"Vegeta, you should leave. In your current condition, there's no way you can beat me!"
Just then, Son Goku suddenly spoke.
Vegeta gritted his teeth in anger.
"Kakarot, I lost to you this time, but the next time we meet, I absolutely won't lose!"
"Okay!"
Goku nodded.
Seeing this, Vegeta immediately turned and flew toward his spaceship.
A moment later, Vegeta started up his spaceship and left Earth.
Krillin: "H-He's gone!"
"Yeah! Gohan's so strong that there's no way he could've beaten him!"
Yamcha said.
"That's true!"
Just then, Son Goku and Son Gohan flew over from a distance.
"Goku, Gohan!"
Krillin called out to them with a wide smile.
The two nodded.
"By the way, Goku, why did you let that guy go? Once he gets stronger, he could come back to Earth!"
Krillin asked.
"It's nothing. I just heard King Kai say that there are only a few of us Saiyans left, so I thought I'd let him go."
"I see!"
"Hmph!"
Piccolo snorted.
"Son Goku, you're always so softhearted. One of these days, it's going to get you into trouble!"
Goku smiled.
"Piccolo, since when have you cared so much about me?"
"I don't care about you. I'm only warning you for Gohan's sake!"
"Gohan!"
As he spoke, Goku immediately glanced at Son Gohan.
"Piccolo, thanks for all your hard work this past year. If it weren't for you, Gohan wouldn't have become so strong!"
Piccolo snorted.
"Don't get the wrong idea, Son Goku. I trained Gohan because I wanted to use his strength to help fight the Saiyans!"
Goku smiled and nodded.
"Now that the battle's over, shall we all head back?"
"Yeah!"
Elsewhere.
Vegeta had already left Earth. He stared at the universe before him, his fists clenched.
"Kakarot, Son Gohan, next time we meet, I'll defeat you!"
On Earth, at Mount Paozu, in Son Goku's home.
Son Goku and Son Gohan flew back to their front door.
"Knock, knock..."
Goku knocked on the door.
A moment later, Chi-Chi came out and opened it.
"Gohan!"
When Chi-Chi saw that Son Gohan was safe and sound, she rushed forward and hugged him tightly.
Being hugged like that by Chi-Chi left Son Gohan feeling a little overwhelmed.
Just then, Ox-King came out of the house too and lifted Son Gohan off the ground.
Son Gohan felt a little helpless.
He didn't actually like being picked up, but there was nothing he could do. He was only five years old, still just a child, so it was normal for people to pick him up.
"Um, Gohan, was it you who defeated the Saiyan, or was it Goku?"
After holding Son Gohan for a little while, Ox-King soon set him back down.
"Dad defeated him!"
"Really? Then that Saiyan must not have been very strong!"
Son Gohan smiled but didn't say anything.
"Gohan, now that the battle's over, it's about time you went back to your room to study."
"Grandpa!"
Son Gohan looked at Ox-King.
"Well..."
Ox-King looked troubled. One was his daughter, the other his grandson.
Whichever one he sided with—or didn't side with—would be awkward.
"Um, Chi-Chi... how about letting Gohan finish lunch before he studies?"
"Dad!"
Chi-Chi looked at Ox-King, displeased.
"Dad, we agreed yesterday that Gohan had to study as soon as he came home today. And now you're spoiling him again!"
"All right, I understand, Chi-Chi. I'll send Gohan to study right now!"
"That's more like it!"
Son Gohan looked at Son Goku beside him.
Goku didn't say a word. He probably wasn't going to help.
So Son Gohan didn't say anything more and "obediently" went back to his room to study.
After returning to his room, Son Gohan took the computer Bulma had given him out of the system's inventory.
Since there was no internet at home, he asked the system to turn on its Wi-Fi.
Once the computer had booted up, Son Gohan took out the miniature robot he had captured that day and used the system's scan to locate its computer connection port.
After connecting it to the computer, Son Gohan quickly cracked the data the miniature robot had collected.
There wasn't much data—only records of the battle between Son Goku and Vegeta that day.
Son Gohan deleted those records and used the miniature robot to find the supercomputer that controlled it.
Son Gohan had originally wanted to hack into the supercomputer, but its defenses were simply too strong. With his current skills, he had no way to get in.
"System, Dr. Gero's supercomputer is too hard to hack. Is there any way you can help me break into it?"
The system coughed.
"Master, I'm the Cultivation System, not an all-purpose system!"
Son Gohan smiled.
"So there are things you can't do after all!"
"It's not that I can't. It's just that I'm an upstanding system. Helping someone hack into a computer is absolutely not something a decent person would do!"
"Really? In that case, I'll slowly figure out how to hack into this computer by myself. If I can't do it in a day, I'll take two days. If I can't do it in two days, I'll take a month—or a year!"
"..."
The system fell silent.
Son Gohan was clearly threatening it.
"Um, Master, I've thought about it carefully. Dr. Gero is a bad guy, so helping you means helping justice!"
"Mm!"
Son Gohan nodded.
"Then, System, how do I hack into this supercomputer?"
"Easy. I'll do it!"
As soon as the words left its mouth, Son Gohan's computer successfully hacked into Dr. Gero's supercomputer.
"Awesome!"
After seeing that the hack had succeeded, Son Gohan immediately used his computer to look through the files on Dr. Gero's supercomputer.
Before long, Son Gohan found the files on Androids 16 through 20.
Android 16 had already been successfully created by Dr. Gero.
Androids 17 and 18 were still being created.
As for Androids 19 and 20, there were only design blueprints.
"Android 17, Android 18!"
Son Gohan stared at the blueprints on the computer, deep in thought.
Androids 17 and 18 had been modified from humans, and Dr. Gero's control technology wasn't very sophisticated.
So even if Son Gohan changed Dr. Gero's original programming, it probably wouldn't make much difference.
Androids 19 and 20, on the other hand, might be worth trying to reprogram. He just didn't know if Dr. Gero would turn himself into Android 20, like in the original story.
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