At the ter of the battlefield, it was now a csh of titans: the massive iron strud the enraged giant bear.

  "Wrestling, huh?" Kaminari mused.

  "If this goes on, my Steel Serpent is definitely going to win. After all, it doesn't get tired or have physical limitations like a living creature."

  He paused, his brow furrowing in realization.

  "Wait… that's ly true."

  Kaminari's eyes flickered with uanding. While the Steel Serpent didn't have physical limits, he certainly did. His ability to trol the iron sand swarm only sted about ten minutes before the strain on his body became too much.

  This wasn't specution—it was a fact proven through prior training.

  "Looks like I o finish this quickly," Kaminari sighed internally. "Who knows how long this bear keep going? I wao subdue it without killing it, but…"

  His golden eyes narrowed as his resolve hardened.

  "Guess I'll have to turn up the pressure."

  With that, Kaminari adjusted his strategy, gathering more eleagic force. The sed, the mouth of the Steel Serpent began to glow with golden current, arcs of electricity crag ominously as they built up.

  Eleagism—the unity of electricity and magism. Electricity gees magism, and magism gees electricity. Kaminari used his mental power to transform the currents he trolled iric waves, eling them through the snake.

  However, the source of this power wasn't the natural magic field of the Earth, it all came from Kaminari himself. He wasn't yet capable of harnessiernal energy sources. Someday, if he reached that level, he'd never have to worry about exhausting his internal reserves. He could simply draw power from his surroundings and strike down anyone foolish enough to oppose him.

  But for now, the burden remained on his body.

  As the eleagiergy gathered ieel Serpent, its sharp iroh began to glow, coated in goldericity. The sight alone gave off an unmistakable air of danger.

  "Steel Serpent, Thunder Fang!" Kaminari anded mentally.

  He winced a little at how dramatic it sounded but figured it was necessary to focus his i.

  "Whoosh!"

  With a burst of speed, the Steel Serpent lunged, its electrified jaws g down on the giant bear's neck.

  "CRACKLE! ZZZZT!"

  Electricity surged through the bear's thick fur, burning its skin and sending waves of paralyzing energy through its body.

  "ROAR!!!"

  The bear roared in pain, shaking violently as it tried to throw the snake off. Its thick fur may have been enough to protect it from most attacks, but its neck remained a vulnerable point. The bination of pierg fangs, burni, arical paralysis overwhelmed even its immense durability.

  But the agony only served te the beast further. Its eyes, already bloodshot, seemed to glow a feral red as it pletely lost all sense of reason.

  Suddenly, the bear opes massive jaws wide.

  "What the—?!" Kaminari's eyes shot open, his meditative focus momentarily shattered.

  From the bear's mouth, a crimson beam of energy bsted forth with incredible force. It wasn't simply blood spewing out—this was a focused, high-pressure attack.

  The beam tore through the Steel Serpent's body like a khrough paper, scattering iron sand in every dire. The entire snake struct colpsed in an instant.

  "What… what just happened?!" Kaminari muttered, disbelief flooding his mind.

  "Did… did that bear just fire a beam?! Is this a joke?!"

  Even more absurd thoughts raced through his mind. "What's ? Is it a Pokémon?! Was that supposed to be Hyper Beam?!"

  Meanwhile, Ryoichi and Hideo, watg from a distance, were equally dumbfounded.

  "What… what just happened?" Ryoichi whispered, c his nose and mouth. "Ugh, it stinks!"

  Hideo grimaced, leaning against his grandson for support. "With the smell this strong, it must've spat out a massive amount of blood just now…"

  The reality was that the bear's Quirk wasn't "giant size" as they'd initially assumed. Instead, it had a unique ability to metabolize the flesh and blood of its prey, verting it into a substahat fueled its growth and strength.

  This energy, stored in its body, could also be onized, allowing it to unleash devastating, high-pressure blood bsts in times of desperation.

  As the remnants of the Steel Serpent reformed in front of Kaminari, he frowned.

  "Looks like I o ge tactics."

  This time, instead of rebuilding the Serpent, he reshaped the iron sand into something more suited for bat.

  The swirling mass pressed and densed until a humanoid figure stood in its pce—roughly four to five meters tall, with a spherical upper body and long, powerful limbs.

  "The choice is clear," Kaminari thought, a hint of determination fshing across his face.

  "Registeel —activate!"

  The newly-formed Registeel raised its thick, cw-like hands, stepping forward to intercept the bear.

  "ROAR!!!"

  The bear, now fully ed by rage, opes mouth again, gathering energy for another crimson beam. Its bloodshot eyes locked onto the Registeel spherical chest.

  "You think I'll fall for the same move twice?" Kaminari muttered under his breath, his tone calm but sharp.

  Golden energy began to gather at the top of the Registeel, f a rapidly spinning orb of electricity.

  "Registeel, fire the Eleaginon!"

  The orb densed further, glowing with iy as it built up over 2.5 million volts of energy.

  "BOOM!!!"

  The Registeel unleashed its attack at the same moment the bear fired its crimson beam. The two forces collided in mid-air, g with raw, destructive power.

  For a few tense seds, her attack gave way. The eleaginon pushed forward, only to be forced back by the bear's blood beam, and then surged fain.

  The struggle ended in a massive explosion, sending a shockwave rippling through the forest.

  "BOOM!!!"

  The force of the bst was overwhelming. Hideo and Ryoichi, who had been watg from afar, were thrown off their feet by the sheer iy of the detonation.

  As the smoke and energy cleared, half-golden and half-crimson light illumihe battlefield.

  Kaminari's calm exterior didn't waver, but internally, he cursed.

  "Ugh… I lost trol of the power output!"