SSR Character!!

Lin Xia returned to his dilapidated rental apartment.

His first attempt at entering through the window instead of the door had elicited a chorus of ape-like howls from his neighbors.

After closing the window, Lin Xia couldn't wait to open the panel unique to Awakened ones.

As an SSR-rank Awakened, his panel was a dazzling, noble imperial gold.

(SSR-SR-S-A-B-C-D-F)

[Dragon Ball Universe All Characters Encyclopedia]: Your various actions and decisions have a chance to earn character favorability. When any character's favorability reaches 100%, you will obtain that character's card!

"My actions have a chance to earn character favorability?"

Lin Xia rested his chin on his hand, browsing through the character encyclopedia.

Just as he had imagined, it contained every Dragon Ball character, from the SSR-rank God of Destruction down to the D-rank Bulma!

However, all these cards were currently grayed out.

Attempting to view them in detail only triggered a "locked" notification.

Therefore, Lin Xia opened the SSR character card pack.

"BOOM!"

As the pack opened, the entire room was illuminated with blinding brilliance!

[Majin Buu Form (SSR)]

[Role: Control/Tank]

[Skill: Chocolateification]

[Chocolateification]: Fires a beam of light. The target hit is turned into chocolate and is unable to move for three seconds. If the target is weaker than the user, you may choose to consume them, resulting in an instant kill and restoring your own health.

"This is good!"

Lin Xia's eyes lit up; control-type characters were an indispensable part of any lineup.

Usually, control-type characters were of the "glass cannon" variety.

But a tank-type like Fat Buu... that was simply too rare!

Just imagine, during a battle, most people would choose to kill the healer and the control character first.

But when an opponent rushed straight at Fat Buu, only to discover that this thing was incredibly tanky, what would happen?

"Let's look at the stats."

As the thought crossed Lin Xia's mind, a set of data appeared.

[OVR (Card Rating): 89]

[Physical Damage: 67]

[Energy Damage: 98]

[Physical Defense: 125]

[Energy Defense: 125]

[Speed: 30]

"Wait, the speed is only 30?!"

"The dual resistances and skill stats are high, but the basic attack and speed... this is too unbalanced."

"But then again, it makes sense given his role."

Lin Xia took the card hovering in the air into his hand, and a cool, textured sensation immediately swept over him.

"Come out and meet me, partner."

As soon as Lin Xia finished speaking, the card transformed into golden particles that drifted to the floor and began to coalesce into a human shape.

In a moment, a chubby, pink Buu appeared before him with a simple, honest smile.

Draped in a purple cape, wearing golden gloves... and with those iconic little eyes, this guy looked exactly like the one in the anime Lin Xia remembered!

"I am Majin Buu, I'm hungry!!"

Fat Buu's first words popped out.

"Hungry...?"

Lin Xia was speechless.

He hadn't expected that characters manifested from cards would have their own consciousness and even feel hunger.

If he obtained Son Goku and Vegeta in the future... would he even be able to afford their food?

"Thump, thump, thump!"

Just then, a series of urgent knocks sounded at the door.

Lin Xia watched the wooden door rattle as if it were about to collapse, realizing that this rude, uninvited guest... was here with ill intent!

Sure enough, the very next second, the wooden door was kicked open!

A tall, thin man in a suit appeared before him.

"Hmm?" Zhang Heng looked at the pink object in front of him, unable to help but frown. "I didn't expect this dump to actually have a double door."

Immediately, he tried to kick the door open just as he had done before.

"Thud!"

After a dull impact, Zhang Heng was shocked to discover that his left foot had actually sunk into the door!

He was so startled that he hurriedly pulled his foot out with force.

Seeing that his foot was still intact, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, the pink wall actually began to move.

As Fat Buu turned around, Zhang Heng realized that this massive pink object was a... living creature?!

"Holy crap, what a huge piece of pink jelly!"

Zhang Heng's mouth hung wide open, his hands flew out of his trouser pockets, and he retreated repeatedly; his previous arrogance had been slashed by more than half.

"Kicking my door to pieces..." Lin Xia's figure slowly emerged from behind Fat Buu. He said with a cold face, "You'd better have a good reason, otherwise I'll make sure you have a problem!"

The top-floor conference room of Zhang Corporation.

In the luxuriously decorated room, the atmosphere felt very heavy.

The five people present puffed on their cigars in silence.

It wasn't until the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the door that everyone looked up.

"Bang!"

The door was pushed open, and Zhang Ting ran in furiously, carrying a corpse.

Everyone noticed the deep tear tracks on her face.

"Dad!" Zhang Ting fell to her knees with a thud. "Little brother is dead! You must tear that brat Lin Xia into ten thousand pieces!!"

Looking at the cold corpse of Zhang Peng, the chairman, who loved his son more than his own life, felt incredibly pained.

However, constrained by the occasion, he maintained his image and did not show any emotional change.

"Looking across the entire City A, this is the first time such a disgrace has happened to our Zhang Family!" The speaker was the Second Uncle, who was also Zhang Heng's father. "The future heir to the group was actually killed in broad daylight!"

Hearing this, the others continued to smoke their cigars without speaking.

Second Uncle continued, "I have already sent Zhang Heng to deal with this brat. When he returns... we should discuss the matter of appointing an heir."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's gaze shot over in unison.

Everyone could hear it; wasn't this clearly an attempt to make Zhang Heng the heir?

"Second Uncle! You—"

The hot-tempered Zhang Ting was just about to say something when she was interrupted by a sudden shout.

"Something... something has happened!"

The person who arrived was Zhang Heng's driver. "Young Master Zhang has... has gone missing!"

Hearing this, everyone expressed confusion, as if they didn't understand the meaning of these words for a moment.

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Second Uncle's expression was displeased. "How could a grown man just go missing?"

"Sir, I am not lying!" The driver said with a look of terror and sincerity. "I followed the Young Master to the downstairs of Lin Xia's home. The Young Master told me to wait in the car and that he would come down after he finished dealing with him...

Logically speaking, killing a brat who had just awakened should have been a simple task for the Young Master...

But who would have thought that I waited for a long time and never saw the Young Master.

So, I went up to check things out.

...After I arrived at the entrance of Lin Xia's home, I found his door wide open. I originally thought the Young Master had succeeded.

But when I walked in, I discovered there was no sign of the Young Master. Instead... instead, that Lin Xia was actually cooking, safe and sound!

I observed carefully, and there were no signs of any struggle at the scene...

With the background of the Zhang Family, I'm afraid no one in all of City A would dare to kidnap the Young Master, so I suspect there is only one possibility..."

As the driver's voice trailed off, Second Uncle slammed his hand on the table and stood up. "Are you saying that not only was Zhang Peng's revenge not avenged, but I've also lost another son?!"