BOOM!
Garou's fist fiercely struck Zuke's face—he didn't answer Zuke's question, but used practical action to demonstrate his attitude.
After obtaining the "divine power" granted by "God," Garou's strength had further improved, which could be felt from Garou's fist.
Although Zuke currently wasn't wearing a battle power detector, judging from Garou's power, this guy's battle power was at least two or three thousand, already approaching or even surpassing many adult Saiyans.
This punch used full force without holding back. If it landed on the ground, the terrifying power could even penetrate Earth's core, potentially splitting the planet into four or five pieces.
But Zuke stood in place, and after the terrifying force entered his body from his cheek, it vanished without a trace, as if that power couldn't affect him at all.
"Not bad power, but that's about it."
Zuke chuckled lightly, instantly raising his hand to grab Garou's arm, then fiercely throwing him—Garou, who had just finished attacking, was instantly flung far away.
However, the flung Garou didn't just give up. He stopped his body in mid-air, then raised his hand to wipe across his face.
In an instant, within that starry sky-like face, Zuke's appearance faintly emerged—this was the technique Starry Sky Garou had demonstrated in the original work, "Mode: Saitama."
According to what Garou said in the original work, this "Mode: Saitama" was a concept in martial arts, where one imitates biological movements to borrow the power of nature's ultimate meaning.
This concept was undoubtedly referring to "Xingyi Quan" in martial arts, while Starry Sky Garou's "Mode: Saitama" could achieve complete imitation, copying over the opponent's power, speed, and techniques.
So now, having used "Mode: Saitama" on Zuke, Garou already possessed Zuke's power, speed, and techniques—at least that's what Garou believed.
The next moment, Garou's body twisted in mid-air and rushed back toward Zuke, meeting Zuke who had pursued him in the air.
"Try this move!"
Feeling the earth-shattering power filling his body after using "Mode: Saitama" on Zuke, Garou shouted somewhat excitedly, his fist charged with terrifying might striking toward Zuke.
However, facing Garou's fist, Zuke still didn't dodge or evade, just charging straight toward Garou's fist with his forehead.
BOOM!!!
Terrifying energy accompanied Garou's fist colliding with Zuke's forehead, wildly spreading in the air, even making the surrounding buildings faintly tremble as if they might shatter from the energy.
"...!!!"
However, after the collision ended, Zuke's forehead was fine as if nothing happened. Instead, Garou violently retracted his hand, that starry sky face grimacing severely.
In that collision just now, his hand was directly shattered by Zuke's forehead!
Although relying on the "divine power's" repair, Garou's hand recovered almost the next instant, but his shocked and confused emotions couldn't be concealed.
He'd clearly completely copied Zuke's power, so why in the end could he still not match Zuke? He couldn't even cause Zuke a bit of damage?
"Because what you copied through 'Mode: Saitama' is only the 'Zuke' you've seen at full power."
Seeing Garou seemingly unable to understand, Zuke chuckled and explained the reason.
"Garou, you've never seen my full power at all—to be honest with you, although you've seen me act before, that power was only about one percent of my level."
That's right, Zuke's body contained extremely powerful energy, so much that without using all that energy, it wouldn't make him feel satisfied at all.
If he were to unleash that energy without any control, this entire land wouldn't be enough—at the very least, it would need a world as big as King Kai's planet to withstand that level of energy burst.
In other words, although Garou successfully used "Mode: Saitama" on Zuke, the power he ultimately copied was only one percent of Zuke's. Naturally, he couldn't be Zuke's match.
In the original, Garou could perfectly copy Saitama's power because Saitama didn't know what controlling power meant. For him, "serious attack" equaled full power.
But Zuke wasn't like that. His control over power was quite perfect, so the power he usually displayed was only a small fraction of his full power.
Even if Garou borrowed this small fraction, so what?
"Then we'll continue..."
Garou's body trembled, also realizing where the problem lay—but he quickly reacted. As long as he kept forcing out Zuke's power, it would be fine.
If he'd currently only borrowed one percent of Zuke's power, then he'd use this one percent to force out Zuke's two percent, then "Mode: Saitama" that two percent, and so on.
Until he perfectly copied Zuke's full power!
This was where Starry Sky Garou's ability was exaggerated—he could continuously improve, continuously copying the opponent's abilities to enhance himself.
However, in the original, his improvement speed couldn't keep up with enraged Saitama's improvement speed, which is why he ultimately lost.
"You think you'll have that chance?"
Zuke laughed—this kind of infinitely improving ability was indeed troublesome, but dealing with it was actually quite simple.
Just don't give the opponent a chance to improve.
Immediately after, Zuke raised his hand, making a gesture like giving a thumbs up under Garou's shocked gaze.
"Just when I threw you away, Killer Queen had already touched your shoulder."
Saying words Garou couldn't understand, Zuke's thumb gently pressed down—the next instant, an explosion sounded from Garou's left shoulder, the sudden explosion utterly shattering Garou's shoulder.
With Garou's body strength, ordinary bombs naturally couldn't shatter his body.
But Killer Queen was different. Its ability was to turn "Garou's shoulder" itself into a bomb and then detonate it.
"Gah...!?"
Feeling the pain coming from his shoulder, Garou's heart jumped, then he saw that after his shoulder exploded, his severed left arm had already been caught by Zuke.
Without seeing Zuke make any movement, the arm belonging to Garou in his hand suddenly vanished—that was "Blackbird Requiem" devouring it.
"This 'Mode: Saitama' ability is quite interesting. Let me learn it too."
Zuke grinned—this way, Starry Sky Garou's ability had been obtained by him.
Moreover, just as he'd thought, although his body now contained "divine power," he wasn't controlled by "God."
Because Zuke didn't obtain power from "God," but rather through "Blackbird Requiem's" birth—it was his own "divine power."
In this way, Garou's final purpose had also come to an end. Zuke had cultivated Garou for so long, it was also time to harvest.
To be continued…