Crushing Gobu! Let's Go Eat Barbecue.

Gobu's scarlet eyes locked onto the red-and-silver giant before it. Countless golden destructive energy bolts poured wildly toward Sobu High School like machine-gun fire!

"Danger!" Eriri screamed instinctively from behind.

Yet, faced with that dense barrage capable of instantly leveling the entire school, Lin Xiao, standing upon the earth, did not even dodge.

He merely raised his right hand casually and deployed an Ultra Barrier before himself.

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

The energy bolts, capable of instantly vaporizing skyscrapers, struck the seemingly fragile shield of light like raindrops against tempered glass. Apart from sending out dazzling ripples, they could not even leave a single crack!

At the same time, a system notification rang out in the group members' minds, and the group livestream automatically began.

[ Ding! Group owner "He Is Simply God" has started a group livestream! ]

In an instant, Batman, who was studying blueprints in the Gotham Batcave; Naruto, who was eating ramen in the Naruto World; and Shirou, who had just finished eating at the Emiya Household, all saw the livestream.

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Wow! Big Brother Lin Xiao is fighting another giant monster!!"

[The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "What terrifying destructive power... If those energy bolts landed in Fuyuki City, the entire city would probably be leveled in an instant!"

In Gotham City's dim Batcave, Batman stared at the livestream screen, tapping the console to retrieve battle data as he silently reassessed the group owner's true strength.

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "The monster's energy barrage was not only perfectly blocked, but the energy dissipation rate is actually zero?"

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "He locked all the explosive shockwaves in front of the shield, leaving no residual damage to the school behind him... This absurdly precise control over energy is more terrifying than him smashing the monster apart with one slap."

[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "My, although I've already witnessed Mr. Lin Xiao's great power, watching him fight still feels especially reassuring every time."

Meanwhile, in the livestream, the one-sided crushing had officially begun!

"Roar!" Seeing that its energy bolts were ineffective, Gobu was completely enraged. Wielding its two incomparably sharp giant scythe claws, it pounced at Lin Xiao like a moving mountain of steel!

"An enhanced Gobu? But that's all it is."

Lin Xiao's legs suddenly exerted force! "Bang!" The earth cracked apart! Gaia's enormous body became a red afterimage, instantly closing in on Gobu with terrifying explosive power that utterly defied the limits of his size!

Gobu swung its scythes down viciously!

"Clang—!!!" A deafening clash of metal rang through the skies!

Lin Xiao did not evade. Instead, he directly reached out with both hands and forcibly caught those two Cosmic Scythes! Dazzling sparks burst wildly between their hands!

In the clubroom, Eriri covered her mouth tightly as she watched that familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

Then, a scene that made everyone's scalps go numb unfolded.

"Up!" The muscles in Lin Xiao's arms bulged as he unleashed the absolute might of the earth itself. Amid a grating screech of twisting metal, he actually hoisted the monster above his head!

"Boom—!!!"

Lin Xiao viciously smashed Gobu into an open field on the outskirts of Chiba Prefecture, creating a terrifying crater dozens of meters deep! The trembling earth made the entire city fall silent.

Before the monster could get up, Lin Xiao crossed his arms before his chest, then violently stretched them out to both sides. Extremely violent red thermal energy rapidly gathered around his head, forming a crimson aurora so dazzling it hurt the eyes!

Gaia Photon Ice Blade!

Whoosh—!!! A dazzling red stream of thermal energy, like a long whip, slashed straight into Gobu's chest armor at a speed beyond all reason!

"Roar..."

This once-arrogant cosmic battle beast could not even complete its final cry. Under the extreme heat and destructive force, its massive body instantly collapsed from the inside out, ultimately turning into an incomparably brilliant firework that completely vanished into the sky!

[ Ding! Detected that the host has successfully killed the cosmic battle beast Super Gobu! ]

[Points obtained: 1500!]

The afterglow of the setting sun once again spread across the earth. As the smoke cleared, the red giant slowly turned around.

Then, his enormous body transformed into warm motes of light that scattered between heaven and earth.

"Whoosh."

With a faint flash of light, Lin Xiao reappeared in the battered clubroom, wearing the Sobu High School uniform without even a single strand of hair out of place.

Lin Xiao glanced at the drafty hole in the ceiling and grumbled with practiced ease, "Yukinoshita, do you think the guidance office can reimburse this repair bill?"

Yet at that moment, no one in the clubroom had the mood to care about repair costs.

Yukino stood by the window, a smile of "just as expected" on her lips. Miko sat on the floor, tears streaming down her face in gratitude.

Directly in front of Lin Xiao, Sawamura Eriri stared at him rigidly.

Her sapphire-blue eyes held thirty percent shock, thirty percent daze, thirty percent embarrassment, and ten percent despair at wanting to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

"Um..." Lin Xiao looked at his dumbfounded childhood friend and scratched his head awkwardly.

"So, Eriri." "That thing I said back then about being a Sole Sovereign Throughout the Ages... wasn't too embarrassing after all, right?"

"..."

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds.

"Bang—!!!" Just when Lin Xiao thought Eriri would rush over and embrace him in gratitude—

This textbook-grade blonde twin-tailed tsundere instantly blushed from the base of her neck to the tips of her ears. She looked like a boiled crab, with visible steam practically rising from her head!

"Idiot... idiot!!! You big idiot!!!"

Eriri suddenly let out an intensely embarrassed shriek. Closing her eyes, she waved her tiny fists and unleashed a chaotic yet completely harmless barrage of flailing punches against Lin Xiao's chest!

"If you really went off to save the world, why didn't you explain it properly back then?!!!" "You made me think you were crazy for ten whole years! And I kept scolding you before this too!!!"

"How am I supposed to face that embarrassing history from now on, you bastard?! Waaaah!!!"

As Eriri punched Lin Xiao, tears of grievance uncontrollably streamed down her cheeks.

For the past ten years, she had called him delusional on the surface, yet deep down, she had always secretly worried about that orphanage boy who had suddenly started acting strangely.

But in the end! He had not been acting crazy! He had really gone off to save the universe!!!

How was a high school girl supposed to accept such an absurd cross-dimensional premise?!

Lin Xiao let Eriri cry and make a fuss in his arms without fighting back. He merely gently rubbed her wonderfully soft blonde twin tails.

"Sorry, sorry. The identity of a Light Giant had to be kept secret, after all. But now, you're the first core member of our [All-Heavens Rescue Club] to personally see me transform."

Upon hearing that, Eriri's punching paused slightly.

She raised her tear-streaked face, her eyes red as she bit her lip with great tsundere pride. "W-who wants to be your core member?! Don't think that just because you turned into some Ultraman, I'll forgive you for abandoning me back then!"

Although her words were incredibly stubborn, her hands tightly clutched the hem of Lin Xiao's school uniform, afraid that this bastard would say, "I'm going to become a Sole Sovereign Throughout the Ages," and disappear again.

"Ahem." Right in the midst of this saccharine reunion between childhood friends—

Yukino Yukinoshita gave two highly atmosphere-ruining coughs. She coldly looked at the pair embracing each other.

"Lin Xiao. Although it may be inappropriate to interrupt your deeply moving reunion," Yukino's gaze swept across Eriri's hand gripping Lin Xiao's clothes, "I have to remind you that the Disaster Prevention Bureau's rescue helicopter will be arriving soon."

"If you continue being this conspicuous, I'm not sure whether tomorrow morning's Chiba Prefecture headlines will read: <Shocking! The mysterious Light Giant who saved the world is actually a student at Sobu High School>."

Hearing that devastatingly sharp jab, Eriri jumped away from Lin Xiao's arms like a startled rabbit. However, the blush on her face refused to fade.

"Yukinoshita is right." Lin Xiao took a deep breath and returned to his composed demeanor.

"Come on. To celebrate our Eriri finally rebuilding her worldview, dinner is on me tonight. Let's go eat barbecue!"