Jiama Empire, Mist Cloud Sect.
As Garou sat cross-legged in the Training Ground, meditating, the ambient energy swirling through heaven and earth gathered into vortices and poured into his body. Ye Uchiha watched his strength climb steadily from the Dou Wang level to the Dou Huang level, equivalent to an upper-tier Dragon-level monster in the One-Punch World.
Watching Garou's lean figure, Ye Uchiha sighed in admiration. "What terrifying talent for cultivation. He's never even learned this world's cultivation methods, yet he can improve just by absorbing the energy of heaven and earth. Who knows how far his talent and potential could take him?"
Among Chaldea's members, there was no shortage of geniuses with heaven-defying aptitude. Some might even surpass Garou in raw talent, but when it came to conviction and the hunger for strength, almost none were as stubbornly obsessive as he was.
He disregarded life and death, constantly surpassing himself through battles against powerful opponents. In practically every fight, he treated his body as expendable, often hovering on the brink of death. He was practically born a violence addict. Though he loathed humanity's hypocrisy and hunted heroes as the Human Monster, he had never actually killed a human.
To Ye Uchiha, Garou was like an Overgrown Chuunibyou who believed the world was wrong and wanted to correct it through his own power, creating a world of "equality through evil."
For someone with such terminal chuunibyou, an ordinary beating no longer accomplished anything. Only by seeing the truth for himself could he recognize his mistakes.
Ye Uchiha was no therapist, nor did he want to offer Garou psychological treatment. Instead, he had brought him straight to the Otherworld to encounter those inhuman monsters, realize just how weak he was, and thus join Chaldea.
There were countless problem children like Garou,