"Tch, putting on a show!"
Atomic Samurai bit down hard on the toothpick in his mouth, his left hand instinctively settling on the sword at his waist.
"Mr. Atomic is right." Seeing the morale raised by the prebattle pep talk wiped clean at the first sight of Elder Centipede's size, Josen raised an eyebrow and calmly continued, "There's nothing to fear. He's just a bug monster a hundred million times bigger."
The trainees: "..."
-Sure, just a hundred million times bigger!
As he spoke, Josen stepped forward and raised a hand to press his chest.
With this rather ceremonial activation method, dazzling particle effects gushed out of thin air, tracing a capital "J" made of gilded lightning across his chest, complete with a diamond-shaped border behind it.
Immediately afterward, streams of force field particles turned pitch-black and surged across his entire body. His black-and-gold Superman suit loaded with a single touch. Transformation complete!
Hearing Josen's words, the many Heroes present seemed to have found their pillar of support and immediately quieted down.
Then, as they watched him stylishly finish transforming and suiting up, many who were seeing this for the first time instantly had their attention diverted, and the tense prebattle atmosphere eased.
In the crowd, the tall, curvaceous Captain Mizuki unconsciously cupped her face. Beneath her high ponytail, her spirited eyes had turned into two girlish pink hearts at some point. She murmured, "Lord Super Police's muscles! S-so handsome! That suit... is amazing! Skintight suits forever!!"
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"Slurp, slurp!!"
Mizuki was a girl herself, so that was one thing, but everyone suddenly heard slurping from another direction too.
The Heroes: ???
They turned to look. It was Okamaitachi, who was in much the same state as Mizuki, as though he had fallen under a muscular man's charm spell. Tears