After that, Ryuzaki Kai, having summoned the Dragon God Mecha, brought Fang Zheng and Kuriyama Mirai back down to the ground. Not long afterward, Shido Hikari and Hoshiji Kaze arrived as well, each piloting a Dragon God Mecha.
Still... this really brought back memories.
Watching the three girls emerge from beams of light in the mechas' chests and slowly descend to the ground, Fang Zheng could not help but sigh. It reminded him of some super-deformed mecha anime from back in the day... As he recalled, mechas from his childhood had basically all done this: the pilots jumped up and were sucked into the mecha's chest. But after he grew up, it seemed no mecha anime did that anymore.
Well, at least it was not some super-deformed Ryujinmaru. Otherwise, they might have had to find a public phone booth to make a call and summon it—where in Cephiro were they supposed to find a public phone booth?
Come to think of it, why did later mecha anime stop doing that? It was clearly much cooler than any cockpit.
Really, it was quite the mystery.
"Little White, Senior Kuriyama, are you okay?!"
The three girls hurried over and asked anxiously. Kuriyama Mirai let out a burp, then quickly covered her mouth and waved her hands.
"We're fine, we're fine. We weren't hurt."
"Is that so... That's good..."
Hearing Kuriyama Mirai's reply, the three girls all breathed sighs of relief. Then Shido Hikari suddenly twitched her nose.
"Huh? What's that smell? It's weird."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, I smell it too."
Hoshiji Kaze and Ryuzaki Kai smelled it as well. They closed their eyes, sniffed carefully, then turned to look at Kuriyama Mirai. She froze.
"W-What? I don't smell like anything..."
But before she could finish, Kuriyama Mirai froze again. Only then did she