Around the time the aftermath of the attack on Swordminas, the Sword Mountain Mysterious being, was settled. At the Hero Headquarters in Asagaya, Komorodo Utako was screaming at the men who had run back with their tails between their legs.

「What a failure to have failed to achieve your goal, desuno!　There’s no point in calling you all the way from Abashiri, wa!」

「That’s not right, Utako. We’ve had some troubles, but we’re doing well.」

Will and Lamar, Victor Ranger’s new Red and Green insisted that the failure of the operation was solely due to Death Green’s interfering. It was only because they had been leisurely taunting their targets that they had allowed the reinforcements to arrive in the first place.

「Will is right. I never heard of such a CRAZY cowboy」

「I thought Deathgreen…… had a couple of screws loose in his head at most. He’s one hell of a sexy terrorist.」

「Dealing with a tractor that runs out of control at 200km/h is still easier. I don’t have to worry about my asshole.」

「「HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA！！！！」」

Will and Lamar laughed out loud and exchanged high fives for no reason. Their unapologetic attitude made Utako’s pride stir.

「Mukiiiiiiiiiiiii!!  My strategy must not fail, nodesuwa!　What were the other members doing, no?」

「I was covering the asses of all the idiots who made a big mess. By direct order of the Chief of Staff.」

「Ugh! Ha- Have you never heard of the words “playing it by the ears”！？」

Blue, Pink, and Yellow’s original duties are backups for Will and Lamar. If they were just going to deal with Swordminas alone as planned, they didn’t even need to go out.

However, the “Death Green Legion” was far more mobile and responsive than expected, and they missed the opportunity to intervene.

The Hero Headquarters have no way of knowing, but the heinous legion’s “speed” was devised by Rintaro and Tagaraak. Rintarō took notice of the Ark Dominion information network, which was built to swiftly handle everything from the occurrence of incidents to the protection of mysterious beings, and applied it.

It was a mutual support system developed to counter the guerrilla tactics of the heroes, based on the lessons learned from the devastating defeat by Mayuzumi Kirika, a.k.a. Victor Black.

「Gununununuuuuu……! As expected, the only way to defeat them individually is to aim at the skilled area forces, desuno…? With this meager force…?」

「You can’t talk like that after modifying other people’s bodies like this, ze……」

「If you say so, I would like you to show me the results, desuwa!」

Johnny let out a big sigh at Utako’s snorting. In this case, Commander Asaka is better, as she would still be cold-hearted, but she wouldn’t interfere too much.

But even Johnny does not want to be silently accused of incompetence.

「It’s not like it’s a harvest, but… that “weakest-chan” dropped this.」

What Johnny took out from under his armor was a single, disastrous pill. It was a drug that activates the mysterious being’s cells, …… known as the “giantization” drug.

The process of making it and the mechanism of its gigantic size are still unknown. Of course, there is no guarantee of life if a human swallows it.

「Blue-san you! You can only pick up trash like that, no!? Things like this are useless, no!!」

「Not necessarily.」

As if to cut off Utako’s outraged words, Momoshima Ruru, aka Pink, who had been keeping silent, opened her mouth.

She has dilated pupils and plenty of eye shadow around her eyes to hide the dark circles.

Since the day she confronted Death Green and had her thick makeup completely melted off, Ruru had lost a lot of weight over the past few months, and her appearance is that of a human monster. If one were to bump into her on the street at night, there would be no end to the number of people who would mistake her for a spirit bound to the earth.

Every time she opened her mouth, she cried out the name of a god that she didn’t quite understand, so Utako seemed to want to have nothing to do with her.

「……What do you mean, desuno, Pink-san?」

「This is a precious sample…would you mind letting me keep it in my lab? Hehe… well, please look forward to it.」

Pink picked up the pills and put them in her own plastic bag. And while pulling the string in her mouth, a suspicious smile appeared.

「This is all led by Lord Desmos Agappi Agriopappa …… Ganjanholam, Ganjanholam. Let’s go, Kioumaru.」

「……Gowasu.」

Pink left the room, soundlessly swaying her body from side to side. Yellow Kouomaru, who has now become a large pet, followed suit.

That’s how they escaped from the storm of Utako’s sticky nagging.

. . . Johnny realized it early the next morning they were finally relieved of the nagging.

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In the brightly shining monitor, the commentators brandishing the titles of experts.

『It’s really scary, we can’t show it to my kids.』

『After all, mysterious beings have a fundamentally different way of thinking from humans.』

『This mysterious being is called Death Green, right? Would you mind if I changed my name to Mysterious being Death Elephant from today?』

In front of the bait of the villain’s abomination, they were in a safe zone and they could say whatever they wanted. Both the TV and the internet are filled with news about a perverted mysterious being who suddenly appeared in Tokyo day after day.

A week has passed since the incident that spread such a lascivious act to the whole world, and Rintaro has been holed up in his room for a long time. Standing in front of the tightly closed door, Minato was searching for the right words to say.

「Ugh, it was originally my fault that this happened……」

Minato had not been able to see Rintaro once since that day.

She felt remorse for the consequences of her careless actions, which weighed heavily on her mind. The small distance between them, separated by a single door, felt strangely distant.

「Rintaro, are you there……?　We’re all worried about you.」

She spoke to him timidly, but there was no reply.

If you put your ear to the door, you could hear a faint sobbing, so there was no doubt that he was inside.

「Umm…… Please show up when you feel like it.」

Minato muttered quietly, her voice barely audible even when standing next to her. As she quietly lowered her long lashes, she reluctantly moved her foot towards her own workplace, her infirmary.

Even if a man named Rintaro Kuriyama is in bad shape, no matter how much her heart is troubled, the hands of the clock will not wait. In the secret underground base of Ark Dominion, where hundreds of mysterious beings live together, there is no end to the number of injured and sick people.  In front of the infirmary there were always two or three patients waiting to be treated, There are… about thirty.

「What is thiisss!?」

「Ah, Minato-sensei… good morning.」

「It’s not good morning!　What the hell is going on?　Who did this to you?」

The man who appeared to be a zako fighter was in a miserable state, as if his entire body had been exposed to a high-voltage electric current. When Minato ran up to him, he uttered a few words in a trembling voice.

「Tightening of…… Discipline…… Gaku-」

At the same time that the zako fighter fainted, a throaty scream echoes from across the corridor. A blue-white light flickered violently at the end of a dimly lit corridor in the underground secret base. Minato rushed over to see a zako fighter wrapped in what looked like a black rope, staring at her with teary eyes.

「Aaa, Minato-sensei! Please help me, Oraui!」

「Hang on, I’ll untie you now!」

At the moment she tried to reach out her hand, the black rope emits a bluish-white light, and a high-voltage electric current ran through the zako fighter’s entire body.

「Electric Biribiri Whip!!」

「Abababababababa!!!!」

The zako fighter was released with a plop, spewing smoke from his mouth, as if he were a thrown away trash. A pair of burly men’s military boots stomped down on his jittery, twitching body.

「Gueeeeeh! Bikubiku!」

「Hmm, It’s a trash leopard waste bug at the point of death.」

「I’m sorry, Oraui…… Colonel Usanyi……!」

「Don’t forget the -chan, you fool!」

The large man was kicked by a small girl with a scolding. The zako fighters rolled around down the long hallway and settled quickly at the end of the line waiting for the infirmary.

「Everyone of you are influenced by Corporal Death Green……. You guys have been slacking lately!」

An officer-like military look, a rugged eyepatch, and rabbit ears and twin tails that don’t suit them at all. She was Colonel Usanyi-chan, the Kicking Rabbit Mysterious being, who is the strictest girl in Ark Dominion.

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