"... Tama-kun..."
Amidst the raging wind, King's trembling voice was barely audible.
"Gentlemen, because I came in a hurry, I didn't bring an elevator or a parachute, so I'll have to trouble you to jump down!"
The Mustachioed Executive's voice traveled through the microphone to Saitama and King's ears amidst the howling wind.
Jump down?!
King's King Engine roared even louder, and then he firmly reached out and grabbed Saitama's side.
"Oh oh!"
Saitama turned his gaze away from the distant battlefield, nodded, and jumped down with King.
It was only thanks to Saitama that King survived the fall from the sky.
"Saitama, could you please remind me next time?"
King wiped away his cold sweat and said to Saitama.
"Saitama- sensei!"
"Mr. King!"
Genos and the Overlord Emperor rushed over.
Following them are heroes with strong recovery abilities, such as Zombie Man, Sweet Mask, and the Bang Brothers, who awaken earlier due to their powerful physical bodies.
"Don't leave yet, helicopter! Our wounded here urgently need medical attention, especially Metal Bat. His body has endured immense force that his physical strength can hardly withstand, and he's on the verge of collapse!"
The Overlord Emperor shouted at the sky.
"Saitama."
Just then, Meikyō's Wood Clone walked over.
"You are... Teacher Meikyō's alter ego?"
Genos knew that Meikyō had the ability to create clones.
"Saitama, please go all out from the very beginning, no matter what."
"Meikyō is looking at Saitama and speaking."
"Although I know you've always longed for an opponent who can't be killed by your punch and who can truly challenge you, if such a person really exists, and that person isn't you, or someone who can keep their composure like you, then it would be a disaster for the world. I think you wouldn't want to see someone blow up the Earth one day, would you?"
"Can Garou really go to such lengths?"
Bang raised his head and looked at the battlefield in the sky.
"My main body separated me to better observe Garou and see if we could find his weakness."
Meikyō's Wood Clone addressed the crowd.
"Although I haven't found a weakness, I know very well that Garou's strength can continue to improve. There may be no limit, or maybe there is, but at least he is far from his limit now. In his human days, he could learn martial arts techniques from his opponents through battles. Now that he has become a monster, he can learn the abilities of his opponents through his own evolution. Therefore, as long as he can't defeat any enemy in a short time, or even in an instant, he can continue to strengthen and improve."
"Now he can clearly predict and perceive the original body's abilities. It is estimated that in a while he will evolve the same spatial abilities as the original body. At that time, it will be more troublesome to deal with him."
"The only way to defeat Garou is for Saitama to take full advantage of the moment and defeat Garou."
The Wood Clone stopped there and didn't say anything more.
Previously, in order to use the Mirror God Eye to see through Garou, most of the eye power and Chakra possessed by this clone had been used up. Now it is just a shell, and it will even turn into a piece of wood in a while.
At least for now, after saying all this to Saitama, the surface of the Wood Clone's body has begun to fade, revealing the color of wood.
The Demon Garou is very strong, but not to the point of being super powerful.
However, in the original timeline Saitama wanted to pull Garou back from the path of becoming a monster because Garou was essentially still human. After failing to kill Garou with just a normal punch at the beginning, Garou came into contact with God at the critical moment of life and death.
Although not completely controlled by the God, he gained God power, becoming the God Garou, and copied Blast's spatial abilities. He managed to withstand Consecutive Normal Punches, then copied Saitama Mode, and fought Saitama in the starry sky. The battle eventually led to the extinction of humanity, and they even fought on other planets, destroying half of one of them.
In the end, Saitama was enraged by Genos's death. With Blast's guidance and help, he defeated Garou, stole the power of the God, and used the God's power to reverse time, arriving at the moment when Garou had just obtained the God's power. Before Garou became strong enough to fight Saitama, Saitama used Full-Power Punch to interrupt Garou's monsterization process and knocked out the God's power along with the monster side.
If Meikyō were to come, he could probably only manage to use his spatial abilities to barely protect himself and escape, just like Blast, but he couldn't protect anyone—not even Saitama.
Later on, there are even things like reversing time and destroying planets. With Meikyō's current strength, he might not be able to protect himself. And if time is reversed, will he, who doesn't belong to this world, also be reset?
Meikyō didn't know.
The best course of action would be to have Saitama go all out from the start.
"Your abilities seem quite good!"
Garou brazenly opened a Teleportation Circle in front of the Meikyō.
"Tsk, this is troublesome."
Meikyō looked at the Garou with a helpless expression.
"So what are you going to do now? I think I've figured out most of your technique for controlling the flow of time. Do you want to demonstrate it for me again? Do it a few more times, and maybe I can learn it too."
A smile appeared on the Garou's face. He raised his hand and opened thousands of Teleportation Circle in the surrounding void.
The Garou's figure vanished, followed by countless attacks flying out from these Teleportation Circle, making it difficult for Meikyō to dodge.
"Damn you, you immortal!"
Meikyō clapped his hands together, activating the Water World again, which delayed the time and allowed him to escape.
However, as Garou grew stronger and faster, Meikyō had to use more of her eye power to activate the Water World.
This is an extremely energy-consuming Dojutsu. Even Shisui's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, when used at full power, would be exhausted after just one use. Although Meikyō's Rinnegan has higher quality and quantity of eye power, and the Sage Body accelerates the recovery of eye power, he also felt that his eye power was somewhat insufficient.
Not to mention, Meikyō had previously transferred a large amount of his pupil power to the Wood Clone.
Upon thinking of the Wood Clone, Meikyō suddenly had a thought.
If the Mirror God Eye is used at full capacity for an extended period of time, the Wood Clone should be almost gone by now, right?
What can the Wood Clone glean from Garou?
Is it possible to quickly become stronger?
Will it contain a lot of information? Will it impact the main body and cause it to expose its weaknesses?
Meikyō did not receive an answer.
Because the fists that the Garou threw were suddenly covered by hands wearing red gloves.
"This is..."
The Garou stopped in surprise, glanced at Saitama, and then at King on the ground.
"Very well, two more strong ones have arrived, King, and you... um... the one from the restaurant last time..."
Before Garou could finish speaking, Saitama's expression suddenly turned anxious.
I can't let this guy tell you that I ate and dashed at the restaurant!
"Serious Punch!"
In Setsuna, the wind and clouds surged.
An immense terror permeated the hearts of the two people standing closest to Saitama.
Garou tried to use the spatial ability he had just copied to escape, but found that he couldn't open it at all.
Saitama's punch distorted the space around him, creating a cage on a spatial level!
There's no way to avoid it!
In a daze, a thought struck the Garou, and time seemed to stand still.
The background behind Saitama and Meikyō is a moon with a large crater.
On the moon, a strange giant suddenly appeared, with the vast and deep universe behind it.
For no apparent reason, a thought arose in the Garou's mind.
If there is God, he must look like this.
"Accept... the power I bestow upon you, and then... in the name of the God, destroy the fist of evil..."
In Garou's mind, a figure that looked remarkably similar to Bang appeared and reached out his hand to Garou.
This is because Bang, his master, is the person Garou is closest to in his subconscious.
Even though he has now left his master's school.
However, Garou decisively slapped the God's hand away.
"I never accept the power of others; I only become stronger myself, and then defeat every enemy!"
Faintly, it seemed as if a sigh came from the other side of the starry sky.
Living in a distant other dimension, God cannot directly influence the present world. What they can do is find someone to bewitch, to make that person accept their power and become their spokesperson, that is, God-gifted.
The Garou refused to accept this power.
However, he had contact with the God, and if the God wished, they would naturally bestow a portion of their power upon him.
However, due to Garou's refusal, this power was incomplete. If Garou is now basically at the threshold of godhood, were to receive a complete God power, he would be able to withstand Saitama's punch and quickly absorb and strengthen it to become the Cosmic Garou.
However, this way, the Garou could truly control the incomplete God power.
Given enough time, the God might be able to gradually bring him under their control through this power, Garou could use it to further improve himself and cultivate a true powerhouse capable of fighting Saitama.
But now Saitama is going all out.
In a moment of distraction, the Garou returned to the real world from his sea of consciousness.
Before him, the fist clad in an old-fashioned red hero's glove grew larger and larger, and then...
"------boom!!!"
It seemed like a long time had passed before Meikyō heard the sound of Saitama's fist slamming out.
Garou placed his hands in front of him and unleashed the strongest punch he could muster at that moment.
"God Slayer Extreme Strike!"
Setsuna their fists collided, cracks appeared in the keratinous carapace on the Garou's body, which then rapidly expanded before shattering, revealing the Garou's human face.
Meikyō looked at the sky ahead and knew that the Earth had been combed into a middle part once again.
Saitama's fist stopped less than a centimeter from Garou's forehead, then he flicked Garou on the head, knocking him unconscious.
"I still can't bring myself to harm humans."
Saitama looked at the unconscious Garou and sighed.
"Then I'll help you with that, Caped Baldy!"
Sweet Mask walked over and reached out with a chop to kill Garou.
However, his movements were blocked by two arms.
One of them has Silver Fang.
"Sweet Mask, Garou is my disciple. If possible, I would like to execute him personally."
"And what about you? We haven't seen each other much in the past."
Sweet Mask looked at another person.
A tall man wearing a high-tech combat suit and a windproof mask, with only his large beard showing on his chin.
The Blast occurred just after the teleportation circle arrived.
"You may not know what just happened, but I, being in another dimension, saw it very clearly."
"Blast," he said in a deep voice.
"In the alternate dimension, my teammates and I sensed the arrival of God power and tried to suppress it. Fortunately, we were quickly destroyed by you in the mortal world. But not long after, they came again. Just as they were about to descend upon this young man, he slapped a part of them back."
"This has nothing to do with me. All I know is that he's a weirdo and needs to be dealt with!"
Sweet Mask said with a cold, handsome face.
"No, he used to be, but he isn't anymore."
Blast turned to look at Saitama, his tone strange.
"The God's power merged with his monstrous side, but Saitama's punch shattered the God's power, and his monstrous side disappeared along with it. This is a very peculiar phenomenon—the first person to survive after the God's power disappeared from his body, and..."
After a pause, Blast continued:
"The first person to go from being a monster back to being human."
Sweet Mask paused and withdrew his hand.
"Whatever happened between him and the God, or how he transformed from a monster back into a human, these are all extremely important pieces of information, so he has to live. Of course, the specifics are up to you two to decide, since you are the main force in the fight against Garou."
Blast looked at Saitama, then at Meikyō, and said.
Meikyō stroked his chin, deep in thought.
Should we let the Garou go?
This guy isn't inherently bad; he just has a personality somewhat like the Uchiha.
He's so immature, to the point of being insane.
The problem is that their strength is a bit too dangerous.
Originally, apart from Saitama and the so-called God, there shouldn't be much in this world that could threaten him. If Garou survives, then there will be one more threat.
Moreover, he also had to consider Saitama's attitude.
Although this guy usually seems a bit silly and goofy, he actually has a bright and positive personality.
If anyone else possessed such invincible power, it would be a miracle that Earth has survived to this day.
Just like the Garou, if Saitama hadn't been able to control it, the extinction of humanity in the original timeline would have occurred.
Garou is no longer a monster, but a human.
"Ugh, this feels so troublesome. But since this guy is still human and not a monster, and according to Uncle Blast, there are still a lot of messy things that need him to do, let's just let him redeem himself."
Saitama scratched his bald head and said.