"Heh heh heh... Stop screaming."
Cell let out a hoarse, grating laugh, his narrow eyes filled with greed.
"Become part of my body. It's an honor."
"As long as I absorb enough life essence, I'll gain the power to challenge the Androids... Then I'll become the perfect, complete form!"
As he spoke, Cell lashed his tail, and the thick needle plunged viciously into the man's chest.
"Gulp... Gulp..."
A hair-raising swallowing sound rang out.
The man's body shriveled at a visible rate, his life force flowing endlessly through the tail and into Cell.
"Ah... This is power..."
Cell closed his eyes in bliss, savoring the rise in his battle power.
"It's still not enough, but once I devour all the remaining survivors in this city..."
Cell was clever, but he was also a coward.
He was only in his first form now, and his battle power was not strong enough.
He knew he could not defeat Android 17 and Android 18 working together.
So he had been hiding in the shadows.
When he sensed Trunks fighting the Androids earlier, he knew his chance had come.
While the Androids were being held back, or once both sides had crippled each other, he would emerge to feast on humans and evolve.
Unfortunately... he had miscalculated one thing.
The battle had ended far too quickly.
Just as he was immersed in the pleasure of feeding—
"Bzz—"
A sudden spatial fluctuation came from less than ten meters behind him.
"Who?!"
Cell reacted instantly. He yanked his tail out of the man, who had already been drained into a mummy, then turned and assumed a fighting stance.
Two golden figures appeared out of thin air at the entrance to the alley.
They were Sun Wuxiu and Trunks.
"C-Cell!!"
The instant Trunks saw the monster before