Voices of surprise rose one after another, but no one considered the possibility of a campus invasion. Such a huge fluorescent Titan, with "Happy Arbor Day" written on it—no matter how they looked at it, it seemed like part of a holiday celebration. How could an enemy possibly invade in such an eye-catching manner?
Yet the Titan and Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C looked exactly like lovers running beneath the sunset.
Who knew whether St. Freya Academy's literature club would someday circulate some bizarre cyberpunk robot-on-robot smut?
The most infuriated person, of course, was Dr. Tesla.
She had no idea what had happened. By the time she came to her senses, her Titan had been painted in strange colors. Before she could even say a word, they had charged straight out.
She stood there dumbfounded, even forgetting to recall the Titan.
After making two laps around campus, every light had been switched on, and the Campus Police had been alerted. No matter how foolish Theresa was, she would receive a report about it by tomorrow morning.
Mission accomplished.
He led the Titan toward the sparsely populated campus forest, to the shore of an unnamed lake.
Now came the main event.
Zhao Bai had chosen green, the color least suited to metal. All along the way, he kept hypnotizing himself, trying to see the Titan as a walking bunch of bok choy, but he had failed several times.
He was very close to succeeding. Before Zhao Bai's eyes, there was no longer a Titan—only a running mass of green.
His heart had never been so calm.
"Just one final push, Heavy Cannon Rabbit."
As he spoke, Heavy Cannon Rabbit, which had been flying at full power, abruptly stopped. Carrying Zhao Bai, it slowly descended to the ground. The charging Titan, several paces behind them, chased with all its strength. It was about to reach Zhao Bai and smash him into pulp.
Zhao Bai did not look at the Titan. Instead, he turned toward Heavy Cannon Rabbit beside him.
"Say 'I want to eat vegetables' three times."
Heavy Cannon Rabbit replied, "This sentence is not in the database. Unable to respond for the time being."
"Then make it with a meme edit. Use the audio splicing computers are good at and piece the sentence together. Otherwise, we won't resolve today's crisis, and my life will end here."
The Titan drew nearer and nearer. Its heavy footsteps beat against his chest like a war god's drums.
Zhao Bai's heart pounded faster and faster, yet Heavy Cannon Rabbit had fallen into dead silence.
Hurry up, hurry up.
Zhao Bai's face had turned red from holding it in. He let out a near-breaking scream in his heart, yet his expression remained utterly still.
When the Titan was only five steps away, when the billowing heat of its steam was nearly enough to scald Zhao Bai, Heavy Cannon Rabbit's progress bar finally finished, and Bronya spoke those strange words.
"I want to eat vegetables."
"A customer's request is what I tirelessly pursue."
He drew his blade, slashed diagonally—Four Directions Slash.
The deep blue blade light flowed freely across the lakeside wetland, tranquil as running water.
The instant those words left his mouth, Zhao Bai pressed down with his right hand and drew Other Shore Gate from subspace. The dark blue longsword shone brilliantly in his grasp.
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