Saitama landed lightly back on the rooftop. He reached out and caught a slowly drifting metal fragment, its edges neatly cut. The piece reflected the sunset at his fingertips. He looked it over and commented, "Pretty shiny."
In the distance, Tony watched this unbelievable scene through his faceplate. Then he glanced at his damaged armor, opened his mouth, and in the end couldn't get a single word out.
JARVIS's voice chimed in at the perfect time.
"Sir, the energy signal has disappeared. The Steel Hive threat has been neutralized. Analyzing the recent energy readings… error. Unable to analyze. The readings exceeded sensor limits."
Tony silently landed beside Saitama. He opened his faceplate, his expression complicated as he stared at Saitama, who was still examining the metal fragment.
"…How did you do that?"
Saitama looked up and handed the fragment to Tony. "I just punched normally. Want it? This."
Tony: "...No, thanks."
Norway, atop snow mountains within the Arctic Circle.
Howling winds whipped up blinding snow. A colossal figure nearly ten meters tall stood on the glacier. Its skin was pale blue, and thick, crystal-clear ice armor covered its entire body. Every breath it exhaled froze the air around it.
A descendant of the Frost Giants—straight from legend.
It swung its fists, and every strike made huge chunks of glacier collapse, triggering small-scale avalanches.
Thor swung Mjolnir, hurling massive lightning into the giant. But it only left scorched marks and fine cracks across the ice armor—cracks that were repaired in the next instant by frigid cold.
Thor roared and called down more lightning, but the effect was clearly limited.
Meanwhile, Saitama trudged through knee-deep snow with uneven steps, his boots making loud crunching sounds—so out of place on this mythical battlefield that it almost felt wrong. He looked up at the giant and muttered, "That's a big guy… Man, it's cold here."
The Frost Giant descendant noticed the tiny human and took it as provocation.
It let out a furious roar, clenched a huge hand in midair—and cold condensed into several gigantic ice spears, each one capable of piercing tank armor. With piercing whistling sounds, they shot toward Saitama like artillery!
Saitama didn't dodge.
Instead, he ran straight into them.
His speed across the snow was so fast it left afterimages. Right as the spears reached him, he only slightly shifted his body or casually batted them aside with a fist. The deadly spears veered off course and buried themselves in the surrounding snowfield.
Seeing its ranged attack fail, the giant bellowed and stomped forward. It raised a massive fist wrapped in thick ice and smashed down at Saitama like a falling iceberg! Before the punch even landed, the terrifying wind pressure blew away the snow on the ground, exposing the frozen earth beneath.
In the opening between the giant's swings, Saitama slipped under its raised arm like a fish through water, closing in near its armpit.
There, at the joint where the ice armor connected, was a seam—relatively weaker than the rest.
Saitama raised his fist toward that gap and threw a light punch.
Thoom!
A heavy, muffled sound rang out—not like ice shattering, but like someone striking a massive bell.
From the point where Saitama's fist landed, countless cracks spread out instantly, crawling across the giant's entire upper-body ice armor. Blue light seeped through the fractures, and then
Boom!!!
The thick ice armor covering the giant's body shattered completely, as if detonated from within. It exploded into a sky full of glittering ice crystal dust, sparkling brilliantly under the sun.
(End of Chapter)
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