With a casual punch, Son Goku could leave Cell unable to recover for a long while, while Cell's attacks could not truly hurt Son Goku, at most breaking his skin.
How could they fight with such an enormous gap between them?
Cell's fate had been decided long ago. After beating Cell to his knees, clutching his stomach and unable to rise, Son Goku lost interest in bullying the weak.
"I thought you would be a strong opponent. What a shame..."
Training alongside Yinsen, Son Goku always learned in advance what he should do in the future. His strength had grown far beyond what it had been during the same period in the original story.
Though he had not been reborn, his experiences on this Worldline were not much different from reincarnation: he was always one step ahead of his enemies, overwhelming them in battle.
Such battles were safer and left no room for accidents, but for a battle-loving Saiyan, that did not seem like a good thing. He no longer had the chance to experience facing an evenly matched opponent and winning only after giving everything he had.
Now, the only person who could serve as Son Goku's opponent was Yinsen.
He began considering whether he should properly train Gohan. His son had great potential, but Gohan's ambitions did not seem to lie in martial arts.
Cell was still right in front of him, yet Son Goku's thoughts had already wandered off somewhere else. That kind of disregard made Cell even angrier than a brutal beating.
What made him even more helpless was that no matter how furious he became, it was useless. Complete Body Cell seemed to have reached a bottleneck. His rage did not further increase his strength, even though he also had Gohan's cells inside him.
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