"Damn it! Nappa, are you betraying me?!"
Vegeta noticed Nappa's hesitation and the change in his expression. Anger reached his head as he snarled the question.
"Vegeta, I… I think… maybe we don't have to leave. We're all Saiyans, after all…" Nappa didn't dare disobey Vegeta, but deep inside, he wanted to become a Super Saiyan and didn't want to miss this chance.
He knew his life was no longer in immediate danger, which was why he dared to suggest staying.
Otherwise, he would have been even more eager to leave than Vegeta.
Hearing this, Vegeta grew even more enraged.
First Raditz, and now even Nappa—the one who had always served as his subordinate—was about to leave him. He should have killed Nappa earlier, and now it was too late for regret.
The atmosphere grew unbearably heavy, filled with murderous intent.
It was clear Vegeta was giving Nappa one last chance to choose. If Nappa dared to disobey him now, he would kill him on the spot.
Nappa could feel the invisible pressure Vegeta exuded. He knew if he kept hesitating, he would truly face Vegeta's wrath.
His years of fear towards Vegeta had long been deeply ingrained in his heart, leaving him resentful yet unable to speak up, full of desires yet unable to act.
"Don't be afraid of him, Nappa! Listen to the voice in your heart. You've seen for yourself what kind of person Vegeta is. If you keep following him, what do you think your end will be? You escaped death this time, but what about next time? Our prince here is ruthless, thinking only of himself." Raditz saw in Nappa the same situation he himself had once faced.
He wasn't certain that Nappa had really changed, but even if Nappa remained as reckless and bloodthirsty as before, Raditz still wanted to give him a hand..to keep him from being controlled by Vegeta.
Thinking back, Raditz remembered his own childhood, when he had survived several times only because Nappa had saved him.
Without Nappa, he might have died long ago, never living to see Talot and Salari come looking for him.
"Raditz! You!!!" Hearing Raditz's words, Vegeta exploded with rage, but he lacked strength to fight back.
He knew full well his strength was far beneath Raditz's. Otherwise, sensing Raditz's aura would never feel like facing an endless abyss.
Nappa looked toward Raditz, his heart stirred with emotion. Memories welled up like a spring, taking him back to the days when Raditz had tagged along behind him like a shadow.
Perhaps because he now felt he had a new pillar of support, Nappa made his decision. He looked fearlessly at Vegeta and declared, "I'm sorry, Vegeta. This time I won't go with you. I'm staying here, because I want to become stronger too. I want to become a Super Saiyan!"
Nappa would no longer live under Vegeta's command. From now on, he would live for himself.
Hearing Nappa dare to so boldly defy his orders, Vegeta sucked in a sharp breath, struggling to keep calm.
"Fine! Very well." The icy killing intent around him seemed to solidify.
He wanted to strike Nappa down, to make him understand the price of disobedience, but Vegeta could only bear patiently.
Because Raditz was watching him with that mocking half-smile, preventing him from making any rash moves.
Not only Raditz, Talot and Salari were here too.
Since Raditz had already spoken in Nappa's defense, they clearly wouldn't mind helping him as well.
Talot thought of it that way, while Salari was simply cooperating.
She had no fondness for Nappa; after all, he had once provoked her.
"Tch~! Do as you please, but don't regret it later!" Vegeta turned his back and strode toward the spaceship without looking back.
In his eyes, Nappa was now nothing more than a dispensable existence.
It was just that he felt angry in his heart.
Next time they met, he would make them all understand the fate of looking down on him.
"You're really just letting him leave like that?" Watching Vegeta depart, Salari couldn't help but ask.
Vegeta was clearly a rebel at heart. Salari could imagine that if not for their overwhelming strength, Vegeta would never have let them go so easily.
"Just let him develop on his own. Creating rivals for ourselves will only push us to grow stronger. And our Prince Vegeta has quite the ambition, I'm actually curious to see just how powerful he'll become in the future," Talot said.
"Even if we give him the chance and the time, he still won't be able to catch up," Raditz replied, his confidence not without reason.
If he could be surpassed so easily, then all these years of training would truly have been wasted.
Off to the side, Nappa just stared blankly, unable to get a word in.
But Goku, on the other hand, was eager to see what things would be like the next time they saw Vegeta.
Vegeta had put a great deal of pressure on him as well. At the very least, he wouldn't stand still. He would quickly grow stronger.
…
Back aboard his spaceship, Vegeta quickly activated the operating system and piloted the ship away from Earth at the fastest speed.
It wasn't for nothing. He also feared that Talot and the others might go back on their word.
If they suddenly decided to kill him to eliminate future trouble, then he'd never have another chance.
"Just wait! Once I become a Super Saiyan, I'll surpass every single one of you!" His tone was filled with strong unwillingness.
Vegeta clenched his fists tightly, only calming down after a long while.
Sensing his current strength, Vegeta felt a surge of satisfaction. By his estimation, his power level was at least four or five times what it had been before.
"Next… I need to find the right planet for harsh training." Pulling up the spaceship's star map, Vegeta searched for a long time before finally selecting a remote planet.
In truth, during the long journey through space that had brought him to Earth, the structure of the Frieza Force had already undergone tremendous change.
But he didn't plan to get involved anymore.
Even if he now had the strength to reorganize the entire army, the Ginyu Force was nothing in his eyes anymore.
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