Saitama's right fist slowly drove toward the center of the black mushroom cloud in the sky.
There was no sound effect.
No shockwave.
No exaggerated display of force.
But the instant the punch was thrown—
The entire world fell silent.
The wind stopped.
The tremors stopped.
The spreading Void Wave stopped.
Even the ever-expanding black mushroom cloud in the sky stopped.
As if someone had pressed the pause button, everything froze in that instant.
Then—
"Rumble—!!!"
A thunderous boom came from the sky.
It wasn't the sound of an explosion.
It was the sound of space being torn apart.
Saitama's Serious Punch sent its shockwave through the air, through the clouds, and through the spreading Void Wave, striking straight into the center of the black mushroom cloud.
The Nullifier's core.
That needlepoint-sized core that kept spinning without end.
The instant the shockwave touched the core—
The core stopped.
Then, beginning at the center, a crack appeared.
Like a spiderweb, the crack rapidly spread from the core to the vortex, then across the entire black mushroom cloud.
"Crack—crack—crack—!!!"
The cracks spread faster and faster. The entire black mushroom cloud shattered like a gigantic mirror struck by a single punch.
Then it broke apart.
"Crash—!!!"
Countless black fragments peeled away from the mushroom cloud, fluttering through the air like black snowflakes before vanishing bit by bit.
The Nullifier let out a silent scream.
No one heard a sound, but everyone felt it—a desperate, dying tremor from the depths of the soul.
The black mushroom cloud rapidly dissipated.
It shrank from several thousand meters across to several hundred, then several dozen, and finally just a few meters.
The spreading Void Wave rapidly contracted as well.
The sky returned to its original color.
The earth stopped cracking.
The mountains and rivers stopped vanishing.
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