It reversed along the tracks it had come down, its wheels screeching as it headed back toward the spot where it had just run over Ripper.
It was even a little faster than when it had charged forward.
Kirishima Bupai appeared atop the locomotive again, sliding backward with it.
He looked at the puddle of purplish-black flesh on the tracks, writhing frantically as it tried to pull itself together again, and frowned slightly.
Boom-!!!!
Another merciless crushing!
The wheels rolled savagely over Ripper's mangled, mudlike remains again.
More scraps of flesh and filthy blood splattered everywhere! A far more agonized, despairing howl rang out, yet it was countless times weaker!
This time, Kirishima Bupai did not jump off the roof again.
Standing atop the locomotive as it hurtled backward, he shaded his eyes with a hand, pretending to peer into the distance, then spoke as though realization had dawned on him. "Oh-! That bump just now... I thought I'd hit a speed bump! These tracks really aren't being maintained properly."
By the time he finished speaking, the locomotive had reversed almost to the spot where he had first kicked it.
Under the effects of his hyper-speed regeneration, Ripper's mudlike body had barely managed to form the outline of a humanoid upper torso.
He was screaming his lungs out as he tried to break free of the chains. At the sight, Kirishima Bupai's gaze abruptly turned mocking, and his figure vanished from the roof for the third time.
This time, he did not give it another light kick.
Instead, he violently twisted his waist and hips, whipping his right leg into the enormous buffer like a battle-axe.
Rumble-!!!
The locomotive let out a roar even more terrifying than when it had first started moving.
Like an enraged bull, it launched a