"Goten!!!" x3.
Everyone stared at Son Goten in stunned disbelief, their jaws practically on the ground. After all, he looked completely different. A seven-year-old child barely four heads tall had suddenly become a towering young man, nearly six feet tall. Who could have recognized him?
Trunks walked over to Son Goten with a strange look on his face and compared their heights. Tears immediately streamed down his cheeks. Damn it, he used to be at least half a head taller than Goten, but now he didn't even come up to Goten's knee. This was just bullying!
Son Goku cautiously sensed Son Goten's ki. He had barely begun when cold sweat covered his forehead. He couldn't even tell how powerful Goten had become.
"Goten, just how strong are you now?" Son Gohan asked, utterly dumbfounded. He'd sensed Goten's power too and had almost wet himself.
Son Goten looked cold and calmly rested a hand on a rocky mountain. "How strong? I don't know."
"Crack, crack."
"Boom!"
Before the words had even left his mouth, the mountain beneath Son Goten's hand crumbled without warning, then exploded into pieces. Everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their heads again. Damn, he'd reduced a mountain to rubble without even doing anything! Son Gohan estimated its height. It was taller than Ultraman!
(Son Gohan's face was full of question marks. What the hell was Ultraman? How had that thought come to him so naturally?)
"G-Goku..." Son Goku, resting on the ground, suddenly heard someone call his name. He turned toward the voice and saw Fortuneteller Baba peeking out from a corner, trembling. She had brought him to the living world. As soon as she saw him looking her way, she said, "Goku, your... your time... is up. You have to... go back."
Hearing Fortuneteller Baba's trembling voice, Son Goku understood what was going on. Still, he looked at Son Goten with concern, afraid that he hadn't regained his senses yet.
Feeling Son Goku's worried gaze, Son Goten gave him a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, Dad. I can handle things here."
Hearing that, Son Goku smiled faintly. He trusted his own son, after all. With a trace of regret, he said, "It's a shame, Goten. If my time weren't up, I'd really want to fight you."
Son Goten smiled without replying. Son Goku gradually rose into the air and disappeared from the living world with Fortuneteller Baba. "Goodbye, everyone. Gohan, tell Chi-Chi I'm sorry."
"I will, Dad." Son Gohan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Goodbye, Dad. Son Goten turned his head away, not wanting anyone to notice the tears glistening in his eyes.
Quietly wiping them away, Son Goten stared coldly ahead and shouted at a hidden corner, "Come out, Buu!"
"Boom!"
A sonic boom rang out as a pinkish-purple streak shot up from deep underground. Buu faced Son Goten with a grave expression. His instincts told him that the person before him was terrifying beyond belief. Even the Saiyan Prince, Vegeta, had never heard of this transformation.
"You're... Son Goten?" Though Buu phrased it as a question, his tone was certain.
Son Goten merely smiled without answering. Only an idiot would ask a question when he already knew who someone was.
"What the hell is that form of yours?" Cold sweat covered Buu's head. Before, Goten's power had been like a river. Now, it was like an endless ocean—its depths impossible to fathom.
"You mean this?" A mocking smile crept across Son Goten's cold face. Then he shouted, "This is the strongest..."
"Super Saiyan 4!!!"
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
"Rumble!"
As Son Goten's roar rang across the land, a terrifying wave of ki erupted from his body. Every mountain swept by the wave crumbled to pieces.
Everyone looked at Son Goten in fear. "His ki alone makes me feel like I'm falling into an abyss."
That was the only thought in everyone's minds. Buu was no exception. For a moment, he had felt the fear of death.
"Su... Super Saiyan 4?" Trunks' eyes widened. Goten hadn't even transformed into Super Saiyan 3, yet he'd gone straight to Super Saiyan 4. How were they supposed to compete with that? Had he paid to win? (Creating happiness with care; without money, you can go to hell.)
Buu's mouth twitched so hard it nearly cramped. Could they even have fun anymore? Fine, his dad had reached Super Saiyan 3—but Goten had skipped straight past it without even transforming into Super Saiyan 3. How was the Vegeta inside him supposed to face them now?
Vegeta inside Buu: ...
"Stop bluffing, you bastard!" Buu tried to convince himself that they were all paper tigers, and that he was the strongest. With a furious roar, he shot toward Son Goten like a cannonball.
Son Goten's lips curled into a contemptuous smile. In the split second Buu drew near, a deafening bang rang out, and Buu went flying backward, his head lolling to one side.
He went flying backward.
He flew away.
He was gone.
Gone.
WTF? What the hell happened? Why was he flying? Buu's mind went blank. Wait, let me think this through. I approached him, and then... I flew away!
Buu did everything he could to stop himself from flying backward. He stared at Son Goten in terror. Son Goten merely crooked a finger at him in taunt. "Come on. Can't you see me? I'll slow down next time."
Son Gohan and Trunks rubbed their eyes. What had just happened?
What do you do when someone provokes you? Obviously, you hit them back!
Before you continue