While Ino was studying the Head of Cold, the "filial son" Frieza received news of his father's accident while en route to Planet Namek. He immediately ordered his massive spaceship to remain in the nearby star sector, while he himself returned in a small spacecraft.
King Cold's spaceship was severely damaged due to the internal battle. Several subordinates risked their lives and performed beyond their limits to barely manage a hard landing on a nearby asteroid.
The massive impact caused all the survivors inside the ship to faint. Did they really faint? Even if they didn't, they had to pretend to faint at a time like this; no one wanted to bear the brunt of Frieza's wrath.
The massive spaceship was relatively quiet, save for the crackling sounds emitted by electric arcs.
With a face full of murderous aura, Frieza entered the spaceship. At a glance, there wasn't a single moving target within his line of sight.
He wanted to ask what had happened, but he didn't know who to ask.
King Cold's corpse had not been moved. At this moment, it was still splayed out with legs spread and limbs open, lying diagonally in a corner.
Looking at the wolf head on King Cold's neck, Frieza felt as if he were about to explode with rage.
The relationship between father and son was subtle. In the original timeline, when Frieza was chopped into minced meat by Future Trunks, King Cold showed not a trace of sadness and immediately invited Future Trunks to become his son.
But that was mainly King Cold toward Frieza. What did Frieza think of his father? There wasn't much filial piety, but... there was some.
Even putting aside filial piety and speaking only of face, Frieza had reason to be angry.
"All of you, stand up! Speak, who did this? If you don't speak, you will all die!"
His roar echoed inside the spaceship. A crowd of space pirates, whether pretending to faint or truly fainted, scrambled to their feet one after another.
They spoke one after another.
"It was Vegeta."
"It was Nappa."
"It was Vegeta and Nappa!"
"Vegeta and Nappa? How is that possible?" Frieza looked stunned. Could those two pieces of trash kill his father? Were they joking?
Ino had actually revealed her true face at the final moment, but at that time, the spaceship and the surrounding area were shrouded in white light. Let alone these space pirates who were further away, even Nappa had only seen the back of Ino dragging the West Supreme Kai away; he hadn't seen her face clearly.
At this moment, the space pirates were unanimous: it was done by Vegeta and Nappa!
Frieza reviewed the ship's records and the data uploaded from everyone's battle power detectors in detail.
The battle power value of that final sword strike could not be detected. Conservatively estimated, it was at least over 1 billion, because many detectors inside the ship exploded after exceeding 100 million. Several large-scale detectors only persisted for a few milliseconds longer. As for the specific value? They truly didn't know...
Besides the Ginyu Force, Frieza originally had four top elites under his command: Zarbon, Dodoria, Vegeta, and Cui.
With Dodoria killed in battle and Vegeta defecting, only two remained.
Zarbon, skilled in both civil and martial arts, was still commanding the army at the front. Whether he should come here to take over King Cold's subordinates and territory or proceed to Planet Namek depended on the situation, a decision Frieza needed to weigh himself.
Cui had followed Frieza to King Cold's location.
Hearing that Vegeta had killed King Cold, and hearing that Nappa's battle power exceeded 30,000, this purple-skinned alien—who had always relied on Frieza's authority to bully Vegeta and Nappa back in the day—simply did not believe it.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could Vegeta be that strong? Nappa? That dog-like thing, you say he has a battle power of 30,000?"
A battle power of 30,000 was already considered a powerhouse in the universe. Recoome and the others from the Ginyu Force were only around 40,000 plus, not quite reaching 50,000. Cui himself was only at 18,000; he looked down on even Vegeta, let alone Nappa.
His loud questioning seemed a bit shrill inside the tattered spaceship. King Cold's subordinates exchanged glances, but no one stood up to refute him. The facts were just so; believe it or not!
"It must be a Super Saiyan! Vegeta must have mastered some secret; he has transformed into... the legendary Super Saiyan!" No matter how unwilling he was, Frieza had to admit this point. Vegeta was no longer that little puppy in front of him.
This dog no longer wagged its tail begging for pity; it wanted to bite its master!
"Where is my father's head?" He reached out, and a shockwave shattered the wolf head on King Cold's neck, then he turned back to question the crowd.
"Vegeta took it!"
"Nappa took it!"
"Vegeta and Nappa took it!"
Frieza felt a headache coming on. "Is that all you three can say?!"
The crowd of space pirates dared not make a sound again.
Frieza felt incredibly weary at heart, but he had no choice. Over the years, any expert worth their salt had either joined his side or gone to his older brother Cooler's side. His old father? Heh, he should just retire in peace!
There were no experts on King Cold's side, which was the main reason why Nappa, with a battle power of 30,000, could crush these guys and hijack an escape pod.
Frieza looked at his father's corpse. Their race did have unique traits; even if the body was incomplete, cellular repair could be performed via deep hibernation. But this incompleteness had prerequisites. Now that the head was gone, how the hell was he supposed to repair anything?!
One day later, Frieza reached an agreement with his older brother, Cooler.
King Cold's territory and subordinates would go to Cooler, while his headless corpse would go to Frieza.
The corpse was missing a head and a right arm including the elbow, and there were over a dozen wounds, large and small, on the body.
The powerfully filial Frieza prepared to turn his father's corpse into a robot!
No head? Then install a head. No arm? Substitute it with a mechanical arm.
All those wounds on the body would be patched up.
The body wasn't quite right, and the soul was even more absent; this Mecha King Cold could not possibly unleash the battle power of 120 million he had in life. But it didn't matter. This was a robot completely under Frieza's control. For him, having lost more than half his subordinates, this corpse was much more useful than those space pirates and territories.
The two brothers also issued a joint declaration: "Kill Saiyans! Kill every one you see!"
They even issued a massive bounty on Vegeta and Nappa, dead or alive. The reward was ten planets suitable for habitation by most intelligent life forms.
...
Ino resolved her personal affairs and returned to the World Tree dimension to take a look. Unfortunately, with the death of the World Tree, those Rinnegan that were deeply connected to the World Tree instantly lost their light. The pupils were a hazy white; these eyes were all ruined.
She returned to Grand Kai's Planet to preside over the Martial Arts Tournament matters.
The Martial Arts Tournament was proceeding steadily.
As expected, Bardock quickly entered the roster of the Top 32.
His Saiyan characteristics were too obvious, so the West Kai naturally also saw this warrior dispatched by the North Galaxy team.
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