"Where is this? Glug!!"
The face of the fetus in Chi-Chi's womb wore the bewildered expression of an adult!!
The embryo seemed to have just awakened, and carefully searched through its memories!!
As he delved deeper into his memories, he gradually recalled his past life!!
In his previous life, he'd been a top salesman. Three years of the pandemic had left him utterly destitute!
As a proper post-90s kid, he'd naturally believed that no matter how hard life got, he shouldn't make things hard on himself!
On the very day the lockdown was lifted, he'd immediately booked a flight to his destination: the legendary Pillar Mountain, Kunlun Mountain!!
Since he had no savings at all, he'd had no choice but to accept Ma's kind offer and become a Huabei warrior for once!
Kunlun Mountain, a sacred place from mythology, was filled with the unknown and the mysterious!
As for why he'd gone to Kunlun Mountain, it was because his outlook had changed. After living through the pandemic, he'd seen too many people parting from their loved ones in this age of information overload!
What good was having more money or less?
He'd decided to live for himself for once. He'd loved mythological stories since childhood, and was full of curiosity and a desire to explore Kunlun Mountain, the birthplace of those myths!
Setting aside his responsibilities and shouldering his pack, he'd resolutely set off on his journey to Kunlun Mountain!
The fantasy had been beautiful. The reality was cruel!
He hadn't even made it a third of the way up from the foot of Kunlun Mountain when he came across a mysterious cave. A faint, yellowish-black glow emanated from within!
Driven by curiosity, he stepped into the cave!
After a blinding flash, he found himself in this primordial world!
Glug, glug!!
"Damn, that feels good! If nothing unexpected happened, I've transmigrated!!"
Though no sound could come from inside the womb, his excited eyes and his not-yet-formed hands and feet flailing about proved just how thrilled he was!
"I don't have to pay Ma's Huabei anymore, either. When you die, your debts die with you!! I've transmigrated, so it's basically the same as being dead!!"
Was that a normal thing to think???
As Chi-Chi's body swayed involuntarily, Son Gohan's thoughts returned to reality!
The rocking was making him a little dizzy!
"Goku-san?? Yoshi?? And this feeling of power, even greater than in my previous life!! Could it be...?" Though Son Gohan couldn't see outside, the voices he heard let him guess which world he'd transmigrated into!!
"Dragon Ball... the Dragon Balls!! The world where people could shatter stars with their hands and travel through space with their bodies!! That's it!! I've transmigrated into Son Gohan's body!!"
But the timing of his awakening was more than a little awkward!!
"Wait just a minute!!" Son Gohan's whole body resisted!!
But his resistance was completely useless.
What? You're asking about Son Gohan's soul? Of course it was gone. How could a blank sheet of paper stand against an ocean of ink?!
What could a conscious embryo do when faced with such a fundamental cosmic principle? All he could do was watch awkwardly!!
As Son Gohan watched in embarrassment, he couldn't help wondering how Chi-Chi, an Earthling, could keep up with the abnormal Saiyan Son Goku.
Though an Earthling's body couldn't compare to a Saiyan's, Chi-Chi had mastered the art of overcoming strength with softness!
"Let him be strong; I'll remain as gentle as the breeze brushing past a hill!"
"I don't know which point in time I've transmigrated into in the Dragon Ball World. But now that I'm here, wherever I am is the main world!! Son Gohan, go in peace!! I'll make sure to push this body, with its incredible potential, to the limit!! Frieza, Cell, Majin Buu, Beerus, the Angels... the Grand Priest... Zeno... Zalama!!! I want to see everything this world has to offer with my own eyes!!" Son Gohan silently made up his mind!
"Universal consciousness above, from this day forward, Son Gohan is me, and I am Son Gohan!!"
Rumble!!
A sudden thunderclap rang out, and the last trace of incompatibility between the soul from his previous life and Son Gohan's body vanished completely!
Earth had lost a graceful, peerlessly handsome young man!
The Dragon Ball World had gained a scheming half-breed with a soul as dark as ink!
As time passed...
"Wah!!!!"
"The baby's here, the baby's here! A big, healthy boy!" The midwife ran happily out of the room!!
Son Gohan glared angrily at the midwife as she ran out!!
He couldn't speak yet, having only just been born. With the soul of an adult, crying was out of the question!
As a result, the midwife thought he was mute!
So she raised her hand and slapped Son Gohan's bottom again and again!
Left with no choice, Son Gohan could only give up resisting and cry out!!
"You horrible old woman... just you wait!!" His eyes were full of malice!
"Haha, yes, yes, wonderful! I, Ox-King, have a grandson!!" Ox-King's enormous body sprang three feet into the air.
"Chi-Chi!! Are you all right?" Son Goku was simple-minded, but Chi-Chi's agonized screams had still made his heart ache.
"Goku, I'm fine!! Bring the baby over. Let me see him!!" Chi-Chi struggled to sit up, then leaned back against the headboard!
Though she wasn't as strong as Son Goku, she was a martial artist and far stronger than an ordinary Earthling!
"Wait here. I'll get Gohan!!" Son Goku turned, picked Gohan up from the little bed nearby, and placed him beside Chi-Chi!
Son Goku had chosen his name before Gohan was born. To honor his late grandfather, he'd named him Gohan!
"Hmm? Why is Gohan's hair so long already? A tail?? He has a tail??" Chi-Chi exclaimed as she looked at Gohan.
"I had a tail too, but didn't Oolong and the others cut it off that time?! It must be because of me!!" Goku scratched the back of his head and explained.
"It should be fine! But why does he look unhappy?" Chi-Chi wondered.
"Wah, wah!!! (Of course I'm unhappy! Why are you grabbing my little thing?!)" Son Gohan protested, flailing his arms and legs.
"Dad, I'm coming hunting with you!!" Son Gohan quietly edged over to Son Goku.
"No, you're not allowed! Your future is to become a great scholar. You can't be like your father and become a martial artist who can't earn a living!" Chi-Chi stormed up behind Gohan, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, and carried him back inside!
He walked at one month old and called his parents at six months old!!
Actually, he could've spoken as soon as he turned one month old. He'd just kept quiet because he was afraid of scaring Chi-Chi!
He'd held it in for six whole months before finally speaking!
Even so, Chi-Chi had been amazed, and immediately decided that Gohan would become a scholar!
After all, babbling and speaking a fluent sentence were two very different things!
With talent like that, it would be a shame not to study!!
Son Gohan regretted it!!!