Recaps

Goku and Krillin overwhelmed Frieza on Namek, and Frieza was cut in half by his own Kienzans. Goku hesitated to kill the helpless Frieza, but Krillin warned him not to trust the defeated emperor.

• Frieza fired eye lasers at Krillin, who shrugged them off and twisted Frieza's arm.
• Goku kicked Frieza into the ground, and Krillin struck him deeper into the bedrock.
• Frieza launched two Kienzans at Goku and Krillin, then guided them back toward the pair.
• Goku and Krillin ducked together, causing the Kienzans to slice Frieza in half.
• Frieza begged Goku for help, but Krillin stopped Goku from reaching out and warned him that Frieza would never repent.

After Frieza’s defeat, Krillin checked his gains and discovered his full-power strength had reached 1.5 billion, while Goku reflected on becoming a Super Saiyan. They then realized they had forgotten Piccolo and dug him out from beneath the rubble.

• Krillin and Goku recovered after Frieza’s energy disappeared, and Goku pondered his new Super Saiyan power.
• Krillin checked his System Panel and saw that his Super Bald Form had reached 1.5 billion Battle Power.
• Krillin considered how his strength and Goku’s growth had improved Earth’s safety.
• Goku’s hunger prompted him to suggest returning to Earth, and he and Krillin realized they had forgotten Piccolo.
• Krillin and Goku dug Piccolo out of the rubble, and Piccolo coldly asked whether they had finally remembered him.

At Capsule Corporation, Bulma and the Namekians waited anxiously for news of the battle on Namek. Mr. Popo reported that Frieza had been defeated, and the Grand Elder then said the Namekians had a way to return home despite Earth’s Dragon Balls needing time to recover.

• Bulma paced anxiously while Vegeta sulked and Gohan and Trunks tried to reassure her as they waited for news from Namek.
• Mr. Popo arrived and announced that Krillin, Goku, and Piccolo had defeated Frieza.
• The Namekians celebrated, Bulma wept with relief, and Vegeta quietly acknowledged that the fighters had succeeded.
• Mr. Popo told the Grand Elder that Earth’s Dragon Balls needed time to recover, but the Grand Elder said they had a way to return and gestured to Dende.

After Namek was reborn, Grand Elder Mori honored Krillin, Goku, and Piccolo for saving its people. Two days later, the three heroes returned to West City, where their loved ones welcomed them home and Gohan asked Piccolo to stay for a celebration.

• Grand Elder Mori watched the Namekians celebrate their return and vowed that their children would remember Krillin, Goku, and Piccolo.
• Mori ordered a temple and three statues to be built on Namek in honor of the heroes.
• Bulma, Lanchi, Aki, and Chi-Chi waited in Bulma’s garden as Krillin, Goku, and Piccolo suddenly appeared.
• Bulma embraced Krillin, while Chi-Chi tearfully reunited with Goku.
• Piccolo tried to leave for the Lookout, but Gohan asked him to stay and celebrate with them.

Krillin took Goku to Karin Tower to retrieve the jar leading to the northern Labyrinth, hoping to find the Super God Water and uncover the limits of Earthlings’ potential. They entered the icy Labyrinth together, where Krillin shattered its first illusion, Frieza, with his Mental Power.

• Krillin interrupted Goku’s breakfast and brought him to Karin Tower, where he asked Master Korin for the jar leading to the Labyrinth.
• Krillin explained that the Super God Water came from Earth’s original Kami and could draw out a person’s full potential, though its divine power could kill those unable to withstand it.
• Goku agreed to accompany Krillin despite remembering how dangerous and disgusting the Super God Water was, and Master Korin gave them the ancient jar.
• Krillin and Goku entered the jar’s black vortex and arrived in an underground Labyrinth beneath the northern ice.
• The Labyrinth projected an illusion of Final Form Frieza, but Krillin’s Mental Power shattered it before it could attack.

Krillin drank the entire pot of Super God Water and endured its lethal poison as his Super Regeneration repaired his body. After the baptism, he gained purified ki carrying the aura of Earth's ancient Kami and stood up feeling stronger.

• Krillin told Goku that Earthlings had to rely on their own bodies and determination, then drank the whole pot of Super God Water.
• The poison ravaged Krillin's body, and he told Goku not to interfere as his vitality rapidly fell.
• Krillin's Super Regeneration activated and fought the poison, repeatedly destroying and repairing his cells.
• The Super God Water healed Krillin's hidden injuries, strengthened his body, and transformed his ki.
• Krillin recovered, tested his strength, and saw that his Super God Water baptism was complete with perfect fusion.

Krillin gathered Earth’s fighters and Vegeta for intensive training before stronger enemies arrived. He expanded the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and set its gravity to 100 times Earth’s, leaving the group to begin training in the harsh environment.

• Krillin interrupted Yamcha, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Oolong’s leisure and took them to the Lookout to train for stronger enemies than Frieza.
• Krillin coaxed Vegeta out of the Gravity Room by promising he would see a real Super Saiyan, and brought him to the Lookout.
• Goku warmed up with Gohan and Trunks while Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Vegeta assembled at the Lookout.
• Krillin used the Time Spirit House Enhancement Card to remove the chamber’s limit on occupants and set its gravity to 100 times Earth’s.
• The fighters entered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where Yamcha struggled under the gravity and Krillin explained its harsh conditions.

Krillin trained the fighters in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, using virtual Frieza to push Yamcha and teaching Tien Shinhan to create a spiraling ki attack. Watching Krillin overpower Goku drove Vegeta into a rage, and Vegeta finally ignited a golden aura; Gohan and Trunks rested after their own training.

• Krillin put Yamcha through the hundredfold-gravity training and used Bulma's Virtual Combat System to make him fight a projection of Frieza.
• Krillin taught Tien Shinhan to spiral and compress his ki, and Tien blasted a deep hole through the chamber floor.
• Vegeta trained under three hundred times normal gravity, but seeing Krillin beat Goku intensified his frustration.
• Vegeta's pride and inferiority triggered his S Cells, and a golden aura ignited around him.
• Gohan and Trunks lay exhausted in the rest area.

Krillin met Earth's ancient Guardian in the consciousness space and learned how to condense his ki, body, and spirit into a Martial Dao God Core. He awakened as an Earthling Martial Dao True God, leaving Goku unable to sense his ki.

• Earth's ancient Guardian explained how Earthlings used martial techniques to draw greater power from limited ki.
• The Guardian taught Krillin to compress and harmonize his ki, body, and spirit to form a Martial Dao God Core.
• Krillin underwent a life-level breakthrough, and his Saitama Template fusion rate rose to 60% as he learned the prototype skill.
• Krillin opened his eyes with a golden star in his pupils and recognized his new power as godlike and fully his own.
• Goku teleported to Krillin but could not sense his ki, while Krillin's System Panel showed his Martial Dao True God Body and a condensing God Core.

Krillin completed a system upgrade that integrated the Saitama Template with the Martial Dao God Core, granting him a controlled Martial Dao True God Form. He tested his new power against Goku, stopping the Saiyan’s punch with one finger and flinging him across the chamber.

• The system finished upgrading its core and began refining Krillin’s external energy through the Martial Dao God Core.
• Krillin activated the Martial Dao True God Form and discovered that its compressed energy could draw on the surrounding energy.
• Krillin’s punch formed a golden Punch Light, drew in the Laws of the God Realm, and tore open space.
• Goku arrived and challenged Krillin after sensing the frightening force of his new form.
• Krillin stopped Goku’s attack with one finger and flicked him into a trench several kilometers long.

After a year of training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Krillin, Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo emerged far stronger. Piccolo and Kami discussed fusing to face the growing evil, but Krillin suggested finding a new guardian from Namek so Earth could keep its Dragon Balls.

• Vegeta emerged boasting that he was the strongest, while Trunks mocked him for losing to Goku during training.
• Krillin scanned everyone’s strength and found that Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Trunks had grown dramatically stronger.
• Piccolo told Kami that a powerful, chaotic presence was growing and that they needed to fuse.
• Kami warned Piccolo that their fusion would make Earth’s Dragon Balls disappear.
• Krillin suggested appointing a new god from among the Grand Elder’s people on Namek.

Krillin brought Dende from Namek to become Earth’s new Kami, while Kami and Piccolo fused into a single Namekian. The newly unified Namekian revealed his immense power and declared that he was neither Kami nor Piccolo.

• Krillin asked the Grand Elder to send Dende to Earth as the new Kami, and Dende agreed after hearing about Earth’s food.
• At the Lookout, Kami entrusted Dende with the Scepter and asked Mr. Popo to care for him.
• Kami transferred his wisdom, power, and memories to Piccolo, and the two merged into one Namekian.
• The new Namekian said he was the Namekian who was always meant to exist and released energy that shook the Lookout and overwhelmed everyone but Krillin, Goku, and Vegeta.

Krillin watched the children play at the Lookout and reflected with Piccolo on the peace they had fought to protect. Back at Capsule Corporation, Bulma, Aki, and Lanchi demanded that Krillin help them have children, triggering an S-rank family mission.

• Trunks chased Dende around the Lookout until Gohan stopped his kick.
• Krillin and Piccolo watched the children play and discussed their strength and the peace they represented.
• Bulma, Blue Haired Lanchi, and Aki talked about wanting children with Krillin.
• Aki declared she could guarantee conception, and Bulma and Lanchi joined her in pressuring Krillin.
• Golden Haired Lanchi threatened Krillin with a revolver, and an S-rank Family Prosperity mission appeared.

Krillin and his friends gathered at Capsule Corporation’s hospital for the births of Lanchi and Aki’s children. Lansa was born with extraordinary power and a volatile dual-personality talent, while Bulla emerged as a divine being with an innate God Core, leaving Krillin stunned by her nature.

• Lanchi gave birth to a boy, and Krillin named him Lansa after seeing his strikingly different amber and blue eyes.
• The system revealed that Lansa was a genetically mutated Earthling with a birth Battle Power of 5000 and an energy source strengthened by unstable emotions.
• A sacred energy surge from Aki’s delivery room changed the sky over West City, and King Kai warned Goku and Krillin that a higher-dimensional divine aura had appeared.
• Krillin found Aki floating amid green life energy with her newborn daughter, Bulla, in her arms.
• The system identified Bulla as a demigod with an innate God Core, and a golden-green radiance surrounded her when she grasped Krillin’s finger.

Three months later, Krillin took his family to New Namek to have the Grand Elder unlock Lansa and Bulla’s potential. Lansa and Lanchi gained new abilities, but Bulla’s power exceeded the Grand Elder’s reach, so Aki brought her to the Hydrangea Tree, where Porunga appeared without being summoned.

• Krillin brought his family to New Namek, where the Grand Elder unlocked Lansa’s potential and praised his extraordinary mental power.
• The Grand Elder’s work also allowed Lanchi to switch between her blue-haired and Golden Haired personalities at will.
• The Grand Elder refused to unlock Bulla’s potential because her power came from the God Tree and surpassed his own.
• Aki carried Bulla to the Hydrangea Tree in the Hidden Land of Gods and placed her on its roots while chanting an ancient incantation.
• The Hydrangea Tree surrounded Bulla with glowing vines and petals, and Porunga appeared on his own and gazed gently at her.

Five months after visiting the Hidden Land of Gods, Krillin watched Bulla’s divine power affect her family and worried about how to guide her immense talent. Trunks gained a powerful boost from spending time with her, while he prepared to take her beyond the atmosphere to watch a meteor shower.

• Krillin checked Bulla’s System Panel and found her demigod status and talents listed as unknown.
• Five months later, Krillin woke to find Bulma away working in the lab while Lanchi cared for Lansa and Aki meditated with Bulla.
• Bulla meditated beside Aki, and the surrounding plants grew toward her as divine energy flowed around her.
• Trunks brought Bulla gifts, and her touch passively increased his power by blessing him with divine radiation.
• Trunks picked Bulla up and said he would take her beyond the atmosphere to watch a meteor shower.
• Krillin admired Bulla but worried that Earth’s martial arts and Namekian magic might not suit her immense, dangerous potential.

Bulma discovered that a Saiyan tail secreted an enzyme that increased S Cell activity, potentially enabling a Super Saiyan Potion or training pod. Krillin left her laboratory and visited Goku’s house, where Goku was eating and Chi-Chi welcomed him.

• Krillin found Bulma in the Underground Laboratory, excitedly studying Saiyan gene data and samples from Vegeta.
• Bulma explained that a tail-secreted enzyme boosted S Cell activity and that activating or synthesizing it might help Saiyans transform or let others break their Gene Lock.
• Krillin urged Bulma to rest, but she returned to her research and told him to check on Trunks and Bulla.
• Krillin went to Goku’s house, where he found Goku eating Chi-Chi’s cooking and was welcomed by Chi-Chi.

Krillin gathered Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Piccolo at a wasteland battlefield, where Mecha Frieza and King Cold arrived to destroy Earth. The Z Fighters found both enemies far weaker than they had become, and the chapter ended with Frieza demanding Goku appear while the group watched unimpressed.

• Krillin brought Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan to a remote wasteland and waited for his new friend to arrive.
• Piccolo sensed Cell hiding in the north, but Krillin said they could deal with him later.
• The group sensed Frieza and an even stronger presence approaching Earth, then watched their spaceship land.
• Mecha Frieza and King Cold emerged with their soldiers, and Frieza vowed to destroy Earth.
• Krillin scanned the two enemies and found their battle powers far below the Z Fighters' strength.
• Vegeta and Piccolo dismissed Frieza as too weak to be worth fighting.

Future Trunks arrived on Earth and swiftly killed Frieza and King Cold. After meeting the others, he was stunned by how strong Krillin appeared compared with the Krillin he remembered from his future.

• Trunks transformed into a Super Saiyan, shocking Vegeta and terrifying Frieza.
• Trunks cut Frieza apart with his sword and erased him with a Kamehameha.
• King Cold challenged Trunks to fight without his sword, but Trunks caught the blade and killed him with an energy blast.
• Trunks greeted Gohan, Vegeta, Goku, and Krillin after sheathing his sword.
• Trunks froze when he saw Krillin casually drinking cola, because the Krillin in his future had been far weaker.

Trunks revealed that he had come from a future where Androids killed the Z Fighters and a Heart Virus killed Goku, and he gave Goku medicine to prevent his death. Krillin overheard their conversation and, after learning about the future, decided to act on a mission to travel there and change it.

• Trunks tested Goku with a sword, then told him he was from twenty years in the future and described the Androids’ attack and Goku’s death from a Heart Virus.
• Trunks gave Goku a future-made antidote, and Goku thanked him.
• Krillin bypassed Trunks’s Soundproof Barrier and revealed that he had heard their conversation, including that Trunks was Vegeta’s son in the future.
• Krillin told Trunks that Bulma was his wife in this world, then received an S-Rank mission to travel to the future and rewrite its despair.
• Krillin considered heading to the future sooner to face the Androids and Cell, then addressed Trunks seriously.

Krillin revealed that Trunks was Vegeta’s future son with Bulma, leaving Vegeta stunned, then opened a path to Trunks’s future timeline. The group entered the time-space tunnel, where they saw images from across history.

• Krillin told Vegeta that Trunks was his future son with Bulma, and Vegeta struggled to accept the news.
• Krillin called Bulma, Lanchi, and Aki to explain that he was traveling to a parallel universe for work.
• Krillin used his power to lock onto Trunks’s future timeline and opened a vortex through space-time.
• Krillin led Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks, and Vegeta into the time-space tunnel.
• Goku admired the colorful tunnel, Gohan warned him about its pressure, and Piccolo recognized it as the river of time.

Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, and Krillin arrived in the ruined future wasteland and found Android 17 and Android 18 destroying Paseri City. As an energy blast threatened the fleeing crowd, an orange-clad figure appeared and made it vanish.

• The group landed in the ruins of West City and saw the devastation caused by the Androids.
• Trunks explained that Android 17 and Android 18 had devastated Earth, leaving humanity's survivors hiding underground.
• Krillin detected two high-energy signatures southeast, and the group flew toward them.
• Android 17 attacked Paseri City's fleeing residents while Android 18 waited among the ruins and asked where Trunks was hiding.
• An orange-clad figure appeared beneath Android 17's enormous energy sphere and pushed it away, making it vanish.

Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks fought Androids 17 and 18, while Krillin watched and evaluated Android 18. Krillin suddenly appeared behind Future Android 18 and flirted with her, then remained unharmed when she kicked him.

• Android 17 attacked Goku, but Goku caught his punch and threw him into a crater after transforming into a Super Saiyan.
• Android 17 called for Android 18's help, and Vegeta and Trunks intervened to fight her.
• Krillin scanned Android 18's data and found her battle power was 780 million.
• Krillin appeared behind Android 18, complimented her, and shamelessly sniffed her hair.
• Android 18 kicked Krillin in the face, but he did not move, and the impact numbed her leg.

Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo overwhelmed Android 17 after learning he had killed Gohan and countless others in this timeline. As the three warriors aimed their attacks at him, Android 17 felt fear for the first time.

• Goku and Vegeta attacked Android 17, whose outdated data had led him to underestimate their strength.
• Piccolo struck Android 17 and confronted him about killing Gohan.
• Android 17 bragged that he and Android 18 had beaten the one-armed Gohan to death, enraging Piccolo, Vegeta, and Goku.
• The three Super Warriors battered Android 17 while his reactor struggled to repair his damage.
• Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo charged a Kamehameha, Garlic Gun, and Special Beam Cannon at Android 17.

Krillin effortlessly dodged and countered Android 18’s attacks, then subdued her with the overwhelming pressure of his Martial Dao God Core. He told the frightened Android 18 that he planned to take her home as a “local specialty.”

• Android 18 unleashed a barrage of Energy Balls, but Krillin casually dodged every attack and taunted her.
• Android 18 charged Krillin in close combat, but he blocked her attacks with one hand and criticized her technique.
• Krillin caught Android 18’s leg when she attempted a Groin Kick and pulled her into his arms.
• Krillin suppressed Android 18 with his Martial Dao God Core, leaving her unable to move.
• Krillin told Android 18 he would pack her up and take her home, terrifying her.