"You fight Monsters because you want to."
"You help people because you want to; it's just your 'hobby.'"
"But for those who are helped, you are their 'hope.'"
"So the things you carry will get heavier and heavier."
"But you still haven't given up on being a hero, Saitama."
Saitama's footsteps paused slightly, his eyes a bit complex, but he didn't speak.
King didn't mind him and continued to himself:
"I'm the same as you."
"I'm also a hero just for fun."
"I forced them to evacuate the public because I knew something was coming."
"Whether they listen or not, believe me or not, or curse me in their hearts for being a tyrant..."
"None of that matters."
King looked up toward the towering building of the Hero Association Headquarters in the distance.
"What matters is that I said it. I did what I had to do. As for the result..."
"That is the product of countless choices stacked together, not something I can decide alone."
Saitama fell silent.
He stuck his hands into the pockets of his yellow jumpsuit, his bald head reflecting the sunlight.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "King, what you say makes a lot of sense."
King didn't respond.
"I never thought about these things before."
Saitama continued, his dead-fish eyes finally gaining a bit of focus.
"I fight Monsters, get stronger, and then continue to fight even stronger ones..."
"It seems like an endless cycle."
"Sometimes I wonder, why am I so strong, yet so many people still die?"
"Why can't I save everyone?"
His tone was still flat, but the content of his words was incredibly heavy.
"Later, I figured it out."
"What I can do is do what I can when I see it."
"As for what I can't see..."
"I'm truly powerless."
"Maybe you're more suited to be a hero than I am."
[Ding! Detected super approval emotion from Saitama, Emotion Points +5,000,000!]
The system's notification sound exploded in his mind.
King's footsteps paused.
Five million.
Just because of a conversation.
He looked at the bald man beside him in the ridiculous jumpsuit and blank face.
An indescribable feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
This was Saitama.
The man who broke his limiter.
The protagonist of the one-punch man world.
A man whose way of thinking was as straightforward as a straight line.
This man was closer to the meaning of the word "hero" than anyone he had ever met.
King suddenly felt that this transmigration might not be all bad.
At least, he had met a hero, a true hero.
Then I can't slack off either!
"System."
King murmured in his heart, "How many Emotion Points do I have now?"
[Current Emotion Points: 11,050,000]
Eleven million and fifty thousand!
The five million just now had caused the number to skyrocket.
The Emotion Points had accumulated to an astronomical figure!
[Ding! Detected that the Host's accumulated Emotion Points have exceeded 10,000,000, unlocking '???' grade gacha.]
[This gacha rarity is the highest currently accessible.]
[You can invest 10,000,000 Emotion Points to perform a '???' grade prize draw.]
[Do you wish to perform a '???' grade draw?]
"...You damn system, you were hiding something big, weren't you?!"
King did not hesitate for a second.
"Draw it for me, and make it count!"
[Performing '???' grade draw...]
[Drawing...]
There were no flashy special effects, no spinning wheels.
King only felt those tens of millions of Emotion Points in the depths of his consciousness turn into a torrent, drawn, compressed, and smelted by an invisible force.
It was as if all the joys and sorrows, all the approval and anger, all the thoughts and insights were thrown into an invisible furnace.
And then, what was forged was—
[Draw complete.]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Limiter Removal (10%)]
[Skill/Talent Description: A special conceptual creation derived from the underlying rules of the 'one-punch man' world.]
[A key fragment that breaks the inherent growth limits of living organisms.]
[Effect: Permanently removes 10% of the Host's current 'limiter'.]
[The theoretical maximum value of skill power breaks through the original framework.]
[All attributes related to 'life level', such as physical fitness, energy limit, growth potential, and law adaptability, receive a leap-forward enhancement.]
[This enhancement is a fundamental change, irreversible, and will continuously amplify with the Host's subsequent growth.]
[Note: The limiter is a restraint, but also a protection.]
[Breaking it means you will step onto a path of no return.]
[The end of the path could be a god, or it could be a monster.]
[And now, you have set foot on that path.]
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