Chapter Summaries

Son Gohan used surprise tactics to turn Frieza and King Cold’s attacks against each other, then deliberately fought both at full strength without transforming to push his combat potential. He was trapped in their encirclement, but his sudden remark left King Cold’s confidence unsettled.

• Son Gohan redirected Frieza’s energy blast, increased his speed, and attacked him before King Cold could reach him.
• Son Gohan dodged King Cold’s blast so it struck Frieza, then evaded King Cold and charged toward the wounded Frieza.
• Son Gohan caught Frieza off guard with a Kamehameha, but Frieza powered up and forced the blast away.
• Son Gohan drove back King Cold with energy blasts, then fought Frieza at close range as King Cold joined in to encircle him.
• King Cold asked whether Son Gohan was risking his life to force out his potential, and Son Gohan replied that he had been waiting for this opportunity too.

Cooler joined Frieza and King Cold in overwhelming Son Gohan, but Son Gohan recovered with a Senzu Bean, transformed into a Super Saiyan, and forced Cooler's Supernova back into space. He rose from the crater and challenged the three enemies to attack him together.

• Cooler appeared and joined Frieza and King Cold in a relentless assault that drove Son Gohan into a crater.
• Cooler launched his Supernova Giant Bomb at Son Gohan, intending to destroy him along with Musli Planet.
• Son Gohan ate a Senzu Bean, recovered his strength, transformed into a Super Saiyan, and pushed the Supernova Giant Bomb back into space.
• King Cold ordered Frieza and Cooler to evade the bomb, then led them in surrounding Son Gohan as he rose from the crater.
• Son Gohan taunted the three enemies and challenged them to attack together before they lost their chance.

Son Gohan rescued Eliza from King Cold’s spaceship, but discovered she had been forced to swallow a self-destruct device. After sharing a kiss with her, he returned to face King Cold, Frieza, and Cooler, with King Cold having completed his transformation.

• King Cold began transforming while Frieza and Cooler tried to hold Son Gohan back, but Son Gohan let him finish and flew to the spaceship to rescue Eliza.
• Son Gohan broke into the ship, defeated a guard, and found Eliza bound in a prison cell.
• Eliza warned Son Gohan that removing her restraints would trigger the self-destruct device inside her, and he promised he could revive her if necessary.
• Eliza asked Son Gohan to kiss her before he left, and he kissed her on the lips before returning to the battlefield.
• Son Gohan confronted the transformed King Cold and threatened to kill all three of them if King Cold killed Eliza.

Son Gohan fought King Cold after King Cold completed his final transformation, and the two exchanged increasingly powerful attacks. King Cold trapped Son Gohan with silver energy and slowed him with electrified motes, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Son Gohan asked whether King Cold had another transformation, and King Cold said his current form was his final one.
• Son Gohan and King Cold exchanged rapid blows while testing each other's strength, until Son Gohan broke through King Cold's defenses and blasted him into a mountain.
• Son Gohan fired a Kamehameha into the mountain and destroyed it, then chased King Cold into the crater.
• King Cold trapped Son Gohan in silver energy ropes and sent silver cones at him, but Son Gohan broke free and withstood their impact.
• King Cold activated silver motes scattered over Son Gohan's body, slowing him with arcs of electricity.

Son Gohan struggled against King Cold’s energy prison, whose superior energy control and shrinking pressure thwarted his attempts to escape. After restoring his energy with a Senzu Bean, Son Gohan broke through to the second stage of Super Saiyan 1 and struck the prison with his enhanced strength.

• King Cold trapped Son Gohan in a light-screen prison and explained that he excelled at manipulating energy.
• Son Gohan recognized his lack of combat experience and tried to condense his energy into a point to pierce the prison.
• King Cold shrank the prison, increasing the pressure until Son Gohan had to abandon his plan.
• Son Gohan swallowed a Senzu Bean, restored his energy, and broke through to the second stage of Super Saiyan 1.
• Son Gohan struck the light-screen prison with a greatly strengthened fist.

Son Gohan broke free of King Cold’s light-screen prison and overwhelmed his attacks with his hidden power. King Cold threatened to destroy the planet unless Son Gohan let him, Frieza, and Cooler leave, but Son Gohan resolved not to let them escape.

• Son Gohan powered up, tore open King Cold’s light-screen prison, and burst free in a golden aura.
• Son Gohan ripped apart King Cold’s energy ribbons and mocked him as his overwhelming strength reversed the fight.
• King Cold claimed a bomb in the planet’s core could destroy it and demanded that Son Gohan let him, Frieza, and Cooler leave safely.
• King Cold offered to keep the three away from Son Gohan’s planet for three years, but Son Gohan decided he would not let them go.

Sun Gohan tricked King Cold, Frieza, and Cooler into believing he would let them leave, then attacked their spaceship with a Kamehameha. King Cold was driven toward the system’s star, while a figure escaped the blast, leaving the Frieza clan’s survival uncertain.

• Sun Gohan agreed to let King Cold and his sons leave without retaliation for three years, and the three flew toward Cooler’s spaceship in orbit around Musli Planet.
• Once King Cold, Frieza, and Cooler boarded the spaceship, Sun Gohan transformed into Super Saiyan Grade 2 and fired a Kamehameha at it.
• The blast destroyed the spaceship and swallowed Frieza and Cooler, while King Cold formed a shield and was hurled deeper into space.
• King Cold realized Sun Gohan was pushing him toward the system’s star and could not escape the Kamehameha’s force.
• As King Cold burned near the star, he glimpsed a figure breaking free from the blast and took it as a sign that the Frieza clan might survive.

Son Gohan defeated King Cold, Cooler, and Frieza without destroying Musli Planet, then agreed to become the Musli Empire’s guardian under several conditions. After making the alliance, he took the unconscious Eliza to the Academy of Sciences, where she was freed from the devices in her body, and stayed beside her as she recovered.

• Son Gohan defeated King Cold, Cooler, and Frieza, then ended his Super Saiyan transformation as Lucia arrived with her assistants.
• Lucia asked Son Gohan to stay on Musli Planet, and he agreed to guard the Empire while refusing to help it attack other factions or live there permanently.
• Son Gohan agreed to announce the alliance through the interstellar media with Eliza, and Lucia accepted his conditions.
• Son Gohan took the unconscious Eliza to the Academy of Sciences, where scientists removed the devices and apparatuses inside her body.
• Eliza woke and quietly watched Son Gohan meditate beside her.

After waking, Son Gohan decided to travel to Planet Yardrat to learn its techniques, and Eliza insisted on joining him. Before they could depart, Lucia arranged a fast ship and reminded Son Gohan to attend a press conference acknowledging his relationship with the Musli Empire.

• Son Gohan woke from meditation, and Eliza questioned whether her outfit suited her before asking to visit his home planet, Earth.
• Son Gohan told Eliza that he planned to travel to Planet Yardrat, and she insisted on accompanying him.
• Son Gohan contacted Lucia to arrange a fast, long-range ship, and Lucia reminded him that he had agreed to sign a cooperation agreement before the interstellar media.
• Son Gohan agreed to attend the press conference that day before leaving for Planet Yardrat with Eliza.

Son Gohan signed an agreement to become the Musli Empire’s guardian deity after its people hailed him as their savior. He then prepared to travel to Planet Yardrat to learn Instant Transmission.

• Son Gohan accepted the Musli Empire’s fastest interstellar spacecraft and boarded it with Eliza.
• At the council hall, Musli civilians cheered for Son Gohan as their God of War and guardian deity.
• Son Gohan signed the cooperation contract with Lucia in front of the interstellar media.
• Son Gohan publicly declared that he would protect the Musli Empire and punish anyone who threatened its interests.
• Son Gohan returned to the spacecraft with Eliza and set off for Planet Yardrat.

On the way to Planet Yardrat, Son Gohan considered the danger Cell posed and concluded that he might face Perfect Cell or Lightning Cell when he returned to Earth. He resolved to raise his base power and pursue Super Saiyan 2 before then.

• The spaceship's intelligent system told Son Gohan that the trip to Planet Yardrat would take about a week, and he reflected on the nearly three years since his transmigration.
• Son Gohan assessed the androids and Cell, deciding Cell's potential and Saiyan traits made him the greatest threat.
• Son Gohan recalled Cell's return as Lightning Cell and suspected that, without plot armor, Cell could defeat him and Son Goku.
• Son Gohan reasoned that Cell might become Perfect Cell without absorbing Android 17 and Android 18, leaving him potentially facing Perfect Cell or Lightning Cell on Earth.
• Son Gohan decided he needed to increase his base combat power and break through to Super Saiyan 2 before returning.

Son Gohan reflected on his path to Super Saiyan 2 and settled on letting the breakthrough come naturally while traveling with Eliza. When a fleet of space pirates locked onto their ship, Eliza insisted on confronting them herself and flew out to meet them.

• Son Gohan calmed his impatience through meditation and decided to pursue Super Saiyan 2 without forcing a breakthrough.
• Son Gohan and Eliza detected an unknown fleet locking onto their ship, and Eliza identified them as space pirates.
• Eliza asked Son Gohan to let the pirates catch up so she could fight them, and he stopped the ship.
• Eliza transformed into a red meteor and charged toward the pirate fleet while Son Gohan watched from aboard.

Eliza charged alone into a pirate fleet, easily breaking through its weapons fire as Son Gohan watched. The pirates deployed more than a hundred mechs to stop her, and Eliza prepared to fight them while explaining that the fleet belonged to high-class pirates backed by powerful forces.

• Eliza rushed toward the pirate ships and punched through their concentrated energy fire while batting away incoming shells.
• The pirates kept firing and sent their armored combat units to the landing bays as Eliza approached their fleet.
• Eliza explained to Son Gohan that the incoming mechs were T2-X1 armor developed by Stellafor and that the pirates were likely backed by powerful forces.
• More than a hundred mechs surrounded Eliza, while Son Gohan heated meat and watched the battle.
• Eliza suggested that the Musli Empire had deliberately concealed their strength, and Son Gohan began to understand why the pirates had attacked.

Son Gohan took over the battle from Eliza and revealed his full strength as he charged the pirate fleet. The pirates fired a planet-destroying cannon at him, and he accelerated straight toward its blast.

• Son Gohan told Eliza to let him handle the pirates so the surrounding powers could see his strength.
• Eliza blasted the pirates’ armored suits with a ring of red energy after they attacked her with high-frequency electromagnetic waves.
• Son Gohan transformed, destroyed several armored suits, and charged toward the pirate fleet.
• The pirate commander activated a planet-destroying cannon and fired its energy beam at Son Gohan.
• Son Gohan overcame the space-distorting force around him and accelerated straight toward the blast, leaving the pirate commander stunned.

Son Gohan charged through the pirates’ fleet, surviving their Planet-Destroying Cannon and tearing apart their assault and defense ships. As Eliza blocked the pirates from escaping, the leader ordered the fleet to make a desperate last stand.

• Son Gohan flew into the Planet-Destroying Cannon and emerged unharmed after its firing stopped.
• The pirates’ ships launched a saturation barrage, but Son Gohan pushed through their attacks and broke into the fleet.
• Son Gohan blasted and rammed his way through the assault ships, inflicting devastating losses.
• Son Gohan shattered the defense ships’ energy shields and armor, prompting ships at the perimeter to try to escape.
• Eliza attacked the fleeing ships and forced them back, while the pirate leader ordered everyone to fight Son Gohan with everything they had.

Son Gohan destroyed the pirate fleet after its ships tried to escape, then forced the surviving pirate leader to reveal that the Kaisesto Federation had hired them. He realized the attack was tied to the Federation’s resource disputes with the Musli Empire and considered visiting it.

• The pirates slowed Son Gohan with gravity bombs and other weapons while their fleet scattered and laid space traps.
• Son Gohan ignored the traps and fired golden energy beams, destroying hundreds of fleeing ships.
• The pirate leader stopped his ship after its shield barely blocked Son Gohan’s attack, then let him aboard.
• Son Gohan threatened the pirate leader until he revealed that the Kaisesto Federation had hired the pirates.
• Son Gohan connected the attack to the Kaisesto Federation’s border resource disputes with the Musli Empire and considered visiting the Federation.

Son Gohan and Eliza continued toward Planet Yardrat after Eliza destroyed the pirate ship, while a Kaisesto Federation scout secretly followed them. Eliza intercepted the scout and confronted its operator, who warned that killing him would bring a galaxy-wide warrant.

• Eliza destroyed the fleeing pirate warship, and Son Gohan questioned her decision while they continued toward Planet Yardrat.
• A subordinate reported the pirates' deaths to a general, who ordered him to keep scouting without attracting attention.
• After days of silence, Eliza asked Son Gohan why he had been upset; they made up, and he gave her a drink.
• Son Gohan asked Eliza to deal with the ship following them, and she caught up to it and tore open its hull.
• Eliza confronted the Kaisesto Federation scout's operator, who warned that the Federation would issue a galaxy-wide warrant if she killed him.

Eliza tortured a Kaisesto Federation scout and learned that a fleet was heading for Earth, but Son Gohan decided to continue to Yardrat before returning to deal with the threat. Son Goku had already left Yardrat after learning Instant Transmission, and Son Gohan arrived too late to meet him and was welcomed by the Yardrats.

• Eliza destroyed the scout ship's control console and mentally tortured a captured scout until he revealed the Federation's plan to send a fleet to Earth.
• Son Gohan told Eliza that Earth’s fighters could handle the fleet and resolved to visit the Kaisesto Federation after learning techniques on Yardrat.
• Son Goku left Yardrat for Earth after spending nearly a month there, repairing his spacecraft, and learning Instant Transmission.
• Son Gohan and Eliza arrived on Yardrat half a day after Son Goku had departed and learned from the locals that he had just left.
• The Yardrats warmly welcomed Son Gohan because of Son Goku's goodwill, and Son Gohan eventually met the chairman of Planet Yardrat.

On Yardrat, Son Gohan learned Instant Transmission and searched for other secret techniques while Eliza chose techniques of her own. After leaving Yardrat with Eliza, he calculated that they might reach Earth before Trunks and Son Goku.

• Pybara let Son Gohan choose freely from Yardrat's secret techniques, and Son Gohan selected Instant Transmission.
• Son Gohan mastered Instant Transmission from its scroll and demonstrated it by appearing beside Eliza without warning.
• Son Gohan tried to learn Forced Spirit Fission, while Eliza and Son Goku studied techniques suited to themselves; each learned only a few.
• Son Gohan and Eliza departed Yardrat after less than two days and set their spaceship to full speed toward Earth.
• Son Gohan checked the Smart Brain's arrival estimate and realized they might reach Earth before Trunks and Son Goku.

After mastering Yardrat techniques, Son Gohan decided to prevent Cell from reaching his perfect form when he returned to Earth. Meanwhile, Earth's warriors faced the Kaisesto Federation's fleet, unaware that some ships had secretly diverted to locate an unusual energy signature.

• Son Gohan reflected on Yardrat secret techniques and fusion, then resolved to destroy Cell before he could become perfect.
• Ten days after Son Gohan left Yardrat, Piccolo, Vegeta, Raditz, Nappa, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha gathered to confront the Kaisesto Federation's fleet.
• Raditz recognized the Kessestoian warships, and Vegeta and Nappa prepared to fight them.
• Some Kaisesto ships secretly split from the fleet, and their general ordered soldiers to locate an unusual energy signature and bring it to the main fleet.