"Th-this is bad... I... can't... hold on!"
Mechanical Psychic Powers squeezed the words through his teeth, and his psychic powers abruptly cut out!
The swaying boulder paused for a moment, then came crashing down!
"Mommy-"
Amid the little girl's scream, the young mother, who had climbed halfway out, felt her vision go dark and closed her eyes in despair.
A gust swept past. The pain she expected never came, and the young mother instinctively opened her eyes.
In her field of vision, a powerfully built man knelt on one knee at the exit, holding up the broken slab of stone weighing over half a ton with one hand.
Sunlight streamed down from behind him, illuminating a figure more dazzling than gold.
W-we're saved-
"Y-you're...? You're Lord Super Police!"
The crushing weight of the psychic feedback vanished instantly. Drenched in sweat, Mechanical Psychic Powers lowered his hands and let out a long sigh of relief.
Although the overuse of his psychic powers had left his body unusually exhausted, his voice was filled with delighted surprise.
"Thank goodness, you finally made it! K City is saved!"
"Thanks for your hard work."
Josen nodded to the C-Class Hero he barely remembered. With a crack, his fingers easily sank into the stone slab, and he casually flung it behind him.
The broken boulder was like a weightless sheet of foam board in his hand. He easily hurled it into the distance, where it landed with a dull thud.
Sunlight flooded the hole. The young mother with the ponytail had yet to recover from the shadow of death and remained rooted to the spot in a daze.
Only when Josen extended his hand did she instinctively take it.
Josen exerted his arm and pulled the terrified woman out of the hole.
The little girl ran