Synopsis: As Goku tries to come up with some plan to combat Buyon, White laughs over the intercom and offers him one more chance to just give up the Dragon Balls and his radar. Goku says he already told him he won't ever give those to him, so White resolves to just get them off of his dead body later and orders Buyon to finish them off.
Buyon reaches out with his tongue again, this time grabbing hold of Android 8. Before the creature can eat him however, Goku kicks it's tongue hard enough to make it drop 8 to the ground. Goku laments that that's all he can do however, as he's never fought someone so soft and jiggly before. Seeing no other choice, he gives it everything he has and runs, launching a powerful headbutt at the creature's stomach. Though Buyon reacts slightly, Goku is still sent flying backwards into the wall again. 8 tells Goku that they should just give up, and Goku tells him that men never give up. Still though, what can he do against this thing? Suddenly, Goku remembers before when he was almost frozen to death. He'd asked the girl what “frozen” meant, and she'd told him that it meant becoming cold and hard like ice. Goku declares that this battle is over now, and walks over to another wall. White asks him if he's gone insane, but Goku tells him to just watch. Goku then punches a hole in the wall, allowing the freezing cold air of the snow storm outside to blow into the room. White and Buyon are both horrified, and Goku jumps into 8's shirt to keep warm. A short time later, Buyon is frozen solid, even more incapable of dealing with the cold than Goku was! Goku leaps out of 8's shirt, delivers a flying kick to Buyon's stomach, and then dives back into 8's shirt just in time to watch cracks spread through Buyon's body before it crumbles into pieces. As White begins to think he's underestimated Goku more than he thought, Goku jumps back out of 8's shirt, and then leaps upward, crashing through the floor of the sixth floor. He watches the terrified White as he sticks nyoibo down through the hole he's made and extends it, telling 8 to grab hold of it. As Goku starts to haul 8 back up, White takes the opportunity to grab a gun off of his desk and fire at Goku twice while his back is turned. Goku appears to be shot, but merely turns his head to glare at White, who asks in utter confusion if the bullets hit him. Goku confirms that they did and that they hurt, and he won't be forgetting about that either. White says this is all impossible, as Goku pulls 8 back up to the sixth floor before turning and telling White to let the mayor go before he really gets angry. Review: And so ends Buyon, and boy was his reign mercifully short. As much as I love this section of the story and won't deny it's faults, Buyon has always been the weakest part of it for me. As mentioned last time, his power set is interesting, the mystery around what he is is interesting (in a meta sense anyway, as there's absolutely nothing said to make you wonder about him in-series)...but he himself is just not that interesting at all. I do sort-of feel bad for the thing's demise though, because holy crap is that a dark death when you really think about it. Seriously, pay attention next time you read this chapter. There are lines around Buyon's frozen body to show that he's shaking, and he clearly reacts (albeit with a frozen face) both to Goku's kick and the cracks starting to spread through his body. The thing is ALIVE and CONSCIOUS as it's body breaks into pieces. Talk about a terrible way to go. I do like that Goku's plan harkens back to the beginning of this section of the story though, as it sort of starts bringing thing's full circle. The whole reason Goku's here is to search for the Dragon Ball. There's a good chance that search would have eventually lead him inside Muscle Tower anyway. Without his having run into the girl and her mother first though, and having almost frozen to death? He never would have thought of a way to beat Buyon as he did here. Maybe there's something to this fate thing after all, eh? Next chapter we'll finally see what White himself is made of, though as we sort of get a tease of it in this chapter...yeah, it's not much really. Keep your expectations in check, I'd say. Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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