A few days later, on Planet King Cold 001.
By then, Captain Ginyu was no longer among the living.
Everyone believed Captain Ginyu was dead.
Yet no one knew that the Captain Ginyu who had died that day had already had his soul replaced by that of an unknown alien warrior.
The real Captain Ginyu, meanwhile, was drinking alone in a bar on the planet under a new identity, drowning his sorrows.
Even now, Ginyu could not come to terms with how he had loyally gone to warn King Cold, only to be mercilessly killed by him.
After all, he had always taken pride in being a member of the Frieza Force. He had never imagined that his pride and loyalty would nearly get him killed.
"Damn you, King Cold! I devoted myself to serving your Frieza Race and treated you with nothing but respect, and this is how you repay me?"
"If I couldn't swap bodies, I'd already be dead!"
"The real idiot was your stupid son Frieza, yet you blamed me!"
"I won't accept this! I won't accept this!"
Ginyu smashed the table in front of him with a heavy punch, but just then, a burly alien in the bar walked over and hauled him into the air.
"Hey, punk! How dare you smash up the bar? Pay up right now, or die!"
"Pah!" Ginyu spat at him in disdain.
But he had forgotten that he was no longer the Captain Ginyu who had a battle power of 120,000.
The Scouter on the alien's face beeped several times before he sneered. "Hahaha! An idiot with a battle power of only 5,000 thinks he can throw his weight around!"
With that, he gripped Ginyu by the head and dragged him toward the alley behind the bar.
The people in the bar barely reacted.
This was King Cold's territory.
The strong devoured the weak, and strength ruled supreme. That was the basic law here.
But a moment later, a voice rang out from the alley behind the bar.
"Body Change!"
A flash of purple light followed.
Before long, the burly alien emerged from the alley.
But now, Ginyu's soul inhabited that alien's body.
"A battle power of only 10,000? With strength like that, you're just another piece of trash!"
Ginyu spat in contempt.
At the same time, the encounter planted a thought that kept growing in his mind.
"I can't go on like this. I need a stronger body. I have to get stronger! I'll never let anyone else hold my life in their hands again! I'm going to..."
Suddenly, Ginyu froze, his gaze fixed on a massive statue in the distance.
It was a statue of King Cold.
Ginyu's gaze gradually turned cold and sinister. He gave a wicked grin. "Hahaha! How could I have forgotten? The best body for me is right before my eyes, isn't it?"
"King Cold! You betrayed me and humiliated me! You deserve to have me steal your body! Hahahaha!"
Before long, mysterious attacks caused an uproar on Planet King Cold 001.
Powerful members of the King Cold Force kept being attacked and killed across the planet!
The attacks were all extremely strange. Judging by the bodies, the victims had been killed at close range, yet, bizarrely, none showed any signs of having fought back.
As the death toll rose and the victims' battle power kept increasing, fear swept across Planet King Cold 001.
Already furious over his son's death, King Cold flew into a rage when he learned about the attacks.
"Useless fools! The intruder must have a high battle power. Find him with your Scouters!"
"Yes, sir!"
At King Cold's command, the entire King Cold Force mobilized, conducting sweeping searches for suspicious individuals across the planet. Anyone who was not a member of the King Cold Force and had a battle power above 10,000 was detained as a suspect and interrogated.
Despite all this, the killer remained unidentified.
That day, after hearing a report that the killer's whereabouts were still unknown, King Cold erupted in fury again, leaving all his subordinates trembling in silence.
"I'll give you three more days, and no more! If you haven't found the killer by then, every last one of you will die!"
"Y-yes, sir!"
As King Cold's subordinates hurried away, one of his Royal Guards suddenly returned.
"King Cold, there's actually something I need to report..."
"Hmm?" King Cold frowned slightly, then smiled. "Very well. Let's hear it."
The Royal Guard stepped forward, glanced at the attendants stationed around the room, and lowered his head. "Your Majesty, I believe I know the killer's true identity!"
"Oh? Tell me."
"Your Majesty, could you have them leave first? I'd like to tell you who it is in private..."
At that, King Cold waved a hand.
His attendants immediately filed out of the room and closed the door.
"Now can you tell me? Just who is this killer?" King Cold asked.
"The killer... is me!"
As soon as the Royal Guard finished speaking, he lunged forward and hurled an Energy Blast at King Cold.
Boom!
A tremendous explosion erupted where King Cold stood.
The shock wave spread in every direction, and everyone inside King Cold's palace felt it.
The attendants outside the door immediately realized that the explosion had come from King Cold's room right beside them.
They shouted and tried to open the door, only to discover that it had been locked from the inside.
"Quick! Find a way to open the door!"
While the attendants scrambled in panic, the Royal Guard inside the room—Captain Ginyu, who had taken over the Royal Guard's body—charged into the thick smoke.
He knew that a single Energy Blast could not possibly hurt King Cold, but he charged forward anyway.
A moment later, King Cold reached out from behind the smoke and seized Ginyu by the neck.
"Ho ho..." King Cold sneered. "Who would have thought that one of my own Royal Guards was the killer?"
"What could you possibly have been thinking, attacking me?"
"What was I thinking?" Ginyu chuckled. "I just wanted to get a little closer to you."
"Hmm?"
King Cold's expression instantly changed.
The next moment, the man in his grip suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, "Body Change!"
At those words, King Cold immediately recalled someone who should already have been dead.
He vaguely remembered his son mentioning this man to him...
"Father, I recently found someone very interesting. He belongs to an extremely rare race in the universe. They don't have much battle power of their own, but they can swap bodies with other life-forms..."
"Before I met him, he'd already swapped bodies with dozens of life-forms. I never imagined there could be someone so interesting in the universe."
"I've decided to make him captain and have him form a special forces unit... Cooler has Cooler's Armored Squadron, so I want a special forces unit of my own!"
"Oh? That does sound interesting. What's his name?"
"Ginyu..."
Ginyu!
So this man was Ginyu!
"Aaaaaah!"