Chapter 42

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A human against a wolf unarmed and surprised would have their throat ripped out before they even knew what happened to them; for Saitama holding the wolf up by his neck to show him who was boss was as easy as lifting a baby bottle. The wolf was taking this as if he was being wrenched to death.

"Master Uiyyji save me!"

Saitama's heightened senses allowed him to smell something perspirating water that smelled like sugar. This smell was a distraction of what these creatures teeming in the forest could really do: fireballs and glacial spears. Saitama could easily get away from this volley.

First, he flicked his finger against his doggy nuzzle causing impact that knocked him out. Next, he turned around like Superman. The faster he spun the looser his hold was on the wolf until he let go letting the wolf fly high in the sky.

At the time Saitama was jumping over it hurtling forty-three feet in the air, the wolf's master him him encased and protected inside a spherical barrier. When the bald hero eventually made it to the ground he would make it to the masters' position in a flash, however, he wasn't the only challenger he would have to face.

From the woods a a dark haired boy with crimson eyes in a black school uniform with a red tie strided out. Following after him was a white-haired porcelain skinned woman and spider hybrid with fluffy spindly legs. Another blue haired boy wearing a white coat. It didn't stop with just three.

A man near Saitama's age rode in on a big wolf tailed by a tiny dragon and two slimes. One slime affectionately leaned against his back like a cat adoring its owner. The slime near that slime jumped off transforming into a short transgender kid wearing a black jacket; his hair banged and light blue unlike the rest.

Lastly, two males both wearing woolen shirts-one brown and blue, the other red and white-with one carrying a shovel and the other a hammer. They were all standing stolidly, solemnly thinking about how they were going to handle a heavy hitter like Saitama, and when the hero finally reached the ground they flashed into the fray.

The red shirt with the hammer was the first to make a move running until he was in front of Saitama before raising his hammer up high and swinging it downwards!

Saitama disappeared from the spot before the hammer could hit him; hammer struck ground as fluidly as hammer hitting nail. A insouciant eye blink escaped his face right before the ground was gone leaving only a big hole beneath his feet.

Gravity still just as much of an occurrence here as it was back where Saitama lived he fell through the pitch black abyss disappearing from sight.

Above everyone scoured the field awaiting the pinnacle of ordinary man to pop out and give them the fight their final bosses couldn't give them.

Saitama managed to stop himself from falling for as long as eternity where he'd die of hunger and thirst but keep falling until he reached space-always a chance the planet's structure was so misshaped he'd just keep falling until he reached the core burning up-point was he managed to escape and would be out trying not to be seen by any of the humans and monsters coming together to hurt him.

Digging out was as close to perilous as his sinews and attention could feel and he was very happy when he tunneled into a bough with foxes that were bright yellow and had curved horns on their heads. He got out of there in a flash, the two foxes nipping for him to go away. Once out he noticed a giant being out of the sky from her head to her torso.

Her entire skin gleamed the color of tree bark with long vines etched out all around her, her lips were bright violet, she had sullen yellow eyes with fissures of veins all around, flowing brown hair so akin to her skin it was like something carved out of wood. So far she has gone nothing to cause anyone any harm, but that face of hers...she was an embodiment of Ghephine in all of Saitama's certitude.

"Hold on! I'm coming over to take you down!"

With a giddy feeling deep in his emotionless exterior finally finding someone strong enough to survive his one punch, he surged towards it-found out what he was running to was just coagulated webs made to look like wilderness. He would have known if any of the teenagers were around with his enhanced hearing...he was a little loud being caught and could hear them stampeding towards him now.

Somehow the spider hybrid knew he would show up in this exact spot. These webs were like bent beams sweltered by intense head the way they kept him in place and burned his armpits. What he thought visually of the webs would've been more comforting than what was really happening; it could kill the bacteria that was making his armpits smell like sludge spewed from a trash monster.

Suddenly, the whole area exploded with blue flames that matched the explosion of the darkest chapter in Japan's history. The explosion was created by a blue haired boy in the school uniform standing next to a flashy white coat boy, arm extended with a wand in his hand, thinking his explosion was big enough to erase the bald man from existence.

They were so focused on the fire they didn't look behind them; Saitama standing there hunched over smirched in dirt but not a tear on his uniform. He cocked his fist ready to do his one punch attack, in flashed the other boy's smartphone reflecting where he was. With a chant and a bit of magic he created a wormhole. From the wormhole arrived four beasts: a white tiger, a blue dragon, a two-headed turtle, and a fiery red fox phoenix.

They came at him from all sides thinking they were forces he had to fear. That was of course until he delivered a single punch creating a sonic boom that wiped them out. He used their reckless assault as a distraction for him to come charging in and knock the two boys out, however, he instead flipped upside down hitting his head on the ground. He immediately got back up and just as fast he fell back on the ground.

His eyes flitted to the flashy one that had a smartphone on him. With just one word he managed to contort Saitama's whole body so he would flip and by how easily he was doing it this could go on in an endless loop...but not when that someone was the Caped Baldy. When the boy tried to do another look Saitama stretched his arm keeping a good firm grip of the ground.

The boy a little surprised at first just stood in shock but continued trying to flip him after a little self-encouragement. This time Saitama just stood-or rather handstand-still not moving and staying in place. He wasn't just completely staying in place; he positioned himself a little moving his feet in the flashy boys' position.

And then-like a ballistic he shot right towards him delivering his feet right into his throat! The boy was knocked out just from Saitama kicking him and would be falling off a cliff. Wasn't that much better for Saitama. A laser beam shot him all the way from the sky. The beam came from the schoolboy whose been charging it up ever since the flashy boy started using his powers to make Saitama flip over.

It was a pretty good idea and they worked well together, but there was one problem: this great attack was so lackluster. Saitama came out unscathed. He did, however, fumble and fell towards the forest. Using the momentum to turn his legs around he kicked off the tree and launched himself back to the schoolboy. Right before Saitama delivered a blow so powerful it would knock him out on contact, the schoolboy saw in his eyes the glint of an apex predator innate inside this seemingly boring looking man...and then he finally felt a fist in his face knocking him out.

After knocking them out, Saitama took sometime to find a spot he felt they would be safe from the lumbering behemoth. Not long afterwards he picked up the schoolboy and carried him all the way there. It took him a little longer to find the flashy guy since he fell off a cliff. He found him laying down on a sturdy branch surrounded by his four pets. They growled, hissed and spat wind, water and fire trying to scare him away.

"Yeah, either you take my word for it I'm only here to take him somewhere safe or we'll have to fight again. I know none of you want to do that."

They all looked at him probably thinking they could try to see if they could win. They didn't fight him, instead a pink smokescreen covered them before dissipating showing chibi versions of themselves that resembled stuffed animals. No sooner were they docile and now looked adorable, Saitama leaped with extraordinary strength to the sky while the flashy kid took a ride with him.

Soon he was left next to the schoolboy. They looked so peaceful just sitting there lee against a tree, but the fact there was a few more out there that wanted to fight him ruined any sympathy he had for the young boys. He looked around for the goddess to fight her. He saw an explosion of violet energy expanding through the forest. A different hero would go towards it to check it out; as for Saitama, he could just op over it like Jack with the candlestick.

While he was so high he could throttle birds migrating south, if the birds in this world still did that. He peered down at the pulsating violet expansion of energy below. It was created b a boy Tatsumaki's stature holding out his hand casting out the purple magic with a silver-haired woman erupting sonicbooms from her mouth. These two clearly used to live in Japan since the Americans never did anything quite so creative.

It would be so easy to just let himself fall from the sky and attack these two while they were focused on their own energy, but something told him these two prepared for that. They looked a lot smarter than the rest. He found the other three leaning against each other's backs. This time he did fall down and landed squarely in the space left by their backs. In that moment all three of them were facedown and unconscious.

Just like with the two teen boys, Saitama lifted the two men and one boy up like carrying hay to a cattle pen before putting them near a tree without any smell of urine or claw marks on it. He knew he should just ignore the other two and just go after the behemoth before it did any damage to Yakime Kingdom-he knew that.

"I already took down five of them why don't I take down the rest."

With that he moved back to where he spotted them casting violet energy in a flash.