Seeing one of their leaders being flailed around like a damned fish out of water shook the Long kids to their cores.
Because in addition to the preposterousness of the situation, what I did at that moment was something that could only be explained two ways.
The first was torque. A heavy mecha would need to spin at extremely high speeds to generate the momentum and torque required to physically lift another heavy mecha the way I did.
And the whole country could see that I wasn't spinning at all when I grabbed Gerald Long's heavy mecha and lifted him right off the ground before flailing him around like a rag doll.
So that left the second way.
Which was that my mecha had a much higher grade power source. And to achieve that, there were yet two possible explanations.
One was that the National Mecha Pilot Academy accidentally placed a heavy mecha with a much higher power source which I coincidentally got my hands on.