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Son Gohan followed their gaze downward. The man sitting on the sofa with his legs spread wide had a flamboyant spiky hairstyle, with two distinctive locks of hair hanging over his forehead. His face was a perfect blend of Son Goku's and Vegeta's features.

Trunks had never seen him before, but Son Gohan knew that face all too well.

The invincible fusion warrior of the Dragon Ball World.

Vegito.

A chill flashed in Son Gohan's eyes. Lin Fan, this transmigrator, definitely had a system. He had even managed to get his hands on the invincible body of a fusion warrior. No wonder he dared to openly take over the Capsule Corporation and treat Earth like his own harem.

He just didn't know how much power this fused body, obtained through a cheat, actually had now.

Below, Lin Fan finally moved.

He abruptly released Bulma from his arms, and his figure vanished from the living room without warning. The next second, he was hovering in midair with one hand in his pocket, facing Vegeta from afar as golden flames of energy blazed around him.

Facing Vegeta's terrifying aura, powerful enough to destroy Earth with ease, Lin Fan merely yawned in boredom.

"I thought you'd crawled off to hide in some rat hole, you stray dog. Turns out you've secretly become a Super Saiyan." Lin Fan picked at his ear, looking at Vegeta as if he were a pile of garbage. "That's it? This is what gave you the nerve to come here and die?"

Vegeta's face turned livid. The veins on his forehead bulged, and the energy surging around him rose even higher.

"Damn it!"

Lin Fan didn't even spare him a proper glance. Instead, he turned his eyes toward the skyscraper in the distance where Piccolo and the others were hiding.

"Son Goku, since you're here, stop hiding like a coward." Lin Fan's lips curled into a vicious smile. "Neither you nor Vegeta could touch the hem of my clothes, even if you threw your lives into training for a hundred years. Don't believe me? Why don't you both try me at once?"

"Lin Fan!!!"

A voice cracked with fury from the distant building.

Son Goku's eyes had lost all reason. Red Kaioken light erupted around him as he smashed through the rooftop like a blazing cannonball, charging at Lin Fan with a determination to die alongside him. All he could think of was his friends, wife, and son being cruelly humiliated.

But things didn't go as he hoped.

Smack.

A crisp crack rang out. Lin Fan didn't even turn around; he simply swept a hand behind himself.

Son Goku flew back ten times faster than he'd come, crashing into a commercial building below. The entire building collapsed instantly, burying him beneath the rubble.

"Kakarot, you idiot! Get out of my way!" Vegeta roared. "You can't even turn Super Saiyan, you low-class warrior! Don't get in my way. I'm Super Vegeta now! I'll be the one to defeat Lin Fan!"

The instant he finished speaking, Super Vegeta moved.

His terrifying power of five billion burst forth. Golden afterimages ripped across the sky as Vegeta became a beam of light, unleashing countless punches that slammed toward Lin Fan's face with devastating force.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Deafening impacts rang out across West City, and violent shock waves tore the clouds to shreds.

On the distant skyscraper, Krillin and Piccolo gripped the edge of the rooftop as they watched Goku get defeated with ease, their faces ashen. Tien Shinhan and Yamcha had just arrived, but watching the battle in the sky, they fell into deathly silence.

Mount Paozu. With Kid Gohan protecting his mother, he closed his eyes and sensed the distant battlefield, worry filling his face.

In midair.

Lin Fan used just one index finger to casually block every one of Vegeta's frenzied attacks. No matter how fast Vegeta moved or how hard he struck, Lin Fan's finger always stopped his iron fists cold.

Above the clouds.

Son Gohan quietly watched from above, his mind racing.

Something's wrong.

Vegeta's base power had already been boosted to a hundred million by Son Gohan using Senzu Beans. His power as a Super Saiyan at this point in time should have been astronomical. Even with a fusion warrior's body, Lin Fan shouldn't have been this strong.

Yet Lin Fan's ki was bizarrely just strong enough to overpower Vegeta. Not by much—just enough to toy with him one-handed.

Son Gohan pieced it together in an instant.

Lin Fan's cheat must have given him some kind of passive "power anchoring" ability. As long as Son Goku and Vegeta grew stronger, Lin Fan's own power would automatically rise along with theirs, keeping him in a position of absolute superiority. The reverse didn't apply, though; any increase in Lin Fan's power wouldn't pass on to the two protagonists of the original story.

No wonder he wasn't in a hurry to kill them and had kept them alive. As long as those two Saiyans kept pushing themselves to train, he could continue gaining more and more power.

That meant that no matter what, Vegeta alone couldn't test the true limits of Lin Fan's strength.

Fortunately, Son Gohan had prepared in advance.

"Vegeta, what's the matter? You forget to eat? And you call yourself Super Vegeta? I'd say you're more like Super Duper Vegeta!" Lin Fan sneered, then kicked Vegeta in the stomach.

Vegeta spewed blood as his body crashed toward the ground like a broken kite, smashing a huge crater into the Capsule Corporation plaza.

Lin Fan hovered in midair and turned toward the distant ruins. His voice, carried by his ki, rang across half the city.

"Son Goku, stop playing dead. Seeing you half-dead like that makes me sick." Lin Fan laughed arrogantly. "Guess where I'll go tonight after I've crushed every bone in both your bodies, one by one?"

"Heh-heh, of course I'm going to Mount Paozu for some buns. Chi-Chi's a little fierce most of the time, but the way she'll cry and beg for mercy in bed will definitely be even better than Bulma!" Lin Fan answered himself with a lecherous grin.

"Shut up!!!"

A shrill roar, like that of a dying beast, came from the ruins.

Boom!

A dazzling golden beam shot into the sky, tearing through the dust that filled the air. The ultimate humiliation and fury finally pushed Son Goku past his limit. His hair shot up and turned gold, and his emerald eyes held nothing but pure killing intent.

Super Saiyan!

Son Goku became a bolt of golden lightning and charged straight at Lin Fan.

But it was useless. Unlike Vegeta, Son Goku's base power hadn't been relentlessly boosted by Son Gohan. Even after transforming, his power was less than a tenth of Vegeta's.

Laughing wildly, Lin Fan charged to meet them, thrusting out both hands. He clamped one hand around Son Goku's neck and precisely seized Vegeta's head with the other as he came flying up from the crater, lifting both Super Saiyans into the air.

"Yes! That's it! Get angrier! The stronger you get, the stronger I get!"

Lin Fan's smile twisted completely out of shape. He felt the invincible power within him surge again as the two grew stronger, and he was so exhilarated he nearly shouted aloud.

The stronger he got, the more people he could trample underfoot! The more women he could sleep with!!

Lin Fan's mind was already racing ahead, imagining his glorious future. Once the Android Saga came around, he'd add the alluring Android 18 and the even more voluptuous Android 21 to his harem! And when he traveled to other universes, even the lofty Angel Vados would have to kneel before him and serve him!

"You two are useless. Time to end this game." A cold glint flashed in Lin Fan's eyes. He couldn't bear to kill these two pieces on the board, but he could cripple their arms and legs and teach them a lesson, so they'd stop bothering him.

Just then.

Vegeta, whose head was in Lin Fan's grasp and who seemed to have completely lost the ability to resist, suddenly gave a cruel grin.

Lin Fan froze for a moment.

The next second, Vegeta's right hand, hanging at his side, shot up and clamped tightly around Lin Fan's wrist.

At some point, a walnut-sized ball of energy had formed in Vegeta's other palm.

It wasn't Vegeta's ki.

It was purple-red.

Frenzied, deathly, and carrying an absolute aura of destruction that could erase all rules.

This was a blast of Hakai Energy that Son Gohan had released in the valley using the God of Spacetime Destruction's Bracer. He had planted it inside Vegeta as a trump card!

Vegeta had originally thought the energy would never come in handy and that he could easily deal with Lin Fan. But Lin Fan was simply too monstrous.

"Die, you bastard!"

Vegeta roared furiously as he slammed the purple energy ball against Lin Fan's chest.

Boom!

A blinding purple light instantly engulfed Lin Fan.