Breaking the Sound Barrier with His Body! Target: the Sun, a "Meteor" Falling from 30,000 Meters!

Kahn hovered in midair, looking down at the "Hero of the Marines" below him.

This feeling of looking down on someone was pretty nice.

"No."

Kahn answered bluntly.

He turned around in the air, as light and nimble as a fish.

There was none of the heaviness of Moonwalk, which required stomping on the air.

It was pure antigravity.

"No? Then how are you flying?"

Garp kicked off the ground.

The air exploded.

"Shave!"

The burly figure instantly appeared before Kahn.

Garp reached out with a hand like an iron pincer, trying to grab Kahn by the ankle.

He refused to believe it.

He had to touch him and see if it was real.

Kahn flashed away.

Without borrowing any force, he directly shifted five meters sideways.

His speed was absurdly fast.

Garp grabbed nothing but air.

Although he had not used Haki in that grab, with the skills he used to catch pirates on the sea, even a fly would have been crushed.

Yet a three-year-old brat had actually dodged him.

"It's instinct."

Kahn looked at his palm.

The sense of repulsion between his biological field and the planet's magnetic field was becoming clearer and clearer.

As long as he wanted to, gravity was a joke.

"Just as fish can swim and birds can fly."

"It's perfectly reasonable that I can fly too, right?"

The veins on Garp's forehead twitched twice.

Reasonable my ass.

There was absolutely no such instinct in humans.

If everyone could fly like this, what would the Marines need warships for?

"Don't give me that nonsense!"

Garp kicked against the air several times in succession.

Moonwalk.

He created footholds in midair and chased after Kahn like a cannonball.

"Get down here!"

"This strange ability must be thoroughly examined!"

Kahn watched Garp charge at him, the corners of his lips curling up.

Perfect.

He could use the strongest Marine to practice his flying skills.

He darted left and right through the air.

Sometimes he flew upside down, sometimes he spiraled upward.

Garp's Moonwalk was fast, but it was ultimately straightforward physical acceleration.

Its agility fell far short.

The two of them began playing hawk-and-chicks above Mount Colubo.

Except this little chick was as slippery as a loach.

Ace craned his neck from the ground.

His neck was already sore.

His mouth had remained hanging open.

"You've got to be kidding..."

Ace muttered.

Just moments ago, he had been feeling smug about managing to kick off the air twice.

Then Kahn had simply flown into the sky.

The gap between them made the flames in his heart leap wildly.

He was unwilling to accept it.

Far too unwilling.

Why, when they had both come from the same womb, did Kahn have so many tricks?

In midair.

Kahn dodged another of Garp's grabs.

He raised his head and looked overhead.

The noonday sun.

It was an enormous fireball, recklessly releasing light and heat.

Even from the ground, separated by the thick atmosphere, that energy had already benefited him immensely.

What about up there?

What if he got a little closer?

Once that thought surfaced, it could no longer be suppressed.

He had Kryptonian Physiology.

The sun was his charger.

The closer he was to the power source, the more efficiently he could charge. That was scientific.

"Old man Garp, I'm done playing with you."

Kahn stopped.

Garp halted opposite him using Moonwalk, panting heavily.

Even this old man had not expected catching his grandson to be so exhausting.

"What are you trying to do?"

Garp stared into Kahn's eyes.

He had seen that look in Roger's eyes before.

It was the look of a madman.

"I'm going up there to take a look."

Kahn pointed overhead.

Before Garp could react—

"Boom!"

With a thunderous blast, Kahn transformed into a golden streak of light and shot straight toward the heavens.

He was several times faster than before.

He broke the sound barrier in an instant.

A ring of white air burst open in the sky.

Garp was thrown into a midair somersault by the shockwave.

"Hey! Brat!"

"There's no oxygen up there!"

Garp roared.

But his voice could not catch up to Kahn's retreating figure.

Kahn could not hear him.

The sound of wind had vanished from his ears.

He was moving too fast; sound had been left behind.

Clouds.

Those white clouds that were usually impossibly high now looked like cotton candy beneath his feet.

He tore straight through them.

Moist vapor condensed on his face, only to be instantly evaporated by the heat of high-speed friction.

Higher and higher.

His field of vision rapidly widened.

Mount Colubo became a small mound of dirt.

Foosha Village became a sesame seed.

The outline of the entire Goa Kingdom appeared beneath him.

Then came the East Blue.

Azure waters and islands scattered like stars.

The sheer grandeur made his chest feel as though it might burst.

Kahn did not stop.

He was still accelerating.

Every cell in his body screamed and cheered.

The sunlight grew increasingly dazzling.

The sensation of energy flooding into him had never been stronger.

His skin began to burn.

His blood surged like magma.

This feeling was incredible.

It was like a man who had been thirsty for three days suddenly plunging into a clear spring.

Power.

Endless power was growing within his body.

Was this what being Superman felt like?

Kahn even felt as though he could punch the planet beneath him apart.

But he soon stopped smiling.

His altitude reached ten thousand meters.

The height of a Sky Island.

The air began to thin.

Breathing became difficult.

But it was still within his limits.

His lung capacity had long surpassed that of ordinary people.

Twenty thousand meters.

The cold struck.

It was not the cold of winter, but a deathly chill that pierced into his bones.

Even under the sunlight, his body temperature was rapidly dropping.

Thirty thousand meters.

The sky was no longer blue.

It had turned a deep dark purple, even beginning to blacken.

Stars became visible in the daytime.

The sun became even more dazzling, and even more vicious.

Without the atmosphere to filter them, ultraviolet rays and all kinds of radiation bombarded Kahn without restraint.

Kryptonian Physiology was powerful, but he was still only a hatchling.

He was only three and a half years old.

His biological field was not yet strong enough to completely block damage on this cosmic scale.

His skin began to sting.

It felt as if countless needles were piercing him.

Even worse was the suffocating sensation.

The oxygen level here was practically zero.

Kahn held his breath.

He tried to use the energy within his body in place of oxygen to sustain his functions.

But this still fell within the realm of biology.

The foundation of his body's structure was still human.

He had not evolved to the point where he could survive in a vacuum.

"Still not enough..."

Kahn looked at the enormous Sun overhead.

It felt clearly within reach.

Yet it was as if an impassable chasm lay between them.

His vision began to blur.

His brain blared a violent warning from the lack of oxygen.

His heart pounded so fast it felt ready to explode.

His lungs burned as if they were on fire.

His consciousness was fading.

His body's protective mechanisms kicked in.

That upward thrust suddenly vanished.

His biological magnetic field fell into chaos.

Gravity took control once more.

Damn it.

Kahn only had time to curse inwardly.

Then he lost consciousness.

Like a meteor.

He fell from an altitude of thirty thousand meters.

Mount Colubo.

Garp tilted his head back, a telescope in hand.

He had snatched the telescope from Dadan.

"Where did that brat fly off to?"

"Why can't I see him anymore?"

Ace also looked up, one hand shielding his brow.

"Grandpa, there seems to be a black dot in the sky."

"Hmm?"

Garp adjusted the focus.

That black dot grew larger and larger.

And it trailed flames behind it.

Those flames were caused by the body's violent friction against the atmosphere.

"Shit!"

Garp blurted out a curse.

That wasn't a black dot.

It was that little bastard who had no idea how high the sky was!

"Run!"

Garp scooped Ace up and tucked him under his arm.