**
A pure white van stopped on a traffic-clogged highway.
Inside the van, which had dark tint blocking the view from the outside, Splendid and Kim Tae-joo were sitting in a cold capsule, catching their breath.
As the hero suit he normally wore slowly released from inside the capsule, his skin was revealed to be bright red, as if he had just come out of a sauna. The capsule, sensing the heat, quickly sprayed him with a cooling spray used by athletes all over his body, along with an alarm sound.
“Are you feeling a little better?”
“To some extent. What about Soojin and Jinho?”
"The Special Ability Countermeasures Unit is protecting them. And, they say Han Yong-ju has been arrested."
Tae-joo nodded inside the capsule at Joo-hyun's answer, wearing a tight black outfit that clung to his body.
“At the scene, prioritize the safety of Hero Number One, who helped the two escape.”
“Okay, I mean number one.”
He continued to worry about the well-being of the hero known as Number One, until he was carried from the scene, placed in a special van, and placed inside the capsule.
Number one.
"There are so many shameless people in this world who have such a shabby name and still act like heroes," Night Eye thought as he turned the pages of his phone, then screamed with a surprised expression.
"senior!"
As Tae-joo slowly opened his eyes at her call, Joo-hyun soon turned on the TV in the van.
As soon as I turned on the TV, the first thing I saw was a black shadow filling the entire TV screen.
No, it's a giant robot that looks like a giant bowling ball with wheels that moves.
For a moment, Taeju thought he was seeing things, perhaps due to dehydration.
However, looking at Joohyun looking surprised from next to the capsule, it seems like it wasn't a lie.
The [Live] mark in the upper right corner of the TV screen reassured them that what they were seeing was not an illusion, and soon what appeared to be the headlights of police helicopters were illuminating the black figure here and there.
The headlights, moving quickly back and forth, illuminated the two figures confronting the giant robot.
One is a girl with odd-eyed black and red eyes who looks towards the camera of the news helicopter and smiles, her snow-white hair sparkling even more in the headlights reflecting off her gothic lolita dress.
“Sadistic Maiden, Ariel Kreutz!”
Taeju sat up slightly inside the capsule, unable to take his eyes off the TV screen.
The fact that she is there, the person next to her-
The other, a villain in a black suit, stood tall before her. A red muffler hung from his neck, protruding from the choker around his neck. It had grown so long that it stretched far beyond his height, fluttering in the helicopter wind. A red Z scrawled across his mask and chest, its glow dazzling in the headlights, was even more intense. His red-lensed eyes, too, gazed up at her, just as she did.
“The author…”
The villain with the red muffler is the man who blew up the hill in the previous residential area.
Splendid, who had faced countless villains, grimaced at the crimson aura overflowing from his body.
But what is that appearance?
Unlike Ariel's appearance, which felt extravagant, even excessive, his appearance was remarkably simple. Just a full-body suit and a fluttering red muffler.
It was a design more ordinary than any villain he knew. It was like...
Taeju shouldn't think like that, but he thought it in his head.
That way, you look like a hero.
At the sight of the man, Tae-ju quietly opened his mouth, his eyes fixed on the TV screen.
“Who are you?”
Tae-ju couldn't possibly hear him. However, the red-eyed villain stared intently at the broadcast camera, then quickly lost interest and turned away, stepping toward the giant robot before him.
Taeju stared at the sight without being able to take his eyes off it.
*
A broadcasting station and a police helicopter flying above the sky.
People holding their phones and taking pictures while looking this way.
Ariel, who was looking up at the broadcasting station helicopter, chuckled and said.
"How about it, number 1? Your debut stage."
“... I’m embarrassed.”
I've worn a mask on stage many times, but the attention from so many people and their gazes was still noticeable even under the mask.
“So, what is that?”
It was good that he flew in and kicked the iron ball upwards as soon as he saw Ariel in danger, but he couldn't take his eyes off the huge mass in front of him spinning and rising, and when he asked, Ariel calmly crossed her arms and opened her mouth.
"A giant robot developed by our headquarters. B-06 Racking Ball. Commonly known as Dongle."
“... Dongle?”
“It’s round.”
Of course, only Ariel is calling that name.
[Time limit: 3:08]
As the remaining three minutes approached, I felt the amount of red particles surrounding my body gradually decrease. At the same time, a strange sense of fatigue accompanied me, and the feeling of my fingertips becoming increasingly sluggish was unsettling.
“What time is it? How much time is left?”
“A little while doing 3 minutes?”
"We have no choice but to settle this as quickly as possible. Do your best."
"In that case, isn't it just a polite way to ask, 'Can I help you?'"
Despite my objection, she simply shrugged, and I simply chuckled and walked forward. At the same time, the giant robot in front of me began to roll rapidly toward me.
“Just one subordinate has arrived, and the situation hasn’t changed.”
Kwak Chun-pal's voice rang out through the speakerphone, facing me.
As the spheres that served as the three legs spun rapidly and rushed forward, the cars that had been standing on the road were hit by the giant feet one by one and rolled to the ground, some were crushed by the giant feet, and in the place where they passed, they became one with the road surface like a piece of gum.
A huge body rushes towards the right wheel, filling up the four-lane road with its huge body.
In an instant, the bottom of the giant robot's body opened and machine guns began to appear.
"!?"
When I turned my head to look, the machine guns were aimed at me, or rather in my direction, as I was running rapidly below.
Gyaaaak-!
Shooting while pretending to target me, taking the civilians behind me hostage.
I could hear people screaming, and guns were quickly pointed at me and started shooting.
Gunshots echo through the air, and the onlookers quicken their pace. No, one by one, they begin to run away.
"Haat!"
At least, I run fast along the road so that people won't be able to see the direction in which I'm running away. Soon.
He kicked off the ground and flew up, then slammed his fist into the robot's lower body.
"Haaah!"
bang-
The shock spread throughout its black, round body. The robot flinched sharply, then stopped—
Kiing-
There was only a brief pause. The robot swung its iron ball again and aimed at me.
“Hahaha! Just because you’re throwing a punch, there’s no way this guy can stop!”
The confident voice of Kwak Chun-pal continued to flow from the robot's speaker.
"The Black Crown guys, claiming it was poorly made, sold it to that woman in a hurry, and then forced her to buy it for several times the price. Do you know the shameless look on her face when they sold it? You couldn't have! But today is the day. What that guy said about not being able to use its power properly was true. So, if you don't interfere, I-"
“That guy?”
I raised my head without realizing it at the words that I couldn't easily ignore.
Did someone pass Ariel's information to that guy? Who?
“Who is that guy?”
In response to my question, the giant robot's camera looked this way, but the only answer was laughter.
"There's no way I could tell. After all, if I have this, neither Ariel nor you will be able to catch me."
A leisurely laugh. That's what I mean.
“Hmm. So, if I catch you, you’ll tell me?”
"huh?"
"okay."
I nodded slightly and slowly walked towards the giant robot in front of me.
[Time limit: 2:20]
Even a quick glance isn't enough time. Ultimately, all that's left are a few blows capable of penetrating even the strongest defenses.
As I pulled the muffler around my neck with my right hand, the red muffler made of particles of light floated leisurely in the air and was wrapped in red cloth in my right hand.
“Hey, wait a minute—don’t come near me!”
At that moment, the first to notice the change and react was Kwak Chun-pal.
The guns extending from the bottom of the giant robot began to fire indiscriminately, and I quickly ran into its arms, moving my body lightly here and there.
As the faintly glowing red muffler began to wrap around, wrap around, and wrap around, it began to glow as if red energy was gathered on the right hand, and Kwak Chun-pal's urgent voice began to be heard.
“Stop it!”
“So, it’s definitely something like this-”
In the old days, the short cut uppercut that No. 9 showed me in front of me, digging under the opponent and quickly extending vertically.
As my red-tinted right hand swung up the giant torso of the giant robot that was hovering about two meters above my head,
Kwaaang-!
A body as large as a bowling ball, 5 meters tall, flew up and shattered to a height of over 150 meters.