After a young elementary school student was kidnapped from a monorail by an unknown man, Norma works alone to provide ransom money to save her from her captors.
Police arrest Rudra for being the main suspect responsible for the assassination of a public official by using a sniper rifle-armed Maneuver-Blade mecha despite him being present with the other AGS personnel during an anti-terrorist operation.
When Haruki invites Saiki, Kariya and Gharib to eat with him in a local Asian ethnic restaurant for dinner, the four AGS personnel find out that the owner is subjected to a huge debt.
An anti-AGS riot turns sour when Rudra threatened to use force to settle it after a bombing incident was credited to Hounds, a group of supposedly anti-PMC terrorists.
AGS goes out to the public by using Haruki's death to further propagate anti-Hound operations and to promote AGS, deploying the Viper unit to a Hound safehouse before the military intervenes to arrest them instead.
Theresia and the renegade military faction were able to seize control of AGS with help from Ulla, who had been assisting them all along from the shadows.
