Korin Tower

"Alright, kid. You've asked your questions. Now hand over the Dragon Ball!"

Before General Blue had even finished speaking, he used his psychic powers to immobilize Sun Yu and Lana, apparently to keep them from escaping.

"Can't move, can you, you little brats..."

Sun Yu and Lana exchanged a glance. "Are you going to handle him, or should I?"

"Kael, didn't you say it was embarrassing for us to pick on ordinary people?" Lana said.

"They've already started bullying us, so of course we have to teach them a lesson. Besides, the Red Ribbon Army isn't exactly a group of good people!" Sun Yu didn't like killing people for no reason, but that didn't mean he would let bad people off the hook.

General Blue, who realized he was being ignored, was instantly furious. He didn't even stop to wonder why his psychic powers weren't working on them. He rushed up to Sun Yu and threw a punch, shouting, "You damn brat! How dare you ignore me? You're asking for it!"

"Haha, those two brats are dead for sure. They actually managed to anger our General Blue!"

"Of course! There's no one who can match our General Blue's strength!"

The soldiers around them laughed recklessly. The local Indian villagers they had subdued huddled together, watching Sun Yu and Lana with sorrowful expressions. When one rabbit died, the others grieved; soon they would meet the same fate.

As General Blue charged at him, a cold smile appeared on Sun Yu's lips. He waited for the right moment, then struck General Blue across the neck with a karate chop.

"Crack..."

Sun Yu's hand came down on General Blue's neck with a sharp snap. The soldiers' laughter abruptly died away as they stared at their general, whose head had lolled over at a right angle.

"G-General!"

The soldiers couldn't accept that the general they considered invincible had been killed in a single blow. But soon they saw General Blue stagger backward a few steps before collapsing to the ground, no longer breathing.

"Damn it!" Perhaps terrified by how easily Sun Yu had killed General Blue, the soldiers raised their guns and aimed at him. Their weapons couldn't truly threaten Sun Yu's life, but getting hit would still hurt. Saiyans were made of flesh and blood, after all.

The soldiers' fate had been sealed the moment they raised their guns.

Sun Yu turned into a streak of lightning, darting among them. Nearly every strike was fatal, and the soldiers died without feeling the slightest pain.

"D-don't come any closer! Stay back!" The foreign officer hiding behind the others had been scared out of his wits. He scrambled into a vehicle, slammed his foot down on the accelerator, and sped away.

"Heh, he sure ran fast!" Sun Yu sneered and let him go. He wasn't a bloodthirsty man, and that sort of person wasn't worth chasing.

Seeing that Sun Yu wasn't going to wipe them all out, the remaining soldiers scattered like birds and beasts.

When the Indian villagers saw that the villains had been dealt with and their remaining men had fled in every direction, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. But they were still tense when they looked at Sun Yu. Knowing how powerful he was, they couldn't help being afraid.

Sun Yu and Lana walked slowly toward the villagers. They immediately knelt and said, "Thank you both for saving our lives..."

"Please, don't do that. Get up." Sun Yu did his best to force a kind smile, then addressed an elderly man who looked highly respected. "Grandpa, we came here looking for something called a Dragon Ball—a transparent glass sphere with a few stars inside. You've seen one before, haven't you?"

When the old man heard that Sun Yu was looking for a Dragon Ball, his face darkened. He seemed worried that Sun Yu might be like the villains who had come before and use it for evil. "Y-you want to find a Dragon Ball? What for? You aren't with that gang, are you...?"

"Don't worry, Grandpa. We're not bad people, and we won't use the Dragon Ball to do anything bad!" Sun Yu said with a smile.

"Ah, I don't think you're bad people either. Bora, go get the Dragon Ball." The old man turned to a muscular young man.

The young man the old man had called Bora stood up. He was tall and broad-shouldered, bare-chested, with a necklace of bone teeth around his neck.

Sun Yu's eyes lit up when he saw him. This was Bora, the father of Upa, the boy Son Goku had met at Korin Sacred Land in the original Dragon Ball story. But judging by how things were now, Bora probably wasn't married yet, which meant Upa didn't exist.

Bora soon returned with the Dragon Ball—the Three-Star Ball—and handed it to Sun Yu reluctantly.

With his fifth Dragon Ball in hand, Sun Yu said goodbye to the villagers, then turned and left with Lana.

"Won't you stay and have some tea?" The old man tried to persuade them to stay. After all, Sun Yu had just saved the entire village.

"No, thank you, Grandpa. We still have to get to Korin Tower..." Sun Yu waved without looking back.

"They're going to climb Korin Tower?" the villagers murmured.

In the eyes of these Indian villagers, only truly powerful people could climb Korin Tower, and Sun Yu had shown exactly what it meant to be powerful.

After they had left the village, Sun Yu smiled at Lana. "Sis Lana, Earth's Guardian lives atop Korin Tower. He isn't very strong in battle, but he has some very unique insights into martial arts. When you meet him, don't be rude!"

"I know, I know. You're the one who never stops nagging!" Lana protested.

When they reached the foot of Korin Tower, Sun Yu and Lana soared into the sky and flew straight up through the clouds. The Guardian's palace was said to be protected by a mysterious force that kept all flying objects away.

But against Sun Yu and Lana's overwhelming power, any mysterious force was useless. They broke through the defenses around the Guardian's Lookout and arrived before the Guardian.

In fact, the Guardian had noticed the two mysterious visitors the moment they arrived on Earth. Fortunately, Sun Yu and Lana hadn't done anything terrible since coming to Earth, which had let the Guardian breathe easier. But today, he suddenly realized that these two impossibly powerful strangers were near Korin Sacred Land, and his nerves tensed up again.

So when Sun Yu and Lana landed at the Guardian's Lookout, they saw the Guardian waiting at the entrance. Beside him stood his servant, the dark-skinned Popo, and Korin, the cat sage who was said to have lived for eight hundred years. He had also come over to watch Sun Yu and Lana arrive.

"Hi, Guardian! And Mr. Popo! Oh, Korin, you're here too!" Sun Yu was quite excited to see them, so he greeted them warmly, one by one.

Unlike Sun Yu, who was relaxed and casual, the Guardian and the others were so nervous they were practically on the verge of tears. They had no idea what was going on. They knew nothing about the two boys who had suddenly appeared, and could only sense from their auras that they were incredibly powerful. Yet the newcomers seemed to know everything about them.

How strange!