The next moment, Son Gohan arrived through space.
Son Goten and Hit, who had been locked in a desperate battle moments earlier, sensed Son Gohan's familiar, reassuringly powerful Ki, and their taut nerves instantly relaxed.
They immediately abandoned their standoff with Ultimate Kamin Oren, darted aside, and hurried toward Son Gohan.
The relentless, high-intensity battles had long since exhausted them both, body and mind.
Son Goten's clothes were torn, his skin covered in fine wounds. The aura of his Deep Blue form flickered, and his breathing came in harsh, rapid gasps.
"Gohan!"
"Those Android siblings fused, then evolved a second time! Their power is terrifying now. Hit and I can't keep them under control!"
At that, Son Goten raised a hand and pointed toward Hearts.
"And that guy-is he the one you told us about?"
Following his younger brother's finger, Son Gohan looked up.
High above, in the vast sky.
The Universe Seed hovered silently in a gap between the stars like an alien flower bud. Its purple-black crystalline spikes glinted with cold, dark light, while its crimson core pulsed faintly.
Hearts's long black coat billowed around him, revealing the hard, sharply defined contours of his bare upper body.
His deathly pale skin and the enormous X-shaped scar spanning his chest and abdomen gave him an icy, unapproachable air.
His eyes were cold and indifferent as he gazed down at the three men on the ground.
Their gazes met.
For an instant, the air seemed to freeze.
Invisible fields of pressure collided thunderously high above.
At the very moment their gazes clashed.
Elsewhere, the enraged Ultimate Kamin Oren could no longer hold back.
His twenty-five-meter-tall body lurched into motion, making the earth quake violently.
Two slender antennae, each over twenty meters long, thrashed through the air with piercing shrieks as