Gundam: From Piece to Player

"Come down quickly, Callisto."

A dangerous alarm bell was flashing in Grax's mind, echoing the high-risk moments on the battlefield. This thing had saved his life.

"Heh heh, could it be that Lord Glax is worried I'll rebel after piloting this MS? — You guessed right~"

The machine's hand structure rapidly deformed, revealing some kind of beam cannon inside, which was aimed at them: "Lord Grax, you are not allowed to disobey me. Call the spaceship over right now, or else..."

Callisto seemed to have been brainwashed; anyone could see that something was wrong.

"Okay, okay, we'll do as you say."

【Lord El, please tell me what to do?】

【Lord El?】

Grax attempted to make a call using brainwave sensing.

The base was silent, as if the images from before had never happened... The power supply had not been interrupted, which seemed more like a small punishment from Lord El for their disloyalty.

Oh, and that one too.

Grax was also holding a bracelet that he couldn't wear on his own.

He remembered something... Anyone without the bracelet entering the base would trigger a mental interference field within it; and since Callisto had now boarded the mecha, he must have been affected by the mecha's Psycho system. It seemed he still needed to keep watch...

This situation might be able to offset some of the losses.

The team members sent a code to the other team members via radio (the record would be displayed on their glass masks), and the team members slowly retreated.

"Lord Grax, what do you intend to do?"

"Run now while you can."

Over the radio, Grax suddenly gave the order... to activate the propulsion system on his back and dash toward the hatch they had come from, with several team members following behind.

Did they scurry into their holes like rats?

The "Gundam" also began to show its aggressiveness, smashing open the digital screen, drawing its beam saber, and stabbing it into the hatch through which the group had rushed in.

The entire base began to shake violently. The unknown "beam saber" pulled hard, and the walls of the base rooms seemed to be shattered into fragments by the enormous force... Under the power of this machine, the concrete building was crushed into tofu dregs.

Grax, who had survived the ordeal, looked at the bracelet in his hand... Now it seemed that the base mentioned in the will, which contained a machine that could kill the mind, was not real, or was the machine itself inherently powerful?

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, Gundam retreated and flew vertically out of that courtyard.

"Where's the spaceship? Did Lord Grax deceive me?"

After looking around for several minutes, the spaceship was still nowhere to be seen... Just as Callisto was distracted, a huge [transparent substance] crashed into the Gundam.

That was the Gracks' MA, and the Gundam was also knocked away by this "great luck".

The two large pincers firmly secured the two arms of this Gundam, which were more than ten times the length and volume of the Gundam. The multiple meters of the pincers made it worthy of the name "Mobile Fortress".

But that didn't seem to be enough. Grax found himself slowing down, eventually coming to a standstill, and then he actually started to move backward.

The Deep Space Spiral was actually pushed back by this Gundam—

Grax stared in disbelief at this. Jupiter's nuclear fusion reactor and thrust could be considered top-notch in the world today, yet at this moment it was still no match for the opponent's machine.

...It would be one thing to be defeated by special weapons, but it's absurd to be outmatched in thrust.

This does not conform to the mass-energy equivalence equation, unless the energy source of this organism is even more powerful than nuclear fusion.

Could it be—

I'm sorry, Callisto. I wanted to save you, but given the current situation, if I don't go all out, I'll be the one who dies.

Deep Space Spiral simultaneously condensed Mega Particle Cannons on its chest and arms, blasting them at point-blank range onto the bare Gundam. The beam seemed to hit some kind of colloid, but the sheer force and intense heat still caused damage.

However, the damage was not lasting. Grax watched as the cracks on the surface of the other machine were rapidly healing, filling, and repairing.

The Gundam, with its powerful beam saber, tore the MA's arm apart... The Mega Particle Cannon in its hand pierced through the I-field and damaged Deep Space Spiral's body, causing a massive explosion.

Grax could only pilot the Deep Space Spiral to evade and try to escape, but the beams fired by the Gundam continued to bombard the Deep Space Spiral's body, allowing it to disintegrate and escape, entering a state of mimicry and stealth.

But he found that Gao Da was still following behind him like a hound that smells blood, and he didn't know how the other party had located him.

A wave of despair washed over me.

Am I going to die?

Would I die like an unknown nobody on the distant frontier of the solar system?

Chapter 315 The Rebirth of Sima

No, it's not over yet.

Unable to die here, Glask's strong will to survive drove him to unleash 150% of his abilities.

Gundam's beam successfully destroyed Deep Space Spiral's thrusters after it shed its shell.

At this critical moment, Glask had a flash of inspiration and quickly operated the weapon control system while the system was being separated.

It looked like a secondary explosion, followed by the smoke from the explosion.

Grax quietly activated the ship's core fighter module... essentially separating it from its shelled body. Gundam, clearly attracted by Deep Space Spiral's shelled form, chased after it again, splitting the MA that rushed out of the smoke due to inertia in two.

Lord Grax, you died because you were too weak!

In her berserk state, Callisto was clearly unaware of the space debris behind her piloting aircraft.

At this moment, Grax dared not even breathe loudly. Although he had activated the separation module, he did not dare to start the engine.

Since you can't outmatch the strength, you can't escape even if you want to... it all depends on the thrust.

Just as Gundam was leaving after a fruitless search, the space debris created by the explosion of its detached body drifted toward the core fighter of the Glack.

From the angle, if you don't dodge, you're bound to hit the canopy.

Grax hesitated... If things had gone as planned, his men would have responded to his signal and gone to reinforce him—but now it seemed that going out meant certain death.

Ultimately, he made two choices: while launching a reinforcement flare, he started the engine and began to break away.

Gundam immediately locked onto him and chased after him quite straightforwardly. Facing the support fire from friendly forces, he didn't dodge and took a wave of attacks head-on.

This time there's really no escaping it; what terrible luck!

Lord Grax, so you weren't dead after all.

"Of course, how could I die?"

Despite facing imminent death, Glax continued to be defiant as the Gundam pounced on him.

However, at the very moment the sword was struck, the Gundam's power supply seemed to be cut off, and the machine instantly transformed into a drifting giant statue.

It was hit by several support shots, and the machine was knocked open, but thanks to the sturdiness of the machine itself, it was still not damaged.

It actually stopped?

Glucks approached in his core fighter, and at that moment, the gem on his bracelet emitted an orange light. The cockpit on the Gundam's head opened, and Calisto was thrown out as if expelling a foreign object.

Grax slowed down, opened the cockpit, took out a magnetic rope, pulled out Callisto, and dragged her back.

At this moment, Callisto's eyes were lifeless, and he was completely speechless, as if his soul had been sucked away by the machine.

It's hard to imagine that she was the one who said those aggressive words just now... Everything was normal until I got into the cockpit.

Grax stared warily at the demonic Gundam.

He had an urge to throw the machine into the void, but after hesitating for a moment, he instructed his men to pull the machine onto the spaceship.

—If he could use the power of this Gundam for his own purposes, he couldn't help but think.

---

An 18-year-old "girl" dressed in a hospital gown held a handheld mirror and couldn't help but touch her face.

No longer dry and rough, it has regained its elasticity and exudes youthful vitality.

Karma and Alice watched from outside the window, while Banagher lay prostrate on the windowsill.

I am truly happy for Sima's rebirth.

The surgery went smoothly without any unexpected events, or rather, all potential problems were prevented from escalating before they could become serious, thanks to numerous failed animal experiments.

Sima got out of bed and stood up barefoot.

She walked step by step, and after a few steps she rushed out of the ward, laughing as she ran, when she heard a nurse call out, "Please don't run in the corridor."

“Is it really necessary to be so excited?” Alice said. “It’s just a change of [storage], humans are so hard to understand.”

Now that her children have grown up, Alice no longer needs to be a nanny. At her senior's request, she no longer imitates human emotions in order to conduct research on AI emotion models.

"Because Alice, you are a silicon-based life form, your consciousness can be stored and backed up, so it's difficult for you to understand the significance of this for us humans..."

This is equivalent to a middle-aged person with only six months to live returning to the age of 18. He even felt that Sima was quite restrained.

"Big brother, do you also want to upgrade your storage?"

"I'm still young... I'll think about it when I'm older." Karma thought to herself... That's not urgent, but the spinal cord brain surgery needs to be done first in order to gain the abilities of the new human.

---

The botanical garden inside Pei Zeng.

Sima lay sprawled on the ground, inhaling the earthy scent in the air, the sweet fragrance of the fresh air, as sunlight refracted through the mirror.

"Oh...the world is so beautiful, it's so good to be alive."

Just now, she greeted everyone around her warmly, and the whole world was presented so clearly before her eyes.

Her body was stronger than ever before, her brain had inexhaustible energy, and her high-performance hydrogen batteries propelled oxygen from her lungs to her brain. If there were water in the area, Sima would even jump in and swim.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from inside.

Sima then noticed someone approaching. A girl with orange hair and twin tails wearing a blue sailor uniform blinked her big eyes and leaned down to look at her.

Good morning, Aunt Sima.

Upon hearing the word "auntie," Sima's face twitched: "Little sister, you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm only 18 years old."

“Dad told me to come and watch over you, to keep you from running around, Aunt Sima… I forgot to mention, this is our first meeting, I’m Elubi Zabi.”

"Erubi? Your father is Lord Karma... and your mother is..."

Sima was wondering who her mother was. Lord Karma was a womanizer, but also a good man. Although it seemed counterintuitive, it was indeed the truth.