Chapter 157: Troublesome
"Dangerous?"
Hearing Turles say this, Fuwa was greatly alarmed.
Seeing the grave expression on Turles's face, his heart trembled as he quickly asked:
"What happened? Is Six-Star Dragon's problem very serious?"
When Turles went to face Six-Star Dragon earlier, Fuwa had watched the entire time. But if it was just mind control abilities, that shouldn't be too problematic.
Yet looking at Turles's current state, something else seemed to have happened that he didn't know about.
"I suspect Six-Star Dragon possesses mind-reading abilities!"
Under Fuwa's anxious expression, Turles shared his hypothesis.
"Mind reading? Mind reading?!"
"How could it be mind reading?"
Listening, Fuwa first nodded—but the next second he looked at Turles in shock, crying out. His eyes filled with disbelief.
"Yes!"
Turles nodded to Fuwa, confirming he'd heard correctly. This made Fuwa's expression turn ugly.
However, Turles's face didn't look particularly good either. His brow was tightly furrowed, his expression dark as stormclouds.
Turles also hadn't expected Six-Star Dragon to possess mind-reading abilities.
No wonder during their staring contests, unease always welled up in Turles's heart.
If it were other mental abilities, given Turles's current mental strength, Six-Star Dragon might not even be stronger than him. But it just had to be mind reading.
Because Turles's own mental power development—whether mental simulation or Pseudo-Ultra Instinct—all fell into support categories.
And mind reading happened to be an ability that countered him.
Not just in battle, where Six-Star Dragon could easily perceive his moves through mind reading—but simply his identity as a transmigrator, Turles didn't want others knowing about.
Much less when Six-Star Dragon also possessed mind control abilities. This made Turles even more wary.
Actually, Turles wasn't the only one wary of Six-Star Dragon's mind reading. Even Fuwa felt tremendous relief after learning about it.
"Turles, can you really confirm it's mind reading? But when we were observing before, Six-Star Dragon didn't seem to notice anything?"
After a long while, Fuwa still felt somewhat skeptical. He stopped his pacing and questioned Turles.
Turles understood Fuwa's meaning and explained: "Six-Star Dragon possesses two abilities—one is mind reading, the other is mind control. As for mind reading, I think there are some limitations. For instance, it must make direct eye contact!"
Reaching this point, Turles felt a trace of relief in his heart.
Fortunately, he'd reacted quickly. The moment he sensed something wrong, he'd activated Instant Transmission to return. Otherwise, if Six-Star Dragon had observed him longer, his identity's secret would probably have been exposed.
"Two abilities..."
Hearing this, Fuwa felt somewhat speechless.
Mental abilities were already relatively rare across the universe. Yet Six-Star Dragon actually possessed two types—and one was the exceptionally troublesome mind reading.
"If it really has mind reading, then this Six-Star Dragon will be extremely troublesome."
After a long moment, Fuwa sighed, worry appearing on his face.
Turles nodded, agreeing completely with Fuwa's assessment.
Turles didn't even dare imagine what impact it would have on the entire universe if Six-Star Dragon learned his transmigrator secret, or knew the Dragon Ball world's plot.
Not to mention anything else—just if Six-Star Dragon learned about the Super Dragon Balls' existence and knew Turles had already collected four of them, he'd have difficulty guaranteeing it wouldn't covet the Super Dragon Balls' power.
And Super Shenron's power could be seen from how it restored universes erased by Zeno in the original story.
"So this time against Six-Star Dragon, I can't participate!"
After thinking for a long time, Turles told Fuwa seriously. Before Fuwa could question him, Turles began explaining:
"I have some secrets in my heart whose impact wouldn't be less than the Evil Dragons'. If Six-Star Dragon learned them, I'm afraid..."
"Right, right! Now that you mention it, I'm reminded—not just you, I also can't face Six-Star Dragon."
Hearing this, Fuwa first froze, then immediately reacted, nodding repeatedly.
Not only did Turles possess abilities affecting the entire universe—as Supreme Kai, Fuwa knew plenty of secrets that could impact the whole cosmos.
Like the Time Rings. If Six-Star Dragon learned about them, it wouldn't just be Universe 6's problem anymore—the entire timeline would be affected.
"Then this time we can only rely on Caulifla's group. But their strength..."
Reaching this point, Fuwa looked toward Turles.
Though Caulifla's group's strength had improved tremendously—even after transforming into Super Saiyan God, they were beyond his match now—facing Six-Star Dragon, Fuwa truly had no confidence.
But if they didn't let Caulifla's group act, for the moment Fuwa really didn't know what to do. After all, Vados and Champa had said they wouldn't interfere with the Evil Dragons.
Fuwa's concerns, Turles naturally understood. He also felt somewhat troubled about this.
Honestly, Turles—like Fuwa—didn't have much confidence in the current Caulifla and her group.
If Six-Star Dragon only possessed mind control abilities, Turles wouldn't doubt Caulifla's group's strength at all. Especially since Caulifla's combat skills had improved after his training.
But adding mind reading changed things.
This ability's role in battle was simply too significant. Just Turles himself could think of several methods—using mind reading alone—to completely wipe out Caulifla's group.
However, though mind reading was overpowered, it wasn't omnipotent.
After calming down for so long, Turles had also thought of how to counter mind reading abilities.
The first method was naturally Ultra Instinct.
Ultra Instinct itself allowed the body's instincts to react faster than conscious thought.
If one could wield Ultra Instinct, then when battling Six-Star Dragon, mind reading would basically be useless.
After all, you'd only read the consciousness about possibly attacking with certain moves. But when you attacked based on that, the body's instincts would react a step ahead of thought—probably having a counterproductive effect.
But the key issue was that currently on the Supreme Kai Realm, only Turles and Fuwa could use Ultra Instinct. And both had only just begun learning it. Reaching the effect described above probably wasn't that easy.
As for the second method, Turles had formed an idea.
"What do you think about having Kale handle it?"
Turles's sudden suggestion caught Fuwa somewhat off guard.
Who Kale was, he naturally knew clearly. Because the reason things had developed to this state was initially caused by those two out-of-control Saiyans—Kale and Broly.
When Turles first came to Universe 6, the first planet he visited was Planet Sadala. Due to the special connection between Broly and Kale, both lost control—leading to everything after.
Though without Turles, Planet Namek's Dragon Balls would most likely have still developed problems, at that point God of Destruction Champa would have handled it—they wouldn't need to worry.
Thinking this, Fuwa looked at Turles with some resentment.
Turles felt baffled by Fuwa's gaze. Then seeming to remember something—thinking Fuwa didn't know who Kale was—he quickly introduced her:
"Kale is a Saiyan on Planet Sadala, the girl who lost control with Broly last time! I—"
"I know. But can that girl do it? I remember her battle power isn't particularly strong?"
Fuwa interrupted Turles's words, looking at him with confusion.
He naturally knew about Kale. But he wondered why Turles thought that girl possessed the ability to defeat Six-Star Dragon.
Seeing Fuwa say this, Turles knew he wasn't very clear about Kale's uniqueness. He immediately began explaining.
"What? That girl has the same physiology as Broly-san?"
After hearing Turles's explanation, Fuwa shot up from his chair, asking Turles for confirmation with some shock.
"Yes!"
Seeing Turles nod, Fuwa accepted this fact somewhat dazedly.
Fuwa didn't know exactly what emotions he was feeling right now.
First, happiness was definitely there.
He'd witnessed Broly's battle power. And Turles had told him about Broly's uniqueness.
Thinking his own universe might have experts as abnormal as Broly in the future, Fuwa was naturally pleased.
As Supreme Kai, managing the entire universe well wasn't enough—their duties also included creating even more excellent races.
Fuwa had already developed strong interest in the Saiyan race that could produce special powerful beings like Turles and Caulifla's group. He'd been thinking when creating new life races later, he'd reference Saiyans.
Now with Kale possessing the same special physiology as Broly, this made him even more interested.
However, the scene of Broly's earlier rampage was still vivid. Fuwa also worried Kale might develop a situation like Broly's.
Watching Fuwa lose composure pacing in place, Turles knew what worried him and comforted: "Actually, after that meeting with Broly, that girl Kale's condition improved considerably. At minimum, she won't easily lose control anymore."
Hearing Turles's comfort, Fuwa relaxed considerably. But immediately he had new doubts. Walking to his chair and sitting back down, he asked with confusion: "Then why would you still have Kale battle Six-Star Dragon?"
"Naturally, to make her lose control again!"
Seeing Fuwa's stunned expression, Turles helplessly continued explaining.
"Facing Six-Star Dragon's mind reading ability, the key is having pure thoughts. At minimum during battle, we can't let Six-Star Dragon easily perceive our techniques."
Reaching this point, Turles licked his somewhat dry lips and glanced at Fuwa.
However, Fuwa didn't catch Turles's meaning, simply nodding thoughtfully.
Helplessly, Turles continued: "But reaching this ideal state is extremely difficult. You also know Ultra Instinct—you understand this."
Fuwa nodded again.
He understood Turles's meaning now.
As a Supreme Kai who'd trained in the divine technique Ultra Instinct, Fuwa naturally knew how difficult reaching this step was.
Speaking of it, Ultra Instinct's key wasn't anything else—precisely that clear state of mind cultivation.
But since they currently couldn't reach that mental state, they'd shift approaches. Have the mind contain only one thought—battle.
As long as only fighting thoughts remained in the mind, even if Six-Star Dragon could read thoughts, there'd be no way to counter.
And why Turles chose Kale, Fuwa had also guessed.
Because if it was just having only battle thoughts, Caulifla was actually very suitable too.
But compared to Kale, Caulifla possessed far more combat experience.
Correct—precisely because Caulifla's combat experience was too abundant.
Not that rich combat experience was bad. But if Caulifla faced Six-Star Dragon, regardless of how pure her thoughts were, during battle she'd subconsciously think about her next moves—and Six-Star Dragon would seize those openings.
So Kale—with decent battle power but virtually no combat experience—was the best choice.
Plus, Turles wanted Kale to lose control. With the Legendary Super Saiyan's abnormal physiology, unless Six-Star Dragon was completely eliminated, she probably wouldn't stop.
Imagining the scene Six-Star Dragon might encounter soon, Fuwa couldn't help smiling.
Seeing Fuwa smile, Turles knew he'd understood. After resolving such a troublesome matter, Turles's mood relaxed considerably. He lightly coughed to draw Fuwa's attention, then pointed at the now-empty teacup on the table.
"Eh?"
Fuwa looked at the teacup somewhat confused—until he saw Turles pointing at his own dry lips. Only then did he react, shaking his head with a wry smile and apologizing to Turles:
"I'm truly sorry, how negligent of me!"
After speaking, Fuwa walked toward the back of the palace.
"What? Have Kale handle Six-Star Dragon?"
After hearing Turles's words, Caulifla's eyes widened. She looked at Turles with disbelief.
Carrit's group also showed hesitation on their faces.
Indeed, in everyone's eyes, Kale was still that timid little girl. Though not long ago she'd lost control alongside Broly, revealing the girl's potential—their fixed impressions still made them doubtful.
Seeing this, Turles explained his thoughts to the group.
Upon hearing Six-Star Dragon actually possessed mind-reading abilities, Carrit's group grew grave.
As warriors, they understood all too well what role mind reading could play in combat.
Thinking again of Three-Star Dragon's formidable battle power, they knew if they faced Six-Star Dragon, the results might not be good.
"But that doesn't mean it has to be Kale!"
Though understanding Turles's meaning, Caulifla still felt dissatisfied, pouting and complaining.
Her battle power had improved considerably. She'd been hoping for a good fight next—but unexpectedly...
"Caulifla!" Carrit shouted her name sternly.
"Fine, fine, I get it! Let Kale handle it then!"
Seeing Carrit's serious expression, Caulifla pursed her lips and muttered.
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