Chapter Summaries

The TR Series continued testing its Gundams while the Skywing Mercenary Group faced a shortage of Ace Pilots. In Long Fei’s office, Cordelia tried to draw closer to him and provoke Taoxiang, who remained confident in her relationship with him.

• The researchers tested the TR Series Gundams, including the giant-form Woundwort, while Cordelia reported on Hazel Oslar’s giant arm assembly equipment to Long Fei.
• Long Fei revised Cordelia’s data and explained that he liked her light perfume, but then sent her back to work.
• Cordelia left disappointed and judged Taoxiang for delegating much of her work to Xiao He.
• Taoxiang arrived in her psycho-frame Sparta Battle Suit, recognized Cordelia’s greeting and catwalk as a provocation, and recalled that Long Fei preferred her natural manner.

The Sky Wing Mercenaries let international reporters film branch bases, revealing their rigorous training, advanced weapons, and automated logistics while keeping the main base off-limits. Meanwhile, Long Fei considered new Gundam projects and the difficulty of testing the many weapons his forces had developed.

• Long Fei agreed to interviews and filming at branch bases after Li Jiaming and the generals argued that selective disclosure would invite speculation.
• Reporters saw civilian and combat mercenaries undergo demanding training, and a Wanluo Federation reporter admitted that the Sky Wing Mercenaries trained more rigorously than their country's soldiers.
• The media filmed the La Kai Ram MS Carrier and automated repair systems, while Long Fei chose the La Kai Ram and Archangel as the primary carriers for production and refused requests to visit the main base.
• Long Fei inspected the completed Astraea Gundam and Reborn Gundam, which he had equipped with Minovsky Super Energy Thermonuclear Reactor Type II units and additional capabilities for Astraea.
• Long Fei pondered where to build the GX-9900 Gundam X's Satellite System and worried that his many unused weapons could not be tested without starting a war.

The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic lured Skywing Mercenary Group's 19th branch into a battle and deployed its new Seigya Mobile Armors. The outmatched Skywing fleet retreated, leaving the Anglo-Saxon commander to proclaim the encounter its first victory over the mercenary group.

• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic provoked a revolution in a District 3 country, drawing the 19th branch into the conflict while its own forces joined the opposing government.
• The 19th branch's fleet fought two Anglo-Saxon regiment-level fleets, and Jegans and Murasames attacked the Apollo MS units with missiles and beam weapons.
• Apollo MS pilots activated Efficiency Boost Mode and shot down Murasames, but the mode expired and Jegans and Murasames destroyed many Apollo units.
• The Anglo-Saxon commander deployed two Seigya Mobile Armors, whose beam barrages destroyed nearly 30% of Skywing's MS forces.
• A Hyaku Shiki and two Mk IIgs struck at the Seigyas, but the Mobile Armors' defenses absorbed most of the Mega Particle Cannon's force and their beam attack was interrupted.
• The Skywing commander ordered a retreat, and the Anglo-Saxon commander celebrated the battle as the first defeat of Skywing Mercenary Group.

The Cross Vanguard Army attacked an important Anglusa Army base, destroyed Seigya, and looted the facility before withdrawing. The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic prepared for another confrontation as the Sky Wing Mercenaries gathered near the Wayne Nation, drawing international attention to the coming battle.

• The Cross Vanguard Army attacked an important space military base, where Pirate Gundam X1 and Pirate Gundam X2 destroyed Seigya while F90 and Flint Mass-produced Gundams held off its escorts.
• The Cross Vanguard Army eliminated or captured most of the base’s remaining MS forces, looted the facility, wiped out Anglusa Army reinforcements, and withdrew beyond the border.
• Anglusa Army officers discussed Seigya’s defeat and considered repurchasing Space Turtle and Isogard after war games showed they could work well with active-service MS units.
• The Sky Wing Mercenaries gathered forces near the 19th sub-base and prepared to attack the Wayne Nation, aiming to overthrow its coup-installed president and avenge their earlier defeat.
• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic moved forces to guard its border and sent a small army group fleet to the Wayne Nation as nations watched to see who would win the next battle.

The Skywing Mercenary Group crushed the larger Anglusa Army with its mass-produced Gundams, then destroyed all eight Seigyas after they entered the battle. The chapter ended with Anglusa’s advanced forces wiped out in less than five minutes.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang prepared to pilot the Bull Gundam and Astraea Gundam as the Skywing Mercenary Group deployed its varied MS forces against Anglusa’s army.
• Li Xiucheng piloted the EX-S Gundam and helped the Skywing forces overwhelm Anglusa’s MS, pushing the loss ratio past 1:40.
• The Anglusa commander deployed eight Seigyas, prompting Long Fei’s side to sortie the Big Rang, Full Armor Psycho Gundam, and four Mass Production Psycho Gundams.
• The Big Rang and Jegans destroyed Seigya No. 1, while the Full Armor Psycho Gundam blasted through Seigya No. 2.
• The four Mass Production Psycho Gundams disabled and destroyed Seigyas No. 3 through No. 6, while Long Fei used the Bull Gundam’s funnels to destroy another Seigya.
• Taoxiang used the Astraea Gundam and Red Haro to disable the final Seigya’s systems and destroy its cockpit, leaving all eight Seigyas destroyed in under five minutes.

The Skywing Mercenary Group crushed the Anglusa Army fleet after Wing Gundam and the Junior Ace Team struck from behind, forcing the army to surrender. Long Fei then returned to the main base, leaving a small force at the nineteenth branch base and treating the battle as a warning rather than the start of an invasion.

• Wing Gundam destroyed nearly a third of the Anglusa Army fleet, while two Skywing brigade fleets arrived and trapped it with the Sky Wing Mercenaries fleet.
• Yue Yangchun, Alonso, Angelica, and Lixiang piloted the four Angel Gundams in Trans-Am and destroyed enemy MS units, drawing the pursuing Apollos into a trap.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group attacked from both sides, and the Anglusa Army commander ordered a surrender.
• The former president of Wayne Nation returned to the presidential palace under Skywing protection, restored his position, and pardoned the ministers imprisoned after the coup.
• Billy learned that the military wanted improved Space Turtles and Isogards from Begas Military Industry, while Purvi abandoned plans to attack the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Long Fei returned to the main base and left a small fleet at the nineteenth branch base, rejecting calls to invade the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic.

After rescuing a media ship, Long Fei discovered that reporter Gao Dewei was his old high school classmate and agreed to an interview in exchange for repaying one of two favors. Gao Dilan rushed to prepare, with only forty-eight hours to conduct the interview.

• Long Fei and Li Xiucheng agreed to meet Gao Dewei after learning he had been Long Fei’s high school classmate.
• Gao Dewei, his sister Gao Dilan, and a cameraman visited Long Fei, but Sky Wing Mercenaries barred the cameraman from filming.
• Long Fei refused Gao Dewei’s interview request until Gao recalled two occasions when Long Fei had said he owed him favors.
• Gao Dewei spent one favor to secure an interview, and Long Fei gave him forty-eight hours to prepare.
• Gao Dilan excitedly contacted her superiors to discuss interview topics before the deadline.

Gao Dilan interviewed Long Fei live about his decision to build Skywing Group, his ambitions, and the differences between Newtypes and Coordinators. Long Fei said he would promote equality through anti-discrimination laws if he led a country, and the interview continued with other topics.

• Gao Dilan asked why Long Fei left his family business, and he said domestic restrictions would have prevented him from building Skywing Group and its military forces.
• Long Fei denied wanting to dominate the world and confirmed that he had introduced the idea of Newtypes.
• Long Fei explained that Newtypes were an evolved human branch and that he himself was a Newtype, while not all Skywing Mercenary Group members were.
• Long Fei distinguished Newtypes from artificially created Coordinators, comparing their strengths in intelligence, physical ability, perception, and battlefield survival.
• Long Fei discussed Newtype discovery, reproduction, and the possibility of conflict, then said he would establish equal-rights and anti-discrimination laws and distribute resources according to work.

After Long Fei’s interview prompted nations to investigate Newtypes, he continued testing new MS systems and researching ways to give ordinary people Newtype-like abilities. He shared some Newtype information with Emperor Xu Weiran in exchange for a promise of future help.

• The Hanxia Empire and other nations examined ace pilots’ combat records and found some had detected and evaded attacks before they struck, but the authorities lacked ways to identify or develop more Newtypes.
• Long Fei improved the MD System and tested TR Series units, concluding trials for the TR-1 Gundam Hazel and Hazel II while other machines continued testing.
• Long Fei researched combining the New Generation Neuro-Feedback Operating System with the EXAM System to give ordinary humans abilities similar to Newtypes.
• Long Kui told Long Fei that the Emperor wished to meet him about his interview, and Long Fei said he did not know whether she was an unawakened Newtype or an ordinary human.
• Long Fei spoke with Xu Weiran through a secret video call and agreed to share some Newtype information in exchange for Xu Weiran’s promise to personally help him when needed.

Long Fei investigated a surprise attack on the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic and denied that the Skywing Mercenary Group was responsible. As the Cross Vanguard Army searched near the border for the mysterious attackers, its F90 reconnaissance team received a distress signal.

• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming informed Long Fei that the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic had suffered a surprise attack and suspected the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Long Fei checked the news, assessed the scale of the attack, and concluded that his group had no reason to strike the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group publicly denied responsibility, while footage showed the attackers used powerful transforming MS unlike those of known forces.
• Colonel Marisa redeployed the Cross Vanguard and sent four F90 units to scout the nearby border.
• The F90O received a distress signal and reported it to its superiors.

Viklas’s damaged warship and its four remaining Battle Armors were overwhelmed by thirty Scorpion Tigers until three Cross Vanguard F90s arrived and began rescuing them. As Gu Chaoqi learned that the survivors belonged to the Dion Empire Resistance Army from the Mars Sphere, the F90s fought off the attackers and Jimmy’s Battle Armor joined the defense.

• Viklas ordered the four remaining Battle Armors to sortie as Scorpion Tigers pursued the warship and its crew sent distress signals.
• Salamander destroyed two Scorpion Tigers, but Jimmy and Amy struggled to survive, and one of their companions was killed.
• Three F90s bearing pirate emblems arrived, destroyed Scorpion Tigers near the warship, and contacted Viklas.
• Viklas told Gu Chaoqi that the survivors were from the Dion Empire Resistance Army in the Mars Sphere.
• The F90A rescued Jimmy from a Scorpion Tiger attack, and Jimmy’s Battle Armor fired a cyan beam to destroy an enemy MS threatening the F90A.

The Cross Vanguard forces rescued Lieutenant Colonel Viklas and his companions from a pursuit force, then learned that they were rebels from the Mars Sphere seeking help against the Dion Empire. Colonel Marisa agreed to escort them and arrange assistance.

• Relina's damaged Battle Armor was saved when the F90D destroyed the Scorpion Tigers attacking her.
• The F90O, Salamander's Battle Armor, the F90A, and the F90L helped eliminate the Scorpion Tigers and destroy two of the pursuit force's three MS Carriers.
• Colonel Marisa contacted Lieutenant Colonel Viklas, who identified his group as rebels from the Mars Sphere opposing the Dion Empire.
• Viklas explained that the Dion Empire had destroyed the Reink Nation and the Longsog Kingdom, imposing a hierarchy that favored Saint Humans and Coordinators over ordinary humans.
• Viklas told Marisa that his group had fled the Mars Sphere to seek help and that two other ships had become separated from them.
• Marisa told Viklas to follow her forces so her companions could make arrangements for his group.

Salamander confronted his lingering pain over his former lover, and Relina and Jimmy urged him to move on. Meanwhile, the Cross Vanguard encountered another Reink Nation resistance carrier, and Long Fei’s officers discussed the Dion Empire and the possibility of conflict before their meeting ended in laughter.

• Salamander collapsed when his unhealed injuries flared, and Relina slapped him before tearfully telling him to stop pining for the woman who had used him.
• Jimmy encouraged Salamander to focus on the people who cared about him, and Salamander said he had decided to let the past go and start over.
• The Cross Vanguard team escorting Viklas’s group met a Reink Nation resistance carrier and learned that another allied carrier had gone missing.
• Long Fei told Li Jiaming and the senior officers that they would shelter the Mars Sphere refugees and share the battle footage with the international community.
• Long Fei said the Skywing Mercenary Group would reject Dion Empire recruitment and joked that he might take over the Mars Sphere, prompting Taoxiang to playfully strike him as the officers laughed.

Long Fei learned that Taoxiang was three months pregnant and arranged for her care while planning a grand wedding in one month. After receiving congratulations, he reviewed information on the Mars Sphere Rebel Army’s three MS Carriers and was shocked by what he read.

• Long Fei ordered the rescued Longsog Kingdom crew to be questioned and brought to their destination, along with the other two MS Carriers.
• Taoxiang became nauseated in the cafeteria, and a female mercenary suggested that she might be pregnant.
• A doctor confirmed Taoxiang was three months pregnant, and Long Fei celebrated becoming a father.
• Long Fei told his sisters about the pregnancy and announced that he would marry Taoxiang in a month; Long Xuan agreed to help organize the wedding.
• Long Fei arranged for nannies to care for Taoxiang, then reviewed information about the three MS Carriers and nearly spat out his coffee in shock.

Long Fei read about Princess Youyou, Barbaros, and Salamander and decided to intervene in their melodramatic story by helping Salamander. Seven days later, the Rebel Army representatives arrived at the Sky Wing Mercenaries' main base and were astonished by its technology and military strength.

• Long Fei learned that Princess Youyou had married Barbaros, her former kingdom's enemy, and that many rebels had left her faction in anger.
• Long Fei recognized similarities to a game from his past life and considered helping Salamander and changing the story's outcome.
• Long Fei ordered his subordinates to bring the three Rebel Army MS Carriers to the main base at the same time.
• Princess Youyou and Barbaros arrived with the representatives of the former Reink Nation and the independent Rebel Army, and Youyou declared her plans to become queen with Barbaros as her prince consort.
• The representatives toured the Sky Wing Mercenaries' main base and were amazed by its advanced facilities, weapons, and MS units.

Long Fei rejected Youyou’s request to hire the Sky Wing Mercenaries to restore her country, offering only temporary shelter. He privately proposed that Viklas and his independent Rebel Army join the mercenaries or settle near their base, and Viklas asked for one or two days to decide.

• Long Fei questioned Youyou and her group about their plan to restore their country, then refused their commission and warned them not to press him.
• Long Fei had the others escorted out and asked Viklas whether the Reink Nation and Longsog Kingdom would grant his independent Rebel Army land and autonomy.
• Long Fei and his officers criticized Viklas’s allies for abandoning his troops and civilians, while Viklas admitted his group still hoped to return to the Mars Sphere.
• Li Jiaming offered Viklas’s group jobs and a place to settle near the mercenary base, and Long Fei explained the Colony Sphere’s position relative to the Dion Empire.
• Viklas asked why Long Fei wanted to help, then requested one or two days to decide whether his group would join; Long Fei told him to keep the offer from his current allies.

Viklas and the former Reink Nation and Longsog Kingdom troops chose to settle at the Skywing Mercenary Group’s base after learning about the wider conflict. Long Fei confronted Princess Youyou over her treatment of Salamander, then found Salamander drinking and lashing out at Relina.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group announced that it had taken in the former Reink Nation and Longsog Kingdom troops as the Dion Empire’s Rebel Army and presented their leaders and records to the international community.
• Viklas and the MS Carrier’s citizens learned about the past decade’s wars and decided to remain at the Skywing Mercenary Group’s main base.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang encountered Princess Youyou arguing with Relina and asking Salamander to help her again.
• Salamander condemned Youyou for using and abandoning him, while Youyou invoked his former vow to restore the Longsog Kingdom and tried to embrace him.
• Long Fei slapped Youyou, ordered her removed from the base, and explained her past to Taoxiang.
• At a restaurant, Salamander angrily threw off Relina’s hand, and Long Fei caught Relina before she fell and went over to Salamander.

Long Fei confronted Salamander about his despair over Youyou, and Salamander and Relina joined the Sky Wing Mercenary Group. At Modified Meteorite Shelter No. 1, Barbaros was assassinated by citizens who condemned Youyou for loving him, and Long Fei arrived to take control of the situation.

• Long Fei reprimanded Salamander for taking his pain out on those who cared about him and urged him to rebuild his life.
• Salamander asked to join Long Fei's mercenary group, and Relina joined as well.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang learned that Youyou's husband, Barbaros, was visiting citizens at Modified Meteorite Shelter No. 1.
• Citizens stabbed Barbaros while some guards failed to stop the attack or let the assailants escape.
• Youyou arrived to find Barbaros dead, and the citizens berated her for loving an enemy of the Longsog Kingdom.
• Long Fei arrived with Taoxiang and Sky Wing Mercenaries, told Youyou the incident would be handled on his territory, and declared that he called the shots.

After Youyou’s husband died, she quickly pursued Salamander and then married another man, while Long Fei encouraged Salamander to move on and succeed. Once Youyou reached the Wanluo Federation and learned more about Long Fei and the world, she regretted her choices; meanwhile, reports of the Dion Empire’s Saint Human doctrine made world leaders fear Long Fei might join Mars.

• Long Fei ordered Youyou to arrange Barbaros’s funeral within 48 hours and then leave his base with her troops.
• Youyou tried to reconcile with Salamander less than twelve hours after Barbaros’s death, but Salamander rejected her, so she chose a young Earl as her new husband and asked Salamander to command her Knight Order.
• Long Fei urged Salamander to face his heartbreak, succeed, and recognize Relina’s sincere affection for him.
• After the Reink Nation and Longsog Kingdom ships reached Wanluo Federation territory, Youyou learned about Long Fei’s advanced technology and regretted not choosing him.
• Youyou and Manros told international leaders that the Dion Empire had unified the Mars Sphere and followed Samulas III’s Saint Human doctrine, prompting fears that Mars might recruit Long Fei.

Long Fei and Taoxiang married in a lavish ceremony before guests and viewers around the world. During their honeymoon, nations investigated the Dion Empire’s military strength and debated how to respond, leaving the major powers poised to test the empire’s intentions through diplomacy.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang exchanged vows and rings at their wedding, officiated by Saintess Aina, while Long Kui held portraits of their parents.
• Zhou Ya caught the flower basket, and Cordelia watched the newlyweds with jealousy as they celebrated at the banquet.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang departed for a month-long honeymoon while international nations monitored the Mars Sphere.
• Dion Empire patrol forces attacked foreign reconnaissance units, and military experts judged the empire’s mobile suits highly advanced.
• Major powers worried about the Dion Empire’s ambitions and its Newtypes but hesitated to risk war or provoke it.
• The leaders of the major powers agreed to send a diplomatic delegation to gauge the Dion Empire’s response.