"Eh, eh, eh!? It actually broke? Now that's really unfortunate!" Jiu Ming cackled strangely. With both hands, he tore at the roller coaster beneath his feet. The instant it came free of the tracks, the tracks filling the sky vanished without a trace, while the roller coaster's spinning wheels rapidly changed shape.
Before it had fallen even a hundred meters, it had transformed into something resembling a hovercar. Wings had sprouted from both sides, and jets had appeared at the rear. Long flames over two meters in length burst forth, propelling the vehicle out of the way of the second attack. Looking down—
A tall, burly man in armor stood below, his stern face looking as though everyone in the world owed him money, with "I'm the greatest" practically written across it. He raised his head and stared up at them. "Eh? It's that what's-his-name, right? Beauty, you drive!"
Grabbing Haruhi by the shoulder, he made her vision blur. When she came back to herself, she was already sitting in the driver's seat. "Hey! Wait, I don't know how to drive!!"
Haruhi, rarely flustered, gripped the steering wheel tightly.
"It's fine! Just step on the gas!!" The moment Jiu Ming finished speaking, the hovercar's speed instantly doubled. He was flung straight out, left barely hanging on by one hand gripping the door handle. That arm was forcibly stretched over a hundred meters without any sign of breaking. The elasticity it generated instead snapped him back. "Hohoho! That was close, that was close. Let's set off a bomb to calm ourselves down!" Jiu Ming gave another sinister cackle, took out a black balloon, and quickly kneaded it into the shape of a bomb. Then he pulled a loudspeaker bigger than himself from beneath the seat and roared down below, "Delivery for