The referee's voice was quiet, even cracking a little from sheer shock.
But in the noisy hall, every word reached the crowd's ears clearly through the loudspeaker.
"O-one-hit KO."
Another damned one-hit KO!
What the hell was going on today?
First, a black-haired boy with spiky hair had sent someone flying like a door panel, embedding him so deeply in the wall that he couldn't be pried out.
Then a silver-haired kid had used ghostlike footwork to scare his opponent so badly that he hadn't even dared turn around, surrendering on the spot.
Now came another-a black-haired young man who looked the frailest of all, the most like a student-and all he had done was press forward lightly with one palm.
Yet he had blasted apart the clothing on the back of a sumo wrestler weighing at least three hundred kilograms and sent the man hurtling away like a cannonball!
The shocks came one after another, leaving everyone present feeling as though their brains couldn't keep up.
After a brief, deathly silence, the crowd erupted into a commotion louder than any before it, the roar nearly lifting the roof.
"Holy shit! Did I see that right? The clothes on that fat guy's back exploded?"
"He transmitted force through hundreds of pounds of fat to hurt him? What kind of penetrating power is that?!"
"I didn't see him wind up at all... Those three kids are definitely together. Where did these monsters come from?"
Discussion, exclamations, and sharp intakes of breath mingled together, turning the entire hall into utter chaos.
In the ring, the referee swallowed hard and picked up the clipboard from the floor.
As an official referee of Heavens Arena, he had to deliver a fair assessment.
Strength, speed, technique, potential...
Of the first two kids, one had off-the-charts