Chương 68: Random Totally-Not-The-Outguard Facts 03

More information about the Superhero Universe, just cause. The original Lyrica-clone buddies were made using CPUs originally copied from Tai Enlightech Corporation quantum processing chips, the most advanced microchips in the world. The TE chips were surprisingly very compatible the Lyrica-provided component arrangement that would gather loose magic and trap it to eventually create artificial spirits that would derive their identity from the onboard sentient AI system that the chips would be running.

Tai Enlightech was owned and originally founded by Jaselle Alhambra Brian Wales, the youngest son of the Wales family, was an Olympic gymnast who brought home six medals at the 20XX Summer Olympics in Manila. For the next few years, he was the face of several youth athletics programs sponsored by Wales Medical before he faded into relative obscurity, becoming just another rich guy who doesn't really need to work.

His most notable current achievement was being a recurring participant in the popular reality show, Obstacle Course Challenge, and was twice invited to attempt the obstacle course of the original Japanese show, Sarutobi. Maʻomaʻo-ya is a popular family-run Hawaiian-cuisine restaurant in Tokyo. The owners are well-regarded among the local business community, and the neighborhood it's based in is considered one of the safest areas in the city.

Local monsters are dealt with swiftly, often resulting with no injuries, and the local yakuza chapter is very docile. This is because of the tireless work of the local police and not at all because of the local cosplayers who engage in illegal vigilante activities. The band Heavymetal Ritter was a band who grew popular as a 'hero-pop' group uploading their songs on the internet and playing in nearby towns.

They originally started as a Schülerband writing songs about the local superhero Poise and his known exploits, such as evacuating people from isolated areas during forest fires, stopping a serial killer that turned out to be a vampire, and rescuing trapped motorist during particularly violent winter storms. They achieved widespread fame when their tribute to Poise and the Outguard went viral, leading to their first recording contract.

The band was composed of Matthew Schnieder (electric guitar), Moe Furcht (drums), Peter Weber (bass), and Joy Gehn (vocalist). Schneider is infamous for sometimes performing from inside a large cardboard box due to his agoraphobia and social anxiety. Marika's Electronics is a social media channel based in Japan.

Each episode follows a formula, where the titular Marika visits various thrift stores and secondhand stores to find various pieces of broken electronics, then brings it back home and to either restore them resale, upgrade them with higher performance hardware, or use the pieces to make a custom electronics for her personal use.

Many of the custom electronics are seen in later episodes, such as a combination 3D printer and CNC machine dubbed 'Fabricator-kun', a custom Playfield that can read and play games from all preceding generations of the game system, and a homemade VR headset.

One of the channel's most popular videos is the making of a Raikanko-themed (Raikanko is a Japanese superhero widely believed to be Corona's younger sister) 'gaming cellphone' using the internals of an Orangephone 13 and a Playfield Papillon for her unseen sister. Bloody Mary, burning bright, If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it's taken without the author's consent. Report it. Sword in hand, she walks the night. If you're bad, be filled with fear, With her sword she'll rip and tear.

Go on home, hide in your sleep, Or her sword she'll bury deep. If you shoot her, feeling brave, She'll be dancing on your grave. — a popular English schoolyard rhyme Magical Girls (and Boys) had a story. It was whispered from girl (or boy) to girl (or boy) in silent midnight alleyways, behind the shelves of school libraries, in cold and empty parking lots, and isolated stands of trees surrounded by concrete jungle.

Somewhere in the town or city, in a secret place only a magical girl (or boy) could go, there was a special lamp with eyes. If you found it by yourself, it would play dead and no matter what you did, nothing would happen.

But if one of the sempai found you—Kuroyumi, Magus Erebus, Star Reverie, Frozen Garden, Iridescent Illyana, Blue Angel, Judgement-ko—then they'd show you how to wake the lamp, and it would open a door for you to somewhere that was only for Magical Girls (or Boys), a safe place where they could be themselves, to rest and be with those who were just like them.

But if a Magical Girl (or Boy) should fall to wickedness, to selfishness, to cruelty, or to the curse of social media clout, then they will be banished forever until they can redeem themselves.... or there's another planetary invasion. However, one fateful day, this special place suddenly vanished, never to be seen again. —the legend of the Frilly Pink Fortress Of Friendship