Andreas Dalton tio fire his bazooka towards the Japan Liberation Front’s defense lio try and break through the encirclement he and his squad had found themselves in.

  They o make their way towards the Viceroy, who had been isoted and targeted by both the Bights and JLF, as soon as possible.

  Unfortunately…

  “Dammit…! They unched a pitack before we could regroup! There’s no way I will be able to reach Her Highness now!”

  He ordered the knights under him to tinue firing their ons and focused their fire onto a single point of breakthrough. But suddenly, the soft, unstable ground uhem colpsed, engulfing their Gloucesters into the ground.

  Meanwhile, the line Guildford was holding to prevent Tohdoh and the Four Holy Swords from reag his Princess, was beginning to colpse as the rest of his knights were uo deal with the Four Holy Swords while he battled Tohdoh into a stalemate.

  They were soon forced to group together as Tohdoh and his squad mao pick off the lesser knights and encircle them.

  “No… At this rate, Princess elia would be…!”

  Guilford, faced by a helpless situatio his body tremble and cold sweat dripped down his back. But not out of fear of his defeat or death.

  His mind was filled solely by his princess’s safety.

  When suddenly, the dignified, beautiful voice of elia came into his unication line.

  “Guilford…”

  His eyes widened in shod hopefulness for a moment. His fear that his princess had been taken hostage or worse, killed, dissipated knowing that she was still in her knightmare and still had access to their unication line.

  But, his relief didn’t st as he immediately noticed the solemn and dark tone in her voice.

  Show the rest of the front going. Guildford became more and more desperate, when he suddenly got a message from elia.

  “Guilford… My knight. I want you and Darlton to assist Euphie.”

  “Y-Yhness!!!”

  “I refuse to surrender… As an imperial princess, I will fight to my st breath!”

  “PRINCESS ELIA!!!”

  Armless, headless, and onless, elia charged towards the Guren when suddenly, the ground began to shake once more.

  Then all of a sudden, the rocky walls of the ravio their right suddenly exploded with a deafening bst, causing rocks, dirt, dust, and debris to fly everywhere and creating a rge cloud of dust.

  A unique white and gold knightmare frame appeared from within the cloud of dust, his right arm holding a rge blue rifle that thrummed with energy uher ordinary ons.

  It nded right before the armless and headless Gloucester of the princess and the voice of a young man resounded from the white knightmare.

  “Viceroy, are you alright?! I’ve e to help!”

  “The Advanced Special Envoy Engineering Corps?! But who authorized- Watch out!”

  Suzaku, who heard the viceroy’s warning, was immediately alerted and saw two jet-bck ssh harkens aiming towards him.

  “Kuhh! Why is it… This heavy!!!”

  He mao dodge o was forced to blod deflect against the other with his right arm. And immediately, he felt a tremendous weight that he had never felt before ing from the unched ssh harken.

  The La was forced back, but still mao hold his ground as he put the Princess’s knightmare behind him and fag towards the dire where the ssh harken came from.

  Then… From within the cloud of smoke, dust, and debris… He saw the silhouette of a knightmare.

  It walked out of the dust, and for the first time ever, Suzaku felt a chill go down his spine as he saw the jet-bck, crimson knightmare appeared with a familiar, crimson-red sword in each hand.

  His eyes widened in shock the momeibsp; the Maser Vibration Swords it had in his hands and the resembn appearaween the mysterious bightmare and his own La and. But soon, he also noticed several differences.

  In addition to their color, the chest of the bight was different. The shape of it came to a slight point, like a prism or a diamond, uhe La’s.

  It also appeared to be rger. But soon, he realized that the bight wasn’t actually rger. The air around it… and the atmosphere it had simply made it seem like so. And as it walked, he couldn’t help but feel the air around him weighing him down as his body stiffe the sight of it.

  “What… What in the world… Is that…?”

  His eyes, wide, tio stare at it. When suddenly, a familiar yet unfamiliar voice came into his s, snapping him out of his daze.

  “Suzaku-kun, be careful!!! That thing is extremely dangerous!!!”

  He reized the voice to belong to Lloyd. But unlike his usual carefree tone, Suzaku noticed a clear fear and pani the voice.

  “Focus on saving the Viceroy and avoid any frontations with it!”

  “Y-Yes!”

  Suzaku immediately aimed the Variable Ammunition Repulsion Impact Spitfire (VARIS) rifle towards the jet-bightmare in burst mode and shot a light green, densed ball of destructive beam energy.

  He khat if the jet-bightmare had simir agility to his own La, then it would be able to dodge the bullet, even at this short distance. But that was fine.

  His iion was to create a distra and bring the remaining torso of the Viceroy’s ized Gloucester with him before retreating.

  But to his shock, instead of dodging, the jet-bightmare frame swung his sword faster than his eyes could blink.

  And before he k, the spherical beam of energy was cut in half and shot past either side of the jet-bightmare, exploding the wall of rocks and ground behind it.

  “Impossible…”

  Suzaku felt the cold sweat begin to drench his back as he stared at the jet-bightmare in shobsp;

  How…? How could a knightmare cut through a bullet of dense beam? Even with the Maser Vibration Swords, it should’ve been impossible to cut down a bullet shot from such a short distance!

  elia, who saw this, was also stunned inside her knightmare.

  But before either could process what had just happehe jet-bightmare frame suddenly burst into speed

  “Crap-!”

  Suzaku shot another bullet of spherical dense beam of energy towards the mysterious knightmare, but it simply dodged to the side with minimal movement without even slowing down.

  Both of the La’s hip-mounted ssh harkens shot forward in hopes to try and slow down its charge. But the jet-bightmare frame simply did the same and hit both of La’s ssh harkens.

  And before Suzaku could do anything else, it had arrived right before him. Its crimson red eyes shining brightly at him.

  “Dammit!”

  He shot another bullet, but the crimson-eyed knightmare frame simply titled his head to the side.

  Then, it swung up with his left arm, and his sword cut through the VARIS rifle vertically, right down in the middle.

  The rifle was sundered, its explosion causing the La to step back from the recoiling as clouds of smoke obfuscated its vision.

  “Argh!!”

  The shock from the explosion rocked Suzaku within his cockpit, shaking his brain and causing a slight dizziness.

  The La immediately leaped away ireat. But just theiced the cloud of smoke in front of him slowly turning red.

  Shivers came down his spine as his instincts shouted at him, warning him of the danger.

  In a pure rea of wariness and fear, Suzaku put both of his arms forward and deployed both of his Bze Luminous Shields.

  And a moment ter, his instincts proved to be right.

  A terrifying, crimson red beam of crag energy shot through the cloud of smoke and hit his Bze Luminous Shields.

  “Kuh!!!”

  The crimson red beam with electricity and thunderous lightning crag around it pushed against La’s light green shield of energy. For a moment, it seemed to be successful in stopping it. But soon, the Bze Luminous Shields began to crack

  And a momehe effulgent light green shield shattered into pieces. The crimson beam hit La's forearm, destroying both of La’s forearm-mounted ssh harkens and the device creating the energy shield.

  In addition to the damage to its forearm, a huge k of the La’s energy reserve was drained by the Bze Luminous Shield when it tried to defend against the red beam from the jet-bightmare frame.

  But Suzaku didn’t regret using the shield to protect him.

  If he didn’t… the fate he and La would face was definitely something he’d rather not think about.

  On the brighter side, though his Luminous Bze Shield and arm-mounted ssh harkens were destroyed, his arms were still unharmed because they took the brunt of the damage.

  And thus, he quickly drew both of his Maser Vibration Sword a on the defensive.

  Upon drawing the MVS, the previously gray bde turned red as its surface vibrated with extremely high osciltions which, in turn, produced heat; both of which tributed to increasing the cutting effectiveness of the on.

  Suzaku waited, his eyes vigintly watg the cloud of bck smoke obsg his sight.

  Then, his grip on his trol device tightened when a wind blew the smoke away and revealed the visage of the mysterious jet-bightmare frame.

  Time seemed to flow slowly as the two knightmare stared into each other in a tense silenbsp;

  Then, without a sign or a warning, the bight burst into speed and arrived right in front of the white knight in a blink of an eye.

  Having beeremely alerted and vigint of its speed, Suzaku was able to read raised his swords in defense, causing all four of the MVS swords to csh against each other.

  Sparks of light and fire flew from the intense csh. And as their swords tio csh against each other, La slowly found itself being pushed babsp;

  Although he was able to luckily react just in time to catch the bight’s swords, the strength it exhibited was far beyond his expectations. He could feel it… The La, one of, if not, the first seventh geion knightmare frame was struggling and losing in terms of strength and speed against this bight.

  “I… I ’t lose here!”

  Suzaku maneuvered to the left ahe bight’s swords down to the ground, using its ow against itself.

  He expected the bight to fall forward, or at the very least, lose its bance for a moment when he moved away so suddenly.

  But to his shock, he found the same crimson sword sshing towards him with immense speed, f him to leap bato safety.

  “H-How could he be that fast…?!”

  Suzaku simply couldn’t fathom how someone could react so quickly. And even more than that, he couldn’t uand how could a knightmare handle su immense speed? To be able to ssh horizontally towards him in an upward motion after he redirected its powerful swing down to the ground… He couldn’t even begin to imagine how much strain it would put onto a knightmare frame.

  Unfortunately, Suzaku didn’t have the leeway to pohese thoughts as he was forced into another deadly dance of high speed sword fight.

  “Kuh! I ’t believe it… The La couldn't keep up…?!”

  Although his La boasts the greatest speed and agility amongst other knightmare frames, he found himself barely able to deflect, defend, or dodge the bight’s storm of bdes.

  And wheried to ter attack, every single one of his strikes would only ssh through the air and dodged with the most minimal movement. It was as if it could predict where he would aim his sword.

  elia, atg this fight unfold within her knightmare, sat frozen. Her eyes wide as saucers as her lips parted in shobsp;

  I ’t believe what I’m seeing…

  In all the years she had spent otlefield, fighting against the champions and heroes of her empire’s enemy, this might be… the single greatest battle she had seen.

  The sheer speed and iy of this high level battle… No matter how proud she was with her skill, even she didn’t think she’d be able to stand a ce if she were to be in their pbsp;

  Meanwhile, Karen, atg the fight within the Guren, had simir opinions with the Britannian princess.

  She watched in awe of Mordred’s skill as he and Excalibur domihe white knight, who had always been the bane of their existenbsp;

  The Bights had e face to face against the white knight in several battles, but every siime, they were defeated. If it wasn’t for Zero and his strategy, they might have been annihited by this white knight.

  But now… She’s watg it being pushed back by the Excalibur!

  e on… You got this, Mordred!

  Her grip on the trol device of her Guren strengthened. And fire began to lit up within her heart. The desire to bee stronger, as strong as the bight before her. Strong enough to attain victainst evero foe.

  Just then, both Karen and ellia snapped out of her daze when they heard a loud g.

  The bight had parried a slightly reckless strike from the La, and deflected it. And using this ce, it cut the left hand of the white knight. Its Maser Vibration Sword sliced through the arm of the La like a hot khrough butter.

  “Dammit!!!”

  Suzaku gritted his teeth upon receiving the sequences for being slightly reckless and impatient. But, he quickly re-focused his mind otle and observed the bight in this split of a moment.

  Its right sword arm was still in a sword lock with his left sword arm. And his left sword arm was still raised up after cutting his right arm.

  It had no way of defending against an attack to its torso.

  And thus, Suzaku quickly tried to ter attack by shooting his hip-mounted ssh harkens at the bight.

  But to his shock, both ssh harkens were deflected by the ssh harkens the bight shot.

  Impossible… How could he see it ing?!

  Defleg a ssh harken with another ssh harken was already difficult enough. It would require aremely high level of accuracy to be able to aim at a small object that was traveling at extremely high speeds. And it’d only beore impossible to strike it down with a ssh harken.

  But this bight… he was able to deflect it accurately, multiple times now, and at such a close distanbsp;

  Luck wouldn’t even be able to begin expining such a phenomenon.

  This pilot… is a monster.

  Recoiling from its deflected ssh harkens, the La was uo defend against the uping flurry of bdes.

  Its remaining sword arm was easily cut once again by the bight. And its ssh harkens, that Suzaku shot towards the rocky ravine walls in hopes of reag the princess and esg, was cut easily by the bight’s swords.

  After the ssh harkens, his legs were o be cut down by the bight. Then, his head.

  And finally, silence fell upon the raging battlefield as the bight with twin crimson swords in hand stood before the headless, armless, and legless torso of the white knight, victorious.

  “Are you ready to listen now, elia?”

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