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Chapter 17 - Chapter 17: Honing the Beast... The Final Decade of Isolation

Within the absolute silence of the abandoned annex, ten-year-old Nyuro stood before a shattered mirror. He no longer saw a child unjustly exiled; instead, he saw something terrifying being born within his eyes. There was a strange, hungry, and feral glint—a spark that belonged neither to mortals nor to cultivators.

​[A Radical Shift: Beyond the System]

​Nyuro spoke to himself, his voice carrying a rasp of suppressed power that made the walls tremble:

"I do not know what is happening to me... but I feel a fundamental change. It isn't just a shift in strength or speed; it's a change in the very essence of my soul. At first, I thought this was due to the shock of migrating to a new world, or perhaps my programming within this cursed 'System'... but I was wrong."

​Nyuro clenched his fist tightly, hearing the snap and pop of his bones, which had grown as dense as diamond thanks to Zamasu's body.

"It is the Saiyan blood... the blood coursing through my veins has begun to boil. This race knows no peace, and it does not settle for hiding. The System gave me the tools, but the Saiyan blood gave me the drive to be the strongest of all."

​[The Hard Decision: Ten Years of Hell]

​Nyuro looked toward the door leading out of the annex, then closed his eyes firmly.

"I could leave now thanks to Shenron's wish and my hidden power... I could crush Arkan Godo in the blink of an eye. But... the Saiyan instinct within me screams: 'Not yet!'. I want to emerge as an unstoppable hurricane, not just a passing storm."

​He turned to 18 (now human) and said in a resolute tone:

"18... we aren't leaving yet. We will wait ten more years. I will stay here until I reach 20. I want to achieve a level of power that makes Emperors tremble at the mere mention of my name. I want to grind my body and my mind until combat becomes an instinct my very cells breathe."

​[The Lust for Battle: A Promise of Greatness]

​"At twenty, I will have reached the peak of Saiyan physical maturity," Nyuro continued with a chilling smile. "I will continue to break my limits daily with you. I will turn this annex into a furnace that melts away weakness and forges a God of Destruction. My father thinks he has forgotten the 'trash,' and I will leave him in that delusion for another decade... until the day of reckoning arrives."

​18 replied earnestly: "Ten more years of fighting me? There might not be a single stone left standing in this annex, but you will walk out of here possessing a power that can erase this planet and its galaxies."

​[Status Update - Start of the Second Decade of Isolation]

​Current Age: 10 Years.

​Objective: Remain in the annex until age 20.

​Psychological State: The calm before the storm, with a Saiyan instinct hungry for absolute sovereignty.

​Plan: Utilize the next ten years to reach power levels that transcend the limits of Super and rival the Emperors.

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