Bardock

"Oh?" Hearing this, Vegeta began to see Bardock in a different light.

"Your Highness, if my guess is right, Frieza will definitely come in person to supervise his son during the next battle. Your Highness's ploy of deliberately taking a beating... might fool others, but I'm afraid it will be hard to fool an old fox like Frieza." Bardock let out a long sigh and looked at Vegeta helplessly.

"You saw through it?" Vegeta's expression shifted slightly.

"Your Highness is an excellent actor, but if even I could see through it, I'm sure Frieza will too," Bardock explained. "If Frieza learns that Your Highness is stronger than his son, he will never let you live. Besides, he has long despised all of us Saiyans and has always wanted to wipe out our entire race."

Vegeta said nothing, signaling for Bardock to continue.

Still, after hearing Bardock's words, Vegeta felt that he had underestimated his enemy. He had never expected Frieza to be so much smarter than he had imagined.

"In fact, not long after Your Highness left Planet Vegeta... just after you arrived on Earth, Frieza was already thinking of wiping out all the Saiyans," Bardock said with his head lowered. "But at that critical moment, Frieza happened to have a child on the way, so he put the matter aside until his child was born..."

"Wait." Vegeta interrupted Bardock, then asked curiously, "Does Frieza have a wife?"

"No... his race is hermaphroditic..." Bardock explained.

"Hermaphroditic? How does he have children?" Vegeta had always wondered how Frieza had suddenly ended up with a son.

"Well... I don't know about that either..." Bardock had no idea how to answer.

Vegeta thought it over. Frieza probably jerked himself off. Otherwise, how could a son have popped out of nowhere?

"Apparently, Frieza laid an egg. Then, after about a year of incubation, the shell broke and Galdo came out," Bardock said. "I only heard this from others, but I think it should be accurate."

Vegeta nodded. If the egg really needed a year to hatch, then Frieza truly would have had no time to attack the Saiyans.

"All right, focus on your training. I won't disturb you anymore." Vegeta could not be bothered with any more idle talk and turned to leave.

"Wait." Bardock called Vegeta back.

Vegeta turned to look at Bardock.

"Your Highness, I think that if the battle nine days from now is unavoidable, it would be best if you could move the battlefield elsewhere," Bardock said thoughtfully. "Given Frieza's temperament, if you thoroughly enrage him, I'm afraid he will destroy our Planet Vegeta."

"Hmph, do you think we can even leave right now?" Vegeta gave a cold laugh, then ignored Bardock and flew away.

Bardock looked stunned.