Whis seemed quite satisfied after watching the two mortals fight a few moments ago, although he was a bit surprised that a human of the Triclops lineage was defeated, he felt that it was perhaps due to his underdeveloped abilities.
'He showed traces of the Thunderbolt that Triclops usually use, but he didn't seem to be able to adapt to it, and he couldn't even use it. However, the way the Terrans use Ki is simple... but much better than the crude use of other species,' the angel thought, a little surprised.
But he soon understood, the Terrans were already a bit special from the beginning, and the low level of power made them adopt a more detailed control of energy than other cosmic species, capable of wasting all the ki they wanted with simple gestures.
It was rare for a species to develop sophisticated uses of energy when they were born with an overabundance that allowed them to wipe out entire areas with a single gesture. Cases like the Yadrats or the Namekians are very rare.
The clearest example of a gifted race without any control over their energy was the Cold Demons. Beings with an abysmal amount of energy in their bodies, each with incredible potential, but they relaxed with little to no practice.
To Whis, both the elder King Cold and his successor, the young Freezer, were existences that wasted all that potential on silly 'games' like conquering planets.
As a superior being with a rather lofty worldview, he couldn't understand the mortals' eagerness to get more, but as the minutes ticked by before the next battle, Whis understood why.
"Yummy, did you say it was called pudding? Can anyone eat this delicacy?" As much as Whis was a superior being, he also had something in common with mortals.
He was a gourmand! In his travels following Beerus, the God of Destruction, he served, Whis began to take into account the variety of food he could find on each planet.
He had tasted many things over millions of years, from terrible food to delicious food, but none compared to the simple bite he had taken of this delicacy the Terrans called 'pudding'.
"Yeah, it's no big deal, we can order more if you want," Muten Roshi said with a smile in his eyes, watching as Whis' expression changed to one of disbelief.
"I don't think something so delicious can be eaten so casually!" the angel exclaimed, receiving another container of pudding from a member of the tournament staff.
"Not only do we have plenty of pudding, but there is plenty of delicious food on Earth," said the host, who preferred less sweet things and so ate plain potato chips.
"Then I must try every food on this planet," as if he had found a greater purpose. Whis' body seemed to be covered with stars, and even a golden light dramatically fell upon him.
Just then, two names appeared on the screen: Bulma Brief Vs. Shinobu Sensui. The two young fighters didn't wait too long either and quickly entered the arena.
"Everyone knows the owner of the most relaxed smile in the tournament! The one with the incomparable appearance and the one who seems to radiate a charm that touches the divine, the Sensui fighter!" Wanting to add a little more liveliness to the next match, the announcer did as his name suggested and introduced Sensui.
The crowd erupted, especially the female audience, as Sensui was undoubtedly one of the best-looking male fighters at the tournament, so it was not unusual for him to attract as much attention as he did now.
Unconcerned or uncomfortable with the sudden excitement of the crowd, Sensui took a hand out of his pocket and gently waved to the crowd, causing the shouts to grow louder.
"But how can we forget the most beautiful fighter in this edition of the tournament? A girl who always seems to radiate as much warmth as a beautiful spring day, Fighter Bulma!" The words of the announcer took Bulma by surprise, causing her to blush a little as the crowd shouted for her.
"Alright, begin!" the announcer said, and the starting gong was struck loudly, signaling the beginning of this fight.
"I must say that you are one of the most threatening people in my life," Sensui said, and unlike in his previous fight, golden energy that seemed to belong to a saint descending to the world began to cover his body.
"You said you weren't afraid of anything or anyone, right?" Bulma replied as her purple ki formed a rather thick aura around him.
"Yeah, you won't be the first being to scare me." Sensui referred to Bulma as 'being' instead of 'human' or 'earthling'; this subtle detail made Bulma narrow her blue eyes, raising Sensui's danger level in her mind.
"You're an interesting guy." Being closer to Sensui, Bulma could sense seven types of emotional patterns in Sensui when she used her empathic ability.
She didn't know the mental situation of Sensui of this universe, but he was undoubtedly a terrible human, so Bulma didn't want to relax in her confrontation against him because she felt that she would lose if she was careless.
Due to the confrontation of the two fighters' auras, the color of the arena changed, turning golden on one side and purple on the other.
The entire arena seemed to be constantly shaking, and even cracks began to spread and grow, forming a web-like pattern, and small pebbles floated in the air, disintegrating from the clash of forces.
"Looks like there won't be an exchange," Sensui said as if saddened by this, but his body had already assumed a posture that allowed him to kick with relative ease.
"I don't think you want to waste time on that," Bulma replied, taking a rather simple fighting stance, emulating her younger brother in an alternate timeline when he first faced the prince of his race.
The fact that they both took a pose was like a trigger, quickly they clashed flesh to flesh in the middle of the arena, Sensui using a high kick while Bulma used her elbow not only to attack but also to defend herself.
The clash between the two caused an energy reaction at the point of contact, creating an arc of electricity that ran across the surface of the arena, leaving a distinct mark in its path.
Sensui reacted quickly, using his remaining foot as a pivot to turn and kick from another direction, his leg covered in a bright white light from the use of a fighting technique.
The air hissed as it was pierced so sharply, but Bulma bent her body backwards, letting the kick pass inches from her face, then punched forward with her ki-covered fist.
Though Sensui reacted quickly, using his open palm to catch Bulma's fist, his body was thrown back. Smoke poured from his open hand, indicating not only that it had been damaged, but also the unusual temperature of Bulma's ki.
Sensui then realized that the density effect in Bulma's aura was due to the distortion of the air caused by the high temperature of her energy. This made him decide to be a little more careful, because even though his battle aura protected him, the secondary heat damage could be a very effective weapon in the hands of his opponent.
Without giving it much thought, he gathered a rather concentrated ball of energy in his hand and kicked it in Bulma's direction. The ki ball shattered into sharp energy fragments that flew towards the blue-haired girl, who just let out a snort.
Bulma's hand flailed and hit the ki fragments as she ran towards Sensui, trying to close the distance. A faint buzzing sound alerted Sensui that Bulma's hand was not simple at this point, so she stepped back as it made a slashing motion.
Sensui looked down and saw that his clothes had a thin slit. His eyes focused on the thin Ki sword that emerged from Bulma's palm, so blurred that it was barely noticeable.
"Can you change the color of your energy at will?" asked Sensui as he created another ball of white energy in his hands.
"As a child, I didn't have much to do and I discovered that my ki changes color much easier than other people's, I played with it and..." Bulma pointed with her chin to her hand where she held a sword of ki that was almost invisible, only because of some purple details that were barely distinguishable.
"How interesting you are, as boring as I was as a child, aren't you?" Instead of kicking the energy ball in his hand, Sensui made it spin steadily in his hand, and soon he added some extra energy around the ball.
To Bulma's eyes, what Sensui had created in an instant looked very similar to the technique of a certain blonde ninja with a saint complex. Even the sound caused by the high rotation of the energy ring surrounding the orb was similar.
"No foreplay," Sensui said as if justifying the attack, he was about to launch.
As if he were a baseball pitcher, Sensui raised his leg high, being a rather tall man with long legs, this image was quite imposing, and when he lowered his leg, Bulma knew that this attack was exaggeratedly fast.
The ball with the spinning disk sliced through the air as if the air could not offer any effective resistance and appeared in front of Bulma almost instantly, but as Sensui said, this was a fight where they gave it their all from the beginning.
Bulma opened her mouth and fired a blue energy cannon that was very similar to the Kame Hame Ha. Both attacks collided, and because it was so close, Bulma flew backwards, but quickly landed on her feet and floated in the air.
A smile of joy was on her face as she looked at Sensui, who was floating with her, keeping her distance. Bulma then slashed forward with the ki sword in her hand, and Sensui instinctively dodged to the side, but nothing happened.
Thinking it was a trick, Sensui flew towards Bulma, but soon drops of blood appeared in his field of vision. Then the pain of being burned and cut at the same time attacked his mind and stopped his flight.
Sensui felt the surrounding airspace and felt that he was surrounded by small invisible threads that were quite dangerous. He didn't know when they had appeared, but now he was surrounded.
"I didn't use a Ki sword like Yamcha, but you thought I did," Bulma grinned like a fox, causing Sensui to shake his head.
"It's true what they say, you shouldn't believe in beautiful women," Sensui said, making Bulma pout.
"This is strategy! You make me look like a cunning bitch!" Bulma complained; her original temper was not good, and even less now that she was in her teens, so she pointed at Sensui while gritting her teeth.
If before she had gone all out because she saw Sensui as a threat she shouldn't play with and start at 100%, now she was doing it to kick her macho ass, although the latter was just Bulma's prejudice due to her opponent's comment.
Sensui ignored her and examined his surroundings, and although he was trapped in a dangerous zone for him, the calm smile on his face never disappeared, but it seemed that he had to be much more ruthless.
At that moment, Bulma felt Sensui's emotions change abruptly, filling him with mania and bloodlust, not only for his enemy, but also for his own.
Although the golden aura that made him look like a saint had not disappeared, it completed his transformation and became a battle armor, but unlike his previous battle, this one seemed to be filled with dangerous spikes.
"Baby, I'm going to tear you apart." Sensui's permanent smile no longer conveyed warmth, but boundless madness.
"There's the surprise," Bulma muttered, her grin even wider.
Because as dangerous as Sensui was, she knew that he could give her one of the best fights of her life, and that she didn't want to miss it, but rather enjoy it to the fullest; in that sense, she was very much like her younger brother Goku, and even more like Knives, a fellow Plant, only without the misanthropy.