Reborn as a Saiyan

"My head hurts. Where am I?"

Ling Yun pushed himself up from the bed. He felt as if someone had knocked him out, tossed him to the ground, and then stomped on him a couple of times.

A sob came from beside him.

"Brother Kasso, you're finally awake!"

Ling Yun endured the discomfort and looked over. A frail little girl kept wiping the tears from her face, crying as if her heart would break.

Anyone who saw the girl crying like that would have felt sorry for her.

"Kasso?"

Ling Yun was confused. Was she calling him?

What was that?

He saw a tail wrapped around the little girl's waist.

"Ahhh..."

Ling Yun suddenly felt as if his head were splitting apart. Two different sets of memories were jumbled together in his mind, intertwining and seeming to merge.

Unable to bear the pain as the memories fused, Ling Yun passed out.

Ling Yun was from the 21st century. He made a living by renting out the house his parents had left him, and he loved watching Japanese anime. Of all the shows, his favorite was Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball.

One night, as Ling Yun watched Dragon Ball on his computer for the nth time, he accidentally touched the power switch. His mind went blank, his whole body went numb, and in the blink of an eye, he found himself in this unfamiliar world.

From the fused memories, he learned that Kasso had originally been the owner of this body. While protecting the frail little girl, he had been beaten half to death by Nappa. Just before he died, Ling Yun had arrived from another world and taken over his body.

Kasso had been gravely injured and was on the verge of death. His soul had also shattered into pieces, so when their memories merged, he had no chance of wresting control from Ling Yun.

Time passed second by second.

At last, Ling Yun finished merging the other set of memories.

This was...

This was the Dragon Ball World!

Ling Yun was overjoyed. He had loved the Dragon Ball anime since he was a child. Sometimes, when he got carried away, he would imitate Kakarot transforming into a Super Saiyan—gritting his teeth, widening his eyes, and roaring as he imagined himself turning into one too.

Sometimes he would even shout while taking a bath at night, startling his parents in the living room. Of course, when he came out, they would give him a good beating.

After his parents passed away, he became more levelheaded, but he still loved watching Dragon Ball, going through it again and again without ever getting tired of it!

He never imagined that an accidental electric shock would bring him to the Dragon Ball World.

"A Saiyan named Kasso? That's who I am now!"

Ling Yun was so excited he wanted to laugh at the sky, but his injuries and the pain in his head made him grimace.

"Brother Kasso, how are you feeling?"

The little girl's face was streaked with tears. She wanted to reach out and touch Kasso's face, but she was afraid of hurting him.

Seeing Kasso's expression keep changing, she wondered if Nappa had beaten him stupid.

At the thought, the little girl started crying again, muttering, "Nappa, give me back my brother Kasso."

Kasso saw how sad the girl was. Perhaps it was the influence of the lingering consciousness, but his heart ached for her.

"Little Biel, I'm all right. Stop crying." Kasso pulled Ausbie into his arms and comforted her.

From his memories, Kasso learned that his former self and Ausbie's parents had been comrades in the Bardock Squad. They had fought side by side, but all of them had died on a mission.

Afterward, the two children had lived together and looked after each other. But without their parents to care for them, they had both grown up scrawny.

Nappa's family was among the highest-ranking Saiyan nobility, and his father was King Vegeta's right-hand man.

Nappa followed Vegeta around all day, throwing his weight about and acting outrageously. He was especially vicious toward orphans like Kasso and Ausbie.

Yesterday, Nappa had beaten Kasso's former self to a pulp. Kasso was still able to lie in bed now only because Little Biel had dragged him home.

Kasso felt a pang in his heart. His former self and Little Biel had been childhood friends and were deeply attached to each other. How upset would the little girl be if she found out that her real Brother Kasso was already dead?

"Nappa, is it?"

At that moment, Kasso's eyes turned ice-cold.

After comforting Ausbie, Kasso decided to put Nappa aside for now. He urgently wanted to find out how strong he was.

Kasso picked up the Scouter on the cabinet and, following the instructions in his memories, checked his own battle power.

"300."

He had a battle power of 300!

Kasso was a little surprised. That made him stronger than even the elderly King Piccolo!

After thinking it over, he figured his battle power had probably increased so much because he had been on the verge of death.

He also learned from the fused memories that he was an Elite Warrior.

Kasso smiled. An Elite Warrior, huh?

Not bad. He might not have the legendary Saiyan physique, but he was still much better off than a Low-Class Warrior like Goku!

In truth, using birth battle power to determine a Saiyan's rank wasn't very accurate. Take Goku, for example. He was a Low-Class Warrior, yet he had survived being on the verge of death again and again, breaking through his physical limits time after time. His battle power had always surpassed Vegeta's. The protagonist's plot armor played a part, of course, but it couldn't be denied that the Saiyans' ranking system was flawed.

Of course, being born with high battle power meant starting from a higher point, so Kasso still had a great advantage as an Elite Warrior.

"Now, Nappa, you can start waiting for your death!" Kasso sneered to himself.

Nappa had just made it onto Kasso's hit list. Kasso didn't feel the least bit cruel or heartless for targeting someone like him.

This was the Dragon Ball World, a vast, super-dimensional world where the strong preyed on the weak and people casually destroyed planets and universes. Kasso was only trying to get stronger and survive.

Kasso sorted through the memories in his mind. He didn't know what year it was, or how long remained before Planet Vegeta exploded.

"Little Biel, what year is it?" Kasso urgently needed to know the current era. From the memories he knew well, Planet Vegeta was supposed to explode in Age 737.

"It's Age 735." Ausbie wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her little hand.

"Only two years left?" Kasso furrowed his brow.

Time was running short.

Kasso remembered that Planet Vegeta would be destroyed by Frieza two years later.

Frieza was a genius of the Frost Demon Race. At his father King Cold's warning, he had grown wary of the possibility that a golden-haired Super Saiyan might appear among the Saiyans.

On top of that, acting on the orders of some deity, Frieza summoned all the Saiyans away on missions in Age 737 and destroyed them along with Planet Vegeta. Only a few stragglers survived.

Kasso had a battle power of only 300, and he and Ausbie were both just five years old. Forget saving Planet Vegeta—he couldn't even beat Vegeta, let alone defeat Frieza.

Vegeta was the Saiyan Prince, born with a battle power of 1,000. He was undeniably powerful, but before Frieza's normal-form battle power of 530,000, he was no more than an ant.

"No, I have to escape Planet Vegeta within two years, or I'll die for sure." Kasso lowered his head and murmured to himself.

As long as he got off Planet Vegeta, with the knowledge in his mind, would he really still have to worry about being unable to beat Frieza?

There was nothing he could do for now. Kasso could only find a way to survive and keep raising his battle power. When Planet Vegeta exploded, he would see if he could save a few more Saiyans.