Goku Black's fist carried the power to level worlds, wrapped in a dense shroud of Rosé energy as he slammed it toward Vegeta's chest.
Watching the incoming strike, Vegeta didn't dodge. Instead, he clenched his own fist, purple-red energy coalescing wildly around him as he met Goku Black's punch head-on.
BAM!
The fists collided once more, the energy erupting like a nuclear blast.
Nearby, Trunks was sent flying by the massive shockwave, tumbling through the air several times before slamming hard into the ground. He couldn't even manage to pick himself up for a good while.
This time, Vegeta was jolted back two or three steps, his arm slightly numb. Goku Black, however, stood his ground, unmoving. A triumphant smirk tugged at his lips.
Vegeta's expression shifted slightly, a flash of surprise in his eyes. This guy's strength really has increased that much!
Vegeta gritted his teeth and stopped hesitating. He blurred into a streak of light, lunging at Goku Black once more with even more energy concentrated in his fist, aiming squarely for Goku Black's head.
A cold sneer flashed in Goku Black's eyes. He crossed his arms to block the strike while simultaneously lashing out with a kick to Vegeta's chest.
Vegeta was sent skidding backward, his feet carving two deep trenches into the earth as debris flew everywhere. But his reaction was lightning-fast; his core muscles snapped tight as he propelled himself into the air, steadying himself in the sky. Purple-red flames rippled around him, his gaze as sharp as a blade.
Seeing this, Goku Black's lip curled into a cold smirk. He kicked off the ground and shot into the sky after him.
The Rosé flames and Vegeta's purple-red aura faced off in the sky. The collision of their two massive pressures made the very air vibrate.
BAM! BAM!
The two of them struck almost simultaneously, their fists whistling as they tore through the air to slam into one another. The dull thuds of impact rang out in rapid succession.
Goku Black's fist landed squarely on Vegeta's face. Vegeta's fist, in turn, scored a direct hit on Goku Black's chest.
Vegeta let out a muffled grunt, blood leaking from his mouth as two teeth splattered onto the ground along with the gore. Goku Black was sent hurtling backward, coughing up a large mouthful of blood. His face twisted into a snarl, his eyes burning with killing intent.
"Damn it!" Vegeta wiped the blood from his mouth, his heart full of frustration. After all these years of training, am I seriously only able to fight to a draw with a guy like Zamasu?
"Vegeta, you're nothing special!" Goku Black laughed coldly, slowly straightening up while clutching his chest. "You're certainly stronger than the Vegeta I fought back then, but I'm stronger than you."
"Do you think it's possible... that the 'me' you fought back then is the same as the 'me' right now?" Vegeta suddenly laughed. His smile was eerie, and the purple-red flames around him began to dance with even more intensity.
"What... what did you say?" Goku Black paused, his eyes full of confusion. He clearly didn't understand what Vegeta meant.
"I've been reincarnated," Vegeta said flatly, his voice carrying an undeniable weight.
"You... you... you..." Goku Black's expression turned to one of shock. His pupils shrank, and the smile on his face froze instantly. He had never imagined that this Vegeta had also been reincarnated!
WHOOSH!
Before Goku Black could react, Vegeta suddenly accelerated. He blurred into a purple-red streak, appearing instantly in front of Goku Black. At the same time, Vegeta's right hand coalesced a dense sphere of purple-red energy, its surface shimmering with fine points of light. It was Hakai energy!
"Hakai!"
Vegeta let out a low bark, slamming the destruction energy into Goku Black. The purple-red energy instantly coated Goku Black's body, eroding him like a persistent maggot on a bone.
Goku Black's lower body began to dissipate into nothingness at a rate visible to the naked eye. Sensing the terminal crisis, a savage glint flashed in Goku Black's eyes. Without a moment's hesitation, he coalesced Rosé energy in his left hand, forming a razor-sharp blade, and hacked violently at his own waist.
SHLUCK!
Goku Black actually severed his own lower body!
The Hakai energy, having lost its anchor, instantly dissipated. But Goku Black's body from the waist down had been completely annihilated. Only his upper half remained suspended in the air, blood dripping from the stump in a gruesome display.
BAM!
Vegeta seized the opening, lunging forward and slamming a fist into Goku Black's face. Goku Black's head snapped back, his body tumbling through the air several times before he finally managed to steady himself.
WHOOSH!
Vegeta didn't give Goku Black a chance to breathe. He lunged again, his right hand once more coalescing Hakai energy as he slammed it toward Goku Black's upper half. "Hakai!"
"No... damn it!" Goku Black's face paled. He tried to dodge, but losing his lower body had made his movements sluggish. He was about to be hit by the destruction energy.
FLASH!
Just then, a red and green figure appeared abruptly behind Vegeta. It was Black Broly! His feet were wrapped in a dense shroud of energy as he delivered a violent kick to Vegeta's back.
BAM!
Caught off guard, Vegeta took the full force of the kick. He was sent hurtling from the sky like a kite with a broken string, slamming into the ground with a thunderous BOOM. A massive crater opened up instantly, dust billowing into the air. The Hakai energy in Vegeta's hand dissipated, failing to harm Goku Black at all.
Vegeta scrambled out of the crater, dusting off his clothes. His gaze was dark enough to drip ink. He looked first at Black Broly, then turned to the nearby Frieza. Veins bulged on his forehead as he roared, "Frieza! What the hell are you doing?!"
"Ohohoho! Has that guy recovered already?" Frieza rubbed his nose and grinned, his tone completely dismissive. "My apologies. I had no idea he'd run off to your side."
As he spoke, Frieza's hands weren't idle. He was holding Black Vegeta by the collar, hoisting him high, while his right hand—wide as a fan—repeatedly slapped Black Vegeta's face.
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
The crisp sounds of the slaps echoed through the ruins. Black Vegeta's face had quickly swollen into a "pig's head" as he let out piercing wails, yet he didn't even have the strength left to struggle.
"Hmph. If you can't handle those two, then I'll deal with them both myself!" Vegeta gritted his teeth, the purple-red flames around him flaring once more.
"I'll handle that Black Broly. You do as you please with this one!" Frieza casually slammed Black Vegeta into the ground. Black Vegeta let out a dull thud and couldn't pick himself up for a long time. Frieza waved a hand at Vegeta, his tone a bit impatient.
Vegeta thought about it and didn't object. He didn't have a deep personal grudge against Black Broly. But Goku Black and Black Vegeta—one had killed him in his past life, and the other had occupied his body in this one—were enemies he had to finish with his own hands.
WHOOSH!
Frieza blurred into a purple streak, appearing instantly in front of Black Broly. Seeing Frieza, Black Broly's face paled, his eyes filled with terror. His previous experience of being brutally beaten by Frieza had left him terrified of this purple monster.
"What? Didn't you call yourself a high-and-mighty god?" Frieza laughed coldly, his eyes full of mockery. "I, Frieza, would love to see exactly what kind of 'god' you are!"
With that, Frieza lashed out with a kick as fast as lightning. Black Broly frantically raised both hands to block.
BAM!
Frieza's foot easily broke through Black Broly's defense, slamming squarely into his chin. Black Broly's head snapped back, his body tumbling in the air before falling toward the ground like a broken sack.
Frieza blurred and appeared directly above Black Broly. With his legs bent, he delivered a powerful overhead kick to Black Broly's back.
BOOM!
Black Broly's body slammed into the ground like a meteor. The earth collapsed instantly, forming a massive crater as dust billowed and debris flew.
"Ohohoho! How satisfying!" Frieza hovered over the crater and let out a manic laugh, his eyes full of pure joy.
FLASH!
On the other side, Goku Black had regained his mobility. He blurred and appeared directly in front of Vegeta, Rosé energy coalescing in his fist as he launched a fierce assault. The two of them engaged in a brutal exchange on the ground, every strike landing with full force. The shockwaves leveled the surrounding ruins and cracked the earth into web-like fissures.
After several exchanges, Vegeta seized another opening. His right hand coalesced Hakai energy, and he slammed it toward Goku Black's chest. Goku Black's pupils shrank; he threw himself to the side, barely avoiding the destruction energy. Cold sweat instantly soaked his back. He didn't want to experience the agony of having his body annihilated again.
"Hmph. Not bad, you managed to dodge," Vegeta sneered, the purple-red flames dancing around him. "It seems you're not a total idiot."
"You're nothing special! As long as I avoid your Hakai energy, you can't even hurt me!" Goku Black scoffed, slowly straightening up while clutching his chest. His eyes were full of disdain.
"Is that so?" Vegeta laughed, a slight smirk tugging at his lips, though his eyes held a hint of calculation. "You just said... you've also been reincarnated?"
"That's right," Goku Black nodded, not denying it. Instead, he looked at Vegeta with genuine interest. "Where exactly did you die?"
Vegeta went silent, his gaze turning complex. He didn't want to recall the humiliating scene of being surrounded and killed by thousands of Zamasus.
"Should I go first?" Goku Black laughed, clearly unbothered as he spoke. "I remember. There were several thousand of me fused via the earrings. That's where I killed you!"
Vegeta: "..."
Vegeta clenched his fists tight, his knuckles turning white. His face grew increasingly dark, and the purple-red flames around him became unstable. That memory was an eternal wound in his heart.
"Later, Lord Zen-Oh appeared, and all those versions of me were erased," Goku Black added, a hint of lingering fear in his tone. "I thought I was dead, completely gone. But when I woke up, I found I had been reincarnated... back to a time before I killed you."
"And so, you left before Lord Zen-Oh appeared. Is that what you mean?" Vegeta quickly caught on, asking flatly. His tone was devoid of emotion, as if he were discussing something that had nothing to do with him.
"Exactly," Goku Black nodded, a look of pride crossing his face. "After that, I trained for a good long while until the 'me' of this timeline appeared. So I followed him here, to this parallel world that's a bit different from my own!"
"You really are my enemy!" Vegeta gritted his teeth, the killing intent in his eyes nearly overflowing. This guy had not only killed him in his past life but had the audacity to come to this world to cause trouble. He was literally courting death!
"So, what about you? When exactly were you reincarnated?" Goku Black asked with interest, wanting to know Vegeta's secret.
"Right when those thousands of you killed me... I was reincarnated." Vegeta didn't hide it this time, answering truthfully with a sense of finality. "In this life, I will kill you with my own hands and avenge that wrong!"
"Oh? How rare! Vegeta, to think both of us were reincarnated!" Goku Black laughed manically, his eyes full of madness. "Don't you think this is fate? Fate has brought us together here!"
Vegeta: "..."
Fate, my ass!
Vegeta just wanted to tear the man in front of him into ten thousand pieces!
"So? Vegeta! Want to team up?" Goku Black suddenly grew excited. "You've seen it. We're all immortal; you can't win! Besides, you must have felt it, right? My strength is beyond yours!"
"Hmph. Team up?" Veins bulged on Vegeta's forehead, his eyes full of loathing. "I'd rather team up with someone like Frieza than a shameless scoundrel like you!"
"I see you're not interested. How disappointing," Goku Black scoffed, the killing intent in his eyes instantly intensifying. "Then you have only one path: death!"
"Frieza at least earned his strength through his own effort. But you guys... you just occupy other people's bodies and then call yourselves 'great gods.' It's pathetic!" Vegeta's eyes were full of disdain, and he even spat to the side. "You don't even deserve to be called gods!"
"To you mortals, we are indeed high-and-mighty gods. There is no doubt about that!" Goku Black chuckled, his tone flat but carrying a layer of undeniable arrogance. "Since you're not interested in cooperating, then we have nothing left to discuss!"
"If you're done talking, then keep fighting. I didn't come here to listen to your smack talk," Vegeta snorted. The purple-red flames around him flared once more, his eyes burning with an endless thirst for battle. "This time, no matter what, I'm going to kill you with my own hands!"
"Where's Son Goku? Why didn't he come? Instead, it's this Frieza guy who showed up!" Goku Black glanced strangely at Frieza, who was currently pummeling Black Broly in the distance, and couldn't help but ask.
In his eyes, Son Goku was their greatest threat. Frieza wasn't even worth mentioning.
Meanwhile, Black Vegeta's body had fully recovered. He blurred and appeared beside Goku Black, his eyes fixed on Vegeta with a sinister, sullen glare.
On the other side, Trunks was engaged in a fierce exchange with Zamasu. Zamasu's strength was far too weak compared to Goku Black and the others; he was no match for a Trunks restored to his peak. He was being beaten back relentlessly, unable to land a single counter-blow, his body covered in bloody wounds.
"You said all that just to buy time for this guy to recover, didn't you?" Vegeta shot a glance at Black Vegeta and spoke to Goku Black with a cold, mocking tone. He had seen through Goku Black's calculation long ago.
"Vegeta, after all these years, haven't you learned your lesson?" Goku Black sneered. He suddenly pointed to the Potara earring on his ear, his eyes full of triumph. "You should know that during our last battle, you and Son Goku fused into Vegito and possessed incredible power."
Vegeta didn't speak. He just stared coldly at Goku Black, waiting for him to continue.
"Well then, next, I'll let you witness what a true fusion looks like!" With that, Goku Black immediately moved his Potara earring to his other ear.
"A fusion?" A slight smirk tugged at the corner of Vegeta's mouth, his eyes full of disdain. "You think a fusion is going to let you win? How naive!"
Just as Goku Black and Black Vegeta's bodies began to attract each other, preparing to fuse—
WHOOSH!
Vegeta moved!
He accelerated instantly, blurring into a purple-red streak of light. He appeared directly in front of Black Vegeta, a dense shroud of energy concentrated in his right foot as he delivered a violent kick to Black Vegeta's chest!
BAM!
Caught completely off guard, Black Vegeta was sent flying. He tumbled through the air several times before slamming into the ground, unable to pick himself up for a long while.
A purple-red shockwave erupted from under Vegeta's foot. Debris was sent flying several meters. Vegeta shot forward like an arrow from a bow, lunging at the struggling Black Vegeta with his right fist whistling through the air.
BAM!
Vegeta slammed his fist into the man's chest. Black Vegeta, who had barely managed to brace himself against the ground, lost his balance instantly and was flattened against the earth once more.
Vegeta's gaze was as sharp as a blade, and alarm bells were ringing in his head. He knew all too well how terrifying Vegito was—an invincible existence that combined the peak battle power of two Saiyans. If he let Goku Black and Black Vegeta fuse into a "Black Vegito," the consequences would be disastrous.
So, the very moment their fingers touched the Potara earrings, Vegeta had interrupted the ritual without hesitation, knocking Black Vegeta away instantly.
"Stay down!" Vegeta barked. He lunged forward and pinned Black Vegeta's head to the ground, snapping his wrist to slam it against the earth.
THUD!
The dull impact made the ground vibrate slightly. Black Vegeta let out a pained grunt, his head ringing and his vision going dark. It felt as if his entire skull were about to split open, and his limbs went limp against the dirt.
WHOOSH!
Suddenly, a streak of Rosé light whistled through the ruins from a distance, lunging straight for the back of Vegeta's heart with lethal intent. Goku Black was wrapped in a dense shroud of energy, clearly trying to take advantage of Vegeta's preoccupation to launch a sneak attack.
Vegeta didn't even need to turn around. Relying purely on energy sensing, he locked onto the movement behind him. He glanced back over his shoulder as his right leg lashed out like a steel whip in a horizontal sweep, his toe slamming accurately into Goku Black's chest.
BOOM!
Goku Black took the hit like a ton of bricks. His body arched as he was sent hurtling backward, crashing into a pile of broken walls and debris. He bounced several times before coming to a stop in a heap of rubble, dark red blood leaking from his mouth.
"Hakai!"
Vegeta didn't hesitate for a second. With a wave of his left hand, a condensed, blade-like wave of purple-red destruction energy swept out, firmly coating Black Vegeta's body.
The piercing sizzle of energy annihilation rang out as Black Vegeta's body began to dissipate at a rate visible to the naked eye, turning into points of nothingness.
"No!" Goku Black's face paled. Ignoring the searing pain in his chest, he scrambled to his feet and began waving his hands frantically.
PEW! PEW! PEW!
Dozens of Rosé energy blasts shot out like a hailstorm, hurtling toward Vegeta at extreme speeds in an attempt to interrupt his attack.
Vegeta let out a cold snort, his eyes full of disdain. His right arm moved like a phantom.
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
With several crisp sounds, he slapped the incoming energy blasts aside one by one. The detonating energy fragments splattered across the ground.
Next, Vegeta glanced down at the disintegrating Black Vegeta, his brow furrowing slightly. He wanted to test if this pure Hakai energy could truly bypass Black Vegeta's immortality and destroy him completely. If it didn't work, things would be troublesome. A monster that couldn't be killed no matter what was a problem with no solution.
At this point, Black Vegeta's body was still rapidly dissolving. His upper half, which had been hit first, was already gone—completely erased. The destruction was continuing to spread downward, already reaching his lower body.
Vegeta simply stood over him, his gaze scanning the surroundings alertly to prevent anyone from interfering or attempting a rescue.
Then, Vegeta quickly scanned the other battlefields.
Not far away, Black Broly was pinned under Frieza's foot. Frieza was leisurely slapping him left and right, and Black Broly—bruised and swollen—was letting out one pathetic wail after another. It was a humiliating sight.
On the other side, Zamasu was being beaten back relentlessly by Trunks' fierce assault, his body covered in wounds and unable to fight back.
Only Goku Black was nowhere to be seen.
However, Vegeta quickly located him through energy sensing. The man was hovering high in the sky, his energy fluctuating wildly. It was clear he was brewing some kind of scheme.
Vegeta didn't panic. With a cold snort and a flick of his wrist, he threw a blade of Hakai energy directly at him. The purple-red energy blade sliced through the night sky at incredible speed, whistling toward Goku Black's position.
Goku Black had been focused on preparing a sneak attack from above, and by the time he sensed the danger, it was almost too late. Seeing the rapidly approaching destruction energy, he jumped in fright and frantically threw himself to the side. He had already seen how terrifying that move was and didn't dare take it head-on.
Vegeta glanced back at the remains of Black Vegeta and suddenly realized something was wrong. Black Vegeta's remaining lower half had begun to swell, energy surging wildly within it. It looked like he was trying to use self-destruction to annihilate his own body.
Vegeta reacted instantly. This guy is trying to use a self-destruct as a trigger to let his immortality reset him!
"If one Hakai isn't enough, then I'll just give you another!" A cold smirk tugged at Vegeta's lips as destruction energy began to coalesce at his fingertips once more.
To be continued…
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