Chapter Summaries

Long Fei rescued Saintess Aina and her companions from pirates using his invisible black armor, then gave Aina Healing Gel to treat John and Yuffie's gunshot wounds. The chapter ended with both wounds healing completely, leaving the crew astonished by the technology.

• Pirates stunned Aina's defenders with an electric grenade, wounded Yuffie, and forced John and Aina to surrender.
• Long Fei attacked the pirates from concealment, killed the minor leader, and revealed himself in his black armor.
• Aina thanked Long Fei and ordered her crew to lower their weapons, while Long Fei warned them to move away from his MS.
• Long Fei gave Aina two doses of Healing Gel for John and Yuffie before leaving.
• A crew member injected John with the gel, which expelled the bullet and healed his wound without a scar; Yuffie's wound healed the same way.

After the Gundams drove off Soke’s forces, the Skywing Mercenary Group accepted a commission to escort the Oya Cross Nation fleet to the war-torn 7th District Colony. Long Fei joined the larger Guardian Fleet, where Taoxiang’s appointment as an Ace Pilot remained a source of resentment among some pilots.

• Soke reported his defeat to Lord Billy, who spared him but ordered him to investigate the Gundams and find a way to steal their technology or capture their developer.
• John asked Captain Bruce to escort the Oya Cross Nation fleet, and Bruce arranged protection while seeking approval for the journey to the 7th District Colony.
• Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming approved the commission on the condition that a larger fleet be sent, and John accepted the increased fee of two hundred million Earth Sphere Credits per day.
• Several days later, the Guardian Fleet arrived with two MS carriers, destroyers, escort ships, and supply ships, while Long Fei joined the escort to see the fighting in the 7th District Colony firsthand.
• Li Xiucheng, Avina, and Ke Jie Xiong discussed Taoxiang’s promotion to Ace Pilot and the resentment it had caused among other pilots.

Taoxiang prepared for her first mission while Saintess Aina sought business with Skywing Group and traveled with its escort fleet. In the Rhineman Emirate, she met Rhineman IV and heard why his country had refused to accept war refugees.

• Long Fei reassured Taoxiang that her sister would not be forced to pilot an MS or join the war, and Taoxiang prepared the Z Gundam for her first mission.
• Saintess Aina asked Colonel Shrek to arrange a meeting with Long Fei about business, but Long Fei said Healing Gel was not for sale while it remained in testing.
• Colonel Shrek escorted the Oya Cross Nation fleet safely for several days, earning the mercenary corps substantial fees.
• The fleet reached the Rhineman Emirate, where Rhineman IV invited Saintess Aina to his palace.
• Rhineman IV explained that his country had turned away refugees because it lacked the resources to accept them, drawing condemnation from democratic-bloc nations.
• Saintess Aina defended the Rhineman Emirate's right to refuse refugees, and Rhineman IV thanked her for understanding.

Long Fei and three special mercenaries traveled through the peaceful 7th District Colony and stopped at a teahouse, where they learned why its government refused to accept war refugees. After the diners saw news of Saintess Aina’s visit, Long Fei explained that his group was escorting the Oya Cross Nation’s space fleet.

• Long Fei and the three special mercenaries rode through the colony’s grasslands and admired a family herding sheep.
• Long Fei’s group shared a table at a teahouse with Bizhuo and Zhelin and ordered local drinks and snacks.
• Bizhuo and Zhelin explained that refugee crises had brought spies, unrest, and civil wars to countries that accepted refugees, while the democratic blocs criticized their country for refusing them.
• Long Fei called the democratic blocs hypocrites, prompting a nearby diner to ask why his group had come to the colony.
• Long Fei revealed that his group were mercenaries escorting the Oya Cross Nation’s space fleet, and the diners recognized the mission from news about Saintess Aina’s exchange visit.

Long Fei took Taoxiang to a pastry shop and urged Li Xiucheng to accept her, but Li insisted she had to prove herself through results. Meanwhile, Aina praised the peaceful Rhineman Emirate as Ambassador Nixon claimed its ethnic minorities were being persecuted.

• Long Fei invited Taoxiang, who had been left out by her colleagues, to ride with him and Li Xiucheng to a pastry shop.
• Taoxiang enjoyed strawberry cream puff cake and wished she could bring her younger sister there once the region was at peace.
• Li Xiucheng told Long Fei that Taoxiang would be accepted only after she proved herself in the field, and Taoxiang left the shop.
• Long Fei explained that Taoxiang and her sister had no one to rely on, but Li Xiucheng said her appointment as an ace without combat experience angered the others.
• Ambassador Nixon met Aina and challenged her praise of the Rhineman Emirate, claiming its ethnic minorities were being persecuted.

Ambassador Nixon accused the Rhineman Emirate of persecuting minorities and possessing weapons of mass destruction, while Rhineman IV and Chancellor Chen denounced the Democratic Bloc’s alleged pretexts for intervention. After learning that a massive fleet had entered the emirate’s territory, Aina exposed what she believed was the Bloc’s plan to seize its grain and impose a capitalist-controlled government.

• Rhineman IV challenged Nixon’s accusation of ethnic persecution, and Nixon presented testimony from an asylum seeker claiming the emirate committed genocide against minorities.
• Chancellor Chen pointed to the government’s diverse ministers, while Aina suspected the Democratic Bloc was trying to force the emirate to adopt democracy.
• Chen criticized the Bloc’s democracy, and the Minister of Justice reported that the asylum seeker had fled after committing defamation and assault.
• Rhineman IV accused Nixon of using false claims as a pretext for attack, but Nixon alleged the emirate had weapons of mass destruction and demanded an investigation.
• The Minister of Defense received a report that a massive fleet had entered the emirate’s territory, and Nixon said the Bloc had acted because the emirate refused to cooperate.
• Aina accused Nixon of planning to seize the emirate’s grain and install a government controlled by capitalists.

Aina and Rhineman IV rejected Ambassador Nixon’s demands as the democratic camp prepared to investigate the Rhineman Emirate, while Long Fei and the Sky Wing Mercenaries readied defenses. The chapter ended as a massive investigation fleet arrived, leaving Long Fei and the other Ace Pilots on alert for a possible attack.

• Aina accused Ambassador Nixon of using human rights and democracy as excuses to interfere in other nations, then had John alert Yuffie and Colonel Shrek.
• Long Fei ordered Colonel Shrek to recall the Sky Wing Mercenaries and prepare the Guardian Fleet for battle; the fleet deployed ships and MS units to guard the colony and Aina.
• Long Fei and Colonel Shrek discussed the democratic camp’s tactics, and Long Fei asked him to prepare ways to guard against an attack and catch the investigation team in the act.
• John requested an MS squad to protect Aina, and eight 105 Daggers accompanied four Saint MS units to the royal palace.
• Nixon accused Aina of supporting Rhineman with advanced MS units, but Aina explained they belonged to the Skywing Mercenary Group; Rhineman IV refused Nixon’s request to deploy investigation-team MS units at the palace.
• A large fleet arrived at the Colony Satellite, and Long Fei judged it looked prepared for battle as the Ace Pilots waited in their Gundam cockpits.

Eli and Claire investigated Sky Wing’s advanced fleet and the Rhineman Emirate’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. Rhineman IV agreed to the inspection only if his people and Aina’s representatives accompanied the team, while the defense minister secretly issued instructions.

• Eli learned that the advanced warships near the Oya Cross Nation’s fleet belonged to Sky Wing, a mercenary group from District Six Colony, and ordered investigators to observe them.
• Claire arrived with the Democratic Alliance’s investigation team, recognized the GM and Strike Dagger MS units, and questioned the origins of their technology.
• Aina asked Yuffie to apologize to Stunk Country because their interview had to be postponed.
• Reporters challenged Claire at the royal palace gates over the investigation’s evidence, methods, and respect for Rhineman sovereignty.
• Rhineman IV allowed the investigation on the condition that his people and Aina’s representatives accompany the team, and the defense minister secretly sent instructions to his subordinates.

Long Fei learned why port workers resented the Democratic Camp investigation team and confronted patrol soldiers after they beat a teenage boy and bullied a little girl. As both sides called in reinforcements, the confrontation grew into a brawl, with Long Fei ordering his mercenaries not to fire first and asking Colonel Shrek to record everything with drones.

• Long Fei spoke with Bizhuo and Zhelin at the port and learned that workers feared the investigation team would use accusations about weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to attack their country.
• At the convenience store, Long Fei found Sky Wing Mercenaries protecting Bizhuo's injured son and crying daughter from five Democratic Camp patrol soldiers.
• A witness explained that a patrol soldier had slapped Bizhuo's daughter after she spilled milk tea on him, and his comrades had beaten her brother when he intervened.
• Long Fei ordered two mercenaries to attack the five soldiers after one of them insulted the local people, and the mercenaries quickly knocked them down.
• More patrol soldiers and Sky Wing Mercenaries rushed to the scene, so Long Fei called for reinforcements, told Colonel Shrek to deploy recording drones, and ordered his side not to fire first.
• The growing confrontation turned into a brawl.

Long Fei’s mercenaries defeated the foreign patrol soldiers, while Aina and John rejected the ambassador’s attempt to blame their country. After Long Fei joined the dormitory families’ campfire party with Taoxiang, Aina showed Chief Rhineman IV evidence that prompted him to prepare to confront those responsible.

• Shlaik warned Colonel Eli that his mercenaries would fight back, then ended their call as Long Fei’s forces stripped and displayed the defeated patrol soldiers.
• Bizhuo thanked Long Fei and invited him to eat with his family, while Ambassador Nixon demanded an explanation from Aina and John denied responsibility for the mercenaries’ actions.
• Bizhuo invited Long Fei and members of the Sky Wing Mercenaries to the dormitory families’ weekly campfire gathering, where Long Fei felt drawn to the community.
• Kabaya gave Taoxiang a drawing to thank her, and Long Fei brought Taoxiang to the gathering, where she joined the dancing and captivated him.
• Aina showed Chief Rhineman IV a video, and he thanked her for helping clear his country’s name before she said someone else deserved his gratitude.

Rhineman IV exposed Ambassador Nixon, Claire, and their team for planting weapons evidence with help from KS Long, and the plot’s failure was broadcast internationally. The democratic bloc’s fleet was ordered to withdraw, while Rhineman IV arranged support from Saintess Aina and offered the Skywing Mercenary Group rewards for its help.

• Claire and the investigation team discovered weapons of mass destruction, but Rhineman IV showed footage proving that Nixon’s agents and KS Long had planted them.
• Rhineman IV revealed that KS Long had been arrested and confessed, then ordered Nixon to leave with KS Long’s family and detained Nixon and Claire’s team.
• Rhineman IV asked Saintess Aina to spread the footage, thanked the Pope for supporting his country, and offered trade benefits to Aina’s nation and the Skywing Mercenary Group.
• Colonel Eli received orders to withdraw his fleet after international news exposed its attempt to frame the Rhineman Emirate, and he realized the plot had backfired.

After the Rhineman Emirate framing scandal weakened the democratic camp, the Wanluo Federation secretly staged a poison gas attack and blamed the camp, reigniting sanctions and the war. Saintess Aina persuaded Stunk Country’s president to accept responsibility and seek peace, and he publicly admitted his government’s sins and requested a ceasefire.

• Countries across the Earth Sphere and Colony Sphere condemned the democratic camp after learning it had framed the Rhineman Emirate, while soldiers refused deployment and civilians protested the war.
• Commanders abandoned occupied Colony Satellites and returned home with their troops, allowing resistance groups and countries to reclaim territory.
• The Wanluo Federation secretly released poison gas on several Colony Satellites and framed the democratic camp, prompting countries to impose sanctions.
• Saintess Aina urged Stunk Country’s president to admit wrongdoing, apologize, and compensate its enemies if he truly wanted peace.
• Stunk Country’s president decided to stop the war despite the political cost and publicly confessed his sins, requesting a ceasefire from Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country.

The leaders of Stunk Country, Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country negotiated a ceasefire with Saintess Aina as a witness, agreeing on the return of occupied Colony Satellites and compensation. As the signing day arrived, Aina and the four nations’ leaders gathered at the venue while Long Fei watched the media coverage and focused on keeping her safe.

• The President of Stunk Country apologized for the poison gas incident and requested a ceasefire, prompting Kex Country, Maga Country, and Dak Country to pause their attacks and agree to negotiate with Aina as a witness.
• The four countries held negotiations on Stunk Country's Colony Satellite No. 5, while Long Fei received updates on new Gundam production and discussed protecting Aina with Shlaik.
• After three days, the delegations agreed that Stunk Country would return the occupied Colony Satellites, provide partial compensation, and acknowledge the war in its textbooks.
• The four countries announced their ceasefire agreement and signing date, and Aina arrived at the venue under the protection of a Sparta Battle Suits squad.
• The leaders of all four nations greeted Aina and posed for photographs as international media covered the signing event and Long Fei watched from the Strike Gundam.

A terrorist attack disrupted the peace declaration, and Long Fei and the other pilots deployed to stop armed men and rogue MS from slaughtering civilians. After rescuing a little girl separated from her mother, Long Fei prepared to fight more MS with her in the cockpit.

• Aina announced the peace agreement, but an attacker tried to assassinate her before Sky Wing Mercenaries stopped him and the leaders agreed to a joint interrogation.
• Explosions struck outside the hotel, and armed men and unregistered MS attacked civilians as the four countries' forces focused on protecting their leaders.
• Long Fei, Taoxiang, and Li Xiucheng launched their Gundams, and Long Fei sent the 105 Dagger MS squad to guard Aina while the three pilots went after the attacking MS.
• Long Fei destroyed several hostile MS and rescued a frightened little girl who had become separated from her mother.
• When more MS appeared nearby, Long Fei asked the girl if she wanted to help smash the bad robots, and she agreed.

Long Fei rescued civilians by destroying four attacking MS, then learned that coordinated attacks were disrupting the peace agreement across Colony Satellite No. 5. After he left the scene, new explosions and an evacuation alert signaled that the crisis was continuing.

• Long Fei's Strike Gundam destroyed or disabled four MS and ordered the Sky Wing Mercenaries to capture two pilots.
• Long Fei reunited Sophia with her mother, while Long Kui and Long Xuan saw footage of him on Long Wen's phone.
• Long Fei learned that MS hidden aboard cargo ships had attacked Colony Satellite No. 5, and that the leaders and Saintess Aina were safe but temporarily unable to leave.
• Long Fei received intelligence that the attacks were funded by arms dealers and that two captured mercenaries belonged to Dusk.
• Long Fei ignored a reporter's questions, threw her aside when she blocked his path, and left in the Strike Gundam.
• The captured prisoners were beaten, explosions shook the area, and an emergency evacuation signal sounded.

Long Fei, Taoxiang, and their allies fought armed groups attacking Colony Satellite No. 5 while civilians evacuated and the security corps searched for terrorists. After learning the satellite might be sabotaged from within, Long Fei and Taoxiang headed to investigate another suspected enemy location as the colony shook from explosions.

• Ke Jie Xiong ran low on ammunition in Gundam Heavyarms, and Zhou Ya covered his retreat while the space battle raged outside Colony Satellite No. 5.
• Li Xiucheng and Taoxiang fought off an ambush inside the colony, destroying more than ten enemy MS before the survivors fled.
• Long Fei told Li Xiucheng and Taoxiang that the explosions targeted support points and that the colony’s opposition governor was suspected of helping the terrorists; he sent Li Xiucheng back to the mothership and took Taoxiang on patrol.
• Long Fei ordered Colonel Shrek to accept Saintess Aina’s request to evacuate civilians aboard the warship, noting that helping them could earn Oya Cross Nation a good reputation.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang helped the security corps defeat an armed MS squad, then received locations of suspected enemy hideouts from a security corps officer.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang headed to Location A to investigate as explosions shook the colony, and Long Fei warned that it could fall apart at any moment.

Long Fei and Taoxiang fought a squad of modified Flying Cat MS units and defeated them, capturing their leader. After Long Fei destroyed the sniper, they waited for Colonel Shrek’s squad to take the prisoner for questioning.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang were ambushed by modified Flying Cat MS units, whose pilots demanded that they surrender.
• Long Fei charged the enemy with Strike Gundam while Taoxiang used Z Gundam to shoot down several attackers.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang destroyed multiple modified Flying Cat MS units as the enemy squad’s leader ordered a retreat.
• Taoxiang pursued and disabled the fleeing leader’s MS, while Long Fei hunted down and destroyed the sniper.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang regrouped beside the captured leader, and Long Fei asked Colonel Shrek to send a squad to collect him.

Long Fei and Taoxiang defused a plot to destroy a Colony Satellite support point before rushing to aid a Dagger squad under attack. After the Gundams crushed the enemy forces, the Sky Wing Mercenaries entered the underground level in pursuit of the armed men as a reporter livestreamed their advance.

• Long Fei learned that the Black Raven Mercenary Group and other armed groups had been hired by mysterious employers to cause destruction, and he told Colonel Shrek to ignore criticism of their interrogations.
• Long Fei and Taoxiang received a distress call from the squad investigating the third location and raced there aboard the Zeta Gundam.
• The Strike Gundam and Z Gundam turned the battle around, destroying the enemy squad and its twelve-unit reinforcement force.
• A short-haired reporter livestreamed the Gundams' victory and followed the Sky Wing Mercenaries' ground forces into the underground level after the armed men.

Colonel Shrek defended the Skywing Mercenary Group’s prisoner interrogations at a press conference, arguing that they had prevented further attacks and that the prisoners would be handed to Stunk Country’s courts. He answered questions about the group’s Gundams and ongoing operations, then offered reporters a live view of a ground-unit firefight as they searched for hidden militants and possible weapons of mass destruction.

• Shrek showed footage of militants massacring civilians and argued that the group’s interrogations had been more merciful and did not violate conventions governing national armed forces.
• Shrek explained that intelligence from the prisoners helped the mercenaries and local authorities defuse bombs, capture militants, and rescue hostages.
• Shrek said the prisoners were being kept somewhere safe and would be handed to Stunk Country’s departments for legal processing, rather than to grieving civilians seeking revenge.
• Shrek identified the group’s powerful MS units as Gundams and said they were not for sale; he also confirmed that the mercenaries were still fighting under a paid commission from Stunk Country.
• Shrek said the group had found no poison gas so far, then connected the press conference screen to a drone filming ground forces fighting an armed organization and a short-haired female reporter reporting nearby.

Skywing Mercenary Group forces defeated militants and uncovered a poison gas device while media broadcast their operations. As Long Fei prepared to leave Colony Satellite No. 5 for Colony Satellite No. 4, the group’s Gundams alarmed military leaders worldwide, and Long Dingkun regretted seizing Long Fei’s old blueprints.

• Sky Wing Mercenaries used drones to defeat a militant group, whose surviving members surrendered, and found a poison gas device in a briefcase.
• Mercenaries secured the device and learned it could have poisoned civilians and troops within a kilometer if the attack had succeeded.
• Colonel Shrek allowed international reporters to accompany squads preparing to deploy, while Long Fei and Taoxiang rested after the fighting.
• Long Fei read plans to leave Colony Satellite No. 5 with Her Highness the Saintess for Colony Satellite No. 4 and transport citizens aboard the warships.
• Military leaders worldwide concluded that the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Gundams and other weapons surpassed their own forces, and Long Dingkun learned the Dagger MS outclassed the Geon MS.
• Long Dingkun regretted seizing Long Fei’s old blueprints, then asked Long Huijuan for help.