Chapter 5

Once midnight passes!

On the roof of the apartment.

Hawk is punching.

No sandbag.

And no fighting techniques.

Hawk doesn't even move, just stands in place, eyes slightly closed, and then, as if distracted, throws punch after punch at the air in front of him.

This time he no longer pursues speed, but seems to have fallen into some kind of epiphany state.

Although before this, every time he threw a punch, there would be a strange feeling in his heart.

But tonight this feeling is even stronger.

Hawk feels as if he has entered an existence that is infinitely dark from any angle.

But...

With every punch he throws, this infinite darkness will bloom with a glimmer of light.

If Hawk were to look up and observe at this moment, he would discover an even more peculiar thing.

That is—

Dotted on the night sky, the Pegasus, Draco, Cygnus, Phoenix... Lacerta and other bronze constellations composed of forty-eight constellations that he can observe with the naked eye are also responding and twinkling with every punch he throws.

Yes.

It is not a single constellation responding, but all of them.

All forty-eight bronze constellations are responding to Hawk's punches.

One punch, one punch... and another punch.

Hawk hits very slowly this time, but at the same time, very fast.

Although he ensures that he retracts all the punches he throws before throwing the second punch, often when the afterimage of the first punch has not completely disappeared, the afterimage of the second punch has already appeared.

Immediately after, the third punch, the fourth punch, the fifth punch, until now.

Punches filling the sky!

Just then, abruptly, a roar rings out in Hawk's mind.

The sound is weak and inaudible, but it is like a great bell.

Boom!

A wisp of flame appears under this sound. With the appearance of this flame, the stars that were completely reflected through reality into infinite space under Hawk's punch after punch ripple out, quietly rippling open this thick black curtain.

At first, this was just a tremor.

Immediately after, this tremor suddenly expands, like the initial big bang of the universe, and the stars dotted in the infinite dark sky suddenly explode—

Within Hawk's body, an invisible and intangible wall collapses under the energy released by this big bang-like event, and a certain power that has been sleeping for billions of years suddenly awakens.

Swish!

Hawk, who had his eyes slightly closed, opens his eyes.

At the moment he opens his eyes, deep in his eyes, that flame no longer extinguishes quietly after blooming as it did before.

This time, the flame blooms completely.

Boom!!

Hawk only feels that the blood all over his body is surging and roaring, every tiny cell in his body is trembling crazily, just like ten thousand stars expanding at the same time, and under this violent vibration and expansion, every inch, every bone is constantly being defeated and shattered, but in the blink of an eye, it is reshaped by this terrifying giant force that seems to be experiencing the birth of a star.

Hum!