Roar!
The Doomsday Beast was enraged by Tatsuki's actions. Its entire body glowed with a golden radiance, energy converging in its core. Even its black-and-white arms shimmered with gilded brilliance, the current surging through them with formidable might.
Tatsuki's eyes were keen. Despite the Doomsday Beast's apparent ignorance of true power, he wouldn't underestimate it one bit.
After all, the Doomsday Beast was forged by the Antimatter Legion from the remnants of an ancient beast at twilight—an amalgamation of countless resentful bones from the War Furnace.
It had clung to the grudges of unpassed spirits, forging sinister claws from their unrelieved wills, binding the shadows of olden catastrophes into a monstrous tail that obscured the sky.
Its core was powered by an antimatter engine, stirred by the beast's ancient will, forming the Antimatter Legion's planet-grade weapon.
Legends said its right arm would herald calamity, and its left would tear open the dawn.
Space beyond the battered station stretched vast and starry, but apparently one could still breathe here, some advanced technology permitting free movement without worry of suffocation.
The only caveat was that the station couldn't be destroyed too much, since space was vacuum; there was no wind.
"Take care of Ainz for me—he's just a normal person," Tatsuki said, glancing aside.
The group turned around, perplexed, and saw Ainz cowering behind a pillar.
Meanwhile, Tatsuki soared forward to confront the Doomsday Beast head-on.
The beast, angered that such a small human dared resist, brought its colossal black-and-white claws smashing down, winds distorting with terrifying force as though rending the sky and earth apart.
Tatsuki stayed calm, using compacted air currents to block the blow. Then he delivered a series of punches, each one compressing and releasing massive bursts of air. The atmosphere quaked and splintered, the powerful shockwaves forcing the Doomsday Beast to recoil.
Enraged, the beast launched dozens of energy beams, honing in on Tatsuki. All of them glanced harmlessly off of his reflection barrier, ricocheting back to scorch the Doomsday Beast's own wings.
'They came here together… but their performances couldn't be more different.'
Himeko, Stelle (the silver-haired Trailblazer), and Dan Heng couldn't help sharing that same thought.
At Tatsuki's prompting, March 7th opened the chat group. A lively discussion was already in progress.
Ainz: "Whoa, whoa, whoa! The big boss is incredible! That giant monster is getting hammered—bam, bam, bam!"
Exusiai: "Is the battle really that intense?"
Ainz: "Super intense, like watching a movie!"
Exusiai: "I wanna see!"
Nami: "Isn't Tatsuki in danger, fighting such a monster?"
Ainz: "…Instead of worrying about the big boss, maybe worry about me? I'm hiding off to the side, shaking like a leaf. I feel like I could get wiped out by a stray attack."
Saeko Busujima: "Then why not use the chat group's new function to stream it for all of us?"
Ainz: "Oh! Right, I totally forgot!"
[Ding! March 7th has started a live broadcast!]
Ainz: "Huh?"
March 7th: "Hehe, I wanted to try out the new feature myself."
March 7th: "Can everyone see the video?"
[Saeko Busujima has entered the live broadcast!]
[Nami has entered the live broadcast!]
[Exusiai has entered the live broadcast!]
…
A string of notifications appeared as all the group members joined.
The broadcast showed March 7th's perspective, revealing the intense battle between Tatsuki and the Doomsday Beast as though the viewers were right there watching in person. Saeko Busujima and the others felt as if they were truly standing alongside March 7th, witnessing the nerve-racking, heart-pounding battle in real time.
Shinobu Kocho: "Such… such a terrifying fight! This is nothing like facing demons. Even an Upper Moon or the Demon King Muzan wouldn't last a second in a clash like this!"
Saeko Busujima: "It's my first time seeing Tatsuki fight this way. Against zombies, he always finished them off effortlessly."
Exusiai: "Looks like Tatsuki's gotten even stronger."
Ainz: "I'm trembling in fear!"
Aqua: "Hmm, he's barely passable. Not stronger than me, of course."
Nami: "Come on, you're setting the bar too high. He's already crazy strong!"
March 7th: "Exactly! The Doomsday Beast sneak-attacked me just now, and Tatsuki saved the day—he was so cool!"
Exusiai: "Where exactly are you fighting? It doesn't look like normal ground. Is it night over there?"
Saeko Busujima: "It's outer space, beyond the planet."
Exusiai: "Uh… I don't really get it, but it looks amazing."
Shinobu Kocho: "Tatsuki seems extremely powerful, yet it looks like he can't kill that monster."
Shinobu Kocho had a point.
Tatsuki could fight evenly with the Doomsday Beast—maybe even suppress it—but not kill it outright. The Doomsday Beast didn't bleed, and its body lacked any normal biological signals. Manipulating vectors inside its body did nothing, and the vacuum of space offered limited "wind" to amplify. Atop that, trying to generate plasma using the space station's environment was impractical.
With the constraints of outer space, Tatsuki was forced into close combat—fists and kicks, blow for blow. Physically, he might not surpass the Doomsday Beast's raw power, but with various control abilities, he could easily deflect its massive claws, inflict real damage, and reflect the beast's laser beams.