Jiliang's once delicate features were now twisted by pain, the deep helplessness of being forced to cross blades with someone she cherished. She did not want to hurt Flay, but neither could she stand by and watch Flay destroy everything.
The agony of that contradiction became a pained expression, deeply etched onto Jiliang's face.
Freedom Gundam raised its shield once more, its Beam Saber fully charged again.
One was a mad avenger toyed with by Destiny, stripped of self and memory.
The other was a sorrowful guardian who bore the title of strongest yet possessed the gentlest heart.
They had once cared for each other, once been such close friends. Yet now, piloting their respective steel giants in this cold expanse of space, they began the cruelest of battles.
Goddess of Liberation Gundam brought its Beam Saber down with the fiercest force of its life, and Freedom Gundam raised its shield to meet it.
The beam blade slammed viciously into the anti-beam shield, erupting in a blinding flash. It was a clash of energy—and a collision between two shattered hearts.
The Detached Integrated Control High-Mobility Armament Network System—commonly known as DRAGOON—was Providence Gundam's signature armament.
Controlling these weapon systems, which demanded extraordinarily high spatial awareness, would be nothing short of a disaster for an ordinary pilot. The brain had to process the coordinates, speeds, remaining energy, and attack angles of multiple terminals at once; even the slightest mistake could trigger a chain reaction of loss of control. Yet for Rau Le Creuset, a genius with supreme spatial awareness maliciously shaped by Destiny, these eleven remote terminals were merely tentacles extending from his twisted soul, physical manifestations of his will to hatred.
The three large platforms were each like heavily armored shield crabs carrying triple-barreled turrets. The nine High-Energy Beam Cannons