Gou Kong Travels from a Star-Destroying Explosion to Earth, Opens His Eyes to See an Adult Raditz

"Ahhh! I am not dying here—"

Gou Kong roared amid the blinding glare that suddenly erupted before his eyes. His vision was swallowed completely by a sheet of white, and the crushing pressure of death sank down so heavily it almost pulverized his chest—exactly the same as the feeling from seconds ago, when Planet Vegeta had taken Frieza's Planet-Destroying Energy Ball head-on!

By instinct, he clamped his hands around his own throat, his nails nearly digging into his flesh. Blood ran through the gaps between his fingers as his whole body thrashed wildly in the glare.

If that sorry, utterly pathetic state were seen by those Saiyans, they would probably laugh their teeth out—but so what?

In a desperate, life-or-death situation like this, who still had time to care about dignity?

Besides, apart from the blinding white light around him, there wasn't even a ghost in sight. Even if he embarrassed himself, there was no audience to see it!

Gou Kong's mind was a complete mess. On one hand, he frantically denied the possibility that he was already dead; on the other, he uncontrollably imagined every kind of afterlife scenario.

Could he really have been blown into cosmic dust, his soul drifting off to King Yemma's Palace?

But what contradicted that was that the fierce will to live deep in his heart had not faded in the slightest. No matter what, he refused to accept the fact that he was already done for, and could only scream at the top of his lungs like his life depended on it.

Then something strange happened.

Logically speaking, he should have been vaporized instantly under Frieza's Planet-Destroying Energy Ball, without even a scrap left behind. Yet the expected agony never came. Instead, his body was completely intact, and even the stamina he had exhausted in his death battles with Zarbon and Dodoria had bizarrely recovered quite a bit.

No, was that recovery?

This felt even easier than when he was at his peak!

Gou Kong had originally struggled to so much as lift a finger, but now he felt so light all over that he could almost float. Even the familiar, oppressive gravity of Planet Vegeta had vanished. As long as he wanted, he could kick off the ground and leap several meters away.

What the fuck was going on?

Could it really be as he had imagined—that after death, his soul had left his body, which was why he felt so light?

No. As long as he opened his eyes, everything would become clear.

But when it truly came time to open them, Gou Kong chickened out again.

What if the thing he saw when he opened his eyes really was King Yemma's Palace? Then that tiny bit of luck he was clinging to would shatter completely.

Because of that hesitation, his eyelids felt as heavy as if they had been filled with lead, and he could not open them for a long while. He could only brainwash himself frantically in his heart, telling himself that all of this was an illusion, that he was just scaring himself.

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly slipped into his ears.

"Brother Gou Kong?"

Gou Kong abruptly turned his head and slowly opened his eyes in the direction of the voice.

He did not know who had spoken, but as long as someone could call out his name, then this absolutely was not the afterlife!

No matter what the current situation was, at least he was still alive!

Clinging to that last scrap of luck, Gou Kong looked toward the source of the voice.

"???"

What the hell?

Looking at the man before him, who was staring at him in astonishment, Gou Kong froze on the spot, unable to react for a long while.

Was he seeing things?

Should he rub his eyes and look again?

Gou Kong raised his hand and rubbed his eyes hard with the back of it, then focused his gaze again—

The person had not changed.

He was so shocked his eyeballs almost popped out. Without thinking, he sprang up from the ground and retreated several steps in a row.

The movement was absurdly large, completely beyond what he had previously believed to be the limit of "so exhausted he could not even move"!

Holy shit?

He really could move and jump?

No, what was even more absurd was the person in front of him!

"Raditz?"

Gou Kong cried out in shock, his voice cracking.

"Are... are you really Brother Gou Kong?"

Hearing Gou Kong's shout, Raditz's face instantly lit up, but Gou Kong only felt his scalp go numb.

How was this the snot-nosed brat Raditz he knew, the one who followed behind Vegeta's ass with a combat power of only one or two thousand?

The guy before him had broad shoulders and a wide back, with long hair hanging all the way to his ankles. His whole body gave off the murderous aura only a mature Saiyan elite possessed. He was clearly the grown-up Raditz!

What the fuck was going on?

Why had the plot suddenly jumped forward by such a huge chunk?

If even Raditz was grown up, then the current timeline...

Could it be that time?

Then the place he was now...

Gou Kong abruptly turned his head and looked around. All he saw were unfamiliar green mountains and clear waters, and even the scent of the air was completely different from the sulfurous stench of Planet Vegeta.

Sure enough, his guess had been right.

No wonder his body had felt absurdly light just now. So the gravity here was ten times weaker than on Planet Vegeta!

That was good news. At least he no longer had to suffer under crushing gravity.

But the problem was, why had he come to Earth?

Was this a dream?

Gou Kong raised his hand and slapped himself twice—smack, smack—hard enough to leave his cheeks burning with pain.

It freaking hurt!

He reached up and touched his swollen cheeks, grimacing from the pain.

This absolutely was not a dream!

Everything before his eyes was solid, undeniable reality!

He had no idea what had happened.

A few seconds ago, he had still been on Planet Vegeta. Frieza's Planet-Destroying Energy Ball had already smashed into the planet's core, and the whole planet had been moments from being blown to rubble. How had he arrived on Earth in the blink of an eye?

Had he seriously skipped right over the deathtrap of Planet Vegeta's explosion and even dodged Frieza's planet-destroying finger flick from that purple onion head?

This luck was more ridiculous than pulling SSRs on a ten-roll!

His brain ran at overload, throbbing with pain.

But why?

Why had he been swallowed by that white light and sent straight to Earth?

The reason was easy enough to find. It had definitely been that white light's doing!

Right before Frieza's Planet-Destroying Energy Ball came crashing down, that white light had dyed his entire field of vision white, and after that, everything had changed!

But the problem was, what exactly had that white light been?

Why couldn't he figure it out? Was there really any explanation in this world that made sense?

Gou Kong's face instantly wrinkled like a bitter melon.

Just then, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind.

"Ah!"

Even now, Gou Kong's brain was still a complete mess, utterly unable to adapt to this unbelievable change in environment.

He had even forgotten for a moment that in the original work, there had once been a character who experienced the exact same thing.

That's right, that guy Bardock!

Although the details differed slightly, Bardock had been blown back thousands of years into the savage era before Planet Vegeta had even been renamed.

But in essence, the spacetime anomalies they had experienced were exactly the same!

And the root cause of it all had to be Frieza's damned Planet-Destroying Energy Ball!

It was precisely that world-ending explosion that had warped spacetime and blasted him to Earth like a cannonball!

The instant he figured that out, Gou Kong's previously tangled mess of thoughts abruptly calmed, as if the knot that had been troubling him for so long had finally been completely untied.

Holy crap, so that was it!

He had actually fallen into the same phenomenon as Bardock and been thrown into the future by a spacetime turbulence?

That meant he, Gou Kong, was still alive! Alive and kicking!

An indescribable ecstasy shot up his spine straight to the crown of his head, so exhilarating that every hair on his body stood on end!

Gou Kong clenched his fists tightly, squeezing until his knuckles turned white, then raised his trembling head to the sky and let out a roar that tore at his throat:

"I'm still alive—! I'm freaking still alive, aaaah—!"

That furious roar was a hundred times louder than his earlier "I don't want to die" back on Planet Vegeta. It made the veins in his neck bulge, as if his vocal cords were about to rip apart.

If he did not vent like this, there was no way he could suppress the overwhelming joy in his heart!