Qi Heng finally spoke.
His voice was not loud, yet it somehow drowned out Baby's arrogant roar and reached his ears with perfect clarity, steady as a mountain spring dripping into a deep pool.
Deep vertical furrows instantly formed between Baby's brows, and dark red light raced through his eyes. "What?"
"Do you know what your greatest mistake was?"
"Mistake?" Baby sneered, his aura surging violently. "I have fused with the Tuffles' greatest wisdom and seized the body of the Saiyan prince. My power is limitless! A mistake? What a joke!"
"No." Qi Heng's golden pupils narrowed slightly. Beneath his calm, an ancient majesty seemed to be slowly awakening. "You chose the wrong opponent."
Before the word "opponent" had fully faded, Qi Heng suddenly vanished.
It was not a high-speed movement leaving behind an afterimage, nor was it an air-rending sonic boom or gust of wind.
Qi Heng simply disappeared from the sofa out of thin air, without the slightest warning.
The sofa cushion did not even sink or rebound, as though no one had ever been sitting there.
The entire living room fell deathly silent. Only the faint crackling of Baby's burning aura echoed jarringly through the room.
Baby's dark red pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints!
How was that possible?!
A storm raged within his heart.
Vegeta's body already possessed top-tier combat instincts and sensory abilities, and with Tuffle technological enhancements, his mental network was capable of capturing movement trajectories at sub-light speeds—but now, his vision, ki sense, and every means of detection all returned nothing but blankness.
That golden-eyed Saiyan seemed to have been completely erased from reality by an invisible hand, leaving behind no trace that could be followed.
Just as shock and a sliver of instinctive fear crept up Baby's nerves—
The next second, Qi Heng