(W) Asato Asato (A/CA) Shirabii Live to fight. Die with honor. That was all they knew, and they were proud. But as they saw themselves reflected in the Sirins-slaughtered by the thousands with nothing to show for it-a crack formed in their ironclad resolve. Shin's mind festered with doubt. Lena's heart tore at the seams as she struggled to understand him. Would they find common ground over the course of the United Kingdom operation? Or would they drift further apart...? For readers ages 16 and up.

(W) Asato Asato (A) Shirabii The Republic of San Magnolia...Eighty-Sixth Sector: A lone child soldier, Shinei Nouzen, touches down on a hellish battlefield. As the 'Reaper' of the Eighty-Six, he is saddled with the last wishes of his departed comrades, and the obligation to take them as far as he can go. This is the tale of the people who made him into the Reaper, and the cruel, abrupt incidents of death and destruction which stole them from him.

(W) Asato Asato (A) Shirabii As Lena and Shin take their first steps on Republic soil after what seemed like a lifetime, they find a country that still hasn't changed-one that cannot change. But their newest operation can't wait. After surviving battlefield after hellish battlefield, and seeing what they have to return to, Lena and Shin begrudgingly take their first steps into the darkness... But the ghosts of the dead gather to stand in their way, their eyes a cavernous silver.

(W) Asato Asato (A) Shirabii The Republic's evacuation resulted in massive casualties on both sides, and the fallout takes a toll on everyone. As Shin muses on what it means to be a leader, Lena thinks of her homeland, now lost to her forever. Frederica, too, is dismayed by her own powerlessness as the ill-fated Empire's last Empress-she'll have to change if she wants to survive. Meanwhile, discontent is brewing within the Empire, and a few disaffected squadrons, desperate to reverse the state of the war, reach for a dangerous miracle...?