From now, GM mode commences movement on ground through walking 15:33.
PS, this is to lure MMR Class [K].001 ATOMSK 15:33.
End 15:33.
Good luck to GH in executing battle strategy 15:33.»
The fluid metal jet kept shooting out, and the giant coagulating structure in the sky continued growing, becoming a towering metal obelisk as it ate up the endless stream.
Amarao and Haruko watched the scene with serious looks on their faces—but Amarao's inferiors fled out of terror.
Still in her hairdresser's uniform, Haruko watched the drama unfold. Needless to say, she knew where that giant snake firework was coming from; the chain link on the bracelet she wore on her left arm was receiving some kind of special energy, reacting like a magnet. It was probably indicating Naota's location.
Finally, the liquid metal stream stopped spewing. It seemed it had all come out, right down to the very last drop. But that enormous fluid thing was stilling changing shape in the sky. What in the world could it be?
When the solidifying body finally finished arranging itself, its true form appeared above the skies of Mabase: Thrusting into the heavens like a giant tower, the monster still had two legs. With the exception of the head portion, its entire body was covered in a thin, gleaming, metallic sheet. It looked exactly like a giant wearing a poncho—or a giant long cactus. Only the two feet at the bottom of the poncho and huge manipulator arms hinted at a humanoid shape. Any way you described it, though, it was absolutely enormous.
The head towered above the tallest building in Mabase. If it was a robot, how was this giant thing going to move?
"Look!" Amarao pointed at the enormous robot and pleaded, "MM is sending those monsters! They're going to destroy this planet! It's over. That's a Class B robot."
But Haruko didn't act at all daunted as she regarded her enemy; she simply took the bass guitar from her back.
Amarao already had lost all his composure. "You're responsible for all this."
"Shut up and watch, Sir Eyebrows." (She meant Amarao by "Sir Eyebrows")
"That guitar is not up to it!"
"You, SHUT UP! You're a hundred years under-evolved, primitive MONKEY!"
"That's derogatory language toward people of developing planets!"
Haruko looked like she was disgusted with this fussing man next to her, and she started to wave her guitar angrily. She made only a light swing through the air as if she were waving a tennis racket, but—
"Uwagh!" As if he had been stuck by an invisible impact, Amarao flew back and landed on the floor. At the same time, those very peculiar eyebrows were torn off his face and sent flying somewhere. Those unnaturally fat eyebrows—which had looked as though they'd been drawn on—actually were thick black stickers.
"My eyebrows!"
When he realized his eyebrow stickers had fallen off, Amarao's face went pale. He went into a panic so frenzied that it was comical. He always had been frightened of Haruko, but now he was so scared that he looked like an herbivore plucked up by the claws of a natural predator. Apparently, those eyebrow stickers were precious to him. He was more shaken by the loss of his eyebrows than by the menace of the enormous robot that had just appeared.
Amarao looked up at Haruko from the spot where he was sitting on the road. When she took a pose with her guitar in hand, his body began to tremble from the fear. "No… you can't!"
"Fooly Cooly Fooly Coola, Fooly Cooly Fooly Coola…"
Haruko suddenly started chanting words like a curse. And as she chanted, she spun the guitar at the ends of her fingers as if it were a cheerleader baton. Then…
Through some incomprehensible technology, the rotating guitar started emitting light, which spread into shimmering particles and scattered through the vicinity. It seemed that Haruko's "dance" was for the express purpose of causing this phenomenon.
Those shining particles surrounded and enveloped Haruko, who hoisted her arms high and closed her eyes.
It was a beautiful, heavenly sight. Haruko's tall, perfectly proportioned body was adorned with countless fragments of light like rays of the sun. She was a miraculous image, like a star in space surrounded by an aurora.
Then, as if reacting to the swirling particles of light, Haruko's body itself started emitting light.
"Ah… No… No!" Amarao groaned. Apparently, he found Haruko's heavenly condition to be utterly terrifying. Even so, he couldn't take his eyes off her newly developed beauty and light.
Finally, what stood in front of Amarao was a transformed Haruko.
How does one begin to explain that new form? Like a peacock spreading its feathers, her new form had the purpose of attracting men, fanning their sexual fantasies. The act of showing bare skin for sex appeal is called "display" in the animal world, and Haruko's new form was, in short, a display.
"Eyebrows… I don't have my eyebrows… Ah, the horn!"
From Amarao's forehead, now without fake eyebrow stickers, a horn had popped out. It was a miniscule horn in the shape of a Y.
The truth was, the reason Amarao had stuck those eyebrow stickers on was to keep this horn sealed in. He had cruel memories of when he'd met Haruko before—and when he'd seen her sexy display, this horn had grown. Vowing that he wouldn't make the same mistake again, he'd plastered those eyebrow stickers to his head.
"Small, as usual." With one finger, Haruko grasped the horn sticking out of the frozen Amarao's forehead. When she pulled out that small, Y-shaped stick, it turned out to be… a small, Y-shaped stick.
"Takkun's is much bigger. Well, I guess I'll try it out, anyway."
Having said this, display-mode Haruko activated the hand-powered generator on the back of her guitar.
"Curses! I've been played like a fool again!" Amarao spat out bitterly. "What does that kid have that I don't?"
When the projection from his forehead finally stopped, Naota was struck dumb as he looked up at the robot that had come out of his own head.
Mamimi was still sitting next to him on the concrete. And the sun having been blocked by the monstrosity, both Naota and Mamimi were encompassed by a giant shadow.
It was like a building, but it was a robot.
GON GON GON…
They could hear complicated mechanical movements from deep inside it.
"It's going to move," Mamimi whispered, still in awe of its size.
And then, the enormous robot took a step and walked. When one of its enormous feet hit the street, the sheer weight of it caused large earth tremors.
Mamimi and Naota were nothing but ants next to that enormous foot.
The enormous robot took one step and then another.
As they supported an incalculable weight, every time its feet met the ground, a boom rang out across the city that was loud enough to shake one's very insides.
The robot made its way farther down that same road, shattering all the windows of every building it passed and trampling over pedestrian walkways. It continued forward unopposed, heading from the city to the hill. It must have been heading for MM Factory.
Amarao watched the enormous robot from where Haruko had left him. "This is bad. It's headed for the plant. It's going to activate the plant!"
Amarao knew what would happen if that enormous robot touched the MM factory. Indeed, this was a situation that threatened the entire human race.
It was at that very moment that a high-speed flying object approached the robot in attack mode.
«Hostile approaching Galaxy Space Police Brotherhood agent. 13:37.
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