That palm strike from Nero carried no small amount of power.
It didn't just wreck Grizzly and the cage, it also wrecked the audience's vocal cords.
At least at this moment, the entire venue fell silent. Everyone inside the fight club was completely dumbfounded by what they had just seen.
The gap between Grizzly and Nero, judging purely by appearances, was absurdly huge, so the visual impact of that single palm strike was pushed to the absolute limit.
Nero, on the other hand, was quite satisfied.
The kid smiled and clapped his hands. Even though he hadn't had a proper, full-on fight with Grizzly, just delivering that palm strike purely with physical strength gave him a clearer understanding of his own power.
After that, he prepared to leave the stage together with Teacher Dan Heng.
Grizzly, which had been sent flying into the corner by that one palm, shakily stood back up. The electronic mechanical voice it produced now sounded like it had poor signal reception.
"Y–young people don't… follow… martial ethics. You… came… to trick… to sneak attack… an old colleague… among automated soldiers..."
Nero crossed his arms, looked down at Grizzly beneath the arena, smacked his lips, and said,
"The match had already been called to start, okay? And besides, didn't I give you buffer time before making a move? I didn't just slap you with one palm right away..."
"And I didn't even use my full strength. Anyway, no matter how you look at it, what I did in this match was completely within the rules. Blindly overtrusting data and information, that's your own problem. Bleh!"
Even after winning, Nero still didn't let up verbally and gave Grizzly a thorough scolding.
Only then did Nero follow Dan Heng down from the arena.
It was at this point that Dr. Dig finally snapped out of his shock and shouted loudly, "Oh my god! Oh my god! Am I seeing things!? This is simply unbelievable, this is a miracle!"
"What did I just witness!? Contestant Nero actually sent Grizzly flying with a single blow! This is far too shocking!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, although the process was short, I dare guarantee that this is absolutely the most heart-shaking match I've seen in the past month, and without a doubt the most spectacular instant KO since the fight club was founded!"
"Let us cheer for the victors!"
"They are the 'Black-and-White Twin Fiends' duo, the 'Cold Dragon Young,' who has cut down all opposition with consecutive victories, and contestant Nero, who has presented us with an instant-kill show!"
As Dr. Dig's voice echoed throughout the fight club, the stunned audience finally came back to their senses, and then erupted into cheers that nearly blew the roof off.
A series of voices reached March and Stelle's ears, "See! They won! I knew they could win! I said from the start they would definitely win!"
"Exactly. I believed in them from the beginning. 'Cold Dragon Young' has been winning nonstop, this match was already in the bag!"
"Haha, 'Black and White Fiends' are invincible! I already did a precise analysis long ago, everything turned out just like I predicted!"
"Bullshit! Weren't you rooting for the Mechanical Squad at the start?"
"Y–you don't know shit! I'm telling you, don't slander me! I was backing 'Black and White Fiends' from the very beginning, I just… I just used the reverse-jinx strategy!"
"Keep making stuff up, go on!"
Among those people who had previously supported the Mechanical Squad and now supported "Black and White Fiends" was the glasses-wearing man who had argued with March and Stelle earlier.
"Hmph! That's what you get for looking down on little Nero and Dan Heng earlier, serves you right!"
March put her hands on her hips. She didn't even care whether the glasses guy could hear her or not, she was already feeling proud first.
Stelle's parroting habit flared up again. She also put her hands on her hips and said smugly, "Serves you right!?"
However, amid this lively scene, in some corner, an ordinary adult man shook his head, his brows seeming to carry a hint of distress.
He softly said, "Bro… this isn't fun anymore..."
Then, he raised his hand and, in that unnoticed corner, peeled off a human-skin mask.
Sampo's fox-like face was revealed.
Even though he said it wasn't fun anymore, there was a smile on Sampo's face. He rubbed his hands together and slipped back into the shadows.
"Hehehe... I recommended such good talent to Dr. Dig. He can't possibly not give me even a single coin, right?"
No one noticed Sampo in the corner. At this moment, Nero and Dan Heng had returned to March and Stelle's side.
Dan Heng's expression was calm as he glanced at the two of them. "…Finally awake?"
March nodded. "Yeah. The first thing we did after waking up was look for you. To find you, Stelle and I paid quite a price!"
Stelle tilted her head slightly and looked at March in confusion. "Why does it sound like we paid a lot? Didn't we have a great time playing with Hook and the others?"
March blinked, a bit embarrassed, and forced herself to stay composed as she said, "Don't expose me at a time like this!"
After saying that, March suddenly paused. She turned her head suspiciously, her gaze landing on Nero.
"By the way, why are you here too? Even though you're really strong, kids shouldn't casually play fight club matches, right!"
Nero looked innocent and spread his hands. "I came to find Teacher Dan Heng."
March nodded. "Oh, so you came to find Dan, hm?"
Halfway through her sentence, March suddenly felt something was off. Then it hit her, and she glared at Nero angrily.
"Doesn't that mean you already knew Dan Heng was here!? Then why did you say you didn't know when we asked you earlier?!"
Nero continued to look at March with an innocent expression.
March blinked. "Don't look at me like that. Do you think you can just get away with it like this?"
"What kind of place is this?" Nero asked.
March looked at him in confusion, then said as a matter of course, "This is a fight club!"
Nero seemed quite satisfied with this answer. He crossed his arms and nodded, then said, "Since that's the case, then the first rule is..."
March subconsciously continued, "You can't mention the fight club... uh… okay, so that's how it is... but is this really the time to be making memes?"
Realizing what was going on, March pressed a hand to her forehead. For a moment, she didn't know what to say.
But she clearly hadn't realized yet that when Dan Heng usually dealt with her reckless behavior, he probably felt exactly the same way she did right now.
Helpless. Just helpless.
But what could she do?
Looking up at Nero's face, of course March chose to forgive him.
Nero just wanted to make a meme, what did he do wrong?
Stelle spoke up at this moment and said, "By the way, when I woke up, I heard Doctor Natasha say that it was you and Sampo who brought us down here together. And the summoning back at the Edge Passage was pretty cool, I want to try it too… but that's not the point. What I want to ask is, what's going on here? Between you and Sampo..."
As soon as Stelle said this, March also seemed to finally realize this issue and nodded repeatedly.
"Yeah, hurry up and explain! How did you end up hanging out with Sampo in the first place!"
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