Extras Have the Right to Live! Looking Up, I Saw the Planet Exploding

"Planet-Destroying Energy Ball!"

Those four words exploded through Gou Kong's mind in an instant.

This was fucking clearly Frieza's signature ultimate move from the original story, the one he used to blow up Planet Vegeta!

That kind of terrifying destructive technology, the sort that only appeared in cartoons and manga and made your scalp crawl just watching it, was now hanging vividly above his head!

That enormous purple sphere of energy was exactly as the original had described it, descending slowly with an arrogance that crushed everything in its path, growing larger and larger, as if in the very next second it would grind this planet into cosmic dust!

"What the fuck is going on?"

"Dodoria, what are you staring at? That crappy scouter of yours got blown apart when you were fighting that Saiyan just now, so you didn't hear it, did you?" Zarbon had already shot into the air first, roaring in an urgent tone. "Lord Frieza already ordered us to withdraw. He's going to blow up this rotten planet himself! Run! If we keep dawdling, we'll all get dragged into the explosion and buried with it!"

"Damn bastard!"

Dodoria's pink face twisted. He glared viciously at Gou Kong, who was sprawled on the ground, clearly furious that he had not been able to crush this scourge to death with his own hands. But the threat of death brought by the Planet-Destroying Energy Ball overhead was even greater, so he could only grit his teeth, turn, and shoot up into the sky after Zarbon.

In the blink of an eye, Gou Kong was the only one left on the plateau.

The tiny energy ball he had barely managed to gather in his palm instantly collapsed into nothing but a current of air because of the violent shock to his mind.

Just now, to withstand that collision head-on, he had already squeezed out the last trace of his strength. At this moment, even the Energy Body-Forging Technique that maintained his enhanced state undid itself.

As the enhancement faded, the swelling pain that had almost torn his muscles apart vanished, replaced by a hollowed-out exhaustion.

If it were any other time, Gou Kong would definitely have been glad he had gotten his life back, even if it was because Zarbon and Dodoria had let him go. But now?

How the fuck was this getting his life back? This was clearly a stay of execution!

The world-destroying energy above him was closing in madly, and all of Planet Vegeta seemed to have been dyed blood-red!

He had to run!

He had to get to where the Space Pod was hidden right now!

Gou Kong forced himself to hold on and tried to climb up from the ground.

As long as he could stand, run over, and board the ship, he could live!

He could go to Earth!

Those few simple steps were harder than ascending to heaven right now.

The instant his outstretched leg touched the ground, his knee buckled, and with a thud, he dropped back to his knees.

"?"

Gou Kong looked down blankly at his legs, which were trembling nonstop.

He wanted to move, but those legs felt as if they had been filled with ten thousand catties of lead, as if they had taken root. They would not budge even half an inch.

Why?

Why now, of all times?

He had clearly still been able to stand just now. How had he suddenly become useless?

An unprecedented terror instantly clenched his heart.

Refusing to believe it, he desperately tried to drive his legs, and could even hear the wail of his muscles under the excessive strain.

Move!

Fucking move!

As long as he could move even once, as long as he could make it to the ship!

But his body would not obey him at all.

This was already a complete and utter dead end.

Cold sweat was no longer seeping out; it was pouring from every pore on his body like a waterfall, instantly soaking his tattered battle suit.

The Planet-Destroying Energy Ball overhead drew closer and closer. The originally pitch-black night sky was lit up as bright as day, and that blinding red glow dyed the entire world the color of blood.

The aura of death was so thick it almost suffocated him. The countdown to Planet Vegeta's destruction seemed to be ticking in his ears.

Images surfaced uncontrollably in his mind:

Planet Vegeta breaking apart in a massive explosion, turning into cosmic dust, while he, Gou Kong, and this insignificant body of his would be vaporized by the high temperature in an instant, leaving not even a wisp of smoke behind...

"Fuck! Move, damn it!"

Gou Kong roared in despair, his hands clamping tightly around his own calves as he tried to drag his body up by brute force.

But it was all futile.

He groaned, every muscle in his body spasming, yet he could not move even an inch.

If his legs would not move, then he would use his hands!

There was no way he would just sit here and wait to die!

Gou Kong clenched his teeth hard, blood seeping from his gums. Enduring the tearing pain in his muscles, he supported his body with arms that were already trembling violently and began crawling across the cold, rough ground.

Bit by bit, he dragged himself forward.

The place where the Space Pod was hidden was not far ahead.

As long as he crawled over there, he could live!

As long as he moved just a little more, just a little more...

"Ahhh—!"

But this futile struggle did not last long.

Up ahead, an enormous black boulder towered like the tombstone of Death itself, completely blocking the way.

"No... don't block me!"

Gou Kong used the last of his strength and slammed his fist hard against the unyielding rock.

But with the strength he had now, he could not even crush an ant, let alone move this giant stone.

He struck it in vain, as if the stubborn rock would obediently clear a path so long as he hit it loudly enough.

However, no miracle occurred.

The rock was still a rock.

Even if he screamed himself hoarse, the stone would not suddenly grow legs and run off on its own.

Feeling the last trace of strength drain from his body, Gou Kong stopped striking it and collapsed onto his back, facing the Planet-Destroying Energy Ball hanging overhead.

The energy ball was now as large as a small star, filling his entire field of vision, about to collide with Planet Vegeta's crust. Gou Kong stared at this utterly unreal scene, the corner of his mouth twisting into a wretched smile uglier than crying.

"So this is how I fucking end?"

After working so hard for all these years, after making so many calculations, in the end he was still going to die in the palm of Frieza, that purple-skinned onion-head.

He wondered if Son Goku from Journey to the West had felt like this back then, when he was pinned beneath the Buddha's Five Finger Mountain.

Bah!

After all, if you were weak, you should train more. If you couldn't do it, then don't force it.

Did this mean that someone like him, an extra who had never existed in the original story at all, was ultimately fated to turn into a puff of cosmic dust?

The protagonist, Kakarot, had long since flown far away in a Space Pod, heading to Earth to enjoy himself!

"Heh..." Gou Kong first laughed at himself, but as he laughed, tears surged out uncontrollably. Then, in the next instant, that sobbing tone turned into an furious roar:

"So what if I'm an extra? Does being the protagonist make you so damn special? Does the protagonist just get built-in luck correction? Extras are people too! I want to live too! I don't want to die like this! I'm betting my life this time! Extras have the right to pursue happiness too!!"

Rumble—!

Just then, the Planet-Destroying Energy Ball finally touched Planet Vegeta's crust and drove straight into the core!

The entire planet shook violently, as if an eggshell had been crushed in someone's hand, and massive cracks spread madly across the ground.

Lava erupted, and a scorching storm mixed with shattered stone instantly swept across the entire plateau.

"I won't die! Fuck your ancestors! I won't fucking die! I won't die—!"