At this moment, Kakarot opened his eyes.
Those eyes were round and bright, as clear as two black pebbles just fished out of the stream, and they were looking curiously at the tearful old man in front of him.
"Goku... You finally woke up! Do you know how long you have been asleep? Grandpa is almost worried to death!" Grandpa Gohan threw himself to the bedside, tears streaking across his face covered with years of ravines, and a few hot tears fell on Kakarot's bandaged little hand.
"Grandpa, why are you crying? Is someone bullying you?" Son Goku blinked, his voice was milky, but he spoke every word clearly.
Grandpa Gohan's body stiffened suddenly, as if something had hit the back of his head.
He stared blankly at the child on the bed who was looking up at him innocently. His lips moved several times, and then he tentatively asked in a very soft voice, "You... what did you just call me?"
"I call you grandpa." Son Goku chuckled, revealing a mouthful of baby teeth that have not yet fully grown.
"Grandpa?" Grandpa Gohan threw the wet towel in his hand into the basin, and held Son Goku's little face with his two calloused hands tremblingly, looking left and right, as if trying to find some flaw in this face.
Yes, it was indeed the child he picked up on Mount Paozu.
However, this child has been extremely grumpy ever since he picked him up and brought him home...
If anything went wrong, he would cry at the top of his lungs and use his little tail to slap the bed board, almost knocking off the roof of his cabin several times.
Unexpectedly, he fell off a cliff and was in a coma for several days. When he woke up, the child seemed to be a different person. He was lying quietly on the bed and called his grandpa. He was so good that his old heart almost jumped out of his throat.
"Grandpa, why don't you even know that I call you grandpa?" Son Goku grinned even happier.
"Are you okay, Goku? Quickly let grandpa see where on your body it still hurts?" Grandpa Gohan quickly opened a corner of the quilt and used his old hands to carefully touch Son Goku's shoulders to his arms, and from his arms to the sides of his legs. Every time he touched a spot that was still wrapped with a bandage, he frowned.
"My whole body hurts... my head hurts, my arms hurt, my legs hurt, and my tail hurts." Son Goku pointed at the big bump on his head that had not completely subsided. He grimaced in pain, but still stubbornly refused to shed a single tear.
"Will it not hurt if you fall from such a high cliff? God is so kind to you that you can save your life." Grandpa Gohan tucked the quilt back into place for Son Goku, and his tone became more serious than ever before, "Be careful next time you go out to play, and you must not go near that cliff again. If you fall again, grandpa's old bones will really not be able to hold on."
"Hehe... I will be careful in the future, grandpa. When I get better, I will go hunting bears with you." Son Goku nodded seriously.
"What do you want to eat at night? As long as you ask, grandpa will cook it for you." Grandpa Gohan stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Son Goku's furry little head with his rough palm, his eyes full of endless doting.
"I want to eat a bear... the whole one! The bear legs that grandpa roasted last time were so delicious, I was chewing them in my dreams!" Son Goku clicked his mouth, and even a glistening drool spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"Okay, okay! Eat bears, right? Grandpa will go out and hunt the fattest bear for you right now. Let us have a good meal tonight!" Grandpa Gohan agreed and stood up from the bed.
But before going out, he returned to the bedside and rechecked the bandages on Son Goku from head to toe, confirming that the fractures and wounds had miraculously healed to the point where they were no longer in danger. Then he breathed a long sigh of relief, and his heart, which had been hanging for several days, finally returned to his stomach safely.
After simply packing up his luggage, Grandpa Gohan went out.
He walked toward the depths of the forest along the mountain path that he had stepped on countless times, his steps brisk and humming a tuneless tune.
His grandson finally woke up, his temper improved, and he even called him grandpa...
Just these three things together are enough to make this old man who has lived alone for decades happy for a whole year.
Not long after Grandpa Gohan's figure disappeared deep into the mountain forest, a small spherical spacecraft came out of the clouds silently and landed steadily in the open courtyard in front of Grandpa Gohan's cabin.
The spacecraft's engine slowly turned off, and the landing bracket at the bottom made a deep dent in the vegetable patch in the yard that had been carefully tended by Grandpa Gohan.
The hatch slid open, and Bardock and Gine walked out one after the other.
Bardock's sharp eyes just glanced around and immediately locked onto the unique cabin on the hillside.
Gine, from the first second he stepped out of the hatch, he couldn't help but put his hands on his chest, and his breathing became light and rapid.
"I found... that weak energy response, the frequency is completely consistent with the Saiyan baby, it should be Kakarot. When Combat Power was born, it was only 2, and now it has increased to 5." Bardock pointed in the direction of the wooden house and said to Gine beside him.
"Kakarot!"
Gine couldn't wait to hear the second half of Bardock's sentence, and he rushed out like an arrow.
She was not known for her speed among Saiyan, but the speed at which she was running at this moment made Bardock slightly startled.
She pushed open the simple unlocked wooden door of the cabin, and the door panel hit the wall with a muffled sound.
This little house is really small...
There is only one bedroom and living room, and a kitchen corner that can barely be turned around. All the furniture is a small bed, an old wooden chair and a small polished wooden table. The layout is so simple that it is almost shabby.
Therefore, Gine's eyes fell straight on the small bed without any search.
Lying on the bed was a little boy with messy hair, his body covered with bandages, and a big purple bag on his head. He was staring blankly at the strange woman who suddenly broke in with his dark eyes.
"Kakarot... Mom is here! Mom has finally found you!" Gine's eyes burst into tears in an instant. He rushed to the bed, bent down, stretched out his arms, picked up the small, soft body from the bed, and held it tightly in his arms.
Son Goku was completely confused by this sudden hug.
He was stiff in the arms of this strange woman for a while, with confusion written all over his face.
However, after being hugged so hard by Gine, the fractures on his body that had not fully healed suddenly felt a sharp pain. The pain was so painful that he couldn't help but let out a suppressed wail, and his small body curled up in Gine's arms.