"The King of the Demon Realm?"
Taro narrowed his eyes, thoughts racing, and asked, "Lord Yemma, is it 'Dabura'?"
Yemma made a surprised sound and said, "Yeah, do you know that guy Dabura?" He cleared his throat, stroked his chin, and hummed, "Don't know what madness took him, suddenly appearing in the Solar System and blowing up the entire Earth with one palm... All the Earthlings died instantly."
"Did he come alone?" Taro asked, thinking of something.
"Hm, probably..." Yemma flipped through a thick book. "It all happened too suddenly, I can only check the life-and-death records... There's no sign of any accomplices in the cause of death for Earthlings, so it should be just Dabura alone."
The huge figure angrily slapped the thick book. "That guy keeps giving me trouble! So many souls can't enter the Underworld and are wandering in the living world, which might disrupt the order! Damn it! The demon clan is so hateful!"
"..." Taro thought for a moment and asked more cautiously, "May I ask, what exactly is the origin of the demon clan, whose slain souls can't enter the Underworld? How is that possible?"
Yemma was stunned, frowned deeply, seemingly troubled. He rubbed his temples, "Yeah... what exactly is the demon clan... seems like... a projection... hmm, I really don't know!" He sighed.
Taro's expression grew strange but he eventually nodded and prepared to leave: "If so, thank you for the explanation, Lord Yemma. I will take my leave..."
After speaking, he vanished as suddenly as he had appeared.
"What a strange person!" Yemma muttered, shaking his head and returning to his work.
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Since he wasn't familiar with the North Kai and Great Kai of this parallel timeline, Taro didn't dare to disturb them. Also, he knew well the lazy personality of the North Kai, who spent most of the day either dozing off or lying on the grass of the small Kai planet looking for ants. There was no way he would know the details of Dabura destroying Earth.
After all, in this timeline, the North Kai didn't even know who Goku was.
As for the Great Kai, he was probably busy singing all day, with no time for such matters… According to Yemma, Dabura most likely appeared suddenly outside Earth and blew it up with a casual palm strike, maybe just a demon king passing by, annoyed and acting on impulse.
Taro didn't know how much time had passed in this era since his last visit to this timeline.
So, he also had no idea how much Goku had grown since receiving his guidance. Was he still below Super Saiyan, at tens of thousands power level? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Or had he already broken through to the Super Saiyan realm? Or maybe he was struggling but hadn't truly reached the rage needed to become a Super Saiyan?
Goku's pure nature meant it was not easy for him to simply imagine such extreme anger out of nowhere.
But even if Goku had reached Super Saiyan level, facing Dabura's sudden attack on Earth from space—without instant transmission—he might not be able to stop it in time, since Dabura was a lightning-fast expert on par with Cell.
—But no matter what, first restore Earth in this timeline.
In the blink of an eye, Taro used instant transmission to arrive at the distant planet Namek. The first time he came to this world, he had already been here and borrowed the Polunga Dragon Balls to restore Earth and save its fate.
This was his second visit.
Floating in the cold, dark space, the huge flames illuminated his face. Before him was a silent grand fireworks display—ultimate explosions, ultimate destruction, ultimate death... Namek was silently exploding.
"..."
Taro's face turned icy cold. In an instant, his thoughts flooded, searching the exploding Namek, its surrounding environment. Suddenly, a chilling evil aura flashed by—
Dabura!
Taro's eyes blazed with sharp light. Amid the deathly glow of Namek's exploding fire, he took a step forward in space, disappeared from where he stood, and reappeared on the other side of the exploding planet. In his hand, a white ki energy extended and condensed into a white sword resembling a Distructo Disk, dozens of meters long but as thin as a cicada's wing. Viewed from the side, the ki sword even seemed invisible to the naked eye!
Its sharpness far surpassed the Distructo Disk!
The moment he appeared with instant transmission, the dozens-of-meters-long white ki sword had already slashed down!
This was the very technique Taro used back then, with his frail body, to sever one of the Universe Emperor Frieza's arms! He launched the attack from a great distance, and combined with his supreme martial arts grandmaster's ki perception, precisely teleported the strike onto the opponent the instant it landed!
In theory, this kind of attack cannot be dodged unless the opponent's reaction and movement speeds surpass Taro's to an unbelievable level… Many years had passed, and Taro was using this technique once again.
His goal was a single strike kill on Dabura.
When Taro decided to kill, he wouldn't be wishy-washy like his disciple Goku, engaging in hundreds of exchanges. If he truly set his mind to finishing the opponent, he would unleash his full power with no margin left!
Heh heh heh… That black shadow, the huge white ki sword almost overlapping him, with the planet's exploding supreme light behind him making his face blurred—only a faint, extremely sinister smile was visible.
In the darkness, amid two overwhelmingly massive auras, their gazes collided for a brief moment.
At the same time, Taro strained to draw on the sparse natural energy in the surrounding space around Dabura, harnessing the momentum of heaven and earth, attempting to trap Dabura in place. But… as Taro's dozens-of-meters-long ki sword cut into Dabura's arm by an inch, Dabura suddenly vanished!
The giant ki sword slashed only through empty space.
Holding the ki sword, Taro looked around in the cold, pitch-black space. His divine awareness radiated deep into the universe in all directions, scouring for several light years, tens, even hundreds of light years… yet there was no trace of Dabura.
With Dabura's massive evil aura, it shouldn't be so easy to hide.
Could Dabura also instant transmit?
Taro dissipated the dozens-of-meters-long ki sword he had condensed in his hand, then inhaled sharply toward the sword's former position… A piece of ice was drawn toward him. It was the demon blood spilled when he injured Dabura, now frozen in the cold of space.
The purple demon blood had crystallized into ice. Taro touched it with a finger and it shattered explosively, turning to powder.
Something was strange.
Taro furrowed his brows, his eyes flickering as he pondered.
If Dabura had merely passed by Earth, annoyed, and casually destroyed it, that could be explained… But he deliberately came to Namek and destroyed that planet as well—what did that mean?
Earth, Namek.
What did these two places have in common?
The answer was already obvious.