"Haa!"
Garou continuously threw punches at Raditz in front of him, his hands flowing like water, transforming into rigid and soft combined fist winds that smashed toward Raditz.
Although the Raditz he was facing was still just a child of only a few years old, Garou didn't dare to relax in the slightest, going all out more than he had against any hero before.
And even with him going all out, Raditz wasn't even being serious. He just swayed his body slightly and dodged all of Garou's attacks.
Then, under Garou's horrified gaze, Raditz casually threw out a punch. That fist passed straight through Garou's Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist and struck directly at his chin.
"...!!!"
Intense pain came from his chin, and the terrifying force almost sent Garou flying—if this had been Garou from a few weeks ago, he should have been knocked unconscious by now.
But having trained with Raditz for these few weeks, Garou had gradually adapted to this kind of terrifying power. His bare feet were like claws, his toes desperately gripping the ground.
Like this, although Garou's body bent backward greatly due to Raditz's punch, he barely managed to support himself and not get knocked unconscious by Raditz's punch.
Garou took several deep breaths, then using his feet gripping the ground as pivot points, he forcibly pulled his body back and once again threw several punches at Raditz in front of him.
Raditz seemed somewhat surprised. Previously, one punch was enough to end the battle, but this time Garou had taken a punch and still hadn't passed out.
However, Garou's counterattack was just the end of his strength. Raditz was even too lazy to dodge, letting these punches hit his body, then prepared to throw another punch to end the battle.
But just as he clenched his fist, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and grabbed his small fist:
"That's enough, Raditz. Let's leave it at that."
Raditz was startled, then immediately recognized whose voice was behind him. He quickly turned around and bowed deeply to Zuke who had appeared behind him at some unknown time:
"Lord Zuke!"
The current little Raditz completely lacked the arrogant appearance from the original work. Perhaps it was because the impression Zuke had left on the Saiyans was too deep.
At least under Bardock's education, Raditz's personality shouldn't go too far astray. Perhaps he would become like Bardock in the future—a warrior who, though somewhat fierce, had a serious personality.
"Alright, I'll take over this guy. You go find Vegeta."
Zuke nodded at Raditz. The current Raditz was, like in the original work, Vegeta's companion. The two had been fighting and training together since childhood, and their relationship was actually quite good.
In the original work, the reason Raditz was able to avoid Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta was also because he was out on a mission with Vegeta.
It's just that after losing his father, Raditz's personality gradually became twisted, while Vegeta was naturally proud, so even though these two had carried out missions together since childhood, their relationship wasn't very good when they grew up.
"Hey! You bastard..."
Garou also saw Zuke who had reappeared before him. His eyes were somewhat blurry, but he still stubbornly shouted at Zuke.
However, before he could finish speaking, he was harshly interrupted by Raditz, who was very dissatisfied with Garou's impolite form of address:
"What do you mean 'you bastard'! Address Lord Zuke properly!"
Garou's unfinished words were immediately choked back by Raditz's scolding. Being lectured by a child of only a few years old made Garou suddenly feel frustrated.
But even more frustrating was that he couldn't beat this little brat, so at this moment he could only grit his teeth and squeeze out that respectful title Raditz demanded from between his teeth.
"Bas...Lord Zuke."
Zuke looked at Garou with somewhat complex eyes. You should know that getting this guy to say a respectful title wasn't easy.
Even in the original work, with Bang whom Garou respected, this guy only called him "old man" and never called him master from beginning to end.
Now, under Raditz's coercion, he could call himself "Lord Zuke," which showed just how miserably this guy had been abused by Raditz during this time, to the point where he couldn't even resist.
Seeing Garou obediently comply, Raditz left satisfied, leaving only Zuke and Garou standing in the vast training ground.
"Raditz's battle power is now already at one thousand. Combined with Saiyan fighting techniques, he's already comparable to a Saibaman."
Zuke smiled and said, looking back at Garou to give an evaluation of the fight between Garou and Raditz just now.
"You were able to fight him like that, and even after taking Raditz's attack, you didn't immediately pass out... your battle power should also exceed one hundred now."
A battle power of one hundred... it sounded insignificant, but if you think about the performance of guys with battle power around one hundred in the original work, you'd know how strong that was.
Master Roshi with a battle power of 139 could destroy the moon with a fully charged Kamehameha.
Later, Piccolo with a battle power of 408 could also casually destroy the moon with a single strike on the night when Gohan turned into a Great Ape. This data seemed to be no problem.
In other words, if Garou had learned the Kamehameha at this time, he might also be able to destroy a satellite like the moon.
Although it couldn't compare to the power of Cosmic Fear Garou, you should know that the current Garou hadn't even become a monster yet and still retained his human appearance.
To have this kind of improvement was already quite exaggerated.
"Heh... battle power over one hundred?"
Garou's mouth twitched, thinking about the discussions he usually heard when doing odd jobs on Planet Vegeta—the Saiyans' battle power seemed to be calculated in thousands.
From this perspective, his own strength was still just at the bottom level among Saiyans, far inferior even to Saibamen.
But even so, Garou still had his own goal. He looked at Zuke and asked:
"Then, what's your battle power?"
That's right, Garou's target was naturally Zuke—although Zuke was almost deified in the mouths of the Saiyans, Garou still had full confidence.
He believed that as long as he continued training, he would eventually reach Zuke's level and even surpass him—just like he felt he had already surpassed that old man Gouketsu.
"My battle power... because there are no more advanced battle power detection devices available now, the existing battle power upper limit cannot measure my specific value."
Zuke heard this and said to Garou with a half-smile.
"But it's definitely above 300 million."
Garou immediately stopped talking.
To be continued…