Trunks stared coldly at Black Vegetto in front of him. From his words, Trunks managed to extract two useful pieces of information.
First, the reason his Forced Separation Technique had failed became clear to him. The two Zamasus were fused forever and could never be split apart.
This is the sheer authority of the Super Dragon Balls!
Thus, the Yardrat separation technique could never interfere with the two fused Zamasus and so this Black Vegetto fusion would never end.
Second point: Black Vegetto was not an undead being, or more specifically, he was not immortal.
Perhaps they realized that making him undead would prevent them from exploiting the Saiyan trait of reviving from near-death.
This meant he could still grow stronger.
The thought alone was terrifying.
However, there was one important and good piece of detail in all of this crap-infested bad news: This Black Vegetto was not unkillable.
"Heh... You despicable humans continue to face my judgment." Black Vegetto raised his hand slightly, and pink energy gathered in his palm.
At that moment, Trunks stopped pretending, and his injured arm healed instantly.
He pressed two fingers to his forehead--
"Zhoo!"
The next moment, his figure flickered, and he reappeared beside Gohan.
"Gohan! Let's go!"
Before Gohan could react, Trunks grabbed his hand and activated the Instant Transmission technique again.
The two vanished from the spot.
An instant later, they reappeared somewhere else.
"Brother! Gohan!" Bulla exclaimed in surprise.
"What happened?!" She kept asking them questions.
But time was running out; Trunks didn't have a chance to answer. He only gave her a grave look, then turned his gaze toward Gohan.
Bulla immediately sensed that something was wrong.
She sensed an extremely powerful Ki right next to Trunks and Gohan. Instead of fighting, the two had used Instant Transmission to come to her.
This was serious.
As expected, Bulla's fears were correct.
Trunks spoke to Gohan with a solemn expression: "Gohan! Do you still remember the Fusion Dance?"
To minimize risk, Trunks had decided to use Fusion.
'embarrassing'To fight a fused being, you need to be fused too!
Right now, though, he didn't have the Potara earrings, so they had to try the other 'embarrassing' method.
"I remember! Trunks, do you mean we should fuse to deal with that guy?" Gohan replied, already taking his stance, ready to perform the Fusion Dance.
Trunks took his position as well, and the ridiculous, embarrassing dance suddenly became heavy with tension.
"Fusion, Ha!!"
Just as their fingertips were about to touch, a barrage of radiant lasers rained down from the sky, halting their movements.
Their fusion dance movemment had been interrupted!
Black Vegetto shone with a holy golden light as he looked at Trunks with disdain.
"So, the ants chose to run away?"
"Heh... Yardrat tricks will never compare to the divine techniques of gods!"
Unexpectedly, Black Vegetto retained the Kaiōshin candidate's Instant Transmission technique.
Things had become even more troublesome.
Trunks suddenly realized something that was so broken that it became ridiculous.
Black Vegetto's essence was Zamasu.
'If he had the Kaiōshin candidate's exclusive Instant Transmission, didn't that mean he might also have healing skills?'
And with a Saiyan body to boot...
Trunks' thoughts became chaotic. At that moment, a glowing Ki scythe appeared in Black Vegetto's hand.
It was a familiar technique, but this time, the Ki scythe was clearly far stronger than the ones Zamasu had wielded before!
Zhoo!
Black Vegetto clamped his hand around Trunks's throat and pressed the glowing scythe against his neck.
"Trunks!" Gohan roared, rushing at Black Vegetto with all his speed. But Black Vegetto's figure only flickered for a split second before vanishing from sight.
He gave a chilling smile as he spoke. "Heh... Trunks. Let me think. How many Trunks have I killed so far?"
He tapped his head mockingly.
"Should be over a hundred by now."
With a wicked grin, he tilted his head and was just about to finish Trunks off.
But how could Trunks resign himself to being cut down? A faint divine aura began flickering around his body.
It was only due to a moment of carelessness that Black Vegetto had caught him off guard just now. As he prepared to transform into his Boundary Breakthrough state, he and Black Vegetto suddenly turned toward a surge of blue light.
The source of the light was none other than Bulla.
She had transformed into a Super Saiyan 4 Form. But she was unlike any Super Saiyan 4 seen before.
No, that wasn't quite right. It was unlike any SSJ4 form, even Boundary Breakthrough!
Her once gentle face twisted into something feral—a stark contrast to her usual well-behaved image. Her pupils vanished, and her eyes turned completely white.
Fixing her gaze on Black Vegetto, she muttered in a voice trembling with rage,
"So it was you…"
Memories of death surged within her mind. Moments earlier, when she had sensed Black Vegetto's Ki up close, she had picked up on one particular aura, despite his energy being an unnatural mix of various species. It was one she could never forget and would forever loathe with unending hatred.
Within Black Vegetto's power, she sensed it: the Ki of Black Goku, who had ravaged the timeline she lived in during her past life.
Black Vegetto's gesture of holding Trunks at his throat was the same pose Black Goku had taken when he slaughtered the Trunks of that doomed timeline.
A flood of memories and fury crashed through her like a tidal wave. In her previous life, she had been too weak and had been forced to watch helplessly as her family was butchered before her eyes.
In this life, she would never allow history to repeat itself!
"Let go of my brother!"
Bulla erupted with an unprecedented surge of power.
Her body shot forward like a cannonball, faster than the eye could follow. In the blink of an eye, she was in Black Vegetto's face.
BAM---!
A fierce rising uppercut smashed into Black Vegetto's chin while Trunks stared in stunned disbelief. He could hardly comprehend that Bulla possessed such overwhelming power.
And the form she had taken… it looked strangely familiar.
'Yes, that's it. T was the very same form Future Trunks had once achieved in the original Dragon Ball Super manga, the Tiga Form!
Trunks was left completely dumbfounded, watching as Bulla, in this impossible state, unleashed a furious barrage against Black Vegetto.
Inside, he couldn't help but ask himself:
(What in the world is happening…?)
An overpowered father, and now a little sister, suddenly breaking all limits, it was beyond belief.
One massive question echoed in his mind: 'Why did Bulla have a form so similar to the legendary Tiga Transformation?!'
(End Of This Chapter)
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