AGS Blademen were deployed to pursue a Megasoma Bugmech en route to Daiva City

Haruki Oguma, the only son of AGS President Fuyuhiko Oguma, is selected to be an AQS Blademan operative despite his father's wishes for him not do so.

Saiki gets blamed for the killing of a local man after he had fired on the Blademan in an anti-Bugmech operation that resulted in civilian casualties.

When Haruki invites Saiki, Kariya and Gharib to eat with him in a local Asian ethnic restaurant for dinner, the four AGS personnel find out that the owner is subjected to a huge debt.

An anti-AGS riot turns sour when Rudra threatened to use force to settle it after a bombing incident was credited to Hounds, a group of supposedly anti-PMC terrorists.

Theresia Strauss, AGS official, suggests to Fuyuhiko Oguma that Haruki was the most likely culprit for yesterday's failed mission.

AGS goes out to the public by using Haruki's death to further propagate anti-Hound operations and to promote AGS, deploying the Viper unit to a Hound safehouse before the military intervenes to arrest them instead.

Ulla Chiaki, the leader of the Hound, appears on national television and accuses the Vipers of killing his fellow members.

Theresia and the renegade military faction were able to seize control of AGS with help from Ulla, who had been assisting them all along from the shadows.

Saiki faces off against Ulla in his custom Maneuver-Blade prototype before he was severely wounded to the point that he was blinded.