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"What mindset? I won't have X or anyone tagging along that isn't prepared for this. They'll just end up killed," grumbles Zero.

"Actually," says Gate, making sketches and notes on a data-pad, "I've given some thought to that problem. You see, the thing is, you've been thinking of this in terms of needing armor. What you really need, based on what I was told... I do wish you'd let me see those games... is a sort of portable blast-proof orbital drop capsule. If it should happen to double as flight-capable armor once you've dropped to an appropriate point in the atmosphere, so much the better."

"Now, I've made notes and sketches based on how the wings in Lumine's Armed Phenomenon form fold up for defense, as well as some notes on Punk from the RKN series," Gate continues. "I think it would be best to design a winged armor where the wings can reconfigure to create a shielded sphere around the wearer. And it should, in theory, be possible to make this large enough to contain a passenger in case of emergency..."