AGS Blademen were deployed to pursue a Megasoma Bugmech en route to Daiva City. The Megasoma puts up a tough offensive against the AQS Maneuver-Blades, nearly forcing the army to intervene after the Blademen had sustained casualties to eliminate the armed Bugmech. One of the Blademan operatives, Saiki Cryde, decides to sacrifice his Manuever-Blade by self-destructing it in order to blow up the Megamsoma taking a section of a highway along with it. In the end, Saiki was forced to give up most of his pay for the highway's repairs despite being able to eliminate the threat.

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 when mainstream news media claim that they were simply just extremists not out to kill. Haruki has doubts over the claims and visits Ulla Chiaki, the main leader of Hounds and a friend of Haruki who tells him that he and the others didn't plant the bomb in the mall. However, public pressure over pro and anti-Hound groups has forced AGS to conduct an anti-terrorist mission. The Blademen were deployed to locate them, only for their systems to be hacked in order to give Ulla and the others the chance to escape.