Closed Loop

Padong sprinted desperately down the street, its four little legs moving so fast they nearly left the ground.

It glanced back and, seeing no pursuers, let out a slight sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the ground began to tremble.

Padong instinctively looked toward the source of the disturbance. An enormously obese man was charging straight at it. His massive body burst forth with unimaginable speed, his fat rippling like waves as he ran, yet it did nothing to hinder his agility.

In an instant, Pig had crossed dozens of meters, and his huge hand was about to seize Padong.

At that critical moment, a nimble blond figure darted into Padong's field of vision. The newcomer clenched his right hand into a fist and threw it at the oncoming mountain of flesh.

The air roared like an explosion.

Terrifying force ignited at the edge of his fist like high explosive. Before Padong's horrified eyes, Pig's massive body burst apart piece by piece.

Flesh, bones, and organs all turned into fragments that sprayed backward, carried by the pressure of the punch.

A vacuum corridor stretching over a hundred meters appeared along the street behind him. Stone paving, wooden barrels, and building facades were all destroyed by the aftershock of that punch.

At the end of the corridor, the front wall of a three-story building had completely collapsed, exposing the terrified residents inside.

Dawn withdrew his smoking fist, turned toward the dumbstruck Padong, and gave it a friendly smile.

"Are you alright?"

Padong jolted, its fur standing on end as it stammered out an answer.

"I-I'm fine..."

Its voice trembled. The power this man had displayed was utterly beyond its comprehension. That punch... had been like a natural disaster.

"What's your name? Why were they chasing you?"

Dawn asked another question, his gentle tone