86 Eighty-Six Part 2

The Spearhead Squadron’s vanishing act beyond the horizon does little to dull the Republic of San Magnolia’s relentless propaganda. Vladilena Milizé remains at her post as “Handler One,” once again directing a new squad drawn from the dehumanized Eighty-Six as the war against the Legion grinds on.

Meanwhile on the Western Front, Shinei Nouzen and the others are held in quarantine at a base of the Federal Republic of Giad, the nation that rose from the former Giadian Empire. Granted full citizenship and freedom by the new government, they are taken in by President Ernst Zimmerman and come to know his adoptive daughter—Augusta Frederica Adel-Adler, the last Empress. Yet even in a society that offers them a measure of peace, the battlefield continues to define them, and they soon return to combat against the Legion as the Federacy’s Nordlicht Squadron, with Frederica alongside them.