"What's going on? How did Raditz undergo such a change?" Piccolo roared furiously as he continued gathering energy for the Special Beam Cannon.
This sudden upheaval had far exceeded his expectations. Not only had victory slipped through his fingers, but the enemy's ki had become unbelievably terrifying. There was no chance of winning at all.
Goku took a step back as well, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
After Raditz's earlier explanation, he immediately understood what had happened—and how serious the situation was.
"A full moon... a Saiyan?" Aizen murmured softly, raising his head to look at the round moon in the sky.
When Raditz had come looking for Goku, Aizen had also been hiding in the shadows around Kame House, naturally hearing every word of their conversation.
Now that this startling change had occurred, someone with his intellect naturally grasped the cause immediately.
"Just as I thought, the mission issued by that so-called Main God wouldn't be so easy to complete. But if it thinks this is enough to make me admit defeat, it is underestimating me, Aizen."
Unlike Goku and Piccolo, Aizen actually revealed a faint smile.
His long-dormant blood began to boil.
In the entirety of Soul Society, he had undoubtedly been the greatest genius. And precisely because he was a genius, he was arrogant.
Deep down, he looked down on everyone. Nothing posed any difficulty before his talent, and over time, at the deepest level of his heart, he had come to find the entire world unbearably dull.
Developing the Hōgyoku, devising a series of plans, ruling Hueco Mundo, and killing the Soul King—put bluntly, they had merely been diversions born from that boredom.
In other words, he had simply been looking for something challenging to do.
Even cultivating Kurosaki Ichigo later on had been his