Original Text [scans]

[EDIT] On an unrelated note, this layout looks really crowded on my laptop… I’m so used to seeing it on my 24″ screen….

This from chapter 3 section 2, the scans are the whole of chapter 3-2 but I only translated a part of it (the beginning is Lindt being incompetent and the end bit involves Nena; this part is it’s own scene though–I didn’t just cut off the action in the middle anywhere). This is somewhere around episode 11 I think 13. I numbered the pages this time because it’s not the entire sub-chapter. Anyway. IN THIS EXCERPT: Hiling fightan Katharon, A-LAWS are sad that they have to blow up Flags; Hiling’s boobs; A-LAWS hit on Hiling, but she has none of it; 00 shows up and Hiling wants to make it a present for Ribbons.

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Captain Hiling Care, who was piloting the A-LAWS’ newest mobile suit (Gadessa), found herself attached to the front line of an escort fleet near the Memento Mori. Hiling was given the duty of turning the Gadessa’s GN Megalauncher on the approaching Katharon fleet and bombarding them.
Hiling’s machine was the same as the Gadessa captain Revive Revival piloted, that easily broke through the GN Field in the battle at Lagrange 3 and damaged Ptolemaios 2’s third hangar. The color was a bit darker green than Revive’s machine, but in terms of performance there are no differences.
The range Gadessa’s GN Megalauncher was greater than that any of the weapons Katharon had. One of Katharon’s warships that tried to move out from under the Orbital Ring took a hit from the GN Megalauncher and went up in a ball of fire.
Seeing the enemy’s movements through the intercept fleet, light flickered in Hiling’s eyes as if she were intrigued.[1]
(Ooh, the fleet is moving back….)

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The warships and the mobile suit squadrons of the Katharon fleet turned and headed below the Orbital Ring in a group, though you couldn’t quite call it organized.
I thought they were resigned to launching a reckless suicide attack, but they’re unexpectedly calm aren’t they?
The appearance of that Gundam is probably playing a big part in their decision.
So that the Gadessa Hiling was piloting could focus on firing at the fleet with it’s GN Megalauncher, the mobile suit squadron attached to the intercept fleet on the front line was mainly dealing with the enemy mobile suits.
In the A-LAWS [unit], there weren’t any novices stupid enough to put themselves in the way of the Gadessa’s line of fire. Although it seemed like there were those among them who harbored some kind of sentiment for the mobile suits of their former nations that they were shooting down, their hands never slowed down. The enemy machines that were out front because they were late in escaping below the ring, or perhaps because they were protecting a warship, were destroyed one after another by the A-LAWS’ red suits.
Within that seemingly one-sided battlefield, skillfully wielding two solid blades, that blue and white machine that was taking out A-LAWS mobile suits, was reflected in Hilings eyes.
The blue and white machine––00 Gundam with the support unit on it’s back, came out above the ring purposefully as if to attract attention, and immediately came toward the intercept fleet.
“So that’s what’s been on Ribbons’ mind…”

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Hiling gazed it’s figure through the scope of the GN Megalauncher.
Hiling was sent to the A-LAWS, following Revive and Bring, to capture that machine.
She wasn’t dissatisfied with that in and of itself.
Rather, it was more like it seemed too late as far as Hiling was concerned.
She wanted to join the fight earlier and be allowed to do as she pleased.
I’m lucky.
Now the ultimate trophy is right in front of me.
Revive and Bring aren’t here on this battlefield.
Seizing the Twin Drive System––I don’t know why Ribbons is so infatuated with it and I don’t think I want to know.[2]
But, still…
“I’m jealous.”
With a face identical to Ribbons’––the only difference being that her light green hair was a bit wavy, a beautiful face––Hiling made a half-smile, reminiscent of a fallen angel.[3] No, perhaps “little devil” is better than “fallen angel.”
Among the Innovators, essentially there is no difference between male and female, but because of Hiling’s lovely features and high voice, she was dispatched to the A-LAWS as a “female officer.”

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Far from being displeased with this, Hiling herself was gleefully amused by it, even going so far as proposing that she should wear fake breasts. What’s more, she was even wearing them in her pilot suit right now. So, that decision was a great success. No one doubted [that she was female], quite the contrary, she even had numerous[4] date invitations from the male soldiers. But, Hiling rejected one inferior person[5] after another with a smile that was undoubtedly beguiling.
Who would ever [date] a “human”![6]
Not that I even have any interest in this “dating” thing anyway. These were Hiling’s true feelings.
“Humans” are stupid. They’re seduced by physical appearances. They can’t use quantum brain waves. Human history is over two thousand years long, yet even now war continues to repeat. The cause of war is that those wretchedly frightened [people] call for peace, and forget that [history repeats itself] and so strife ensues again.
You’re just monkeys, aren’t you?
You ought to just be quiet and obey us Innovators.
Particularly, Celestial Being and all, you’re resisting the first phase of the plan!
––That’s right, it’d be better if they all just disappeared.
She turned toward the 00 that she’d been watching through the scope, and in a motion that you could call casual, Hiling fired the GN Megalauncher.

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The maximum-power particle beam sprayed out the muzzle toward the blue and white machine.
But, despite being fired like a sneak-attack since it was so far away, the Gundam nimbly avoided it as if it were nothing.
“You’re good!”
Even though I’d intended to blow off your leg.
At which point, Hiling’s expression, which had been a composed smile until now, stiffened for a moment.
A particle beam that seemed almost like the GN Megalauncher had been thrown back at her grazed the area just below where she had just moved her machine back to.[7]
Although you could say that the other party managed to doge the attack unharmed, over here the toe of the left foot was shaved off.
“Tch!”
Hiling clicked her tongue sharply.[8] She peered into the scope to try to return fire promptly, but the Gundam moved so nimbly that it disappeared from the scope’s view. She searched the nearby area to give pursuit, but she couldn’t find any traces of the blue and white machine.
“…Even though it’s emitting particles, it has the same range as the Gadessa…”
Hiling moved the scope out of the way, took the joystick and flew the Gadessa forward.
Alright, why don’t I make you my opponent!

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I’ll capture the machine Ribbons covets, and present it to him.
Even though the control[er]’s voice from the far behind escort fleet saying, “Don’t stray from your position,” reached her, Hiling ignored it.
Hiling had a One-Man-Army Licence.
The licenses were originally created to give the Innovators in the A-LAWS free reign after all.
What’s the point if I don’t use it?
I wonder which takes precedence, the A-LAWS’ operation or the Innovators’ plan… It’s ridiculous to even ask isn’t it?

Notes:
Thoughts in italics again where it’s not explicitly stated/otherwise obvious, because Japanese. And again, there could be some 1st-person-internal and 3rd-person intepretation errors, I don’t really think it changes much on the whole but yeah.
[1]- ヒリングの目が、関心したような光をたゆたわせた: This makes sense to me until I hit the fact that the verb is a causative, which, unless I’m reading it totally wrong gives you something like this (ignoring the relative clause for clarity): “Hiling’s eyes made/let light flicker.” I don’t really know what it’s getting at with that.
[2]- ご執心: Hoshit, keigo, I think. I guess it’s not too surprising since she’s talking about Ribbons, but still.
[3]- This is a horrible horrible sentence in English. “half-smile” was the best I could think of for “smiled, raising only one cheek/side of her face,” maybe ’smirk’ would be better, idk. Also, “smile like a fallen angel” sounds really really stupid imo.
[4]- 両手の指では足りないほど: I couldn’t find a definition of this phrase anywhere, it’s almost certainly an idiom (I did find it used in far too many unrelated places online for it to just be a normal sentence). literally it looks something like “to the extent that the fingers on both hands were insufficient.” It sounds negative to me so I just went with “awkward” but I really don’t know how accurate that is. [EDIT] Thanks to anon for the suggestion of “numerous,” makes perfect sense.
[5]- 片人: Not a common compound so I could be interpreting it wrong since 片 has a lot of meanings that aren’t all related.
[6]- 誰がニンゲンなんかと！: There’s not actually a verb here. It could reasonably be a number of things. Also Hiling does the same ‘humans’-in-kana thing that Ribbons does.
[7]- Nothing in particular, this sentence is just a mess in English.
[8]- It’s not really a click, per-say but I can’t think of how else to phrase that.