The Slow World

The sudden appearance of the Destiny Gundam, Savior Gundam, and Blue Astray brought a momentary silence to the battlefield.

"Captain, what should we do now?"

Arthur looked at the situation, which had once again fallen into passivity, and could not help asking Talia.

"You—wait and see for now!"

Talia had been about to curse him out, but after thinking it over, she decided against it. She had long since given up hoping for anything from Arthur's brain.

Besides, even she did not quite know what to do about the situation before them.

"What the hell is that guy thinking?"

Talia unconsciously bit down on her thumbnail as the image of a certain old fox flashed through her mind.

From the perspective of the mission, the Minerva had indeed completed its task. The Lohengrin base had now completely become a thing of the past. In the explosion that followed, even much of the mountain range had collapsed.

But the problem now was no longer simply the mission. It was whether the Minerva and the Radaal Troops could successfully return.

Three Gade-Ru class battleships had surrounded the Minerva from every side.

And with the enemy reinforcements arriving in an endless stream—

Talia felt a strange, bitter sense of honor.

Was the Earth Alliance taking her too seriously?

Did all these elite MS pilots have nothing better to do?

In truth, Talia had misunderstood this point.

The Minerva had simply been unlucky.

The GOUF, Duel, Buster, and Strike had indeed been assigned missions not long ago.

After the operation to snatch a bride in Orb, they had been tasked with hunting down the Mars envoy.

Later, they had been reassigned to transport MS computer core components to the Eurasian Federation.

And by sheer coincidence, the destination of their transport mission was not far