Probing

Son Gohan looked down, following the line of sight. The man sitting boldly on the sofa had a wild, spiky hairstyle with two iconic bangs hanging over his forehead. His face was a perfect fusion of Son Goku and Vegeta.

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

The invincible fusion warrior of the Dragon Ball World.

Vegito.

A chill flashed through Son Gohan's eyes. This transmigrator named Lin Fan must have a system; he had actually managed to obtain this invincible body belonging to a fusion warrior. No wonder he dared to occupy Capsule Corporation so brazenly, treating the Earth as his own harem.

He just wondered how much strength this fusion body, obtained through a cheat, actually possessed right now.

Below, Lin Fan finally moved.

He let go of Bulma in his arms, and his figure vanished from the living room without warning. A second later, he was already hovering in mid-air with one hand in his pocket, facing Vegeta, who was burning with a golden aura, from a distance.

Facing Vegeta's terrifying energy, which was enough to easily destroy the Earth, Lin Fan merely yawned out of boredom.

"I thought you stray dogs had hidden away in some rat hole, but it turns out you were secretly training to become a Super Saiyan." Lin Fan picked at his ear, his eyes looking as if he were staring at a pile of trash. "Is this it? Is this the confidence you have to come here and throw your life away?"

Vegeta's face turned livid at these words, veins bulging as the energy waves around him surged even higher.

"Damn you!"

Lin Fan didn't even look at him properly, instead turning his gaze toward the skyscraper where Piccolo and the others were hiding.

"Son Goku, since you're here, stop hiding like a coward." A wicked arc curled at the corner of Lin Fan's mouth. "Whether it's you or Vegeta, even if you two risked your lives training for a hundred years, you would never be able to touch a single thread of my clothes. Don't believe me? Try attacking together."

"Lin Fan!!!"

A cracked, roaring scream erupted from the building in the distance.

Son Goku's eyes had completely lost their reason. The red light of the Kaioken exploded outward, and he smashed through the roof like a burning cannonball, charging toward Lin Fan with the desperate resolve of taking him down together. His mind was filled only with his friends, his wife, and his son, who had been wantonly humiliated.

However, things did not go as planned.

Slap.

A crisp, explosive sound rang out. Lin Fan didn't even turn his head, merely waving his hand backward casually.

Son Goku was sent flying backward at ten times the speed he had arrived, crashing into a commercial building below. The entire structure collapsed instantly, burying him beneath the rubble.

"Kakarot, you idiot! Get out of my way!" Vegeta roared. "A low-level warrior who can't even turn into a Super Saiyan, don't come here and be an eyesore! I am Super Vegeta now! I will be the one to defeat Lin Fan!"

The moment the words left his lips, Super Vegeta moved.

With his terrifying combat power of five billion fully unleashed, the sky was instantly torn apart by golden afterimages. Vegeta transformed into a beam of light, countless fist shadows carrying destructive power slamming fiercely toward Lin Fan's face.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Deafening collision sounds echoed throughout West City, and the violent shockwaves shredded the surrounding clouds to pieces.

On the distant skyscraper, Krillin and Piccolo gripped the edge of the rooftop tightly, their faces ashen as they watched Goku being defeated so easily. Tien Shinhan and Yamcha, who had just arrived at the scene, also fell into a deathly silence as they watched the battle in mid-air.

At Mount Paozu, little Son Gohan, who was protecting his mother, closed his eyes and sensed the distant battlefield, worry overflowing his brow.

In mid-air.

Lin Fan used only a single index finger to nonchalantly block all of Vegeta's frantic attacks. No matter how fast Vegeta was or how great his strength, Lin Fan's finger always managed to steady his iron fists.

Above the clouds.

Son Gohan watched this scene quietly, his brain working rapidly.

Something was wrong.

Vegeta's base form had been pushed to the one-hundred-million mark by him using Senzu Beans, and his combat power in the Super Saiyan state should be an astronomical figure at this point in time. Even with the body of a fusion warrior, Lin Fan shouldn't be this strong.

Yet, his energy was eerily just enough to suppress Vegeta. Not a bit more, not a bit less—just enough to toy with him using one hand.

Son Gohan instantly cleared up the logic.

Lin Fan's cheat must have given him some kind of "strength anchoring" passive mechanism. As long as Son Goku and Vegeta grew stronger, Lin Fan's strength would automatically rise to match them, keeping him in a state of absolute suppression. Conversely, any increase in Lin Fan's own strength would not feed back into these two original protagonists.

No wonder this guy wasn't in a hurry to kill them, but kept them alive instead. As long as these two Saiyans kept training desperately, he could continuously obtain even greater power.

In this way, relying on Vegeta's own strength, it would be impossible to test Lin Fan's true upper limit.

Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance.

"Vegeta, didn't you eat? With trash like you, you call yourself Super Vegeta? I think 'Super Loser Vegeta' is more like it!" Lin Fan sneered, backhanding a kick into Vegeta's abdomen.

Vegeta spat out a mouthful of blood, his body slamming into the ground like a kite with a broken string, creating a massive crater in the Capsule Corporation plaza.

Lin Fan hovered in mid-air, turning to look at the ruins in the distance, his voice carried by his energy across half the city.

"Son Goku, stop playing dead. This half-dead look of yours is truly disgusting." Lin Fan laughed wantonly. "Guess where I'm going tonight after I crush your bones inch by inch today?"

"Hehe, to Mount Paozu to eat buns, of course. Although that woman Chi-Chi is a bit fierce, the way she cries and begs for mercy in bed is definitely more flavorful than Bulma!" Lin Fan asked and answered himself with an evil grin.

"Shut up!!!"

A shrill, beast-like roar of a dying creature erupted from the ruins.

BOOM!

A brilliant golden light shot straight into the sky, tearing the smoke and dust apart completely. Extreme humiliation and rage finally broke the limit; Son Goku's hair instantly stood on end and turned gold, and nothing but pure killing intent remained in his emerald-green eyes.

Super Saiyan!

Son Goku transformed into a streak of golden lightning, charging straight at Lin Fan.

It was useless. His base combat power had not been refreshed by Son Gohan's frantic training like Vegeta's had, so even after successfully transforming, his combat strength was not even a tenth of Vegeta's.

Lin Fan laughed maniacally as he met them head-on, both hands striking out. One hand clamped tightly around Son Goku's throat, while the other precisely gripped the head of Vegeta, who had just surged up from the deep crater, hoisting both Super Saiyans into mid-air.

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

The smile on Lin Fan's face twisted completely. He felt the invincible power within his body surging once more as they grew stronger, and he felt so exhilarated he nearly screamed aloud.

The stronger he became, the more people he could trample underfoot! The more people he could surpass!

Lin Fan's mind was already frantically sketching out a beautiful blueprint for the future. Once he reached the Androids arc, that cold and glamorous Android 18, and even the curvaceous Android 21 further down the line, would all be taken into his harem! Once he traveled to other universes, even that high and mighty Angel Vados would have to obediently kneel before him and serve him!

"You two pieces of trash, the game ends here." A cold glint flashed in Lin Fan's eyes; he was reluctant to kill these fragments, but he could cripple their limbs first to teach them a lesson so they would stop pestering him.

Just then.

Vegeta, whose head was being gripped and who appeared to have completely lost the ability to resist, suddenly curled his lips into an incredibly cruel sneer.

Lin Fan froze for a split second.

The next second, Vegeta's right hand, which had been hanging at his side, suddenly shot up and clamped onto Lin Fan's wrist with a death grip.

In the palm of Vegeta's other hand, a walnut-sized energy ball had manifested at some point.

It was not Vegeta's Ki.

It was purple-red.

Violent, deathly silent, and carrying an aura of absolute destruction that erased all rules.

This was a sliver of Hakai Energy that Son Gohan had released in the valley using the God of Spacetime Destruction's bracer, stored within Vegeta's body as a trump card!

Vegeta had originally thought this thing would never be of any use and that he could easily handle Lin Fan, but Lin Fan was simply too monstrous.

"Go to hell, you piece of trash!"

Vegeta roared frantically, slamming that purple energy ball hard against Lin Fan's chest.

BOOM!

A blinding purple light instantly swallowed Lin Fan's body.