"I'm going to get serious now, baldy uncle. Take this!!"
With a loud shout, Goku's body turned into a streak of blood-red light, charging toward Nappa.
The sudden attack caught Nappa completely off guard. With no time to dodge, he instinctively adopted a defensive posture, but he was still far too slow.
Bang!!! A heavy thud echoed.
Goku's small fist carried unmatched power as it landed squarely on Nappa's abdomen. The devastating blow shattered Nappa's defenses and inflicted irreversible damage.
A suppressed, guttural roar escaped Nappa's throat, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.
[What kind of sick joke is this?! How could I possibly be defeated by a brat!!] Nappa's fury burned, his eyes filled with unwillingness.
The next moment, enduring the pain, he swung his right arm, gathering power to strike at Goku.
But such an obvious counterattack was instantly seen through by Goku. Using his tail, he skillfully wrapped it around Nappa's arm, perfectly dodging the attack, and at the same time slapped Nappa down to the ground.
This fighting method was truly unorthodox, and against someone as rigid and inflexible as Nappa, it proved extremely effective.
Seizing the momentum, Goku didn't hesitate. He pressed his palms together, assuming the stance to unleash his ultimate technique.
Azure energy quickly gathered in his hands, condensing into a powerful force within moments.
"Damn it!! I can lose to anyone, but never to a brat like you!!" From the ground, Nappa staggered to his feet. His eyes were bloodshot, and his aura surged stronger than ever before.
After being toyed with again and again, his anger finally erupted.
Endless energy surged from his right arm into his palm. In the blink of an eye, Nappa's strongest ultimate technique had taken shape.
"Kame—hame—haaa!!" With a loud roar, the azure energy beam blasted forth from Goku's palms, roaring straight toward Nappa.
"This kind of attack, how could it possibly work on me?!" Nappa went all in. With arrogant defiance, he thrust out his palm, and a golden energy beam shot out from his palm, his Super Explosive Wave collided head-on with Goku's Kamehameha.
The clash of ultimate techniques sent shockwaves in every direction, energies pressing against one another, each side trying to overpower the other.
Nappa sneered coldly, convinced he had blocked it and was ready to counter attack.
But the result came with Goku's sudden surge of strength, and his Kamehameha completely swallowed Nappa's Super Explosive Wave.
"What?! Impossible!!" In that instant, Nappa's heart seemed to stop beating.
There was no way to dodge now. His entire body was engulfed by Goku's Kamehameha.
BOOM!!! Energy exploded, flames and smoke towering thousands of meters high.
The blast pierced into the sky, and the resulting shockwave whipped up a terrifying storm across dozens of miles.
In truth, at the last moment, Goku had restrained much of his power, holding back most of Kamehameha's energy. This reduced the destructive force of the explosion.
Clearly, Goku's kindness still shone through. Even when facing an alien enemy, he treated it as just a spar. As long as the opponent hadn't committed unforgivable crimes, he wouldn't take their life.
…
When the storm of the explosion finally subsided, the injured Nappa appeared in everyone's sight.
Most of his battle armor was destroyed, his scouter shattered in the blast. His once-muscular body was now covered with horrifying bloody wounds.
"D-damn… it…!!" Nappa stuttered, his jaw trembling…no, not just his jaw, his entire body was trembling.
Unwilling to accept it, he thought of attacking again, but as soon as he moved his front foot, the injuries on his body caused a chain reaction. The intense pain and the exhaustion from the battle made Nappa completely exhausted, and his body uncontrollably collapsed onto one knee.
No matter how unwilling he was, the cruel truth was right before him. He had lost…completely lost.
Raditz hadn't been wrong, nor had he deceived him. It was him who was careless.
And he also realized that if Raditz's younger brother, Kakarot, hadn't pulled back in time and dispersed the majority of the energy, he would either be dead by now or at the very least on the verge of death.
With the battle over, Goku descended from the sky.
He released the power of the 4x Kaio-ken and heaved a sigh of relief, then he looked toward the fallen Nappa and said, "You really are powerful, baldy. I had to use 4x Kaio-ken to defeat you."
Goku spoke with great joy because he won the fight, but his words were filled with a childlike aura, which also made him seem adorable.
It sounded so straightforward, but that only made it clearer that Goku had no schemes whatsoever.
Hearing this, Nappa sank into yet another form of despair.
What ground did he have to argue back?
The strength he had always prided himself on turned out to be so worthless in front of this kid.
Unconsciously, Nappa recalled the days he once spent accompanying Prince Vegeta in training. Though their personalities were completely different, Goku now gave him the same oppressive feeling Vegeta had given him back then.
…
In the distance, Goku turned around and flashed a victory sign "yes" toward them.
"As expected of my younger brother. Nappa, if you had gone all out from the start, you wouldn't have lost this badly." Raditz smiled faintly as he spoke.
"This kid still has a lot to learn in terms of combat techniques, but he definitely has something unique about him." Salari smiled, amused by Goku.
Talot couldn't help but add his own praise as well, because this Goku reminded him of the Goku from the original work.
After the others had expressed their feelings, it was naturally Krillin, Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu's turn.
But their eyes were filled only with shock. They had long since been stunned by the powerful strength of Goku.
After all, every move of his carried a destructive force capable of destroying the heavens and earth.
"All right, Nappa has been defeated. Next, it's your turn, Vegeta." Talot smiled faintly, speaking toward Vegeta.
"Hmph~!" Vegeta snorted coldly in great displeasure.
The very thing he least wanted to happen had still come to pass.
He never expected Nappa to be so useless, forcing him to step in personally in the end.
He disdained the idea of fighting a brat like Kakarot, but for the sake of the method to achieve the Super Saiyan transformation, he had no choice.
Vegeta leapt high into the air and landed steadily at Nappa's side.
"Ve…Vegeta…"
Seeing Vegeta's arrival, Nappa's heart tensed. Forcing himself to endure his injuries, he tried to rise to his feet.
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