"Mom, you can't teach me anything anymore!! Just let me train with Dad!" Son Gohan placed his finished test paper in Chi-Chi's hands, wearing a look of disdain!
"Gohan!! What kind of attitude is that?! Don't think you can get cocky just because you've mastered the terrifying times table up to nine!!" Chi-Chi erupted.
"Terrifying?? I don't see how!" Son Gohan said helplessly.
"Fine, I'll enroll you tomorrow. You're going to school!!" Chi-Chi slapped the table.
"Mom?? Have you ever seen a kid who isn't even a year old go to school?" Son Gohan said, at a loss, then asked,
"Are you sending me to kindergarten or elementary school?"
Chi-Chi was speechless!!!
"Mom, just let me train with Dad. I promise I'll go to elementary school when I'm three, okay? And I promise I won't let my grades slip while I'm training with Dad!" Son Gohan pleaded desperately.
"Then promise me you won't come back covered in injuries!" Chi-Chi said helplessly, and could only set that condition.
"Got it. Don't worry, Mom!! I'm off! I'll help Dad chop firewood!!" A flash of lightning streaked beneath Son Gohan's feet!
Before his words had even faded, he was already gone!
"That brat's exactly like Goku. The moment you mention training, he goes crazy!! Honestly, I don't know why those two father and son are such freaks. Now that Gohan's here, I have to cook as much in one day as another family eats in a month!!" Chi-Chi ambled toward the kitchen.
Ever since she married Sun Wukong, she had repeated the same things every day!
Cooking, washing dishes, cleaning!
"My whole year is just one day repeated three hundred and sixty-four times..."
Chi-Chi amused herself, singing as she worked!!
"Dad!!!" Son Gohan dashed along, calling for Sun Wukong as he ran.
"Huh?? Gohan, don't you have to study today??" Hearing Gohan's voice, Sun Wukong moved at high speed and appeared beside him in an instant!
"Nope, Mom agreed to let me train with you until I'm three!" Son Gohan said excitedly.
"Great! I've known for a long time that you had extraordinary talent! Starting today, Dad will train you seriously. The future of Earth is in your hands!" Sun Wukong was delighted, too.
After all, he had already noticed Son Gohan's talent in his everyday behavior.
He had seen Gohan crush the steel pen in his hand when Chi-Chi forced him to study. He had seen that Gohan could eat as much as he could. He had seen Gohan doing squats while holding a dinosaur. He had personally felt the powerful aura that flashed from Gohan for an instant when he got angry!
"Dad, shall we start?? What should I do first?? Fight you?" Son Gohan struck a fighting pose with his little body!
"Haha, Gohan, you're not ready to fight Dad yet. What you need to do now is control your own power, control your ki!" Sun Wukong patted Gohan on the head.
"Control my ki?? You're right! I don't even know what ki is! Teach me, Dad!" Gohan looked at Sun Wukong with eager curiosity.
"Focus and sit cross-legged. Use your mind to sense the warm flow of energy in your abdomen. Then control it..." Wukong demonstrated, sitting cross-legged with his hands joined in front of his abdomen. A faint glow appeared.
Son Gohan imitated him as best he could!
"That spot in my abdomen... isn't that where the dantian is in the mythological novels from my previous life?" Son Gohan closed his eyes and concentrated, trying to sense it!
After just a short while, Gohan had already found that faint sensation of ki!
At the same time, a faint glow appeared between his cupped hands!
"Huh?? You sensed it already?? That's amazing!! My Gohan!!" Sun Wukong looked astonished.
He had to remember that as a child, he hadn't known anything about ki. He had reached where he was one step at a time by training his body!
Along the way, he'd also received guidance from Master Roshi, Korin, Kami, and Mr. Popo!
It had taken him many years to gain full control of his ki!
He hadn't expected Gohan to sense it in less than a minute!
"Dad, is this ki?? It's amazing!" Gohan stood up and focused all his strength on gathering the energy in his hands!!
The light grew brighter and brighter. A ball of yellow energy, about the size of a child's fist, took shape!
"Gohan, see that huge tree ten meters ahead? Throw the energy ball in your hands at it!" Sun Wukong was getting more and more amazed.
He then ordered Son Gohan to throw the energy blast in his hands!
Whoosh, bang, rumble, crack!!
The towering tree came crashing down in an instant!
Thin wisps of charred black smoke rose from the break!
"Gohan?? How do you feel??" Sun Wukong watched Son Gohan nervously!
"I feel fine!! If I had to say anything, I guess I'm a little tired!!" Son Gohan closed his eyes and sensed his body for a while before giving that answer!
"Haha, my Gohan is incredible!! The energy blast you just fired was way stronger than the one I could manage at your age!!" Sun Wukong was beside himself with excitement!
His eyes shone brightly. It was as if he could see a worthy opponent emerging!
Ever since the World Martial Arts Tournament ended and he defeated King Piccolo, his fighting spirit had lain dormant!
None of the opponents he had beaten could surpass him or stir his fighting spirit again!
Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, Piccolo...
But now, his long-dormant fighting spirit was stirring once more!!
"Dad?? What next??" Though Son Gohan had the soul of someone from a previous life, he'd only been an ordinary person in that life, so he didn't notice Sun Wukong's fighting spirit!
"Next, you'll learn to control your current strength and train your body. Strengthen your body so its potential can keep bursting forth, and strengthen the ki in your abdomen! Keep repeating the cycle and get stronger and stronger. Gohan, I'm looking forward to the day you can fight me!!" Sun Wukong said excitedly.
"Yes, Dad. I definitely won't let you down!!" The determination in Son Gohan's eyes said it all.
"Now, carry that tree you knocked down and run one lap around Mount Paozu. Can you do it?" Sun Wukong asked.
"Two laps!!!"
As soon as Son Gohan answered, he ran toward the fallen tree!
He put his hands to it and tensed all ten fingers. "Yah, ha!!"
Whoosh... His ten fingers, hard as steel bars, drove straight into the tree. Since his body was too small to wrap his arms around it, this was the only way he could lift it!
With his waist and legs braced, "Ha!!" Son Gohan heaved the tree up!!
He had lifted it, but the surrounding terrain made it impossible for him to run with it!!
"Dad, I'm too short to carry such a long tree. I can't get out of the forest with it!!" Son Gohan tried and then said helplessly.
"Figure it out yourself. Just keep the weight the same!" Sun Wukong folded his arms and made no move to help him.
"Keep the weight the same? I get it, Dad! Thanks!"
Son Gohan put the tree down, walked to its midpoint, and wrapped his palm in the faint ki. Shaping his hand like a blade, he chopped the tree in two!
Then he thought for a moment and realized the two logs would still be difficult to lift!
After a while, he found and cut down two straight trees, each half a meter in diameter!
He then shaved both sides of the large tree flat and stacked them together. Taking the half-meter-wide tree trunks he'd just cut, he drove them down hard through the top!!
The ten-meter-wide tree was secured in an instant!
This time, Son Gohan lifted the heavy load and headed out toward the edge of Mount Paozu!!
Each step left a deep hole!!!
Despite his great talent, he hadn't yet unlocked his full potential. Carrying such a heavy tree, he was using all his strength!
Sun Wukong watched silently without offering any help, and Son Gohan showed no intention of asking for any!