"Was it that boy who looked like a robot?"
"Oh, you already sensed him? Just what I'd expect from King! You've only just acquired psychic powers, and you're already using them so skillfully!"
The praise left King a little embarrassed. "Not really. I just happened to figure out a new way to use them during the fight."
"That's still impressive!"
On the hillside.
Genos, who had been lying flat with his limbs spread out, abruptly sat up. His expression remained resolute, but his gaze lacked confidence as he looked down at his mechanical body.
-Huh?
-I can finally move!
The strange vibrations that had caused his power core to malfunction had suddenly vanished!
Only after realizing this did Genos notice that the powerful drumbeat that had seemed to fill his surroundings had stopped at some point.
The cyborg boy kipped up and placed his right hand over the left side of his chest to check his power core.
The high-energy power furnace, which worked on principles similar to a nuclear reactor, was supplying large amounts of energy for his body's analysis and movement functions. In theory, it had fully returned to normal.
"Right, that monster!"
Torque surged through Genos's mechanical joints, and he instantly dropped behind the rock he had used for reconnaissance.
Cautiously poking his head out, Genos swept the entire wilderness with his electronic eyes, then froze.
The monster...
Had disappeared!
Then those people who had been fighting the monster earlier...
Genos immediately locked his gaze on two figures walking toward the small estate nearby. As he hesitated over what to do, his electronic eyes suddenly contracted.
In his magnified electronic field of vision, the two burly men were looking straight in his direction.
-Have... have they spotted me?
Just then, one of them, the S-Class Hero