Planet Cereal, at the summit of the mountain.
The howling wind whipped up the embers of the scorched earth, and the air was filled with the acrid smell of gunpowder.
Elec looked down at Zuno, who was bound to the ground by energy ropes and trembling all over, his patience slowly wearing thin.
" Dragon Ball... are no longer there?"
His voice was soft, but it made Zuno's enormous head tremble even more violently.
"Yes... yes..." Zuno's voice trembled with tears, and he almost collapsed to the ground, "It was just destroyed not long ago..."
"Destroyed?" Oil, standing behind Elec, couldn't help but step forward, his voice filled with disbelief. "By whom?"
Zuno's body trembled violently. He dared not look at Elec's dark, almost watery eyes, and at his intermittent screams.
"I... I dare not say, he's watching here..."
Zuno swallowed hard, as if recalling something extremely terrifying, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
"If we stay here any longer... we'll... we'll die..."
The air seemed to freeze as soon as those words were spoken.
Elec was puzzled and frowned.
"What did you say?"
Zuno raised his bruised and swollen face and looked at Elec, his huge eyes filled with extreme fear.
Do you know?
"You yourself might... be about to die!"
Elec's face darkened completely, and he stared intently at Zuno, his eyes brimming with murderous intent.
Is this old man cursing him to die?
He was just about to have an attack.
"Big brother!"
Maki, who was beside her, suddenly let out a short gasp.
Before Elec and Oil could react...
Pfft--!
A faint yet crystal-clear sound of flesh being pierced rang out.
Without warning, a gaping hole appeared in Maki's chest.
Blood spurted out like a fountain, staining a large area of the ground in front of her red.
Maki's eyes, which always held a hint of cunning, were wide open at this moment, filled with bewilderment and astonishment.
She slowly lowered her head, looking at the hole in her chest from which blood was constantly gushing out, seemingly still not understanding what had happened.
Then, she fell straight backward.
Bang.
His body slammed into the hard rock with a dull thud.
There was no more sound.
" Maki!"
Elec, Oil, and Jass, who had been silent all along, were instantly shocked.
Who is it!
Oil let out an angry roar and looked around!
Jass also instantly assumed a fighting stance, cautiously glancing around.
However, there was nothing there.
A bone-chilling coldness shot from the soles of their feet straight to the tops of their heads.
They hadn't even seen a glimpse of the enemy when one of their own men was already dead!
On another mountain peak in the distance.
A figure stood silently on the edge of the cliff.
He had his signature long green hair, and a pure white scarf fluttered in the wind. Above his right eye was a high-tech-looking auxiliary sight.
At this moment, he is maintaining a aiming posture with two fingers together, pointing towards the distance.
As Maki collapsed, he slowly retracted the two fingers that had just fired beams of energy.
The next second, his figure vanished from the spot.
"Big brother, what exactly...?"
Oil's voice trembled, his face filled with terror and bewilderment.
Just then...
A figure appeared beside them without warning, like a ghost.
The three men's hearts skipped a beat, and they instantly created distance between themselves, assuming a defensive stance.
The person who arrived stood there quietly, emitting no aura whatsoever, as if he had always been there.
He raised his head, his eyes, half-obscured by the scope, coldly sweeping over the three terrified men.
His tone was as cold as ice.
He's right.
"You will die!"
Elec, Oil, and Jass stared intently at the figure that had suddenly appeared before them.
It took Elec a while to recognize the other person's identity from that face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Because the person in front of him was completely different from the figure he remembered...
Whether it was the suffocating sense of oppression or the chilling killing intent that emanated from the very bones.
Elec's voice trembled as he uttered the name in disbelief.
"You..."
"Who are you!"
Granolah?