Justice Gundam: Two Against One

Even with a computer helping, all that calculating took brainpower.

And that was with the Coordinators' garbage operating system.

"My brain's just better."

Mostly, though, it was because Xu De had been training with Mistral every day before coming here.

Every session required an enormous amount of calculation, and naturally, his processing power improved after each one.

"Fuck you!"

Hearing Xu De calmly brag about himself, Moody shot back.

He couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive about the possibility of the three of them facing off later.

With Xu De like this, he really couldn't beat him.

Maybe, after they dealt with the others, he and Draco could team up to eliminate Xu De first?

Sure, teaming up wasn't ideal, but as the saying went, all was fair in war.

He was an honest man, not a fool.

After stopping his firing, Moody kept his hands busy adjusting the system parameters.

"Reform the formation. The second wave is coming. They're probably planning to climb the crater and surround us from the high ground."

Draco hadn't let the two men's argument distract him. He spoke coldly.

Hearing that, Moody chimed in.

"I'm ready to move. We'll break through at the weakest one, Han Xiyue!"

"What about Draco?"

Moody demanded heatedly.

"You could've moved while you were swearing."

Draco replied coldly.

"Then let's go! Let's kick their asses!"

"Don't give me orders."

Draco said, while Xu De only gave a brief acknowledgment and continued doing his job as the assault fighter without changing his expression.

Three against five. With the three men led by Xu De outclassing their opponents in awareness and skill, the fight was soon decided.

Xu De took down three Mobile Suits by himself, including the one he'd already destroyed earlier.

Moody took down two, while Draco took down one.

Of course, they might have seemed formidable, but that was partly because everyone was piloting a Ginn.

They were all elites. If they'd been piloting Moebius units, Xu De couldn't say who would have come out on top.

"So this is the final stage, then?"

Moody said with a smile.

On the lunar battlefield, the three Mobile Suits now stood in a triangular formation.

After the fierce battle, all three had sustained varying degrees of damage.

Xu De had the best record, but as the assault fighter, he'd also suffered the most damage.

Half of his left shoulder had been sheared off, exposing the alloy joint inside.

The armor elsewhere was also riddled with bullet marks.

The metal was clearly suffering from severe fatigue.

"How about that? My armor's still at 72%!"

Moody called out from the other side.

"Hmph."

Draco, who hadn't said much until now, only snorted. Even without a word, though, it was clear that his Mobile Suit had the least damage of the three.

His record was the worst too, but he'd clearly favored a style that prioritized protecting himself.

"This is a little underhanded, but sorry about this."

Moody said with a grin.

"It's fine. Make your move."

As soon as Xu De finished speaking, all three Mobile Suits surged into action. Xu De leaped high into the air to flee, while the other two tacitly aimed at him in unison.

"Don't think you're the only one who can calculate!"

Just as Moody had said, accurately predicting Xu De's trajectory was difficult if both sides were moving. But if one side was stationary and the other was leaping, the calculations would be cut by more than half.

Xu De's missing arm had shifted his center of gravity slightly, but that tiny margin of error could still be factored into the prediction.

Xu De wasn't surprised. He activated the adjustment thrusters on his legs, changing his flight path and breaking their lock with an S-shaped maneuver.

The others, already eliminated, watched the big screen. Their earlier resentment had long since faded, replaced by a fervent excitement.

These three were better at piloting Ginns than they were.

If they'd been piloting Moebius units, perhaps it wouldn't have been so surprising.

But their talent for piloting Ginns was just as undeniable.

After all, Xu De had only trained for two days, yet his control was already nimble enough for him to fight almost normally.

Give him a little more time, and he'd definitely become a Mobile Suit pilot—and not just any pilot, but one of their own high-end experimental Mobile Suits.

A bonafide rising star. They shouldn't suck up to him, but they definitely shouldn't offend him either.

Otherwise, they might end up like Hal, who'd vanished to who knew where.

"Who do you think will win in the end?"

"No idea, but Xu De's Mobile Suit has taken the most damage."

The damage levels were displayed on the screens in front of them.

Xu De's armor integrity was only around 57%. If the fight continued and he got hit a few more times, he'd definitely be finished.

"I don't think that's necessarily true. He's got the most energy left out of the three."

"Yeah, why is that?"

At one person's reminder, the others noticed the discrepancy too.

Xu De was the main attacker, yet he still had 62% energy left—about 10% more than Moody and Draco.

"Because he's missing half an arm?"

"I don't think that's the only reason. Maybe he's been factoring energy management into his calculations too?"

There was an optimal energy cost for every jump and every burst of thrust.

The system did have automatic management, but everyone knew the Coordinators' system wasn't that intelligent.

As soon as the man said that, silence fell over the room.

"We all have the same brain. How is Xu De this ridiculous?"

One quip broke the silence.

"But even so, the gap isn't that big. Two against one means Xu De will definitely use up more energy."

Guns didn't use power, but dodging did. Xu De might be incredibly agile, but being surrounded by two opponents would still increase his energy consumption.

Two against one—there was no telling who would win.

In a corner of the training area, Bella had quietly appeared. Her beautiful eyes were wide with tension as she watched the young man on the screen being attacked by two opponents.

She'd gone from excitement when he took someone out in a single exchange to anger at seeing Xu De surrounded.

Barely ten minutes had passed.

Bella's slender, fair fingers were clasped tightly together, and her slightly quickened breaths made her soft chest rise and fall.

How could two people gang up on one? It was despicable, shameless, and vile!

He'd just been the one doing most of the fighting!

Indignant at what was happening to Xu De, Bella kept her beautiful eyes fixed on him. Her heart seemed to race along with his as he narrowly dodged attack after attack on the battlefield.

Even when he was surrounded and at a disadvantage, the young man showed no sign of panic as he maneuvered. Just like back on the World Tree battlefield, he gave her an overwhelming sense of security, as if he could hold up the sky if it fell.