12. Beyond Good and Evil (Part 9)

"Pain, pain, pain!!!"

"If you're a man, endure it! Screaming over something so minor—are you even a man?!"

"Don't joke around! This is—ugh—ugh!!"

As the medicinal plaster was applied, Marseille's voice instantly changed pitch. For a moment, he almost thought he was undergoing some sort of torture. In reality, Arietta was merely performing emergency treatment on Marseille's battered body.

Imperial and Republic MDS pilots, known as Skyfighters, inevitably face various forms of impact—recoil from firearms, shockwaves from explosions or air currents, pressure from air or water, ground contact…but the most dangerous, and yet unavoidable, is inertial acceleration, known as G-force. No matter the type of machine used on the battlefield, G-force interference is essentially inevitable. Airborne machines face even more severe issues in this regard.