Ding

A fierce battle was raging on Namek, shaking the entire planet.

Hidden in a remote cave was a house with a white, hemispherical exterior.

At that moment.

In the living room, a pretty, charming blue-haired girl was eating instant noodles.

"Goku and the others have gotten so strong."

"And yet Yamcha and I are always fighting..."

"I chose the wrong guy..."

"Good thing I was cautious. Ever since Yamcha stopped being afraid of girls, he's become a womanizer. Otherwise, I would've given him my first time..."

The blue-haired girl was Bulma.

Thinking about how she and Yamcha had spent so little time together over the past ten-odd years, she felt awful.

Yamcha could spend all the time he wanted training in seclusion. She could accept that he didn't have time for her, but even when he did, he was fooling around with other girls.

For at least nine out of the past ten years, they hadn't even gone shopping or on a date together...

He didn't care about her feelings at all.

They'd fought over it countless times.

"Drinking and womanizing... Does he think I can't leave him?"

The thought suddenly crossed Bulma's mind.

Then she shook her head. "Forget it. He's dead now. What's the point of saying any of this?"

After finishing her noodles, Bulma felt the ground shaking and sighed.

"Their battles are on such a massive scale now. There's nothing I can do to help."

She gathered a few changes of clothes and went into the bathroom.

Her clothes slid over her fair skin and fell to the floor.

She turned on the shower, and Bulma began to wash.

Whoosh—

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the bathroom.

Jiang Ling held a bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other. Looking at the scene that had suddenly changed around him, he was completely bewildered.

"Ah—!!"

"Who are you?! Goku, help me!!"

Bulma stared at the man who had suddenly appeared and screamed.

But to Jiang Ling, it sounded like she was shrieking and babbling incomprehensibly...

Jiang Ling froze.

Then he took another bite of food...

[Ding, system activated successfully.]

[Please select your gender: 1. Male, 2. Female, 3. Hermaphrodite, 4. Sexless.]

"Holy crap!"

Jiang Ling was stunned. There was really a choice like this?

"Obviously I'm picking the first one!"

[Ding, selection successful! Please choose your starter pack.]

[1]: Saiyan bloodline, 10 Senzu Beans.

[2]: Triclops bloodline, 20 Senzu Beans.

[3]: Invisible Man bloodline, 50 Senzu Beans.

[4]: ...

Jiang Ling: ...

"Invisible Man bloodline? If I were still in my old world, I'd pick that. Here, I'm choosing number one!"

In the Dragon Ball world, many powerful fighters could sense energy. Hiding with invisibility was useless!

[Ding, selection successful. Bloodline fused automatically. Senzu Beans have been placed in your inventory. You can check or retrieve them at any time.]

Then a tail quietly sprouted from Jiang Ling's tailbone, tore through his pants, and swayed behind him.

"Why aren't you saying anything?! How did you get in here? A man who sneaks in here must be trying to peep at me while I bathe and do something indecent!"

"Am I going to lose my first time here? I've been with Yamcha for so long and never gave it to him. He's always off training, and he's a pervert, too..."

Bulma had already wrapped herself in a towel. Tense, she kept talking, trying to calm herself and work up her courage.

Jiang Ling suddenly realized he could understand her!

[Ding, this is one of the system's hidden benefits: fluency in the Dragon Ball language.]

Jiang Ling nodded.

He looked at the wary Bulma.

"Hello..."

"Don't think that just because you're handsome and acting so polite, you can win me over! Listen up, you pervert. I have plenty of powerful friends..."

Listening to Bulma ramble on, Jiang Ling felt his head buzzing. He couldn't take in a word.

He set down his bowl and chopsticks, then picked at his ear.

A trace of impatience appeared on his face.

He reached out and covered Bulma's mouth.

His expression turned threatening.

"If you keep talking, I won't just cover the mouth on your face."

The two of them were standing very close.

Bulma blinked her big eyes and fearfully nodded.

Seeing this, Jiang Ling licked his dry lips.

He had to admit Bulma had a fantastic figure. Even Jiang Ling was having a hard time keeping himself under control.

Jiang Ling took his hand away from her mouth, picked up the bowl and chopsticks beside him, then turned and left the bathroom.

Watching him walk out, Bulma let out a long breath and patted her chest. Her ample breasts trembled slightly, sending ripples through them that were especially alluring.

Then another question occurred to her.

She went to the mirror and looked herself over from every angle.

"Am I not pretty enough? Not alluring enough? Why was that pervert just now completely unmoved?"

That was how girls were. They always found themselves caught up in these conflicting thoughts.

Jiang Ling walked into the living room and only then noticed that the ground was shaking.

He quickly finished the food in his bowl, set it and the chopsticks down, and went outside.

"Huh, a cave?"

A sense of unease stirred in Jiang Ling.

He went to the entrance and looked at the scenery outside.

The land stretched as far as the eye could see, dotted with sparse trees.

The trees looked nothing like the ones on Earth.

They looked more like... the trees on Namek in the manga!

Jiang Ling paused, pieced the clues together, and concluded that he was on Namek!

So the Dragon Ball story had already reached Namek!

There was a major drawback to this point in the timeline...

The power levels were rising too quickly!

They jumped from thousands to hundreds of millions in an instant!

Feeling the ground shake, Jiang Ling thought about it. It was probably the battle between Goku and the others and Frieza causing all this.

He turned around.

Then he walked back into the house.

By then, Bulma had finished showering and come out.

Jiang Ling didn't stand on ceremony. He sat right beside her, his tail swaying behind him. His face was expressionless, and no one could tell what he was thinking.

Bulma noticed the tail, too. She was startled and cautiously asked, "Are you a Saiyan, too?"

At that, Jiang Ling turned to look at her. He was about to deny it, but then remembered he had just become a Saiyan.

He spread his hands, managed a polite smile, and nodded. "That's right."

The living room fell silent again.

A little while later.

Bulma cautiously glanced at Jiang Ling.

Thinking back on his behavior from beginning to end, she decided he probably wasn't dangerous.

She got up and took a drink from the fridge. "Hey, what do you want to drink?"

Jiang Ling looked over and saw a carton of milky-white liquid in the fridge, so he said, "Milk is fine."

"Oh, this?" Bulma took out the milk and handed it to him.

"Thanks."

Jiang Ling was as polite as ever.

Bulma let her guard down and asked, "What's your name?"

"Just call me Jiang Ling. Or, if you don't mind, call me 'husband.'" Jiang Ling replied with a perfectly serious expression.

His face was utterly sincere.

"Uh..."

Bulma wiped her sweat. She realized that this handsome guy's mind worked a little differently—he was even kind of... cute?

Luckily, she'd known Goku for a long time and had a high tolerance for this sort of thing. Otherwise, she would've been spitting blood by now.

"Then why did you suddenly appear in my bathroom just now, carrying a bowl and chopsticks..." Bulma glanced at the bowl and chopsticks on the table and continued asking.