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Chapter 118 - Unbridled "Kaiōken!" The word rocked through the air, Gokū Black's dark pink aura exploding into a mixture of pinks, purples, and crimson. Gohan had never seen an aura display quite like it; Black's god aura, formerly free flowing, constrained itself to its body. The bright red Kaiōken aura that Gohan was familiar with from his youth blazed atop his god aura, a swirling storm of red light blending into the air around him. Black's muscles began to bulge, straining against his tattered and damaged gi. "Yes!" said Black, grinning. He clenched his fist, feeling the rush of power. "This was a gamble, but I saw Son Gokū do this. One slip up and I would have died on my noble mission! But it worked!" "You risked everything on a gamble?!" Gohan asked, stunned. "Is that not how you mortals are?" Black shrugged. "I suppose there may be things to be gleaned from your kind after all." Clenching both fists at his side, Black began to focus the Kaiōken, steadily increasing his power

Chapter 117 - Rouge and Rage "Bulma!" Gohan gasped, staring in shock at the Super Saiyan woman. The training in the Room of Spirit and Time had paid off, and seeing her maintain Super Saiyan so flawlessly was astonishing. Yet, that was not as astonishing as seeing her alive and standing before him. "You're...alive? But I told myself you died!" Blinking, realising the insanity of the words that slipped out of his mouth, he rearranged the sentence in his head. "I thought you'd died. I saw the explosion of the Western Capital, and I couldn't feel your ki." "We almost did," said Bulma. "Qirka's sensors picked up another ki signature incoming. We barely had any time to react before he sent the entire building up in flames." Gohan blanched, a lump in his throat. "Were you the only ones who made it out?" He willed himself not to think in the negatives yet. Everything was going so poorly. He didn't know where Trunks was, or if Trunks was even alive. The very human race they were trying to