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Reaching back out to grasp Deux's hands, Amate allows the collective rage and hatred of the Deep Diver to flow onto her. Even through the shared pain, she refuses to abandon Deux ever again, her emotions and desires penetrating the stubborn scorn of those bound to the Deep Divers Psychommu. As Amate's sense of self is eroded during this process, the spirits lingering within the Deep Diver are forced to see beyond their own ceaseless hatred...and in a moment of clarity, the combat system driving the Deep Diver's actions begins to overload.

Gasping for air from her rebreather, Deux feels the hot air of her cockpit brushing against her bare skin as the liquid within begins to drain. While a pain remains in her stomach, Deux for the first time in years feels as if she has been allowed to truly breath without restriction. Looking to her monitor, she finds Amate's Gundam slumped over, motionless.

>Deux: Machu!

With the Psychommu no longer pressuring her into a state of psychosis, Deux's moves the Deep Divers hands around the immobile Gundam, tapping at its cockpit to detect any reaction from her dear friend. Meanwhile aboard the HLV lingering in the sky, Casval feels a great unease.

>Casval: (I can't feel Amate any longer...! Did she completely sever herself from me? Just like Lalah did before...?! Damn you, Nyaan...! Was your jealousy that-)

Casval's thought pause as he hears his voice being played through a view screen in the HLV's Command deck.

>Casval: Nyaan, no! Not now!

Meanwhile at a docked submarine at the south of Dakar, Shiiko rushes for an unlaunched GM Custom. Just as she prepares to enter its cockpit however, her long held madness and rage are yet again unlocked as "Char Aznable" appears on her screen.

>Char message: People of Dakar, and by extension, people of the Earth. I have been long known as Char Aznable, of the Principality of Zeon...but I have another name. That name is Casval Rem Deikun, son of Zeon Deikun.