### Chapter 14: Kouki's Ki Blast Cannon
Kouki's flight speed could be called terrifying.
The distance across two cities shortened rapidly in his field of vision in just a few minutes.
Before truly arriving above B-City, the tall body of the Monster was clearly visible.
In the once bustling city center of B-City, a colossal behemoth stood towering between heaven and earth.
Its head seemed to pierce the clouds.
Every heavy footstep was accompanied by a loud noise as dull as thunder.
And the buildings of an entire block collapsed like building blocks.
Dust rose like a huge mushroom cloud.
This devastating scene made the Hero Association quickly revise the disaster level to: Dragon!
On the ground, several heroes staying behind in B-City were attacking with all their might.
However, whether it was explosions, bullets, or heavy blows, hitting that huge body covered in rock-like skin was like mosquito bites, hardly leaving even a trace.
Instead, it annoyed the giant, who waved his hand to drive them away, the palm wind destroying another patch of buildings.
"Let all civilians and heroes in B-City evacuate the core area immediately!" Kouki's calm voice reached the Hero Association Headquarters directly through the communicator. "Leave this big guy to me."
"Understood! Mr. Kouki!"
On the other end of the communication, Chief Sitch's relieved voice carried a hint of trembling.
***
Meanwhile.
Kouki stared at the giant beneath his feet, frowning slightly.
Killing it wasn't hard; the hard part was the aftermath.
Once this behemoth fell, its mountain-like corpse alone could destroy more than half of B-City!
"Kouki, what do you plan to do?"
Just detached from Kouki's embrace and floating beside him with psychokinesis, Fubuki's voice was full of gravity.
She knew better than anyone how troublesome dealing with this huge Monster was.
Probably only her sister Tatsumaki could deal with it easily.
Just then!
"Roar—!"
The giant let out a deafening roar. That huge right foot, comparable to a skyscraper, wrapped in terrifying wind pressure that tore the air, lifted boldly.
Shadows instantly swallowed the block below.
On the street, countless tiny ant-like figures cried in despair, fleeing desperately.
But no matter what, they couldn't escape the shadow of death that covered the sky.
The giant sole, with the momentum to destroy everything, stepped down with a crash!
Time seemed to freeze.
Screams, crying, the groan of twisting steel bars...
All sounds were swallowed by the shadow of death that blotted out the sun.
All desperate gazes focused on that one point—
However, just at the moment when the giant foot carrying ten thousand tons of destructive power was about to crush everything and turn thousands of lives into meat paste—
It stopped.
Citizens who had escaped death, their hearts still beating wildly.
They subconsciously looked up at the sky shrouded in shadow.
They saw a figure, tiny but standing firm as a rock, actually holding up the sky with one arm, forcibly supporting that giant foot that covered the sky enough to crush the city.
"Sa... Saved?!"
"It's a hero! A hero appeared!"
After a brief dead silence, deafening cheers like a flood breaking a dam instantly drowned the entire B-City.
The wild joy of surviving a disaster appeared on every dust-covered face.
However, Kouki showed no sign of relaxation on his face. "Tsk, can't let this big guy smash down."
As his voice fell, he casually threw.
Beefcake's huge body was actually thrown into a stagger, stumbling backward.
Terrifying power transmitted to the earth, as if triggering a magnitude 8 earthquake.
Spiderweb-like cracks spread frantically, and sky-filling dust rose like raging waves, blocking the sunlight.
Beefcake steadied his body. His scarlet giant eyes pierced through the dust, finally locking onto that hindering "little bug."
An unprecedented sense of humiliation ignited his anger, his voice rolling like thunder: "I'll stomp you to death!!!!"
The huge sole, carrying the wind pressure of destruction, lifted boldly again.
"Hmph, brainless idiot!"
The corner of Kouki's mouth curled into a cold arc.
He slowly brought his hands together at his waist. The surging "Ki" in his body was drawn, gathering frantically in his palms!
*Buzz—!*
A dazzling small energy ball emitting high heat and strong light like the sun formed rapidly, the surrounding air twisting.
"Let's test this move on you!"
Intense light burst from Kouki's eyes. His closed palms pushed forward fiercely like breaking through raging waves!
"Water Stream Ki Wave!!"
In an instant, condensed Ki waves shot out like destructive light cannons from ultra-high-pressure water jets.
The speed surpassed the visual limit.
The air was ruthlessly torn apart, leaving a vacuum trail, hitting Beefcake with incomparable precision.
No earth-shattering explosion.
Only light dazzling enough to make people unable to open their eyes.
Where the light passed, Beefcake's steel-reinforced iron-boned upper body, along with his hideous head.
Melted away instantly like ice and snow under the scorching sun, not even a trace of residue remaining!
The light faded.
Dust scattered.
The terrifying Monster that was just roaring about destroying the city left only two lonely, mountain-like giant feet on the spot.
The cross-section was smooth as a mirror, wisps of blue smoke rising.
Kouki slowly lowered his hands, nodding with satisfaction: "Mm... the effect is not bad."
That strike just now was a new move he developed by integrating the exquisite force generation and control of the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, imitating the principle of a high-pressure water gun.
Extremely compressing and rotating violent energy, then releasing it instantly to break the surface with a point!
Power... far exceeded expectations.
It wasn't until this moment that the entire B-City seemed to have its restart button pressed.
The silent streets suddenly erupted with fanatical cheers like mountains calling and seas roaring!
The rescued citizens and the long-overdue heroes looked at the towering feet and the thin back outlined by the dust, their faces filled with the wild joy of survival and deep awe.
"Kouki! Kouki! Kouki!"
The hero's name resounded through the clouds!
***
Meanwhile.
Hero Association Headquarters, in front of the monitoring screen.
Director Sitch, dressed in a suit, had his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg, unaware that his glasses had slid to the tip of his nose.
He stared fixedly at the shocking image of the Dragon-level being instakilled on the screen, confirming the replay several times before murmuring distractedly: "This... this strength... isn't it too foul?!"
The next second, he snapped back to reality, almost shouting orders to the equally petrified assessment officer Coutes beside him: "Quick! Immediately! Right now! Adjust Kouki's hero ranking upwards for me!"
Coutes was startled by the shout and hurriedly asked: "Di... Director! How many ranks up is appropriate?"
"How many ranks?" Sitch's eyes were sharp, his finger tapping heavily on the desk, frowning slightly. "Rank 13! Jump directly to S-Class Rank 13! Just based on him solving one Demon-level and two Dragon-level Monsters alone in a short time, this position seems conservative! If not for fear of those veteran S-Class heroes having objections..."
He swallowed the second half of the sentence, but the light in his eyes undoubtedly said—he even wanted to adjust it higher!
"Understood!"
Sweat beaded on Coutes' forehead as he operated the terminal rapidly.
At the same time.
Kouki—the hero name "Super Saiyan," at this moment, was carved like a brand into every inch of B-City's land and the heart of every survivor.
On the street, countless gazes filled with tears and gratitude focused on him.
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