Chapter 37: [BONUS 4] One Punch Man, Kenji
Thick venom shimmered with an eerie purple glow, and as it flowed, large clouds of highly toxic purple mist rose.
Streams of venom glided across the ground like snakes, leaving corrosive trails in their wake.
Magellan extended his hands, his entire body enveloped in purple venom, transforming completely into a poison human.
The venom flowed extremely quickly, surrounding Sanjuan Wolf in just a few seconds.
The next moment, the venom surged onto the giant's feet like a tide.
"Ah! What is this? It hurts so much!"
Sanjuan Wolf cried out in pain, large wounds appearing on the skin of his feet, corroded by the venom.
The toxins continued to penetrate deeper, and if not stopped, they would reach the bone marrow.
However, Sanjuan Wolf's body was enormous, and while the torrent of venom seemed fierce, it hadn't even completely covered his feet.
"Poison Cloud!"
Magellan opened his mouth and exhaled a thick purple mist, which, if inhaled, could cause instant death.
He seemed to feel that the venom's flow was too slow, so he now exhaled a large cloud of poison mist, spreading and enveloping Sanjuan Wolf's head.
Sizzle... Sizzle... Sizzle!
Intense corrosive sounds echoed inside and outside the battlefield.
Even though the jailers and guards had moved far away, hearing the corrosive sounds still made their bodies tingle.
The combination of sound and visual made the immersion for everyone too strong.
"It hurts so much, get away from me!" Sanjuan Wolf hopped and jumped wildly in place from the pain.
The sight of a giant tens of meters tall hopping around looked somewhat comical, but behind the comical scene was a terrifying shockwave.
The solid rock ground vibrated incessantly, and the guards and jailer teams stirred, some falling flat on their faces from the tremors.
The ground beneath Sanjuan Wolf's feet was visibly indented, and cracks continuously spread across the nearby ground.
"Ugh, this is bad!"
Magellan was the closest and most affected by the vibrations. His body swayed, and he nearly lost his balance.
But the most dangerous thing was that Sanjuan Wolf was frantically running towards him, his enormous foot almost completely covering the area above his head.
His Venom-Venom Fruit was a Paramecia, not a Logia, so he couldn't elementalize to evade physical damage.
If that foot landed, he would probably be flattened into a meat patty on the spot, impossible to scrape off the ground.
In an emergency, Magellan could only run at full speed, his body sliding rapidly along a venomous path formed by the venom, narrowly avoiding the giant's foot.
However, before he could catch his breath, Sanjuan Wolf turned and delivered a kick.
Boom!
That kick shattered and sent flying both Magellan and the rocky ground near him.
"Ugh! Pfft!"
Magellan was violently slammed into a distant wall by the immense force, and subsequent flying debris struck him, leaving him bruised and bleeding.
A giant's ordinary attack, when it landed on an ordinary person, was like the sky collapsing and the earth sinking.
Magellan's physical fitness was quite strong, he did not lose his combat ability after suffering a heavy blow.
He struggled out of the wall but did not retreat. Instead, he pushed his Venom-Venom Fruit ability to its limit.
Venom erupted from the top of his head, spraying like a fountain directly towards Sanjuan Wolf's head.
"Uwa, what is this!"
Sanjuan Wolf instinctively reached out to block, but the venom corroded his hand, causing him to shake it off.
"It hurts!"
Although he was wailing in pain, the toxins would not actually bring him down anytime soon.
The dosage required to poison an ordinary person is different from that needed to poison an elephant, let alone a giant like Sanjuan Wolf.
In the chaos, Sanjuan Wolf used his uncorroded hand to clench a fist and smash it towards Magellan.
Buzz!
The enormous fist brought a gust of wind, causing the fountain of venom above Magellan's head to bend and sway.
Soon, the sky above him darkened as the massive fist obscured most of the light, descending like a blanket.
In that critical moment, Magellan gritted his teeth and retreated, sliding quickly along the venomous path.
However, the giant fist was even faster, crashing onto the ground near Magellan, overturning large sections of rocky terrain, and Magellan, caught in between, was blasted away with it.
"It seems this is pretty much his limit." Kenji gazed at the battlefield, having watched the entire combat process.
Magellan's performance in combat seemed somewhat ineffective as he was almost constantly getting beaten. However, Kenji's assessment of him was not low.
"He can already skillfully use the Venom-Venom Fruit ability..." Kenji nodded inwardly, this was already enough.
The Venom-Venom Fruit itself is not weak in power. As long as one can use it skillfully, a Paramecia Supernova encountering it would suffer greatly, at least getting a nasty bite.
"Yehaha! Magellan, your power is still far from enough, you need to train harder!"
At this moment, Jack stood up and walked towards the battlefield, stretching his arms as he went.
"The boring farce should end now!"
"Wait." Kenji suddenly stood up and called out to Jack, "Let me try..."
"You?" Jack raised an eyebrow, a look of surprise in his eyes.
"Yes, I want to try... a punch." Kenji raised his hand, made a fist, and shook it with a smile.
On the way back earlier, he hadn't found an opportunity to test the power of his advanced [Hand-to-Hand Combat]. This was a good opportunity.
Seeing Kenji's resolute attitude, Jack stopped and stood in place, a half-smile on his face, arms crossed, ready to watch the battle.
Kenji walked directly towards Sanjuan Wolf. Along the way, a large amount of debris was thrown and smashed, but not even a single pebble touched Kenji.
"An Admiral? Why is he here?"
Sanjuan Wolf recognized Kenji's Admiral status from his Marine uniform, and while surprised, a fierce, cruel aura emerged in his eyes.
"Get out of the way, don't block me!"
The next moment, an enormous fist crashed down, heading straight for Kenji's head.
The strong wind current stirred by the fist made Kenji's overcoat flap wildly.
Kenji looked up but did not move to counter. Scenes from the next few seconds appeared in his vision.
Boom!
The giant fist slammed down, creating a large crater in the hard rock ground, sending debris flying.
Kenji easily dodged the giant's heavy punch through 'Future Vision', not a single flying shard hit him.
When Sanjuan Wolf punched again, Kenji raised his arm, top-tier Armament Haki wrapped and strengthened it, and traces of Haki overflowed.
"Titan Impact!"
After building up momentum, Kenji suddenly unleashed a heavy punch. The punch's shockwave erupted like a thunderclap, instantly colliding with the giant fist in mid-air.
Rumble!
A deafening explosion echoed within the battlefield. Listening closely, one could hear several bone-cracking sounds mixed within the violent blast.
The explosive sound wave spread across the entire area. Even standing outside the battlefield, the terrifying blast still made the jailers and guards cover their ears in pain.
"Ow! It hurts so much!"
Sanjuan Wolf let out a loud wail, tilting his head back in pain, his right arm dangling limply, clearly fractured.
"No, don't come over, I won't escape, don't hit me..."
Sanjuan Wolf's enormous body continuously retreated, his expression panicked and fearful, as if he were a child who had done something wrong.
Kenji stopped, put away his Armament Haki, and prepared to receive the system reward.