"Bastard, get back here!"
Trunks's shout was still echoing over the ruins when the ground below exploded.
In the dark red Abyss, golden light collided with raging black waves. Every impact shook rocks loose from the strata, sending rubble tumbling into the depths without a sound of it reaching the bottom.
Goten stood before the Crimson One-Eyed Being, his palms facing each other. A blue orb of light gathered between them, as quiet as a lantern, but all the air within three meters of it was compressed flat. The black frost on the rock walls sizzled away wherever it touched the edge of the blue light.
"I know you can reassemble yourself. I know you can absorb energy."
His voice was quiet, even a little languid.
"So I'm not giving you time."
"Super Kamehameha, special point-blank edition. Have a taste."
Boom.
There was no warning. The blue column of light bored straight into the center of that black torso at point-blank range, piercing it from front to back before expanding outward from its back. It blasted the entire enormous body into fragments of light and shadow. Before those fragments could drift three meters away, the heat surging along the edge of the Ki beam burned them all into fine ash, which swirled twice in the underground Abyss and dispersed.
The crimson eye was the last thing to shatter.
Before it broke, it let out a howl, every word ground out through clenched teeth.
"You lunatic! I shall be reborn!"
"Next time, keep your mouth shut when you come back."
By the time his voice reached it, the eyeball had already burst into a cloud of fine, dark red mist.
The underground depths stayed quiet for about five seconds.
Then Goten activated Instant Transmission.
His golden afterimage still lingered in