"I saw it," Goku replied coldly.
"In that case, your time to die has come."
With that, Cooler became a streak of purple Ki and threw a punch at Goku.
"What?!"
Goku caught Cooler's incoming fist firmly in his left hand. Golden Ki rose from his body.
"I wonder if you've heard the legend of the Super Saiyan?"
With that, Goku raised his right fist and slammed it into Cooler's face. His golden aura surged, and in an instant, Goku transformed into a Super Saiyan with golden hair and blue-green eyes.
A Power Level of 1.6 billion, coming right up!
Boom!!!
Cooler became a streak of purple light and slammed into a mountain.
"No, impossible! How can the legend of the Super Saiyan be real?!"
Cooler pulled his limbs free from the mountainside. Unable to maintain his elegant bearing any longer, he roared with a savage expression.
Goku's punch had injured him badly. With a gap of nearly threefold between them, one had to admire the Frieza Race's toughness for letting Cooler survive the blow.
"Nothing is impossible. The Super Saiyan with a golden aura and golden hair is standing right in front of you." Goku looked at Cooler coldly with his blue-green eyes.
"Damn it! I should have wiped out every last one of you Saiyan monkeys back then!"
Cooler floated in the air, his face twisted with rage. Purple Ki burst from his body, shrouding half the sky.
Cooler punched at Goku, who caught the fist headed for his face and drove a knee deep into Cooler's stomach.
"Ah!"
Cooler doubled over, bitter fluid spilling from his mouth. But Goku had no intention of letting him off. Holding Cooler's fist firmly in his right hand, he raised his left hand and aimed it at Cooler's face.
"Didn't your parents teach you not to hit someone in the face?"
"Smack, smack, smack, smack..."
Goku slapped him with his palm, then struck him with the back of his hand, falling into a rhythm. For a while, the only sounds in the sky were the crisp smacks and Cooler's screams.
Goku thoroughly enjoyed himself. After all, who told Cooler to look so much like Frieza? Goku still remembered what had happened before.
Cooler used all his strength to break free, but Goku's hand held him like an iron clamp. After slapping Cooler for nearly a full minute, Goku let go.
Cooler hurriedly retreated a hundred meters and glared at Goku with eyes full of resentment.
"Is this all you've got? Who was it that wanted to show me the gap between us? It seems there really is a vast gulf between us."
Goku's words struck Cooler's pride like a heavy punch. Cooler charged forward, putting all his strength into every punch and kick.
But Goku dodged every one, his golden hair flowing around him.
"Boring." Goku casually kicked Cooler a thousand meters away.
"Ah!"
Cooler, who had charged at Goku again, stopped in midair. He looked down and saw a golden Ki Sword passing through his stomach.
Goku, dozens of meters away, flicked the sword upward, flinging Cooler into the sky.
Goku withdrew the golden sword Ki in his hand, bent slightly, and cupped both hands at his waist.
"This will finish you!"
Golden and blue energy gathered in Goku's hands.
"Final Kamehameha Wave!"
A blast of blue energy wrapped in gold shot into the sky. In an instant, its intense light drained all color from the heavens.
"Haha! If I can't live, you'll die with me!"
Cooler knew Saiyans couldn't survive in space. He formed a golden Planet Destruction Sphere in his hand and hurled it at the ground in the final moment before he turned to ash.
Goku had already noticed it. He used Instant Transmission to appear beneath the Planet Destruction Sphere, formed a Ki Sword, and swept it horizontally through the energy sphere. It split in two and exploded in midair.
Boom!!!
But just as the sphere exploded, when Goku thought it was over, a red laser fired down from the sky. Goku hurriedly extended his golden Ki Sword and blocked it.
After that, the Ki Sword extended once more. The golden blade reached into the sky, sweeping across the heavens and piercing a spaceship in the outer atmosphere.
Goku swung his arm, and the spaceship split in two, forming a beautiful firework display in space.
"Tch, as expected of the Frieza Race. You're so filthy it's sickening. But you miscalculated. Even if this planet is destroyed, I can survive in space."
With that, Goku canceled his Super Saiyan transformation. He was only at the second stage of Super Saiyan 1 for now, and it still consumed a great deal of Ki and stamina.
Cooler and his special forces had been wiped out. All that remained were a few foot soldiers, with Power Levels of only a few thousand and no more than ten thousand at most. His base Power Level of 32 million was enough.
Ten minutes later, Goku's Ki Sword swept through the last member of the Cooler Force. In an instant, the man's whole body split in two, spraying green blood everywhere.
Goku hurriedly used his Ki to keep the green blood away.
At first, Goku had been reluctant to use such a brutal method, but as he killed more and more people, he gradually grew numb to it.
"Whew, it's finally over!"
A feeling of nausea welled up in Goku. He felt he needed a good rest after this. Even though the many people he had killed at once were evil, he still felt a little uncomfortable with it.
Goku began sensing Aku's Ki.
"Found him."
With that, Goku used Instant Transmission to appear beside Aku. But as soon as he arrived, he saw a classic scene.
"Hmph, you were blind to my worth. From now on, I, Aku, have nothing to do with any of you. Honey, let's go."
Aku looked coldly at the people kneeling before him. Just as he was about to leave with his wife in his arms, Goku suddenly appeared, giving him a fright.
"Damn, buddy, where did you come from?"
"Stop calling me buddy, Aku. Just call me Goku. Appearing suddenly like that is one of my skills."
"Okay, Goku, let's talk somewhere else first. I don't want to see them."
"Sure."
Goku placed a hand on Aku's shoulder and used Instant Transmission to return to the shopping street from before.
Because Goku had been there, the shopping street had barely been damaged, and the surrounding buildings were still very much intact.
"Th-this is really amazing." Aku looked around in astonishment.
"Oh, right, Goku, this is my wife, Izu."
Izu had beautiful black hair that fell to her shoulders and looked a lot like an Earthling. Rather than saying she looked like one, though, it was more accurate to say that Beyondians looked a lot like Earthlings.
"Hello, Miss Izu," Goku greeted her politely.
"Hello, Mr. Goku."
"Aku, what exactly happened back there?" Goku asked, feeling a little curious.
"Sigh, I prefer an ordinary life, so I never told my wife's family about my strength or showed it to them. They always looked down on me because of that." Aku sighed, then continued.
"During the invasion, I had to protect my wife, so I showed my strength. Then, just like you saw, they knelt down and begged me to forgive them. Don't I know what they're after? I really don't want to see them right now."
As Goku listened to Aku, it sounded more and more familiar. Holy shit! A Dragon Ball live-in son-in-law!
"Are you the Dragon King?"
Aku looked puzzled by Goku's question.
"What's the Dragon King?"
"Ahem, it's nothing. By the way, how are the cosmetics you were preparing for me?" Goku coughed awkwardly a few times before speaking.
He hadn't been able to stop himself from asking. Where would Aku have read a Dragon King novel?
"Let's just go pick them up at the store. This whole street belongs to my wife's family anyway."
Goku was taken aback. Well, what do you know? I didn't expect to find another guy living off his wife, just like me.
"Bro, I didn't expect you to be living off your wife too." Goku couldn't help patting Aku on the shoulder.
"So you also..."