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The massive, dark green fist struck with terrifying force, tearing through the air with a whooshing sound.
Nohara Shinnosuke naturally wouldn't take the hit head-on. Since invisibility was useless, he immediately deactivated it and ran out of the corridor, as this confined space was disadvantageous for him.
He still prefers to fight from a wider field, where he can better utilize his high mobility to kite and harass the opponent.
"I'm done for." Just as Nohara Shinnosuke dodged the leap into the corridor, he was pulled down by a tremendous force, and at the same time, a searing pain shot through his ankle.
66: Spider-Man: It only takes me three steps to solve you.
Shinnosuke Nohara looked down and saw that the lizardman's thick, dark green tail was tightly wrapped around his ankle.
Seeing Spider-Man looking over, Kohei Imamura grinned, then swung his tail, slamming Shinnosuke Nohara hard against the ceiling.
"My back!" The impact slammed into the ceiling, creating a dent in the shape of a human.
Nohara Shinnosuke grabbed Imamura Kohei's tail, which was wrapped around his foot.
"Little Spider, you can't fight me." Seeing Nohara Shinnosuke's actions, Imamura Kohei assumed Spider-Man was trying to break his tail. Having never witnessed Nohara Shinnosuke's true strength, he believed Spider-Man was no match for him.
"100,000 volts." Nohara Shinnosuke had no idea how powerful his electricity was, but that didn't stop him from bragging.
"Haha, do you think you're Pikachu, 100,000 volts... volts?"
[As soon as Kohei Imamura finished speaking, he saw blue electricity crackling in Shinnosuke Nohara's hands. The next second, Imamura felt what Yang Yongxin's power was like.]
[Kouhei Imamura, paralyzed by the electric shock, also lost control of his tail, which failed to wrap around Spider-Man's ankle.]
"Ouch, looks like I don't have to go to PE class." Nohara Shinnosuke felt a piercing pain as soon as his injured foot touched the ground; it was likely a comminuted fracture of his ankle.
"There's a burnt smell. Did I over-electrify him?" Nohara Shinnosuke said, looking at Imamura Kohei lying on the ground, his body charred black. He then picked up a stick that looked like it could be used as a royal sword and poked Imamura Kohei's butt.
"You have no sportsmanship!" The moment Kine poked Imamura Kohei's butt, his tail shot up like a doctor hitting a patient's knee with a hammer, sending Nohara Shinnosuke flying.
"A tiny bit of electricity won't kill me. Do you know why? Because I've transcended humanity."
"In my many years of biological research, I've discovered that humans are far too weak. Therefore, I've decided to surpass humanity, which is why I now assume the posture of a powerful being."
Dr. Kohei Imamura, the "Lizard," slowly walked out of the corridor and looked at Shinnosuke Nohara, who was lying under a pillar in the hall, and said...
"It feels so familiar. It's like the villain beats up the protagonist and then starts talking big, revealing everything about himself, and then the protagonist suddenly gets a burst of power and fights back against the villain."
Although Nozaki Umetarou draws shoujo manga, he is still very familiar with this traditional shonen manga formula.
"Then do you know that my previous defeats were all part of my plan?" Nohara Shinnosuke said to Imamura Kohei, leaning on a pillar to stand up.
【"What?"】
"Tch, hahaha, so what if you schemed? You still can't beat me." Just a moment ago, Kohei Imamura was annoyed at being outmaneuvered, but the next second he gave a disdainful laugh, as if to say, "No matter how much you scheme, it's useless."
"First, the space was too cramped, which hindered my movements. Second, you've angered me."
[After speaking, Nohara Shinnosuke's eyes sharpened. He shot out spider silk, pulling himself into the air, and then rapidly sprayed spider webs, creating a huge web above the hall.]
[Hanging upside down on the web, Shinnosuke Nohara shoots out spider silk, pulling two huge white desks and swinging them like a flail towards Kohei Imamura.]
["Bang!" Seeing the desks flying towards him, Kohei Imamura didn't dodge at all, but met them with two punches. The two desks were instantly smashed to pieces, and wood chips scattered in all directions.]
When Kohei Imamura looked up again, he discovered that a giant net had appeared on the left side of the hall sometime during the night.
"You coward hiding in hiding, come out if you dare!" It was just a spider web, so Kohei Imamura didn't pay it any mind and instead looked around for Shinnosuke Nohara.
"Here comes the dynamic flying kick."
Upon hearing the sound, Kohei Imamura turned around and was immediately met with a flying kick to the face by Shinnosuke Nohara, who was swinging over on a spider web.
"Boo-ga!" Imamura Kohei screamed as he was kicked away, dozens of teeth flying from his mouth. He then flew backward and slammed heavily into the giant net on the other side of the hall.
In an instant, Kohei Imamura was entangled in the giant net. Struggling to his feet, he tried to tear it apart, but Shinnosuke Nohara's finishing blow had already arrived.
[A few short strands of spider silk might be easily torn off by Kohei Imamura, but quantitative change leads to qualitative change.]
[The joints where he was exerting force were immediately and firmly stuck to his skin by Nohara Shinnosuke's spider silk. Then, Nohara Shinnosuke also sprayed spider silk, rotating himself 360 degrees around Imamura Kohei and spraying spider silk.]
"Dynamic slide tackle."
After wrapping Imamura Kohei up like a dumpling, Nohara Shinnosuke slid in and brought him to the ground.
"Alright, I bet you're one of the culprits behind this theft too. Did you come back to the crime scene to admire your handiwork? Wait, what's so admirable about stealing? Did you leave something behind?"
[Nohara Shinnosuke, who also had a ribbon tied around his neck with Imamura Kohei's hair, started rambling on.]
"Are you connected to Kingpin? Is he his new henchman? If so, can you tell me where Kingpin is hiding? Action Kamen said he'd stuff something heartwarming into Kingpin's stocking for Christmas."
"You said you surpassed humanity, did you experiment to turn yourself into a reptilian?"
"Did you kidnap Kohei Imamura while you were stealing something?"
"Wait, or are you Dr. Kohei Imamura, who conducted experiments that turned him into a lizard man, which is why there were news reports of your disappearance?"
"He actually said the answer to himself."
While browsing in the convenience store, Natsuki Subaru watched as Nohara Shinnosuke, through the light screen, gradually revealed the truth.
If only he had Spider-Man's abilities, he wouldn't have suffered such a blow.
Actually, Subaru Natsuki wasn't bad either, but his father was too powerful, which made him seem mediocre.
"Enough, stop nagging in my ear." Kohei Imamura, trapped in the spiderweb, finally snapped out of Shinnosuke Nohara's incessant chatter.
"Fine, then I'll just sit here and wait for the police. Wouldn't that be boring with no one to talk to?" Nohara Shinnosuke said, spreading his hands as he sat in the chair where the receptionist was sitting.
67: Kohei Imamura: Join the glorious evolution!
"Hey, uncle, I think it's okay to call you uncle, but you seem like a middle-aged unemployed person stuck at home."
"I'm very curious how you turned into this lizard-like creature. Were you bitten by a lizard?"
Shinnosuke Nohara asked Kohei Imamura on the ground.
"No, I wasn't bitten by a lizard."
Kohei Imamura probably sensed that if he didn't say something, this guy would keep nagging in his ear, and that he could try to distract himself by talking to him.
"I was injected with the lizard serum I developed, and you're right, I am the great reptile biologist Dr. Kohei Imamura."
"Oh, my little bear-shaped biscuit! You said you're Dr. Kohei Imamura."
"I feel like you're kidding me. I'm way past the age of hanging stockings on the wall waiting for Santa Claus."
Clearly, while Nohara Shinnosuke outwardly disbelieved Imamura Kohei's words, he was inwardly skeptical.
After all, he acquired all of his spider-like abilities after being bitten by spiders in that room full of them, and those spiders were very likely the product of Dr. Kohei Imamura's research.
So it's not surprising that Kohei Imamura would turn into a lizard again, but it's quite astonishing that he would transform himself into this grotesque form.
"Believe it or not, I am Dr. Kohei Imamura. Kid, I can tell you're no ordinary person. Want to join my ranks?"
[Kohei Imamura has proposed that Shinnosuke Nohara join his team. If Shinnosuke Nohara joins his team, then his future opportunities to benefit all of humanity can proceed smoothly.]
"To benefit all mankind?"
"How can he benefit all mankind? His serum still has major flaws, and Shinnosuke Nohara doesn't look like a researcher."
Inside the Crystal Preparatory Academy, Twilight Sparkle, sitting in her room, watched Kohei Imamura, who was wrapped like a dumpling in spider silk by Shinnosuke Nohara on the light screen, and wondered what Shinnosuke meant by "benefiting all mankind."
"Is it possible?"
Thinking about the various behaviors of Kohei Imamura after he became a lizardman in the light screen, and considering that Kohei Imamura's previous research on lizards was also for the benefit of mankind, a very serious idea flashed through Twilight Sparkle's mind.
"He wouldn't be thinking of turning all of humanity into green-skinned lizards like himself, would he?"
[“Why would I join your ranks? I’m not a lizard man, I’m… I’m a spider man.”]
"Join my team and work with me to benefit all of humanity. And who says you can just be a lizardman if you're not one? That's prejudice."
"When the time comes, there will be no prejudice."
"Because everyone will become a lizard man."
[The following sentence was what Kohei Imamura was thinking to himself, and Shinnosuke Nohara, listening to Kohei Imamura, asked curiously.]
"Explain in detail."
"Then let's join the glorious evolution."
"You're a lizard, not a robot. Why are you using Viktor's lines?"
"Kid, don't you know it's very impolite to interrupt someone?"
"You're not human either."
"Hmph, you won't be one sooner or later."
"What do you mean by that?" Upon hearing this, Shinnosuke Nohara realized something.
"I will turn all of humanity into lizard people to rid ourselves of this weak and fragile human body."
"Isn't this a benefit to all of humanity? This is evolution, allowing humanity to evolve into a more powerful species."
"No, this isn't evolution, and you should save that dream for prison; maybe you'll find like-minded people there."
Shinnosuke Nohara knew that even if the person before him was indeed Dr. Kohei Imamura, he would no longer be a doctor who benefited all mankind, but rather a doctor who brought disaster to all mankind.
"What a pity."