Raditz's Unwillingness (Recommended update, vote if you have tickets!)

When Son Gohan slowly approached him, Bubbles, who had always seemed very calm, began to grow faintly nervous.

Not far away, Gregory gave a soft sound of surprise at the sight, but he could already roughly judge that things might not be so simple for Bubbles this time.

Son Goku, watching the fight, smiled when he saw Son Gohan's state, because this was a change in presence, a confident aura that carried absolute certainty.

To put it another way, it was like morale to an army—a comprehensive boost in every respect.

Son Gohan stood two meters away from Bubbles, the other's figure reflected in the black pupils of his eyes, as if he had locked him inside a cage.

Whoosh~

The next moment, Son Gohan, like the three before him, arrived in front of Bubbles, but he had walked up to him slowly.

But what he did afterward left the other three a little puzzled, because Son Gohan did not reach out toward Bubbles. Instead, he stood two meters opposite him.

Strangely, Bubbles also stood in place without moving. It was not that he did not want to move, but that he felt if he dared to move, the other side would catch him at once.

Bubbles did not know when this feeling had arisen in his heart, but it was utterly impossible to suppress.

Between them, it was as if time had been stopped. They began glaring at each other in a stalemate, neither moving an inch.

Time ticked by, second by second. Son Gohan was not anxious at all, because he knew that without gathering ki or exploding into motion, relying on physical strength alone to catch Bubbles under these circumstances was simply impossible.

After all, none of the four of them had adjusted to the gravity conditions on King Kai's Planet yet. Perhaps after a day or two, catching him would not actually be difficult. The only fear was that King Kai would be dissatisfied because of that.

Finally, because of an animal's naturally restless nature, Bubbles was the first to lose his patience after all.

The instant Bubbles moved, the ki Son Gohan had kept locked onto him sensed the disturbance, and he erupted at that very same moment.

Bubbles had extremely powerful jumping ability. Even while in midair, he forcibly changed direction through his control over his own body.

But who would have known that Son Gohan's earlier movement had not been real at all? He had merely gone through the motions.

In the very next moment, he drove power through his body and pounced straight toward Bubbles, who was already in the middle of changing direction.

For the first time, Bubbles panicked. He had not expected Son Gohan to overcome this planet's gravity as soon as he arrived, far surpassing the guy from before who had made two rhythm changes.

Seeing this, Piccolo's eyes narrowed slightly. He naturally saw the meaning behind Son Gohan's sequence.

First, he had used ki to lock firmly onto Bubbles. Immediately after, he had used a feint that cost him very little to bait out Bubbles's first move.

This was entirely a psychological battle. From the initial pressure of his aura to the later feint, it flowed in one seamless motion!

But just as Son Gohan was about to touch Bubbles, the latter bent both legs at the moment before he was caught and planted them directly against Son Gohan's hands.

Borrowing that rebound force, Bubbles suddenly broke free of Son Gohan's catching range and dodged away by the narrowest of margins.

What Piccolo found hardest to understand was how this brat had overcome the strange gravity of this planet.

If not for this gravity, Piccolo and Son Goku would have caught this little ape long ago.

But was Son Gohan someone who came unprepared?

As early as after Piccolo's two rhythm changes had both failed, he had already simulated in his mind every possible situation and response for catching Bubbles.

Just as Bubbles had barely dodged away, Son Gohan kicked off the ground with both legs, sending his body shooting out once more.

Bubbles froze, and was caught in Son Gohan's hands just like that, no longer moving.

Looking at Bubbles in his hands, Son Gohan laughed a few times, then put him on the ground. Afterward, he went over to the base of a nearby tree, leaned against it, and began closing his eyes to rest.

Because next, he had to wait for Son Goku and the other three to catch Bubbles, while he needed to rest and digest what he had gained this time.

The reason he felt a little tired was that just now, Son Gohan had used most of the muscles in his entire body to create an illusion convincing enough to fool Bubbles.

At the same time, this was also the key to overcoming this planet's strange gravity.

To put it plainly, this planet's gravity fluctuated according to the movements of your body. As long as you could make good use of your muscles, it could even become your assistance.

That was also how Son Gohan had been able to launch a third charge, by relying on the effect of this gravity.

To use a simple analogy, it was like someone binding you with a spring rope. The more you wanted to escape them, the greater the pulling force of the spring rope on you became.

But when you turned around and borrowed that force instead, it would become an extremely powerful aid.

Otherwise, if it were only a simple feint, did they really think he was just some little ape who was easy to fool?

As for how the other three would catch Bubbles, that was no longer Son Gohan's business. After all, there was already a successful example in front of them.

If they still could not figure out the key point within a short time, then they would not deserve to be the protagonists and powerhouses of the original work.

Sure enough, before long, Piccolo became the second to catch Bubbles. He also came to the tree Son Gohan was leaning against and sat down.

Piccolo's method was actually more or less the same as Son Gohan's. He had also figured out the gravity fluctuations on this planet, and thus caught Bubbles after three rhythm changes.

The third, with no surprise at all, was Son Goku. He did not use any rhythm changes, relying entirely on his physical ability to catch Bubbles after countless attempts.

In the end, only Raditz was left. Son Gohan knew this fellow probably would not have it so easy.

This was not to say Raditz's talent was trash or anything, but because his past fighting style had destined him to rarely use his brain.

First of all, the Saiyan way of fighting generally involved clashing head-on with force, and they rarely used schemes or strategy.

As for those Raditz could not handle, Nappa and Vegeta would deal with them, so he was destined to have almost never thought about how exactly he should fight better.

He could only learn from Son Goku, constantly trying to forcibly capture Bubbles, much like Son Goku when he had first arrived on King Kai's Planet in the original work.

The three of them were not impatient, and instead quietly waited under the tree for Raditz.

Once, twice, three times...

After many attempts, Raditz still could not catch Bubbles, but he did not give up.

Because he simply did not dare to give up. If he could not even catch him, then there was no way he would make it past Son Gohan's trial.

And Raditz did not want to truly become a piece of trash, either. He wanted to grow stronger and stop being the same as he had been before.

Sooner or later, he would definitely have to face Nappa and Vegeta. Raditz wanted to prove that he was not the useless low-class warrior they claimed he was.

All of this turned into Raditz's motivation. He gritted his teeth and kept chasing Bubbles, never stopping to rest for even a moment.

Gregory watched this scene and shook his head helplessly, but Son Gohan's lips curved slightly before he closed his eyes and began to meditate.

When it came to people, poor talent was not what was frightening. What was frightening was having poor talent and, at the same time, not even having the heart to become stronger. That was what made someone truly worthless.