Chapter 77 The limiter is lifted and the journey begins again
"...In other words, the battle between you and Mr. Saitama was inconclusive in the end."
It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the reddish sunlight filled the floor of the living room on the first floor of the gym.
Qishi sat in front of the table, peeling the apple and said in a brisk tone:
"Thank you and Mr. Saitama for showing mercy, otherwise people in this world would never be able to admire the moon again."
Across the table, Heather was holding a cup of steaming tea with a stiff expression on her face: "It's not a draw, I obviously lost to Saitama, but that guy just stopped the friendly match midway."
Outside the window, the full moon still hung at the end of the sky without a single cloud.
However, at this moment, three extremely obvious radial impact cracks appeared on the front of the moon, covering an area so large that it almost occupied the entire front of the moon.
Unbeknownst to anyone, the first S-class [Valkyrie] and the second newly promoted S-class [One-Punch Man] started an unprecedented 'friendly match' on the surface of the moon.
Taking advantage of the enhanced flames, Heather took the initiative to attack Saitama. On the one hand, she wanted to test her true level, and on the other hand, she planned to experience the power of the 'Limiter Releaser' up close.
Three punches were thrown, but Heather could only withstand three punches.
Compared with the tragic fate of Ryulang who died suddenly after just one punch, Heather was undoubtedly the dwarf general. He just relied on the healing power of the light egg and the steel and iron bones of the conceptual body to withstand Saitama's three "serious punches"
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The first punch was actually a bit irritating, because unlike Dragon Wolf, who has completely turned into a monster and threatened the safety of human civilization and the earth, Heather is a human and one of Saitama's few good friends. Saitama cannot use all his strength as soon as he comes up.
Go to the ground and use a serious punch.
After the two arrived on the moon's surface, Saitama's first punch was only 50% effective. This was even after Heather took the initiative to ask Saitama not to let go.
Even so, Heather was still almost beaten to death.
After only receiving the first punch, 40% of Heather's bones were broken, her internal organs were damaged, and blood spurted out from all her orifices.
Saitama was shocked when he witnessed it, and hurriedly rushed to take Heather back to Earth to heal.
But as a silver-white glow covered Heather's body, his injuries almost recovered in an instant.
At the same time, Heather's clone, which was flying around the Earth in a low-Earth orbit outside the atmosphere at the second cosmic speed, exploded with a bang, giving him a large amount of solar energy.
It's rude to come back without reciprocating, just like a turn-based game, Heather used all her strength to give Saitama a hard blow.
The secret of unarmed skills that combines concepts and mythical weapons, [Heaven’s Evil Disaster, Jin Yan Zhai Jiao] hit Saitama’s side of the face firmly!
Huge radial cracks immediately exploded on the moon's surface, and debris and smoke were bombarded into the universe under the influence of low gravity.
The fierce attack containing conceptual power even made Saitama's head buzz, and he felt pain for the first time in a long time.
Heather is even more powerful than Dragon Wolf, he can really let himself go and fight!
When Saitama realized this, he became more motivated than ever. His excitement caused his strength, which had not grown for a long time, to rise.
The second punch was another serious punch. But this time Saitama used 80% of his strength.
This time, Heather was forced to burn fifty flames again. With his own strength rapidly improving, he used the "Calamity God Sweeper" to fight Saitama's serious punch.
Even if most of the power is released into space, the aftermath will still blast a huge crater hundreds of kilometers across on the front of the moon.
The strength of both sides is evenly matched.
Saitama was excited, and his power, which had no upper limit due to the release of the limiter, began to surge exponentially.
The third punch, 100% effort!
Heather already felt that she had lost her temper, but she had no choice but to push up and burn out 50 more flames.
The other two clones also exploded one after another, and the power of feedback and the long-established Feng Shui gathered together to form Heather's final trump card - [Infinite Light] (Ain-Soph Aur).
The aces on both sides collided together, forming a brilliant explosion wave in space that resembled a supernova explosion.
It's a pity that even Heather's three layers of fire enhancement, which are combined with the all-out infinite light, can't stop Saitama's serious punch after his strength has increased dramatically.
The Glory Cannon was retreating steadily under this extreme violence, and was about to turn back on Heather.
At the critical moment, Saitama suddenly came to his senses and took the initiative to stop, thus preventing Heather from dying.
Although the results are a bit embarrassing, the rewards are rich.
"Did you get it?" Qishi put the apple on the table in front of Heather.
Heather didn't speak, she just slowly clenched her fists with a smile on her face. Flame-like Qi covered the surface of Heather's fists, burning brightly.
[Qi], which has not grown for a long time, is growing rapidly at a pleasant speed.
In the final showdown with Saitama, Heather finally found the mysterious and mysterious 'limiter' on the edge of life and death.
How to put it, it's like a human with a maximum lifting strength of 300 kilograms trying to lift a weight of 310 kilograms with all his strength. He exhausted all his strength but just couldn't lift it. At the same time, he still felt that he was weak.
That little bit of strength in the final kick.
Then, just when the devastating serious punch was about to hit her, Heather felt a crack appear in the limiter.
As expected, only by fighting to the death against someone like Saitama who has completely released his limiter can he touch his own limit, the limiter.
Just like a reward after challenging the extreme difficulty level, the limiter of [Qi] in Heather's body became loose. The Qi that had already reached the limit and could no longer grow returned to its former activity and began to grow at a cheerful and active speed.
At the same time, Heather also understood the conditions for the subsequent growth of Qi and conceptual power.
It is not the passage of time in the conventional sense, but the need for 'world rounds'. The more worlds you experience, the more your Qi and conceptual power will grow.
According to Heather's calculations, if his qi grows at the current rate and is maintained perfectly, he will be able to summon the new Nautilus as a whole in just two worlds. By then, he will have conventional weapons against stars and overall strength.
There will be unprecedented growth.
"It's time to leave...ugh!"
Heather picked up the apple and took a bite, her face wrinkled up because of the sourness:
"The S-class No. 1 has been officially confirmed, and the official website of the Heroes Association has also been updated. Those guys are pretty fast."
Qishi tilted her head: "I originally thought that your request for 'retirement' would be blocked by the association's various pleas, but I didn't expect that it went smoothly."
"With Saitama, I, the 'old guy' who stands on top and dominates, is not particularly indispensable. It is estimated that after I leave, Saitama will be quickly promoted to S-level 1."
After returning to Earth, the rankings of Heather and Saitama were updated in just two hours, and the hero codename Saitama had always resented was replaced with the majestic 'One Punch Man'.
Then, Heather made a request for 'retirement' to the Heroes Association. Yes, it was not an application but a request.
I want to retire and travel around the world and even outer space. This is just to say hello to you, not to ask for your opinions, so if you can stay, I can avoid it.
What else can the Hero Association and the World Government do to such a willful S-class 1st? They can only turn around and try their best to please Saitama, the 2nd S-class, and KING, the 3rd S-class.
Yes, KING has also been promoted in the ranking, reaching S-class 3. In fact, a small number of voices within the World Government have been questioning KING's true level, thinking that he has never shown his true combat power, which is really suspicious.
This battle against the Weird Association clearly demonstrated KING's strength and finally dispelled the doubts of the whole world.
There are gains and losses. With the retirement of the God of War, Godspeed and Silver Fang also issued a "retirement" statement to the world.
Shensu said that he wanted to find an inaccessible place to farm and retire, while Silver Fang Banggu no longer had any enthusiasm for heroic activities because of his disciple Hungry Wolf, and just wanted to live the rest of his life guarding his dojo.
The four pillars of the new Heroes Association are 'KING, the Strongest Man on Earth', 'Shocking Tatsumaki', 'Metal Knight', and 'Flash Flash'.
‘One Punch Man’ Saitama will serve as the banner of the Hero Association and even all mankind, leading mankind to overcome the threats of monsters and disasters and move towards a bright future.
Fubuki's S-class promotion was rejected by herself. She believed that she was not mature enough and not qualified to stand side by side with S-class heroes, especially her sister. She must work hard to continue to improve her telekinesis control level and team up with Fubuki as the new second-in-command.
'Sykes' progress together.
Sykes was seriously injured and fell to the ground after making a prophecy for Qishi. After being treated with light eggs, the 'curse' that had been entangled in her brain was accidentally expelled, allowing Sykes to regain her normal thinking.
So she changed her face and re-entered society as a human being, becoming the new backbone of the Fubuki Group. The former president and vice-president of the Superpower Research Association finally reunited after their misunderstanding was resolved.
It’s such a bland and boring script, Qi Shi sighed.
The world has taken everything it deserves, and it's time for Heather to leave.
There is nothing to pack away, the facilities in the dojo will remain intact and will be given to Fubuki. It is estimated that this will become the home of Sykes and the new base of the Fubuki group.
Two days after the battle against the Weird Association, in a messy open space in the ruins of City Z, Heather put her hands in her pockets and looked around with emotion.
"Although a lot of time has been wasted, I am extremely happy to see you cheering up." From the bottom of my heart, Qishi's serious voice sounded.
"I just didn't find the right direction before. Just wait and see, I know the correct use of flames and crystals, and got the most critical limiter release method. After two world rounds, I will encounter the pursuit of the spiral.
I will definitely give them a big surprise during the war."
"Then please allow me, little lady, to look forward to it."
"Yin and yang weird."
Just when Heather was bickering with Qishi, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind.
"Heather!"
Heather turned around and scratched her head helplessly: "You can even find this?"
Chuixue fell from the sky, biting her lip and her eyes were red: "Why are you leaving without saying a word? You still left the house to me, who do you think I am!"
"Partner, partner, good friend."
Heather knew what Fubuki was thinking, but he couldn't accept it and could only pretend to be stupid.
Fubuki seemed to understand what Heather meant. After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, she said, "At least let me say goodbye to you? Where are the Seven Real People?"
"Hey, she's looking for you. Aren't you two going to deal with her?"
[This is a special way of getting along between women, you don’t understand.]
Nanami's figure quietly appeared next to Fubuki, and poked Fubuki with her finger: "Miss Fubuki, are you looking for me?"
Fubuki pursed her lips, bent down and opened her arms: "Take care."
Qishi nodded and was embraced by Fuxue.
Heather was too lazy to look at the parting scene of the sisters' deep love, and turned her head to look at the sky.
The clouds that were scattered by Saitama's punch have not recovered yet, and the sky is still cloudless.
Huh? Where did the bubbles come from?
A dreamlike bubble floated past Heather's eyes.
Heather couldn't help but stretched out her finger and poked the bubble, and it exploded immediately.
Then, the entire sky and earth turned into an illusion composed of countless illusory bubbles.
Colorful rays of light twist between heaven and earth, forming strange vortices and irregular whirlpools.
Bang!
Behind Heather, there was the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
He turned around and saw Qishi lying on the ground, with a pool of blood gradually forming under her body.
Fubuki stood next to Nanami, her slender palms stained with blood and her expression blank.
At this moment, the illusory scene between heaven and earth was shattered, just like the bubble at the beginning.
As the illusion collapsed into countless fragments and peeled off inch by inch, new scenes behind it were revealed.
It was a picture of scarlet and flame intertwined, and the endless burning city was shrouded in flames and thick smoke. Fubuki's figure also disappeared in the illusory picture that was shattered inch by inch.
Instead, there were four new figures.
The leader was a tall, muscular, blond man wearing a dark red shirt and a suit vest.
This man had a neat suit and his short blond hair was combed into a meticulously oiled mane. His sharp dark blue pupils first glanced at Qimi, who was lying in a pool of blood in front of him, and then looked at Heather.
"First meeting, Heather."
A cruel and cruel smile slowly appeared on the man's face.