A teeth-grating scrape rose from the pile of rubble.
Youpi propped up his enormous body.
His face, covered in eyeballs, was now twisted in agony.
Dark red blood dripped steadily from the corner of his mouth.
It splattered onto the dust-covered floor tiles.
He was a warrior, pure and simple.
His sole purpose was to crush everything before him with absolute violence.
Yet just now, a puny human had knocked him down with a single punch.
Youpi touched the deeply sunken fist mark on his cheek.
His fingers spasmed uncontrollably.
Rage...
Unprecedented rage compressed itself inside his chest, tighter and tighter!!!
Even his breathing turned into scorching, rasping pants.
The air he exhaled carried searing heat.
Huge swaths of dark red skin tore open across Youpi's body.
These were not injuries.
His flesh was undergoing a brutal mutation under the force of his extreme fury.
Squelch.
Squelch~~~
The sounds of flesh being forcibly torn apart rang out in waves.
Six immensely thick arms forced their way out of his back and shoulders.
The end of each arm mutated into a gigantic black scythe.
Youpi's lower body changed as well.
His muscles swelled like mad.
His bones cracked as they reassembled themselves.
He became a six-legged centaur monster.
Even more terrifying was the Nen inside him.
The red aura that had merely clung to his body before...
Now transformed directly into tangible, visible, scalding steam.
With Youpi at its center...
Every floor tile within ten meters melted into dark red lava.
Even the air warped and twisted in the heat.
Knuckle and Shoot hid behind a support pillar thirty meters away.
Both men's clothes were already soaked with cold sweat.
The heat wave blew Knuckle's signature pompadour flat against his scalp.
He clutched the edge of the pillar.
His fingernails gouged