A huge word-"death"-filled his mind, and every cell in his body, including his shell, screamed and trembled!
His powerful sensory system, superior to that of every other living creature, detected nothing unusual, yet his body shuddered instinctively. Some unfathomable intuition told him-
If he brought this punch down, he would very likely die.
Fear devoured his earlier confidence. Blood vessels burst in Carnage Kabuto's eyes, and with a sudden beat of his wings, he bounded between the surfaces of the combat chamber at incredible speed, retreating to its farthest end twice as fast as he had approached.
"Huh..."
Watching the fight, Dr. Genus could hardly believe his eyes. "Did he just... run away?"
Then he saw Carnage Kabuto pressed flat against the wall, panting in great, ragged gasps.
Such an instinctive biological reaction confirmed that he had not been mistaken about what he had just seen.
But...
Why?
"Hey, what are you doing?" Josen turned around and landed on the ground. "Are you seriously backing off that far?"
-Just now! If I'd attacked just now! I would've been killed!!
-Who the hell is this guy?! Why does he feel so dangerous?!
"How the hell did you get such absurd power?!"
In an instant, sweat drenched the shell covering Carnage Kabuto's body, and he could not help asking the question from that iconic One-Punch scene.
"Well, about that..."
Josen glanced at Dr. Genus outside the door, who had also pricked up his ears for the answer. He decided not to repeat the old joke everyone could recite in full and instead prepared to tell the truth.
"The power I have now came from my own hard work, little by little!"
Dr. Genus: ?
Could hard work alone... really accomplish this?
"Like hell! How could human effort possibly produce power so terrifying