forces, the Republic withdrew from the fifth Colony Zone and focused on developing its economy and new weapons.
• Long Fei visited Moonlit Wall Street with Taoxiang, where Li Xiucheng hid from Lin Yuehua and Hanxia Chancellor Wei Kangping, Defense Minister Shu Tielong, Xu Jingyun, and Xu Chaoyang arrived to meet him.
• Long Fei declined to sell the Minovsky Hover System but offered Hanxia up to two hundred thousand doses of Healing Gel monthly at one hundred thousand Earth Sphere Credits per dose in exchange for permanent land-use rights.
• Long Fei agreed to declare and accept international supervision of poppy cultivation, explaining that poppies were necessary for Healing Gel and that substitute materials had failed clinical trials.
• Xu Chaoyang asked Long Fei to support his bid to become emperor, but Long Fei refused to back any prince and said he would consider cooperation only after Xu Chaoyang became emperor.
• On June 20, Long Fei celebrated his birthday with Taoxiang, his three older sisters, his aunt, Skywing executives, and Hanxia’s representatives.

Long Fei inspected the 18th branch base, negotiated Mobile Armor designs with Wei Kangping’s delegation, and criticized the branch’s training standards. After Li Xiucheng ended Lin Yuehua’s hopes of a romance, he revealed he was in love with ALICE and asked Long Fei to build her a humanoid body; meanwhile, Long Huijuan and Long Kui reflected on how difficult Long Fei had become to understand.

• Long Fei showed Wei Kangping’s delegation the Zam and Luvijelu designs, held firm on their prices, and offered a twenty percent discount after Wei Kangping accepted several conditions.
• Wei Kangping and the others watched Val. Valo test its combat abilities, then left the base after Major General Zhuo Desheng introduced the training programs.
• Long Fei reprimanded Major General Zhuo Desheng for the 18th branch base’s weak mercenary quality and urged him to improve its training.
• Long Fei told Lin Yuehua that Li Xiucheng had always regarded her as a little sister; Li Xiucheng confirmed he had another love, and Lin Yuehua slapped him before running away in tears.
• Li Xiucheng told Long Fei that he was in love with ALICE and asked him to create a humanoid body for her, and Long Fei agreed to try.
• Long Huijuan reported on the Long Family’s businesses and later told Long Kui that she could no longer fathom Long Fei; Long Kui said she felt the same.

The Morgan Family’s War God Ares Military Enterprise won the Anglus Democratic Federation Army’s MS and Mobile Armor procurement orders with technology acquired through its partnership with the Amaterasu Organization. Billy Amistad regretted rejecting cooperation because of his racism and hoped the rival company’s weapons would fail so Begas Military Industry could reclaim the orders.

• Reporters uncovered the Skywing Mercenary Group’s advanced automated repair technology, but Long Fei refused interview requests and rejected countries’ offers to buy it.
• War God Ares Military Enterprise’s Apollo MS defeated Begas Military Industry’s new MS and won the army’s MS procurement order.
• War God Ares Military Enterprise’s Seigya Mobile Armor also won its procurement order, leaving Billy shocked by Begas Military Industry’s two consecutive defeats.
• Billy investigated and discovered that War God Ares Military Enterprise had exchanged technology with the Amaterasu Organization, then secretly reported the partnership to the military.
• The military questioned the company, inspected its factories, confirmed it could manufacture the transferred technology independently, and awarded it the orders.
• Billy realized his racism had cost Begas Military Industry the contracts and hoped War God Ares Military Enterprise’s weapons would fail.