Must Train!

Jiang Ling and Trunks stood facing each other.

They quietly looked at one another.

Then they exchanged smiles.

Afterward, they both returned to their normal forms.

"Earlier, I thought it'd be best to tell Mr. Goku in private."

"I didn't expect you to know I came from the future. I wanted to tell you..."

Jiang Ling quickly cut him off, saying it had nothing to do with him and that Trunks should go talk to Goku directly.

He couldn't be bothered to listen to all that.

An hour passed.

A ki signature appeared on the horizon.

Anyone who knew Goku recognized that ki signature. It meant Goku was back!

He was back!!

Everyone looked in that direction.

Whoosh—

Boom!!

A spaceship plummeted from the sky and crashed into the ground some distance away, leaving a huge crater.

Everyone flew over.

They looked down at the spaceship in the crater.

The hatch opened, and a strangely dressed human stepped out.

"He has a kind face.

"He has the same old crab-shell hairstyle.

"He's usually all smiles, but when trouble strikes, he's always the first to step up and protect everyone.

"Let's give a warm welcome to Mr. Son Goku."

Clap, clap, clap—

"Doesn't that introduction make you cringe?"

Bulma rolled her eyes and teased him.

Jiang Ling scratched his head. "I couldn't help adding a commentary. What a coincidence!"

"What are you all doing here?"

Goku scratched his head and casually asked.

Gohan jumped up excitedly. "It really is Dad!! Yay!"

As he spoke, he ran straight toward Goku and threw himself into his arms.

The others smiled and greeted him.

Goku nodded with a kind expression, then asked again, "Why are you all here?"

"A mysterious boy told us," Jiang Ling replied.

He pointed at Trunks.

"A mysterious boy? I don't know him," Goku said, looking at Trunks's pale purple hair in confusion.

He didn't remember ever meeting him.

Trunks immediately stepped forward. "Mr. Goku, I need to talk to you alone."

Then the two of them went somewhere else.

They whispered to each other.

"Why all the secrecy?" Bulma muttered.

Everyone watched Goku's expression change over and over, curious about what he'd heard that was so shocking.

Piccolo listened in with his keen ears, but no matter what he heard, his expression didn't change.

For some reason,

Goku and Trunks transformed into Super Saiyans and started fighting!

Vegeta watched from nearby, the corner of his eye twitching.

"Kakarot... he's gotten even stronger! Damn it!"

Trunks drew the Great Treasure Sword and swung it hard.

Goku held out one finger, glowing with light.

Bang, bang, bang~

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

After a few exchanges, Trunks put away the Great Treasure Sword.

Jiang Ling watched from the side, ready in case anything went wrong.

After a dozen more moves, the two finished sparring and powered down from their Super Saiyan forms.

"I lost! As expected of you, Mr. Goku," Trunks said with a sigh.

"You're pretty strong too. I'm really impressed," Goku replied.

"That last move was something I learned on another planet."

Afterward, the two quietly chatted for a while longer.

A little later,

Trunks left, and Goku walked over, scratching his head.

He seemed unsure how to explain it.

Piccolo saw this

and spoke up. "I'll tell them. I heard everything just now."

Goku nodded.

He wasn't good at putting things into words, so it was convenient that Piccolo had heard it all.

Then Piccolo told everyone what had happened.

He said that in about three years, two incredibly powerful androids would destroy the world.

"What!? We're all going to die in the future?"

"That boy came from the future?"

"Damn!"

"He's probably Jiang Ling's son. I think he looks a lot like him."

Jiang Ling nodded. "That's possible."

Seeing that he had nothing to do there, Jiang Ling took Bulma by the hand and left.

He already knew everything Trunks had to say.

That was why he'd left early.

They flew at high speed for a while.

Countless views sped past them.

The two arrived at a secluded little courtyard.

This was where Jiang Ling usually drank. Bulma had never been there before and looked around curiously.

There was no one else nearby.

The area was filled with woods and grassland.

A little stream ran alongside it.

The courtyard sat right in the middle of nature.

Inside the courtyard,

Jiang Ling leaned back on a lounge chair, with Bulma sitting on his lap. They embraced and whispered sweet nothings to each other.

The breeze passed through, and the trees rustled.

Insects chirped, birds sang, and the stream burbled.

There was no denying it: this place had a way of putting the mind at ease.

Suddenly, the system's voice rang out in Jiang Ling's mind.

[Congratulations on completing the mission. Reward received: Golden Spear Never Falls!]

[One draw awarded.]

"Oh? A draw!"

Jiang Ling remembered that the last time he'd drawn, he'd gotten Bukūjutsu.

What would he get this time...?

Without hesitation, Jiang Ling started the draw.

The wheel in his mind spun round and round...

At last, it stopped on one spot.

[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained Super Saiyan—Full Power.]

[You have automatically advanced to Super Saiyan—Full Power.]

Jiang Ling's eyes lit up.

"This is a great reward."

Everyone knew that transforming into a Super Saiyan produced an immensely powerful aura that could easily destroy everything nearby if you weren't careful.

It was especially hard to control for people who weren't very skilled at controlling their ki.

But Super Saiyan—Full Power made the ki completely contained, without a trace leaking out, greatly improving one's ability to fight for a sustained period!

It also wouldn't damage the surrounding environment.

Jiang Ling's eyes suddenly darted around. He turned to Bulma in his arms and said:

"Bulma, my Saiyan bloodline has grown stronger in battle. Want to take another look?"

"Oh? Let me see," Bulma asked curiously.

She'd seen it once today, but Jiang Ling had transformed alongside Trunks, and they'd been some distance away. She still hadn't gotten a good look at the Super Saiyan transformation.

After hearing her, Jiang Ling stood up and transformed directly into a Super Saiyan—Full Power!

As he transformed, his ki remained perfectly contained, not leaking out at all.

Golden hair, golden eyebrows, and pale green eyes.

His hair stood up slightly.

"Wow..."

"You turned golden, even your eyes changed color," Bulma said in amazement.

Jiang Ling's lips curled into a slight smile. He glanced around. There was no one nearby.

With a mysterious smile, he said, "That changed too. Let's work out together!"

Ignoring Bulma's protests, he began putting her through some exercises!

[Stretching exercises! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight~]

"Huh?"

Half an hour later...

"Huh?"

An hour later...

"What's going on?"

Three hours later...

Bulma was already exhausted and panting.

"What's gotten into you today? How many times have we worked out already? Why aren't you tired yet?"

Jiang Ling smiled.

"Isn't having energy a good thing? Other people would love to have this much!"

"Bulma, I'm not trying to be mean, but you're way too weak. Looks like I'll have to make you train!"

"Uh..." Bulma thought for a moment. "I don't want to train."

"No. You have to train!"