The moment the golden meteor plunged into the Abyss, a white shock wave exploded through the entire dark red underground space.
Goten's heel struck the exact center of the liquid giant hand's palm. Formed from black energy, the hand was wider than a building, its five barbed fingers clinging tightly to the edges of the fissure, their tips embedded in the rock and packed with rubble.
Under that kick, the twisted face in the palm did not even have time to stop smiling. The entire arm shattered from the base of the palm to the fingertips, sending chunks of black liquid spraying in every direction. The terrifying kinetic force covered the underground rock strata with cracks that spread from beneath his feet to the rock walls three hundred meters away.
"Get the hell back into your sewer. You think Konoha's foundations are your own backyard?"
His voice echoed underground, carrying the arrogance bred into a Saiyan's bones.
The shattered black water sprayed everywhere. By rights, destruction on that scale should not have left even a scrap behind, but the black water did not fall.
Every drop hung in midair, quivered twice, then began wriggling toward the dissipating shock wave Goten had just released. They wrapped greedily around it, swallowing the golden energy mouthful by mouthful as though gnawing on it.
"Heh heh heh..."
That voice, rotten to its very roots, came from every direction at once, making its source impossible to distinguish.
"Such pure vitality. Is this the finest nourishment this world has to offer? How delicious."
Goten hovered in midair and raised an eyebrow.
After absorbing his dispersed ki, the black water grew dramatically thicker and began rapidly gathering together. It went from a puddle of sludge to a severed arm, then grew a shoulder from that arm, with