Chapter 913: Three Strikes, Out; Enemy from Beyond

"It's clear that whatever happens next will be far more dangerous than Ghost or Dragon-level disasters, and this will happen within half a year!"

Sitch's words carried weight.

"I understand what you're saying, but 'within half a year'—we don't know which day. Are we supposed to stay on standby at headquarters until the disaster strikes?"

Watchdog Man really didn't want to leave his city; if it weren't for this very important matter from the Hero Association, he wouldn't have come at all.

"Well, we need to find out what disaster will doom Earth, so we can formulate countermeasures. Otherwise, even if the disaster appears and we can't handle it, what's the point of staying on standby at headquarters?"

Flashy Flash also said a sentence.

"You're right, so the purpose of convening this emergency meeting is also to have everyone prepare for a possible unprecedented fierce battle within half a year."

Sitch nodded seriously.

"Afterward, we also hope everyone can keep the prophecy of Earth's impending doom secret, to avoid causing unnecessary panic in the outside world."

The one standing at the side, Puri-Puri Prisoner, added an explanation.

"As heroes, we still have this much secrecy ability."

No one objected to Puri-Puri Prisoner's words.

"But although it's said to be within half a year, the so-called disaster that dooms Earth might happen today or tomorrow."

Saitama finished his tea and interjected with a sentence.

"Exactly."

Sitch nodded.

"By the way, who are you?"

However, he looked at Saitama with some doubt.

When Saitama wasn't speaking just now, he hadn't noticed.

But now that he spoke, looking over, he discovered the other person wasn't any of the S-Class Heroes.

"Me, I am—"

Saitama's mouth corner curled slightly, just about to introduce his identity, when Broly interrupted him.

"By the way, if the prophecy of Earth's doom refers to a biological individual capable of destroying a planet's ecosystem, then there's such a biological individual right now approaching above our heads."

Broly's Ki Sense could easily envelop the entire planet beneath his feet; according to the feedback from Ki Sense, excluding individuals without Ki and those hiding their Ki, among biological individuals whose Ki volume could clearly doom this planet, there were only three he currently sensed on this planet.

The first was naturally himself, the second was Saitama, and the third was the unknown creature approaching the surface above their heads.

First, Broly could exclude himself; he had no intention of destroying this world. As for Saitama, his strength was very strong, and he might possibly turn evil and become a world-destroying Demon King in the future, but within half a year, turning from a hero acting on interest into a world-destroying Demon King—this probability was truly too small.

So, after hearing Saitama's words, Broly was more inclined to believe that the disaster dooming Earth in the prophecy was caused by the individual approaching the surface from above.

"Mr. Broly, is what you say true?"

Puri-Puri Prisoner looked over, and just as the question fell, a dull sound rang out.

"Boom~"

The entire conference room trembled slightly.

"What's happening?"

Sitch hurriedly asked the person beside him.

"We don't know yet; this needs investigation."

A staff member answered.

"Someone should be attacking this building from outside."

Genos deduced.

"Impossible, this is the Hero Association Headquarters; who would seek death by attacking—"

Darkshine said, saying, then stopped.

"If this is the guy who can doom Earth, he wouldn't care whether this is the Hero Association Headquarters or not!"

""

Zombieman said the words he hadn't finished beside him.

"Genos, I'll go outside to take a look."

Broly was at the side; Saitama didn't want to become a supporting character. He greeted his disciple beside him, then jumped upward with force from his feet.

With a bang, the thick ceiling was directly smashed into a pit.

"This is the headquarters building that the Association spent a huge sum of money to have Metal Knight design and build—"

These Hero Association management personnel including Sitch were all stunned.

"I said, that guy might be a shoddy, kickback-taking, tofu-dreg project!"

Tatsumaki spat a sentence at the absent Metal Knight, and also used psychic power to make herself float.

"I'll also go outside to check the situation."

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She left through the channel Saitama had smashed open.

Broly followed closely behind.

Only his build was larger than Saitama's, so he inevitably made the broken hole even wider.

"Could Metal Knight really have taken kickbacks?!"

Rubble fell patteringly; seeing this scene, Sitch muttered to himself.

"Now isn't the time to talk about this; let's go outside too."

Bang stood up, and this old man chose to go out the normal way.

Other S-Class Heroes exchanged glances, and some chose exit methods suitable for themselves.

Darkshine, Genos, and Child Emperor all left together through the channel Saitama had smashed open and Broly had widened.

Genos flew out by directly spraying flames from his palms.

The black light jumped layer by layer.

Child Emperor, on the other hand, had metal tentacles emerge from his backpack and climbed out by manipulating the remote control panel in his hand.

Metal Bat, Atomic Samurai, and Tanktop Master had already left, closely following Bang.

"Wait, the Hero Association Headquarters still needs some S-Class Heroes to stay behind and guard it, to some extent."

Seeing the S-Class Heroes leave one by one, Sitch, having reacted, hurriedly spoke up.

"Guarding the home is my specialty; I'll just stay here."

Watchdog Man said a sentence with a calm expression, and he actually also has the nickname "Watchdog".

Pig God continued eating his hamburger, seemingly tacitly accepting the responsibility of staying behind.

【Just when will that pig eat until————】

Zombieman complained in his heart, likewise did not leave, only because he felt this group of S-Class colleagues, not a single one of them has team "amu————"

spirit; rather than running out on their own, it's better to stay here and watch the situation.

"King, a great disaster may appear; as the strongest on the surface, don't you plan to go out?"

Flashy Flash looked at the man across from him who was hailed as the strongest on the surface; the sound of the King Engine gradually rang out resoundingly in the conference room.

That kind of thump-thump-thump, a sound seemingly able to resonate with others' hearts, yet brought an inexplicable pressure to everyone present.

However, as King stood up, the sound of the King Engine cut off.

"Hmm."

The man with three scars on his face replied lightly with a sound, then walked toward the outside of the conference room.

"

" Sitch opened his mouth, but surprisingly didn't dare speak up to ask the other party to stay and protect the headquarters.

King walked out of the conference room; no one followed out, therefore, no one discovered that after he walked out of the conference room, fine cold sweat emerged on his forehead, a terrified expression surfaced on his face, and even his legs were trembling slightly — a series of situations.

【What do I do, I'm just a fake hero, just too lucky; every time a powerful monster dies, I'm seen at the scene, so people treat me as the one who killed the monster.

And for the Hero Association's subsidies and benefits, I somehow agreed to become an S-Class Hero with not too many constraints; now a crisis that might doom the Earth appears, can I really still survive?

Or should I just find a place to hide first?

No, that won't work; if this time isn't a particularly big disaster, and I'm discovered hiding somewhere like an ostrich, wouldn't that expose the fact that I'm a fake hero?

Losing subsidies and benefits is minor, but if the Hero Association comes after me to recover the money they paid me before, then I————】

King's expression changed continuously; after struggling for a short while, he decided to also go out and see the situation.

【There are this many S-Class Heroes here; whatever great disaster it is, they can definitely resolve it; on the contrary, I need to consider whether I'll expose the fake hero issue; after all, me, hailed as the strongest on the surface, not taking action in the face of disaster, that's too strange.

Got it, I can go out slower, but not take the usual path, also leave through the hole in the ceiling like those few; that way, others will definitely also subconsciously treat me as an equally powerful guy————】

As King carefully avoided people and went upstairs, at the edge of the hole on the topmost floor he moved a chair to use as a step, and standing on the chair he tried hard to grab the steel bar exposed at the last broken hole to climb up; outside, a huge spaceship was already stationary in the high altitude thousands of meters above A

City, casting a huge shadow over A City.

Time pushed slightly forward, arriving at when Saitama had just smashed through the roof with his head and jumped out; Saitama saw a group of Tengu-like guys condensing fireballs in their hands, attacking the Hero Association Headquarters.

"You guys are the ones who'll doom the Earth?"

Saitama asked with some doubt.

"Heroes, huh? Listen up, baldy down there; if you're sensible and kneel and surrender now, then I, the Sky King, will permit you to survive as my slave!"

The Sky King, with crimson skin and the appearance of a Great Tengu, spoke words of persuasion to surrender; meanwhile, as he spoke, Saitama picked up from the ground some of the stones that had fallen around the broken hole when he smashed the roof with his own head.

"Wait, don't move, just stay right there."

After standing up, he said this to the Sky King.

"Hmm, you guy wouldn't be thinking of killing me by throwing stones, right? Heh, foolish ground————"

The Sky King hadn't finished speaking when a supersonic stone flew over; before he could even react, it directly pierced through and blew up his head.

"Boss!"

The headless corpse fell; the surrounding Great Tengu all froze, and only after reacting did they cry out in alarm.

"You bastard, you actually killed our boss!"

The leader was killed, the Great Tengu were furious, but what greeted them was Saitama's stone-throwing after serious aiming.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft————"

Like the sound of bursting water bags, this group of Great Tengu, whether they were preparing to condense fireballs to attack Saitama, or planning to fly over and engage in close-quarters combat with Saitama, or were scared witless and directly turned to fly away, none managed to dodge Saitama's serious stone-throwing attack.

"Nice, good pitch!"

When Tatsumaki flew up, what she saw was Saitama having just thrown the last stone, clenching his fist with a happy expression on his face, just like a pitcher on a baseball field who throws three strikes in a row and directly strikes out the batter.

"Where's the enemy?"

Tatsumaki asked directly.

"That's naturally already been resolved by me."

Saitama pointed at the falling Tengu corpses and answered her question.

"A disaster that can be resolved by a nameless small fry like you; looks like that old hag Shibabawa's prophecy isn't very accurate either!"

Tatsumaki evaluated without a shred of politeness.

"No, what do you mean by that?"

But Saitama, who had just thrown a good pitch, didn't like hearing these words.

"Can't understand human speech, baldy?"

Tatsumaki gave him a sidelong glance; just as the two were about to start arguing, Broly also came up.

"What are you guys arguing about?"

"Broly, you came just in time. This little brat is too arrogant, too full of himself. Clearly, I'm powerful enough to quickly solve the enemies that attacked, yet he insists that the enemies I can solve don't even count as guys capable of causing great disasters!"

Saitama isn't actually that concerned about such things, but Tatsumaki's tone and attitude when speaking were just too infuriating, like a brat who hasn't even grown hair yet always wanting to point fingers at adults' actions. More importantly, the other party kept calling him Baldy, Baldy—that was the key point.

"You solved an enemy capable of causing a great disaster?"

Broly asked in confusion.

"That's right, the corpses of those monsters are just lying over there."

Saitama nodded and pointed toward the direction of the Great Tengu's corpse as he said it.

He jumped out quickly this time, solving all the enemies before other heroes even appeared, so he definitely wouldn't be seen as credit-stealing.

"But, the guy capable of causing a great disaster, his aura is still up in the sky, he hasn't come down yet—"

"?!"

Saitama and Tatsumaki subconsciously looked up, and just then, a small black dot appeared on the sun above their heads, quickly growing larger in their field of vision, but it was a strange spaceship descending.

"Spaceship?"

Saitama, who had watched quite a few sci-fi movies, was surprised that such a thing actually existed in this world.

"From the trajectory of the direction they came from, this spaceship indeed came from the Universe."

Broly confirmed Saitama's words.

"Mission: Protect spaceship landing."

"Discovered by the indigenous life of this planet."

"Should we eliminate them?"

"I think we should eliminate them."

Meruguramudo, who had five heads and landed before the spaceship, discovered Saitama and the others atop the highest building in A-City. After muttering to themselves with several heads for a while, they flew over on their own initiative.

"Aliens from the Universe aren't necessarily bad people, right? I think we can communicate with them first. Look, it seems something is flying over from the direction of that spaceship."

Saitama pointed at Meruguramudo flying over and said it, and they went forward to meet them.

"Hey, are you an alien, hello!"

Saitama's attitude was enthusiastic, after all, it was also their first time meeting aliens.

"That indigenous lifeform seems to be greeting us?"

"No, waving hands, maybe they're intimidating us, warning us not to approach."

"That's right, some indigenous lifeforms on certain planets have similar instinctive reactions."

"But I can't sense any hostility."

"What should we do?"

"Forget it, anyway they're just lowly lifeforms on this planet, we can just kill them directly."

"I think so too."

Meruguramudo's several heads finished communicating with each other through muttering, and their hands turned into sharp axe shapes.

This collective lifeform accelerated its flight speed, and facing the enthusiastic Saitama, swung an axe straight at his head.

The hand axe chopped onto Saitama's head, but broke no defense.

Saitama's head was, however, forced down a bit.

At the point of contact, a wisp of white smoke rose up.

Under the sunlight, Saitama with his head lowered had a dark shadow cast over his face.

"Hey, what do you mean by this, I enthusiastically greet you, and you attack me as soon as you come up, right?"

The low-pitched question came out from Saitama's mouth.

"Such hard armor—"

"It seems the indigenous lifeforms of this planet have some skill."

"Attack their other places, maybe their other places' defenses aren't so strong!"

"I think so too."

Meruguramudo retracted the hand axe, ignored Saitama's question, but swung at their other places again.

"Bastard, don't call my head some cow's armor!"

And Saitama, who had just been attacked and had cold water poured on him by the alien, was no longer polite, and punched this multi-headed monster that still wanted to attack him.

Not much different from the monsters he had blasted before, Saitama just threw one punch, and Meruguramudo's upper body was blasted with a huge hole, while the remaining body was blown by the impact force beyond the edge of the Hero Association Headquarters Building's high platform, just like those headless Great Tengus, directly falling from high altitude.

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