Chapter 221: The 'Super Blue' Transformation (Patreon)

"..." Thanos fell completely silent.

The smile froze on his face. The deepest secrets he kept buried had suddenly been dragged into the light. A flash of pure killing intent crossed his eyes. Looking at the strange young Eternal, Thanos had already issued a death sentence in his mind.

Immediate execution.

Just as he was about to rise from his floating throne, the young Eternal who seemingly knew all his secrets continued speaking.

"You plot to slaughter half the life in the universe under the guise of some grand, righteous crusade for balance. But the truth is... you're still doing it out of love. You're still in love with Death, aren't you?"

The 'Death' Kenji mentioned wasn't the Asgardian Goddess of Death, Hela.

It was the true embodiment of Death—one of the five great cosmic entities of the Marvel Universe, a singular existence across the multiverse.

[Thanos: !!!]

'You bastard. What else do you know?!'

Kenji couldn't read the Mad Titan's diamond-hard mind, but that shocked expression said it all.

Kenji dramatically covered his mouth, feigning absolute astonishment. "I was just bluffing! Oh my god, I didn't think it was actually true!"

In the comics, Thanos was deeply obsessed with the cosmic entity Death. To court her and win her favor, he set out to slaughter half the universe. But in the end... he lost the girl to a cheap, motor-mouthed mercenary who wore a tight red-and-black suit and had a face like a rotten avocado.

Kenji honestly hadn't expected this piece of lore to carry over into the MCU timeline. But then again, a guy who constantly preached about mercy, justice, and ecological balance would never admit to such an obsessive, singular motivation. As expected, all that talk about universal balance was just a convenient lie.

Furious, Thanos summoned his double-edged, propeller-like sword—his twisted symbol of balance. Clad in his golden armor, the Mad Titan stood tall.

"Silence! My relationship with the Great God is not something for you to mock!"

Kenji narrowed his eyes. "Come on, tell me. Do you actually love her or not?"

Thanos's face turned livid. "That is none of your business!"

"Oh, he's getting defensive! He's getting defensive!" Kenji taunted.

"Die!"

The furious cosmic emperor instantly crossed the distance between them, swinging his massive blade down with terrifying force.

Clang!

Thanos stared in absolute shock. The man in black, standing a full head shorter than him, caught the razor-sharp blade—forged from the hardest alloy in the universe—between his bare hands. He completely halted its momentum.

Catching a blade barehanded instantly inflicted 100 points of flex damage to Thanos's ego. Kenji looked at him casually, shaking his head with Dio-level arrogance. "Too weak."

"How... Ahhhh!"

At the peak of his power, the cosmic tyrant channeled his divine strength and launched a devastating kick aimed straight at Kenji's head.

It passed right through an afterimage.

Despite his massive size, Thanos was incredibly agile and possessed absurd combat experience. The moment his kick missed, he immediately swept his blade in a massive arc, using the area-of-effect attack to track his opponent's movements.

For Thanos, he was born at the absolute apex of the cosmic food chain. His terrifying physique, overwhelming strength, and near-invulnerable defense allowed him to remain calm and collected against the universe's greatest powerhouses. He naturally sat in an invincible position.

However, how could Kenji be considered a normal cosmic powerhouse? He effortlessly dodged the sweeping blade combo, instantly appearing right in front of Thanos. He pulled his arm back and delivered a full-force slap!

Normal Series.

"Normal Slap!"

Smack!

The blow connected squarely with Thanos's jaw. The Mad Titan's eyes glazed over. Even wearing armor that weighed nearly a ton, his massive body was sent spinning uncontrollably backward.

"Didn't anyone teach you not to hit people in the face?" Kenji shook his hand in disgust. "Man, your skin is thick."

Having just been slapped across the face, Thanos was completely speechless.

Boom!

Blinding cosmic energy erupted from Thanos's hands, illuminating the surrounding space!

The Eternals were not lacking in energy projection attacks, let alone Thanos, who was a mutant of their royal bloodline. The SSR 'Eternal Titan' card dropped by the main timeline's Thanos was proof of that.

During the battle with the Avengers on Earth, he hadn't used any energy attacks—not because he couldn't, but because it simply wasn't necessary.

Ahem. Honestly, Kenji couldn't even spin a good excuse for it. The real reason was just that the writers and directors didn't allow it. Otherwise, given the Avengers' pathetic roster at the time, they wouldn't have survived long enough for Captain Marvel to return. If the Black Order hadn't been massively nerfed, they could have wiped the Avengers out a hundred times over.

With his full power unleashed, the giant purple potato surged with violet-gold lightning, signaling the absolute eruption of his eternal divine power.

Seeing this, Kenji didn't flinch at the massive, planet-cracking energy beam rocketing toward him. Instead, a sinister, utterly charismatic smirk formed on his lips.

'Perfect! You were the first to use energy blasts... No, you were the first to use special effects!'

In the blink of an eye, Spider-Time and Inherent Time Control (128x Speed) activated simultaneously. Kenji entered a state of bullet time that bordered on stopping time entirely.

Guided by his will, a colossal torrent of chakra erupted from his Stellar Core. The seven critical chakra points along his channel system forced themselves open one after another.

"Gate of Opening! Open!"

"Gate of Healing! Open!"

"Gate of Life! Open!"

"Gate of Pain! Open!"

"Gate of Limit! Open!"

"Gate of View! Open!"

"Gate of Wonder... Open!"

Rumble!

With Kenji's earth-shattering roar, a deafening boom echoed through space. Countless surrounding meteorites instantly disintegrated into dust. Trillions of tons of azure chakra erupted in a blinding pulse of light, expanding outward at the speed of light like a supernova. It was a true cosmic spectacle.

Following the universal law of invincible transformations, the energy beam Thanos fired was intercepted and completely scattered by the explosive burst of extreme chakra before it could even reach Kenji.

Immediately after, Kenji's spiky, golden Super Saiyan hair visibly transitioned into a crystalline azure blue. His aura instantly ascended to an entirely new dimension!

Super Saiyan Full Power + Gate of Wonder = ?

Exactly.

The legendary... Super Saiyan God! The 'Super Blue' transformation... Scratch that!

The Azure Beast of the Z-City Police Department had arrived!

Kenji's terrifying transformation left the cosmic overlord completely stunned. While Thanos had no idea what convoluted pop-culture reference this "Super Blue" form was supposed to be, he knew one thing with absolute certainty: this young Eternal had seemingly broken through some impossible physiological limit. He was radiating an aura as dangerous as an ancient, primordial cosmic beast!

DANGER!!!

A massive, blood-red Kanji character for "Danger" materialized above Thanos's head. His expression changed drastically as he raised his double-edged sword to block.

But an indestructible fist shattered the blade into pieces!

An azure streak of light shot into the sky, instantly appearing before Thanos, completely ignoring the distance between them. After shattering the blade, the blue-haired Kenji exhaled a blast of absolute-zero Freeze Breath, nearly encasing the completely defenseless cosmic emperor in solid ice.

"Good grief." Kenji habitually adjusted the brim of a baseball cap that wasn't there. His rugged face perfectly displayed the chiseled, ancestral features of the Joestar bloodline. "It's time."

Normal Series.

"Consecutive Normal Punches: Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack!"

"Ora ora ora ora ora!"

At this moment, the chakra coating Kenji's fists reached a state of absolute purity.

Eighty punches per second might not sound incredibly fast, but the massive, overlapping barrage of azure fists instantly engulfed the purple giant's massive frame.

The golden emperor armor was completely pulverized into scrap metal in less than a second. Following that, the supposedly indestructible Titan Physique began to cave under the relentless barrage. Like a merciless sledgehammer, the star-shattering momentum of the Super Saiyan invaded the Titan's flesh, pulverizing his muscles and shattering his bones. It annihilated the boundless vitality within his cells—the very vitality that allowed him to survive until the end of the universe!

"Ora ora ora ora ora—"

Skipping the obligatory three-page "Ora" sequence, Kenji let out a final, roaring battle cry. He arched his body perfectly and delivered the final, devastating blow.

Smash!

A mass of purple potato paste was launched hundreds of kilometers backward. It only stopped when it slammed into a massive meteorite the size of a small asteroid, shattering the rocky surface and embedding itself deep within.

"Cough... cough..."

A low, wet cough echoed from the center of the crater. A mouthful of purple blood sprayed from Thanos's mouth, coagulating into floating spheres of liquid in the zero-gravity environment.

Every bone in his body was shattered. The once-invincible physique of the cosmic overlord had been mercilessly dismantled by the Super Blue Kenji. His life force was now flickering like a candle in the wind.

He could vaguely see the alluring silhouette of Death, the figure that had haunted his dreams for so long. However, in the MCU where the wider multiverse hadn't fully opened, his hallucination was abruptly shattered. The peerless beauty he was reaching for instantly morphed into the blue-haired Kenji, leaving him furious but completely powerless.

"Oh, how terrifying! His wounds are already starting to heal. He's as strong as a monster!" Kenji mocked.

Kenji's obnoxious, sarcastic tone made Thanos's vision go dark. In all his millions of years of life, he had never met someone so utterly shameless.

Clang!

Golden chakra chains shot out from the void, piercing directly into Thanos's mangled wounds and forcibly sealing away his rapidly surging vitality.

"Ahhh..."

With his already battered body suffering further trauma, the fallen emperor let out a low, agonizing roar.

His internal injuries violently aggravated, the severely wounded Titan tyrant spat out another mouthful of stale purple blood. He was clinging to his last breath.

The fallen emperor opened his mouth, his remaining good eye locking onto Kenji with a bleak, grim smile. "You win, young Eternal. Take whatever it is you want. Just do it..."

Kenji scoffed coldly. "Don't act so magnanimous. As the loser, everything you have belongs to me by right."

Thanos remained silent.

Kenji manipulated the golden chakra chains, hoisting Thanos into the air. Then, he casually snapped his fingers. A golden ring of sparking, dimensional magic spun to life, instantly opening a circular portal right in front of them.

"This is..."

Thanos struggled to lift his head, staring at the portal in confusion. A colossal warship filled his vision, blocking out the stars—his long-time flagship, the Sanctuary II.

A sense of unease suddenly washed over Thanos, a man who had never feared death. "What... what are you planning to do?"