"Huo!" With a battle cry, Taro leaped high into the air. His body spun several times like a gymnast before he thrust his right leg downward, launching his signature Swan Dive Kick at the Super Beast Baraba.
Baraba had no time to react. The Swan Dive Kick struck its nose, leaving its head ringing.
Taro seized the opportunity, clenching both fists and pounding Baraba's chest faster than the eye could follow, his punches trailing countless afterimages.
"Dadadada, ta!"
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud! Each of Taro's punches tore through the air before landing on Baraba's body with a heavy thump.
Baraba quickly recovered, aimed its nostrils at Taro, and immediately sprayed a stream of fire at him. Taro had anticipated its move from the start and used his signature Backflip to evade the flames.
Baraba stopped breathing fire, trying to catch Taro off guard with the homing missiles in its nostrils.
Boom! Baraba fired several missiles from its nostrils at Taro.
Taro had just steadied himself. He reached both hands toward the Ultra Horns atop his head, which began to glow, then swung his hands sharply toward the incoming missiles. Two blue, arrow-shaped beams shot from his Ultra Horns toward them.
The arrow-shaped Light Bullets struck Baraba's missiles, exploding into a burst of sparks in midair.
Taro closed in again, first blocking Baraba's scythe strike head-on with his Crown Bracelet, then lowering his body and charging into Baraba's lower half.
Taro locked an arm around Baraba's neck and chopped viciously at its head with his right hand, also trying to pull the blade off its head.
Ace had once told Taro how Baraba's Head Blade could be "returned" to it.
But Baraba did not let Taro have his way. The blade on its head suddenly flew into the sky, trailing