The cloudy weather originally forecast suddenly turned clear, and the sky became a peaceful, serene blue.
Huff, huff-
Her severed connection to her psychic powers returned to her control, and her body, which she had lost command of, also returned to normal. Tatsumaki steadied her plummet through the air and breathed a sigh of relief.
Josen...
(ꐦಠ ಠ)
Her overwhelming anger faded unexpectedly quickly. Tatsumaki held her forehead, her feelings a tangled mess.
There was no way that guy could have been blasted to death by a single shot from her, of course. He had obviously tanked the psychic cannon head-on, then used Instant Transmission to run away once they were far enough apart!
Josen's Instant Transmission was unlike the Psychic Power Warp Tatsumaki had copied, which required her to construct a psychic passage and establish coordinates beforehand.
That limitation meant Tatsumaki could not use long-distance teleportation the way Josen did.
Even though her psychic reserves were more than sufficient.
By now, Tatsumaki could no longer detect the frequency of Josen's psychic powers at all. She had no idea where he had run off to.
This outcome could not help but cause a tiny flicker of doubt in Tatsumaki's heart.
-Both times, he caught me off guard and overpowered me. That Josen...
-Could he really be stronger than me... by just a little?
Impossible. Absolutely impossible!
Tatsumaki shook her head fiercely, casting that wrongheaded thought out of her mind.
-How could he be... when it comes to psychic powers, I'm the strongest!
-It's just that the last time someone patted my head like that was... the last time...
Memory and reality overlapped. It was the same warmth she had felt in childhood, and Tatsumaki's little face flushed slightly despite herself.
"Hmph, I don't need anyone... to give me warmth!"
Tatsumaki