District Hospital, inpatient ward.
“I’m so stupid!” “Integrating the strength of the whole body into one point…
isn’t that basically the ultimate move, Rikudou: Sunder Heaven?” “And how could the power of an ultimate move possibly be the same as a basic attack?” Jingu Yoru’s left cheek was swollen, and his abdomen was wrapped in layers of gauze.
He lay weakly on the hospital bed like a salted fish, groaning miserably.
That was right.
He had been hospitalized.
After praising himself for being clever, he had gone from needing his face de-swollen to requiring inpatient treatment.
Thinking back, the moment he agreed, Hongou Hina had immediately jumped three feet high in happiness.
Then, like she was teaching him, she had deliberately slowed down her power-gathering movements.
Her left foot stepped forward, her right foot pushed back, and the back of her head, spine, and heel aligned into one line, stretching her forward-leaning body into a tilted straight line.
At the time, Jingu Yoru had even thought that Hongou Hina was…
kind of nice.
But…
But just as he was watching intently, that body stretched into a straight line suddenly unleashed force!
Whoosh!
The slower the wind-up, the fiercer the rebound.
Extraordinary Tendons erupted with a roar, and terrifying power surged upward through her limbs and joints, finally gathering at the edge of her fist.
In that instant, Jingu Yoru seemed to see light.
Fast!
So fast it exceeded the limits of human reaction!
Jingu Yoru’s thoughts were still stuck on the previous frame when Hongou Hina’s fist struck his abdomen like lightning.
Heavy!
The powerful impact made Jingu Yoru feel not as if he had been hit by a fist, but as if a long spear had pierced through his body.
The violent force rampaged madly through his stomach.
At the instant of impact, Jingu Yoru even had the illusion that his abdomen had been blown apart.
In the end, he was sent into an ambulance, while the boss lady forcibly stuffed a hastily thickened red envelope into his hand.
“It’s fine.
If you want to learn how to fight, you first have to learn how to take a beating.
That’s normal.” “I have a cheat.
Sooner or later, I’ll settle the score.” Touching his swollen face and feeling the intense twisting pain in his abdomen, Jingu Yoru secretly swore that once he recovered even a little, he would immediately go learn boxing!
Of course, he could not waste his time in the hospital either.
Training while injured could not only activate Heart of Muscle and strengthen his physique, but also increase his tolerance for pain.
Tenma Nozomi could have her arm kicked swollen and still keep her expression unchanged.
Hongou Hina could casually dislocate and reset her finger joints as if she were eating and drinking.
If he wanted to “drop plugins” from them, this level of pain tolerance was necessary!
Driven by both the temptation of a superhuman physique and the humiliation of being beaten up by a young girl, Jingu Yoru’s desire to grow stronger had reached an unprecedented high.
He lifted dumbbells while lying on the hospital bed, did squats while hooked to an IV drip, and as soon as he could barely get out of bed, he immediately began rushing the progress of push-ups and pull-ups.
His movements were so practiced that he did not look like a beginner at all.
It was as if Saitama-sensei’s more than ten years of fitness experience had all been condensed into this insane ten-thousand-count training volume.
As the training progressed, he learned how to complete each movement with the most energy-saving and efficient posture.
So the entire activation process was actually absorption and digestion, turning the plugin completely into his own nourishment.
…
Five days later.
He was discharged from the hospital, and he had grown stronger.
Heart of Muscle activated, and his body expanded by an entire size as if inflated.
Hard yet elastic muscle groups covered his whole body, as though he had put on a suit of muscular armor.
Although the intensity was temporarily only at the limit of an ordinary person, it still allowed Jingu Yoru to feel an unprecedented sense of power.
No wonder those steroid monsters dared to inject anything into their muscles just to add size.
So strength…
really was addictive.
But this was still not enough!
If he only had physique and no technique, he was still far from being able to beat up a little girl and drop plugins.
So…
…
“Hana-nee, I want to become stronger.
Do you have any good suggestions?” After returning to the Jinguji Office building, Jingu Yoru did not even go back to his dorm.
He immediately rushed into Mitani Hana’s office.
“You’re discharged, Yoru.” Mitani Hana sat behind her desk, seemingly sorting out Valkyria’s business report.
Hearing his voice, she replied without even raising her head.
“Business is good?” Seeing the boss lady unable to suppress the upward curve of her lips while looking at the report, Jingu Yoru naturally followed the topic.
“More than good.” “It’s explosive!” When this topic came up, Mitani Hana finally reacted.
She was like an fisherman who had caught a huge fish and was so excited that she would not even go home before sharing her joy with Jingu Yoru.
“Hmm, what happened?” “Is your body made of cotton?” “How did you inflate this fast?” However, the moment Mitani Hana raised her head, she saw Jingu Yoru’s body, which had changed so much it was almost like a mutation.
She was so shocked that she bounced up from her chair on the spot.
Her shock was so great that she even forgot to share her good news.
“As long as you train, your muscles get stronger!” Jingu Yoru said it as if it were only natural.
“Isn’t that normal?” “Normal?” “This isn’t normal at all, okay?” “Whose muscles can swell up like yours in less than a week?” “Even water-injected pork doesn’t expand that fast, right?” Mitani Hana rushed in front of Jingu Yoru with absolutely none of her usual elegance.
Her hand landed on his large pectoral muscles almost uncontrollably.
“It’s real?” “It’s actually real?” When that warm sensation reached her palm, her shocked expression instantly evolved into an exaggerated reaction face.
“Of course it’s real!” “You’re the one who recommended Silverman Gym to me.
Why are you suddenly doubting their training effects now?” Jingu Yoru’s expression did not change as he dumped all the abnormalities of his body onto Silverman Gym.
In any case, the Muscle Faithful there were already abnormal.
Adding one more abnormality would not make much difference.
“Doubting?” “No, this isn’t doubting.
This is mutation.
You’ve completely mutated, okay?” Mitani Hana did not believe Jingu Yoru’s nonsense at all.
In the end, Silverman Gym was only a large fitness chain.
It was not some divine immortal sect.
How could it make someone swell up like an inflated balloon in just a few days?
“You really are a monster!” There were plenty of monsters in this world.
Mitani Hana would rather believe that Jingu Yoru himself was a monster than believe his nonsense.
“What monster?” “This is the result of sweat and effort.” Jingu Yoru was very dissatisfied that the boss lady had attributed all his hard work to talent.
“When you visited me in the hospital, didn’t you see me training?” “So my muscles getting bigger is only natural, right?” Jingu Yoru curled his arm and was quite satisfied with the high bulge of his biceps.
During his hospitalization, Mitani Hana and Hongou Hina had both come to visit him.
At the time, Hana had advised him to take it easy and not add injury on top of injury.
Hongou Hina, on the other hand, had said that as long as he did not die, he should train himself half to death.
Ideally, the moment he was discharged, he would be able to play the “fighting” game with her again.
Jingu Yoru thought the same.
Extraordinary Tendons mainly boosted explosiveness and did not improve his constitution much.
After Heart of Muscle activated, he had further widened the gap between himself and Hongou Hina in terms of physique.
Now, as long as he filled in his shortcomings in technique and experience, he would be able to beat up the battle-crazed girl in every direction.
“Fine.
It’s the result of your hard work!” Mitani Hana no longer wanted to talk, because there was no reasoning with monsters.
It was just like Hongou Hina.
Judging only by her appearance, she was a bright and cheerful high school girl.
Who could imagine that in the ring, she could knock down one opponent with each punch and have no match at all?
“Right, what were you saying at first?” Ordinary people should not argue with monsters, so Mitani Hana took the initiative to change the topic.
“Getting stronger!” Jingu Yoru asked, “How can I get stronger as fast as possible?” “Then you’re asking the wrong person.” “Back in high school, Nozomi dragged me into learning mixed martial arts for a while.
After graduation, I only kept it at the level of weight-loss training.
I don’t know much about this.” Mitani Hana waved her hand, indicating that she had given up fighting many years ago.
“If you really want to train, go find Nozomi.” “She’s always been in the fighting world, so she should be able to give you advice.” “Okay!” Jingu Yoru left very decisively, like a heartless bastard who pulled up his pants and walked away.