Second Heaven, War Demon Clan
"Clan Head, when are you finally going to arrange a fight for me? I'm going to suffocate from boredom at this rate!" Son Gohan complained for the tenth time as he stormed up to the War Demon Clan Head.
A towering figure beside the Clan Head couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Insolent, Son Gohan. You're being far too disrespectful!"
Gohan didn't even bother looking at him.
"Shut up. Losers don't get a vote."
"…"
This was Takeru, the Clan Head's personal guard.
And Gohan had every reason to act like this.
On the second day after leaving the Refinement Demon Pool, the War Demon Clan Head, already tired of Gohan pestering him, arranged for Takeru to spar with Gohan once.
But even before the pool's cleansing, Gohan's strength was already far beyond Takeru's.
After forty days of refinement, the gap was downright humiliating.
So let's rewind to that spar, to the second day after Gohan came out.
"Takeru, I'll give you three moves," Gohan said, his tone and expression overflowing with arrogance.
The crowd instantly exploded.
"He's way too cocky. Big Brother Takeru, beat him up!"
"Yeah! Everyone knows Lord Takeru is the strongest genius of this generation. Some newcomer dares to provoke him?"
"Beat him! Beat him!"
Other than Makoto, Masashi, Rei, and Kazu, the four who had undergone the same refinement as Gohan, pretty much the entire clan cheered for Takeru.
And it wasn't hard to see why.
If you measured it by "universal standards," Takeru's aura looked like it was easily over the trillion-level.
Meanwhile, Gohan's base combat power was only around 300 billion.
From aura alone, anyone would assume Gohan was about to get crushed.
"You little brat, that mouth of yours is outrageous!" Takeru roared.
War Demons were infamous for their hot tempers, and Takeru was no exception. That "three moves" line stabbed him right in the pride.
Exactly what Gohan wanted.
BOOM!
Gohan flared his power.
A black aura instantly wrapped around his body, savage and violent, carrying a pressure no different from demonic energy itself.
The mutated aura and his Saiyan brutality fused perfectly, turning him into something that felt even more vicious than the demons around him.
One more thing.
The Refinement Demon Pool couldn't change Gohan's bloodline.
The moment the War Demon bloodline essence tried to invade his Saiyan lineage, the eerie force hidden in his tail devoured it in an instant.
That was the final weight off Gohan's mind.
He didn't particularly care if his bloodline changed, but if it could stay untouched, even better.
And it proved something else.
Saiyan blood ran deeper than War Demon "genes."
Back to the fight.
Takeru struck first.
He leapt, legs coiling, and threw a brutal "superman punch" straight at Gohan's face.
Gohan dipped low, moving second but acting first.
He slipped the punch by a hair, then drove a kick into Takeru right as he was about to land.
BANG!
Takeru slammed into a nearby building, collapsing it with a thunderous crash.
Gohan didn't even chase.
Instead, he mocked him.
"Don't use kiddie tricks like that. It's full of openings."
The crowd went even wilder.
"Too arrogant!"
"Lord Takeru, get up and smash him!"
Some of them were so furious they looked ready to jump in themselves.
Takeru pushed rubble and broken tiles off his shoulders, eyes burning.
"Fine. If that's how you want it, I won't hold back!"
Gohan curled his lips and crooked a finger at him.
"Come on, then."
WHOOSH!
BAM BAM BAM BAM!
Takeru finally showed real speed.
Despite his huge frame and explosive muscles, he moved like a cannon shot, fists tearing the air as he pressed forward.
But Gohan wasn't easy prey.
He met Takeru head-on.
In base form, Gohan's energy output might have been lower, but his body was on another level.
CLANG CLANG CLANG!
Every collision sounded like steel hammering steel.
And Takeru felt it immediately.
Each time their bodies met, it was like he'd slammed into something that simply could not break.
"That's impossible!" Takeru barked, shocked. "You just went through the Refinement Demon Pool and your body already surpasses mine?"
Gohan lifted his chin, almost smug.
"My body was stronger than yours to begin with. And don't forget, I stayed in that pool for forty days. If the medicine hadn't run out, I could've stayed even longer."
"Just being tough isn't enough!" Takeru roared. "YAH!"
His power erupted.
That trillion-level demonic energy surged like a tidal wave.
Gohan's eyes flashed.
"Not enough?"
"That's only because I haven't used my full strength."
He waited calmly, letting Takeru gather momentum.
He still refused to rely on flashy energy attacks. He didn't want anyone noticing anything they shouldn't.
Takeru drew in every bit of demonic energy he could, concentrating it into his palm. He turned sideways, arm extended, posture eerily reminiscent of Vegeta's explosive-style techniques.
The difference was the output.
His attack became a jet-black beam, darker than ink.
"If you can take this, I'll acknowledge you!" Takeru thundered. "Rail Cannon!"
The black beam roared forward.
Gohan dropped into a horse stance.
Right fist tucked at his waist.
Right leg stepped back, hips twisting as he coiled power into the ground.
The moment the Rail Cannon reached him, about to swallow him whole—
Gohan's right foot slammed down.
Power rose from the earth, through his waist, into his shoulder, into his fist.
He rotated.
He punched.
BOOM!
The Rail Cannon exploded, shattered by a single bare-handed удар.
And the shockwave didn't stop there.
The air compressed into a visible impact print, a fist-shaped pressure mark stamped right into Takeru's chest.
"PFF!"
Takeru finally couldn't hold it in and spat a mouthful of blood.
A loud voice rang out from the shadows.
"Good! Very good! Excellent!"
The War Demon Clan Head stepped forward, unable to hide his excitement.
"To blow apart that kind of energy cannon using only your body…"
"Good! Too good!"
"You brat were born to walk the path of the flesh!"
The crowd instantly bowed, voices rolling like thunder.
"Greetings, Clan Head!"
"Alright, get up," the Clan Head said, waving it off.
Gohan stood there, calm as if nothing had happened.
"Clan Head, you flatter me."
Takeru's dark face actually turned faintly red.
"Clan Head… I embarrassed you."
"You didn't," the Clan Head said firmly. "Losing to him isn't shameful."
There was one sentence he kept to himself.
Even my body isn't much stronger than his anymore. Freak. Monster.
And with that thought came a thin thread of suspicion.
Gohan's background.
During those forty days in the Refinement Demon Pool, the Clan Head had quietly sent people to investigate.
All they found was evidence of Gohan's presence in the Dark Forest.
Everything before that was blank.
He had considered the possibility that Gohan was a spy from the universe outside.
But he dismissed it almost instantly.
Gohan's brutality, his cold indifference to life, and that mutated demonic aura, especially that gray, deathly presence that could swallow life force, were proof enough in his mind.
If the outside universe had something this evil, surely the God of Destruction and his kind would have wiped it out long ago.
That assumption led him straight into the trap.
Because Gohan's "act" was flawless.
Even the demons of the Demon Realm weren't as savage as him, especially that terrifying method of slamming into enemies and bursting them apart, wearing blood, brain matter, and organs like a cloak.
The Clan Head's imagination ran wild.
He started to believe Gohan was a genius sent down from the Third Heaven by a Demon General, or even by the Strategist himself, for tempering.
After all, when Gohan emerged from the pool, those two black-gold beams had pierced the Second Heaven and shot into the Third.
And yet nobody from the Third Heaven came down to trouble him.
What the Clan Head didn't know was that someone in the Third Heaven had already seen it.
They simply didn't pursue it.
Because the Refinement Demon Pool itself had been personally refined by that very existence.
Yes.
The Strategist.
And through a chain of coincidences, misunderstandings, and pure intimidation, Son Gohan's identity remained perfectly hidden.
Even from Son Gohan himself.
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