Chapter Summaries

The Skywing Mercenary Group’s God Hunter Special Forces overwhelmed the Tiger MS and Puppet MS attacking the escort fleet, while the Xi'en pilots saw how far their machines lagged behind. After the unknown fleet retreated, the forces resumed escorting the Argama MS Carrier, remaining alert as they headed through a war-torn region.

• A GM II used its Penetrating Spiral Rocket Launcher to destroy more than twenty Tiger MS without suffering any losses.
• Xi'en MS pilots struggled against the Tiger MS but found ways to exploit the Puppet MS’s fragile joints, while the Dagger MS models and Anton’s Astaroth Gundam destroyed more enemies.
• The Tiger Roar Special Forces commander learned that his unit had suffered nine destroyed MS and dozens of damaged machines, while the God Hunter Special Forces had no losses.
• Anton charged toward the unknown fleet and cut a Tiger MS in half, prompting the fleet commander to order a retreat.
• The Tiger Roar and God Hunter Special Forces cleaned up the battlefield and resumed escorting the Argama MS Carrier through Colony District 6.

District Six Colony’s worsening war and economic crisis fueled crime and created a booming market for mercenaries. The Skywing Mercenary Group became the most sought-after escort force and protected colonies where it based troops or invested, leaving those areas as sanctuaries amid the wider chaos.

• The war and economic collapse left many civilians unemployed, driving some into pirate groups, human trafficking, drug cultivation, and other crimes.
• Corporations and militaries increasingly hired mercenary groups to escort ships and supplies as their own forces faced troop shortages.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group received more escort commissions than it could accept, while rival mercenary groups resented its reputation and high pay.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group maintained strict recruitment to guard against spies and continued training trafficked youths, whom it found especially loyal after they joined.
• After the Skywing Mercenary Group’s Seventh Branch Base destroyed Fistam Democratic Republic forces that attacked Philalip’s Colony Satellite 12, the group warned that attacks on designated colony satellites would be met with extermination.
• Skywing Group moved its investments to colonies with mercenary branch bases, and the Skywing Mercenary Group’s protection made those colonies and nearby areas safer.

Long Fei’s fleet received a distress signal from a Colony Satellite occupied by pirate groups, and Long Fei decided to intervene and rescue its civilians. As the mercenaries prepared for battle, Long Fei, Taoxiang, and Lixiang readied their Gundams to sortie.

• King of Thrace reflected on how the Skywing Mercenary Group had brought security and investment to the Mika'ang Kingdom.
• Colonel Isis told Long Fei that a distress signal came from Colony Satellite No. 3 of the Suluman Nation, where pirate groups had captured the colony and blocked further calls for help.
• Long Fei ordered an advance reconnaissance team to investigate and, after learning civilians had sent the distress signal, chose to rescue them and give the fleet a chance to fight.
• Taoxiang told Long Fei she understood that he prioritized protecting the Skywing Mercenary Group, and Long Fei took responsibility for the decision to intervene.
• Colonel Isis ordered the fleet to prepare for battle as the mercenaries cheered; Lixiang readied the Moon Goddess Gundam, while Long Fei and Taoxiang prepared to pilot the Justice Goddess Gundam F Type and Crimson Aegis Gundam.

Sky Wing Mercenaries attacked the pirate forces occupying a Colony Satellite, using coordinated MS units and stealth-painted GM IIs to overwhelm them. When pirates threatened civilian hostages, Long Fei refused to yield and ordered the pirates to surrender, leaving Taoxiang furious and the hostages at risk.

• Taoxiang and Lixiang piloted the Crimson Aegis Gundam and Moon Goddess Gundam as Sky Wing Mercenaries attacked pirate MS and spacecraft.
• Long Fei’s black-painted GM IIs used space camouflage and radar disruption to ambush pirate forces while the First Brigade Fleet destroyed ships along the perimeter.
• Several weaker pirate groups fled, while the inner groups struggled against the better-trained and coordinated Sky Wing Mercenaries.
• Pirate leaders threatened to kill civilian hostages unless the mercenaries withdrew, and Colonel Isis reported the threat to Long Fei.
• Long Fei ordered Colonel Isis to tell the pirates that the mercenaries would not be deterred by hostages, prompting Taoxiang to condemn his decision.
• Long Fei explained that refusing to yield would prevent hostage-taking from disrupting future missions, then told Colonel Isis to assign a codename to future operations that disregarded hostages.

Skywing Mercenary Group launched Operation Alpha to crush the pirates on the Colony Satellite, with Colonel Isis refusing to let hostages stop the assault. After surrendering, one pirate leader watched the Black Eagle Flag Pirate Group attempt to escape, but GP04 caught its captain’s flagship and forced him to surrender.

• Pirate leaders threatened to kill hostages and broadcast their demands, but Colonel Isis told them Skywing Mercenary Group would continue attacking and gave them one minute to surrender.
• Skywing forces overwhelmed the pirates across the Colony Satellite and in space, destroying ships and ground forces as many pirates surrendered.
• The pirate leader surrendered to Colonel Isis after seeing the one-sided battle, while some of his peers continued fighting.
• The Black Eagle Flag Pirate Group blasted a hole through the Colony Satellite and tried to escape, but GP04 and thirty Dagger MS units intercepted them.
• The Black Eagle captain’s flagship broke through after other ships sacrificed themselves, but GP04 caught up and aimed its Beam Gun at the bow, prompting the captain to surrender.

Long Fei and Taoxiang rescued Xu Jingyun, Shu Qianxue, and a purple-haired girl from pirates. Long Fei recognized Xu Jingyun and learned that Shu Qianxue was the fiancée his grandfather had arranged for him, but he rejected the match; he then explained that he had come because of the little girl’s distress call.

• Long Fei and Taoxiang followed a little girl's call for help and found pirates attacking Xu Jingyun, Shu Qianxue, and the girl.
• Taoxiang killed the pirates with Crimson Aegis Gundam, and Long Fei approached the three women.
• Long Fei removed his helmet and greeted Xu Jingyun, whom he knew as the Third Princess of the Hanxia Empire and his former university classmate.
• Shu Qianxue revealed that she was Long Fei's arranged fiancée, and Long Fei said he did not acknowledge the engagement.
• Long Fei told Xu Jingyun that he had not known she was there and had come to answer the purple-haired girl's distress signal.

Long Fei learned that Angelica had sensed danger and realized she was a Newtype, then evacuated her and Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue from the collapsing colony. After the Gundams returned to the mothership, Long Fei and the others sensed someone calling for help and rushed toward the signal.

• Angelica told Long Fei how pirates had attacked her and explained that she sensed people through a feeling like family, confirming to Long Fei that she was a Newtype.
• Long Fei took Angelica, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue aboard the Justice Goddess Gundam F Type and arranged for the colony’s residents to be evacuated to another colony.
• Angelica chose to follow Long Fei, who asked whether she was prepared to pilot an MS and fight, prompting Xu Jingyun to accuse him of being cold-blooded.
• After the Gundams returned to the mothership, Long Fei, Angelica, the Taoxiang sisters, and Yue Yangchun sensed a psychic call for help and set off toward its source.
• Angelica explained the sensed call to Xu Jingyun, and Long Fei told Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue to stay quiet and watch while they fought.

Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group rescued Long Xuan’s merchant fleet from the Poison Centipede Pirate Group. After reuniting with his second sister, Long Fei boarded a refugee ship with his companions to investigate the refugees.

• Long Xuan ordered her merchant fleet’s mercenaries to help the refugee ships fleeing the Poison Centipede Pirate Group.
• The pirates overwhelmed the mercenaries until Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group arrived in four Gundams and destroyed the pirate forces, including Scarred Old Man’s flagship.
• Long Xuan recognized Xu Jingyun as the Third Princess, then reunited with her younger brother Long Fei.
• Long Fei asked whether the refugees were traveling with Long Xuan’s fleet, then flew with Angelica to a refugee ship and demanded entry.
• Long Fei, Taoxiang, Angelica, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue left their cockpits and headed through the refugee crowd.

Long Fei told Alonso and his sister that Alonso’s psychic call had brought his group to the refugee ship, and explained that Alonso was a Newtype. He refused to take Alonso by force, but Alonso asked whether he could pilot a Gundam if he went with Long Fei.

• Alonso approached Long Fei and said he had called for help, while his sister worried that grief over their parents had made him unstable.
• Long Fei confirmed that he and his companions had received Alonso’s psychic fluctuations and explained that Newtypes had psychic abilities.
• Long Fei told Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue that Newtype abilities could remain dormant and might awaken after a catalyst, such as Alonso’s loss.
• Long Fei told Alonso’s sister that he would not take her brother against his wishes, and Alonso asked whether he could pilot a Gundam if he went with Long Fei.

Long Fei offered work and shelter to Cecilia and the other refugees, while his companions prepared to bring them to his home base. Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue joined the visit, and Long Fei introduced Taoxiang as his girlfriend before admitting that profit, as well as compassion, motivated his offer.

• Long Xuan asked Xu Jingyun about Long Fei's talk of Newtypes, and Shu Qianxue resolved to tell her grandfather what she had heard.
• After Cecilia described the refugees' uncertain future, Long Fei offered jobs, meals, and shelter to those with useful skills, and told Cecilia her brother could choose whether to join his mercenary corps.
• Long Fei told the refugees to contact their companions and follow his fleet, while Long Xuan arranged to visit his home base and Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue accepted his invitation.
• Angelica agreed to join Long Fei's mercenary corps, and Long Fei revealed Taoxiang's face and introduced her to Long Xuan as his girlfriend.
• Xu Jingyun praised Long Fei for helping the refugees, but Long Fei explained that their desperation would also bring his group cheap labor and high profits.

Long Fei resumed the asteroid conversion projects using refugees from fallen nations and reunited with his sisters at the mother base. He showed Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue the converted asteroids and explained that the refugees would work there, assuring Long Xuan he would not exploit them too harshly.

• Colonel Isis delivered the civilians from Suluman Nation's No. 3 Colony Satellite to the authorities and brought the nine refugee ships back to the mother base.
• Long Xuan told Long Kui and Long Wen she had met Long Fei, and Long Fei introduced Taoxiang to his sisters during a video call.
• Angelica tested at B for psychic sensitivity and A for spatial awareness, while Long Fei postponed Alonso's Newtype ability test.
• Li Jiaming resumed the suspended asteroid conversion projects after Long Fei arranged for the refugees from fallen nations to work there.
• Long Fei returned with Long Xuan, Xu Jingyun, and Shu Qianxue, then showed them Prairie Star, Countryside Star, Garden Star, and the factory asteroids.
• Long Xuan asked Long Fei to treat the refugees fairly, and he assured her that he would not exploit them too harshly.

Long Fei arranged jobs and housing for refugees and planned to build a school for their children, surprising his employees and visitors with his generosity. Long Xuan asked him to secure a long-term contract for her merchant fleet, while Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue saw refugees working safely and learned about the school.

• Long Fei arranged jobs, family housing, and wages for refugees, and decided to turn an asteroid into a school and recruit teachers.
• Taoxiang explained to Long Fei that his employees were surprised by his charitable plans, and asked whether the children rescued from trafficking could attend ordinary schools.
• Long Xuan asked Long Fei to arrange a discounted long-term Skywing Mercenary Group contract for the Xuanqian Group's fleet, and he agreed to speak with Li Jiaming.
• Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue visited an asteroid world and found Cecilia working as a livestock herder; Cecilia said her coworkers treated the refugees well.
• A refugee employee told others that Long Fei was creating a school for their children, surprising Xu Jingyun and Shu Qianxue.

Long Fei inspected the completed Seraphim Gundam and GN Codex Fighters, then arranged for Long Xuan and the others to leave while dealing with Alonso’s attempt to reach a Gundam. He climbed into the Seraphim Gundam to test it, and the chapter ended as it launched with a Blue Haro in the cockpit.

• Long Fei explained the Seraphim Gundam’s psychic system, Solar Furnace, and Haro-assisted GN Codex Fighters, and noted that the main base would shift to producing the Exia Gundam and Mass-Produced Gundams.
• Long Fei agreed to arrange Long Xuan’s departure the next day, and Xu Jingyun decided to leave with her despite her jealousy over Taoxiang.
• Yue Yangchun reported that Alonso had sneaked aboard an airship and demanded to pilot a Gundam, so Long Fei arranged for Cecilia to take him home.
• Alonso escaped into the ventilation ducts, but Long Fei and Yue Yangchun tracked him down and had a mercenary carry him away.
• Long Fei entered the Seraphim Gundam’s cockpit with Blue Haro and launched it alongside the GN Codex Fighters.

Long Fei tested Codex Seraphim’s different forms and its coordination with GN Codex Fighters. He then tested Alonso, whose exceptional mental abilities led Cecilia to agree to training for him after he started school.

• Long Fei tested Codex Seraphim’s first and second forms, demonstrating their remote weapons, target-locking abilities, and coordination with GN Codex Fighters.
• After the tests, Long Fei returned to base, where Yue Yangchun praised his design and Shu Qianxue encountered Cecilia disciplining Alonso.
• Yue Baixue and Long Fei urged Cecilia to consider testing Alonso’s abilities and letting him receive training, and Cecilia agreed to the tests.
• Long Fei tested Alonso and found that his brainwave and telepathic abilities were S-rank, while his other scores were mostly modest.
• Cecilia agreed to arrange training for Alonso after he started school, provided it did not interfere with his education.

Saintess Aina secretly visited Long Fei to thank him for saving her and propose that he design an MS for the Oya Cross Nation. Long Fei questioned whether the country could manufacture it and bluntly criticized its outdated military, leaving Aina grim-faced.

• On the journey away from the home base, Xu Jingyun accepted that she and Long Fei could not be together, while Long Xuan warned Shu Qianxue not to harm anyone Long Fei cared about.
• Long Fei gave Li Jiaming blueprints for human-piloted Taurus and Birgo MDs to help defend the home base despite its shortage of MS pilots.
• Three days later, Saintess Aina arrived secretly at the home base with John and Yuffie, and Long Fei and Sakchi welcomed her.
• Aina recognized Long Fei as the warrior who had rescued her and healed her guardian knights, then thanked him for saving her.
• Aina asked Long Fei to design an MS for the Oya Cross Nation, but he challenged its ability to manufacture one and criticized its outdated weapons, leaving her expression grim.

Long Fei explained that Oya Cross Nation could not manufacture a more advanced MS with its outdated equipment and proposed that Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company open a factory there. Saintess Aina reviewed the Cyclops Series designs with John and Yuffie and considered which models to choose.

• Yuffie objected when Long Fei criticized Oya Cross Nation's military technology, but Saintess Aina rebuked her and acknowledged the country's weaknesses.
• Long Fei assessed the Saintess Aina MS as better than the Strike Dagger and GM Mobile Suit, but said Oya Cross Nation could not mass-produce it.
• Long Fei proposed building a Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company branch and factory in Oya Cross Nation to produce more advanced MS.
• Long Fei showed Saintess Aina, John, and Yuffie Cyclops Series MS designs, then left Sakchi to arrange their accommodations.
• John reviewed the designs, recorded several models with technology at least ten years ahead of the Saintess Aina MS, and recommended choosing separate standard and elite MS units.

Saintess Aina and Oya Cross Nation’s delegation selected the High Zaku and Malasai as their next-generation MS units and negotiated modifications and prices with Long Fei’s company. The chapter ended with Long Fei reminding them that their country lacked the ability to develop comparable machines, leaving them with little leverage in the negotiations.

• Bishop William and Bishop Matthew arrived with specialists, who evaluated the Cyclops-series units and chose the High Zaku for ordinary pilots and the Malasai for elite pilots.
• Matthew admitted Oya Cross Nation could not manufacture at least half the parts needed for either MS, and William suggested bringing Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company into the country to build factories.
• Saintess Aina named the Sparta Battle Suit as her preferred individual weapon and handed the delegation her other weapon selections for evaluation.
• Matthew asked Long Fei to upgrade the High Zaku to support more Energy Type weapons and give its captain unit stronger performance, a distinctive antenna, and improved communications; Long Fei agreed and approved the same captain-unit modifications for the Malasai.
• Sakchi rejected the bishops’ request for lower prices by criticizing the outdated Saint Seiya MS, and Long Fei told Aina’s group they could seek another supplier if they could not accept the company’s terms.

Saintess Aina negotiated with Long Fei and Sakchi over weapons prices, factory construction, and technology transfers for the Oya Cross Nation. They reached provisional terms, pending the Pope’s approval.

• Saintess Aina offered Skywing Arms Manufacturing Company factories and facilities in exchange for lower prices, but Sakchi initially proposed only a 5% discount.
• Saintess Aina argued that the High Zaku price was excessive, and Sakchi defended the company’s prices by citing the high demand and auction value of Strike Dagger MS units.
• Saintess Aina offered mining rights, tax exemptions, and land for a Skywing Mercenary Group base in exchange for a 30% discount, while Sakchi insisted the arms company also receive benefits.
• Saintess Aina and Sakchi agreed on a 20% discount, restrictions on external sales and copying, and a High Zaku technology transfer three years after the branch began production.
• Long Fei rejected Aina’s offer to swear an oath as assurance, and Aina accepted the terms provisionally while seeking the Pope’s approval before signing a contract with the group.

Pope David used evidence of corruption to secure approval for Saintess Aina’s contract with Skywing Group, and Long Fei’s companies began investing in Oya Cross Nation. After the contract leaked and Hanxia media branded Long Fei a traitor, Long Kui and Long Xuan exposed how the Long Family had seized his childhood MS design, shifting public scrutiny onto the family.

• Pope David confronted officials who opposed Aina’s contract with evidence of their corruption, and they unanimously approved it after he defended the deal’s benefits to Oya Cross Nation.
• Long Fei instructed Li Jiaming and other company presidents to begin work in Oya Cross Nation, where Skywing Group planned a sub-base, factories, and investments while retaining 51 percent of each subsidiary.
• Major powers and media investigated Skywing Group’s investments, and a leaked contract revealed Oya Cross Nation had secured local production and sales of High Zaku and Malasai units along with a future technology transfer.
• Hanxia Empire media attacked Long Fei as a traitor, and online users blamed his three older sisters for failing to control him.
• Long Kui showed footage of Long Dingkun’s people trying to seize Long Fei’s belongings, while Long Xuan revealed that Long Fei had designed the Xi’en MS as a child and the Long Family had taken his design.
• Public attention shifted toward the Long Family as media and netizens debated Long Fei’s childhood role in designing the Xi’en MS.

Long Fei’s public release of stolen designs led the Hanxia Empire to end its contracts with Feichi Military Science Company and replace the Xi’en with Yuedian’s Yuelu MS. Lin Ruidar resented his victory because he saw the Yuelu’s success as no real achievement compared with Long Fei’s creations, and his longstanding jealousy intensified.

• Long Dingkun and Long Yingxuan were mobbed by reporters after Long Fei accused the Long Family of stealing his designs and released the related technology internationally.
• The Ministry of Defense terminated its contracts with Feichi Military Science Company, while Yuedian’s Yuelu MS defeated the improved Xi’en in ten test battles and secured a large order.
• Lin Fengluan congratulated Lin Ruidar for winning the order, but Lin Ruidar said the Yuelu was inferior to Long Fei’s Gundam, GM II, and Dagger models.
• Lin Fengluan recalled that Lin Ruidar had repeatedly lost to Long Fei in competitions since high school.
• Lin Ruidar blamed Long Fei for his repeated failures and said Zhao Xinlin would have been his if Long Fei did not exist.