Saitama's Bankruptcy and the Story Begins

Several hours passed quickly, and King, who was soaking in the Monster Cell Liquid, gradually stabilized.

Standing about five meters tall, its entire body shimmered with a faint golden light, its face as majestic as a god, and the beating of its heart accompanied by a background music as loud as thunder.

This is not just a matter of sound and momentum; it can even be transformed into a group attack!

At this moment, the glass surrounding the culture tank had already been shattered. If it weren't for the energy shield that blocked it, the entire Laboratory would probably have been thrown into chaos by the sound.

King, who had already transformed into Monsters, slightly opened his eyes. His golden eyes looked extremely majestic, and he was like a walking god or Buddha. Just one glance was enough to captivate people's souls.

However, Vegapunk's expression was a bit strange... Although he looked imposing, and his aura was so powerful that even Dragon-level Monsters would have to bow down to him, in reality...

"This guy is barely managing to transform into Demon-level Upper, and he's actually using a portion of his transformation power for bluffing?"

"It really is... a perfect match for his personality! Is this a joke?!"

Monsters of the Demon-level Upper is definitely not weak; it can at least be ranked among S-Class Hero. However, S-Class Hero are the hero class with the biggest gap between them.

The strong ones can rival Dragon-level Monsters, or even contend with God-level Monsters, while the weak ones can only fight Demon-Level Threat, and might even fail.

Someone like Tatsumaki could easily take down dozens or even hundreds of Puri-Puri Prisoner in an instant. The current King is undoubtedly only slightly stronger than Puri-Puri Prisoner.

Judging from his aura alone, he has already exceeded the scope of the Dragon-level. No one would doubt that he is a god-level Monsters!

At this moment, King stared blankly at Vegapunk, the atmosphere tense and deadly. After a brief standoff, King suddenly broke down and spoke:

"Aaaaaah! What do I do? What do I do? Doctor, I think I've turned into Monsters!? What am I going to do?"

Vegapunk sighed. He'd become Monsters, but was he still the same person? He was hopeless.

"Don't worry, it's just turning you back into your original form, right? It's a very simple matter!"

After offering King a few words of comfort, Vegapunk did not feed him the Artificial Human-Human Fruit directly. Instead, he extracted a small amount of King's blood for testing and prepared to find a way to turn him back into human form.

The reason why Vegapunk didn't use a simpler method, such as having King eat the Human-Human Fruit, is that all the technology he is currently researching ultimately serves his own interests.

Vegapunk already possesses the powers of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Magnet-Magnet Fruit. Under these circumstances, if he were to modify himself, he certainly wouldn't be able to recover them through the Human-Human Fruit.

Given this, he naturally wanted to research other ways to maintain a human form.

King possesses extraordinary luck, and with his own incredible fortune, Vegapunk can essentially succeed in modifying a device by sheer luck once he finds the right direction.

Once you have successful cases, it becomes much simpler to reverse-engineer them and deduce the necessary requirements and details!

"Doctor, you absolutely have to let me turn back! I don't want to stay looking like this Monsters forever!"

Despite his god-like appearance, King looked completely devastated until he heard Vegapunk's words of comfort, which calmed him down a bit.

After several days of work, Vegapunk finally figured out a general direction for King to transform into a human, and the two of them couldn't wait to start the experiment.

The experiment was thrilling but ultimately safe. With the help of the conversion drug developed by Vegapunk, King risked genetic collapse and finally returned to his original human form.

The only difference was that his eyes hadn't returned to normal; instead, they had turned into golden Hawk Eyes, making him appear even more majestic and divine.

"I feel like you'll be even more effective at bluffing people from now on!"

Seeing King return to his original form, Vegapunk couldn't help but complain, "It seems like all of this guy's skills are focused on showing off."

King clenched his fist with delight, a slight smile appearing on his previously serious face.

Although some of his power was converted into an intimidating aura, King's actual strength did not reach the Dragon-level- level that Vegapunk had hoped for this time.

But for King, as long as he could have the strength of S-Class Hero, even if it was just the bottom-tier strength, it would put his mind at ease.

At least before, he was a complete fraud, but now he's just a hero with some exaggeration. Even if his boast is exposed, others will only feel a little disappointed, and won't think that he was originally a fraud with no real fighting ability.

However, after hearing Vegapunk's criticism, King was still a little embarrassed:

"Probably because during my transformation, I kept thinking that if I became very authoritative, it would be harder for people to expose my true colors, so in the end..."

Vegapunk then realized what was going on. Under normal circumstances, although King had extraordinary luck, not everything he wished for would come true.

However, when he holds the Luck Glove, he can manipulate his luck to some extent. Basically, the direction of his transformation and strengthening will be more in line with his inner thoughts, which is why the transformation results in this way.

"Okay... at least all the data has been collected. In the future, I can work backward to deduce all the experimental steps. This kind of small mistake can be completely ignored."

Vegapunk let out a long sigh and muttered a few words that made King's face darken. So I was just an experiment!

Perhaps because King's expression seemed a bit off, Vegapunk later performed Chakra modifications on him, further strengthening him.

What Vegapunk didn't expect was that King, who possessed some of the physique of Monsters, Awakening a certain Kekkei Genkai after absorbing Chakra!

It was the effect of this Kekkei Genkai that left him speechless: King Awakening a Genjutsu- type Kekkei Genkai, and anyone who heard his Emperor Engine would automatically fall victim to a genjutsu similar to the Hell Viewing Technique- sense.

Basically, it can be seen as a kind of collective fear aura, and the effect... well... it's surprisingly strong!

It's not that this kind of group Genjutsu is particularly powerful, but rather that King himself possesses an enhanced version of Conqueror's Haki and a mind-numbing effect. Normally, people who would never be frightened by this level of Genjutsu would often fall for it easily because of their fear of King.

After all, this guy already intimidated those S-Class Hero when he was just an ordinary person, let alone now.

"Alright, after a month, the enhancement is finally complete!"

After a period of examination, Vegapunk confirmed that his enhancement of King had not left any aftereffects. King's personality had not changed at all, and he did not experience any inconvenience in his daily life in human form.

In his human form, King could only maintain about half of his fighting power, almost falling out of the category of Demon-Level Threat and S-Class Hero. Fortunately, after gaining Chakra, his strength increased again, which allowed him to barely maintain his strength at the bottom of the S-class rankings.

After transforming into a Monsters that is almost like a god, and with the added boost of Chakra, King possesses the peak of Demon-level, which is about the upper-middle level of S-Class Hero.

However, combined with his strange Kekkei Genkai, even those Monsters and heroes who are stronger than him but have heard of his Daimyo and are somewhat wary of him are very likely to fall victim to his attack.

To be honest, this level of strength is far from his Daimyo as the Strongest Man on Earth, but it's barely enough to be considered the seventh-ranked S-class.

After leaving Vegapunk's Laboratory, King immediately tested his current strength. The enhanced Emperor Engine easily terrified and paralyzed a large group of Monsters.

King then directly brought a large group of Monsters to Vegapunk, which not only paid off his debt but also served as an advertisement for Vegapunk's modification abilities.

While Vegapunk was studying the data he obtained from King, in Z-City, a Caped Baldy stared blankly at his bed.

"Gone... all gone! Who? Who stole all my gold?!"

Just then, Saitama heard a strange noise coming from outside. With a whoosh, the One-Punch Man instantly appeared outside as if by Teleportation, crashing through several walls in succession and seeing what was making the sound.

"A safe over your head? Is this some kind of latest trendy decoration?"

Looking at the strange thing in front of him, Saitama opened his mouth and uttered a sound. Just then, a giant eye suddenly appeared on the safe, followed by a mouth that looked like sharp teeth:

"Damn it! What?! A safe is on your head?! I'm the legendary Safe Monster! If I have any treasure, I'll put it all in a safe!"

"Hahaha, I never expected to find such a large sum of gold in this dilapidated city that's almost abandoned! This is truly delightful..."

Boom! A terrifying shockwave erupted, Saitama seemed to transform into Super Saiyan. Faint arcs of Inazuma and energy waves could even be seen around him!

"You bastard, you stole the gold from under my bed!!!"

"Give me back my gold!!!"

Before he could finish speaking, Saitama had already thrown a punch. With a loud bang, the Monsters in the safe turned his head in fear, only to see Saitama's punch, which grazed his safe-like face, smash the wall next to him to pieces.

No, it wasn't just the walls. If you looked closely, the entire building looked like a crescent moon that had been bitten off. Most of it had been reduced to dust. Looking in the direction of the blast, all the way to the horizon, several miles away, was a chasm nearly a hundred meters wide and several meters deep, stretching to the edge of the city!

"Where is my gold?!"

Saitama's face, which was originally as simple as a line drawing, was now grotesquely demonic. His dead fish eyes were now radiating a terrifying red light. The Safe Monsters fell to the ground with a thud, so frightened that he almost wet himself.

"No, that's all, I ate it! The gold I eat will be randomly distributed to other places..."

With a loud bang, the terrifying fist slammed down, instantly smashing the unfortunate safe Monsters to pieces, leaving behind only a bald man who looked like he had lost his soul.

"Gone, all gone..."

At that moment, King, who had just returned home and was playing a game, touched his head and looked at the large pile of things that had just hit him on the head and made him feel a little pain.

"This is... gold!? Where did this come from?!"

People's joys and sorrows are different, and so is their luck. While some are lucky, there are always others who are silently suffering misfortune.

"Vegapunk, it was you, wasn't it? It must have been you! That safe-box Monsters, you must have sent him, right?"

Early in the morning, a bald man came over and disturbed my peaceful sleep.

"I don't know what you're talking about... Besides, the doors to my Laboratory Building are very valuable. Are you planning to work for me like Tatsumaki to pay off your debts?!"

Saitama, who had come looking for him with great force, trembled slightly and showed a cautious expression. He casually put the huge, nearly one-meter-thick metal door back on and smoothed out his fist mark on it.

Vegapunk sighed speechlessly:

"Alright, take it down. I won't ask you for compensation! If you force that iron gate back on, I won't even be able to get out!"

"So what if you lost all your money? You can just find some more Monsters to get it back, right? Although ordinary Monsters aren't worth much to me now, those powerful Demon-Level Threat and Dragon-level Monsters can still be exchanged for a lot of gold!"

"You make it sound so easy... High-level Monsters have been very rare lately..."

Saitama grumbled twice, just then Vegapunk's communicator beeped:

"This is an urgent report. Vaccine Man, claiming to have been created according to the will of Earth to curb further environmental pollution, has appeared in City A... It has already wreaked havoc on City A and is preliminarily estimated to be close to Dragon-level Monsters. All S-Class Hero approaching City A are requested to immediately proceed to subdue it..."

"Dragon-level Monsters!?"

Saitama's face lit up with ecstatic joy, and he immediately wanted to leave to find the Monsters, but Vegapunk grabbed him:

"You're too slow running on your feet! Let me help you!"

Hearing this, Saitama calmed down and prepared to watch Vegapunk's actions.

"Let me look for it, a map of City A... found it! It's a pity there are no Spatial Coordinates left there... Fortunately, there's another kind of ninjutsu!"

Vegapunk, pulling Saitama's cloak, arrived at a place that resembled a launch pad. Then, the ceilings of several floors above opened up, revealing the sky above.