Suggestions for Modifying the Spaceship

Two hours later!!

"Damn, it's finally here!!" Karochi, whose stomach was so empty it felt flat against his back, had at last reached West City and found Capsule Corp.

You had to admit, the Brief family was seriously rich! Their property was right in the middle of West City, and as far as the eye could see, all five hundred square kilometers belonged to them. It was absolutely ridiculous.

He slowly descended in front of Capsule Corp!

"Tsk, they don't even have a guard at the gate?? This place is way too lax!!" Karochi muttered, speechless. They couldn't even be bothered to hire a security guard?!

But as soon as he stepped inside, Karochi understood why. Dozens of dark gun barrels appeared out of nowhere the moment he entered!!

"Holy crap~! Wait, that can't be right. I remember there being nothing like this in the original!" Karochi was dumbfounded. He'd never seen these things when he watched the anime!

"Well, well~~~! Who's this handsome little boy?" a yellow-haired woman exclaimed in a strange accent as she appeared.

Karochi could tell with his eyes closed that this was Bulma's mother, Mrs. Brief, whose real name was Panchy! Heh, you weren't imagining things—the name was a homophone for "bikini." In the original, Mrs. Brief was outgoing, warm, and easygoing. Perhaps because Dr. Brief was such a womanizer, she was always rather cool toward him.

She seemed to press some kind of button, and the guns quickly vanished from sight! Karochi hadn't even caught them disappearing! That made absolutely no scientific sense.

"Come, come~! You don't have to keep holding that up. Oh my~~ Something that heavy shouldn't be held up for so long!" She walked over to Karochi and spoke gently as she looked at the large flying machine he was carrying. Her manner was quite bold.

Karochi stopped holding it up. After all, he'd been carrying it all this way! He slowly lowered it, then scratched his head and said to Mrs. Brief, "Um, hello. My name is Karochi. Sorry for the trouble. I'm here to see Dr. Brief."

Karochi wasn't quite used to Mrs. Brief's enthusiasm, even though it was simply part of her personality!!

"Oh my~! Why bother looking for that old geezer? How about coming on a date with me instead?" Mrs. Brief said, taking Karochi by the arm. Saiyans grew quickly, and Karochi was already nearly a meter tall.

"Ah... Th-this isn't really appropriate, is it? I... I wanted to ask Dr. Brief for help." Mrs. Brief had made Karochi blush bright red. After all, his mind and body weren't those of a four-year-old. A little physical contact was enough to stir him.

"All right, then. I'll take you to him!" Mrs. Brief said with a beaming smile. Come to think of it, her eyes were always narrowed!!

Mrs. Brief led him along, and he grabbed the flying machine with his left hand as they went. At least he wouldn't have to run back out and waste time he could spend eating. His stomach was practically empty.

Mrs. Brief led Karochi through a maze of turns to a tall, semicircular building, then let go of his hand. She bent over slightly and brought her face close to his. "Sweetie, wait here for just a moment, okay? I'll go call that old geezer down."

Karochi took several steps back and wiped the sweat from his face. "All right. Sorry for the trouble, ma'am!!"

"Oh my~! What a polite little gentleman." She gave his hair a quick ruffle, then turned and walked into the building.

"Bulma's mother really is just as enthusiastic as she was in the original!" Karochi wasn't very good at handling people with that kind of personality.

He didn't have to wait long before a middle-aged man came out, with Mrs. Brief following behind him.

He was rather small and thin, with that unmistakable purple hair and a little black cat perched on his left shoulder. Was it really just sitting there right now?! How long had that cat been alive? It was still around during the Majin Buu saga, so much for science.

"You're the little fellow who wanted to see me, right?" As he approached Karochi, he first took the cigarette out of his mouth. His voice was very kind.

Karochi bowed. "Hello, Dr. Brief. Yes, I'm the one who wanted to see you." When you needed a favor, it was important to be polite.

"Oh my~! You don't have to be so formal with that old geezer," Mrs. Brief said with a soft laugh, covering her mouth with one hand.

"Indeed, there's no need for that. If there's anything I can help with, I'll certainly do it!" Dr. Brief said with a smile, seeing how polite Karochi was.

Karochi got straight to the point. "You've seen the spherical object behind me, right? It's the spaceship I rode to Earth! I'd like your help making it bigger and installing a gravity chamber inside. I'd like it to have at least three hundred times Earth's gravity. I need it for training."

After hearing Karochi's request, Dr. Brief had already gone over to inspect the spaceship! "It's definitely not Earth technology. Modifying it won't be a problem! Besides, the spaceship you brought is very valuable for research. If possible, I'd like to study it for a while."

For a scientist like him, all he needed was to understand the internal structure of an alien spaceship, and he'd be confident he could build one himself! That wasn't an exaggeration. Just look at how Bulma later managed to build something even the gods forbade: a Time Machine!

"Of course, no problem!! I'll be staying on Earth for quite a while, so you can study it as much as you like!" Karochi would be training on Earth for some time—probably about a year.

"Then there's no problem at all. Just leave it with me!" Dr. Brief said with a broad smile.

Growl~ Growl~!

Just then, Karochi's stomach betrayed him and let out a rumble. His face turned red, even though he'd planned on getting a meal here from the start!

"Oh my, Little Karochi, are you hungry? Come on, let's go eat! The old geezer can take care of this thing!" Mrs. Brief quickly took Karochi by the arm and led him inside.

"Mm-hmm, you can leave the spaceship with me to study!" Dr. Brief nodded.

"Thank you for the trouble!" Karochi bowed once more, then followed Mrs. Brief with an embarrassed look.

"Sis... Tights!" Bulma ran toward Tights, step by step.

At this time, Tights was only eleven, while Bulma was about four, the same age as Karochi!!

Tights looked curiously at the chefs bustling back and forth. How many guests had come over? There was so much food! She stopped a chef carrying a dish and asked curiously, "How many guests are here?"

The middle-aged chef wiped his sweat, an incredulous look still on his face. "Th-this might be hard to believe, miss, but there's only one—a little kid around four or five!" He had no idea how much that kid had eaten. More than twenty chefs had been working for three hours and still couldn't keep up. It was just absurd.

Not only would no one believe it if he told them, he could barely believe it himself, even though he'd seen it with his own eyes!!

"!!! A four- or five-year-old kid ate all that?" Tights was stunned. She didn't even notice Bulma clinging to her.

What kind of little monster was that?! She'd been watching the chefs come and go for hours. She'd thought a whole group of people had come over.

Her curiosity piqued, Tights scooped Bulma up and followed the chef. She just had to see what kind of kid could have such an enormous appetite.

Inside, Karochi was devouring the food. He stuffed two buns into his mouth at a time and tore the meat right off the big drumsticks!! Mrs. Brief watched in shock, occasionally pulling out a handkerchief to dab at the corners of her eyes.

"How long has this child gone without food? He's so hungry! Poor thing."

Tights, standing in the doorway, stared in disbelief. Good grief! Even a wild animal wouldn't eat like that. Was the guy's stomach a bottomless pit?? And he really did look four or five, about the same age as her little sister.

"Sis~ He can eat so much!" Bulma was still little, but even she was shocked by how voraciously Karochi was eating. Her eyes also lit up as she looked at the tail behind him.

She climbed down from Tights's arms, crept over behind Karochi, and grabbed it!

Karochi, busy eating, felt a shock run through his body. His strength left him, and he toppled headfirst into the bowl in front of him!

"Oh my~~ What's wrong, Little Chi? Did you choke? Come, come, Auntie has some milk to help wash it down." Seeing what happened, Mrs. Brief thought Karochi had eaten too quickly and choked, so she hurriedly picked up the milk beside her.

"N-no...! My tail. Don't grab my tail!" Karochi gave a bitter smile. Damn, he never expected someone to grab him by the tail.

He looked back and saw a little girl with blue-green hair clutching his tail, having the time of her life! Holy crap, wasn't that Bulma? Judging by her age, she was about as old as he was now.

Karochi swore he'd learn from Vegeta and overcome his tail weakness!!

"Oh my, Bulma, what are you doing here? You mustn't cause trouble." Mrs. Brief had noticed Bulma behind Karochi, still holding tight to his tail, after he pointed it out. She set down the milk and picked Bulma up.

With his tail free, Karochi let out a huge sigh of relief. Besides the weakness in his tail, he also needed to overcome the problem of turning into a giant ape and losing control! On Planet Vegeta, a full moon appeared only once every fifteen years, but on Earth, it came once every fifteen days. If he got caught out by one someday, Earth would be doomed!!