Tricking Broly

While Wang Yang was groaning in misery, a little head peeked over the edge of the crater and gazed down.

"Bro... Broly, my good buddy, come save me!" Wang Yang spotted him at once and raised his right hand, baring his teeth as he called out to Broly.

"Wang Yang, why are you lying on the ground? Who did this to you? I'll avenge you!" Broly flew down beside Wang Yang. Seeing how miserable he looked, Broly flew into a rage. The energy around him kept rising, and Wang Yang estimated that Broly's battle power was already around twelve thousand.

"..." Wang Yang was speechless. How was he supposed to answer that?

"Nobody beat me up. I was just unlucky and ended up like this," Wang Yang said, close to tears.

He'd taken that beating for nothing.

"Then how did you get hurt?" Broly asked, staring at Wang Yang with big, curious eyes like a curious little kid.

"Now's not the time to talk about that. Hurry and get me out of here!" Wang Yang shouted.

"Oh, right! Then you have to tell me later why you got hurt like this." Without a care, Broly picked Wang Yang up and flew out of the giant crater.

"..." Wang Yang was so angry he wanted to give him a beating. A little kid was still a little kid—he really didn't know how to hold a conversation.

"Easy! Easy! Be gentle!" Wang Yang sucked in a sharp breath.

"Ah! Where did our home go?" Broly looked around in every direction as he flew into the air. The ground was riddled with craters, and the Imperial City was nowhere to be found.

"It's gone," Wang Yang said irritably.

Yesterday, when he'd transformed into a Giant Ape, the Imperial City had borne the brunt of the damage and been destroyed by Broly, that little menace.

"What should we do?" Broly scratched his head in distress.

"War King's over there. Let's go find him." Wang Yang sensed War King's energy and pointed in his direction.

As for Paragus, Wang Yang deliberately ignored him.

Several people were gathered around War King. When they spotted Broly flying toward them, their faces went pale with fright. They gripped their swords and spears tightly, watching him nervously.

"Uncle War King, don't be scared. He's thinking clearly now, so he won't go around destroying things anymore." Wang Yang forced a smile that looked even worse than crying.

War King's mouth twitched as he looked out over the devastated land. He was so heartbroken he could have cried. A lifetime of hard work, all gone just like that.

Sigh!

"Where's my father?" Broly looked around but couldn't find Paragus.

"I don't know." Wang Yang glanced toward a certain spot and lied with a straight face.

"Oh!" Broly was still young. He hadn't spent many days with Paragus, so they weren't very close. He only gave a casual reply.

"Uncle War King, is there somewhere I can rest and get something to eat?" Wang Yang was not only badly injured, but his stomach was also growling with hunger.

"Come with me. I just hope that place wasn't destroyed too." War King sighed.

War King took the two of them to his residence two hundred kilometers away. He'd built it while resisting the previous dynasty.

Wang Yang was now covered in medicinal herbs and wrapped up like a dumpling. He watched Broly devour food beside him with longing, while a slow-moving maid fed him.

By the time he'd swallowed one bite, the maid still hadn't brought him the next.

I'll beat you half to death one day and make you watch me eat. Wang Yang thought of the culprit, but he couldn't blame him, so he held back his anger.

"Broly, I want to talk to you about something." Wang Yang thought for a moment, then spoke to Broly.

"What is it? Go ahead." Broly's mouth was full, and his words came out garbled.

"Cut off your tail!"

"My tail?" Broly swallowed his food, grabbed his tail with his greasy little hand, and looked at Wang Yang curiously.

"That's right. Whenever there's a full moon, we Saiyans turn into Giant Apes. Then we lose our minds and go around destroying things," Wang Yang explained.

There was no point talking about Blutz Waves with a power of seventeen million. Broly wouldn't understand it anyway.

"But cutting off my tail will hurt!" Broly looked at Wang Yang pitifully. The knowledge in his head told him that Saiyans turned into Giant Apes during the full moon. But he was so young that he didn't yet understand right and wrong, and destroying things didn't bother him at all.

"If you don't cut off your tail, you'll turn into a Giant Ape again next time and kill all of us. Then there won't be anyone left to prepare food for you. You'll have to go outside and pick up rocks to eat." Wang Yang coaxed the little Broly with a beaming smile, without a shred of guilt.

Whoosh!

Broly's little figure vanished in a flash. When he reappeared, he was holding a rock as big as his head.

Broly licked his lips.

Crunch!

"Ah!" Broly bit into the rock, then immediately clutched his mouth and wailed in pain. The rock fell from his hand onto the ground.

Poor Broly was so young and innocent that it hadn't even occurred to him to find food for himself.

"Isn't it awful? If you don't cut off your tail, you'll have to eat rocks like that from now on," Wang Yang continued, coaxing and threatening him.

Broly hesitated, unsure what to do. Finally, he looked at the fish and meat on the table, gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and shouted as he yanked off his tail.

"Ah!"

"It hurts! It hurts!" Broly clutched his backside and hopped around in pain.

Perfect!

Wang Yang grinned until his eyes narrowed to slits, and at last his worries were laid to rest.

He was now the only Saiyan here with a tail. Even if Broly went berserk, Wang Yang could transform into a Giant Ape and restrain him.

After all, he knew how to create an Artificial Moon.

Looks like I'll have to step up my training once I've recovered. If I fall too far behind Broly in my normal state, even transforming into a Giant Ape might not be enough. Thinking about Broly's ever-rising battle power, Wang Yang felt the pressure mount.

Saiyans truly were a once-mighty warrior race in the universe. Even though Wang Yang was still an infant, his injuries healed at an astonishing rate. In just five days, he was up and bouncing around again.

"Broly, from now on, you're going to train with me." Wang Yang had just finished eating and drinking his fill when he led Broly to the back hill.

"Train? Okay! Dad used to teach me how to train," Broly said.

Wang Yang learned that Paragus had taught Broly to train by building up his body and teaching him how to fight.

"You don't need to train that way anymore. You'll train the way I teach you," Wang Yang said.

"Then how should I train?" Broly looked at Wang Yang in confusion.

"You don't need more battle power right now. The fact that it's growing constantly is actually a threat. Once it grows beyond your control, it'll take over and make you go berserk." Wang Yang looked at Broly seriously. He had no idea whether Broly understood, but he continued, "You need to learn how to control the energy inside you."

Broly stared blankly at Wang Yang. He didn't quite understand, but it somehow sounded reasonable.