{Author’s Notes}

  This time’s Afterword is about “three times the size of the main chapter”, but it has nothing to do with the main story, so you can skip it.

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  After the payment of one white gold coin, Alice snapped her fingers. Thereupon, the bodies of the four of us, including Hapti-san, are enveloped in a translucent sphere, floating in the air and moving about the forest.

  Was this that? I guess it’s to make sure that whatever’s happening could be easily seen…… Ahh, I could also see the wyvern flying in the air.

  However, as for the essential one in this situation, the Alice-chan Robo…… Unnn? That is……


  Moving my gaze, I saw a shadow running towards us from the distance…… wait, isn’t that the usual cat stuffed costume…… No, wait, isn’t that absurdly big!? No matter how I look at it, that’s over 5m tall.

  In the meantime, a bird-shaped stuffed costume of the same size appeared from the sky, cutting through the clouds.

  Thereupon, in contrast to the cat stuffed costume walking on two legs, a cow stuffed costume came running on all four legs, a mole-like stuffed costume from the ground, and a shark stuffed costume swimming in the sky.

  I see…… The cat is the well-balanced leader, the cow is the powerful land-based mecha, and the bird, mole, and shark are specialized in the air, ground, and sea respectively.

  While I was thinking about this, the five stuffed costumes lined up and with the cat stuffed costume at the lead, they leapt at the same time.

  Each of them then separated into their corresponding main parts, with the cat transforming into the torso, the bird and shark into arms, and the cow and mole into legs. They combined with each other with movements that looked like something out of a mecha anime.

  The wings of the separated bird stuffed costume were also attached to the back, and the face of the cat that had been on the chest part spun around…… and turned into a sharp and cool saber tiger-like face that looked clearly different from its original form.

  Then, as the face part of the robo comes out, detailed adjustments are made to each part.

  “5-UNIT COMBINATION…… GREAT ALICE-CHAN ROBO!”


  ……A robo that was about 20 times d*mn cooler than I had imagined kinda came out…… It certainly looks like a robo from a kid’s anime, but it still seriously looks cool…… I mean, from its appearance, doesn’t the stuffed costume part completely disappeared!?

  Even that wyvern looked like he doesn’t have any idea what’s going on, flapping its wings in the air, scurrying around like it doesn’t know what to do……


  “GREAT ALICE-CHAN SWOOOOOOORD!!!”


  However, unfortunately, even if the wyvern couldn’t keep up with the situation, the battle still continues. The Great Alice-chan Robo put her hand behind her back, and pulled out a real sword comparable to the robo’s size. I would have said that it was another classic, but I want to ask where the heck did she pull out that sword.

  And then, posing in a way that it would look extremely cool when viewed from a downward angle, flames engulfed the blade of the sword.

  Hoohhh…… I see…… She’s going to use flames huh. Along with lightning, flames certainly are the most ironclad when it comes to robots. It looks flashy and cool, and more importantly, it looks strong.

  At the same time, a cool BGM suddenly came out of nowhere. Hearing that makes me wonder where it’s coming from…… but this is also something that should be arranged in situations like this.

  If you hear the anime’s theme song as a BGM when you use your special move, it could be said that it would be certain that you’re heading towards victory. On the other hand, if you use a special move without a BGM, there’s a good chance that the move will be blocked or smashed apart.

  As I was reminiscing about the fusion robo animes I had seen as a child, it looked like the Great Alice-chan Robo was about to unleash its special move.

  The wing-shaped boosters on the back of the Great Alice-chan Robo ignites, and gliding through the air with a sword-wielding stance, the Great Alice-chan Robo rapidly accelerates, turning into a red flash that diagonally slices the wyvern as it passes by.

  The wyvern was sliced in half, but for some reason, its body remained connected in the air, and its slashed mark emits a mysterious spark.

  And then, as the Great Alice-chan Robo struck a resolute pose…… the wyvern mysteriously exploded.

  Honestly speaking, the quality was far better than I could have imagined. I was a little skeptical when the stuffed costumes first came out, but the combined robo was just plain cool, and since we were floating in the air, I could see the whole scene clearly.

  The power of special moves really is amazing. I feel as if I had really entered the world of a mecha anime.

  One white gold coin…… To be honest, I thought it would be the biggest money squandering in my life, but when I actually saw it, I changed my mind. In fact, I even thought that with this quality, one white coin was cheap.

  I watched a lot of mecha anime when I was a kid, and I think I’m pretty passionate about them.

  But before I go any further…… there’s one thing I’d like to say-

  What the heck did the wyvern do to you!!!?

  [Hey, Aoi, Hina, was it me that’s strange because I couldn’t keep up with the situation? Or was it the world that’s strange?]

  [……I think it’s Kaito-san that’s strange.]

  [……It’s Kaito-senpai that’s strange, that’s for sure.]

  Also, why the heck is the one who did this acting like you’re clueless about what’s happening……


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