A 60-meter-long white giant landed at Haneda Airport, where heroes and mysterious beings were intertwined. If Michelangelo had been born in the 21st century, he might have depicted the angel of the apocalypse in this manner.

But its true identity is a pure white giant robot, one of Ark Dominion’s three executives, Machinery General Tagaraak.

「General Tagaraak! What happened, you’ve grown so big.」

『Ha-ha-ha!　What do you think of this form, ja!　It’s super very very good and has a real “max-people” look to it, jaro?』

「Don’t force yourself to use young people’s language, General Tagaraak!」

『What, jai. I am a fresh ten-years-old, jazo. I am still an energetic youth, jarogai.』

Despite the meaningless argument between Rintaro and Tagaraak, the heroes looked up at the giant robot with stunned expressions on their faces. The sudden appearance of the evil giant robot caused the densely packed group of heroes to flee as if scattering spiders.

「Shit! If this happens, we’ll have no choice but to send out the robots!」

「But HQ told us not to use it……. Yeah, if we die here, it will be useless!　Let’s do it!」

『Ha-ha-ha!　They’ve got some backbone for young heroes these days, jana!　Well then, let’s give it our all!　Hey, everybody!　Show them what you got!』

Responding to the calls of the heroes, giant robots of justice appear one after another, splitting the runway, destroying the terminal, and breaking down the control tower. As if in response to this, the bridge was destroyed, and giant evil mysterious beings appeared while vacating Ota-ku.

A huge battle began, with both forces totaling more than fifty.

But this is not a riverbed, and these are not a group of delinquent high school students who are at odds with each other at the river. This is Haneda Airport, the gateway to Japan, and they are giant robots and giant mysterious beings in the 60-meter class.

They were fighting each other and getting entangled. In no time at all, the airport facility was literally transformed into a “wilderness”.

The scene was so gruesome that even Rintaro, who was partly responsible for the disaster, could not help but scream.

「Aaaaahhh!　Haneda Airpoooort!」

「Waaah, amazing, ssu! I’ve only seen this scene in special effects movies, aniki!」

『Hyah-hyah-hyah!　Tagaden Construction is going to make money again!』

「……What a terrible match-pumping……」

Incidentally, the reconstruction of Jimbocho and Saitama Shin-Toshin, which were scorched to the ground in the recent battle, is progressing steadily thanks to the work of the Tagaden Construction Company, also known as General Tagaraak’s Machinery Corps.

The Japanese engineers, who work like robots for 24 hours a day without taking a break, are said to be receiving many compliments and donations from all over the world. The time-lapse video has received 1 million views on the Internet, and the comments section is said to be overflowing with words of amazement.

In the near future they will once again see the phenomenal amazingness.

It is also the mysterious beings of the Arc Dominion that are causing this, though.

「King of the Hundred Beasts Lariat!」

「What! Seafood bonito blade rias slash!」

At first glance, the battle situation had turned into a mere quagmire wrestling. However, if both are in the 60m class, it’s not on the same level as kittens scrambling for food.

Giant robots and giant mysterious beings beat each other up on monorail cars. The industrial area along the Tama River transformed like a sandbox in a park. Explosions occurred here and there, and the “Metropolitan Expressway” flew through the air like a Frisbee.

『U hyahyahyahyah! Take this, Romeo Driillllllllll!!!』

In General Tagarack’s eyes, it looked like a bundle of ten thousand bills were dancing. Machinery General, who was incarnated into a giant robot, was more excited than usual.

At the feet of the rampaging giants, the heroes were like ants running around trying not to be stepped on.

Mired in a state of complete panic, Rintaro also desperately ran away with Samecchi on his back. This is the very image of a fragile human struggling to escape from the apocalypse after witnessing the war of the gods.

「Uwoooooo!　Wait, wait, wait, wait, I’ll die, I’ll die, I’ll die!　I’ll be trampled to deeeeeaaaaaath!」

「Samecchi will do it too, ssu! Muuuun!!」

「Wait a minute, not here and now, I’ll die from the heaviness……」

Rintaro felt a sudden increase in mass on his own back. The girl’s body quickly transformed into a giant shark mysterious being. Rintaro rolled and ran away desperately, trying not to be crushed by the huge body.

「Saaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!」

「Samecchi!　Sameeeeecchi!　You’re not allowed to grow gigantic on my back!　I almost broke your spine!」

「Sorry about that, sssuuuuu!」

Giant Samecchi also joined the battle, and the situation was finally becoming a clash of all forces between the East Japan Heroes Headquarters and Ark Dominion.

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At the same time, a series of violent incidents were also taking place at the temporary base of the Hero Headquarters in Asagaya. Staff members of the Operations Staff Headquarters, who had been monitoring the scorched earth around Haneda Airport, were all suffering from stroke after stroke.

「Those idiots! What the heelll!! Gaku」

「Oh no… Haneda Airport is… the gateway to Japan is…! Gaku.」

「Is this the responsibility of the Operation Staff HQ…? Ah, un, of course… Gaku.」

「To catch Mayuzumi Kirika alone…… how did this happen…… Gaku.」

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the main artery of the Japanese economy had completely lost its function. Not only Haneda Airport but also the Aqua Tunnel have been cut off, and Kawasaki’s industrial area has turned into a sea of fire.

「Ufufu…… One…… Two…… Three……」

The Chief of Staff, who was scheduled to retire next month, had given up on everything and was counting the number of hairs he had lost.

In the meantime, there was a thin old man who shouted in anger. The person responsible for pushing this operation to the Operation General Staff, Seiji Tanba, the head of the Research and Development Department.

「It doesn’t matter if Haneda sinks or Kasumigaseki turns to ashes! Whatever you do, capture Mayuzumi Kirika!」

Tanba went around spraying water on those who had fainted, waving his staff around. However, the Operation Staff, weakened by a series of failures, were completely demoralized, as if they had just been shot to death.

「It’s impossible, Tanba-san……」

「It’s not impossible!　If only Kirika would return to my hand, we could kick every last one of those mysterious beings out of here!」

「Aren’t we in this situation because of your obsession with Mayuzumi Kirika!」

「Bastard…… Who do you think you are talking to！ Enough, I’ll go!」

Tanba tries to leave the monitoring room with a cane. But no matter what anyone thinks, there’s no way he can stand on the front lines.

Asaka, dressed in a white commander’s uniform, held Tanba back, who was already gasping for air despite his spirit.

「Please wait, Chief Tanba.」

「Don’t stop me, Samejima!」

「We cannot send a person who is on heart medication to the front lines.」

「I’ve got my Itto-ryu!　With my Mugetsu Ittoryu, those mysterious beings can’t even ……Orororo!?」

In a fit of rage, Tanba raised his cane and fell to the floor with a thud, having lost his support. He fell and hit his back hard, he could not get up, and only the tip of the cane was flying through the air.

「Please do not strain yourself, Chief Tanba.」

「Goddammit……!　Kirikaa……! Kirikaaaa!!」

In the glimmering monitor, the oldest hero Aka Justice and Kirika Mayuzumi, who had turned into a darkness mysterious being, were fighting to the death.　 Tanba crawls on the floor and yells at his former comrades-in-arms who are still standing on the front lines.

「Morikuni …… if you mess up, I’m not going to let you get away with it!!」

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