Pillars of fire soared into the starless night sky. It was a scene reminiscent of the destruction of a city as described in the Bible.

The heroes who were urgently summoned looked up at the flames that had turned into a huge wall with torches and plastic tanks in their hands.

「Was this really the right thing to do……?」

「They are threats beyond human understanding. They are disasters just like earthquakes and typhoons.」

「But still!　That doesn’t mean we can pull off a cowardly move like this……!」

「Then do you think we can choose our means! ? While that is happening, the peace of the citizens is being threatened!」

The absolute leader Morikuni Ittetsu’s resignation, the unreasonable orders of the new Chief of the General Staff, the wide-eyed colleagues, and the unspeakable results of the war. Little by little, voices began to cast doubt on the status of the headquarters among the heroes.

In the midst of this, A faint background music resounded.

『Den, dedededen, dedededen♪』

『Haa~ Please do dokkoi♪　Edo Punishment～～～♪』

「Hey, how are we going to stop this! Where is that bitch who took the liberty of embedding speakers in people’s nipples!」

「Call from Headquarters! Victor Blue-san, It’s an order to retreat!」

「Oi oi wait, ze! I don’t want to go back with Japanese Folk Song coming out of my nipples, daze!?」

Johnny Aikawa, a.k.a. Victoblue, was struggling to stop the theme song of “Shin Jidai Geki: Dokko-Dokko-Edo-Shitsuke” coming out of his nipples. Even though it was his own body, if he messed with it too much and it broke, he was sure to suffer a disastrous consequences.

「Damn it, is it this button…? Click, ze! Ahi, It’s the wrong one, ze!」

「A reaction from the radar! Victor Blue-san, dodge！」

「N? What, ze?」

Johnny, who had been fiddling with himself like a grooming monkey, looked up. What he saw was the thick, hard sole of a boot.

「Full power drop kick rabbit (shoot)!!」

「Mungyururururuzeeeeeee!!!???」

The blue armored body slid down the ground and crashed headfirst into the wall of the burning abandoned factory.

It was a deadly kick that could easily blow up a four-ton truck. If he had been alive, he would have died instantly, so he had to thank the mechanical body for this.

「「「Vi- Victor Blue-saaaaaaaaan!!」」」

Amidst the screams of the heroes, the woman who kicked Johnny off and flew in the air landed without a sound.

Standing in her military uniform and her military cap, with rabbit ears growing out of it, her neat face with her one eye covered by her eyepatch, was now full of anger and sorrow.

「Line up, you dung beetles…… I’ll make you regret at the bottom of hell’s kiln that you carelessly pecked at the beast’s nest.」

Colonel Usanyi-chan, the Rabbit mysterious being, number two of the Hundred Beasts Legion, was very upset that her house was burned down. Her notoriety was not confined to the Ark Dominion, and she was no stranger to the Hero Headquarters.

「Sh- She is hereeeee! It’s Usanyiiiiiiiii!!!」

「It’s Usanyi!? How can we handle such a major figure!! !」

「Don’t forget the Colonel and the -chan, you fool! Electric Shock Biribiri Whip!!」

Colonel Usanyi-chan waved the whip in her hand, and a blue-white electric current crawled on the ground. The bundles of electric currents bounced around like rabbits and attacked the fleeing heroes one after another.

「Gyaaaaaah!! Abababababa!!」

「Calm down everyone! There’s only one opponent! If we surround her with everyone, she isn’t be scary at all!」

「That’s right! As Victor Blue-san said, we have the number advantage!」

Fortunately, Johnny survived, and the heroes came to their senses at the command of Johnny, and surrounded Colonel Usanyi-chan, readying their weapons at once. Fifteen swords, spears, axes, and other weapons, all of which seemed to have a high killing power, approached Colonel Usanyi-chan from all directions.

No matter how strong a mysterious being’s body and supernatural abilities was, it would be no match for an attack by several people. It was a simple solution, but the 50-year history of the Hero Headquarters had proven the usefulness of human tactics.

「「「Take thiiss!」」」

In a few seconds, a minced rabbit seemed to be ready to be served, at the very moment when it was supposed to be ready.

Shugogogogogogogogogo! !

With jet engines humming, a tall woman landed behind Colonel Usanyi-chan. Fluttering her long, bright red coat that enveloped her towering figure, she stood side by side with the rabbit-eared mysterious being, their backs to each other.

「Phew, good timing, Medic Minato.」

「…………」

Half of her face was covered by a visor, making it impossible to see her expression. But at the center of the circle of weapons that surrounded her, the new mysterious being opened her arms as if to say, “Come on”!

「Victor Blue-san, the number of mysterious being increased!」

「Don’t worry, ze! We’ll crush them by sheer force of numbers, daze!」

The heroes rushed in, weapons in hand. Slashes approaching simultaneously from all directions were supposed to tear the bodies of the two mysterious beings apart…….

「Mi…… Million Swords Phalanx!」

What was heard was not the death knell of an evil soul, but the sound of heavy, hard swords colliding.

The simultaneous attack of fifteen weapons was blocked by the sudden appearance of countless swords, no less than ten times their number.

「Whaaaat!?」

「Violence of numbers, that…… That kind of thing is no good, I think.」

For a moment, the heroes could not understand what had happened. The only thing they could figure out was why the weapon in their hands did not seem to budge, no matter how hard they pushed or pulled.

The countless interlocking swords were just like mighty shields, which layered on top of each other and entangled the heroes’ weapons as if to engulf them. The swarm of swords deployed around the mysterious beings was a steel barrier woven with sharp edges.

「Gununu, there’s no way to attack with this! !」

「Isn’t it the same for the other party? But even if I wanted to regain my balance, my weapon is…!」

As the heroes struggled to extract their weapons, the wall of swords began to rustle and quiver like a living creature. Then, with a crackling sound and sparks scattering, the many swords that were stacked on top of each other stood up all at once.

Hundreds of swords are lined up with their blades facing outward, with the mysterious beings at the center of the line.

It was like an angry porcupine.

「This is bad, ze……! Everyone, take cover, dazeeeee!」

At the same time Johnny shouted, the swords surrounding the mysterious being shot out in “all directions” at once.

「「「Guwaaaaaaaaah!!」」」

Like a shotgun around the body, firing simultaneously.

Swarms of swords strike all heroes and all “spaces” equally, all at the same time, in an instant. The hero suit is impervious to both bullets and swords, but a sword launched at the speed of a bullet will bring any hero to their knees.

「You are doing a good job, miss. You are the kind of person I want in the Hundred Beasts Legion.」

「Uuuu…… I managed to do it somehow, but…… I- I am going to throw up……」

「Phew, war is like that. Don’t worry, I threw up too when I was in my first battle.」

The heroes, centered around the two female mysterious beings, were rolling like a heap of corpses. Only one of them, a blue body made of steel illuminated by flames, was barely moving.

「You’ve gotta be…… kidding me, ze……!」

Johnny was still standing on the ground with both feet, though sparks were flying from his entire body. The malfunctioning speakers produced a sand-washing noise, not a Japanese folk song, but a zari-zari noise.

「Ugugu…… I can still…… Fight, ze……!」

「Well, you are indeed a man who withstood my full power drop kick rabbit (shoot). But don’t do it, you’ll end up as a scrap. If you want to die, I won’t stop you, but I’m not a very nice person.」

「Hey you, don’t stand up anymore! You’re really going to die! Colonel Usanyi-chan, please don’t provoke him either!」

Minato’s attack had severely damaged even Johnny’s steel body. But he, too, was a man who had won one of only five seats in the Victory Sentai Victor Rangers, an elite group belonging to the Tokyo Headquarters.

「Oi oi, don’t stand up you say, that’s like a hero waving the white flag at mysterious beings……?」

The motor hummed quietly, blue flames lighting up the heart core inside the blue armor.

「I’m still a hero in charge of the country’s safety……. My body may be made of iron, but my heart still bleeds human blood!」

The blue iron man strikes a fighting pose again with the sound of a motor that is about to burn out. Johnny’s entire body begins to glow blue due to the overheated core.

At the sight of the unyielding figure, not only Colonel Usanyi-chan, but also Minato, faced him as an enemy.

One hero confronting two vicious mysterious beings.

「Do we have to do this no matter what……? Uu, it can’t be helped……!」

「Fufu, even though he’s an enemy, he’s quite a tough guy. It’s a shame to make him a hero. Then let me hear your name for the last time.」

Aikawa Johnny clenched his steel fists in response to Colonel Usanyi-chan’s question.

「My name is, “The blue light that shoots evil” Victor――」

――Meshako

It was almost at the same time that Johnny announced his name, a black van crashed into the blue body.

「Bururururururururururuaaaaaaaaaaaaah! ! ! !」

Johnny, who was barely standing with only 2 HP remaining, slammed down the ground violently. The speaker seems to have been repaired by the impact, and Johnny disappeared into the burning abandoned factory along with the theme song of the Edo Punishment.

「Aniki! We ran over something, ssuyo!」

「Uwah, I messed up. Ah, damn, it’s dented…… We won’t be charged for the repair fee right.」

「Y- You- You guys……!」

Getting out of a black van were two people Minato and the others knew well.

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