The newborn "moon," pristine and unscarred, slowly entered the starry void under magnetic field propulsion.
Jordan slammed his fists together again, then swept them apart with a sharp motion.
The portal snapped shut.
This move was called—
Dimensional Exile!
Blast, your power is the most useful thing I've ever stolen!
(At this moment, in an unknown universe, a burly armored figure sneezed: Achoo—(?_??))
Meanwhile, in the starry void, a plant monster completely fused with the sphere's core ceased to think.
A torrential rain of earth and rock fell from the sky. Material that hadn't been swallowed by the "moon" returned to Mother Earth's embrace.
Jordan flew to the stone wall's side, reached out and pressed his hand against the surface. Instantly, he drew out massive amounts of Earth Release chakra.
The giant stone wall, stripped of chakra support, turned into ordinary soil and collapsed. Force fields caught the falling earth, guiding it into the deep pit at the city's center. Then Jordan compressed it with descending force fields.
If I switched careers to construction work, I'd make a fortune in no time.
However, even with Jordan's help cleaning up, given the productivity levels of this world, K-City's reconstruction would likely take several years.
As he clapped his hands to check if anything was missing, Mind Network suddenly detected a familiar biomagnetic field.
On one side of the city's giant crater, heroes huddled together, trembling. A green-haired figure in the Saiyan-esque power stance floated before them.
"Where's the monster? Hey, you small fries over there—where did K-City's monster go?"
"It really wasn't us, Lady Tornado!"
"We don't know either!"
Sweating profusely, Wild Siren pointed shakily behind Tornado, his horned helmet gleaming. "Tornado-sama, why don't you ask Super Cop-sama?"
Element Detection activated!
"Hmph! What are you doing here too?!"
Jordan landed in front of Tornado, waving to the heroes in a "get lost while you can" gesture, and laughed. "Of course I'm here for work. Why are you here?"
Seeing their savior appear, the heroes on the ground quickly and cautiously turned to flee as fast as possible.
The psychic hero Mecha-Esper was actually a fan of both Jordan and Tornado. He'd been excited when the live Tornado appeared.
However, due to extreme exhaustion, the moment he sensed her undisguised and immense psychic fluctuations, he became like someone who claimed to love dragons but fainted at seeing a real one—and passed out on the spot.
Being young, he fell asleep the moment his head would've hit the pillow.
Wild Siren hoisted Mecha-Esper onto his shoulder. The armored man kicked up a trail of dust, running faster than a rabbit.
"Shut up! I was notified to come deal with the monster!" Tornado crossed her arms, little fingers clenched inexplicably against her left side. She turned her head away from Jordan. "That big crater in the ground—you made it, didn't you? And where did you put the damn thing?"
"You mean the monster?" Jordan spread his hands. "Don't know. But it should be cosmic garbage by now."
"You're too late."
"Tch, it's already resolved?" Tornado paused, glancing at the city center's crater. "It's all Sitch's fault for delaying me before I even left. I should've arrived first! Hmph..."
Subconsciously complaining about how unreliable a certain big-nosed contact was, she didn't notice Jordan suddenly disappear from sight.
"Your body language tells me you're nervous. Is it because you're afraid of me, Tornado?"
Suddenly, Jordan's voice rang out from behind, followed by his masculine presence.
Smelling that familiar scent, Tornado seemed frozen in place. Her delicate body suddenly stiffened.
Her face flushed visibly red and warm. Under the flashing green aura, her telekinetic instincts erupted. She shot dozens of meters away as if repelled by magnetic force.
"...What nonsense are you talking about?! Don't dream! How could I be afraid of you?!"
Jordan pretended to step forward. "Really? Then why did you run away?"
Tornado instinctively took another half step back, blushing and annoyed. "I didn't run away! This is just an instinctive reaction to prevent ambush!"
"A loss is a loss. Making excuses is a bad habit."
The fist hardened again!
"Jordan! You want a rematch?! You bastard!"
"It's exhausting to fight all day. Besides, your personality is way too fiery..."
Psychic power surged between Tatsumaki's brows. Just as she was about to unleash it, everything went dark—a large hand was already pressing down on her head.
He gently rubbed, as if soothing a cat with fur standing on end.
The tornado being stroked froze on the spot. She squinted for a moment, even seeming to enjoy it.
—Wait, what am I doing?!
Tornado's body trembled slightly as realization hit. The surrounding air seemed to drop to freezing point.
Highly concentrated mental energy materialized. The entire city was instantly enveloped in green light.
Just as the counterattack was about to begin, Tornado looked up expressionlessly—only to meet a pair of scarlet eyes.
Sharingan genjutsu activated.
The boundless psychic power froze in time just before explosion, along with its master.
The world before Tornado's eyes seemed to expand for a moment before becoming black and white. Her powerful psychic abilities lost sensation and vanished without trace, as if stripped away entirely.
This shocked her deeply. She panicked, trying to push Jordan away—only to find her hands wouldn't move. She'd completely lost control of her body.
Tornado's telekinesis was essentially mental power. Sharingan genjutsu couldn't trap her for long.
Just as Jotaro could still move within stopped time, Tatsumaki didn't lose perception of the outside world.
However, Jordan didn't intend to stage any time-stopping scenes. He just used it as momentary crowd control.
"I remember, Tornado—you're already 25 years old, right?"
Taking advantage of the moment when the dazed green-haired girl hadn't reacted, Jordan leaned close to her ear and chanted a devilish whisper.
"If you keep going like this, you might never find a boyfriend. You don't want to be single when Fubuki's surrounded by children and grandchildren, do you?"
In the void, it was as if a string snapped completely.
The massive mental energy filling the sky suddenly contracted!
Concentrated, compressed green light erupted, breaking through the genjutsu's suppression. It blasted toward Jordan like a cannonball!
A dramatic scream echoed from far in the air.
Jordan's figure, struck dead-on, was like paper ignited by flames—blasted into dust and annihilated without trace by scorching psychic power.
The light wave, brimming with immense energy, surged into the sky with undiminished momentum. If someone were standing in space looking down at Earth, they would see this scene:
The clouds above K-City were suddenly pierced. Dazzling green light burst forth like a supernova. Shockwaves rippled outward. Clouds swirled and rolled outward like smoke rings exhaled from Earth itself.
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