But what the audience didn't expect was that, faced with the polar bear's attack, Riruru merely extended a single finger!
A powerful laser arc then shot out from her fingertip, giving the big polar bear a shocking jolt that chilled it to the core!
The next second!
Thump!
The polar bear, having lost its ability to fight, crashed heavily to the ground, its eyes rolled back, legs pointing skyward, its life status unknown.
After dealing with the polar bear, Riruru, without a word, kicked off the ground and soared into the sky.
...
In the real world.
After witnessing such a scene, everyone was dumbfounded! Then, an uproar immediately erupted!
"Holy moly! For real?! That little girl just one-shotted an adult polar bear!"
"Her finger can shoot lasers! She can't be human, can she?!"
"Isn't that obvious? Look, she just flew away at the end! You tell me which human is that badass and can fly!"
"That's outrageous!! Could this girl be an alien?!"
...
Meanwhile, on the Magic World version of Earth.
Miyoko, who had been training her magic, also noticed this scene on the screen. She let out a soft "Huh?" of surprise and muttered to herself, "She can shoot lasers... Could it be that this girl named Riruru is also a magician?"
"Miyoko, how's your training coming along?"
Just then, Miyoko's father's voice suddenly called out.
It interrupted Miyoko's thoughts. She shook her head, clearing all these stray notions from her mind, and refocused on her magic.
...
In Mecha Utopia.
Riruru's gaze was fixed intently on the scenes playing out in the video. The landscape in the video was blanketed in snow and ice. Clearly, it wasn't happening in Mecha Utopia. That only left the possibility of it being on another planet.
Could it be that in the future, Mecha Utopia's plan for planetary invasion has already begun? And I will be dispatched to other planets as a vanguard, a scout? Riruru couldn't help but wonder.
...
The video continued to play!
At this point, the scene switched back to Nobita, Shizuka, and Doraemon.
After making Zanda Claus perform a "rice-bag dash," continuous somersaults, and even some ballet moves, among other bizarre antics, the three of them had thoroughly let loose.
Inside the cockpit!
Shizuka was now sitting in the main pilot's seat. She pointed to a conspicuous red button before her and turned to ask, "Nobita, what does this button do?"
"Err… It probably doesn't do anything important," Nobita replied.
Driven by curiosity, Shizuka gently pressed the red button anyway.
The next second!
As if some program had been activated, a golden light flashed from Zanda Claus's eyes. Then, accompanied by a cacophony of electrical arcing sounds, two colossal laser beams erupted from Zanda Claus's eyes, blasting straight towards a tall skyscraper in front of them!
Almost instantaneously!
The towering building was sliced in half by an immense force!
Immediately after, a deafening explosion roared!
Just like that, the skyscraper before them collapsed, sending up vast plumes of dust and smoke.
Utterly terrifying!
And sitting in the cockpit, Nobita, Doraemon, and Shizuka stared at the hellish landscape before their eyes, completely stunned!
Time fast-forwarded to dusk.
Now, in the Mirror World, as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but endless ruins and the debris of shattered buildings!
It was no exaggeration to say it looked as if it had been carpet-bombed by dozens of missiles! Not a single intact building could be found!
As Nobita, Shizuka, and Doraemon stood atop a pile of rubble, surveying the tragic, devastated city below…
"AHHHHH!!!!"
Shizuka sank to her knees, tears streaming uncontrollably from her eyes.
This was quite a normal reaction! As an elementary school student, and a girl at that, how could she have ever witnessed such a scene firsthand? Not to mention, she was the one who had caused this urban wasteland.
"It's all my fault! I really didn't know this would happen!!" Shizuka cried out between sobs.
Hearing this, Nobita's heart ached. So, he immediately tried to comfort her: "Don't cry, Shizuka! It's not your fault!"
At this moment, Doraemon, standing off to the side, looked at Zanda Claus with a much graver expression. He hadn't realized that Zanda Claus was a weapon of such immense destructive power! That laser just now… it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it could destroy an entire city.
Doraemon also said with some relief, "It's a good thing there was no one in those buildings. If this robot were to attack our real world…"
"Don't say it! It's too horrible!" Shizuka loudly cut him off before he could finish.
Ultimately!
Nobita, Shizuka, and Doraemon made a pact: to never again speak of the Mirror World or Zanda Claus!
...
Real world, Shizuka's home.
Watching the crying Shizuka on the screen, Shizuka's mother also felt terrible. She had never seen Shizuka cry so heartbreakingly in her entire life.
Therefore, she placed all the blame squarely on Nobita and Doraemon.
"That Nobita, honestly! Whoever heard of letting a girl play with a robot, especially a super-sized one! It's so dangerous!"
"Next time I see his mother, I'm definitely going to have a serious talk with her!"
Just then, Shizuka's father spoke up, trying to calm her anger. "Now, now, don't be so upset. Nobita didn't do it on purpose. He probably just wanted to share something fun with Shizuka."
"That may be true, but what if Shizuka had accidentally gotten hurt?!"
"Haha, I trust that little fellow Nobita would definitely protect Shizuka, just like I protected you when we were young!" Shizuka's father chuckled, his eyes, as he looked at Nobita on the screen, filled with trust.
Shizuka's mother, hearing her husband's sudden words, blushed a little.
...
Real world, the classroom.
"Hiss—"
"Zanda Claus is that powerful?! It actually smashed such a tall building into pieces!" Suneo sucked in a sharp breath, a new fear in his eyes as he looked at Zanda Claus. Previously, he'd only thought Zanda Claus was bigger than his own robots but surely inferior in other aspects! After all, his robots could fire rubber bullets! But he never expected Zanda Claus to be able to fire super high-powered laser cannons! This was way more incredible than his robots!
"Yeah, Zanda Claus is actually equipped with such aggressive weaponry!" Gian nodded in agreement.
As for the real-world Shizuka, sitting nearby, when she saw her on-screen self piloting Zanda Claus and reducing a city to ruins, her face turned deathly pale. Luckily, other classmates were there to support her, otherwise, she might have collapsed right onto the floor.
Nobita, standing at the front, was completely overwhelmed! He couldn't believe that a robot he'd just randomly picked up possessed the power to destroy a city! This was too terrifying! How did something like this end up in his hands?!
Doraemon's expression, however, was filled with puzzlement. Based on what the video had shown so far, this super-sized robot most likely belonged to that red-haired girl named Riruru.
So, the questions were… Who exactly was Riruru? And what did she intend to do with Zanda Claus?
Doraemon didn't know the answers to these questions yet. However, he had a very bad feeling about all of this.