Dragon Ball Roshi
Chapter 354 - 454: Masts and Oars Turned to Ashes and Smoke

Chapter 354: Chapter 454: Masts and Oars Turned to Ashes and Smoke

At some unknown moment, two people appeared behind Vegeta.

They stood side by side, and one had just removed his hand from the other’s body.

One was a tall, middle-aged Earthling with graying hair and a distinctive aura; next to him was a strangely featured alien wearing a white lab coat, revealing a metal arm. He held two peculiar mechanical devices, which, upon closer inspection, bore traces of ice and snow, as if dug out from the polar ice fields.

Vegeta turned around and fixed his gaze tightly on the middle-aged man, as if trying to scrutinize every detail.

Naturally, these were Taro and Fabeli.

They had returned from the poles, bringing back from beneath the landing points of the Ginyu Special Forces and Vegeta’s squad something that Frieza had secretly smuggled to Earth’s poles. That Frieza guy thought that by sending the Ginyu Special Forces and Vegeta’s squad to their deaths, he could cover up this device’s existence.

But unfortunately for him... the Galactic Emperor did not know that Earth was already completely covered by the virtual Earth network, Jarvis.

In other words, every single move on Earth was observed by Jarvis.

Of course, due to ethical and moral reasons, many of Jarvis’s observational data were not open to anyone (unless absolutely necessary), to protect public privacy and social order.

However, morals and ethics always evolve with time.

...Therefore, from the moment Ginyu and Vegeta’s flying crafts broke through Earth’s atmosphere and entered Jarvis’s scanning range, the entire structure of their special crafts was being analyzed by Jarvis’s backend at a trillion operations per second.

Jarvis’s computational speed and algorithms were among the most advanced in the universe.

Because its design and AI were created based on Taro’s spiritual magic system.

When the extra structures inside the flying crafts separated after landing and entered the depths of the polar ice fields, Jarvis immediately detected them and notified Taro, Hathaway, and Fabeli...

In fact, even before the crafts landed, Jarvis had already made preliminary assessments of the extra devices they carried.

— Devices related to space-time.

As to what aspect of space-time the devices concerned, Taro could guess with his toes: they were definitely meant to restrict his teleportation ability.

This was why, twenty-five years ago, he had deliberately "allowed" Frieza to develop this device.

Long before, a hundred or two hundred years ago, after Taro had severed his arm and humiliated him for the first time, Frieza had ordered his legion’s science team to develop devices related to space-time. The problem was, they lacked some parameters related to Taro’s teleportation technique.

Taro sensed this from outside Planet Vegeta with his overwhelming spiritual power... because whenever he appeared near Frieza’s spaceship outside the planet’s explosion, he always felt something scanning himself and the nearby spatial region.

At that time, looking at Frieza’s cruel face, he quickly made a guess.

That was why he deliberately fought Frieza and said, "At most twenty-five years, you will die by that kid’s hand."

He fought Frieza several times, personally demonstrating his teleportation, giving them plenty of research data.

Because in Taro’s plan at that time, Earth might not succeed in developing Jarvis or constructing the virtual Earth network, so there was no spare energy to develop space-time devices.

Frieza, to take revenge for the past humiliation and mockery by Taro, naturally pushed his scientists to develop devices to suppress Taro’s teleportation... Taro was more than happy to exploit his enemy’s labor. Why not?

Since the enthusiastic Galactic Emperor was willing to help, Taro didn’t mind; he readily pitched in and helped a little.

Today was the day to collect the results.

That was why Hathaway had just said, "Let’s accept this little gift from Frieza!"

Twenty-five years later, Frieza really hadn’t disappointed Taro, "obediently" delivering the space-time devices that Taro needed so much...

Saying all this mainly to show that Taro was in a fairly good mood now.

So... regarding all the things Vegeta had done since arriving on Earth, Taro didn’t plan to pursue them further. He raised a hand and lightly pressed it toward Vegeta, who was nervously watching him, saying, "Your matter, wait a moment."

Then he said to Fabeli beside him, "Give it to Hathaway. She’s been saying she has nothing to do lately and is bored."

Fabeli rolled his eyes, "If you give it to me, I wouldn’t be happy either; space-time isn’t my field!"

So he handed the space-time device held by his mechanical arm over to Hathaway. Hathaway placed it on the lawn, glanced at it briefly, and asked the Phoenix to carry it back to her house halfway up the mountain to test it thoroughly later with Jarvis.

The Phoenix cawed, easily grabbed it with its claws, and with Jarvis watching, it could retrieve any dropped parts.

"So... can someone tell me what’s going on?"

Taro withdrew his gaze and looked at the restrained Ginyu Special Forces—Jeice, Burter, Recoome, Guldo... Krillin (Ginyu); Goku (Ginyu), standing awkwardly beside Gohan; and Krillin (Ginyu), standing next to Hathaway, resentful and somewhat withdrawn.

Under Taro’s gaze, Goku (Ginyu) felt even more guilty.

"It’s our fault, Master!" Krillin (Ginyu) was the first to speak. He didn’t try to make excuses but admitted fault straight away. He knew his master only cared about results, didn’t like excuses. When they trained, it was always like that—either it works or it doesn’t.

"I was wrong!" Ginyu (Goku) also lowered his head in shame.

Taro nodded at them, and the two lowered their heads even further.

Although Bulma had just been scolding Goku fiercely, he was still her husband after all, so she let herself vent. But now she worried about Taro punishing Goku for his careless mistake and interrupted, "Grandpa Taro, no matter what, can you switch them back? Seeing Goku like this feels really weird!"

"Son Gohan wants Daddy to turn back too, right?" Bulma lifted her son like a weapon.

Krillin (Ginyu), tied on the ground, snorted coldly. Not only him, but the other four team members bound with him also showed bitter smiles. They admitted they couldn’t beat these Earthlings, but they had full confidence in their captain’s abilities—and even more confidence in Frieza’s strength!

Krillin (Ginyu) struggled and twisted twice, about to speak, "Don’t think—"

"Did I give you permission to speak?"

Taro looked calmly at the tied-up group on the ground. Without raising his hand, just with an ordinary gaze, a wave of energy surged step by step, instantly striking Krillin (Ginyu)’s mind—

Psychic magic. He hadn’t truly used it for many years, but now it had reached a profound realm, unfathomable in depth.

That’s how he sensed someone spying in that parallel dimension.

"Ahhh...!!" Krillin (Ginyu) lay on the grass, groaning quietly, his face twisted in extreme pain, unable to move or scream, as if enduring an indescribable torment.

Bulma sneered, "He probably wanted to say ’Don’t think you can undo my superpowers just because you beat me,’ huh? Heh..."

Vegeta watched in horror.

Since this man appeared, an invisible aura enveloped him, making movement difficult. Unconsciously, he followed Taro’s will. When Taro didn’t want Vegeta to speak, Vegeta instinctively didn’t dare to say a word.

"Master, that’s my body..." Kakarot (Krillin) said plaintively, though only softly, muttering to himself.

Suddenly, he felt a dizzying sensation—

Taro’s eyes glowed faintly. Without chanting any spell, he just extended his hand and exchanged the bodies of Kakarot (Krillin), Ginyu (Goku), and Krillin (Ginyu) with a flick of his fingers!

For Krillin, it was as if the universe and time were flipping and swapping. An indescribable feeling wrapped around him... maybe something like this happened when Ginyu switched bodies too, but it was too fast and crude to notice.

When he came to, he was already lying on the grass... and his whole body ached like hell!!

All because Kakarot had just beaten him up badly!

So annoying!

But now back in his own body, it was easy for Krillin to break free. He used Muken, easily snapping the ropes. The four tied up with Jeice tried to move too, but Krillin kicked them a few times and shouted, "Stay put!"

Feels so good to kick!

Also, my body hurts!

"Phew—finally back!" Goku was relieved to be back in his own body. If he had stayed like that, Bulma probably wouldn’t have let him into the house! Smiling in his mind, he said to Kakarot: [This time I really owe you, Kakarot!]

Kakarot gave no response, probably already back in the virtual Earth network training.

Ginyu returned to his own body and stood beside Gohan, looking grim. Although the ropes were gone, he didn’t dare move a step. Taro had easily broken his always-successful body-switching power, terrifying him to the core... and recalling the mental pain from Taro’s gaze just now made him tremble uncontrollably!

He had never met such an opponent!

Ginyu had thought even Lord Frieza might not resist his superpower!

One look, one inflicted mental pain, almost drove him to collapse?

This Earthling was too terrifying!

Taro said to Fabeli, "Leave these few to you. Do as you please." He patted Fabeli’s shoulder and added, "I know you deliberately let Gero go. Now that these guys are under you, after all these years, Gero’s research might have progressed. Don’t let him surpass you."

"Oh? No more talk about your so-called humanitarianism?" Fabeli snorted.

"Only in name," Taro shook his head. "As for these guys? They’re not even human."

If they’re not human, there’s no need to talk about humanitarianism.

He looked at the five Ginyu members.

They all trembled and showed panic. Against Goku, they’d already lost all fighting spirit; what more against Taro? Under Taro’s gaze, they probably forgot who they even were!

Taro’s eyes were calm but terrifying to them.

"If you have the guts, just kill us. If you want to use us for experiments, I’d rather die..." Burter and Recoome tensed, forcing a cold laugh as they clutched their chests, "At worst, I’ll self-destruct!"

"Nagging." Taro felt it was a waste of energy even to talk to these people. He immediately spread his five fingers and, at a speed too fast for anyone present to see clearly, struck five palm strikes in quick succession. These five palm waves were intangible and formless, yet they hit Ginyu, Jeice, Burter, Recoome, and Guldo simultaneously—

Five white energy spheres exploded violently from the backs of the five members of the Ginyu Force!

Boom! As they burst from their backs, the spheres instantly shattered into countless white sparks, scattering silently onto the grass, dissolving without a trace.

"That’s... their energy!" Gohan, who had been calm all along, couldn’t help but react emotionally now.

"To actually be able to completely nullify the opponent’s energy..." Krillin sucked in a cold breath, unwilling to think further about it.

"Master is so powerful," Goku murmured respectfully.

Ginyu and the others were drenched in sweat, collapsing weakly to the ground like drained husks, their bodies wracked with pain as if every single cell had been ravaged.

They were utterly hopeless.

Even when defeated easily by Goku and the others before, they had never felt such despair! Their very essence, their foundation had been stolen by Taro! They had never felt so powerless—unable to muster even a fraction of strength throughout their entire bodies! It was like reverting to infancy, no, even weaker than a newborn! This feeling was far worse than death!

"Heh, then I won’t hold back!" Fabeli sneered cruelly, scooping up the five Ginyu Force members and flying off with them.

Vegeta watched the whole scene, his heart chilled with dread!

The elite Ginyu Force of Frieza’s army, the elite special ops team, was captured without any resistance and taken away for dissection! Not only that, the enemy had even used an unfathomable method to completely strip away the combat abilities of all five of them!

What kind of technique was that? It was simply beyond comprehension!

At that moment, Taro finally turned his gaze toward Vegeta... Vegeta’s forehead broke out in cold sweat, feeling as if facing a mortal enemy!

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