"Smack!"
Frieza planted his foot on Cooler's head, his grin growing brighter by the second.
Cooler was stunned, his face full of disbelief as he struggled to process what had happened.
What kind of joke was this?
Had Frieza really beaten him?
Was he dreaming?
He was in his fourth form!
Sure, he hadn't used his full power.
But Frieza was only in his first form!
Had something gone wrong?
Cooler flew into a rage, energy surging wildly as he tried to break free of Frieza's hold.
Frieza merely sneered. In an instant, he transformed into his second form and increased his strength, pinning Cooler's head beneath his foot so firmly that Cooler could barely move.
Cooler was utterly dumbfounded.
How was this possible?
He'd already raised his energy to its limit. His battle power had to be at least 200 million, yet he still couldn't beat Frieza's second form?
When had this guy gotten so strong?
"Cooler, I suggest you stop struggling." Frieza sneered. "Did you think you could keep shitting on my head?"
But after saying that, Frieza felt that something about his words was off.
"Damn you, Frieza! You brought this on yourself! I'll make you pay!" Cooler roared, transforming into his fifth form.
Cooler's fifth form was a transformation much like Frieza's Golden Form.
But compared with Golden Frieza, Cooler's fifth form was nowhere near as powerful.
Once Cooler transformed, his energy soared.
Frieza felt that his foot was about to lose its grip on Cooler's head. Gritting his teeth, he transformed into his third form and increased his strength again.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
With Cooler's head pinned beneath his foot, Frieza plunged straight through the castle floor and burst into the level below.
Then, still holding Cooler's head down, Frieza smashed through one floor after another until they reached the very bottom.
The metal castle twisted out of shape, suffering severe damage.
A series of loud crashes rang through the castle.
Cooler: "..."
Cooler was completely stunned, his face ashen.
He'd already transformed into his fifth form, and he still couldn't break free of Frieza's hold?
Frieza was only in his third form now.
He hadn't even used his fourth form!
"So, how's that, Cooler?" Frieza's grin grew brighter. He felt much better now.
With that, Frieza lifted his foot from Cooler's head and laughed so hard that a snot bubble popped out of his nose.
This was exactly the effect Frieza wanted!
Just look at the state he'd beaten Cooler into!
Cooler rubbed his head and climbed to his feet, staring at Frieza across from him in disbelief.
"Want to keep going, Cooler?" Frieza gazed at him with interest, a teasing glint in his eyes.
Cooler was utterly shocked, unable to believe what he was seeing.
He fell silent for a moment.
"You... Why is your battle power so high now? How did you do it?" Cooler asked in astonishment, making no move to provoke Frieza again.
Cooler knew all too well that he'd been at an overwhelming disadvantage in their fight.
If Frieza had wanted to kill him, he'd already be dead.
Just as, in the past, Cooler could have easily killed Frieza if he'd wanted to.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho! You don't know, Cooler?" Frieza smirked, laughing with wild abandon.
"Know what?" Cooler asked, bewildered.
"I, Frieza, am a genius. I never train." Frieza chuckled and shrugged. "A few days ago, I suddenly felt like training, so I did a little. And then I surpassed you... Well, that's how it happened."
Cooler: "..."
Cooler stared blankly, at a loss for words.
Was that true, or was he making it up?
Come to think of it, Frieza really had never trained.
Could he actually be a genius?
No, that couldn't be right. Cooler had bullied Frieza plenty of times before, and Frieza had never suddenly gotten this much stronger.
"All right, just stay alive, Cooler." Frieza had no intention of killing him.
Frieza had also heard in Hell that Cooler would eventually be defeated by Sun Wukong and die.
In this life, Frieza didn't want his older brother to die.
Frieza returned to his first form and waved without looking back, then shot into the air and burst through the castle.
Cooler silently watched his departing younger brother. Suddenly, he felt as if he didn't know him at all.
A few seconds later.
"Whoosh!"
Frieza's spaceship shot into the sky, instantly piercing the atmosphere and entering the vastness of space.
"Set course for Namek," Frieza ordered Zarbon and Dodoria.
"Yes, Lord Frieza!"
Zarbon and Dodoria immediately bowed, then quietly exchanged a glance.
Had Lord Frieza been beaten up by Lord Cooler again?
But for some reason, Lord Frieza seemed to be in a pretty good mood.
And this time, he didn't even have a scratch on him!
"Whoosh!"
The spaceship left a streak of white flame across the vastness of space as it sped toward Namek.
At the same time.
Frieza Planet 79.
The eighteenth day since Vegeta had left Earth.
"Whoosh!"
Vegeta's spaceship rapidly descended from the vastness of space.
"Boom!"
With a deafening crash, the spaceship slammed into the planet's surface, leaving a huge crater behind.
Vegeta: "????"
Vegeta was a little confused, unable to make sense of the situation.
Strange!
What happened to the planet's spaceship reception base?
"Creak!"
The spaceship hatch opened. Vegeta flew out and quickly looked around in every direction.
When he saw the wreckage scattered across the planetary base, he furrowed his brow slightly.
Who had wrecked the planet like this?
And where were the people?
Why was everyone gone?
Had Frieza wiped out everyone on this planet?
What the hell was Frieza up to?
Forget it!
I have to go to Namek!
Once I find the Dragon Balls, I can become a Super Saiyan too!
Even a low-class warrior like Kakarot can become a Super Saiyan.
I, Vegeta, am a prodigy. If I become a Super Saiyan, I'll definitely be even stronger than Kakarot.
After that, Vegeta found a new Battle Suit in the abandoned base and changed into it.
His previous one had been left full of cracks after Sun Wukong beat him up.
Just as Vegeta finished putting on the new Battle Suit and was about to leave in his spaceship—
"Whoosh!"
A tiny, spherical spaceship came speeding down from space and slammed into the planet's surface, leaving a crater in the ground.
Vegeta raised an eyebrow and looked toward where the spaceship had landed.
"It's that guy, Cui!" Vegeta muttered.
"Whoosh!"
The next moment, Cui flew out of the spaceship and landed beside Vegeta.
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