The mocking laughter around Vegeta didn't fade for more than a minute.
Still confused, Captain Ginyu finally pressed the button on his scouter, intending to check what was really going on.
Under normal circumstances, Frieza should've appeared after such a commotion.
Unless… he had gone somewhere?
But the scouter scan dragged on, sweeping through the ship — and the only life signatures detected were a handful of weak foot soldiers.
Ginyu's expression instantly darkened.
He switched to global detection mode, scanning the entire planet.
Seconds trickled by.
His frown deepened.
His face twisted.
And then—
"No… impossible! H–How is this possible?!"
There wasn't a single trace of Frieza's power level anywhere on Namek.
A chill crept down Ginyu's spine the moment he met Vegeta's cold, amused gaze.
He didn't dare imagine it.
He refused to imagine it.
Frieza… killed by Vegeta?
That thought alone felt insane.
But Ginyu forced himself to breathe. He aimed his scouter directly at Vegeta — needing a definite answer.
The numbers climbed rapidly.
"Power level… 30,000… 50,000… 90,000… 180,000?!
You—how can you possibly have this level of power?!"
Ginyu was genuinely shaken.
For the others, it was even worse.
Jeice froze mid-breath, cold sweat streaming down his cheek. After manually scanning Vegeta again, the scouter returned the same number:
180,000.
Burter scanned him.
Recoome scanned him.
Guldo scanned him.
Each time, the result was identical.
Their own power levels barely reached forty or fifty thousand at best — and Guldo barely hit ten thousand.
They couldn't even comprehend 180,000.
Even Ginyu's full power of 120,000 had never been displayed in front of them.
To see Vegeta — once a measly 18,000 in the past — now exponentially above them was a nightmare.
Behind Vegeta, the former Frieza Force elites couldn't hold back their sneers.
Cowards.
They had no idea what Vegeta's real power was.
The ship's internal sensors had recorded it clearly — his battle with Frieza had pushed Vegeta's power well beyond a million.
One hundred eighty thousand?
That was nothing more than a suppressed, casual state.
"So… you transformed into a Great Ape and killed Lord Frieza?! Then—then it's true… Lord Frieza is dead?!"
Ginyu growled, teeth clenched.
For all his quirks, Captain Ginyu's loyalty to Frieza was absolute — stronger than Dodoria's or Zarbon's had ever been.
"Great Ape form increases a Saiyan's power tenfold…
So if he's at 180,000 now… then as an Oozaru he would've been 1.8 million…"
Jeice sucked in a breath like he'd inhaled liquid nitrogen.
It was horrifying.
Now Jeice desperately wanted to flee — immediately — but his legs refused to move.
Recoome, Burter, and Guldo swallowed hard.
Even they, slow as they were, understood the situation.
The sky had fallen.
Frieza — the invincible emperor of the universe — had been killed by Vegeta.
The Frieza Force was finished.
And from today forward…
The universe belonged to Vegeta.
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