Yamada Asaemon Tenza, a former street punk, an orphan.
Originally, he was uneducated and scorned by countless people.
But he didn't feel ashamed of it; instead, he thought others were all arrogant fools.
And such a person, following his original path, would surely have become a criminal.
But on that day, he met his lifelong respected master, Yamada Asaemon Shion.
The extremely rebellious him was picked up by the other party and brought back to the dojo, given clean clothes, food, and even taught swordsmanship.
In his heart, his master was the most reliable person in this world.
However...
It's no good...
After stepping onto this island and encountering that monster, Tenza realized.
Even his master.
Was no match for this monster that simply couldn't be killed.
But this thought was shattered a few seconds later.
This person... is he also a monster?
No, his style was completely different from that monster, and he also looked like a human and saved him, but could such a furious attack really be made by a human?
In Tenza's eyes, a person who looked like a youth about his age was continuously swinging his fists and hitting the monster in front of him, just like he had been doing earlier.
But the difference was, he was a dying counterattack of a desperate beast, while the other was a merciless crushing by the strong against the weak.
"Wow, it really won't die."
As his fists fell, a splash of blood splattered onto Takatsuki's face, adding a hint of madness to his handsome profile.
The opponent raised its hand, gathering strange energy on it, but it was blasted apart, along with the energy and the arm, by a fist wrapped in Haki and Nen.
"It really seems like it won't die."
Takatsuki looked at the guy in front of him and thought of the people on Xianzhou Luofu, legendary for their boundless lifespans, but they could also be killed, and their recovery speed was nowhere near as fast as this guy's.
Although both had plant characteristics, Mara-Struck was when plants grew on a human body, while this guy felt more like a humanoid composed of plants.
"Let me see where your limits are."
Takatsuki's punching speed grew faster and faster.
Regarding the opponent's immortality, Takatsuki believed there were two possibilities: one, it was an energy body that could regenerate indefinitely as long as its internal energy wasn't exhausted; two, it had a core within its body that would allow infinite regeneration unless destroyed.
But no matter which one, it wasn't true immortality.
Takatsuki could have completely annihilated the opponent with his Stand, but he wanted to test their limits. After all, he didn't think he would encounter the final boss right away. Perhaps this was just a small fry, and there might be countless more enemies like this later on.
Tenza was completely stunned.
He had punched the opponent before, but the speed of his punches' destruction couldn't keep up with the opponent's regeneration speed. Moreover, even when the opponent's head was blown off, it could still attack normally, as if lacking eyes had no effect on him.
And Takatsuki?
His storm-like punches had far exceeded the opponent's regeneration speed.
Takatsuki discovered that the opponent's regeneration wasn't appearing out of thin air, but rather starting from a more complete base body.
So, he directly and mercilessly began to continuously shatter the opponent's body from top to bottom.
And the monster, which originally only needed to regenerate its head, quickly had its upper body completely shattered.
After its shoulders shattered, its arms fell to the ground. Because they were relatively intact, vines grew on the arms, attempting to reconnect to the body. However, Takatsuki stomped on each one, crushing them and giving the opponent no chance.
When the destruction reached its abdomen, the opponent seemed to realize the seriousness of the problem and began to flee.
"Is the vital spot in the lower body?"
Seeing the opponent start to flee, Takatsuki immediately realized that the opponent had entered a life-threatening moment.
And it wasn't like its energy was about to run out; it was more like there was a core in its lower body.
Looking at the body, which now only consisted of the abdominal part, the opponent pushed off the ground.
That special, strange energy appeared again, instantly moving him several meters away.
But this technique was completely meaningless to Takatsuki.
Before coming to this trial, Takatsuki had spent money to raise his Nen to max level.
How terrifying was a max-level Nen?
Although Takatsuki didn't practice En, Zetsu, Ren, and Hatsu much, it didn't mean he couldn't.
After his Nen was forcibly boosted, these techniques were as simple as eating and drinking for him, and he used for the first time the skill he gained after maxing out his Nen.
"A single thought arises, [Close at Hand Yet Worlds Apart]; a single thought vanishes, [Close at Hand Yet Worlds Apart]! [Close at Hand Yet Worlds Apart]—Punch!"
As Takatsuki spoke, the opponent had already fled tens of meters away, almost out of sight.
And Takatsuki was still standing in place, throwing a punch at the empty space in front of him.
Boom!
To Tenza's shocked gaze, the fleeing figure in the distance was instantly sent flying back as if struck by something.
And the tens of meters of distance seemed to have been erased; the moment he flew back, he arrived in front of Takatsuki.
Then his body crashed onto Takatsuki's fist.
Pfft...
Takatsuki's punching motion didn't change at all. Rather than him attacking, it was more like the opponent was crashing into his fist.
And this punch landed precisely on the opponent's lower abdomen, below the navel.
The instant this punch connected, a violent Nen exploded within the opponent's body.
The body, which had regenerated up to its neck, instantly exploded, completely shattering, scattering across dozens of square meters of grass like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.
"Is that all?"
Withdrew his fist, looking at the shattered corpse on the ground, Takatsuki shook his head.
If this was all there was to this immortal body, it was just a strong regenerative ability.
"Alright, this guy is dealt with. Do you know what this guy was?"
Takatsuki didn't consider this constantly regenerating monster as someone he could converse with, after all, he hadn't seen the opponent speak, although there was the reason that the opponent couldn't speak at all.
However, rather than trying to understand the situation from this strange entity, Takatsuki preferred to understand it from the ordinary person in front of him.
When he turned around, he saw the golden-haired boy's shocked expression.
"Don't be afraid, I am a martial artist traveling the world, and I am human."
Takatsuki was about to explain when he realized that the boy's shock wasn't directed at himself, but at something behind him.
"Look out behind you!"
Takatsuki turned around and discovered that many flowers had grown on the shattered corpses on the ground. These flowers grew rapidly at a visible speed, intertwined, and piled together, forming a huge flower bud.
Inside the flower bud, on the emerging pistil, there were two humanoid figures, one black and one white.
"Ugh... so disgusting. Let's... burn it."
As the words fell, a pillar of crimson fire shot up into the sky on this tranquil island.