Zangya swallowed and yet tried her best to say something.
"S-spare me…I will leave this planet…"
Vegeta, still with his hard gaze, looked into her eyes; there was no pity there, only his desire to find out what to do with this woman.
While he was thinking, Goku joined him with his laid-back attitude and tried to give his opinion.
"Since she doesn't want to fight anymore, letting her go is fine, right?"
"She may be weak, Kakarrot, but who knows if she will plot something later?… Though I doubt she can do anything with you guys here too…"
Vegeta shrugged his shoulders and lost interest.
"You may go for now, with your meager strength, even N18 can deal with you," he said, looking to his side, trying to decide what to do next.
Zangya, on the other hand, blinked, not believing that they let her go. If it were her crew, they would not have spared anything, no matter how weak they were. In a small part of her brain, she loathed them for having such weak will, but the greater part of her small brain was terrified by Vegeta's presence.
She couldn't see any way, shape, or form a strategy to win against him; to her, he was someone she would never fight again if possible. That was her instinct, her survival emotions telling her not to do anything and just lower her head.
When she heard it, she couldn't help but be elated and quickly get away from there. Although Vegeta said he lost interest, he was observing every movement she made. When she left, he knew that there was a small chance of her attempting anything against Earth.
Well, that is against the planet… But not against him… No matter how much one is afraid, when their pride is trampled they need to recover it, even if the act may kill them in the process.
But that is a story for later.
"What now? Is the tournament busted?" Goku asked, looking around. The four competitors were there; one could say that they all won against their opponents too.
"Of course, I defeated my opponent faster, so only I have the right to go up there," Vegeta said, already walking in the direction of the elevator when he was interrupted by two hands on his shoulder.
"Wait right there, Vegeta, I came here first, so I'm sure I defeated mine faster," Goku said to him.
"I may have arrived second here, but I defeated mine in less than 10 seconds. There is no way you guys did that faster," Piccolo said.
"Hmph, in talk, both of you exceed; do either of you wish to solve this in a fight? I may have to make all of you accept my authority that way," Vegeta smirked at them.
They were ready to fight; the tension in the air became palpable. To Goku and Piccolo, their only reason for entering the tournament was to fight Vegeta.
To Vegeta… He only wants those small money to gift N18 with a small vacation since she asked for it. A small goal indeed, one that he basically forgot after they bring up the prospect of fighting against these 2.
"Stop! Stop! Stop! What are you, people!?" The last survivor entered the scene as if he were resurrected. Mr. Satan was looking at them as if they were crazy people. All the information of the day was still being processed by his brain.
The three looked at him with indifference; they didn't know him.
Only Gohan, for some reason, remembers seeing the guy somewhere.
"Ah! The last champion....?" He blurted out, remembering.
"Mm? You know him, Gohan?" his father asked.
"I saw somewhere that he was the last champion of the World Martial Arts. Remember, father, the one that is supposed to fight against whoever wins this phase."
"Ahh, it was him. I see, I see."
"You guys defeated that m-m-monster. What are you, people!?"
They look at him and each of them answered.
"Alien"
"Alien"
"Alien"
"…Half-Alien?"
When all of them said it, Mr. Satan couldn't process things anymore; he was lost, thinking he was in a bad dream.
"…How should we solve this?" Gohan asked, not knowing what to do now.
"….Let us do this then…" Vegeta said and started to plan a little bit.
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Back at the audience, they were unable to see what happened inside that island. The communication and the videos were cut for a few minutes, and they could only complain and wonder what happened.
The loss of footage didn't last long, enough time for people to complain, but enough time for the warriors to deal with the problem. So when it went back, they were a bit shocked by what they saw.
"…..Eh? Seriously?" Bulma said with an incredulous face, she didn't understand why he did that.
"Hehe, I wouldn't say it is his normal to do this, but this time he let the stage to another, it seems," Tights had a small smile on her face, as she liked knowing that she was discovering other things about her husband.
The woman at their side was crazily screaming while tossing her baby up and catching him, with a smile on her face, she called the kid that supposedly won the competition.
Everyone could see a shy kid having his arms brought up by the champion, Mr. Satan, giving the understanding that he was indeed the winner of the competition. They were a bit dejected that they couldn't see their fight, but at least they were happy to know that someone won the tournament.
Not only this, but a kid no less, winning against the champion and ending this tournament on a high note. Of course, most if not all people didn't believe that Mr. Satan would normally lose a fight against a child, so they at least thought that he let him win for the sake of entertainment.
The audience went into a frenzy even if they didn't see the fight. Even the staff did that too as they thought that Satan solved their problem with the alien race from before. He would never tell them that a group of four other aliens solved the problem so easily that it couldn't even be called that.
He would never tell them that Vegeta was the one who proposed this charade, and since Gohan was the only one who had a mild interest in this tournament, he was the chosen one to play the winner, while he and the other two went to another place to fight between themselves.
Their idea aligned for the first time, and they couldn't help but want to train with them and see how much they can evolve. Unfortunately, N18 will not get that money price for now at least.
"Sigh~ there it goes my vacation…Vegeta, idiot," Bulma sighed, but she wasn't that disappointed, only mildly annoyed, but she wouldn't pursue it too far.
And with a good note and only four victims, they wrapped up this event. Gohan was able to show his father his progress, and Goku and Piccolo can get what they wanted as they stayed to fight for at least two weeks in a remote area far from their home.
Words later would spread that Satan contained a danger in the tournament before having to go against the winner; he would be known as a small hero but not at the level of his canon self. Yet it was enough to propel his status.
Gohan would be known as the strongest kid; he would vanish for a time since he does not live in the city, but most people wouldn't forget about him, especially those kids of his age that want to follow a fighter's path.
Especially a small girl of his age that doesn't totally buy that he defeated her father… But that is a story for the future.
Thanks for the reading.
I'll update this fic to a Hiatus status as I said before, I hope to come back early than I expect.