At the sight, all the Gods of Destruction in the stands except Champa and Beerus turned to Belmod.
Quitela roared, "Belmod, how does this guy know how to use destruction energy?"
Belmod smiled. "Toppo is my God of Destruction Candidate. It's perfectly reasonable for him to know how to use destruction energy."
"Reasonable, reasonable. Perfectly reasonable," Champa and Beerus said with matching smiles.
Hearing them, Belmod's face fell. He shouted at Beerus, "Beerus, you play dirty! You've been hiding so much! Your universe has all these powerful fighters, yet you never let even a hint slip!"
Beerus smiled. "Why should I? So you could prepare for them? Do I look like an idiot to you?"
Belmod had no answer. Hadn't he kept Jiren's existence in his own universe a secret too?
Son Gohin kicked Dyspo down onto the Arena, blasting a huge crater into it.
Then he turned to Toppo and smiled. "What, bringing out your big moves now? You think destruction energy can beat me? That's hilarious. Even Lord Beerus's destruction energy can't do anything to me. What makes you think your half-baked version can?"
"Oh, really?" Toppo replied expressionlessly.
Son Gohin smiled. "What, you don't believe me?"
Toppo's only answer was "Destruction!" He flicked a thumb-sized ball of destruction energy at Son Gohin.
Son Gohin neither dodged nor blocked, letting the destruction energy strike him.
Seeing this, Toppo muttered, "What an arrogant fool."
The destruction energy struck Son Gohin, rapidly expanding to envelop him before beginning to eat away at his body.
"Aah! Aah! Aah!" Son Gohin screamed in pain.
Toppo said, "Kid, if you can't take it, surrender. I don't want to be disqualified for accidentally killing you."
"Hahaha! I was messing with you, and you actually fell for it!" Son Gohin laughed.
Then he let out