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"Speaking of which, where's your brother?" Ross seemed to remember something and asked Mayu, "Why don't I see him? Normally, he should be with you now."

"Brother went to work..." Mayu comforted the agitated Stella with a helpless expression. "He said before that the money he earned from working in Orb was not enough, so he ran away to ZAFT."

Hearing this, Ross was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became serious.

"To be honest, Sister Stella was actually a human prisoner of the Earth Army captured by my brother..." Mayu continued, constantly complaining about the unreliability of the real plan. "Luckily, my brother is a mobile suit pilot, so he handed Stella over to me when we colonized the satellite Mendel..."

ZAFT, MS pilot, colony Mendel...

Rhodes seemed to know who the familiar brain waves on the pulse machine belonged to.

"Look, this is the machine my brother is driving!" Mayu said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a communicator. The picture on it was a pulse shot from a bottom-up perspective.

Ross was silent.

How do you say this? Your brother, Stella's sweetheart, was beaten to pieces by your Unicorn, leaving him only able to evacuate using the core plane?

Or was it that I almost beat your brother to death when he was evacuating from Earth?

Fate really played a nasty joke on me.

----split line----

PS: Today's update

Today I washed the eight-story staircase in my rental house and picked up a dozen packages for my family. It feels like my plantar fasciitis in my feet is about to flare up again.

Volume 163: Chapter : Destiny, Savior, and Legend

Perhaps because there were few Earth troops on the route back to the plant, the Minerva returned to the plant very smoothly.

The moment the Minerva arrived at the dock, Zhen, who had been squatting in the cell with Lei and growing mushrooms, finally breathed the air called "freedom".

The wreckage of the Zaku Warrior and Liberty was unloaded, and various parts of the Pulse began to be transported to the Minerva.

But it seems that the configuration of the Minerva's body has changed, and no new Zaku Warrior parts have been delivered. Now the Minerva only has one Zaku Warrior assembled with spare parts.

"Are you ready?" He just took the time to meet with the contact person of the Findersen Kingdom and gave the various data containing the wreckage of freedom and the battle records of the unicorn to the Findersen Kingdom.

Durandal would not doubt the credit of the Kingdom of Findersen. At least the current Prime Minister Aoife was quite trustworthy.

As for Queen Aura of the Findersen Kingdom, she is devoted to her own research and rarely shows up in public, let alone interfering in relevant government affairs.

"Talia has gone to report for duty."

"As for you, I have other arrangements." After that, Durandal led them away from the Minerva.

Along the way, although one could feel the tense atmosphere as the plant entered a wartime state, the Minerva brought back the still intact Gaia Gundam and the wreckage of the recently stolen Freedom Gundam, which eased the tense atmosphere a lot.

Under Durandal's leadership, Zhen came to a place related to MS - the MS Research Institute.

After the two MS thefts, ZAFT strengthened the security and control of the MS warehouse. It can be said that the security is second only to the Speaker's office in Plant.

At the entrance of the MS Research Institute, I really saw a girl wearing a ZAFT military uniform waiting there.

"Senator Durandal." Seeing the three people coming over, the girl glanced at Zhen and Lei Hou who were following Durandal, and saluted Durandal.

"Let me introduce you to Shin and Lei. Both of them were excellent redcoats who served with the Minerva and have a large number of kills." Durandal waved his hand and introduced the girl in front of him. "Agnes, she served on the Lunar Front and has many achievements."

For some reason, when the girl named Agnes heard Durandal's introduction that Zhen and Lei had a large number of shootdown records, her eyes lit up slightly.

"Hello, Zhen and Lei." Agnes slightly changed her previous cold attitude and greeted Zhen and Lei.

"There's no need to say more. You'll have plenty of time to bond later." Durandal waved his hand, ending the conversation. "Agnes will be assigned to the Minerva and will be a squadron with you."

"The next point is why I gathered you here."

As the group walked into the hangar of the MS Research Institute, three machines, each with its own unique features, were parked quietly there.

"Destiny, legend, and savior."

Looking at the three machines in front of him, Durandal was silent for a moment and said.

"These newly produced aircraft have undergone special data adjustments."

"Next, I will arrange the machines. Lei will drive the Legend, and Agnes will drive the Savior." Durandal turned and looked at Zhen, the young man he had saved.

"Destiny is driven by truth."

"Ah... me?" Obviously, Durandal's arrangement was a little unbelievable to Zhen.

After all, he had just been released from prison not long ago, and now he was given the opportunity to pilot the most advanced machine. This reversal was really unexpected.

After all, he had previously thought that the best outcome for him might be to drive a Zaku Warrior.

"You recovered a machine and the wreckage of a machine. This is what you deserve." Durandal said, without mentioning that most of the bonus for shooting down the aircraft was deducted.

"Everyone, get your machines running in quickly and get ready for battle." Durandal sighed and looked at Fate, who was still waiting in the hangar. "Time is running out."

He became increasingly aware that the battle that could send both sides back to the Stone Age might be approaching.

……

At this time, Industrial 7 Colony Satellite.

Stella sat in a red and white machine. Compared to the other machines, the control panel looked a bit messy. A data cable was connected to the interface behind Stella's right ear.

A large amount of data flashed before her eyes. Although her brain felt slightly swollen, there was no problem at all in fighting.

Near this red and white machine, there were a bunch of machines of the same model and some M1 Heretics lying in a mess.

"I didn't expect... just linking the machine and reading the data would have such a significant effect on the driver." Erica stood in front of the observation window, looking at the machine standing on the field, which was even shaking a little like breathing.

Originally, Stella should have returned to ordinary life like Mayu, but at her own strong request, Stella got on the MS again.

"I want to bring Zhen back," she said.

After having experiences with both the Earth Army and ZAFT, Stella instinctively thought that both places were dangerous, and subconsciously wanted to pull Shin to the "safe zone."

Although Orb did not support Stella's request to fight and did not say it, he actually welcomed the joining of such a pilot with combat experience. So Orb directly approached Erica and Ross to design a specialized machine for Stella.

"Right now, this control system is only in its simplest initial stage. Once the entire design is completed, it will be even stronger." Ross glanced at the machine on the field, then lowered his head and continued to draw the design on the tablet.

At Stella's request, in order to unleash all of Stella's power, Ross referred to the ideas of the Haro people in operating engineering machinery and made an adapter so that Stella could connect to the MS and read the body's data.

After all, Stella is different from the Haros. The Haros had experienced many direct connections to various machines and instruments in the Blue Cosmos Research Institute and were tortured to the point of almost going crazy, which is why they have the ability to connect directly to the machines today.

After all, those who can’t hold on have their brains burned out by the large amount of data and have been processed.

Since Stella's mental state was already not good, Ross naturally couldn't be so careless as to let her connect directly to the MS, so he made an adapter to limit the size of the data flow to prevent her from suddenly suffering from cyber psychosis in the MS cockpit.

"But... why does the machine you designed this time look so much like ZAFT's King... or the latest Zaku Warrior?" Erica glanced at Ross's design and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"If we want to get that boy, Shin, away from ZAFT... close combat is inevitable, so using a ZAFT-like appearance might be more effective in disrupting them." Ross continued to scribble the design on the tablet without looking back.

On the design drawing, a machine similar to ZAFT's Zaku Warrior, but with a long propulsion backpack and several mechanical arms, is being outlined bit by bit.

----split line----

PS: This is the first update today, there will be another one later.

When I woke up, I felt a sudden drop in temperature and almost curled up in the quilt and couldn't get up.

It’s so spicy, the debuff of stiff fingers appeared again.

Another member of the group finally started dressing as a woman under the persuasion and encouragement of me and other group members. This is a cause for celebration.

Volume 164: Chapter Simulated battle, start!

When Stella's new machine design was only half completed, Kira also completed the adjustments to the machine named Strike Freedom.

"So, are we really going to train here?" Sitting in the cockpit of the Unicorn again, holding the familiar handle, Rhodes felt his hands itching.

Especially after installing the Armored Battle Armor VN, he felt like punching everyone he saw.

However, considering that this was just a simulation training, Ross replaced all the missiles with training rounds and even turned off the high-frequency vibration mode of the Armored Suit VN.

"According to the arrangement, yes. After all, this asteroid belt is a rare cover."

Kira was driving the Strike Freedom and looking at the Unicorn in the distance, and subconsciously broke out in a cold sweat.

When Ross said that the Armored Suit VN had a high-frequency vibration mode, he knew that this weapon was a powerful weapon against the PS Armor.

Now standing opposite the Unicorn, after feeling the pressure from Ross, Kira felt that Strike Freedom's beam shield generator could not bring him any sense of security.

"The Strike Freedom is a long-range firepower machine, right? Fighting here would be very disadvantageous for you..." Ross glanced at the scene displayed in the All-Circle Cockpit, then returned his attention to the several machines marked in the All-Circle Cockpit. "Honestly, those new Orb mass-produced mobile suits named Murasame might be better suited to this environment than you."

Not far from the unicorn, four red and white machines were floating there quietly.

Stella sat in a Murasame, and the data cable on the adapter passed through the temporarily modified helmet and connected to the gap behind Stella's right ear.

At this time, Stella was silent, carefully observing this phantom machine that existed in the legend of the Earth Army.

No, no, and still no... After a long analysis, Stella gripped the joystick tightly. Fortunately, the output limit was set not long ago, otherwise the joystick would have been crushed by Stella.

The unicorn was just floating there casually, but it gave Stella the feeling that "it could crush the machine she was piloting with just one attack."

"Stella, don't be too nervous." Kira, seemingly sensing an impatient atmosphere over the comms, spoke to comfort Stella, who was battling Ross for the first time. "Rods will still hold back... probably."

"The more you sweat during simulation training, the less you bleed in battle." Ross glanced at the four Murasame not far away.

In Ross's perception, three brain waves filled with tension and one powerful brain wave, filled with emotions like a beast having to fight desperately with its natural enemy, mixed together.

"Everyone, you can begin."

Erica's voice came from the communication.

The next second, several machines accelerated almost instantly and scattered in all directions.

……

"Which of these machines do you think will win?"

Standing in the monitoring room of Industrial No. 7, Erica saw the movements of those machines through various cameras and asked the people around her without turning her head.

"I guess... it's a unicorn?" Frey, who had taken some time out to come to the monitoring room to watch the running-in training of these new machines, looked at the screen and saw a dreamy machine with blue light flowing between the asteroids.

"After all, we still don't know to what extent Ross has discovered the unicorn's abilities."

"Well, I disagree with you. I think Kira's Strike Freedom has a better chance of winning." Erica crossed her arms, her gaze constantly jumping between the screens showing the machines. "Although the Strike Freedom's firepower will be affected in this asteroid environment, Ross is more familiar with the bloody realities of the battlefield, and he'll be limited in a simulated battle like this."

"If your weapons cannot be fully deployed, you can overcome it in various ways, but changes in combat habits will lead to loopholes."

Erica's analysis was very logical, but Frey just smiled and continued to watch the current battle situation.

"Then let us see the final result."

……

The Unicorn flew among the asteroids. Rhodes kept observing the radar and the markings on the omnidirectional cockpit, trying to find Kira and the others in the asteroid belt.

But it seems there is no need to keep looking, someone will come to your door.

Three Murasame transformed into MA forms and flew towards the Unicorn at high speed from overhead, and the training missiles on the wings were sprayed towards the Unicorn.

Six training missiles flew towards the Unicorn, and Rhodes calmly pressed the joystick twice.

Two floating shields mounted on a special rack were transported by a robotic arm and lifted to the vicinity of the unicorn's shoulders.

The beam Gatling gun flashed and sprayed out a large number of red laser indicator lines, forming a dense firepower network. The training missile just launched by Murasame quickly stopped running after it came into contact with the standard beam of the beam Gatling gun.

But the Murasame team, which had just launched the attack, did not stop the attack. Instead, they passed through the anti-aircraft fire network woven by the laser pointer line of the beam Gatling gun and came to the feet of the unicorn.

It can be seen that before driving Murasame, these drivers must have been veterans with rich experience in MA driving. After all, this team was able to pass through the dense firepower network intact, which shows their strength.

Santa Murasame quickly transformed into MS mode, raised the beam rifle in his hand, and aimed at the unicorn.

But before they could shoot out the red beam of indicator light, a thick red indicator light shone on the two Murasame machines, directly putting the two machines into lock mode, and the pilots inside were unable to perform the next operation.

The Armored Battle Armor BS on Unicorn's right hand had been deployed at some point, aiming at the Santa Murasame below.