One Punch Through the Earth, a Flood Surging into the Sky

Saitama threw a perfectly ordinary punch.

No golden light. No thunderous boom. It barely stirred the air.

It was like an ordinary person casually waving a hand.

The instant his fist touched the Gleaming Earthworm's spike-covered head,

time seemed to stop for half a second.

Then—

BOOM!

An explosion shook the entire underground cavern.

The transformed Gleaming Earthworm, an abyssal overlord with a Capture Level of 96, didn't even manage a scream. It burst into powder in midair, leaving nothing behind.

The force of the punch kept going.

It drove straight down, deep into the earth.

Layers of solid rock shattered like paper.

A hundred meters.

A thousand meters.

Ten thousand meters.

A hundred thousand meters!

The force bored all the way down, punching the cavern floor another hundred thousand meters deeper!

The entire Gravity Cavern began to shake violently.

Rocks rained from overhead, and the ground beneath their feet visibly sank. In the blink of an eye, it dropped hundreds of meters.

Gravel, dust, and fractured slabs of stone came crashing down from every direction.

The five of them sprawled on the ground, so rattled they couldn't collect themselves.

Gon stared wide-eyed at the empty space before him. His jaw nearly hit the floor.

"It... it's gone?"

"That huge worm disappeared with one punch?"

Killua was dumbstruck too.

The transformed Gleaming Earthworm had been terrifying enough to drive them to the brink. Yet it couldn't take a single punch from Saitama.

Kurapika gripped what remained of his broken Chain, unable to speak.

He'd known Saitama was strong.

He'd never imagined he was this strong.

He'd punched a hundred thousand meters through the earth.

Was he even human?

Saitama dusted off his hands and yawned.

"Done."

"Finally, some peace and quiet."

He glanced at the cracked ground beneath his feet