"So you do have some skill after all… No wonder you dared challenge me."
The man's gaze sharpened. The aura rolling off Goku forced him to take this seriously.
He pressed his palms together. A peal like thunder rang out as space froze solid. Goku's surging fist wind halted mid-flight—then unraveled to nothing.
At the same time, Goku's body locked in place, bound by an invisible spatial force.
"With only this much, you thought to challenge me?" the youth said coolly. "How arrogant. You've underestimated a Sovereign. Now—fall into samsara."
He lifted his hand and patted the air. The world fractured like layered mirrors, cracking outward in rings. If left unchecked, Goku's body would shatter along with it—like glass in a hailstorm.
"…Looks like you are the one underestimating me."
Goku smiled faintly. With a crisp crack, the restraints cinched around him splintered, and he strolled through the breaking space to face the now-startled youth.
"I've never taken a Sovereign lightly," he said, grinning. "It's you who took me lightly."
His aura flared—so vast the entire world bucked and groaned. The youth finally blanched.
"You… are a Sovereign as well? Then why invade my realm?"
Goku's dimensional rank was higher; the youth couldn't read him at all.
"What a tedious question. Since when does one need a reason to take another's Divine Seat?"
Goku's tone remained even, but his presence swelled like a rising sea.
He didn't even bother transforming. He didn't have to. As a Sovereign, he commanded complete laws—and, more importantly, he had just grasped the ultimate law of power.
"At the far end of power lies destruction. Let me show you the Supreme Law of Destruction I've just comprehended. Don't disappoint me."
He shouted; muscle and spirit tightened as sigils of annihilation blazed across his skin. Destructive ripples poured off him; space fractured in sheets; the entire world convulsed—floods bursting from mountains, the mantle heaving—plunging the mortals below into panic.
"Th-this power… h-how is it possible…?"
Gone were the youth's calm and majesty; in their place, naked fear. Under that tide of destruction, he felt death's hand close.
He no longer dared hold back. Law-sigils erupted over his body, stacking into heavy shields that roofed the sky in a dark glow.
Reincarnation-force rose in waves to blunt the incoming ruin.
It never came close. The moment it neared Goku, the reincarnation power collapsed—their law-tiers weren't even on the same rung. Goku's technique drew from the strongest law—Power itself—evolving into Destruction. It would not be "blunted."
"S-so strong… impossible…"
A hollow helplessness opened in the youth's chest.
With life and death on the line, he hesitated no more. Every sigil on his body blazed as he condensed them into a single weapon—
a Sword of Law. He would throw everything at the one punch about to erase him.
The sword intent roared to the void, enough to unmake sky and earth.
He began with his strongest move—he knew that if he didn't go all out now, there would be no "later."
"Ready?" Goku's voice rolled like storm-thunder. "Then… here I come."
He punched. Gold burned the void—a single beam spanning void, so terrifying the realms themselves shuddered. It advanced, inexorable—nothing it touched remained.
The youth's face went stone-cold. Wordless, he gripped the law-sword with both hands, wrung every last drop of energy from his core, and cut.
Swordlight flared—and in the next instant, it met the golden beam head-on.
BOOM.
The youth reeled as if struck by lightning, blood spraying from his lips. His strength was profound; his body, formidable; he steadied himself—
but the horror in his eyes only deepened.
He couldn't stop it.
He needed power—more power—now.
He spat a mouthful of blood onto the sword. A killing aura crawled along the blade; divine radiance wrapped his body as he began burning his Sovereign source, trading tomorrow for a chance to live today.
Failure meant only death.
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"Die!"
Madness edged his roar. His ancient robe snapped in the gale; black hair streamed; his face iced over. He would pay any price to kill Goku here—this enemy was too dangerous. He had only one chance.
The law-sword changed—its blood-shine deepened to absolute black, the edge bright as winter sun, killing intent spilling like smoke. Power surged, multiplied hundreds of times by the burning of his source.
The realm began to come apart.
Flash!
That source-fueled, rule-complete swordstroke split the void again, meeting the golden beam a second time.
The world shattered in layers.
Goku sighed. "Disappointing. I haven't even used any real strength yet. I wanted to see how long you'd last… but even pushing yourself to the brink, you can't stop a single layer of my power. Enough."
He tightened his fist. The golden beam swelled; the killing light the youth had raised was ground to dust, his all-out sword cleaved aside like straw.
Shield after shield of law broke in front of him—clean, effortless, unstoppable.
Terror filled the youth's eyes. Perhaps his fate was sealed—blood and death—because the foe before him was practically unbeatable.
Sigils writhed across his body, burning on their own. His essence-spirit-vitality ignited as he dredged up the very bottom of his potential for one final strike.
He did not want to die.
"Kill!"
His voice rang like a blade; the void resonated in kind. Blood and flesh burned; the law-sword howled and fell—the most terrifying blow he had left.
"…Still resisting? You want to live? So do I."
Goku's face set. He stopped holding back. The golden beam ballooned severalfold, drowning the sky. It erased everything before it with contemptuous ease.
This time there was no thunderclap. The boundless sword-light simply vanished inside the flood of gold, which punched through the void and all its barriers in one clean line—
—and swallowed the youth whole.
Destruction invaded his body, tearing meat from soul, unmaking everything he was. Within the blazing beam, he faded—bit by bit—
until nothing remained but a single, undying Source Pearl of this world.
It quivered, light rippling, then darted away to escape—
only to smash into a stronger spatial seal and stop dead.
Goku plucked it from the air. A thin, pleading intent trembled inside; he ignored it. Destruction flowed from his palm and wiped the last shred of will from the pearl.
"Fight's over. Clean up."
Smiling faintly, he lifted the Source Pearl. It flashed—and sank into his brow, where his own primal pearl slowly absorbed it.
The fusion took nearly three days. When it finished, Goku stood as the new Sovereign of the Sekirei's world.
"As expected—fusing foreign Source Pearls does deepen my grasp of the supreme law. But it's limited… It won't let me step straight into the highest rule. Looks like I'll have to rely on the Dimensional God-Pearl to reach top tier quickly."
With a thought, he appeared at ground level.
Ruins everywhere: collapsed buildings, buckled crust, jagged craters venting magma. Black clouds rolled; lightning stitched the sky; smoke rose in greasy columns. From the rubble came sobs and screams. It looked like the end of the world.
All this—collateral from his battle with the former Sovereign.
"What a fragile realm…" He shook his head. "Still—this is my world now."
His will unfurled. Toppled walls stood. Fractured earth knit. The dead rose with clear eyes, their grief and memories of disaster gently wiped away.
In an instant, life returned to normal—
as if doomsday had never come.
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