Chapter Summaries

Son Gohan ordered custom weighted equipment and commissioned Milai to modify ten Scouters with higher detection limits and added tracking functions. Milai then offered him a potential-stimulating instrument to help him grow stronger before the duke promotion battle, and Son Gohan questioned whether it was safe.

• Son Gohan ordered custom weighted equipment from a forging shop and arranged for it to be delivered to Marquis Cassani's residence.
• Son Gohan asked Milai about Scouters and learned that the tenth-generation model detected energy up to around one million.
• Son Gohan contracted Milai to modify ten Scouters with higher detection limits, M and Y numerical units, and energy- and heat-tracking functions.
• Milai recognized Son Gohan as a Saiyan and offered him a newly developed instrument that could stimulate his body's potential.
• Milai claimed the instrument could save months of training ahead of the duke promotion battle, and Son Gohan asked how he knew the machine was safe.

Son Gohan declined Milai’s offer to use the Potential Unleasher and later invited Eliza to dinner. After learning about her complicated past, he chose dishes from her home planet and told her he did not mind what he had learned.

• Son Gohan rejected Milai’s Potential Unleasher, worried it might be a trap, and returned to the Virtual Hall.
• Eliza called Son Gohan to collect on their bet, and he invited her to dinner that night.
• Son Gohan received information about Eliza’s past, read it, and deleted the email.
• Eliza arrived at the restaurant and recognized the dishes as delicacies from her home planet.
• Eliza asked whether Son Gohan knew about her past and feared she might kill him someday, and he said he did not mind.

Son Gohan persuaded Eliza to join his team after learning that a powerful fighter had nearly killed her. Eliza reported to Cassani's estate the next day, where Son Gohan was already studying the Duke Promotion Battle opponents and had found several who concerned him.

• Son Gohan invited Eliza to join his team, and she warned him that a fighter who had nearly killed her was a monster.
• Son Gohan asked for the fighter's information and urged Eliza to join him so he could help her grow strong enough to take revenge.
• Eliza agreed to join Son Gohan's team and promised herself she would eventually beat him.
• Son Gohan returned to Cassani's estate and continued training, while reflecting on Eliza's combat talent and potential.
• Eliza arrived at the estate the next day, and Son Gohan studied information about the Duke Promotion Battle fighters, finding several opponents alarming.

Son Gohan reviewed the Duke Promotion Battle fighters’ strength and decided to train until he could compete. After eating, he fought Eliza and used fourfold Kaioken, overpowering her and pulling her off balance.

• Son Gohan saw that most Duke Promotion Battle contestants were stronger than him and resolved to raise his strength over the next half year.
• Cassani thanked Son Gohan for persuading Eliza to join their team, then left them alone.
• Son Gohan ate before heading to the training ground, where Eliza challenged him after beating two other fighters.
• Son Gohan and Eliza exchanged rapid attacks, and he noticed she had grown strong enough to fight him while he used threefold Kaioken.
• Son Gohan activated fourfold Kaioken, caught Eliza’s punch, and yanked her off balance toward him.

Son Gohan and Eliza began training together aboard his upgraded spaceship, using intense gravity and Magic Metal Rings to build their strength. After Eliza adapted to one hundred times gravity, Son Gohan prepared a set of special gear for them, leaving its purpose unrevealed.

• Son Gohan kissed Eliza during their fight, then headed to his modified spaceship while she protested and followed him inside.
• Son Gohan activated training mode and set the spaceship to eighty times gravity, forcing Eliza to struggle to her feet while he trained with his Magic Metal Rings still active.
• Eliza adapted to eighty times gravity in ten days and, after struggling again at one hundred times gravity, adapted to that level in less than ten more days.
• Son Gohan asked the spaceship's smart butler, Louis, to bring out special gear for him and Eliza, and mechanical arms revealed two boxes containing ten glowing purple rings.

Son Gohan trained with Eliza aboard the spaceship, pushing their bodies with heavy metal rings and increasing gravity while explaining why mental discipline mattered as much as physical strength. After contemplating his lesson, Eliza gained a new understanding of training and began keeping pace with his progress.

• Son Gohan and Eliza put on metal rings, but Eliza mistakenly chose fifteen tons and collapsed before insisting that she did not need his help.
• Son Gohan and Eliza trained for two months as he raised the spaceship’s gravity to fifty times and changed his routine to develop more flexible, enduring muscles.
• Son Gohan explained to Eliza that strength included willpower and self-mastery, and that training the mind helped people resist emotion and outside control.
• Eliza spent an afternoon contemplating Son Gohan’s words, then comprehended their meaning and kept up with his training progress.

Raditz trained under Master Roshi and prepared to face Nappa and Vegeta when they arrived on Earth. He confronted them in the Gobi desert, where Nappa began attacking while Vegeta watched Raditz with interest.

• Raditz became Master Roshi’s disciple and learned from his martial arts experience and teachings about mental willpower.
• Nappa and Vegeta landed on Earth, and Raditz sensed them and flew to meet them.
• Raditz waited for Nappa and Vegeta on a mountain peak in the Gobi desert.
• Raditz rejected Nappa’s claims about Saiyan status and challenged him to understand what a warrior really was.
• Nappa unleashed his power and charged at Raditz, who remained calm as Vegeta observed him.

Raditz defeated Nappa after revealing combat power far beyond what Vegeta expected. With Nappa unconscious, Raditz faced Vegeta, who prepared to fight him.

• Raditz and Nappa exchanged heavy blows, while Raditz accused Vegeta and Nappa of treating him as a tool and betraying the Saiyans’ former freedom.
• Vegeta ordered Nappa to kill Raditz, but Raditz caught Nappa’s punch, struck him with a knee, and sent him flying with a punch.
• Vegeta’s Scouter showed Raditz’s combat power rising from 3,100 to 8,700, then to 10,700 as Raditz overpowered Nappa’s rage-fueled attack.
• Raditz knocked Nappa unconscious with a palm blast, kicked him away, and challenged Vegeta.
• Vegeta crushed his Scouter and declared that battle power would decide the fight, and Raditz told him to attack.

Raditz fought Vegeta and used Kaioken to match the Saiyan prince, who answered with his Galick Gun. The chapter ended with Raditz’s Kamehameha and Vegeta’s attack locked in a beam struggle.

• Raditz and Vegeta began fighting while Goku and the other Earth warriors watched from above.
• Vegeta bombarded Raditz with energy blasts, but Raditz dodged until Vegeta finally struck him.
• Raditz emerged from the smoke with a red aura and used Kaioken to raise his power above Vegeta’s.
• Raditz and Vegeta exchanged attacks at close range, and Raditz realized that even double Kaioken only let him fight Vegeta to a draw.
• Vegeta fired a Galick Gun as Raditz launched a Kamehameha, and their beams collided in a stalemate.

Raditz defeated Vegeta with Triple Kaioken, but Vegeta survived and revealed that Nappa had created an Artificial Moon. As Vegeta and Nappa prepared to transform into Great Apes while retaining their reason, Son Goku and the others faced a new threat.

• Vegeta overwhelmed Raditz's Kamehameha until Raditz used Triple Kaioken and forced Vegeta's Galick Gun back.
• Raditz's Kamehameha swallowed Vegeta, and Raditz recovered with a Senzu Bean after Son Goku and the others arrived.
• Piccolo sensed that Vegeta was still alive, and Vegeta challenged Raditz to stop him from using the Saiyans' Great Ape transformation.
• Raditz revealed that he had destroyed the moon, but Nappa awakened and created an Artificial Moon.
• Raditz warned Son Goku that Vegeta and Nappa could keep their reason as Great Apes, and Son Goku prepared to fight them together.

Raditz and the others killed Nappa before he finished transforming, but Vegeta became a Great Ape and overwhelmed Son Goku and Raditz. As Raditz tried to distract Vegeta and buy time, Vegeta fired a mouth blast at him.

• Raditz, Son Gohan, Piccolo, and the others attacked Nappa during his transformation, and Piccolo killed him with the Special Beam Cannon.
• Vegeta transformed into a Great Ape, while Raditz revealed that he had cut off his own tail to avoid a transformation he could not control.
• Raditz explained that they needed to stall until the Artificial Moon disappeared, but Son Goku charged Vegeta and proposed that Raditz look for a chance to cut off his tail.
• Vegeta knocked away Son Goku's attack, blasted him with a mouth cannon, and struck Raditz aside as both tried to fight him.
• Raditz kept firing energy blasts to distract Vegeta while Son Goku recovered, but Vegeta aimed a mouth blast at Raditz.

Son Goku and the others overwhelmed Great Ape Vegeta with a combined attack, but Vegeta prepared a blast powerful enough to destroy Earth. As Goku held him in a beam struggle, Raditz cut off Vegeta’s tail, allowing Goku’s Kamehameha to engulf him.

• Son Goku mastered the four-times Kaioken and joined Piccolo and the others in attacking Great Ape Vegeta.
• Vegeta raised an energy barrier, then gathered power for an attack that threatened to destroy Earth along with his enemies.
• Son Goku gathered his allies’ ki and fired a four-times Kaioken Kamehameha against Vegeta’s blast, creating a devastating stalemate.
• Raditz used triple Kaioken to sneak behind Vegeta and cut off his tail.
• Vegeta shrank and lost the power of his mouth blast, and Son Goku’s Kamehameha swallowed him.

After the battle on Earth, Son Goku spared Vegeta and revived Nappa, who agreed to fight alongside them. Son Gohan learned Earth was safe, then collided with an octopus-like alien on a commercial street and found his hand caught by one of its tentacles.

• Son Goku stopped Raditz from killing the badly wounded Vegeta, and Vegeta swore to return and claim the Dragon Balls before flying away.
• Son Goku fed Nappa a Senzu Bean and gave him the choice to reform and protect Earth; Nappa agreed.
• King Kai told Son Gohan that Goku and the others had defeated the aliens, Piccolo had survived, and Vegeta had been spared.
• Son Gohan left Cassani's estate and walked through a commercial street, reflecting on how real his new life felt.
• Son Gohan bumped into an octopus-like alien and reached to help it up, but a tentacle wrapped around his hand as someone shouted at him.

Son Gohan met Marellia, the Galactic King's younger sister, and accepted her invitation to dinner, where he grew suspicious of her attentions. Marellia revealed that she needed his help, and Gohan began guessing that she had chosen him because he was a Saiyan.

• Son Gohan apologized after accidentally knocking Marellia over, and she introduced herself and invited him to dine with her.
• Marellia sent her fish-headed bodyguard out of their private dining room and shared her planet's food with Gohan.
• After dinner, Gohan confronted Marellia about her hidden purpose, and she admitted that she needed his help.
• Marellia said she had chosen Gohan because the Duke Promotion Battle contestants were too expensive and unsuitable.
• Gohan reasoned that Marquis Cassani was not influential enough to explain her choice and asked whether she had chosen him because he was a Saiyan.

Son Gohan learned that Marellia wanted his help against Cooler’s Armored Squadron, which planned to target Musli Planet after the Duke Promotion Battle. He refused to accept her offer of a noble title and friendship, judging the danger too great for the reward.

• Son Gohan deduced that Marellia had approached him because he was a Saiyan and asked whether Frieza was her target.
• Marellia explained that Frieza had made a secret agreement with her brother, dividing the galaxy’s living planets between them, and that her target was Cooler.
• Marellia revealed that Cooler’s Armored Squadron would come to Musli Planet after the Duke Promotion Battle, while Cooler himself would be occupied for seven to nine months.
• Son Gohan refused to help, warning that Cooler might retaliate and saying the promised title and friendship were not enough to justify the risk.

Son Gohan negotiated with Marellia for access to the Musli Empire’s technology and freedom from Galactic Patrol interference, then reconsidered his plan to visit Namek. He decided to focus on training and surpass Son Goku by becoming a Super Saiyan first.

• Son Gohan told Marellia he would only help against Cooler if the Musli Empire offered him enough in return.
• Son Gohan demanded access to the Musli Empire’s highest-level technology and intelligence, and Marellia accepted.
• Son Gohan also demanded that the Galactic Patrol stop monitoring the Saiyans and never interfere with him; Marellia consulted the Galactic King, who agreed to grant the privilege to Son Gohan alone.
• Marellia promised to monitor Cooler’s Armored Squadron and notify Son Gohan if it moved toward them.
• Back at his spaceship, Son Gohan reconsidered traveling to Namek and resolved to train until he became a Super Saiyan ahead of Son Goku.

Son Gohan overcame his hesitation and decided to pursue strength quickly so he could face Cooler, whose forces he believed might be stronger than expected. He agreed to teach Eliza Kaioken after half a month, when they would fight under conditions that tested her without his using the technique.

• Son Gohan resolved that he needed overwhelming strength as well as wisdom to protect what he cared about.
• Son Gohan reasoned that Cooler and the Armored Squadron might be more powerful than in the theatrical movie, making his own training urgent.
• Eliza noticed Son Gohan's new confidence, and he told her he intended to go against Cooler.
• Son Gohan challenged Eliza to fight again in half a month, and Eliza asked him either to teach her Kaioken or not use it against her.
• Son Gohan agreed to teach Eliza Kaioken on the condition that she keep it secret and pass his test without him using the technique.
• Eliza said there was one more thing she wanted to discuss.

Son Gohan trained with Eliza, received honorary status and unrestricted access to the Musli Empire’s technological archives, and learned that Cooler’s Armored Squadron was being monitored. Half a month later, he and Eliza began their private sparring match, with Son Gohan catching her first punch.

• Eliza asked Son Gohan to transfer her some money, then left the spaceship to take care of something.
• Son Gohan adapted to higher gravity far faster than before and raised the training multiplier to sixty times, pushing Eliza through the same punishing training.
• Marellia told Son Gohan that the Musli Empire had named him an Honorary Councilor and granted him access to its technology archives, while her brother had secured his confidentiality with the Galactic Patrol.
• Marellia said the Galactic Patrol had tracked Cooler’s Armored Squadron and promised to alert Son Gohan if they made an unusual move; Son Gohan continued training.
• Half a month later, Eliza and Son Gohan began a private sparring match without Kaioken, and both charged into a head-on clash.
• Eliza punched at Son Gohan’s face, but he caught her fist and said her power was not enough to beat him.

Eliza unleashed her crimson power and overwhelmed Son Gohan with a sudden burst of speed, believing she had finally overcome the opponent who had haunted her since her previous Marquis advancement battle. Son Gohan turned the fight around and struck her down, but Eliza still forced herself to counterattack as he pressed his advantage.

• Eliza awakened her crimson flames and used her speed to land a series of blows on Son Gohan.
• Son Gohan caught Eliza off guard by grabbing her tail and exploiting openings, but Eliza powered up again and battered him with punches and energy blasts.
• Eliza mocked Son Gohan after her bombardment, believing he had been defeated, but he reappeared beside her.
• Son Gohan struck Eliza in the face and drove her into the ground, then dropped a knee onto her abdomen.
• Eliza endured the pain and punched at Son Gohan's face.

Son Gohan pushed Eliza to awaken a powerful crimson transformation, but her loss of self-awareness made her attacks overwhelm him. He adapted by relying on spiritual perception to evade her, and the fight continued with Eliza unable to land a hit.

• Son Gohan battered Eliza and taunted her, hoping to draw out her hidden power.
• Eliza erupted in crimson flames, transformed, and knocked Son Gohan flying with a powerful strike.
• Eliza's strength surged, and she repeatedly overpowered Son Gohan as he tried to counterattack.
• Son Gohan broke free from Eliza's grip and shut his eyes, using spiritual perception to read her movements.
• Eliza attacked faster and from different angles, but Son Gohan dodged every blow.