Fubuki's Progress

"Get out of my way, you bald guy! You're blocking my view!"

In the vast Testing Ground, Tatsumaki, her face dark, spoke to a certain lazy Superman standing in front of her, completely unaware that she was blocking his view.

In the past, Tatsumaki would never have had such troubles. With her superpowers, she could float directly into the sky, and no one, no matter how tall, could block her view.

Even Saitama can't do this. Although the Caped Baldy is strong enough to smash planets with his fists, he still doesn't have any ability to fly.

Well, Saitama doesn't actually have any special abilities. He's just incredibly strong physically. His other abilities, like strength and speed, are just basic skills derived from his powerful physique.

Tatsumaki used to be able to float, but now she has a power- Restraint Collar around Tatsumaki neck, so she can no longer use her superpowers.

Given her size, if anyone in the room were to block her view, she wouldn't be able to see anything.

"I'm not bald, I have a name, my name is Saitama!"

Saitama turned his head and spoke with a serious expression, but because of the completely different art style, he still looked blank.

"Huh!? You bald bastard!"

"Shorty!"

"What did you say? You damn bald guy!"

"A 28-year-old who's only 1.5 meters tall!"

"You bastard, do you want to die?"

In the testing ground, Fubuki, who was preparing to test her abilities, had veins bulging on her forehead. With a casual wave of her hand, her older sister flew directly into the sky.

As for Saitama... he didn't move at all, while Fubuki felt as if her superpower had crashed into a mountain, unable to budge the other party in the slightest.

Although Fubuki already knew that Saitama was definitely not simple, otherwise he wouldn't have knocked out her sister, Fubuki still somewhat shocked by his abilities.

Although Fubuki had some superpowers in the past, her strength was at most at the level of A-Class Hero. Almost all the S-Class Hero were unfathomable in Fubuki's eyes.

Now that her abilities have greatly increased, she can better understand Saitama's strength, which is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary S-Class Hero. He is at least on par with her sister.

Fubuki's thoughts were quickly interrupted by her older sister, the Tatsumaki floating in mid-air, baring its fangs and shouting:

"Fubuki, put me down right now!"

Fubuki pouted:

"Sister, didn't you complain that other people were blocking your view? Well, now that you're floating so high, no one's in your way anymore, right?!"

"How dare you talk to your sister like that, waaaaah..."

With a casual wave of her hand, the psychic power surrounding Tatsumaki formed a protective shield, blocking Tatsumaki's voice, and a smile appeared on Fubuki's lips.

It wasn't easy! I've finally managed to get the upper hand when facing my older sister!

Although the biggest reason wasn't her own enhanced superpowers, but rather the Ability Restricting Collar around her older sister's neck, it still filled Fubuki with a sense of pride.

"Alright, now you can test my superpowers!"

Feeling that her superpowers had become hundreds or even thousands of times stronger, Fubuki spoke with confidence on her face.

Vegapunk nodded. Psychic Ability don't actually have many tricks up their sleeves, and the detection methods are quite simple.

On one hand, it's the power of telekinesis, and on the other hand, it's the control of telekinesis. Testing strength is basically similar to weightlifting; it's about seeing how heavy an object you can control with telekinesis.

Several square, progressively larger metal blocks, controlled by Vegapunk's Electromagnetic Ability, landed in the center of the Laboratory. At the same time, Vegapunk began to explain:

"This is a compressed alloy that I made. It weighs about 400 tons per cubic meter, which is 20 times the weight of gold."

"Your task now is to lift these compressed alloys, from the first thousand tons to the last ten thousand tons, one by one, until you can't lift them anymore."

Fubuki nodded, stretched out her hand, and easily lifted the metal blocks one by one until she lifted 10,000 tons, without showing any signs of strain.

Then, she reached out and waved her hand upwards, lifting all the metal blocks with her telekinesis. The combined weight of these ten metal blocks exceeded 50,000 tons. Only then did she show an extremely strained expression on her face, but she still shakily held the metal blocks up for a while before finally lowering them.

Vegapunk nodded, not too surprised by her performance. This level was roughly equivalent to lifting a large aircraft carrier, which sounded exaggerated, but it was still far behind her sister Tatsumaki.

After all, if Tatsumaki goes all out, it can lift an entire city, which would be in the tens of thousands of tons!

Of course, for Fubuki, this level of progress was beyond her imagination. She was overjoyed and had never expected to become so much stronger.

"Next up is a test of your control, well, it's basically a whack-a-mole game!"

Vegapunk gave a command and manipulated the entire Testing Ground. Suddenly, the Testing Ground cracked open with many small pits. If someone were to count them carefully, they would find that there were nearly ten thousand pits in the entire site.

"Okay, next a sphere will emerge from the pit. You need to control your telekinesis to press the sphere down, while avoiding affecting the area around the pit. Otherwise, the sensors around the pit will light up red."

"The more balls you can press down, the stronger your control will be. Let's begin!"

Although the rules of the whack-a-mole test are simple, it is not so easy to actually test it.

At first, Fubuki could easily suppress the spheres, but after the number of craters that emerged from the spheres reached thousands, she began to sweat. Finally, after suppressing about 1,200 spheres, she could no longer perfectly control her Psychic Power, causing a red light to illuminate around one of the craters.

"I feel much stronger, but my telekinesis is also harder to control."

Fubuki let out a long sigh and complained a little. Vegapunk casually comforted her:

"This is perfectly normal. Your telekinetic abilities have improved so rapidly in such a short time, it's no wonder your control can't keep up. Just practice more in the future!"

Fubuki herself was quite aware of this, and she nodded slightly, a smile appearing on her face.

"With my current abilities, I should be able to become S-Class Hero, right? Hmm... S-class is out of the question, I still want to be the number one A-class hero!"

"Then do your best..."

Vegapunk shrugged and said, "Actually, becoming the number one A-class hero is probably more difficult than becoming S-Class Hero."

Each of the top heroes in the Hero Association has its own unique characteristics. Apart from Mumen Rider, who is only outstanding in his sense of justice but has only average strength, the other top heroes in each class have long exceeded the limitations of their respective classes.

Just like Fubuki, the number one B-Class Hero with superpowers, although her superpowers are not too strong, she has surpassed most of the A-Class Hero, and can even be ranked in the top ten of the A-Class Hero.

Similarly, Sweet Mask, the number one A-Class Hero, is similar to Fubuki. Fubuki doesn't want to become an A-Class Hero because she knows she's not number one among A-Class Hero, but she has an extreme obsession with being number one.

Sweet Mask stays at the top of Class A, refusing to enter S-Class Hero, in order to become the gatekeeper of S-Class Hero and prevent those who are not qualified to become S-Class Hero from taking advantage of the opportunity.

In fact, Sweet Mask's strength is not weak among S-Class Hero. He is at least much stronger than those bottom-ranked S-Class Hero. If you include his hidden trump cards, he could even rank in the top ten among S-Class Hero.

So whether Fubuki can become the number one A-rank is really hard to say.

Several months passed quickly. During this time, Vegapunk's research on Monsters made great progress. In addition, his hero ranking also rose to S-class.

It wasn't that he defeated any Demon-level Monsters; it was simply that he caused Tatsumaki a great deal of trouble. As the nominal second-ranked hero among the S-class heroes, but actually the number one, coupled with her volatile personality that leads her to fight at the drop of a hat, other S-Class Hero have suffered quite a few losses at her hands.

Now that someone has actually managed to subdue this Tatsumaki, even if Vegapunk doesn't want to be an S-Class Hero, the other S-Class Hero probably wouldn't want to either.

With a loud bang, a giant scorpion, more than ten meters long, was thrown at the entrance of the House of Evolution, while a petite "girl" with a sour face descended from the sky.

"Vegapunk's out shopping!"

The mechanical doors of the House of Evolution opened instantly, and a burly man who looked like Masira stepped out.

This burly man was none other than the Armored Gorilla. He looked at the enormous scorpion before him, scanned it with a strange device, and then spoke:

"Hmm, this scorpion is practically Demon-Level Threat. It helped you pay off 30 million of your debt, so now you only need to pay off another 3.5 billion!"

Several veins throbbed on Tatsumaki's forehead. She gritted her teeth, but ultimately said nothing.

After all, she's still wearing the power- Restraint Collar around her neck! Although some functions of the Collar are disabled, allowing her to fight with her superpowers, Vegapunk can still electrocute her to the point of near death with just a thought.

In this situation, offending this dead Masira is not a good decision. After nearly half a year, Tatsumaki has learned what it means to be a wise person when you know when to yield.

This painful realization was gained after being electrocuted seven or eight times and losing control of my Tatsumaki three or four times.

Even removing the Collar is extremely difficult. Forget about Tatsumaki herself; if she tries to control the Collar with her superpowers, she'll be electrocuted to the point of near death. If she gets help from others, even a slight touch will cause the entire Collar to discharge electricity.

Child Emperor, one of the S-Class Hero, once examined the entire Collar and concluded that Collar was not only extremely difficult to destroy, but also that if it were destroyed, the internal current would immediately go berserk. At that time, Tatsumaki, who would not have time to use telekinesis, would most likely be electrocuted into a pile of charred remains.

Tatsumaki, as long as Tatsumaki doesn't cause trouble, Vegapunk won't activate the Collar's function for no reason. The seven or eight times he was shocked were basically the result of Tatsumaki trying to destroy the Collar or attack Vegapunk.

Now, Tatsumaki has pretty much given up on getting rid of the Collar.

But 3.5 billion... at the current rate, I estimate it will take me about 20 years to pay it off!

If only some Dragon-level Monsters could appear, even a regular Dragon-level Monsters would be worth more than ten times more than Demon-level Monsters. If I could get the materials from seven or eight Dragon-level Monsters, I could probably pay off my debt.

"Where's Vegapunk? Where did he go?"

Tatsumaki glanced at the Armored Gorilla, raised an eyebrow, and asked a question.

"Dr. Vegapunk went to the Hero Association headquarters, apparently to discuss some collaborative experiment."

The Armored Gorilla, his face taut, spoke. Although Tatsumaki looked quite petite, the Armored Gorilla didn't dare to provoke her too much. Otherwise, it would have been Vegapunk who could subdue Tatsumaki with his ability- Restraint Collar, not him, the Armored Gorilla.

Even if Tatsumaki beats him up, as long as she doesn't kill him, what can Vegapunk do? At most, he'll just give him another shock. Given Tatsumaki's personality, if he really angers Tatsumaki, he's absolutely capable of doing something like that.

"Collaborative experiment... what has this guy figured out this time?"

Tatsumaki muttered something, as if she were not surprised at all.

Since becoming S-Class Hero, Vegapunk has revealed his scientist nature and has become very close to the scientists in the Hero Association.

In comparison, most of the scientists in the Hero Association, or rather the scientists in the entire One-Punch Man World, are lone wolves who prefer to figure things out on their own. Scientists like Vegapunk, who are not only not ashamed to ask questions but also enjoy collaborating with others, are extremely rare.

Moreover... Vegapunk is currently a shareholder of the entire Hero Association, and even has a large number of supporters among all the heroes.

"Fine, if that guy's not here, he's not here. Just make sure you keep track of your bill."

Shaking her head, Tatsumaki took to the air and was about to leave when she suddenly heard her phone ring.

Tatsumaki was slightly taken aback when she opened her phone; it was a summons from the Hero Association.

"Summoning all the heroes? What's going on? Has some powerful Monsters appeared?"

"But even if there are powerful Monsters... what's the meaning of summoning C-Rank members?"

Slightly puzzled, Tatsumaki quickly stopped thinking about it and soared into the sky towards the Hero Association.

"Ever since that damn Vegapunk came along, Fubuki has been following that mad scientist around Tenten. No matter how I try to persuade her, she won't listen, and she even avoids me Tenten."

"Now that all the heroes have been summoned, Fubuki should be there too, right?"