Bonus Chapter for Accumulated Tips: Rau Le Creuset's Confusion

"It's coming!"

"!"

The flood of thoughts lasted only an extremely brief instant. But the enemy would not mercifully wait for her to sort out these strange, frightening feelings.

Hearing Canard's concise, forceful shout for the third time, Jiliang suddenly snapped back to her senses and forcibly buried every distracting thought deep within her mind. She tightened her grip on the controls once more. Reflected in her violet eyes were the three enemy machines pressing in again, and they gleamed with determination.

The Freedom Gundam and the Experimental Prototype Zaku—Jiliang and Canard—charged once more toward the three approaching machines, beginning an even fiercer battle of life and death upon this stage of azure sky.

The only sounds inside the MS cockpit were the mechanical voice broadcasting the battle situation and the faint vibrations from distant secondary explosions. Everything was proceeding in perfect order.

To Rau Le Creuset, the battlefield should have been the symphony he understood best—and the one he was best at composing. Human foolishness as its notes, chains of hatred as its melody, all of it ultimately becoming a requiem leading toward oblivion.

Yet... today, the piece he had personally arranged was playing an impossible variation—one so grating that he could not ignore it.

"...What is this...?"

Even through his mask, undisguised astonishment seeped into that low, pleasant voice.

The mask coldly reflected the chaotic flickering points of light on the main monitor, yet all of Creuset's attention had long since been seized by the utterly unbelievable sight before him.

At the very center of his field of vision, where the optical sensors were locked at maximum magnification, two mobile suits were performing a miraculous duet.

The blue, white, and black Freedom Gundam moved like an angel of judgment sent down by divine will. Its magnificent spread