"Puyu, puyu!" Tonton caught the sarcasm threaded through Ino's laughter and opened her little snout, letting out a sound that was apparently meant to be very authoritative.
If it weren't for making sure your two precious daughters actually studied, would I have had to practice this hard? Ungrateful pig!
"Sorry, sorry, I was wrong to blame you. I'll take you out to play in a few days!"
"Puyu — puu-puyu!" Tonton's meaning was clear: If it's not fun, I'm biting you!
Ino waved a hand at Tonton. The kids weren't studying today — consider it a day off.
Tonton trotted off gleefully to play.
Ino stepped inside and immediately heard her two daughters loudly arguing over a math problem.
"The shuriken's initial velocity should be 41.84 m/s!"
"That's not — I mean, your answer is right, Sis, but your order of operations is wrong."
The two of them argued while sneaking glances toward the doorway out of the corners of their eyes.
Ino walked in wearing a half-smile, and both girls immediately turned to her with identical, ingratiating smiles.
Back in the Demon Realm, Ino genuinely hadn't known — the dark energy there interfered too heavily with her Time Power. But now that she was back in the Seventh Universe, if she still didn't know what her own children had been up to, then she was a pretty pathetic excuse for a half-Supreme Kai of Time.
The Babidi business was fine, really. That mage had been genuinely weak, and there was genuinely nothing useful to extract from him — keeping a useless mage around was just a waste of food. The girls had handled it correctly.
"The show isn't over yet — why did you run off? Put your shoes on and come with me."
She brought both children back to Earth.
Then she gave Son Goku a look: You can start your performance now.
Son Goku fixed his eyes on Lady Buu. Facing such a powerful enemy alone sent a thrill racing through him — the last time he'd felt this charged up was when he'd faced Vegeta. His Saiyan cells responded to his surging fighting spirit, and an unstoppable energy erupted from within.
Son Goku's aura blazed up into a torch-like column. His hair stood on end, and his eyes shifted to green.
"Super Saiyan? This isn't much different from before," Lady Buu remarked, unimpressed. In truth, after the Grand Supreme Kai's Potential Unleashed, Goku's base battle power had risen considerably from before — and the fifty-fold multiplier of Super Saiyan pushed that increase even further. She simply didn't care.
Son Goku said, "Right, this is Super Saiyan 1. And what comes next — is Super Saiyan 2."
His aura changed shape, becoming a jet-stream blaze. The energy radiating from his body crackled against the air, sending a chain of fine electric arcs snapping around him.
The friends-and-family group who had already retreated to a safe distance sensed the ki Goku was putting out. Those with at least some ability to protect themselves — Krillin, Tien — flew back toward the battle.
Nappa, Son Goten, and little Trunks arrived at the battlefield one after another. Under Vegeta's glare, they didn't dare get close, and could only watch from a distance.
Lady Buu picked at her ear. "Super Saiyan 1, Super Saiyan 2 — all this nonsense. Are you just stalling for time?"
Son Goku grinned. "Yeah, I am stalling. This new transformation was just an idea I had — it was Lord Grand Supreme Kai who turned that idea into reality. This is a Super Saiyan that surpasses the limits of the Super Saiyan beyond Super Saiyan! Super Saiyan 3 — AAAAHHH——!!"
The energy inside his body erupted in an almost absurd display. His golden hair rapidly grew down to his waist. His eyebrows vanished. Deep blue pupils appeared within those green eyes. The jet-stream aura of Super Saiyan 2 transformed entirely into a pillar of pure light, and the lightning crackling around his body became impossibly dense. The battle power amplification in this form was four times that of Super Saiyan 2.
Base × 50 = Super Saiyan. Super Saiyan × 2 = Super Saiyan 2. Super Saiyan 2 × 4 = Super Saiyan 3.
After transforming into Super Saiyan 3, Son Goku's battle power was four hundred times his base.
Such an absurd amplification came at a cost — his control dropped once again. The violent energy release sent high-speed gale-force winds tearing outward in every direction. Goku was simply standing there, and yet his ki alone was enough to throw Earth's weather into violent upheaval, while the shockwaves of his colossal power reverberated across the entire universe.
"This is... Son Goku? An ordinary mortal — possessing energy on this scale?" Zamasu, who hadn't yet left the Seventh Universe and was still traveling about recruiting warriors for one final strike against the Demon Realm, also felt this tremendous power shuddering through the cosmos. He fell silent. He was already displeased that Son Goku had turned down his invitation to join him — and seeing such power in the hands of a mortal made him look something closer to angry.
Shin and Kibito, as ever, couldn't escape their destiny as members of the Shocked Bystander Club. Witnessing the Super Saiyan 3 transformation up close stripped both of them of every last shred of dignity and composure.
Shin stared blankly at the silhouette within the pillar of light. "A Super Saiyan... can actually... actually be this strong?"
Kibito was in even worse shape, eyes darting everywhere, muttering, "This energy... it feels like it's already reached the Sacred World of the Kai?"
Among everyone present, the Grand Supreme Kai and Ino were the calmest.
The Grand Supreme Kai had reached this level himself, long ago — before sealing Majin away, he had been far stronger than Goku was now. Super Saiyan 3 looked impressive, but it was enormously wasteful. Ten parts of power, and a full two parts simply bled away into nothing. In the eyes of a Supreme Kai or a Destroyer, it was not a form worth encouraging.
Ino was equally unfazed. After releasing her power, she could reach this level too. She looked toward her two daughters — especially Kale. This path Son Goku was taking seemed like it might suit her second daughter very well.
"Do you understand what this Super Saiyan 3 form is?"
Faced with her mother's gaze, little Kale shook her head this time, embarrassed. "Sorry... I didn't really follow what Son-uncle just did..."
"That's fine. Just having a general impression of it is enough — no need to copy his path exactly."
Just look at Vegeta — no one to guide him, no five Saiyans to channel their ki into him, and he still skipped Super Saiyan 3 entirely, clawing his way straight from Super Saiyan 2 up to Super Saiyan God through sheer stubbornness. From that angle, the Saiyan prince was actually quite remarkably gifted.
Ino said to Kale, "Remember the form he's in right now. Whether or not you ever walk this particular road, it can serve as a reference."
Himawari had Ino's own path to draw from — perhaps she'd even become a Grand Supreme Kai of Time someday... But Kale would have to walk the true Saiyan's road.
Her second daughter nodded vigorously, signaling that she understood.
Son Goku paid no attention to the thoughts of the spectators around him. This Living World Super Saiyan 3 transformation had slightly better endurance than the Underworld Super Saiyan 3 from the original timeline. Just slightly.
While enduring the four-hundred-fold drain on his body that matched his four-hundred-fold power increase, his stamina was burning through at four hundred times the normal rate. He had to finish Majin Buu before his energy ran out.
Ino's earlier battle had given him a clear inspiration. The moment he moved, Son Goku also grabbed the tentacle on top of Majin Buu's head.
He swung the Majin around and slammed her down hard onto the World Martial Arts Tournament ring. Lady Buu let out a cold laugh — her legs and lower body dissolved into a gummy pink substance, and then, reversing the situation entirely, she reached for him as if trying to wrap around Son Goku and absorb him!
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