The ice layer is very thick.
Vegeta's body is embedded at the bottom of an ice crater hundreds of meters deep, surrounded by spiderweb-like cracks squeezed by the impact.
There was a thin layer of frost on the surface of the body, and the blood hole on his right shoulder was still leaking blood. The blood dripped on the ice, emitting white smoke.
Vegeta just lay on his back, motionless.
It doesn't matter how serious the injury is, Super Saiyan 4's body, this level of injury will not make him lose the ability to move.
He just didn't want to move.
Vegeta's golden pupils stared at the long and narrow hole above his head that was punched out by his own body.
Through the cracks in the ice a few hundred meters away, you can see the light in the sky in the distance.
Eis Shenron's words buzzed in my ears.
"A more durable punching bag."
He closed his eyes.
In the darkness, memory fragments began to flash back frame by frame.
The earliest screen is Planet Vegeta.
He was only five years old at that time.
His father carried him on his shoulders, stood on the highest terrace of the palace, pointed at the red star in the sky, and said to him.
"Vegeta, you are the prince of Saiyan. When you grow up, this starry sky will all be yours."
Five-year-old Vegeta nodded vigorously and clenched his little fists tightly.
He believed it.
Then Frieza came.
With just one finger, the entire Planet Vegeta, his father, his people, and his starry sky were all wiped into cosmic dust.
Vegeta knelt at the feet of Frieza, thinking in his heart that one day, I will kill this guy with my own hands.
I am the prince of Saiyan, and I am destined to become the strongest warrior in the universe.
The screen changes.
Earth.
The first time I saw Kakarot was in the desolate Gobi.
A Low-Class Warrior who was thrown to a remote planet actually dared to stand in front of him and stare at him.
Vegeta I still remember that feeling.
He didn't take Kakarot seriously at all at that time.
What kind of waves can a Low-Class Warrior? create?
Then Kakarot opened Kaio-ken.
Four times.
When that kick hit his face, Vegeta had only one thought in his mind: impossible.
But it just happened.
A Low-Class Warrior kicked the prince of Saiyan from the sky into the ground.
Vegeta's teeth gritted loudly.
He transformed into Great Ape, with a combat power of 180,000, which should have been a crushing situation...
But that bald head appeared.
Krillin.
An earthling.
A damn earthling turned into something like "Crimson Lotus Saint Buddha". He punched away his Full Moon and even pulled out his tail.
The screen jumps again.
Namek.
Final Form of Frieza.
Kakarot became Super Saiyan.
The legendary warrior, the one chosen once in a thousand years, is not Vegeta, but Kakarot.
Although he also transformed later, so what?
Goku changed to Super Saiyan 2, and he followed.
Gohan changed to Super Saiyan 3, what "mysterious Super Saiyan 3" changed, and its combat power can easily reach hundreds of billions.
A half-blood Saiyan.
A nerd who was forced by Chi-Chi to do homework every day, Battle Power was actually able to get away from him Vegeta by a few blocks.
As for Krillin?
Vegeta doesn't even want to recall any scenes related to Krillin.
From the first time I was crippled by his punch on earth, to being painted with a pig's head on Namek, to being taught as a primary school student during Master Mutaito's practice, to the joint fighting in Buu's body, to Gogeta of the Demon Realm...
Krillin In his eyes, it is no longer a target that can be pursued.
The picture continues to flow.
Royal City lobby of the First Demon Realm.
Ultimate Buu went berserk, and Super Saiyan 4 couldn't stop it even to its limit. He and Kakarot looked at each other, and at that moment they chose to swallow Fusion Worm.
Gogeta, what a powerful existence.
Two souls squeezed into the same body, he can feel every thought of Kakarot, and similarly, Kakarot can also read everything about him.
Vegeta During the time of integration, all the things he had hidden in the most secret corners of his heart were exposed to Kakarot.
Fear of Frieza.
Jealousy towards Krillin.
Anxiety about not being the strongest.
And...
The emotion towards Kakarot is so complicated that he himself can't figure it out.
There was hatred, unwillingness, a little bit of respect that he would never admit to death, and even an extremely weak, almost negligible...
friendship.
Of course, if Vegeta said this word himself, he would rather swallow a hundred Fusion Worm.
After the combination was released, Kakarot didn't say anything, but just looked at him with that stupid smile.
Vegeta almost punched me at that time.
But he endured it.
Because he knew that Kakarot's silence was itself a kind of understanding.
Although that idiot is not very smart, he can see through some things better than anyone else.
The combat power of Gogeta is as high as 450 billion, which is the limit of Super Saiyan 4.
Vegeta will never forget the feeling of power rushing through his body.
But after the combination was released, the power left his body like an ebbing tide.
What is left is a huge emptiness and a deeper unwillingness.
That's not my own strength.
It's borrowed.
It was obtained by merging with Kakarot.
The dignified prince Saiyan actually needs to merge with a Low-Class Warrior in order to defeat the enemy.
This incident pierced a thorn in Vegeta's heart.
It hurts more than being punched through the chest by Frieza, and more embarrassing than having a pig's head painted on it by Krillin.
Because that touched his final bottom line.
Saiyan's pride.
The flood of memories gradually recedes.
At the bottom of the ice pit, Vegeta's consciousness was pulled away from memories.
The wound on his right shoulder was still bleeding, and Eis Shenron's vicious words were still echoing in his ears.
The cold polar wind poured in from the hole hundreds of meters above, blowing the blood on his face into ice shards.
He closed his eyes and thought.
Eis Shenron is right.
He was too proud, his fighting style was too direct, and his anger made him lose his mind.
All correct, every word is correct.
But.
Vegeta's mouth moved.
"So what?"
"You say I'm proud?"
"You say my pride is a weakness?"
"That's because you don't understand."
Vegeta opened his eyes.
At the bottom of the ice pit, those golden pupils were frighteningly bright in the darkness.
"My pride has never been a weakness."
Vegeta supported the ice and stood up bit by bit.
The dark red body hair was covered with frost, making it dazzlingly white.
The blood hole on his right shoulder was still bleeding, and his chest and abdomen were covered with bruises from the ice bombs.
But his back was straight.
At this moment, Vegeta was standing at the bottom of the ice pit. There was no anger, no humiliation, and no hatred towards anyone in his eyes.
Some are just things that are pure to the core.
Obsession.
Saiyan The most primitive, violent and unshakable obsession in the royal bloodline.
"Kakarot has surpassed me, Gohan has surpassed me, Krillin has surpassed me, Piccolo has surpassed me, even those transformed Earthlings have stepped on my head."
"So what?"
Vegeta raised his head and looked at the narrow light a few hundred meters above.
"After being surpassed a hundred times, I will stand up a hundred and one times."
"After being knocked down a thousand times, I got up a thousand and one times."
"This is the pride of Saiyan."
"This is..."
His voice began to rise, and the energy in his body began to boil.
On the dark red body hair, the frost cracked and evaporated into white water vapor.
"I Saiyan Prince Vegeta, my only weapon!"
Energy exploded from Dantian, and Vegeta remembered that feeling.
That's what it feels like when you fit together.
Forty billions of power rushes through the meridians, and every cell burns at the same time.
Although it is a borrowed power, the feeling is real.
That path exists.
And he, Vegeta, now has to rely on his own feet to walk on that road.
"I am..."
Deep red Aura spurted out from every pore of Vegeta's body.
"Saiyan's prince!!!"
A roar penetrated hundreds of meters of ice.
Ten thousand-year-old glaciers with a radius of tens of kilometers all vaporized in this second, and a white steam curtain wall reached the sky.
Eis Shenron's smile froze on the ice peak.