Chapter 388: Saitama's Weakness and Madara Uchiha's Shadowing

Thump, thump, thump.

Lilith's heartbeat slowly calmed down, but that sense of joy was beyond words.

She had prayed just before Fubuki was about to die, and a 【Hero】 had actually responded to her.

"Thank you… thank you for your rescue… Hero~"

Lilith was too weak to stand at this moment, but the sense of security brought by Saitama's figure was indescribable.

After saying this, she could no longer hold on and lost consciousness; even the wound on her neck burst open completely due to the loss of the Barrier.

The artery ruptured, and a large amount of fresh blood spread out in an instant.

"Ah!"

Saitama was still ruminating on the cry for help he had just heard, as well as the complex feelings in his heart; he was not good at thinking about such things, so he stood where he was.

But seeing this woman collapse to the ground with blood spraying from her neck, Saitama let out a stunned "Ah."

In fact, he possessed no healing or rescue abilities, nor did he even have the knowledge to stop someone's bleeding.

Just as Saitama paced, hesitating whether to pick the woman up and dash toward the nearest city, fortunately, Genos finally arrived, stepping on his thrusters.

"Genos, quickly take a look at her…"

Saitama wore Genos's familiar deadpan expression as he pointed at the woman lying on the ground, bleeding incessantly.

On the other side, Hongchen had also just recovered from the shudder of death being so close.

The complacency brought by the powerful Inner Qi of the third turn of 【Reverse Universe】 was completely annihilated by that one punch from Saitama.

What thousand-meter blade aura, what rock giant, what lightning God's Envoy—before that kind of power, nothing had any meaning.

Hongchen could not understand the essence of the power contained in that punch, but he could fully feel that the power essence at the level of 【Energy】 could not touch the root at all.

If one only had such things as 【Energy】, the amount required to accumulate enough to shake that punch would likely be a number unimaginable to a Reincarnator.

The red hair on his back was no longer flamboyant; it hung loose behind him as he walked over, barefoot.

Watching Genos prepare to use a laser to cauterize the woman's neck to stop the bleeding, Hongchen's eyelids twitched.

In a sense, this master-disciple pair of Genos and Saitama was actually quite unreliable.

Hongchen coughed twice, pointed his fingers like a sword, and his icy Inner Qi immediately froze the wound, stopping the blood; afterward, he also stopped the bleeding for Fubuki and Lily, which counted as slightly farming some Reputation with the hero faction.

Hongchen suddenly frowned; he sensed two movements.

"Mr. Saitama, you… did not kill those two?"

He turned his head and saw those two Reincarnators, who were not weak in strength, standing up from a hundred meters away.

The sturdy guy had remnants of his own blade aura and cold air on his shoulder, while the other person appeared to have no injuries at all.

Clearly, Saitama's terrifying punch was not only not aimed at him, but he hadn't even attacked those two.

It had been aimed entirely between the three of them, using the aftermath of the attack to neutralize their own attacks.

"Nope."

Saitama did not understand; he was still curious about the magical ability Hongchen had used to lift his hand and release Inner Qi to freeze the wound, and looking at his gestures, it seemed he had the intention of imitating Hongchen's movements.

Hongchen frowned; he detected something ominous.

【Saitama】, as the foreseeable ceiling-level powerhouse of this world, possessed power that completely crushed monsters like 【Tatsumaki】 and 【???】.

But Saitama himself also had some of his own "Weak" points.

If Reincarnators wanted to plot some major event in this world, they would basically start from these "Weak" points.

As far as Hongchen knew, the 【Chaos Sage】 had likely coordinated with His Excellency to use Saitama's "low desire" weakness to make special arrangements.

Only then did they feel at ease entering this world to plot an even more terrifying plan.

A Supreme Powerhouse entering a 【Secondary World】 would naturally pay a fairly high price, and a Secondary World containing an unknown-level Plot Character like Saitama, who could cause a Supreme Powerhouse to fall, was usually an inefficient world that a 【Supreme Powerhouse】 would never choose.

The risk was high, but the returns were not that high.

But after His Excellency and the 【Chaos Sage】 used Saitama's personality weakness to make arrangements, they were confident they could contain Saitama, and thus entered this world to plot for something.

Hongchen guessed that it was most likely the 【Limiter】.

There were not many things that could make a 【Supreme Powerhouse】 care, and for things that could make a Supreme Powerhouse risk being killed to enter, Hongchen could only think of the 【Limiter】 and 【Divine Power】.

And after entering this world, the 【Chaos Sage】's team had indeed been tracking the whereabouts of the 【Limiter】 from the beginning, wanting to find the 【House of Evolution】 and the place where 【Saitama】 once trained.

But they had no harvest.

The 【House of Evolution】 had mysteriously disappeared, and the place where Saitama once resided had also lost its trail due to the massive terrain changes from the world fusion.

Hongchen suddenly came back to his senses, realizing his thoughts had wandered significantly.

He patted his cheeks, using icy Force to regain his reason from the fear of Saitama.

"Mr. Saitama, perhaps you are unaware, but these guys will absolutely not repent just because you spared their lives; if you are unwilling to do it, why not let me…"

Hongchen revealed his killing intent; he knew the methods of the Sage and His Excellency very well—besides the "low desire" weakness, Saitama also had a self-imposed restriction of "not killing humans."

Even for someone like Garou, who had almost completely turned into a Monster, Saitama had not dealt a killing blow, merely defeating the opponent.

Saitama, who blasted most Monsters to death with one punch, had almost no heart for slaughtering 【Humans】.

This restriction would not cause any issues most of the time, because of Saitama's overly powerful strength; even if those he spared deliberately used this restriction to launch a sneak attack, there would be no result.

But Reincarnators were a group of guys who would stop at nothing to "complete the mission."

They were people who would do anything for profit.

Especially the Sage and His Excellency, who were very adept at manipulating human nature and attacking the weaknesses in people's hearts.

He had a bad premonition.

Saitama frowned, not understanding why this red-haired guy was so obsessed with killing other humans.

【Your actions have caused dissatisfaction in the Plot Character Saitama; your Reputation with Saitama has decreased. Current: Friendly 3/100】

Hongchen was startled; this time the decrease in Reputation was quite large, almost falling to the edge of Stranger.

The two people in the distance waited for a moment, shivering, and upon discovering that neither Saitama nor Hongchen had attacked them, the two who had escaped death looked at each other and quickly left.

Hongchen hesitated for a moment, afraid of angering Saitama, and did not pursue; the few of them then prepared to send the wounded for treatment, while Saitama looked at the shattered J City in the distance, revealing a thoughtful expression.

——

Uchiha Madara stood with his arms crossed, his scarlet Sharingan watching the two who had narrowly escaped death below as they quickly left the side of that bald man, whom the host had rated as the 【One Who Is Completely Unrivaled】.

"Hmph, One Who Is Completely Unrivaled... is it..."

If it were in the past, Uchiha Madara would likely have dismissed such an evaluation with disdain, but after losing his Rinnegan and his own body, and then seeing the terrifying scene of Tatsumaki battling 【???】.

Uchiha Madara's figure flashed, pursuing the two departing Reincarnators.

The host's unscrupulous methods also earned Uchiha Madara's approval; as his Sharingan rotated, a sense of malice began to spread.

(End of this chapter)