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Amate clutches her head as a slight stinging spreads across her forehead. Despite the painful sensation, it is different from the indicators of an incoming Seizure. Shrugging off the pain, Amate keeps the bust clutched in her hand, ready to defend the woman Woody had placed such trust in. Slipping into the lower levels of the home, Amate's footsteps down the metal stairs are masked by the sounds of chain's clinking and heavy breathing. Her heart now beating even faster, Amate fights the urge to hide again as she reaches the bottom of the stairs, finding herself surrounded by thousands of diagrams resembling the Gundam littering the walls.

>Reccoa: N-no, not that! I can't take any more! Be gentle-aaah!

Increasing her pace, Amate peeks through the partially cracked door leading to the sound of Reccoa's voice, only for her gasp at the sight of her shackled and tied by ropes , her eyes watering as she is forced over the side of a messy bed surrounded by additional diagrams.

>Amate: (He's hurting her...! I'll...I won't let him-)

A sound bordering between pain and pleasure escapes Reccoa's mouth, further confusing Amate as the man whispers something into Reccoa's ear.

>Reccoa:...I will do whatever you want of me, master. I can't...resist you...! I-

Feeling her mind turning to thoughts of being treated the same way by Char had she not been rescued from his grasp, Amate loses her composure.

>Amate: Enough!!

Charging into the room, Amate swings the bust against the man's chest, staggering him away from Reccoa's exposed body as Amate rams her head against his.

>Reccoa: M-Machu?! Stop! What are you-
>Amate: Run! I won't let anyone else be hurt! This guy...he's one of the evil men who hurt Du!
>Reccoa: You weren't supposed to see-

Amate swings her head against the man's again, casting away his sunglasses to reveal his blinded eye. Just as Amate prepares to swing her head again, she is yanked off from his body by a green-haired man.