Sparkle: "My name is Sparkle. I am a Dreamchaser. We sensed your crisis and volunteered to come help everyone face the enemy together. But the enemy is just too strong…"
Led by Sparkle, countless people came intending to "help" the Family defeat the formidable foe. Upon arriving, though, they realized the enemy was impossible to overcome.
Even the mighty Giant Trash Can had fallen: weren't ordinary people just throwing themselves away?
Family member: "Yeah. We lost, we're finished. We can't win."
Sparkle: "Can't win? I don't understand."
Sparkle took a deep breath. "I know our own strength can't possibly defeat this enemy. But even so, I refuse to give up. I'll use whatever little power I have to defend this city!"
Sparkle looked at the knocked-down, immobile Giant Trash Can. "Come on, Giant! You can definitely win!"
Her determined tone moved the entire crowd; countless voices joined Sparkle, cheering together.
But just when Sparkle was inspiring everyone, they all heard a strange dog barking sound at the scene.
"Woof woof woof~"
Although it was a dog's bark, everyone understood the meaning.
"Are you truly willing to face this powerful enemy together?"
"Are you willing to give your own strength to help defeat this powerful foe?"
Faced with the repeated questions, everyone on-site gave a positive response.
For the Family, defeating the Stellaron Hunter and regaining their pride was the absolute priority.
For the onlookers, it was just entertainment: after all, in this dream world, such drama was wildly amusing and not found in normal circumstances.
Of course they wanted it to be fun, exciting, and lively!
At any rate, everyone responded with a resounding yes.
After those clear answers, the barking became louder and an unusual change swept over the scene.
All those willing to give their strength turned into golden rays of light. The golden rays left their bodies and flew toward the fallen Giant Trash Can.
With that, what was once a crowd of normal people turned into trash cans one after another.
On this day, everyone became a trash can.
Those who became trash cans felt their bodies filling with power.
Though the form was a bit embarrassing, being a single person was shameful: being a group was the trend.
At the same time, they found that after transforming into trash cans, they could see from the Giant Trash Can's perspective. Though they couldn't fight directly, experiencing it from a first-person view gave them a strange feeling.
Moreover, they sensed intuitively that they had a chance.
Led by Sparkle's can, the trash cans decided to launch a magnificent counterattack on Pei Guang!
Outside, ordinary people transformed into trash cans were preparing to fight back, while inside the Giant Trash Can, the fallen Stelle was thinking about how to counterattack.
But no matter what, she couldn't think of an effective counter, as the gap in numbers was too great.
Though empowered by the trash cans' support, their strength had limits: unless more people's power was gained.
While she was pondering, she suddenly felt the Giant's body growing stronger.
She saw light: wave after wave of light from those wanting to protect Penacony.
Stelle couldn't understand why these lights appeared, but as Pei Guang's kid, protégé, and maybe even more, she was a practical person who didn't care where the power came from: as long as it worked in the dream.
The family always said anything was possible in a dream, so becoming a Giant Trash Can and gaining strength from light wasn't a big deal.
At that moment, the Giant Trash Can stood up.
Pei Guang looked on, full of question marks.
Wait? He could understand Stelle as the Giant Trash Can standing up, but why were beams of light from the people around entering the Giant Trash Can's body?
Pei Guang's mindset was normally playful and chuunibyou, but seeing this strange light, he suddenly had a bad feeling.
He saw the Giant Trash Can he had just defeated stand up again, and not only that, its body shimmered with golden light.
[Giant Trash Can: Shining Form]
This form of trash can really left Pei Guang speechless.
"This world's all sewn up together. Really sewn up. Entirely sewn up. But why sewn onto a trash can's body? And why sewn onto Stelle? Isn't this supposed to be used for the villains?"
Pei Guang didn't know how to comment, but March 7th in the team sensed his thoughts and cautiously said, "Ah Guang, do you think… maybe from Penacony civilians' perspective, we're actually the villains?"
Firefly: "Seems like… that's possible?"
Looking back on what the three of them had done: cutting down anyone in sight, attacking groups, with a single move slaying whole swathes of family members… they were the textbook definition of villains!
Also, in this current dream, dying like this had no aftereffects; otherwise, just from the number of people they killed recently, the trio would be wanted fugitives by the Interastral Peace Corporation.
Looking at Stelle's actions, standing up bravely at key moments, getting pounded by these "villains," she would get stronger: it seemed quite reasonable.
March 7th and Firefly's back-and-forth made Pei Guang realize the problem.
Indeed, it was fun to play transformations and feel powerful, but having too much fun had turned them into villains, while Stelle had become the protagonist?
Thinking about it, it felt a bit unfair.
But then again, unfair or not, finally having such a fun mecha to play with in a dream where they could do anything, wouldn't it be unfair not to enjoy it?
With that thought, Pei Guang was ready to act.
Even if Stelle entered the Shining Trash Can form, so what?
They were invincible!
With this invincible thought, Pei Guang got ready to reuse his old trick and launched Seele's Rocket Headbutt at the Giant Trash Can.
The Rocket Headbutt flew toward the Giant Trash Can, but the trash can shimmering with golden light opened its lid and directly swallowed the Rocket Headbutt inside.
As the saying goes, "It's rude not to return a favor": facing Pei Guang's attack, Stelle launched a counterattack this time.
With sounds coming from inside the trash can, it bent down and opened the lid.
Countless small trash cans flew out!
They were the people who had temporarily transformed into trash cans and given power to the Giant Trash Can earlier.