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Chapter 278 - 279: Cheating Is Cheating? · Nov 02, 2026

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251 Chapter 251 - 253: Stealing Gundams: A Must-Savor Part of the SEED Experience 2026-11-02
252 Chapter 252 - 254: Use Me, Kira 2026-11-02
253 Chapter 253 - 256: Gundam… Is the Enemy! 2026-11-02
254 Chapter 254 - 257: This Is Exactly What I Wanted to See! 2026-11-02
255 Chapter 255: They Came to Trick Me, They Came to Ambush Me! 2026-11-02
256 Chapter 256 - 250: Director Hanabi’s a Director, and My Director Lacia’s a Director Too! 2026-11-02
257 Chapter 257 - 258: Amuro: Huh? Is This Aimed at Me? 2026-11-02
258 Chapter 258 - 259: Le Creuset: I Feel Like I’ve Been Set Up 2026-11-02
259 Chapter 259 - 260: Kira: I Get It, All Fear Comes from a Lack of Firepower! 2026-11-02
260 Chapter 260 - 261: If I Told You This Was a Stage Prop, Would You Believe Me? (Bonus - for 50 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
261 Chapter 261 - 262: Audience: Saikou! Saikou! (Bonus - for 100 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
262 Chapter 262 - 263: Giving It Everything, and Still Unable to Win 2026-11-02
263 Chapter 263 - 264: Shocking! Could This Be the Truth?! 2026-11-02
264 Chapter 264 - 265: Buy, Buy, Buy! 2026-11-02
265 Chapter 265 - 266: Cagalli: Kira’s Just Like a Little Sister to Me! 2026-11-02
266 Chapter 266 - 267: The MUV Protective Suit 2026-11-02
267 Chapter 267 - 268: Inori’s Battle Suit! I’m Ready! 2026-11-02
268 Chapter 268 - 269: Just Who’s the BOSS Here?! 2026-11-02
269 Chapter 269 - 270: Dragon Quest—The Heroes (Athrun’s Squad) Battle the Evil Dragon (Kira) 2026-11-02
270 Chapter 270 - 271: The Original Script? Tossed It! 2026-11-02
271 Chapter 271 - 272: We Still Don’t Know the Strength of That Black GINN We Saw That Day 2026-11-02
272 Chapter 272 - 273: Cagalli, the View-Magnet Star 2026-11-02
273 Chapter 273 - 274: Cagalli-san, You Wouldn’t Want to Be Unable to Pilot an MS, Would You? 2026-11-02
274 Chapter 274 - 275: Kira—So Cagalli Really Is a Girl! (Bonus - for 50 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
275 Chapter 275 - 276: Wouldn’t It Be Easier to Just Say She’s Brainless? (Bonus - for 100 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
276 Chapter 276 - 277: Cagalli—Is She Calling Me a Scrub? (Bonus - for 150 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
277 Chapter 277 - 278: How Could We Leave Out a Spectacle as Grand as a Colony’s Destruction? 2026-11-02
278 Chapter 278 - 279: Cheating Is Cheating? 2026-11-02
279 Chapter 279 - 280: So We’re in Phase Two Now 2026-11-02
280 Chapter 280 - 281: The Two Songstresses 2026-11-02
281 Chapter 281 - 282: Oh, You’ve Learned to Jump the Gun 2026-11-02
282 Chapter 282 - 283: This Is Fate’s—No, the Director’s—Choice! 2026-11-02
283 Chapter 283 - 284: Le Creuse—Master, I’ve Seen the Light! 2026-11-02
284 Chapter 284 - 285: Anyway, Let’s Start With a Bombshell! 2026-11-02
285 Chapter 285 - 286: You’ve Got to Lose With Artistry and Creativity 2026-11-02
286 Chapter 286 - 287: Power-Scaling Debates Are an Essential Part of Enjoying Gundam 2026-11-02
287 Chapter 287 - 288: Stardust Battlefield 2026-11-02
288 Chapter 288 - 289: Kira... You’re Hurting Me... 2026-11-02
289 Chapter 289 - 290: The God-Tier Helmsman Is Online 2026-11-02
290 Chapter 290 - 291: So This Is Fate (Wistful Gaze) 2026-11-02
291 Chapter 291 - 292: Have I Gotten Weaker—Is It Because of Flay? 2026-11-02
292 Chapter 292 - 293: What a Great Girl—Pity She’s Got a Mouth 2026-11-02
293 Chapter 293 - 294: The Director-san Frets Herself Sick (Bonus - for 50 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
294 Chapter 294 - 295: Kira: Go for It, Inori! (Bonus - for 100 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
295 Chapter 295 - 296: Ask-Anything Inori-chan (Bonus - for 150 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
296 Chapter 296 - 297: Ah, White Moonlight; Ah, Good Bro (Bonus - for 200 Power Stones) 2026-11-02
297 Chapter 297 - 298: ZAFT Wants a Fight, and So Does the Audience! 2026-11-02
298 Chapter 298 - 299: Shocking! Virtual Idol Beats the Tar Out of the Audience! 2026-11-02
299 Chapter 299 - 300: I Dare Not Speak Aloud, for Fear of Startling Those in Heaven 2026-11-02
300 Chapter 300 - 301: This Love-Triangle Shot Took Thirty Years of Skill to Frame! 2026-11-02

Chapter 278: Chapter 279: Cheating Is Cheating?

Heliopolis had collapsed.

The colony split apart completely.

”Heliopolis...”

Kira and the others hadn’t boarded their mobile suits yet—or rather, they were just about to when the attack hit.

The only one still out there was the Red Frame, since Cagalli had been running simulated battles the whole time after getting her new toy.

”ZAFT forces—already moving out!”

Murrue received the alert.

”So they’ve come!” The instant the shockwave passed, the radar flashed a warning.

”Report damage! Begin damage control! Archangel, slow ahead!”

They couldn’t stay put—that would make them a sitting duck.

ZAFT had blown the colony apart from the outside for the sole purpose of getting the Archangel. They wouldn’t let her slip away.

”Heat source ahead—missiles!”

”They’ve already locked onto us?! Open the anti-air barrage!”

Murrue snapped out the order.

”Captain Ramius!” Cagalli’s comm cut in. ”Red Frame Unit 2 is ready to launch anytime!”

”Stay safe—cover the Archangel at close range!”

Murrue gave the order without hesitation. Kira and Mu still hadn’t reached their machines, so Cagalli was all she had to rely on.

”There it is! Huh? Why is it that red one?!”

Yzak was a little taken aback.

They’d braced themselves to face the Strike, and instead out came that red machine.

”The attack worked!” Athrun concluded.

The Strike had probably been kept from launching in time by the explosion.

”I’ll pin down the red one! The rest of you attack the Legged Ship with everyone else!”

Athrun decided to tie up the red machine first and let the others press the assault on the Archangel.

”Roger!”

The group moved at once, the heavily armed Gundams teaming up with the GINNs to open their attack on the Archangel.

”The port-side barrage is too thin!” Murrue felt the ship shudder.

The Archangel was going all-out, but two fists couldn’t fend off four.

”Huh?!”

Meanwhile, Athrun had braced for a serious fight when he met the red machine—but the longer they fought, the more he felt that this red one... was actually surprisingly easy to push around.

The red machine had strong mobility, and its movements weren’t bad in themselves, but they were easy to predict, and the Aegis kept feeding him evasion solutions.

”The red one’s weaker than the Strike... a lot weaker! And the data package—it’s actually useful!”

He hadn’t broken through her defense yet, but Athrun knew: give him two more minutes and he’d take the red machine down for sure.

It wasn’t just that his opponent was weak—it was that he’d gotten stronger.

The data in the four G-series machines didn’t just include follow-up upgrade plans; it also came with an AI software assist package.

It was an experimental feature, but Athrun had gone through the data on it, and this AI’s assist performance was actually quite good.

Once he realized he was no match for the Strike, Athrun had gone ahead and switched it on.

The Aegis was the hardest of the five G-series machines to pilot.

But with the AI, Athrun found that the Aegis had somehow become even easier to handle than a GINN.

With one side rising and the other falling, taking down the red machine was only a matter of time.

”Damn it...”

Cagalli was barely holding on. Without Phase Shift Armor, all she could do against the Aegis’s assault was block with her shield.

”Cagalli! You just need to buy time!” Murrue’s voice came over the comm.

”I know that already!”

But it made her furious!

She was sitting in a mobile suit this smooth to control, and here she was being pinned down by the enemy.

When the piloting itself couldn’t be blamed, the gap in raw strength became painfully obvious.

At this rate Cagalli could barely even hold a combat stance.

She didn’t want to be nothing more than a punching bag—she wanted to beat the enemy too.

But she couldn’t.

”Not good!”

Hold a defense long enough and you’ll lose it.

Caught off guard, the Red Frame’s left hand was sliced clean off by a beam saber.

”Got you!”

The Aegis moved in to strike again.

But at that very moment, a beam rifle shot from the distance cut its attack short.

”The Strike!” Athrun pegged the enemy instantly.

”The AI’s incredible...”

He hadn’t sensed that last attack at all.

If not for the AI’s warning, he’d have been hit just now.

But with the AI’s help, he’d actually managed to dodge the Strike’s attack!

”They’ve gotten stronger again!”

Kira flew to Cagalli’s side.

”Cagalli-san, please return to the ship!”

”Tch—leaving it to you!”

Cagalli was reluctant, but right now she was nothing but a liability.

”Athrun!”

Having spotted the Strike, Yzak and the others immediately gave up on joining the main assault and came over to Athrun’s side.

The Legged Ship didn’t matter—the Strike had to be beaten.

”Turn on the AI assist—the boost is huge,” Athrun reminded them.

The feature existed on all the G machines, but only Athrun had been using it.

”Let’s try it.” Nicol switched the system on first.

”Hm?”

The effect was immediate.

The machine’s display changed at once.

Every threat ahead that could cause damage—debris and the like—was tagged, and though the machine hadn’t engaged a lock, the Strike stayed pinned on the panel almost the whole time.

The pressure dropped dramatically.

”AI—that sort of thing?” Yzak didn’t trust it, but he trusted Athrun.

”This targeting!”

Dearka switched on his AI too, and his aim improved a great deal.

The four of them closed in on the Strike again.

”They’ve gotten stronger again!”

Kira could clearly feel the enemy had grown much tougher.

[The villains’ side is one freaking Hero’s Party—they level up after every fight]

[Now that you mention it, yeah]

[First time they got curbstomped, second time they formed a party, and by the third time they’d upgraded their gear]

[Heroes vs. the Demon Lord]

[This is basically a retreat-enabled Souls game you have to clear on one life lmao]

[Now that you put it that way, yeah]

[Level up some more, I want to see even more special effects!]

[Fight! Fight! Fight!]

The audience just wanted to see rivers of blood.

”This thing really is something!”

After nearly landing a slash on the Strike and dodging its counter, Yzak’s eyes lit up.

—Good stuff.

This AI assist system was just too good!

[Ah, the sweet smell of eating your own words!]

[Oh man, now that smells good!]

[Hahaha!]

[This is a cheat, right? Ridiculous]

[Cheating is cheating, huh?]

[It’s actually because the mobile suits in the SEED world have problems to begin with]

[Now I’m scared GBN will recreate this setting—I’m no Coordinator, I couldn’t pilot a suit like this]

[I think it’s fine—this AI assist feels more like a patch for us to use later]

[Feels like both sides are pretty balanced in combat power now]

[Hard to say—the Archangel took the shockwave, its combat power’s down, it’s already eaten several hits]

Amid the audience’s chatter, the Strike tangled with the four machines once again.

And on the other side, Mu launched in the Blue Frame too, beginning to exchange fire with that poor unlucky sap of Dusk... ah, with the Magic Bullet of Dusk...

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