When the iron-blooded commander's mech chains coil around the mechanical girl's gear-driven heart, he shackles her wrists with mech chains, yet in the dead of night allows her to piece together his shattered mental-power barrier with gears. She slips mechanical bugs into his coffee, yet when memories of killing his own parents drive him mad, she willingly opens her chest to reveal her pulsing "mental-power crystal heart." When political enemies use the Pure Bloodline Act to crush their marriage, she unfurls silver mechanical wings woven from his mental power in the parliamentary hall. "Look, this is the commander's gift to me: a new heart forged from black hole fragments and starry patterns, the purest love."
When a laser beam from the interstellar court pierces her mechanical core, he finally bares his fangs as he tears through the parliamentary dome: "You can crush her gears, but you can never destroy the mark I carved deep in her soul."
