Beerus froze for a moment, unable to react right away. When he finally lifted his gaze toward the projection Whis was displaying…
He saw Gran suspended before a yellow planet.
Something about Gran's state was strange. A faint purple aura drifted around him—but no, calling it an aura wasn't quite right.
They were slender, thread-like streaks of purple light.
Woven together, they wrapped him like shimmering silken strands, forming a cocoon—no, a chrysalis—like he was undergoing metamorphosis.
"Ha… haha… hahaha!!"
"Whis, do you see this?! That's the Destruction Rule Light!!"
Beerus's ecstatic voice thundered across the entire Realm of the God of Destruction.
Whis appeared calm on the surface, but in truth, waves of shock surged through him.
This was far beyond his expectations—again.
…
In a deep stretch of starfield within the North Galaxy, a lone yellow planet drifted quietly.
Its civilization had advanced incorrectly, and Whis had already deemed it an unqualified world.
Today, an exceptionally handsome man wearing bulky clothing hovered outside it, and beside him floated a tiny Saiyan boy with a round, radish-like head.
"Gran, after we destroy this planet, let's go find more food!" little Broly said with cheerful earnestness.
"You little glutton."
Gran laughed and didn't turn him down. "Alright—just wait a moment."
Yet even as he spoke, he felt something off about his current condition, though he couldn't quite articulate what it was.
Unless…
A sharp glint flashed through Gran's eyes. He wasn't completely certain—but there was only one way to find out.
This planet needed to be erased anyway. So… begin.
Hovering outside the world, Gran closed his eyes—then suddenly opened them and raised his hand.
"Destruction."
Vmm!
The power of destruction surged out of him—yet today, it wasn't the same explosive torrent as before.
In the past, it roared like a bursting flood. Now… it had become refined, subtle.
"This is… I'm really about to break through!"
Gran's excitement spiked.
For two full years he had been destroying planet after planet, all to push his destructive power into the realm of cosmic rules.
At last—it was happening.
He no longer rushed to obliterate the planet before him. His priority now was the breakthrough.
Rumble!
He continued drawing out the power of destruction, and the purple aura wrapped fully around his body.
In the vastness of space, a massive purple cocoon took shape.
The moment Gran's form was fully enclosed, his aura began to transform—evolving from mere energy into thread-like rule-light.
With the birth of each streak of Destruction Rule Light, the space around the cocoon twisted.
It was the resonance between the universe and its rules.
As time passed, the density of the rule-lights grew thicker.
RUMBLE!
The cosmic resonance intensified, and soon the entire Seventh Universe trembled.
On Earth's Heavenly Realm, Mr. Popo suddenly looked up.
"He's about to master the Destruction Rule… You've finally become a qualified Candidate God of Destruction."
In the Galactic Prison, Merus glanced toward Gran's location.
"Big Sis said a Candidate God of Destruction free-for-all is coming soon… Looks like those guys are doomed."
In the Sacred World of the Kai, Shin shook the Old Supreme Kai awake.
"Ancestor! Look—Gran succeeded!"
On King Kai's tiny planet, King Kai collapsed flat in terror.
"What in the world has this Candidate God of Destruction done?! Why is this power so terrifying?!"
Gran's breakthrough was causing such commotion that every deity across the universe turned their attention toward him.
Suddenly
The starfield around Gran trembled again.
It was the final thread of Destruction Rule Light completing its evolution.
The First Stage of the Destruction Rule… was achieved.
BOOOOM!
A pillar of purple light burst skyward from Gran's cocoon, resonating violently with his Candidate God of Destruction authority.
Little Broly, who had sensed something was terribly wrong, immediately sprinted away on his short legs. And just then, Gran's light erupted outward.
Vmm!
Every planet touched by the expanding brilliance silently disintegrated into drifting stardust.
Before, Gran's destruction always produced immense shockwaves.
But now, his power had surpassed mere energy—it had become a rule.
This was a law of the universe itself—like the cosmos cleansing its own interior. Clean. Precise. Without a sound.
"So this is the Destruction Rule…"
Gran slowly opened his eyes. He lifted his hands, marveling at the overwhelming power coursing through them.
He swept his gaze around.
Every surrounding planet had already been reduced to nothing.
"Hahaha!"
"I finally did it!"
Two years of training—just to reach this moment. It was impossible not to be elated.
But then
He suddenly froze.
"Wait… Broly?"
Gran jumped in alarm. The boy was nowhere in sight.
Don't tell me I destroyed him…
Just then
"Gran!!"
A small figure shot toward him from far across the void, his face pale with fear.
"Where did you run off to?! You scared me half to death!"
Gran grabbed little Broly and began checking him all over.
"Gran, are you stupid? If I didn't run, you would've destroyed me too!" Broly wailed.
"Well…"
Gran let out a relieved breath after confirming Broly was unharmed, then awkwardly put him down.
"Sorry—couldn't control it for a moment."
Then he mussed Broly's hair with a mischievous grin.
"But don't worry. Even if you were destroyed, I could go back to the Realm of Destruction and ask Whis to revive you immediately."
Destruction Rule was a cosmic authority—anything weaker than it could be erased at the fundamental level.
But unlike Zeno's total erasure, Whis could rewind time to restore anything destroyed by Destruction—so long as it hadn't been more than three minutes.
After that… only the Super Dragon Balls could help.
"…"
Is this supposed to make me feel better? Broly stared at him speechlessly.
"Hahaha!"
Gran burst out laughing at Broly's tiny, horrified expression, lifting him up again.
"Today calls for a celebration. Let's go eat a feast!"
"Gran, what about the rest of the planets? Aren't you going to destroy them?"
"Destroy what? I already broke through. Let the unqualified planets pile up for a while."
Gran then looked toward the sky, knowing Whis and Beerus were definitely watching.
He mouthed a silent message: See you on Earth.
Then he and Broly departed the starfield.
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