Chapter 3: Hello, your chosen gaming partner is now online.
Chapter 3: Hello, your chosen gaming partner is now online.
"Get on the bus? Dude, have you lost your mind?"
Inside the cockpit of the Strike Gundam, Kira Yamato felt his worldview being repeatedly shattered.
The mysterious man in front of him, who was piloting a wrecked Zeon and had killed ZAFT's special machine, actually asked him how to hitch a ride when he was facing a life-or-death situation.
Is this person really normal?
Do you still think Japanese people are easy to fool?
"Ahem... Young man, you should be polite."
Ling Yu slumped in the driver's seat, his voice weak like a leaky bellows, but his tone remained arrogant.
"Call me senior. If I hadn't cleared the area just now, you'd be riddled with bullets. You'll have to pay for the ride."
"you…"
Kira was so angry that he was speechless for a moment.
He couldn't figure out whether this guy was a friend or foe.
Just then, a sharp alarm pierced the eerie standoff between the two.
boom--
In the distance, a Mobius Zero MA of the Earth Alliance, trailing black smoke, was pierced by three precise bursts of fire and fell helplessly to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a pure white, specially designed Zeon, like an elegant Grim Reaper, slowly descended from the flames of the explosion.
The unique paint job and the smooth maneuverability both exude a sense of awe and power for the driver.
"That guy... looks like he's not someone to mess with!" Kira's heart sank to the bottom.
The white demon's single eye merely glanced at the Strike before locking onto Ling Yu's dilapidated convertible Gene.
"Raou Ru Kruze..." Ling Yu's face turned pale instantly.
They arrived as expected.
On the mothership "Gamov" of the Kruze team, the tactical screen was reflected in the pupils of player Xiao Ran.
"It has been confirmed that [Anomaly-01] fought and won against Miguel. They are now in contact with Captain Kruze."
The adjutant's voice trembled: "The captain... he's going to take action personally?"
Xiao Ran didn't answer, but stared coldly at the wildly flashing red dot on the screen, muttering to himself:
"Let me see... are you a 'human' or a ghost?"
"Is it you who killed my beloved subordinate?"
Kruse's voice, which carried a smile yet sent chills down one's spine, rang out over the public channel.
"To achieve this level of performance with a single mass-produced machine, it seems quite remarkable."
"I……"
Before Ling Yu could finish speaking, the White Reaper made the first move.
Without a single unnecessary movement, Kruze's Gene executed a standard high-speed dash.
The heavy machine gun in his hand spewed out a barrage of deadly bullets, aimed directly at Ling Yu's unprotected cockpit.
"Watch out!" Kira exclaimed instinctively, raising his beam rifle to intercept.
But it was too late.
"Damn it!" Ling Yu's eyes were bloodshot as he used the last bit of strength to push the control stick.
The limping Gene rolled awkwardly to the side, narrowly avoiding a fatal blow.
But the flying shrapnel still carved countless hideous wounds on the aircraft.
The alarm blared so loudly it nearly ripped his eardrums off.
"System! System! Help! Is there any cheap cheat software?!" Ling Yu roared frantically in his mind.
"Amuro's trial card has ended! I can't hold on much longer!"
[Driver, calm down! You have 3950 points, enough for a high-value single draw.]
[Emergency detected! Special gacha pool [The Fate of the Red Seed (Beginner)] is now open for you.]
[You're guaranteed an SR-rank or higher card on your first single draw! Want to spend 1000 points to draw?]
"Draw! Draw for me, you bastard!"
[Gacha in progress... Congratulations to the pilot for obtaining the SR card: True Asuka (Pulse ver)]
[Card Effect: Gain some of its driving skills and combat style for 2 minutes.]
[Activated dialogue: "Damn it! You bastard!"]
Looking at the arrogant red-clad boy on the card, Ling Yu's lips twitched violently.
From a technical expert to a berserker? That's a really fast change in style!
But right now, there's no other choice.
Kruse's second wave of attacks has begun.
"Damn it! You bastard!"
Ling Yu used all his strength to let out the most childish and furious shout he had ever uttered since transmigrating.
hum-
A fierce and pure fighting spirit, completely different from Amuro's, instantly took over his body like a volcanic eruption.
Without precise calculations, there is no perfect ballistic prediction.
Only the most direct and wildest impulses.
"kill!"
Ling Yu suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze turning fierce and obsessive.
He didn't even glance at Kruze's trajectory, immediately ramping up the thrusters and piloting the dilapidated Zeon.
Like a mad bull, it charged straight ahead into the hail of bullets.
"Um?!"
Kruse was surprised for the first time.
Suicide attack? No!
The green Zeon, with its erratic and unreasonable serpentine maneuvering that completely disregarded the machine's balance, frantically weaved through the hail of bullets.
Countless bullets grazed its armor, sending up a series of blinding sparks, but none of them hit a vital spot.
"This guy..."
Kira, inside the cockpit, was completely dumbfounded.
If the mysterious man we just saw was a calm and elegant fencing master,
Now, he's a street thug wielding a machete, completely unruly.
Is this really from the same person?!
"Go to hell!"
Ling Yu roared, and Gene's heavy cleaver, wielding an unstoppable force, slashed down.
when--
Kruze calmly parried with his sword, and the two machines engaged in a close-quarters struggle.
"Hehe, what are you expecting..." Kruze chuckled, preparing to overwhelm his opponent with the superior performance of his machine.
But the next second, his smile froze.
Ling Yu doesn't play by the rules at all.
He actually released his weapon, letting the machine lose its balance, and kicked the wall of the building next to him.
boom!
Using the reaction force, the green Gene bounced off at an odd angle, while simultaneously pulling out the last spare knife from his back and stabbing it at the monitor of the Kruze machine with lightning speed.
Ruthless! Absolutely ruthless!
Is he trying to drag me down with him?
Seeing that the other party was about to poke and stab the cockpit without dodging or avoiding,
Kruse's expression changed slightly, and he immediately retreated to dodge, but he didn't expect the blade to graz his single eye, leaving a glaring scratch.
"Waaah—"
Undeterred by his initial failure, Ling Yu unleashed a barrage of attacks.
Kick, ram, slash, stab!
He used the nearly scrapped Gene as his own fists and feet, employing every means to launch the most primitive and savage attack on Kruze.
Two minutes, every second is a race against time.
Kruse became increasingly alarmed as the game progressed.
He had never seen such a crazed pilot; this guy didn't care about the damage to the machine at all; all he saw was destruction.
Finally, in a near-mutually assured destruction collision, Kruze's white Gene was forced back dozens of meters.
Its head was hammered crooked, leaving only a few cables hanging upside down.
The field of vision was almost completely black.
He glanced at the several new wounds on his own machine, then at the green ghost machine in the distance that was almost falling apart.
Beneath the mask, a playful smile curved at the corner of his mouth.
"Interesting...this is really interesting..."
Kruse glanced at the monitor screen, which had begun to flicker with static.
"So, they were aiming at my surveillance camera from the start...?"
"I'll let you off the hook today. I look forward to our next meeting."
Having said that, the dejected Grim Reaper turned around decisively and disappeared into the crack in the colony satellite in a few flashes.
[Ding! SR Card: True Asuka (Pulse ver.) Experience Ended.]
A wave of weakness washed over me again, ten times more intense than the last time.
Ling Yu's vision went black, and he almost fainted.
Just then, a huge white warship slowly emerged from the breach in the colony and stopped not far away.
Archangel.
His "car" has finally arrived.
With his last bit of willpower, Ling Yu forced open his eyes and looked at the warship that represented the unsinkable.
He smiled.
With trembling hands, he opened the public channel and, facing the Archangel, roared out the line he had long wanted to say with all his might.
"Excuse me, boat in front! Your requested companion has come online, please open the door and sign for it!"
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