Her survival instinct made her operate frantically.
Every attitude-control thruster on the Goddess of Liberation Gundam fired at full force, barely stopping its spin.
Flay almost instinctively raised her Beam Rifle, its muzzle trembling as it aimed at the approaching White Devil.
"Aah!?"
She fired a wild barrage of beams.
The Unicorn did not slow down, nor did it make any large evasive movements.
Facing the incoming beams, Xia Ya merely made slight adjustments to its posture, tilting the machine and slipping past the very edges of the high-energy particles.
That needle-threading precision allowed the Unicorn to move through the barrage with ease.
The next instant, the Unicorn had entered close-combat range—the most lethal "inside guard" of melee combat.
The pink blade of its Beam Saber was already drawn, carving a shrill arc through the void.
The Goddess of Liberation had just tried to raise an arm to block when Flay realized everything was too slow.
The arc of light flashed, and the left arm holding the Beam Rifle was cleanly severed at the elbow.
The cut melted under the heat, spraying liquid metal. The rifle and the severed arm were both flung into the depths of space.
Flay let out a brief cry of anguish. It was less pain than fear.
She watched helplessly as that Unicorn stripped away her ability to attack with a single strike.
The gap in their strength was not merely a matter of the machines' power output, but of complete control over distance, timing, and psychology.
So strong...!
That was the only thought left in her mind.
The Goddess of Liberation was an advanced weapon built with the Earth Forces' finest technology. Even against a nuclear-powered machine, it should not have been so utterly outmatched.
Its speed might not have been what it once