Splitting Up

"Sorry, listeners, we now interrupt our programming with a breaking news bulletin."

"We now continue with an update to the news we reported earlier."

"One hour ago, Ginger City, a city in the western suburbs that had suddenly gone completely silent, was investigated by a team sent to the area. A report has now come in."

"According to reports, all the local residents disappeared in an instant. The entire city is like a ghost town, and not a single person can be seen."

Hearing the news report in the car, Mo Yuan knew they couldn't afford to wait any longer.

Cell had already appeared. There wasn't much time left.

If they didn't get stronger, all that awaited them was being absorbed by Cell and becoming the fuel for his evolution into a Perfect Form.

"Lazuli, can you come train with me? I want to get stronger."

"Train? Why would you want to do that? There's no one in this world who can beat us." Before Lazuli could answer, Lapis scoffed dismissively.

In Lapis's mind, they were invincible.

People like Son Goku and Vegeta weren't even a match for him.

With someone as strong as him around, what was the point of training?

They could just follow him around and have fun.

"Little cutie... Ahem! Mo Yuan, why do you suddenly want to get stronger?" Lazuli asked softly.

"You know I have the cells of Son Goku, Vegeta, and the others. Son Goku and Vegeta are Saiyans. The golden form Vegeta took today is a transformation unique to their race, known as Super Saiyan." Mo Yuan looked extremely serious.

"Oh? Sounds flashy," Lapis said, still dismissive.

So what if they could transform? After transforming, they'd still get beaten to a pulp by him.

"Don't underestimate the Saiyans' transformation. Becoming a Super Saiyan increases their battle power fiftyfold."

"Fiftyfold?" Lazuli and Lapis were a little surprised.

Mo Yuan nodded. "That's right, fiftyfold. So if they raise their normal battle power a little more, they'll be able to use the Super Saiyan transformation to defeat you."

"More importantly, Saiyans have a special trait: every time they recover from being near death, their battle power increases significantly."

"Vegeta was defeated by you this time. He wasn't near death, but he was still badly injured. Once he recovers and trains for a while, his battle power will definitely increase. When you fight again, it'll be hard to say who wins."

Lapis looked at Mo Yuan's solemn expression and suddenly remembered his earlier fight with Vegeta.

Vegeta's battle power had clearly risen during the fight.

He still couldn't beat Lapis, but if his power kept rising like that, he might eventually be able to.

"Is that true?" Lapis grew serious.

He already believed it, really. Mo Yuan had no reason to lie to him.

Seeing that Lapis had taken his words to heart, Mo Yuan decided to drive the point home.

"Mm! And I can sense that there's an even more terrifying power hidden in Saiyan cells, waiting to be unlocked. Super Saiyan is nowhere near the Saiyans' limit. They have even more advanced transformations."

"When that happens, it won't be as simple as fifty times their normal battle power. It could be a hundred times, or even a thousand."

Imagine two people each gaining one point of battle power. With a transformation, one of them could increase that gain to fifty points.

That would make his training speed fifty times faster than everyone else's. If even more advanced transformations existed, his training speed could be hundreds or thousands of times faster.

A lot of people thought Son Goku and the other Saiyans relied too much on transformations.

After all, they couldn't maintain their transformations for long, and their bodies would give out soon after each fight began.

But they never considered that the enemies Son Goku and the others faced were simply too powerful.

Without relying on transformations, they wouldn't stand a chance.

Once they were dead, it wouldn't matter how long they could last.

But a powerful transformation could instantly give them the strength to take on formidable enemies, even surpass and defeat them.

So it wasn't that they relied too much on transformations. They had no other choice.

If they had enough time to train, they wouldn't pursue transformations so obsessively.

"What about you?" Lazuli asked, looking at Mo Yuan.

"Hmm?"

"You have Saiyan cells too. Can you become the Super Saiyan you described?"

"I can." Mo Yuan paused, then continued, "But I'm still far too weak. I haven't even reached the minimum threshold for transforming."

The minimum requirement for becoming a Super Saiyan was a battle power of three million, along with a state of extreme anger.

To transform naturally, without relying on anger, one would need an even higher normal battle power.

So Mo Yuan was still far too weak.

He didn't know his own battle power, but based on the energy he sensed from others, he could roughly estimate that it was around one million.

A battle power of one million would have been enough to run wild across Earth ten years ago.

But now, at best, it made him a slightly bigger cannon fodder.

Lazuli: "Isn't it too late to start training now?"

Mo Yuan shook his head. "Under normal circumstances, it would be too late."

"But I know a place where you can train for a year while only one day passes outside."

"Oh?"

Lazuli, Lapis, and even Android 16, who had remained calm the whole time, were a little surprised.

"There's really a place that incredible?"

Lapis stared at Mo Yuan. "But how do you know about it? We're all Androids, and none of us know about it. Not even that old geezer Dr. Gero knows."

Mo Yuan: Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

A flicker of panic crossed his eyes, but luckily, he was quick to come up with an excuse.

"I have Son Goku's cells fused with mine. I learned about it from the memories in his cells. When he was young, he trained there for a month."

"Oh, so that's how!"

Lapis looked at Mo Yuan thoughtfully.

To be honest, he didn't really believe Mo Yuan's explanation.

But it didn't matter. He couldn't sense any ill intent from Mo Yuan.

Everyone had secrets, and he didn't want to dig into them. All he needed to know was that Mo Yuan meant them no harm.

"Lazuli, what do you say? Want to come with me?"

Mo Yuan looked at Lazuli hopefully.

Of course Lazuli wanted to go. She'd get to spend a whole year alone with her little cutie! o(*≧▽≦)ツ┏━┓

But...

Lazuli turned to her brother, a little embarrassed.

Lapis: ...( ＿ ＿)ノ｜

"Go with him. He's still too weak. If he goes alone, something could happen to him. Android 16 and I are enough to deal with Son Goku and the others."

Lapis knew exactly what his twin sister was thinking.

"Fine! You win. I can't do anything about you." ╮(╯-╰)╭

Lazuli spread her hands and put on an exasperated look.

In reality, she was already setting off firecrackers in her heart.

She was just one song away from singing "Good Luck Comes."