"Hah..."
Raditz's face darkened like water about to drip. Vegeta's barrage of insults had clearly caught him off guard, leaving him momentarily at a loss for what to do.
He instinctively looked back at Gou Kong.
Gou Kong had nothing more to tell him. Everything that needed to be said had already been said by the campfire.
In the end, Raditz had chosen this path himself. No matter how much others said, it would be useless if he lacked the resolve to be ruthless.
Gou Kong glanced at him without saying much, only giving a steady nod.
The meaning could not have been clearer: I believe in you.
Raditz clearly understood his look. The grim hostility on his face instantly faded by more than half. He turned back to Vegeta and shouted, "I'm not a coward, Vegeta! I'm a Saiyan elite warrior too! I chose to follow Brother Gou Kong, and I'll never go back to that bunch of bastards who treated me like a soft target and mocked me whenever they pleased!"
"You traitor?"
Vegeta trembled with rage, veins bulging at his temples as his clenched fists crackled.
Gou Kong snorted and stepped forward, raising a hand to smack Raditz hard across the back. The force made the Saiyan sway, yet Gou Kong still added, "Nicely done! With that backbone of yours, those six months of training with me weren't for nothing!"
Then he turned to Vegeta. The latter's face had gone purple with fury, as though he might explode on the spot the next second.
Gou Kong shrugged, his tone utterly indifferent. "What? The cowardly Raditz you knew is long gone."
Before his words had faded, the purple aura around Vegeta abruptly contracted. A suffocatingly cold presence then surged from his body.
His eyes, which had been fixed