History Recap / MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercuryEpisode6AGloomySong

!!Summary

That night, the girls of Earth House discuss Elan's abrupt change in behavior, while Miorine chides Suletta for accepting the duel without consulting her, stating she won't forgive her if she loses. Following Elan's victory over him, Guel is cut off from Jeturk House's resources, and kicked from the dormitory; he is later seen watching Suletta and Elan's duel while camping out in the woods. Shaddiq oversees the preparations for the duel between Elan and Suletta, with Elan intending to claim Aerial if he wins. Suletta, however, cannot think of a stake in the coming fight. Shaddiq tells her it's fine, so long as she decides by the day of the duel. As the meeting adjourns, Shaddiq expresses his interest in Suletta after having seen Guel and Elan so radically change since her arrival.

Waking from a vague dream of a candle flame during his physical, Belmeria tells Elan he was moaning in his sleep, though he brushes it off as insignificant to the tests. Belmeria informs him that he should have no issues in the coming battle, which Elan infers to mean he won't survive a subsequent one. The real Elan Ceres suddenly enters the room, smugly taunting his surrogate about his gloomy attitude, and the possibility of being given his own life again should he win the duel. #4, however, seems indifferent to the possibility, causing Elan to question why he accepted the role of his body double, knowing he would have to deal with the "cursed" Gundam. #4 only comments that he was already cursed long before that.

Raising the Pharact's Permet score to four to no avail, Elan starts to suffer from a severe data storm, leaving him susceptible to Suletta and Aerial's attacks, though he manages to shoot off Aerial's backpack. The infuriated Enhanced Person, believing himself on the brink of death, unleashes all of his Gundam's bits in an effort to take Suletta down with him. Despite apparently being hit by the stun beams, Aerial suddenly unleashes a pulse that knocks out the Pharact's bits and immobilizes the suit, briefly incapacitating Elan. When he recovers, he experiences a vision of childish silhouettes laughing out in space, before they come into focus as Aerial's bits surrounding him. Unleashing a torrent of beam fire, they eviscerate the Pharact despite his attempts to dodge, one shot blowing through its blade antenna, winning the duel. With his Gundam incapacitated, Elan is left dazed, but begins to more clearly remember his birthday before Suletta rescues him from his disintegrating mobile suit, assuring him that she'd be happy to celebrate his birthday with him, just like the person in his memories.

After the fight, Suletta and Miorine await Elan, who is late for their arranged meeting. Miorine takes her leave, with Suletta singing "Happy Birthday" to herself as she continues to wait. Elsewhere, Elan sings the song to himself as well as he is strung up and executed by the Peil Technologies [=CEOs=] over Belmeria's objections.

** It turns out that the Elan we know, or Enhanced Person Number Four, had his face borrowed from the real Elan, just like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Full Frontal borrowing Char's face]], serves as the real Elan's body double, almost like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Meer serving as a body double to Lacus Clyne]], and has multiple versions of Elan like him, akin to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Ple/Puru having another version of herself such as Ple-2]]. Like those body doubles and people whose faces were borrowed from other folks in the ''Gundam'' franchise, Elan Number 4 ends up dying.

'''Directed and Storyboarded by:''' Akihiro Saito