DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANY MAZINGER OR MOBUSEKA PROPERTY

"This..., this is..."

I can't believe what I saw in front of my eyes. Something that shouldn't even exist in this shitty world or continuity.

"T-The ruin of Photon Power Laboratory!"

Yeah, a relic from legendary anime and manga 'Mazinger Z', is here in the world of a shitty otome game that I don't even bother to remember its title.

If you wondering why I know about Mazinger Z, well, because I, Leon fou Bartford, am a reincarnated person.

In my past life, I was a normal office worker, with an unhealthy obsession with robots/mechas from anime, manga, and other science fiction movies.

I watch and read almost all of the mecha anime and manga, watch various Sentais and other Toku with mecha on it, collect and build many mecha plastic models and figures, and also play almost all of the mecha genre video games.

And because of that I got tricked by my devilish little sister.

My sister, under the pretext that she was busy with her school's business, forced me to play her CD game, the cursed otome game.

At first, I felt reluctant, but she manages to persuade me to play the otome game after she shows the mechas' design and the artist who designs the mecha.

And also because she black-mailed me that if I don't want to play and finish her game 100% complete, she will push her BL (Boys Love) collection into my room and will say/lie to my parents and relatives that those items are my secret collection.

...Yeah, that's kinda pathetic given that I can't do anything or fight back against my rotten little sister. But unlike me who's your everyday joe, my sister is an almost perfect human being. She got the looks and her grades are great. People usually find her sensible and kind, and obviously, my parents and relatives trusted her more than me.

Even though I don't even get too familiar with my other relatives, I still don't want my name to get polluted!

And then, without having any choice I finally play the otome game.

AND GOD I FRICKIN HATE THIS GAME!

The game is set in a fantasy world of swordsmanship and magic, but with mecha. It's a world with floating islands and airships.

The protagonist is an ordinary girl from the countryside who enrolls in a school for nobles. She's an honor student who was allowed to enter the school as a commoner. At the school, she meets the prince, nobles..., and other romantic targets. She gets picked on by other girls of higher status. And at the same time, various incidents and wars ensued.

It's a romantic game with adventure and warfare in the background. And it's a world that benefits women.

Even though it's an otome game, it has role-playing elements and battle simulators. Moreover, the romantic targets and knights who protect the country use the mecha and fight in the sky just like in several real robot anime I watch.

I usually love those elements in my mecha video game..., ...but this, this mockery!

This otome game was created by the team that once make an awful spin-off of the famous RTS crossover mecha video game, and that's just one of million bad things about this goddamn game.

Everything except the romantic parts is just too hard! Not hard in Dark Souls way, but more in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde way! The battle elements were the worst thing I ever saw in any video game history, the enemies were ruthless, my characters were more useless than Yamcha, and the story and progress that makes no sense that will end in bad ending if I make a small mistake, and it takes me more than half a day to finally kill the first sub-boss!

Seriously, I even had more fun playing Crazy Bus and Big Motherfucking Rigs!

So you know what I did to finish the game? I use my money..., THE MONEY THAT I GOT FROM MY HARD WORK! ALL OF MY SWEAT AND TEARS, SPENT ONLY FOR JUST FINISHING MY SISTER'S CURSED GAME!

After buying the strongest (most expensive) weapons and mechas from the DLC store, I finally manages to make the game a little bit bearable. Hell, after one torturing week, I manages to conquer this shitty game 100% cleared and got the reverse harem ending.

One week of torture drained all of my spirits and energy. After that, I died. Yes, because of very terrible exhaustion and dehydration, I fell down the stairs head first, and then I die.

...

After that, I suddenly got reincarnated into another world.

At first, I was like "Hooray! I got isekai'ed" but then I slowly realizes what kind of world I got reincarnated in.

The very world that kills me, the world of the shitty otome game!

Like I said before, a world where men (with the exception of the king and high nobles) got discriminated against, belittled, and abused while women dominated all of the system and status. A man who doesn't get married before graduating or before reaching the age of 20 will be looked down upon. It's even worse for male aristocrats. If you don't get married, you won't get a job or succeed in life.

And unfortunately, I reincarnated as your everyday joe again, or mob. And you know what they do to mobs like me and the others?

Mobs like us are married off to an old hag and sent off to war to die like pigs so that their wife can get compensation money.

Wars, skirmishes, sky pirates, monsters, there's a lot of conflict in this god-forsaken world, and the death rate for knights and soldiers are high.

The ones who fight and work are men, yet the women hold all the power. It's a matriarchal world through and through.

And that's what happens to me. You see, my father, Barcus Fou Bartford, is a poor countryside baron who has a legal wife that I and my brothers despise so much named Zola, and a second wife or mistress that he really loves so much, me and my siblings' beloved mother Luce.

And in just several days ago, this Zola bitch suddenly set me up with a daughter of a court noble that she associates with. And the daughter is a large 50 years old hag with seven husbands! She set me up with this white elephant because she said there are no point in me going to school! School's entrance fee is very expensive for poor countryside barons like us and the only way for me to not become her dead weight is to match me with the daughter of a rich noble.

And the worst of that, she also planned to make me into the soldier unit. This fucking old pig clearly wants me to die in battle so she and that hippo bitch can get the compensation!

The only way to cancel this is to get more money for the school's entrance fee. So I challenge her, if I get the money within three weeks, she must cancel the betrothal. Luckily she accepts, with the terms changed to get the money within two weeks.

So here I am, leaving my sweet home and family and working as an adventurer to collect the money, because when it comes to getting rich quickly, becoming an adventurer is the best way. Adventurers are respected in this world because the nobles were descendants of adventurers.

I thought that by becoming an adventurer and using my knowledge from the game, I'd be invincible. But day by day, that motivation slowly disappears. The job as an adventurer is still not enough to cover all of the school's fees, and the risk is higher than what the adventurer's guild paid.

well, after all, my life here is tougher than in my previous life. Farming from dawn to dusk for a simple meal, then studying the moment I get home. We're nobility but only in name, having to lead such miserable lives.

Once I thought that, if I kill myself right now maybe I will get reincarnated to better another world.

But still, I can't, no, I don't want to run away from this. I don't want my sweet little brother Colin to be sacrificed as my substitute.

...There is no other way...

The only way to get out of this situation is to obtain a cheat-tier item!

Judging from the calendar, the protagonist is from the same year as me. In the story, the protagonist obtained the item after enrolling. In other words, she hasn't obtained any 'cheat item' or 'lost item' yet.

I feel sorry for the protagonist, but I'll have to sacrifice her for my happiness! (At that time I didn't know that I didn't need to steal her happiness)

Then after a tough three days journey (fighting monsters, pirates, bandits, etc), I manage to find the warp device that leads me to where the cheat item was.

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And..., that's the summary of my journey. And right now, I'm standing in the building that shouldn't have existed in this world of this very otome game.

The ruins of Photon Power Laboratory! The main settings of Mazinger Z!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, am I missing something from the game?

Is the game has a DLC collaboration or something with the Mazinger series?

"If this is really Photon Power Laboratory..., then-"

I looked at the scenery behind Photon La, ...and I saw a partially destroyed barren mountain.

"That must be Mountain Fuji..., or what's left from it..."

Weird..., the Otome game's manual never explains anything about the world other than 'this is a world of fantasy with floating islands etc etc'.

Maybe something happened in the past of this world? Armageddon, or war maybe?

...Let's not think about that right now.

Now let's focus on things I might find or encounter in the lab.

Maybe Z? Great? Or worst case scenario, Boss Borot?

"Glup."

After I mentally prepared myself, I enter the Photon Lab.

Never would I have thought, that something inside it would change my life forever.

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Tell me,

Let's say one day, you unexpectedly gained power which exceeded that of humanity.

How would you use such power?

Would you become a devil and destroy the world?

Or maybe...

A hero that would save the world?

I, Leon Fou Bartford, suddenly gained this terrible power!

This power being-!

The dreadful, destructive giant robot-

ALL THINGS WILL RETURN TO ZERO