Recaps

Najedah’s capture shattered the Black Wing Knights’ morale as the Skywing Mercenary Group pressed its assault on the Dion 3rd Expeditionary Force. Christopher prepared to sortie with Tobias, fearing the consequences of the campaign’s mounting defeats.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group broadcast proof that Najedah had been captured, prompting many Black Flash Wings to surrender and leaving the Black Wing Knights in disarray.
• John joined the battle in Taurus and clashed with his rival Arthurwick, while Skywing forces and their allies attacked Dion units and the asteroid-converted ecological planet.
• Christopher entered the Odyssey as Skywing forces surrounded the Meteoroid Zone and inflicted heavy losses on Dion warships.
• Tobias told Christopher the enemy was nearing the central point and promised to clear a path for his escape.
• Christopher said he would eliminate as many Sky Wing Mercenaries as possible before returning to face his father.

Salamander and the Skywing Mercenary Group used rocket-boosted meteorites and Mobile Drill Missiles to weaken Mango Meteorite before launching a major assault. The Dion defenders were overwhelmed, while Long Fei waited for Christopher to emerge.

• Long Fei and his forces surrounded Mango Meteorite as Salamander arrived and received approval to execute their plan.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group propelled rocket-equipped meteorites toward Mango Meteorite and attacked under their cover with Mobile Drill Missiles.
• Communications with Mango Meteorite were jammed, preventing Christopher from calling back units that were tied down by Skywing forces elsewhere.
• After several hours of attacks, Mango Meteorite lost at least ninety percent of its defensive capability, and its warships, Mobile Armors, and MS deployed.
• The Skywing forces suppressed the Dion Army in battle, while Long Fei and the others waited for Christopher to appear.

Long Fei deployed the Harute Angel Unit against the Night Annihilation Knights, whose communications and battlefield advantage were disrupted by the unit’s GN technology. Although the Harute Angel Unit inflicted heavier losses, Long Fei was dissatisfied with its performance and decided to develop Harute II.

• Long Fei’s forces overwhelmed Dion Army units, and nearly a thousand Night Annihilation units deployed to target his direct-command units.
• Long Fei sent the Harute Angel Unit, including Avalon and Angel Units 1, 2, and 3, into battle against the Night Annihilation Knights.
• Angel Unit 3’s GN Stealth Field paralyzed the Night Annihilation Knights’ communications network, throwing their front-line pilots into confusion.
• Angel Units 1, 2, and 3, Avalon, and the Harute units attacked with GN weapons, destroying many Night Annihilation units and damaging a warship.
• The Harute Angel Unit lost more than 150 Harute units while the Night Annihilation Knights lost more than 250 units, and Long Fei decided to develop Harute II.

Long Fei reinforced the Harute Angel Unit as the Skywing Mercenary Group surrounded Mango Meteorite. Tobias rallied Christopher and the remaining forces for a final attack aimed at killing Long Fei, who prepared to meet them head-on.

• Tobias ordered a signal flare, prompting both sides to activate their special combat systems, but the fighting remained evenly matched.
• Long Fei sent Knight Series mobile suits and Mass-produced Gundams to assist the Harute Angel Unit, inflicting heavy losses on the Night Annihilation Knights.
• As Skywing forces converged on Mango Meteorite, Tobias ordered the remaining troops to prepare an escape route for Christopher and argued that killing or capturing Long Fei could turn the battle around.
• Christopher delivered a speech blaming Long Fei for their defeats and urging the soldiers to fight, winning their cries of support.
• Li Xiucheng, Tols, and Salamander recognized that Christopher and Tobias were leading the remaining forces into a last stand against Long Fei.
• Long Fei accepted their challenge and vowed to make them pay an unbearable price.

Salamander’s See Sparrow Arrange trap caught Christopher and Tobias’s forces as they charged toward Long Fei, surrounding the Night Annihilation Knights and their allies. Tobias fought Tols and Rebecca while Long Fei’s forces began destroying the trapped enemy.

• Jorge piloted Blue Zhan through long-range attacks and was targeted by Angel No. 123.
• Tobias led Night Raid and more than two thousand Night Annihilation units toward Long Fei, only for hidden forces and Shieldbreaker Destroyers to reveal themselves and attack.
• Long Fei explained that Salamander had devised the See Sparrow Arrange trap with his approval, while Christopher regretted falling for it and Tobias pressed ahead.
• Tobias used Night Raid’s Short Swords to block Tols’s attacks, and Tols noticed that the swords absorbed energy before Rebecca joined the fight against Tobias.
• The Zhou Ya Sisters, Britney, Lamiel, and Long Fei’s other forces attacked the Night Annihilation units, leaving them and the Mass-Produced Saint Machines heavily surrounded.

Tols identified the limits of Night Raid’s energy-absorbing swords while Tobias fought Pirate Gundam X3 and Neropé Gundam. Taoxiang challenged Christopher in Providence Gundam, and their battle continued as Christopher realized she was the pilot.

• Tols recognized that Night Raid’s swords absorbed only energy weapons and spent their stored energy when used to attack, while Pirate Gundam X3 and Night Raid clashed and Tobias cut down Neropé Gundam’s missiles.
• Salamander watched Jorge’s Blue Zhan turn on its own side, and Long Fei decided Jorge might be spared for intelligence and put to use.
• Taoxiang entered the battle to capture Christopher herself, while Li Xiucheng and Salamander chose Night Shadow and Night Blade as their opponents.
• Taoxiang’s Providence Gundam and Christopher’s Odyssey exchanged ranged and close attacks, and Providence Gundam’s beam saber overpowered Odyssey’s.
• Christopher sensed that Taoxiang was a woman and judged her piloting skills inferior, but acknowledged that Providence Gundam’s superior performance made the fight difficult.

Taoxiang fought Christopher and, with Long Fei’s guidance, recovered her combat instincts while the Providence Gundam and Moon Gundam joined forces against the Odyssey. Christopher’s remote cannons were destroyed and the Odyssey lost its left arm and right leg, leaving Long Fei taunting him over the comms.

• Taoxiang struggled against Christopher because her combat skills had grown rusty, while their remote weapons fought across the battlefield.
• Long Fei advised Taoxiang to leave the Dragon Fangs to their computer control and use pinpoint fire, helping her shoot down Christopher’s remote cannons.
• Taoxiang regained her battle instincts and pressed Christopher, but his Psycho-Plates protected the Odyssey from the Dragon Fangs’ attack.
• Long Fei brought the Moon Gundam into the fight, and together the two Gundams attacked the Odyssey as Night Slayer Knights tried and failed to intervene.
• The Dragon Fangs and Psycho-Plates destroyed Christopher’s remaining remote cannons, and a refracted beam blew apart the Odyssey’s left arm and right leg.
• Long Fei contacted Christopher and taunted him that he could not handle the couple joining forces.

Long Fei’s Moon Gundam unleashed a psychic current powerful enough to seize control of Tobias’s weapons and break the Dion Army’s will to fight. Christopher escaped as Tobias stayed behind, and Long Fei destroyed Night Raid, leaving the remaining Dion forces shaken.

• Tobias lost control of Night Raid’s floating blades when Long Fei’s psychic power seized them.
• Long Fei’s psychic current spread across the battlefield, encouraging Skywing’s Newtypes and driving many Dion Newtypes to surrender.
• Tobias telepathically ordered the Dion forces to escort Christopher away while he held off Long Fei.
• Christopher fled as the Night Annihilation Knights fought to clear his path, while Taoxiang’s Night Raid blocked her pursuit.
• Tobias launched Night Raid’s final attack, but Long Fei’s Psycho-Plates tore the machine apart and left its blue-glowing daggers behind.

Christopher was captured after Night Shadow betrayed him and led him to Kuroda Seiya, who revealed himself as Christopher’s Ninth Uncle Fahedina and killed him. Kuroda Seiya disposed of the body and hurried to flee after sensing Long Fei’s powerful psychic force approaching.

• Salamander ordered a search for Christopher while Christopher and the Night Annihilation Knights tried to escape through the Meteoroid Zone.
• Lan vanished during a scouting mission, and unknown machines attacked the regrouped Night Annihilation Knights.
• Night Shadow betrayed Night Blade and Christopher, crippled Odyssey, and helped the demon MS eliminate the remaining knights.
• Night Shadow brought Christopher to his master, who removed his mask and revealed himself as Kuroda Seiya, Christopher’s Ninth Uncle Fahedina.
• Kuroda Seiya shot Christopher, placed his body in Odyssey, and ordered his subordinates to relocate.
• Kuroda Seiya sensed Long Fei’s immense psychic force and fled in fear.

The Skywing Mercenary Group defeated the Dion 3rd Expeditionary Force, and Xu Jingyun and Xu Chaoge considered what the victory might mean for the wider war. Long Fei reassured Colonel Pan Zhenhua after the Harute Angel Unit’s heavy losses and authorized him to rebuild the unit before the next conflict.

• Salamander reported that the wreckage of Odyssey and Night Shadow had not been found, and Long Fei ordered the search to continue.
• After the Dion 3rd Expeditionary Force surrendered, Xu Jingyun and Xu Chaoge discussed whether the Colony Sphere or Earth Sphere might resume fighting.
• Xu Chaoge told Xu Jingyun that the Harute Angel Unit had lost more than six hundred members, far more than Long Fei’s other direct units.
• Pan Zhenhua blamed himself for the losses, but Long Fei accepted responsibility for underestimating the Knight Saint Machine MS and promised to upgrade the Harute units to the Harute II.
• Long Fei authorized Pan Zhenhua to recruit enough all-round mercenaries to bring the Harute Angel Unit to fifteen hundred combat members and urged him to prepare for a major war within about half a year.

Long Fei discovered that touching a dead Newtype could let him access and share their final memories, revealing that Kuroda Seiya had killed Christopher and that Fahedina might still be alive under another identity. Xu Chaoge proved to be a low-compatibility Newtype and recognized Kuroda Seiya in Salamander’s sketch.

• Taoxiang spoke with her twin daughters over a video call, and Long Fei promised to return home for their birthday.
• Long Fei examined Christopher’s body and saw Christopher’s memories of Night Shadow serving someone else and Kuroda Seiya shooting him.
• Long Fei shared Christopher’s memories with Salamander, who confirmed that Fadis had a younger brother named Fahedina who was believed to have died in the royal massacre.
• Long Fei and several others tested the memory-sharing ability; Xu Jingyun saw nothing, while Taoxiang and Xu Chaoge saw Christopher’s memories.
• Xu Chaoge identified the man in the memories as Kuroda Seiya, and Salamander sketched him for Xu Jingyun to confirm.
• Long Fei named his ability Mental Memory Projection and explained that he alone could obtain these projections, though he could share them with other Newtypes.

The Skywing Mercenary Group announced Christopher's death and released footage suggesting a mysterious force had killed him, prompting accusations and mourning across the Dion Empire. Long Fei denied killing Christopher, explained his motives, and warned Fadis not to target his family, leaving the identity of the mysterious force uncertain.

• The Skywing Mercenary Group announced that it had wiped out the remaining Dion 3rd Expeditionary Force and would return Christopher's body to Dion-occupied Colony Region 8.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group released footage showing Odyssey and Christopher's body in a modified meteoroid, suggesting a mysterious force had attacked the Night Annihilation units and killed Christopher.
• Dion Empire citizens blamed either the Night Annihilation Knights' Vice-commander or the Skywing Mercenary Group, while Fadis remained unsure who had killed his son.
• Long Fei livestreamed that Christopher had targeted his wife and children, said he would have owned the killing if he had done it, and warned Fadis not to harm his family.
• People around the world largely believed Long Fei's denial, while many wondered how the mysterious force had escaped detection.

Long Fei refused to hand Newtype prisoners over to other nations because he feared they would be abused as research subjects, while agreeing not to return them to Dion. He returned to the expanded 14th Sub-Base in September of Cosmic Year 124, where he explained his stance to reporters and said he had come to celebrate his twin daughters’ birthday.

• Emperor Fadis declared that the Dion Empire would avenge his eldest son and demanded the Skywing Mercenary Group return its prisoners, but Long Fei refused and agreed only not to hand them over to other nations.
• Long Fei rejected other nations’ offers to take the Newtype prisoners, accusing them of wanting to use the prisoners for research.
• John asked Arthurwick to return with him to the Oya Cross Nation, but Arthurwick refused to betray his country; before leaving, John paid the camp official to look after him.
• In September of Cosmic Year 124, Long Fei returned to the expanded 14th Sub-Base as international reporters filmed the Skywing Mercenary Group’s forces.
• Long Fei told reporters he would not distinguish between Newtypes, Coordinators, and ordinary humans, condemned Fadis’s ideology, and said he had returned to celebrate his twin daughters’ birthday.

Long Fei held a birthday party for his twin daughters, Long Guo and Long Fu, and gave them two custom Bear Buster MS units. The chapter ended with the girls eager to climb inside after changing into pilot suits.

• Long Fei asked Long Kui not to invite outsiders to his daughters' future birthday parties after Long Guo and Long Fu showed discomfort with the guests.
• Long Huijuan, Yang Ruoxi, Lixiang, Yue Yangchun, Big Gray Wolf, Long Xuan, and Long Wen arrived, and the guests sang for the twins before they ate cake.
• Long Fei had four MS units lift two shipping containers to the restaurant, revealing a pink Bear Buster for Long Guo and a yellow one for Long Fu.
• Long Fei explained that Bear Buster had interchangeable amphibious and space combat backpacks, while guests filmed the units and shared news of them online.
• Long Guo and Long Fu asked to sit inside the mechanical bears, and Long Fei and Taoxiang told them to change into pilot suits first.

Long Fei gave Long Guo and Long Fu Bear Buster MS units for their birthday, taking them underwater to swim with dolphins. His revelations about the machines’ enormous costs sparked worldwide attention and fierce online debate, while he promised his daughters they could fly them in space.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang took Long Guo and Long Fu for a ride in their Bear Busters, which raced across the sea and swam alongside dolphins.
• Long Fei said the two Bear Busters cost nearly five billion Earth Sphere Credits, then revealed that Xu Jingyun’s G-Bouncer cost at least eight billion and Wing Gundam Zero cost two hundred billion.
• Long Guo asked whether the Bear Busters could fly in space, and Long Fei promised to take the girls flying in them later.
• Guests tried to win Long Fei’s business, while netizens argued over whether his extravagant birthday gifts were wasteful or his right to spend.
• Online discussion spread the impression that Long Fei was an exceptionally devoted father to his daughters.

The Colony Sphere’s leaders debated whether to drive the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army out of the Wanluo Federation, while many powerful nations secretly preferred to prolong the conflict so they could study Dion military technology. Meanwhile, Long Fei enjoyed a rare day off at home, where Taoxiang suggested they have a second child.

• The Wanluo Federation president warned that its defeat would let the Dion Empire use its territory as a base and force more former citizens into battle.
• The Colony Sphere leaders weighed helping the Wanluo Federation against their countries’ losses, while some hoped to keep the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army occupied as they reverse-engineered its technology.
• Long Fei stayed at his hometown while Skywing Mercenary Group forces guarded the area and spies watched its hovering warships from the harbor.
• Taoxiang woke Long Fei from his afternoon nap and invited him to eat dumplings before he returned to sleep.
• Taoxiang asked Long Fei about having a second child, and he agreed they should try.

The family gathered for dumplings, where Yue Yangchun revealed that Lixiang pinched him when her temper flared. Taoxiang scolded and beat Lixiang, then dragged her away again after Yue Yangchun played an embarrassing old voice message.

• Long Fei, Yue Yangchun, and the family sat down to eat dumplings, wontons, and beef meatball soup.
• Yue Yangchun fed Lixiang dumplings, and Taoxiang dragged her away after Lixiang hit him and denied mistreating him.
• Yue Yangchun showed everyone bruises from Lixiang pinching him, so Taoxiang took Lixiang back to the room and beat her.
• Yue Yangchun played an old voice message of Lixiang speaking affectionately to him, embarrassing her in front of the family.
• Taoxiang hauled Lixiang back into the room to demand an explanation for the voice message, while Long Fei pretended not to hear her pleas for help.

Long Fei met with his generals over dinner to discuss prisoner arrangements, troop recovery, and the Dion Empire’s likely plans in the Wanluo Federation. He compared his psychic power with Fadis’s and learned that Barbaros’s ignorance of Fadis’s strength had led many to suspect him of spying, possibly contributing to his assassination.

• Li Jiaming told Long Fei that Newtype and Coordinator prisoners were being separated from ordinary humans and supervised by their own groups.
• Aixisi and Shlaik reported that Bases No. 21 and No. 22 would receive funding, while the mercenary group needed time to recover from nearly one million casualties; Shlaik said more than two million soldiers from fallen nations had joined.
• Li Jiaming said the United Army had asked Long Fei to drive out the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army, but Long Fei had declined, and he predicted the Dion forces might withdraw if the United Army attacked.
• Li Jiaming explained that many Dion soldiers occupying Wanluo Federation territory were former citizens whose families were hostages, and that the Dion Empire might use an attack on the Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic to cover their withdrawal.
• Long Fei asked Salamander about his psychic power compared with Fadis’s, and said Fadis might have grown stronger since Salamander had seen him five or six years earlier.
• Salamander told Long Fei that Barbaros had claimed he knew nothing of Fadis’s power because he had been at the officer academy during the coup, and Long Fei said the disbelief surrounding that explanation may have contributed to Barbaros’s assassination.

Long Fei arrived in Longsog Kingdom and exposed Princess Youyou’s secret dealings with Metadeng, while Salamander used the occasion to take revenge for her past betrayal. Princess Youyou submitted to Salamander’s humiliation to save her kingdom.

• Long Fei arrived in Longsog Kingdom and occupied Princess Youyou’s palace with his troops.
• Long Fei and his commanders insulted Princess Youyou, then Long Fei ordered Salamander to deal with her.
• Princess Youyou slapped Salamander, but he knocked her down and recounted how she had betrayed him and fallen for the enemy who killed her father.
• Salamander revealed Longsog Kingdom’s secret weapons trade and trafficking of women, and said its leaders had plotted to seize Skywing territory.
• Salamander threatened to abolish the kingdom unless Princess Youyou crawled and barked like a dog.
• Princess Youyou licked Salamander’s foot to preserve her position and save Longsog Kingdom.

Salamander humiliated Princess Youyou, while Long Fei explained why he thought she had brought her fate on herself. As the war between the Wanluo Federation and the Dion Empire continued, Purvi spread conspiracy theories about the Skywing Mercenary Group, which dismissed them as being caught in the crossfire.

• Salamander left Princess Youyou after warning her that recordings of her licking his shoes had spread online, and she collapsed after vomiting blood.
• Long Fei told Taoxiang that Princess Youyou had deserved Salamander's revenge, then shared an affectionate moment with his wife.
• Dion soldiers who had once been Wanluo Federation citizens said the Dion Army had forced them to fight by holding their families hostage, while the Dion Empire dismissed international condemnation.
• Purvi accused the Skywing Mercenary Group of secretly working with the Dion Empire and called for international sanctions, drawing both support and ridicule.
• Long Fei mocked Purvi's claims, and the Skywing Group's official website replied, "Caught in the crossfire while doing nothing."

Long Fei prepared the Skywing Mercenary Group for an expected war with the Dion Empire while considering faster field repairs and the changing technological balance. He concluded that the coming conflict could threaten the group’s survival and resolved to prepare for it.

• Long Fei watched the Sonic Gundam and Phantom Gundam being built and learned about a proposed automated repair workshop that could quickly restore damaged units.
• Li Jiaming reported that the plan in Colonial District No. 7 was complete, and Long Fei gave him instructions.
• Sakchi told Long Fei that Jegan and Murasame sales were growing and that national militaries were buying Skywing weapons; Long Fei warned that the United Army could gain Dion technology and narrow Skywing’s advantage.
• Li Xiucheng visited Long Fei with Alice and discussed the Deep Strike assembly module and the possibility of another great war.
• Long Fei told Li Xiucheng that the Dion Empire would drag the Skywing Mercenary Group into a battle for its survival, explaining why he was making every preparation.

Long Fei discussed the war’s immense death toll and continued preparing his forces while the United Army gathered to drive the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army from the Wanluo Federation. The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic refused to join the rescue, and Long Fei anticipated widespread devastation as the coming battle unfolded.

• Alice reported that the war had killed more than 300 million soldiers and armed personnel, at least one billion civilians, and possibly billions more who were missing.
• Long Fei and Li Xiucheng discussed the shrinking population and condemned governments that treated elderly citizens as a burden.
• In October of Cosmic Year 124, the United Army assembled two army groups to attack the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army in the Wanluo Federation.
• The Anglo-Saxon Democratic Republic declined to send troops, prompting former Wanluo Federation president Purvi and citizens on both sides to trade accusations online before their governments reaffirmed their alliance.
• Long Fei considered how the Dion Army might use Warheads and Scorpion Tigers without Minov Particle interference and resolved to continue developing technologies for his forces.

In October of Cosmic Year 124, Wanluo Federation forces fought the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army with their Fei Lei II and Suojiasi machines. At the Colony Satellite No. 52 border, Xiao was forced by a Dion soldier to fight his older brother Rui, and he killed him to protect his hostage wife and child.

• Two United Army fleets entered the Wanluo Federation, whose forces fielded Fei Lei II mobile suits and Suojiasi Mobile Armors.
• At Colony Satellite No. 52, Rui's Fei Lei II destroyed a Koukai and then engaged an Azure piloted by his younger brother, Xiao.
• Rui recognized Xiao and urged him to surrender, but Xiao refused because the Dion Army held his wife and child hostage.
• A Dion soldier threatened the family and shot Xiao's wife, forcing Xiao to attack Rui and activate Azure's Efficiency Boost Mode.
• Azure overwhelmed Rui's Fei Lei II, while a Warhead disabled the machine and left Rui unable to fight back.
• Xiao apologized as Azure's Beam Saber pierced Rui's cockpit, and the Dion soldier promised treatment for Xiao's wife and identification as a Dion soldier.

The Dion Army took Wanluo soldiers’ families hostage and forced captains and troops to attack their own comrades, throwing the Wanluo Army into chaos across multiple battlefields. Wanluo commanders ordered a retreat, while military headquarters waited for the United Army to investigate possible hostages before the next battle.

• Dion Army soldiers hacked Wanluo communications and showed soldiers’ bound families, threatening to kill them unless they turned against their comrades.
• Captain Shulai hesitated as the Dion Army demanded his surrender, while his first officer aimed a pistol at him under pressure from the crew.
• Captain Shulai ordered Kedi to target and attack a fellow warship, and other coerced captains and subordinates likewise turned on Wanluo forces.
• Across the battlefields, Wanluo soldiers fought and killed their own comrades while Dion Army soldiers watched and encouraged the infighting.
• Wanluo commanders ordered a retreat, and coerced soldiers disarmed themselves as Wanluo military headquarters awaited a United Army investigation into hostage-taking.

Long Fei and Salamander interrogated Jorge, who traded secrets about Yelishao De, Emperor Fadis, and the Dion forces for money and a place in Long Fei’s service. Long Fei assigned Jorge to Salamander, while Li Jiaming advised using him cautiously.

• Salamander deduced that Jorge had been acting on orders from Yelishao De or one of his aides, and Jorge confirmed that Long Fei was listening.
• Jorge revealed that Fadis considered Yelishao De the best heir and had quietly expanded his authority, despite appearing to treat him coldly.
• Jorge explained that Fadis’s injuries had weakened his body and spiritual power, limiting his likely lifespan to between one hundred and sixty and one hundred and seventy years.
• Jorge identified the Dion 2nd Expeditionary Army’s supreme commander as Muswati, a woman whose true identity was known only to Fadis, Julius, and Yelishao De.
• Long Fei paid Jorge for his intelligence, had his handcuffs removed, and ordered Salamander to put him to work.
• Li Jiaming advised Long Fei that Jorge could be useful but should never be trusted with great responsibility.