While dodging at high speed, Saitama's plain, unremarkable eyes never left the Sky Lord's energy body. He watched carefully.
After evading several times, he noticed a tiny detail: every time the Sky Lord launched a full-power attack, the exact center of its chest—made of dense green energy—would dim for an extremely brief instant, as if the energy supply lagged for a split second. It was quickly filled in by more energy, but that moment definitely existed.
And that spot… seemed to be the very place where the energy body was the most condensed and brightest before.
"So you've got a weakness too," Saitama muttered to himself, and stopped dodging.
Right then, the Sky Lord formed two enormous energy claws again—left and right—clapping inward like it was swatting a mosquito, trying to flatten Saitama between its palms.
Saitama didn't retreat.
Instead, he sprinted straight into the closing claws!
His speed abruptly surged to an absurd level, so fast it even carved a faint shockwave trace through the vacuum. In the instant the two giant claws were about to meet, he found the tiniest gap and slipped through like a fish.
The Sky Lord clearly hadn't expected him to pierce its attack. A flicker of shock appeared on its energy-formed face.
But Saitama had already passed through the claw shadows and arrived right in front of its chest. He drew his right fist back to his waist, then fired it straight out like a cannon shell—direct, simple, with no flourish at all.
The target was the energy core—still dim from that brief lag, just about to flare bright again.
"Puh!"
A strange, soft sound—like a bubble popping.
Saitama's fist struck that point perfectly.
Time seemed to freeze for one second.
All of the Sky Lord's movements locked up instantly. On that savage energy face, an expression of utter disbelief and pain appeared. It lowered its head, staring at the fist of an ordinary human that had sunk into its chest.
"No—!!!"
It released a shriek so sharp it felt like it could tear the void itself apart—filled with agony and unwillingness to be erased.
Centered on Saitama's fist, countless cracks spread across its enormous energy body in an instant, like shattered glass. Dark green energy poured out of those cracks in a frenzy.
Its body began to wobble and twist violently, turning unstable, as if it could collapse and disperse at any moment.
It tried to gather itself again, but with the core destroyed, everything was futile. That massive energy body started to break down irreversibly.
Behind it, the gigantic portal also began to flicker violently as it collapsed. The energy flow turned chaotic and dangerously unstable, flashing bright and dim.
In the final moment before its energy body completely crumbled away, that consciousness—full of poison and unwilling rage—made one last counterattack. It didn't try to repair itself. Instead, it compressed every last remaining shred of energy inward, then detonated like a supernova.
"Together… be annihilated!"
That self-destruction blast couldn't harm Saitama in the slightest. The shockwave couldn't even ruffle his clothes.
But that rampaging energy flooded into the already unstable portal like a raging tide—
Like dumping a barrel of gasoline onto a dying fire.
The portal, which had only been flickering before, suddenly expanded!
The energy vortex's rotation speed skyrocketed several times over, its volume swelling to nearly double in an instant. Its color shifted from dark green into a violently unstable, sickly green—like it could explode at any second!
(End of Chapter)
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