Before Saitama-kun finished speaking, his eyes became focused, and even the art style changed. He gently tossed the small red ball he held.
The moment the small red ball flew into the air, Allen-kun felt an invisible pressure envelop his entire body, and the air around him seemed like a viscous swamp.
His Combat Intuition screamed a warning, tensing every muscle in his body to its limit.
"Here it comes!"
Saitama-kun shouted, flicking the small red ball with a finger. The ball instantly vanished, followed by a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air!
[Combat Intuition evolution complete!]
His neural reaction speed, predictive ability, and danger perception all broke through their limits at this moment. It was as if the entire world became slow and clear in his perception.
Allen-kun's pupils constricted. In his perception, time seemed to stretch into a straight line, and the ball's trajectory was clearly visible to his eyes.
However, his body felt bound by an invisible 鎖, unable to keep up with the speed of his thoughts.
He couldn't dodge it!
In the nick of time, Allen-kun instinctively raised his arm. Just as the ball was about to hit his chest, his palm slightly shifted, grazing the edge of the ball and giving it a gentle flick.
"Clack! Bang!"
With a thud, the ball's trajectory shifted slightly, eventually whistling past his shoulder and smashing into the ground behind him, kicking up a cloud of dust.
The immense impact also made Allen-kun spin several times in place before he could dissipate the powerful force.
"I... I succeeded!" Allen-kun looked down at his slightly numb palm, a little incredulous.
Saitama-kun blinked, somewhat surprised: "Allen-kun, did you just touch the ball?"
Allen-kun snapped back to reality, rubbing his sore palm, and grinned: "Yes, thanks to Saitama-kun's training."
"That's truly amazing." Saitama-kun scratched his head, revealing a simple, honest smile.
"Just a month ago, you couldn't even dodge a normal ball, and now you can touch a ball moving at this speed."
Allen-kun nodded, a smile on his face.
The setting sun shone brightly on Saitama-kun's bald head, and the two walked away side by side.
After the training, Allen-kun returned to his rented room. He sat on the bed and opened his system panel.
With the evolution of his Combat Intuition, his physical fitness also greatly improved.
Even though Combat Intuition is not a talent that directly enhances physical fitness, it allowed Allen-kun to easily punch through a tree trunk at any time.
Coupled with his Combat Intuition, Allen-kun's current strength was estimated to have reached the peak of Wolf-level or even the threshold of Tiger-level.
Now, Allen-kun had some confidence to traverse other worlds.
He looked at the system panel and clicked on the one-star world. A small pop-up window appeared.
[Do you wish to consume 100 traversal points to traverse a one-star world?]
"Confirm."
[100 traversal points deducted. Please select the world you wish to traverse this time.]
The moment the traversal points were deducted, countless white light clusters appeared before Allen-kun, floating slowly around him.
"I hope I can choose a familiar world." Allen-kun looked at the white light clusters before him, unable to discern any difference, so he simply chose the one closest to him.
Soon, the other white light clusters slowly disappeared, and the white light cluster chosen by Allen-kun gradually expanded, forming a white light gate.
[Traversing World: Baki]
[World Level: One-star]
[Traversal Duration: Five months]
[Hint: When the Host traverses a world, time in the main world will remain still.]
Allen-kun slowly walked into the white light gate, then transformed into countless light particles, completely disappearing from the room... When the dazzling white light dissipated, Allen-kun was already standing in front of the gate of Tonegawa High School. A gentle breeze rustled the cherry blossom tree beside the gate, scattering pink and white petals.
He looked down at the white school uniform he was wearing, then gazed towards the school building.
Allen-kun slowly entered Tonegawa High School. As he walked, he opened his system panel to check the identity the system had arranged for him.
His name was still Allen-kun. The original owner had transferred to Tonegawa High School half a month ago and was in the same class as Baki Hanma, the protagonist of Baki. In class, he was a quiet, unremarkable background character.
The moment Allen-kun entered the classroom, his gaze immediately fixated on the red-haired youth who was sleeping with his head on his desk, sitting by the window in the back row. That was Baki Hanma, the protagonist of the Baki world.
Allen-kun walked over and extended his right hand to Baki-kun.
"Hello, Baki-kun." Allen-kun smiled.
The sudden greeting made Baki-kun, who was sleeping with his head on his desk, suddenly look up.
He looked at the outstretched right hand, momentarily confused.
Baki-kun looked at this transfer student, with whom he had never exchanged a single word, in bewilderment, but still instinctively shook Allen-kun's outstretched right hand.
Seeing this, Allen-kun's smile grew wider.
Immediately, a 3D image of Baki-kun was projected before him, and at the same time, a small panel popped up.
[Please select the ability to evolve: Hanma Blood, Fighting Genius]
Allen-kun's gaze quickly scanned between the two options, his heart involuntarily quickening.
Every ability on Baki Hanma was extremely tempting, especially the iconic Hanma Blood ability.
He first clicked on the Hanma Blood panel to view it.
[Talent Ability: Hanma Blood]
[Evolution Condition: Defeat Baki Hanma]
[After evolving this ability, the Host's genes will be largely altered, granting them physical growth potential beyond human limits, and the Host will directly acquire associated abilities such as Demon Back and Ghost Brain during the evolution process.]
This talent ability immediately caught Allen-kun's attention the moment it appeared.
Baki-kun was still in his pre-forbidden fruit period. Although in terms of combat techniques, Allen-kun was far inferior to him, and even though Baki-kun had the ability to grow stronger with each fight, Allen-kun could defeat Baki-kun with his super Combat Intuition, it would just be a bit tiring.
No matter how strong one's fighting techniques are, they are useless if they cannot hit the opponent.
However, the fighting techniques in this world were all very interesting, so Allen-kun decided to start with the Fighting Genius talent.
[Talent Ability: Fighting Genius]
[Evolution Condition: Gain Baki Hanma's sincere approval]
[After evolving this ability, the Host will gain extraordinary combat learning ability, able to quickly analyze and replicate an opponent's techniques and moves in battle.]
Allen-kun's fingertip paused on this option, a thoughtful glint in his eyes.
The condition of "sincere approval" seemed simple but was full of variables. However, according to his personality in the manga, a fight would resolve it.
Perhaps he could resolve both evolution conditions with a single fight.
Thinking of this, Allen-kun glanced at Baki-kun, who was still holding his right hand, his eyes full of confusion and curiosity.
"You are... Allen-kun, right?"
"We haven't spoken since you transferred, have we?"
The other students in the classroom also began to notice this unusual scene, casting curious glances.
A transfer student who usually had no presence suddenly initiated a conversation with a rumored problematic student in the class who was said to be very good at fighting. It was indeed eye-catching enough.