“Don’t worry about it, this XCEED Gundam is not for show.” Kai responded confidently, but didn’t explain further exactly why he was so confident about his damaged Gunpla, it’s actions would speak louder than his word. Instead he silently agreed to Naoki’s gambit.

“Crazier than I thought.” Kai commented as both Naoki and Charmine were sent flying and out of reach, but the surprise wasn’t over as they were missing one mercenary and that mercenary’s replacement would be a certain Red GN-X. As it dashed towards Kai the battle worn Gundam would wave it’s right hand out as the top of the armor would slide forwards to make a finger protector for the Gunpla as it’s hand glowed with energy and particles, before reaching forwards... and catching the GN Buster sword as a testament to the sheer strength of the Gunpla even in it’s current state, as it stopped the charge of the Red Unit with one hand. After all, this unit was made by Souji Kiryu, prodigy in Gunpla building called the second coming of Iori Sei. “Oi, The other mercenary is at another team, they switched them out on our end. The merc they switched out is the oldman, be careful.” Kai informed the rest of his crew. Before turning his attention to Hachiyama.

“Well, good to seeya.” Kai greeted Hachiyama. “That was a good attack.” It sounded sarcastic considering how easily it was stopped, but Kai was legitimate in his complement and wasn’t actually belittling the red GN-X pilot. “Though I got to ask ya, why do ya let yourself be held back?” The Gunpla fighter questioned. “I will say ya have quite a bit of potential, but you’re not being allowed to express that potential to the furthest, are ya? If ya did, you’d probably be more dangerous than that moron over there.” That moron being Seo, Kai didn’t need to fight him to see that he wasn’t anything special, just looking at how he controlled his funnels he could tell that. While he was definitely not expecting to see funnel control on the level of his old team leader, it was still below his standards and he’d expected Loudmouth to have barely any trouble against him.

“And Ya probably could have hit me with this.” The fingers of the XCEED tightened around the GN Buster Sword, which started to form cracks on the surface of the weapon under the pressure of the XCEED’s hand.