(The previous chapter number was wrong. It should have been Chapter 126...)
This was Pan Long's first time flying out of the atmosphere under his own power.
He listened to the wind rushing past. The sky overhead grew darker, while the earth below receded and the mountains shrank. He couldn't help finding it wondrous.
I remember some badass mobile suits in the Gundam games from my previous life could enter Earth's atmosphere straight from outer space without a mothership. They called that "atmospheric reentry." So does this count as "atmospheric exit"?
Come to think of it, I'm even more badass than a Gundam!
At that thought, he wanted to plant his hands on his hips and burst out laughing three times.
But that would be stupid, so he didn't.
Being more badass than the original Gundam RX-78-2 was hardly worth bragging about. Being more badass than the mustachioed Turn A Gundam—that would be something.
...No, even Turn A wasn't all that extraordinary. If the Immortals and Buddhas of the Nine Provinces World went to the Gundam world and unleashed their full power, they might well destroy human civilization just as it could.
Come to think of it, the Super Robot genre really is the strongest... Tengen Toppa, Mazinger Z, Gunbuster... The Real Robot genre could never beat cosmic-scale monsters like those!
Muttering references that had been stale for who knew how many years, he kept flying upward.
After a while, he closed his mouth and fell silent.
Those jokes had only been a way to relax.
Flying into space and spreading the Earthly Baleful Force to cut off the Star-Devouring Demon God's awareness of this planet did not look like a reliable plan, no matter how he considered it.
The pressure on him was immense.
If he were the only