Kukuroo Mountain, the Healing of Darkness Descends

The great battle across the five-kilometer wasteland had ended. Meruem had fled into the distant sky, carrying the bloodline of the Dark Continent, leaving the entire earth shrouded in endless gloom.

With his stomach empty, Saitama slowly made his way back to the fallen spacecraft. When he excitedly rushed into the kitchen and saw the bowl of tonkotsu ramen, completely clumped together and unpleasantly soft and hard at once, his face instantly fell. He squatted in the corner and sighed dejectedly.

Netero lay inside a specially designed medical pod, his entire body wrapped in snow-white bandages. With his bones broken and his life force exhausted, he did not even have the strength to raise a hand and could only smile helplessly. Zeno looked at the miserable state of his old friend of a century, then at the bald man whose heart held nothing but food, and helplessly spoke up to comfort him.

"Forget it. The cook on this ship was only mediocre to begin with. Come back to Kukuroo Mountain with me. The Zoldyck Family's kitchen is home to the finest delicacies in the world. Ramen, desserts—everything you could want. You can eat to your heart's content."

Those words instantly lit up Saitama's eyes.

He sprang up from the floor in a second, hoisted the medical pod onto his shoulders without another word, and dashed toward the spacecraft's landing platform. "Let's go, let's go! Hurry up! Don't let the chef finish his shift!"

After emergency repairs, the battered spacecraft took off once more, flying toward the distant range of mountains.

During the three-hour journey, the atmosphere throughout the spacecraft was split into two starkly different halves.

In the cockpit, Zeno spoke in low voices with the feeble Netero. Both of their expressions were grave in the extreme. Meruem, having awakened