Cumber's primitive, savage aura erupted without restraint.
Like a black meteor, he tore through the space between the viewing platform and the Saiyan spaceship.
Boom!
Beast's body was hurled by him and smashed straight through the hull of the Saiyan ship.
Emperor Vegeta's eyes turned cold.
An aura as vast and heavy as a mountain abyss rose from him.
"An antique living in the past dares act presumptuously before this king."
He stepped forward, and his figure instantly appeared in the air outside the ship.
"Since you want to die so badly, this king will grant your wish."
Cumber grinned, revealing a row of white teeth.
"Haaaaaaah!"
With a low roar, Cumber's body began to transform.
Black fur rapidly covered his entire body. His frame grew taller, and his muscles bulged.
A force far more violent and primal than before erupted from within him.
Super Saiyan 4 Full Power!
"Let me show you what the purest power of a Saiyan looks like!"
Cumber's fighting spirit soared.
"That empire you built with schemes and lies is nothing but a joke!"
Emperor Vegeta remained expressionless.
Facing an aura powerful enough to make stars tremble, his gaze did not waver in the slightest.
"Ignorant."
He calmly spat out that word.
The next second, Emperor Vegeta's black hair, which had originally shot upward, turned into lion-mane-like purple hair that fell behind him.
His brow ridge sank, and his eyebrows vanished.
Purple flames swirled around him, burning fiercely.
A terrifying aura far beyond everyone present erupted from Emperor Vegeta's body.
Deep, evil, and filled with a will that seemed capable of destroying everything.
Everyone felt a suffocating pressure rising from the depths of their souls.
His pupils had also turned pure dark purple, without the slightest emotion.
"This is the most perfect… Ultra Ego form!"
"How is that possible?! That's a realm even Beerus spent a long time pursuing but never reached…"
Champa cried out in shock.
Vados's expression was also more solemn than ever.
"I have never seen a form like this either. Perhaps it truly can be called perfect…"
Frieza's pupils shrank to needlepoints.
Just from this transformation alone, the other party's understanding and control of destructive power had already far surpassed his own.
"Playing god!"
Cumber roared and struck first.
His figure vanished in an instant, and his fist blasted toward Emperor Vegeta's face.
Emperor Vegeta also threw a punch.
Their fists collided.
Bang!
Cumber felt an irresistible force surge through his arm, and his entire body uncontrollably plummeted downward.
When he looked at his burning arm, he saw that the fist that had touched the other party had disappeared.
At his wrist, purple flames were wrapped around the wound, constantly devouring his flesh and bones.
Cumber's heart jolted. He immediately changed moves and swept out with a leg.
Emperor Vegeta easily dodged it.
Then, with two fingers together like a blade, he chopped downward.
Cumber's pupils constricted sharply as he watched the palm enlarge before his eyes. For the first time, he felt as though there was nowhere to dodge.
On the other side.
Broly was hesitating.
For the first time, his trust in Emperor Vegeta wavered.
Kakarot, however, remained completely unaffected. Destructive power gathered around his fist.
"Just carry out your father's order properly. Why make so much trouble for yourself? As a Saiyan, why think about things unrelated to battle?"
His fist, wrapped in destructive power, shot toward the Crown Prince's head.
"Accept your execution obediently. Under the effect of destructive power, your immortality won't activate."
However, the Crown Prince, who had silently endured everything until now, moved.
He raised his hand and used that mangled palm, its bones already shattered, to firmly seize Kakarot's wrist.
Kakarot froze for a moment and tried to exert force, only to discover that the other party's palm was like an iron clamp, unmoving.
"Hm?"
A trace of surprise flashed through Kakarot's eyes.
The Crown Prince slowly moved. His body trembled violently, and with every motion, blood poured from his wounds.
But he stood even straighter.
The empty, numb eyes that had lost all light now burned with fire again.
"You're resisting! You finally know how to resist! That's more like it!"
Begetina was thrilled when she saw this, completely ignoring the wound in her abdomen.
A cold light flashed through Kakarot's eyes.
Deep purple flames began to spread around his body as well.
It was also… Ultra Ego!
Kakarot's figure flashed and blocked the Crown Prince's path.
The Crown Prince clenched his fist.
Silver-gray long hair shot upward, and his crimson eyes were filled with unyielding will.
Beast form!
"Then I'll… give you the battle you want!"
The Crown Prince turned into a silver-gray bolt of lightning and slammed into Kakarot's purple figure.
Boom!
On the other side, at the critical moment, Cumber chose to avoid a head-on clash for the first time.
He dodged Emperor Vegeta's descending ki blade.
"So what if it's destructive power? Even with one hand left, I can still fight!"
He pushed the power of Super Saiyan 4 Full Power to the limit. His lone fist carried black energy as it fell like a storm.
However, before Emperor Vegeta, all his attacks were futile.
Cumber forcibly steadied himself in midair, his eyes filled with disbelief.
His attacks could not touch the other party at all!
Had the gap between them really become this enormous?
Emperor Vegeta's voice rang out calmly.
"All you have is brute strength, yet you don't understand how to use it. This is the limit of you old-era Saiyans."
He suddenly caught a gap in Cumber's attack and drove a knee hard into Cumber's abdomen.
Pfft!
Cumber spat out a mouthful of blood, his body curling like a shrimp.
Emperor Vegeta brought his five fingers together. Purple destructive energy gathered in his palm and aimed at Cumber's head.
"Submit to me, or turn to dust."
"You want me to submit? Dream on!"
"It's over."
The destructive energy ball shot out.
At that critical moment.
"Dodge!"
A warning rang out.
The Crown Prince forced Kakarot back with a punch, then instantly appeared beside Emperor Vegeta and kicked at the arm holding the destructive energy.
Emperor Vegeta frowned slightly. He had no choice but to abandon Cumber's execution and turn aside to avoid the Crown Prince's attack.
His expression darkened.
The tool he had carefully cultivated had developed thoughts of its own.
To his authority, this was the most naked form of provocation.
"Crown Prince, do you know what you are doing?"
Emperor Vegeta's voice no longer concealed his anger.
The Crown Prince raised his head and looked at his father, giving a clear answer.
"I don't want to be your tool anymore, Father."
"Very good."
Emperor Vegeta laughed from extreme anger.
"In that case, this king will personally clean house."
He abandoned Cumber, and his figure vanished instantly.
In the next moment, he was already standing before the Crown Prince.
A palm wrapped in dark purple flames pierced through space and stabbed straight toward the Crown Prince's chest.
This strike used his full power.
He wanted everyone to know the fate of traitors.
Boom!
The entire planet wailed under the shockwave.
The viewing platform instantly filled with cracks. Everyone felt an unmatched pressure fall over them, making even breathing difficult.
"This guy…"
Time Patrol Vegeta's expression was grim. His aura rose wildly as he barely resisted the pressure.
"His ki is terrifyingly powerful!"
Goku's expression was also more serious than ever.
He could feel that this Emperor Vegeta was beyond his current ability to match.
It seemed too late to rescue the Crown Prince!
Facing that terrifying attack with nowhere to dodge, the Crown Prince closed his eyes.
Since he had already made his choice, he would no longer regret it.
Even if the price of that choice was immediate death.
Before death, the faces of his younger brothers and sisters appeared before his eyes again.
However.
The death he expected did not come.
Another figure stood in front of him.
It was Broly.
He used his own chest to forcefully receive Emperor Vegeta's killing blow!
Bang!
The dull impact shook the entire space.
The ground beneath Broly caved in and cracked apart in a wide area. A powerful shockwave spread wildly outward with him as the center.
"Pfft…"
A mouthful of blood sprayed from Broly's mouth, but he still stood before the Crown Prince without retreating a single step.
His head was lowered, and no one could see his expression.
Only his body trembled faintly.
Everyone was stunned by this scene.
No one had expected Broly to do such a thing.
"Broly… what are you doing?"
Disbelief appeared in Emperor Vegeta's eyes.
Broly's voice was low, but his attitude was unusually firm.
"Your Majesty, you said I was your only friend and family."
"Family should not kill one another."
"He… is also your family."
Those words stunned Emperor Vegeta for one or two seconds.
The lie he had used to control Broly was now being used by Broly to question him.
"Foolish!"
"My children are countless. Those born from lowly races can be soldiers of the empire, or the lowest-grade hybrid warriors, but they alone cannot be my family!"
"The purity of our Saiyan bloodline at birth determines everything. You are the best example of that. I thought you understood this very well…"
"Broly, your place in my heart is different from the others."
Broly raised his head, his eyes filled with struggle.
Frieza saw an opportunity to make things difficult for Emperor Vegeta.
"Ohohoho… Mr. Broly, he is only using you!"
"He is using your kindness, using your guilt!"
"Think carefully. Was it truly an accident that you killed your own father with your own hands?"
"Besides… how could someone with Vegeta's personality ever make friends?"
Hearing this, Time Patrol Vegeta looked extremely displeased.
"That's slander! Frieza really says whatever he wants."
But at this moment, he could only step forward to support the argument.
"Hmph! A true friend isn't proven by words. You must have been deceived by that guy, Broly."
"This fellow clearly doesn't even know what friendship looks like. That's why he was so easily tricked. Ohohoho…"
Broly turned and glanced at Time Patrol Vegeta, then glared at Frieza.
Of course he had once had true friends!
The smiling faces of Cheelai and Lemo surfaced in his mind.
Although they were weak, they had taken care of him in every way.
Within the Saiyan Empire, they were merely the most insignificant logistics personnel.
Cheelai's voice seemed to ring in his ears again.
"Broly, your smile is so healing. Don't always make such a gloomy face. Smile more from now on!"
"Bah is actually a monster? Still, what your bastard dad did was way too much."
"Look, look! I stole the remote your bastard dad used to control you."
"All right, don't be mad. I won't badmouth your dad in front of you again."
Lemo did not speak much.
But he often brought delicious food he had personally prepared to visit him.
"Slow down, slow down. There's plenty this time."
"Stop drinking, stop drinking. It's just normal water. I'll bring you something flavored next time."
"Sigh, what kind of life did you live on that planet?"
The two of them had taken him to eat all kinds of amazing food.
The short time he spent with them was the happiest time of his life.
Until the God of Destruction named Beerus ended everything.
Although revenge had succeeded, their lives could never be brought back…
And now, someone was slandering his friends!
Broly's aura rose layer by layer.
Then it exploded.
Frieza's laughter stopped abruptly, and a bad feeling rose in his heart.
Could it be…
Boom!
Broly directly transformed into his Super Saiyan 4 Beast form and squeezed out several words through gritted teeth.
"Don't you dare… insult my friends!"
Before his words had fully fallen, his figure vanished from the spot.
Frieza's pupils shrank to a pinpoint.
"Mr. Broly, wait…"
He did not even have time to react.
Bang!
A massive fist smashed squarely into his face.
Frieza's entire face distorted instantly. He spun backward at high speed and crashed hard into the barrier of one of the arenas.
His brain buzzed, and for a moment, he was dazed.
He was clearly standing on Broly's side…
Why did the other party rush over and hit him without explanation?
Suppressing the grievance in his heart, Frieza carefully recalled which sentence he had said wrong.
However.
Before he could figure it out.
Broly appeared again like a ghost. His large hand seized Frieza's head and lifted him with one arm.
The terrifying grip instantly twisted Frieza's expression in pain.
This lunatic!
This king merely told the truth and mocked Emperor Vegeta a little!
Why did I have to suffer such cruelty?
Wronged!
Utterly wronged!
Then came humiliation.
But facing Broly with Beast and Super Saiyan 4 stacked together, he could only hate his own powerlessness!
Wait!
Friends?
Frieza seemed to grasp the key point, and his mind spun faster.
Did the other party suddenly go mad because he mentioned friends?
And Broly had said friends, plural?
In a flash, Frieza captured the crucial information.
The person Broly regarded as a friend was not only Emperor Vegeta!
He struggled to squeeze out a few words from his throat.
"Whether it was your friends or your father, their deaths were absolutely connected to Vegeta!"
Broly's hand, which was gripping his head, suddenly stiffened.
The anger in his eyes froze for an instant.
Did I guess correctly?
Frieza swallowed the blood surging up his throat and struck while the iron was hot.
"How do you think they died? Pure accident? Or was it all told to you through Vegeta's mouth?"
"Crown Prince!"
"You tell this poor fool the truth!"
"How exactly did his friends and father die?"
Everyone's gaze instantly focused on the Crown Prince.
Paragus's grateful gaze toward Frieza also shifted over.
What exactly was the truth?
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