Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 1557 Extremely Shameful

This force was no longer gentle; it carried the violent will of her extreme shame and rage at this moment!

Just as the energy reached its peak, Hiratsuka Shizuka felt something strange coming from her hands.

The iridescent gloves covering her forearms suddenly emitted a powerful surge of energy from the back of her hands! It was as if her boiling anger and rage, along with her instinct to "smash something," had been precisely captured by that "shameless" magical girl outfit!
Chi Chi Chi!
Countless tiny, cold particles, shimmering with a deep star-blue light, emanated from the shimmering veil covering her arms! Like iron filings attracted by a magnet, they frantically converged, compressed, and condensed towards the backs of her clenched fists!
No longer soft tulle, no longer dreamy rainbow colors!
Hard, cold, and angular matter is born from the high-speed collision of stardust particles and the forging of magic!

In the blink of an eye, what covered her forearms and elbows was no longer those shameful long gloves, but a pair of sharp-looking, powerful arm gauntlets!
The main body of the arm armor is still a deep star blue, but the material has become a fusion of solidified energy crystals and star core metal, with a cold metallic sheen flowing across the surface instead of a soft iridescent sheen.

On the back of her hand, two enormous, perfectly cut rhomboid blue gems, like miniature star cores embedded in her arm armor, pulsated in sync with her heartbeat of shame and indignation, emitting heart-pounding energy fluctuations!
Around the gemstone are intricate, silver-white energy circuits, resembling both circuit boards and magic circles, extending to cover the entire back of the hand and finger joints.

The knuckles of the boxing gloves were reinforced with sharp protrusions that gleamed coldly. The finger guards covered the knuckles, providing perfect protection without affecting her flexibility in making a fist.

The forearm armor has sharp, angular lines, like the arm guards of an ancient warrior, but the material and texture are full of futuristic space war science fiction, creating an absurd yet impactful contrast with her dreamy, flowing short skirt.

"Fist...gauntlets?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka stared at her hands, which had been instantly armed, and was slightly taken aback.

This brutal, direct, and impactful weapon design is surprisingly... to her liking?
Compared to magic wands or fairy wands, this thing at least seems capable of actually smashing something!
However, this "satisfaction" lasted for less than half a second!
Because when she subconsciously looked down at her new "weapon," the two huge, mirror-like, smooth and translucent blue gemstone hand armor clearly reflected her current appearance—that shameful super short puffy skirt!
Those shimmering stockings! That enormous bow! And her face, flushed with shame and indignation!
The jeweled mirror faithfully magnified and clearly presented this "unbearable" shame to her own eyes!

"Aaaaaah!!! Even the weapon is mocking me?! This damn mirror gauntlet!!"

A new wave of shame, like a tsunami, instantly overwhelmed her!

This was like adding fuel to the fire of her shame! The reflection of herself in the gem made her feel even more ashamed than the goblin's gaze!
"High-Intensity Shame Detected. Power Amplification Sequence Initiated. Boost! Boost!!"

The cold, electronic voice, with a slightly rising tone, rang out again! This time it was a double announcement!

boom! boom! !

The core gem and the two gems on the back of the hand simultaneously erupted with a beam of eerie blue light that pierced through the darkness!
Hiratsuka Shizuka's entire magical girl outfit—the flowing stardust-like tulle, the fluffy short skirt, the shimmering stockings, the enormous bow—all shone with an even more dazzling iridescent light! Especially the two gems on the backs of her hands, like overloaded engines, pulsating at an alarming frequency! An immense amount of pure physical power, so vast it startled even herself, was compressed and transformed by extreme shame, erupting with a deafening roar from her clenched fists! The energy circuits on her arm armor shone like molten silver!

Power! An unprecedented sense of pure power, enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, exploded from her clenched fists! The energy circuits on her arm armor glowed with a blinding silver light, like overloaded circuits!
"Get the hell out of my way!!!"

The pinnacle of shame is the pinnacle of power! Hiratsuka Shizuka completely abandoned thought, transforming all her shame, anger, and accusations against her attire into the most primal and direct desire to attack! She even forgot that she was a "magical" girl!
No spells, no gestures, just the most fitting thing for her personality—violent straight punches!
The right fist, encased in a star-blue gauntlet, tore through the solidified air with a terrifying aura capable of shattering stars! The space in front of the fist even rippled with distortion due to the sheer power and speed! The target was the rusted giant blade still stuck on the starlight barrier!

The goblin seemed to sense a deadly threat, and fear appeared in its cloudy yellow eyes for the first time. It tried to draw its sword and retreat, but it was too late!
Clang——!!!!

A clang of metal, even more piercing and deafening than the sound of the barrier colliding earlier, resounded through the deathly silent alley!

Hiratsuka Shizuka's jeweled gauntlets slammed into the center of the goblin cleaver's curved blade with a simple, unadorned motion!
There was no stalemate, no power struggle!
Only utter and devastating destruction!
Snap! Clang!
That heavy, rusty machete, steeped in countless drops of blood, was as fragile as rotten wood before the gem-encrusted fist containing the "power of shame"! The blade was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks from the point of impact, then let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain, and exploded with a deafening roar!

Countless rusty metal fragments of varying sizes shot towards the goblin like detonated fragmentation grenades! *Thud thud thud!* Many fragments embedded themselves deeply in its rough, greenish-blue skin, drawing out dark red blood!

"Awooo—!!!" The goblin let out a shrill, distorted scream. The enormous impact caused its massive body to lose its balance. As if it had been hit head-on by a high-speed train, its feet left the ground and it flew backward like a cannonball!

Boom! Click!
It crashed heavily against the stone wall of the alley, smashing a cracked, human-shaped crater into the hard stone bricks, sending rubble raining down. Blood splattered from the goblin's mouth and nose, its eyes glazed over; it was clearly badly injured.

One punch!
Just one punch!
Hiratsuka Shizuka maintained her punching stance, breathing slightly heavily.

The jeweled light on the star-blue arm armor slowly faded, but the explosive power still surged through the muscles.

Looking at the goblin embedded in the wall, then at her own fist that had just shattered the giant blade and was still faintly glowing with starlight, an extremely complex emotion welled up in her heart.

That's awesome! The feeling of sending an enemy flying with a single punch is truly exhilarating!
but……

A cool night breeze blew through the alley.

(End of this chapter)