"Telepathy?!"
Boros had ruled the cosmos long enough to have seen just about everything. Listening to that irritating voice inside his head, he immediately recognized what Jovian was using—telepathy, the ability to skim the shallowest layer of someone's thoughts and speak to them directly inside their mind.
"So that means all that stuff I was muttering to myself earlier… you heard it?"
Boros's mouth fell open slightly. For a split second, he experienced the kind of secondhand embarrassment that makes your soul want to leave your body. Still—whatever. Only the two of them had heard it.
"Boros. It's my turn now."
The instant Jovian's voice echoed through Boros's mind, Jovian re-entered Asura Mode—and started beating the absolute hell out of Boros.
He locked both arms around Boros's body to keep him from escaping, then opened his eyes and unleashed a relentless barrage of heat vision.
The scorching beams punched straight through the defensive energy around Boros's body and struck his massive eye.
Boros's eye flared with pain. He clamped the eye on his cheek shut—
And that still wasn't the end.
Jovian slammed himself forward, pinning Boros's chest energy core in place, and then launched into a smooth, brutal combo.
Under Jovian's fists—stacked with the Sun's terrifying heat—Boros's "melon" was hammered into shredded pulp.
But even that still wasn't the end.
Jovian knew Boros was never the kind of small-time opponent who'd be destroyed by damage at this level.
The Boros whose head had been smashed to pieces—and whose "head" and body had started acting separately—suddenly changed.
His expression sharpened.
He got serious.
"You think I'm going to lose here?!"
"I will not lose!"
"I'm going to defeat you!"
Boros flashed through everything he'd been through up to now.
He refused to lose.
"Good. Then I'll destroy you—and your civilization's Sun—together!"
"When I arrive, your civilization has no future left!"
Boros's voice detonated inside Jovian's mind. The next second, Boros's body broke apart into countless chunks and tore free from Jovian's grip—then instantly reassembled with the mangled remains of his head, reforming into a complete whole.
"Full power release!"
Boros's body turned pitch-black, his eyes hollow, his presence radiating a suffocating pressure.
"Take your civilization's Sun with you…"
"…and die."
"Stellar Collapse Roar—"
Boros's rasping voice screamed inside Jovian's mind as endless energy began converging into Boros's body—energy so vast it was enough to make a star collapse.
"No way I'm letting you pull that off!"
Jovian cranked his telepathy to maximum and slammed it into Boros's mind like thunder.
It was the mental equivalent of losing a fight and deciding to win by blasting feedback over open comms until the whole channel clipped and screamed.
Cheap.
Effective.
In the split second Boros flinched from Jovian's sudden mental roar, Jovian drove him out of the Sun—covering eight hundred thousand kilometers in three seconds.
"You think a mere eight hundred thousand kilometers can stop me from destroying the Sun?"
Boros stared at Jovian, who had him locked in a bear hug while charging forward. His gaze was iron.
Eighty hundred thousand kilometers meant nothing.
He'd still obliterate it.
"You're too naive, Boros."
Hearing Boros's thoughts inside his head, Jovian shook his head. If he was willing to fight Boros one-on-one, it meant he had absolute confidence in the outcome.
"It's over! Everything is over!"
"I'm going to wipe out your civilization's Sun completely and make your planet go extinct!"
"STELLAR COLLAPSE ROAR CANNON!!!"
Boros's energy spiked to its absolute limit.
At the same time, Jovian triggered his trump card.
Two golden lights glimmered behind them—and in the next instant, a golden Spacetime Gate opened.
Boros and Jovian flew straight through it and vanished without a trace.
In the black void of space—hundreds of billions of kilometers from the Solar System—
Their figures flashed into existence.
And in the very next second, a catastrophic beam of energy swallowed Jovian whole.
It was power vast enough to destroy the Sun—power that would ultimately erase the entire Solar System.
"Disappear! This is my final swan song!"
"That bastard fortune-teller was right… On that planet, I really did meet an opponent who matched me!"
"This is our final fate—dying together here!"
"The supreme conqueror of the universe, who brings conquest and destruction… and the hero who brings hope and salvation…"
"One of them will exhaust his energy and drift through space, asleep forever."
"The other will be erased completely under this endless power!"
Boros's voice rose inside Jovian's mind, carried on that boundless energy.
In the pitch-black emptiness, light blazed like a newly ignited star—burning bright enough to illuminate the dark.
Earth…
Even across an unimaginable distance, the people on Earth—the S-Class heroes included—could still see the glow above them.
Boros's star-killing energy looked like a second Sun rising overhead.
The distance was absurd, yet they could still feel that crushing pressure—so overwhelming it drove despair into the bones.
The gap between them and the enemy felt like the gap between a god and an insect.
"Jovian… he's going to be okay, right?"
Tatsumaki felt what helplessness truly meant. She understood how powerful their enemy was—so powerful that even the spillover could destroy them and Earth.
Right now, all she could do was stare into the sky and pray.
"Hey!"
"Is Jovian really going to be okay?!"
"Do you seriously not need to go help him?!"
Genos asked nervously, looking at the bald man beside him—who was watching that blazing light in the sky with unsettling interest.
"Genos, even if I wanted to help… I can't," the bald man said calmly, rubbing his completely hairless head. "I'm just a regular guy. I can't fly."
"But…"
Genos still looked tense. This was the first time he'd ever faced an enemy who could casually destroy Earth.
"Relax. He'll be fine."
The bald man gave Genos a small smile and patted his shoulder.
"You're that confident in Jovian?"
Genos asked.
"Yeah. Because Jovian's a good person."
The bald man nodded as if that settled everything. Jovian was the kind of guy who'd even give him free seaweed.
"...That's not how you beat an enemy like this."
Genos felt a headache coming on. He honestly suspected his teacher hadn't grasped how serious this was.
"Don't worry. If Jovian said he's got it, then he's got it…"
"…Wait. What day is it?"
Saitama's face abruptly changed.
"Oh no, Genos—today's the supermarket discount day."
And with that, he panicked and sprinted off.
"Teacher? Saitama?!"
"…Sigh."
Genos watched him go, let out a helpless breath, and ran after him.
"Hmph. Ran away, you bald bastard."
Floating in midair, Tatsumaki looked down at Saitama bolting off and sneered.
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