"What do you want by following me?"
Tien Shinhan clutched his chest and coughed up blood with difficulty, supporting each other with Chiaotzu.
During the preliminaries, Chiaotzu and Puar had also fought a fierce battle, one of the two most intense matches of the preliminaries.
Hearing Tien Shinhan speak, Chiaotzu turned sideways and used his small body to shield Tien Shinhan behind him.
The fiercest preliminary match had been between Yamcha and Tien Shinhan. Both had been badly injured, but Yamcha had ultimately edged out Tien Shinhan through the greater endurance and stamina granted by the Sole Self, Myriad Phenomena Technique He-El had taught him. Even so, he had been severely wounded.
"Cough, cough... I've already lost to your disciple. A useless person like me no longer has any chance to take revenge on you. I can't even defeat your disciple—do you still want to kill us?" Tien Shinhan coughed up blood, forcefully pressed Chiaotzu down, and dragged him behind himself as he roared bloodily,
"Taking revenge on you was my own decision. If you want to kill someone, kill me. Let Chiaotzu go. He has nothing to do with this."
"Tien Shinhan..." Chiaotzu held him up, grief written across his face as mist filled his eyes. The two swayed on the verge of collapse, utterly miserable.
He-El was truly speechless at this man's stubbornness. Shaking his head, he flicked out two Senzu Beans and sent them into Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu's mouths.
The two swallowed instinctively. Once the Senzu Beans went down, their expressions changed drastically.
"What did you make us eat?!" The moment he swallowed the Senzu Bean, Tien Shinhan felt his stamina return and his grievous injuries visibly heal. He stared at his hands in astonishment, then straightened his powerful body from Chiaotzu's support.
Chiaotzu also recovered