He-El floated in the air, the pressure of his aura forcing Black to kneel on the ground as he struggled to raise his head and look at He-El.
In He-El, he saw someone worth assisting.
But... Black had misunderstood.
'Pop.'
He-El slowly raised his right hand, pointing his index finger at Black. A Finger Beam shot toward Black's brow and pierced straight through it.
Even at the moment of death, Black believed that He-El needed him.
He needed a high-ranking Red Ribbon Army commander to control the Red Ribbon Army. Besides, He-El had said he would turn the Red Ribbon Army from evil and compensate those they had harmed tenfold. Without a high-ranking commander controlling the Red Ribbon Army and issuing orders, how could that possibly be carried out?
Black naturally assumed that He-El wanted him to follow him.
He never expected He-El to casually pierce through his brow with a Finger Beam. Even as he died, his eyes remained filled with confusion, unable to understand why He-El had killed him.
Didn't he want the Red Ribbon Army?
"Senior He-El, why... did you kill him?" Yamcha looked at He-El in shock and confusion.
Senior He-El had clearly been about to bring Black under his command, yet in the end, he had killed Black with a Finger Beam as though he were a god.
Yamcha believed that Senior He-El understood the benefits of keeping Black alive.
It was also through He-El's conversation with Black that Yamcha came to understand that they truly needed to leave behind a Red Ribbon Army commander to control the Red Ribbon Army.
Aside from preventing the scattered branches from running wild and committing evil everywhere after the deaths of the headquarters' top leaders, thereby keeping them restrained, they could also make the Red Ribbon Army carry