I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

Saitama was still an office worker with thick black hair before he survived the brutal special training and became a hero out of interest.

Maybe hair style decides everything. At that time, Saitama's temperament was not as it is now... well, changeable, overall, he is a rather handsome man.

It can't be said that he is handsome enough to be a star, but in a group where everyone is ordinary, he is pretty good.

However, I haven't had a (girl) friend for so many years. It's really because of my personality-well, let's stop here, otherwise Saitama will be unhappy.

This time, relying on Saiki Kusuo's cheating superpower, after a few years, Saitama has returned to the image that he thought would never return.

Although it didn't last long, the man who deliberately took a look in the mirror regretted it, and he felt a little bit happy in addition to being deeply moved.

—Hmph, Eric, I must let you see me now.

Yes, the trace of the man's childish and meaningless confrontational psychology has appeared again.

Eric is his good friend, they are on the same level, recognize each other and respect each other.

But it is precisely because the two are so evenly matched that they have no chance to compete, so, in some extremely small places, there is a fighting spirit to distinguish the superior.

That's right, it's the powerhouse's——

"Actually, it is a combination of complex psychology such as envy, jealousy, and calculation, which is not at all like an adult should have..."

"Although it is true, don't say it so bluntly, boy Qimu!"

Ahem, let’s get down to business.

In short, Saitama is quite serious.

Holding the mentality of "Anyway, we can only change back for a short time, it would be a pity not to let Eric witness his past heroic appearance", Saitama met his friends as he wished.

but.

Eric this guy—

Actually!He didn't discover, pay attention to, and express his due amazement at the great change of his friend in the first place!

Saitama felt unbalanced.

A certain emotion called "unreconciled" suddenly gained the upper hand, affecting the judgment of the strongest person, causing him to make a decision that he would regret afterwards after being agitated.

"So don't take chances and do this kind of boring thing that will only cause a critical blow to yourself."

Ignore the complaints that the superpower boy will never be absent.

At the moment when he made up his mind, certain pictures hidden in his memory appeared one after another, and Saitama remembered a lot.

He remembered that when he acted bravely, he was treated as a passerby... No, he is still treated as a passerby now.

He thought of Eric who would scream "So cute!!! So cute!!!" wherever he went, no matter what he did, even if he was just passing by.

"No, the more I think about it..."

"Obviously a good friend who had the same miserable experience, why is there such a big gap!"

"Foreign children are cute when they are young, but the possibility of becoming disabled when they grow up is as high as 90.00%. This is the data I read in the book."

Speaking quickly, Saitama finally became excited, clenched his fists heavily, and his eyes were sharp, as if they could turn into sharp arrows: "Come on, Eric!"

"At least in this aspect that marks the dignity of a man, I must break back—"

"one……"

"Bureau..."

The voice behind has been sublimated by the front, but it fails to directly enter the exciting topic.

Instead, it suddenly slid down halfway and fell to the bottom of the valley.

There was no sound.

"..."

With pale words, it is already impossible to describe the shock that Saitama felt at that moment when he saw his friend's true face.

The fragile screen like a fantasy was broken, and the fragments scattered all over the ground and could not be spliced ​​together. Not long after that, it was stepped on by someone, and the fragments were even more desolate.

Saitama's expression became like disbelief, or mixed with all kinds of seasonings, his expression changed because of surprise, and he became especially——hmm!distortion!

"Eric?"

"Ah."

"Eric Eric?"

"What?"

"Eric Eric Eric?"

"...Saitama, are you stupid!"

Saitama's mood is very unstable.

The man who was stared at by Saitama just felt baffled.

The man—he no longer needed to be called a "boy", and suddenly realized that it was not only Saitama, but even the pink-haired boy on the opposite side was shocked.

"What are you doing? It feels so weird, don't stare at me like that."

Although he usually doesn't mind the sight of others.

However, the person who looked at him from such a close distance with a strange expression was still a friend, and the man still couldn't help feeling weird.

He thought the two of them were probably stupid for eating that soft food called cotton candy.

Didn't it just change back to the way it was before?I don't know if it looks like it, is it strange...

and many more.

Could it be that there is a big problem with Qi Mu's level, which made him look weird?

The man just remembered that there is still such a possibility, and immediately frowned slightly, making a gesture to change his posture and stop sitting so aggrieved.

Yes, now that the effects of superpowers have been shown, the space in the cabin, which was originally more than enough for three or four people, suddenly became extremely crowded.

The main reason is the one who changed his appearance from a teenager, and his body shape also changed accordingly.

Sitting like before, the legs can hardly touch the ground.

At this time, the man's legs were bent rather oppressively, and he could barely stretch them in the small space.

Of course he didn't like the feeling and was about to move a little.

"!"

In the blink of an eye, the man's golden pupils suddenly shrunk, and a tiger-like figure was reflected in it.

The distance is shortened, only in a sudden moment when ordinary people have no time to react.

"Bangdang!!!"

The invisible air wave was caused by the sudden huge impact, and spread rapidly.

On the slow-rotating Ferris wheel, only one cabin carrying people shook violently unexpectedly, and the connected solid steel bars trembled together. The whole Ferris wheel seemed to be trembling too, making a frightening dull sound, as if non-stop--

Actually, it almost broke.

"You did it on purpose! Because you know I can deal with the aftermath, so why don't you just ignore it!"

With the fastest reaction speed, the esper boy who connected the broken steel bar and restored the shaken cabin couldn't calm down, and made a clear voice of accusation.

It's a pity that his voice can't play much role at this time.

The car they were in was still shaking tremblingly, looking extremely pitiful from the outside.

But inside, the two men who were facing each other in strange postures had cross veins on their foreheads, and no matter how friendly their expressions were, they would still appear to be smiling.

"Sudden reaction is so big, and it's not a shy girl, what are you afraid of!"

"You came over suddenly without saying a word, and I still want to ask you what you want to do! Don't want to be so close to me, especially - your face!"

Saitama exploded instantly.

Although he did not have any idea of ​​a sudden attack at that time, the excitement of eager to prove it under the grief (?) was very real.

He just didn't expect Eric's reaction to be so great.

The moment he swooped over, the silver-haired man's eyes and expression changed, as if he had encountered some prehistoric beast that would bring disaster.

Of course the man wouldn't just step back and close the window for nothing, he didn't move, he just pressed Saitama, his good friend's hands firmly and firmly.

Confrontation.

If it is taken out, the power that can surely cut off the mountain will be used in the boring struggle of these two strongest people.

The man expresses his opposition, resistance, dissatisfaction, and disgust with practical actions.

Saitama also felt it deeply.

and so--

"Damn it, hate it! What happened to the promised president?! Eric, my friend, you are such a man, I misjudged you!"

"I don't understand what you're talking about at all!"

Seeing more and more angry crosses on his forehead, Eric was very annoyed by his friend's complete convulsions: "You have to clasp your fingers together, shit, goose bumps are about to come up."

at last.

Xu Shi realized the awkwardness in the movement, Saitama gritted his teeth, and finally explained his true thoughts: "I just want to get a closer look at the handsome face of your hateful friend!"

Eric: "...what?"

Saitama (unreconciled): "It's over, the more you look at it, the more hopeless it is. This gap—hey Saiki boy, did you make art for Eric when pinching his face? He's actually not so handsome, right?"

The eyelids of the young man with superpowers who were involved in this inexplicably twitched: "I don't know if there is any error after I said it. The question of whether it looks like it or not should be asked by myself."

“Definitely over processed!”

"..."

"I don't believe it. How could he be so handsome and have such long legs? Compare me completely, okay?"

"........."

Eric was dumbfounded by his friend's inconspicuous speech, he suddenly relaxed, let go of his hand, and immediately let Saitama find an opportunity.

Be clear up front.

Saitama made such a move, and there was no superfluous meaning, just as Saiki Kusuo who saw through everything said, it was purely out of the little jealousy of a man who was still unbearable——

Of course, the main thing is to be curious.

Snapped!

Saitama fulfilled his wish and put his paws on the broad shoulders of the man whose face was full of helplessness. With such a formal posture, he took a close and serious observation of his friend.

"Hmm... um... tsk tsk..."

"...Is there any meaning to these sounds?"

"It shows that I am full of ups and downs psychological struggle." Saitama said in a deep voice: "Okay, I have sorted out my emotions, I can accept it reluctantly, and admit that you are stronger now."

"It seems that I didn't think of it beforehand, and it seemed that I had a premonition at that time... Hey, Eric."

Saitama asked: "Aren't you going to see what you look like?"

"..."

The man who was asked did not answer for a while.

Whether it looks like it or not, it’s nothing to see, isn’t it because you want to see it and make such a trouble——I should have answered like this, but the voice paused on the side of my mouth.

His gaze moved down slowly.

This perspective has also appeared before. Although there is a difference between dream and reality, the scenes seen are almost the same.

The right hand that came into view was just like in the dream, slender, with distinct joints, and as white as snow to almost transparent, forming a very sharp contrast with the black clothes below the wrist.

Saiki Kusuo's ability restored the man's attire that remained in the past memories.

He has been dressed in black since a long time ago, no matter where he goes or how long he has been in the past.

Put on the hood of the cloak and walk in the desert that has been withered by time. This touch of black can break through the yellow sand in the sky.

A few strands of hair fell from the brim of his hat, his silver hair seemed to be inlaid in the deserted moonlight, and it was as cold as ice.

The face under the hood will not be easily revealed in the eyes of others. Once it falls into it, it will involve a new journey called fate, which is actually troublesome.

It is such a figure who seems to have drawn a distance from the world from the very beginning.

"you saw it."

The man's voice slowly faded away, like ink on a drawing paper.

He didn't use interrogative sentences, because the only answer was already determined.

The pink-haired boy who was stared at by those golden eyes did not show the panic of being seen through, although in fact, he was a little surprised in his heart.

The other party didn't ask any further questions, so Saiki Kusuo naturally didn't take the initiative to explain.

The other two didn't realize at the time that the psychic paused for no reason at the second before taking action with a casual attitude.

The boy previously said that all abilities to spy on the inner world, including telepathy, failed for unknown reasons to Eric.

But at that moment, the reason was still unknown, and the time was especially short.

But he "saw" it.

Appearing in the darkness, it seems that a certain man has been walking alone in the darkness... Such a flashing picture.

Saiki Kusuo may be able to guess a little bit of the internal cause.

Eric, apart from the fact that there is a certain special quality in him, there are other reasons, that is, the inner world of this person——

It's too closed.

To put it another way.He quite repelled others from prying into him without permission, and he even repelled leaking out and being known by others about things related to himself.

It may be because of his personality, or it may be because he has been influenced and left a shadow... In short, I am afraid that even Eric himself does not know what is going on at this time.

Saiki Kusuo couldn't help showing a shocked expression at a certain moment, and that's the reason.

He actually "saw" it.

The closed door slightly opened a gap, which can only be subconsciously loosened by the person who closed his heart.

——The real appearance of this person is different from what he imagined...

Even now, when looking at a man who has returned to his original appearance, Saiki Kusuo still thinks so.

Eric, who looked like a boy, had a bad temper and looked rather cold.

But as long as you get closer to him, you will find that the silver-haired boy is not as difficult to accept others as he says.

He became friends with Saitama, and met Kusuo Saiki by chance. The three of them haven't known each other for long, but there is obviously a tacit understanding in some aspects.

But what about Eric at this time?

Saitama just stepped aside, so Saiki Kusuo could see the man's complete face clearly.

The oppressive feeling that had been softened was finally in its complete form, like a biting cold wind and snow blowing in front of him, instantly buried in the top of the head, making people's breathing almost stagnant.

In fact, just looking at his juvenile appearance, it is impossible for Eric, who has recovered his adult body, to be "disabled".

It was quite clear.

This is a man who feels quite complicated and contradictory.

The extremely delicate facial features are long-opened, and they have not become rough, but have another very attractive charm.

Seeing him for the first time, one would not have any idea of ​​how heroic or handsome he is.

Because when everyone saw him for the first time, they would be drawn to those eyes uncontrollably.

Immediately after that, I was shocked, a heavy and hot iron hit the bottom of the valley, and it was like cold air penetrating from the soles of the feet to the top of the head.

Fear, cold, dare not look at him.

It was the only thought that survived the trembling.

Only people like Saitama can shield the infinite fear that men bring to ordinary people, and can break through the ice unconsciously, sit next to the man who is frowning and overlaps his legs that cannot be stretched, and once again Reach out boldly.

"A man who looks so good-looking, still let people live."

Saitama tried to pull the man's cheek, but without accident, he was avoided by tilting his head.

"Didn't you praise me for being handsome just now? Why did you change the words?"

The man probably couldn't understand it, but Saitama gave an explanation that made sense after hearing it: "Handsome and good-looking can coexist. Eric, just like you, at first glance you think you are very handsome, but after a closer look—— Mmm."

It's like Saitama didn't finish what he said.

If he is not affected by the exposed sharpness and acquired indifference, this man is neither slender nor weak, but he has a contradictory beauty that crosses gender.

The combination of silver and gold, coupled with the indifference on the outside and the never-ending fire in the heart, is where the contradiction comes from.

Although most of what Saitama feels is the part on the surface.

He still didn't think so much, and expressed his opinion straightforwardly: "This is very good, it must be very popular, but there is one thing, Eric, are you—"

"After becoming an adult, you are much more shy than when you were short?"

"..."

"Don't you really feel that you are getting too close?"

Facing such a friend, the man couldn't hold back no matter how cold he was, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly: "Hurry up and stay away from me! If you weren't my friend, you would have flown to the end of the sky by now!"

That's right, Saitama came over again.

He didn't think there was anything wrong.

Isn't it just a little closer?He didn't kiss her again—ah, bah, bah, what kind of thinking is this that pollutes pure friendship!

However, it cannot be denied.

This distance is somewhat beyond the safe zone.

For the convenience of observation, Saitama put his head in front of Eric's face.

Because of his focus, the man with short black hair had as few expressions as the silver-haired man who looked stiff.

He held his breath a little, but a weak air flow still sprayed out from his nose and fell on the other person's face.

Moreover, the expression of another person can also be reflected in the pupils of the eyes that are close at hand.

That is because the atmosphere is still within the range of righteousness and grandeur, they can still talk normally.

but--

Soon things went wrong.

□□It is true, honest and unadulterated. Someone thought about it, and suddenly said: "Oh, Eric, your eyelashes are so long, and they are also silver."

Eric: "........."

"Saitama!!!!!!"

Blasted.

It's strange if it doesn't explode, okay?

At the end of this day, what a miserable ordeal the Ferris wheel has suffered.

Not only was it dismantled and turned into a top, but it was also implicated in the infighting (?) of the world's strongest group, almost breaking the steel bars, and almost being frozen into a huge ice lump.

Saitama probably couldn't have imagined that his speech, a pure and straight man, happened to hit the most painful and deepest wound in his friend's heart with incomparable precision.

He was forced into a true fist-to-fist duel with Eric.

The location is a wilderness where no outsiders will be present, and the background sound is the crazy rants of the esper boy who was forcibly dragged here as backup (actually, aftermath).

They fought until Saiki Kusuo's strength was so overused that he could no longer maintain the disguise, allowing the two to return to an appearance they were not accustomed to.

As a result, there was still no winner.

Because if the fight continues, the earth will really be destroyed.

"I'm going to calm down by myself!!!"

Leaving those words behind, Eric, who returned to the dwarf, angrily disappeared.

Saitama, who was not injured during the duel, but suffered from a severe cold, sneezed hugely, feeling a question mark on his head.

"What's wrong with him? What did I do to make him so angry?"

Feeling more and more that he has fallen into a pit of fire, the young man with super powers is depressed, and he cherishes words like gold: "I don't know, don't ask me."

The author has something to say: Mr. Saitama’s straight man’s speech is terrible. jpg Ignore the momentum, Eric’s adult body is really good-looking haha