Exploding Seed Still Crushes You

"Beep~! Beep~!"

Inside the Strike Gundam's cockpit, a red warning light flashed and sounded. But the alarm wasn't especially urgent... Clearly, the damage to the mobile suit wasn't too severe. Still, there was no doubt the attack had hurt the Strike!

"..."

Huff! Huff!

Kira, the Strike Gundam's pilot, had been so startled that he'd nearly thought he was going to die again. Now, inside the cockpit in the Strike's chest, protected snugly by the thickest PS armor on the entire mobile suit, he gasped for breath.

After a while, he reached out and immediately silenced the blaring alarm. Then his fingers flew across the buttons on the Strike's controls, moving like phantoms as he accelerated the mobile suit and rapidly retreated into space, putting as much distance as possible between himself and that terrifying, fiery-red Genn that had landed two solid blows on him in just two exchanges!

"Damn it..."

Once he'd gotten away from the enemy and slowly calmed down, Kira cursed under his breath. He eased his breathing while staring intently at the fiery-red Genn in the distance as it circled around to turn. At the same time, he quickly ran a self-diagnostic on his Strike Gundam to get a rough idea of its condition.

Beep!!

After the diagnostic tone sounded, streams of data rapidly refreshed across the holographic screen on his control panel. Soon, all the abnormal readings were highlighted in red...

So far, his 57mm high-energy beam rifle had already been destroyed in the first clash! And now, the PS armor from his mobile suit's left wrist up to its shoulder had been badly scored by the enemy's lightning-fast assault and the scraping slash of its MA-M3 heavy blade. The blow hadn't damaged any vital parts of the arm, but there was no doubt that