Dragon Ball: Starting From Escaping Planet Vegeta
Chapter 22

The Protagonist of an Era

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It's a new day, and I wonder what Bardock and Gine talked about again last night?

Muttering to himself, Talot made some food to fill his belly, continuing to ponder the details in his mind.

Bardock's thoughts were indeed very thorough, but a certain level of risk still remained.

Even if they successfully left Planet Vegeta, Talot still needed to very carefully create the illusion that they had died along the way, cutting off any possibility of being monitored or detected.

The time I spent researching and learning various technological knowledge over the past few years was definitely not wasted.

At least the Battle Power Detector I'm currently holding had its Positioning Module and Monitoring and Recording Module destroyed under my own operation, so it won't be monitored or tracked by others.

Despite the huge gap between the Battle Power Detector and the spaceship.

Yet Talot already had an understanding of the medium-sized spaceship, and he also had a complete structural blueprint.

To put it simply, during his spare time these past few days, Talot had already located and marked the positioning device and monitoring modules. As long as he dismantled or destroyed them, not only would it not affect the normal navigation of the spaceship, but it could also generate data feedback showing that the spaceship had blown up.

Perhaps I'm overthinking it. After all, even if Aunt Gine and I both have a connection to Bardock, it shouldn't come to the point where we're actually tracked. Even if King Vegeta is wary of Bardock, Raditz has long been under his control.

Living in a repressive atmosphere for years, on a Planet Vegeta where the strong preyed upon the weak, he constantly had to worry about being caught up in various dangers, causing him to overthink things from time to time.

Analyzing it from another perspective, there were actually so many Saiyans setting out and returning every day. With two five-year-old children plus a logistics low-class warrior, their surface battle power barely added up to just over 1,000 points—who would seriously pay attention? You have to know that any competent adult low-class warrior, as long as they were of the combat type, had a battle power of at least several hundred to a thousand.

There were quite a few better ones, low-class warriors with a battle power of one or two thousand. Just like those low-class warriors in Bardock's team, every single one of them had extremely high battle power.

Speaking of which, this brings to mind how Raditz was called trash and a good-for-nothing when he made his debut in the original story.

Recalling the settings of the original story, the description of Raditz in the plots Toriyama drew early on was really pathetic, with a battle power belonging to the lowest-class warrior.

Having transmigrated to Planet Vegeta, Talot finally understood that a battle power of 1,500 points could indeed only be considered somewhat outstanding among low-class warriors.

In fact, without the more complete elite warrior settings given later in Toriyama's character books, who would have thought that Raditz was actually ruined by bad parenting.

So-called being unable to experience true bloody battles while staying by Vegeta's and Nappa's side, thereby failing to improve himself.

Even if there was a chance to fight, most of it was just slaughtering the weak by the strong, and whenever someone with high battle power was encountered, it wouldn't be Raditz's turn to make a move.

No longer dwelling on these imaginations, Talot gathered his emotions, put on his clothes, and walked out of the house.

All the preparations had been completed over the past few days, and what Talot needed to do now was go to the spaceship dock to check what supplies were still missing.

By the way, he needed to get used to it first.

After going out, Talot saw Selari waiting for him outside.

Because they had been training together all this time recently, she would come very early every day to wait for them.

Even though the training was already over, she had also grown accustomed to coming to find him.

Just in time, Talot also took this opportunity to tell her about their departure in two days.

At this, Selari was exceptionally excited.

Lacking any scheming nature, she only thought that she could finally engage in space travel and see new worlds.

Talot didn't want to give her too much psychological pressure, so he didn't tell her too many things.

The two accompanied each other to the spaceship dock, entered the ship after identity verification, and while taking inventory of supplies, once again familiarized themselves with the interior of the spaceship.

A long time passed when suddenly a burst of shouts came from outside the spaceship; Bardock and Gine had arrived.

It was Bardock helping Gine prepare her luggage in advance and bringing it over, saving her from having to rush when they set off the day after tomorrow.

Although Gine hadn't gone out on missions for a long time, she wasn't unfamiliar with it either. After all, she had also invaded other planets back then, only later growing up slowly, having low battle power, and ultimately staying behind on Planet Vegeta to do logistics work under Bardock's strong demand.

Naturally, there was also the reason of her previous pregnancies—first Raditz, and then Kakarot.

After the few of them took a simple tour of the spaceship together, they walked out of the spaceship with smiles and laughter.

It was also at this moment that Talot realized that when Bardock was helping him purchase the medium-sized spaceship, he had already made up his mind to let Gine leave Planet Vegeta along with him.

I was wondering how it could go so smoothly; it turns out you thought deeper than I did. Moreover, you've probably seen through some of my recent actions, but you just didn't say anything. Talot thought to himself.

Bardock was truly wise, and this kind of intelligence reflected his extraordinariness even more.

No wonder he was determined to be the protagonist of an era.

In fact, in a parallel spacetime, he had even managed to take advantage of the explosion of Planet Vegeta, transmigrating to Planet Plant countless years ago before the Saiyans had invaded and renamed it.

Not only did he complete the transformation into a Super Saiyan and forge a legend, but he even eliminated one of Frieza's ancestors, the Space Pirate Chilled.

Thinking of this, Talot involuntarily shook his head.

If such a thing really happened, I'm afraid that even by using the Dragon Ball to make a wish, he wouldn't be able to be summoned back, right?

Although this kind of spacetime travel thing was unrealistic, he himself had transmigrated and been reborn into this world as a Saiyan as a person from another world, so what was impossible?

Seemingly sensing Talot's change, Bardock raised his eyes to look.

Their gazes met, and Talot gave an uncharacteristic start, only then snapping out of it.

"What's wrong, little Talot?" Bardock asked in a teasing tone, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Nothing, just suddenly filled with a lot of emotion. I wonder what the future will actually be like?" Talot said intentionally or unintentionally.

His words also made Gine grow depressed along with them.

The three of them each harbored their own thoughts, but none of them possessed the ability to see through others' hearts, so they could only guess.

"No need to think that much. The future will only reveal what it's truly like once you keep your feet on the ground and actually experience it," Bardock said.

After he said those words, the atmosphere that had originally quieted down changed again.

Talot nodded and did not reply.

Gine could only choose to believe in Bardock even more.

Selari was truly still young. Although she was mature in certain aspects, she still couldn't manage the subtle reading of facial expressions and moods.

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