Summary Hiro tells the rest of the team that he ran into Sendo outside of Jin’s house. He says that Sota is being tricked by Jin and he went there to ask why he switched sides, which is when he saw Sendo. He says that because MONSTRE got Sota to join, they canceled all their weapon orders with Sendo, so now he’s willing to make weapons for BRIGHT. Sota presents Jin with a rebalanced heat hawk for the Zaku and suggests scanning and trying it out, but Jin says there’s no need because he can see how good it is. […]
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