Dragon Ball: The God Gohan
Chapter 30

Capturing Gregory (3)

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Whoosh. Gregory instantly burst out at top speed, turning into a streak of golden light as he rushed to another spot.

This time, Son Gohan did not chase after him. Instead, he stood where he was, calm and composed, watching the slightly flustered Gregory.

Son Goku and the other two watching were all somewhat surprised. It was exactly as if he had known the other party's movements in advance and only needed to wait at the spot for him to deliver himself to the door.

Gregory was a little scared.

Yes, the person before him, who looked to be the youngest among the four of them, could actually give him a feeling of fear.

It felt as if, in that instant just now, he himself had been like an insect in a spiderweb. No matter which direction he went, the only result was being caught by the other party.

Last night, Gregory had actually asked Bubbles about it. The latter had said that everyone else was more or less fine, but the youngest one gave him the strangest feeling.

Now it seemed that he had indeed been right!

Moreover, Gregory, who had always been confident, now felt somewhat agitated. He had always had tremendous confidence in his own speed, yet now he felt completely humiliated.

Gregory was furious!

A curve appeared at the corner of Son Gohan's mouth. He could sense that Gregory's aura had already fallen into disorder, which meant that the movements he had made just now had achieved the effect he wanted.

The next second, Son Gohan took the initiative to flash forward and launch an attack, charging toward Gregory.

Seeing the other party rush at him, Gregory snorted coldly and directly burst out with his own speed, beginning to move.

Everyone present saw a streak of golden light begin to flicker continuously around Son Gohan, forming a polygonal band of light with him at the center.

This was purely Gregory bullying Son Gohan, as if telling him there was no way he could catch him.

But among those present, Son Goku was smiling, seeming not worried at all that Son Gohan would fail to catch Gregory, while Piccolo beside him gave a soft snort, seeming somewhat displeased.

"Kakarot, why do I feel like none of you are worried at all?" Raditz looked at Son Goku and asked in confusion.

Son Goku smiled and answered, "That guy called Gregory has already been provoked by Gohan's goading and lost his most basic rational judgment. In that case, next, Gohan will handle this test relatively easily."

Raditz had just wanted to keep asking why, when Gregory was clearly so much faster, he was still so optimistic that Son Gohan could win, but he suddenly remembered what Son Gohan had said to him before.

He began to think with his head, wondering why Son Gohan would do this.

Very quickly, Raditz more or less figured out the key to it, and a look of realization appeared on his face.

For the first time, he learned that fighting could actually be played like this.

In the field, Son Gohan did not keep standing there. Instead, he tried to catch Gregory's figure.

But no matter how one looked at those movements, they were perfunctory, as if he were slacking off.

Less than ten minutes passed before Gregory's speed began to slow, and Son Gohan seized this opportunity and struck decisively.

At first, Gregory could still rely on his speed to pull away from Son Gohan, but afterward, his speed began to grow slower and slower.

In the end, Son Gohan still became the first person to catch Gregory.

"At the start, you deliberately angered me?" Gregory suddenly called out to Son Gohan, who had already walked away.

Son Gohan turned around and said, "That was only because you couldn't control your temper. It wasn't me angering you."

After saying that, he walked straight back to his original resting spot and did not look at Gregory again.

It was not that he did not want to use his own strength to catch Gregory. With Son Gohan's current strength, even if he erupted with his aura, it would still be very difficult to catch Gregory at this speed.

So he could only use strategy to scheme against the other party, thereby passing this test.

Of course, there was an old saying: whether it was a black cat or a white cat, the one that could catch mice was a good cat. After all, all was fair in war. A loss was a loss, and there was nothing much to say.

Next, Son Goku and Piccolo did not immediately go up. Instead, after giving Gregory ample time to rest, they continued the test.

The first to go up was still Son Goku. This time, he did not use a very long time before catching Gregory.

In this capture, Son Goku did not copy Son Gohan's method of first exhausting Gregory. Instead, relying on his own speed, along with his use of the terrain on King Kai's Planet, he took him down.

In the original work, Son Goku had tried who knew how many times, smashing all of King Kai's Planet until it was full of pits and craters, and finally relied on the terrain to take him down. Here, there actually was not much difference.

The next one to go up, however, was not Piccolo, but Raditz, who had always been at the bottom.

This did make Son Gohan somewhat surprised. He had not expected Raditz's mentality to change back so quickly.

But Son Gohan was very much looking forward to what Raditz could do this time.

This time, Raditz still could not catch up with Gregory, but he began to learn from Son Goku and make use of King Kai's Planet's terrain, while also learning from Piccolo to judge the other party's movement trajectory.

Very quickly, Raditz went from completely unable to keep up with the other party at the start, slowly transitioning to being able to gradually keep up, and later even making Gregory begin to not dare act recklessly.

In the end, Raditz still relied on the delaying tactics from the previous test to have the last laugh, successfully catching Gregory.

Son Gohan would not think Raditz was too shameless. On the contrary, as the one with the lowest combat power among the four, he could only use these methods to pass.

On the contrary, a Raditz who truly knew how to use his brain was the Raditz Son Gohan needed most.

Next, after Gregory had rested well again, Piccolo got up and began walking into the field to undergo the final test.

After he walked up in front of Gregory, Piccolo suddenly said, "Son Goku passed the test in seven minutes and thirty-two seconds, while I only need this much time."

As he spoke, Piccolo raised his hand and spread his palm, indicating that he only needed five minutes.

"You're looking down on me?" Gregory was somewhat displeased again when he heard this.

"No."

Piccolo shook his head and said, "This is a battle between Son Goku and me, not a battle with you."

Hearing that, Gregory's mind nearly exploded on the spot, but it still drew in a deep breath and forced down the anger in its heart.

At that moment, it had already made its decision: no matter what, it would not let Piccolo catch it within five minutes.

But what happened afterward was beyond everyone's expectations: Piccolo only took three minutes and forty-two seconds to catch Gregory in his hand.

And the method he used was very simple. Relying purely on speed and his read on Gregory's movements, he quickly caught his opponent.

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