A fiery red spaceship smashed onto the road surface. The next second, the Ginyu Force member who claimed to be the fastest in the universe, Burter, dragged a long tail of flames as he rushed into the battlefield.
"Hmph hmph."
"Heh heh."
As soon as the two met, there was first a gaze full of passion, then they roared in unison, one arm pointing to the left, one arm pointing to the right.
"Ginyu Force!"
"Recoome! HI!"
"Burter! HA!"
"Reporting for duty! YEAH!—"
The two of them went "Hei Ha Hei Ha", gesturing on the spot as if no one else was around.
Their voices were loud and clear, their limbs extremely powerful. The key point was that they were performing in public without a shred of embarrassment; their expressions were natural to the extreme.
"..." Ino held her great sword, dumbfounded for a moment, not knowing if she should continue attacking.
Krillin had seen this once before, so he had somewhat built up a bit of immunity, though his voice trembled slightly.
"What should we do? Another powerful enemy has arrived."
"It's not a big problem. Leave it all to me to solve. You... you go help Goku." Ino's Kaio-ken x4 hadn't been used yet, but facing two enemies with battle powers around 45,000 who cooperated tacitly, she was under a lot of pressure. Once the fight really started, she wouldn't have time to look out for Krillin.
It was better to hurry up and send this Super Saiyan transformation device over to Son Goku.
Krillin also had the eye to judge the situation. He knew he couldn't play a role here. It was better to go help Goku first, solve Vegeta over there, and then come back to help Ino together.
"Okay, I'll go over there first. You be careful!" He used the Sky Dancing Technique, letting his ki push him to fly into the distance.
Burter sneered and threw out a series of blue energy blasts with a flick of his hand.
Ino charged out with a staggering step, swinging her sword to intercept them all.
"To dare run away in front of me? Don't you know Lord Burter's speed is number one in the universe?" Burter's face was full of arrogance. Without seeing him make any takeoff movement, he instantly appeared in the sky. The next second, his palm was behind Krillin.
At the critical moment, Ino used the Flying Thunder God to teleport over and block Burter.
The opponent glared at her, and she glared back.
"Time Freeze!"
If Ino froze Burter, Recoome was responsible for support. If she froze Recoome, Burter would launch a series of fierce attacks. To freeze both at the same time would consume too much pupil power.
She formed seals with her left hand and held the Hero's Sword in her right, engaging in a death match in the air against the two with her battle power of up to 45,000.
Her physical constitution could maintain Kaio-ken x3, but the battle powers of these two were also in the 45,000 range. There was no obvious gap. Moreover, Recoome had strong power, and Burter had fast speed. The two coordinated tacitly, making it a bit strenuous for her to fight.
"We really appreciate you. Come join us, will you?"
"Yeah, yeah, Guldo's abilities are pretty good, but his battle power is honestly too low! He's clearly dragging down our average."
If there were a game panel right now, lines like [Recoome] fails to employ [Ino], [Burter] fails to employ [Ino] would definitely be appearing repeatedly.
Normally speaking, after being rejected once or twice, they wouldn't ask again. But these two guys seemed to have something wrong with their brains; they talked endlessly. If once didn't work, they tried twice; if twice didn't work, they tried three times.
Ino was annoyed to the point of flying into a rage.
Relying on the sharpness of the Hero's Sword and her numerous methods, she could still fight to a draw against the fierce attacks of two opponents of the same level. But the Kaio-ken could not be maintained for long after all; she was already panting a little.
Recoome and Burter were battle-hardened and immediately saw the opening.
Their response was surprisingly consistent: stall for time.
Even Recoome, who looked extremely strong and advocated for attacking, adopted a defensive stance, just wanting to stall out the duration of her Kaio-ken.
"Hold on! This state of hers can't last too long!" Burter, tall with long legs, kicked out a blur of leg shadows at Ino.
To prevent getting hit by "Time Freeze" again, the two didn't look at Ino's eyes at all, so they didn't see the brand-new change in her pupils.
Inside the six-magatama Rinnegan, the magatama rotated counter-clockwise. Ino cast a genjutsu on herself.
Her panel had already unlocked LV4 Kaio-ken, but this thing wasn't a routine skill. It was like how Guy-sensei could open the Eighth Gate. Could he do it? Definitely, but the price of opening it once was too huge.
For Ino, Kaio-ken x4 was the same; her body could use it, but it was extremely strenuous.
She cast a genjutsu on herself.
"My physical constitution is very strong."
"My physical constitution is extremely strong."
"I am already strong enough to be invincible under the heavens!"
Son Goku had willpower; she had spiritual power!
If the physical constitution wasn't enough, then pretend it was enough! This was the wonderful use of genjutsu.
Ino felt her whole body filling with strength. After her physical constitution exceeded its own limits, her arms shook.
"Kaio-ken x4!"
Even more violent energy poured into her whole body. The load on her heart far exceeded the limit the body could bear. The base battle power of 15,000 was amplified by the Kaio-ken, quickly climbing to 60,000.
"A battle power of 60,000?! Did I see that right?" Recoome was greatly startled, but his next sentence made Ino's nose crooked with anger: "Burter, let's capture her and take her back to be the Vice-Captain, right?"
"Good idea! That melon of a head of yours is really smart."
"Hahahaha, I've always been the smart Recoome!"
On the other battlefield.
Unlike Son Goku and Piccolo who were attacking together fiercely, Vegeta's heart was truly in a turmoil.
He knew his own affairs best; currently, he hadn't revealed any signs of betraying Frieza, but both sides knew clearly what the reality was.
The previous surveillance and monitoring might have been hidden underwater, but now that Recoome and Burter had blatantly tracked him here, he had to suspect: perhaps Frieza's attitude toward him had changed?
Thinking of Frieza, he couldn't help but shudder. The future him might look down on Frieza completely, but right now, Frieza was the nightmare of many Saiyans and many intelligent cosmic races.
Even the Ginyu Force didn't know of King Cold's existence, so it was even more impossible for Vegeta to know. In his heart, Frieza was the strongest in the entire universe, and the gap between himself and this strongest being was extremely obvious.
He constantly monitored the distant battlefield.
Seeing Recoome burst out with a battle power of nearly 48,000, seeing Burter's battle power rise to 46,000, and seeing Ino burst out with full power, using Kaio-ken x4 to make her own battle power climb to 60,000, he completely lost the interest to fight with Son Goku and the others.
If the Earthlings won, he was done for. If Recoome won, he wouldn't be much better off!
Son Goku and the just-arrived Krillin didn't see the problem. Piccolo detected some clues; it seemed this Saiyan and those guys in the distance weren't on the same side?
Piccolo was very smart, but intelligence was lacking too much. For a moment, he couldn't figure out their relationship either.