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"LITTLE GIRL?!"
Tatsumaki was absolutely furious now. Her green hair floated up wildly as her psychic energy surged.
"Go to hell!!"
In the next instant, an even more terrifying wave of psychic force came crashing toward Renzo and Saitama.
Renzo's expression hardened. "Seriously? You're still going?"
"Saitama—watch yourself!"
With that, Renzo released the psychic field supporting Saitama, letting him freefall straight to the ground.
"Impact Punch!"
This time, Renzo didn't use psychic power. Instead, he canceled his telekinesis entirely and threw a full-force punch.
RIP—BOOM!!
The air in front of him literally tore apart, and his punch clashed head-on with Tatsumaki's psychic blast.
CRACK—CRACK—CRACK!
A second later, the wave of psychic force shattered.
"Hmph! Not bad!" Tatsumaki raised an eyebrow, looking slightly surprised for the first time. "Guess you're not just some random weakling. Alright then—let's keep going!"
Even though her earlier strike was serious, Renzo had completely countered it. Now, she was finally starting to take his strength seriously.
But she wasn't going easy.
Wave after wave of powerful psychic attacks rained down on Renzo like a storm.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Renzo stood his ground, fists flying, countering each blast head-on with raw power.
Watching from the ground, Saitama's blood started pumping.
"Yes! That's the kind of fight I like!"
He clenched his fists in frustration. "This guy… his physical strength and techniques are solid! Why didn't he fight me like this when I sparred with his clone?! That's just rude!"
He was already thinking about challenging Renzo again.
Meanwhile, Tatsumaki huffed midair. "Alright, I take it back—you're not as weak as I thought."
"But let's see how you handle this!"
She wasn't backing down. In fact, the more they clashed, the more unsettled she became.
Suddenly, she sensed several massive meteors in orbit.
Without hesitation, she reached out with her telekinesis—stretching across thousands of kilometers—and began dragging over a dozen enormous meteors from outer space, aiming them straight for Renzo.
"What the hell?! Are you insane?!"
Renzo instantly sensed the incoming threat and glared at Tatsumaki, shouting angrily.
This wasn't just overkill—it was catastrophic.
Forget the base below. If those meteors landed, even Z-City, 180 kilometers away, would be wiped out.
That crossed a line.
While Renzo's total psychic energy was on par with Tatsumaki's thanks to his immense spiritual power, she was still way ahead in actual control and technique.
He was still a beginner when it came to fine-tuned telekinesis.
Without wasting time, Renzo summoned a shadow clone and sent it back into the base below to retrieve all valuable equipment.
He also had to escort Dr. Genus and his clones back to the mansion for safety.
Then Renzo let loose.
His aura exploded outward like a tidal wave, so intense that Tatsumaki instinctively backed off.
Back at Hero Association HQ, alarms started blaring like crazy.
Sensors reported that Renzo's energy readings had now surpassed even that of a top-tier Dragon-level monster.
Renzo rocketed several hundred kilometers into the sky with just a few bursts of movement.
Up above the clouds, he brought his hands together. Spatial energy began to surge between them, building rapidly as the meteors closed in.
When they were only a few thousand meters away, Renzo pulled his arms apart with force.
A blade of pure spatial distortion took shape.
"Super Dimensional Cut!!"
With a sharp swing, Renzo hurled a spatial blade upward.
It expanded mid-flight, stretching over a hundred meters long as it rocketed toward the meteor cluster.
FLASH—SLICE!
In a blink, the blade materialized beneath the biggest and closest meteor, slicing through space like it was nothing but paper.
The fabric of reality ripped open—an enormous spatial cut formed, howling with chaotic turbulence.
A terrifying gravitational pull emerged from the tear, locking onto the meteor and dragging it inward.
Within seconds, the massive rock was ripped apart, shredded into fragments, and devoured by the unstable Dimensional Cut.
But it didn't end there.
The spatial cut continued to pull in the remaining meteors one by one, obliterating them in a violent cascade of debris and distortion.
By the time the last meteor vanished, Renzo finally exhaled in relief.
He dispersed the energy keeping the spatial tear open.
The cut began to shrink, and within a few seconds, the violent maelstrom vanished completely—space knitting itself closed like nothing had ever happened.
Tatsumaki, floating nearby, just stared in complete shock.
To be honest, she'd regretted pulling the meteors the moment they got too close to Z-City.
She had been planning to redirect them toward an uninhabited area.
But before she could act, Renzo had already cleaned up the entire mess—effortlessly.
But before she could even process it, she noticed Renzo—still floating high above—turning his gaze toward her. His face was stone-cold.
In a flash, he reappeared right in front of her.
Whoosh!
Tatsumaki didn't even have time to react. A hand shot out and grabbed the back of her neck like it was nothing.
"What the hell are you doing?! Let go of me! I said let go!!"
She struggled wildly, even activating her psychic powers, but Renzo instantly suppressed them with his own far more intense telekinesis.
Then, without a word, he flew them both back down to the ground, sat down with one knee raised, and plopped Tatsumaki right over his leg.
SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!
He started spanking her—hard.
The pain hit her like a truck. Tatsumaki's eyes welled up with tears.
"Aaahhh!! What are you doing?! I'll kill you! I'll freaking kill you!!"
She squirmed and yelled, her voice filled with rage and humiliation.
"Still yelling, huh? Do you even realize what you just did?!"
SMACK!
"You think you're some kind of big-shot hero? Is this how a Hero Association member behaves—yanking meteorites out of orbit and flinging them toward a city without thinking?!"
SMACK!
"I should beat the crap out of you, you brat!"
SMACK!!!
"Acting like a spoiled, arrogant little gremlin all the time—who the hell taught you it was okay to behave like this?!"
SMACK!!!
Tatsumaki finally cracked. Her eyes turned red, and she burst out crying.
"WAAAHHH!! You jerk! You monster!!"
"I was just messing around! It was supposed to be a joke!!"
She'd never been treated like this before—never humiliated like this. Nobody had ever dared lay a hand on her, let alone spank her. The pain was one thing, but the embarrassment? Unbearable.
And on top of it all, it was her butt getting smacked!
SMACK!
"There's a damn line between a 'joke' and a disaster!" Renzo growled, landing another smack. "If I hadn't stopped those meteors, how many people do you think would've died?!"
Tatsumaki finally broke down, sobbing harder. "I didn't mean for it to go that far! I was gonna redirect them to a remote area if you didn't stop them, I swear! Waaaahhh…"
She sniffled, completely overwhelmed. This guy… he was a brute. Just a total brute!
And to think—she actually thought he was kind of cool earlier!
"Hmph. So you realize you messed up?"
Renzo's tone finally softened a little. He could tell she wasn't lying… but he kept a stern face.
Tatsumaki whimpered, "Yeah… I messed up…"
"You still gonna act all high and mighty? Keep running your mouth like you always do?"
"…No," she sniffled. "I won't…"
Though deep down, she was already plotting revenge. One day, she swore she'd become even stronger—strong enough to flip the script. She'd throw Renzo over her knee and spank the hell out of him! Hmph!
"Hmph, that's more like it."
Renzo narrowed his eyes, sensing her lingering defiance—but Tatsumaki's psychic strength was so insane, he couldn't exactly read her mind that easily. Besides, she was technically still a Hero Association member.
He wasn't gonna kill her over this. That would be going too far.
As soon as he let go, Tatsumaki rocketed into the sky at insane speed, wrapped in psychic energy like a green comet.
From far away, her furious voice echoed back through the sky:
"You bastard! Just you wait! I'll get you back for this!! You hear me?! I'll make you pay, you baka yaro! Baka, Baka, BAKA—!"
Renzo chuckled to himself and sent his voice echoing back across the distance with a calm telepathic reply:
"I'll be waiting."
Tatsumaki: "..."
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