[ Except, at that very moment, seemingly out of nowhere, Gintoki appears, jumping in between them and catching the full brunt of Vegeta's punch with his hand. The force of it is so powerful, that he can feel every bone in his body rattling as the shockwave goes right down his arm, possibly shattering something in the process, the back of his hand slamming hard enough into his chest to make him cough up blood.

The blow from before already had caused his nose to start bleeding, and the rivulet of blood that had been briefly stanched by snow from a nasty cut on his cheek flows down the side of his face.

He knows better than to try and fight a Saiyan, especially someone like Vegeta.

For a moment, he just breathes heavily, body shaking with the aftermath of the hit he just took. ]