"Hey, could you two stop being so polite to each other already?"
Saitama griped with half-lidded eyes, then remembered Genos's battered, near-death appearance and asked with concern, "Genos, how are you feeling? Should we contact that doctor or whatever and have him come repair you?"
"Teacher, it's Dr. Kuseno."
Genos corrected Saitama with a serious expression, then, touched by his concern, reassured him, "It's all right, Teacher Saitama. I'm a cyborg, so injuries like these are only minor damage to me. My built-in emergency communication device has already sent the doctor a distress signal. Before long, he'll send a drone to pick me up. Once I'm back at the laboratory, I only need to replace the necessary parts to be ready for combat again..."
"Ahem... isn't it a little rude to ignore His Majesty Orochi like this?"
Seeing that the talkative young cyborg seemed ready to go on forever, Gyoro Gyoro interrupted him with a twitch of the eye, then gave an inscrutable chuckle. "Your Majesty Orochi, if your injuries have finished healing, please finish them off in one go. Let these Heroes see the power of your latest evolution!"
At those words, the Monster King Orochi rose from his throne for the first time and let out a tremendous roar that shook the entire underground world!
"ROAR-"
"What?!" ×2
Saitama showed little reaction to Gyoro Gyoro's words, but King and Genos both froze.
Sure enough, when they looked at the Monster King Orochi again, they discovered that every trace left by the earlier battle had completely disappeared!
The newly grown snake heads covering his body were clad in thick armor made of hardened keratin and vicious spikes. Clearly, both his defense and offense had received an all-around boost!
Seeing this, Genos even wondered whether attacks as powerful as his