Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Thrall to LF-03.

Restarting Permet link connection test.

Three, two, one.

Interconnect established.

Currently on layer 31.

Please commence calling.

Understood. Commencing call to layer 31.

No abnormalities detected in GUND Format. Connect to layer 32.

Calling layer 32. Call-back confirmed.

Connect to layer 33.

Calling layer 33.

Error. No call-back.

Fall back to layer 10.

Calling from layer 10 to 33 again.

Error. No call-back.

Calling layer 33.

Error. No call-back.

LF-03 to Thrall.

Requesting increase in GUND Format score.

Negative. That's contrary to the test objective.

We don't have time.

Executing now. Hold on!

Elnora.

Let's end for the day.

I'm not yet in the dangerous range.

Let me increase the level and test layer 33..

That's enough, Elnora.

Yes, ma'am.

Test concluded. Begin analysis of Permet influx values.

Understood. Beginning analysis. Detected any abnormal fluctuations?

Look for tremors before the fluctuation. Don't get too worked up.

Dr. Cardo.

If you can't clear this, then no one can.

We need to prove the soundness of the GUND Format as soon as possible.

Otherwise, the council will...

Our success won't mean a thing

if you're crippled for life.

But.. Besides, someone's here to see you.

What? Mommy!

Mommy!

Mommy! Eri!

Mommy! Daddy's waiting for you too!

Let's have cake together!

Haven't I told you that you're not allowed to come here?

Is she still sleeping?

Yes.

You're right.

What a naughty girl. It's time to rise and shine.

Lfrith is still an infant.

A baby?

Yes. She doesn't even know how to turn over in bed.

She's the child of all the staff members here.

Now, your mommy is trying to teach her all sorts of stuff.

I see...

Then I'm her big sister!

How old are you now, Eri?

I'm four!

As of the 20th, the Front 3rd Autonomous Sector

has approved a budget to purchase Gundam-type mobile suits

manufactured by Ochs Earth.

Ochs Earth's weapon system

has raised major concerns regarding bioethical issues for its pilots,

and the accountability of the company as well as

the Mobile Suit Development Council has been called into question.

Originally, the GUND Format

was a medical technology

meant to assist with physical dysfunctions caused by the space environment.

However, when the Vanadis Institute, the lead researcher on the project,

was acquired by Ochs Earth,

the GUND Format was repurposed for military mobile suits.

Physical damage to its pilots due to data storms then emerged as a problem.

Just imagine.

An 18-meter-tall giant frame moving with non-biological mechanisms,

controlled by forcibly linking it to a human body.

The burden placed on the pilot must be immeasurable!

The recent mobile suit buildup may provide Earth with an excuse to expand its military

and accelerate tensions between both sides...

Say all you want about our products.

Daddy, I'm home!

Welcome back.

This looks great. I'm sorry you had to do everything.

It's fine. Eri helped out too.

I did this part myself!

You're amazing! It looks so pretty.

Eri. Why don't you show Mommy your birthday hat?

Right!

Layer 33 again?

If I don't clear that soon, it'll mean trouble for everyone.

I'm sorry.

This wouldn't have happened

if the higher-ups weren't in a rush to roll out the Lfrith.

We needed a sponsor, anyway.

You helped us, Nadim.

I just hope the council will stay quiet until the deadline.

The press conference is in one hour.

This is the end of Ochs Earth.

This is what happens when Earthians get presumptuous.

Hopefully, it'll be as easy as you say.

We don't know if Dr. Cardo Nabo will comply.

But are you sure this is okay?

We may be overstepping the bounds of private enterprise...

You say that at this stage of the game?

What's wrong with overstepping them?

We're not asking for your opinion, Delling.

Once those guys at the Vanadis Institute complete their Gundam,

it will be too late.

As the Mobile Suit Development Council, we must make a decision.

So that humanity can remain in peace,

we must wield the hammer of witches.

Cake!

Cake! I'm putting in the candle lights now.

Oh, my...

Mommy?

Sorry. Give me a moment.

Your GUND always stops working, Mommy.

Yes. But without this technology, Mommy wouldn't be alive right now.

So, Dr. Cardo is my teacher who saved my life.

Granny's awesome!

Eri.

Dr. Cardo isn't one to fuss about what people call her.

Even so, that's rude.

Is that from headquarters?

Yeah.

Just a moment, Eri.

What?

Daddy has work.

Sorry.

No! I want to cut it now!

What's wrong? Now!

The council is holding a meeting now.

But it's not even the deadline yet!

It was Delling.

He's behind this.

That ex-military guy?

We don't know what he'll do.

You be careful too.

Folkvangr to transport ship Begavent.

Control 173.

This is Begavent. Communicating with 173.

Distance to gate entrance is 22.

Course confirmed. Please enter through Gate 3.

The ship's here! Come help me move, Wendy.

Tariff rates have increased so much recently.

It's pissing me off. Transportation isn't free, you know?

The Spacians are monopolizing it unreasonably.

I'll treat you to something after this.

Come on.

That's cheating.

I found it, Eri!

This is the one, right?

Eri?

Just wake up already!

Daddy and Mommy... Everyone only cares about you!

It's supposed to be my birthday today!

I'm sorry about that.

Granny.

You came here alone again?

Didn't Elnora say you're not supposed to?

But...

Is this child important to you too, Granny? She is.

Why?

Then you don't care about the other two over there?

This one is special.

Special?

In order for you, your daddy, and your mommy to live in space,

you need to have an adaptable body

and not a weapon like this.

Lfrith is the future of GUND that we're aiming for.