"...Huh?"
A completely dazed monosyllable squeezed out of Flay's throat.
As things stood, she probably could not understand what nonsense this enemy pilot was talking about at all.
Being lectured by an enemy she had "never met" in her false memories, in the tone of a master reprimanding a disciple—anyone would have reacted the same way.
But there was no longer any confusion in Xia Ya's eyes. He would bring Flay back, no matter what it took. But before that—
"Prepare yourself, Flay. For making everyone worry because of you, I'm going to beat it out of you—principal and interest, without mercy. There's no compassion here. So take this fist full of fury like a good girl!"
"...Looks like you never intended to give me a serious answer. And that disgusting, condescending tone of yours is really pissing me off...! I'll kill you here!"
As though she wanted to desperately fling every distracting thought that had shaken her from her mind, Flay screamed herself hoarse.
The light wings behind the Goddess of Liberation Gundam erupted with blinding radiance again. The entire machine became a savage bolt of lightning and charged the Unicorn Gundam in a suicidal assault.
Xia Ya's gaze turned incomparably cold in an instant. He gripped the controls tightly once more, and the pure-white machine assumed an impregnable defensive stance.
A violent clash followed—the Unicorn Gundam's Anti-Beam Shield collided fiercely once more with the Goddess of Liberation Gundam's full-force beam slash.
Though this exchange had been repeated countless times between them, the energy output of the Goddess of Liberation Gundam's Beam Saber now seemed to answer the frenzied rage and wail within Flay's heart. It was more intense than ever, and the plasma arcs it unleashed nearly set the surrounding darkness ablaze.
Amid that dazzling radiance, too fierce