"Who… are you?" Boros looked at Saitama directly for the first time, his voice filled with disbelief.
"Me? Just a hero for fun," Saitama replied calmly.
"That armor of yours, it seems to be limiting your power, doesn't it?"
Saitama looked at him and said in a calm tone, "If you don't take it off, neither of us can have a good fight."
Before he finished speaking, Saitama swung the hand that was gripping Boros's fist.
Boros's massive body was easily flung away, crashing through the other side of the hall's wall and embedding deeply into the ship's hull.
"Haha... Hahahahaha!!"
From the ruins, Boros's laughter slowly emerged, carrying a hint of uncontrollable excitement and madness.
"So that's it! So that's it! You are… you are the one I've been looking for! The fated person the seer spoke of, it's actually you!"
"Boom—!!!"
A pillar of blue-violet energy shot skyward, completely piercing through the ship's upper hull!
"I misjudged you! You concealed all your aura, leading me to make a wrong assessment! Excellent! Very good! This is the battle I crave!"
Boros's figure reappeared in the hall. His magnificent armor was now completely shattered, revealing his true form beneath.
His body became more muscular, his skin a deep blue, covered in glowing patterns, and his single eye burned with intense fighting spirit.
Having unleashed his power, the energy fluctuations he emitted were more than ten times stronger than before!
"To make me unleash this form, you are truly a strong one in the universe!" Boros laughed wildly as his figure vanished again.
"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
A series of dense, thunderous blows echoed through the sky.
Boros transformed into a blue lightning bolt, launching a storm-like attack around Saitama.
Every punch and kick he delivered carried enough force to easily obliterate a Dragon-level threat.
His speed was extreme, leaving countless afterimages in the air.
However, Saitama simply stood his ground, countering every move.
Boros's heavy punches were easily parried by his palm.
Boros's kicks were effortlessly blocked by his knee.
To onlookers, it was a world-shattering battle.
But in Saitama's eyes, it was just "slightly faster ordinary punches and kicks."
Finally, Saitama no longer merely defended passively.
He threw his right fist.
"Normal Punch."
The two fists collided in mid-air.
This time, Boros's entire right arm, from fist to shoulder, was utterly pulverized in an instant, turning into a bloody mist.
His entire body flew backward like a broken kite, crashing through layer after layer of the spaceship's decks, finally embedding deeply into the ship's power core area.
"Amazing! Amazing!" Boros's voice slowly drifted out.
He slowly emerged from the power section, only half his body remaining, but in an instant, he recovered completely.
"You are indeed strong! The prophecy was not wrong after all! But, this is not my full power!"
With a fierce roar, Boros's entire body's energy began to surge dramatically, his skin color also changing from blue to a scorching white, his muscles bulging again, and his strength and speed soaring once more!
"Meteoric Burst!"
With an enraged shout, he converted all the energy within his body into propulsion, moving at super-luminal speed, transforming into a true meteor, and delivering a powerful kick towards Saitama!
Lin Mo only saw Saitama's body instantly arch into a bow, and a barely perceptible hint of surprise appeared on his face.
Immediately after, he transformed into a white stream of light, instantly piercing through the top of the spaceship and shooting into the deep cosmos at an incredible speed.
The white light grew smaller and more distant, eventually exploding into an imperceptible speck of dust on the surface of the tranquil planet suspended in the night sky—the Moon.
He was… kicked to the Moon?
Lin Mo's eyes were filled with shock.
"Hoo... hoo..."
Boros knelt on the ground, panting heavily. The "Meteoric Burst" state placed an immense burden on his body, and that all-out strike had almost completely drained his energy.
He slowly stood up and glanced at the stunned Lin Mo, his eyes filled with disdain.
He had misjudged earlier; this "planetary native" didn't even have the qualifications to warrant a second glance from him.
All his attention was focused on the distant Moon.
"It's over..."
Boros murmured, his voice tinged with the joy of victory, yet for some reason, also a sense of emptiness and loneliness after defeating a formidable foe.
However, just then.
On the surface of the Moon, three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers away, a tiny figure slowly stood up from the center of a giant crater.
Saitama dusted himself off, looked around, and saw a desolate gray landscape, and above his head, the enormous and beautiful azure planet.
"Huh?" He scratched his smooth bald head, a hint of confusion on his face. "This is… the Moon?"
He looked down at his feet and gently stomped.
"Tsk, a bit troublesome."
Saitama frowned. He wasn't worried about being in danger, but rather contemplating how to get back. "Never mind, I'll just jump back."
He bent his legs slightly, and the lunar surface beneath him began to crack in a spiderweb-like pattern, centered on him.
The next second, he pushed off with immense force!
"Boom—!!!"
On the far side of the entire Moon, a colossal impact crater over a hundred kilometers in diameter instantly formed!
And Saitama's body, transformed into an even more dazzling meteor than when he arrived, brazenly "fell" towards that azure planet!
Aboard the spaceship, Boros, who had just declared victory, his expression of emptiness still lingering, instantly froze.
His single eye widened abruptly, gazing into the depths of space in disbelief.
In his perception, the energy signal he had kicked away had not only not disappeared, but was rapidly approaching him at a speed hundreds of times faster than before!
What was that?!
A meteor? No! That's not right!
It was a humanoid flash of light!
Lin Mo also followed Boros's gaze and then witnessed the most shocking sight of his life.
In the night sky, a "star" was growing brighter and larger.
"He… he jumped back… from another planet?!" Boros's voice held undisguised astonishment.
He's here!
"Rumble—!!!!!!"
With a deafening roar, Saitama, the "humanoid meteor," accurately slammed back onto the Dark Matter Thieves' spaceship!