Hearing that Tights wanted to train too, Lin Chen froze for a moment. Then he reached out, pulled her close, and kissed her.
"Silly girl, what martial arts do you want to train in?"
During the year and more Lin Chen had spent training on Earth, his relationship with Tights had progressed by leaps and bounds. The two had already made things official.
They still weren't married, though, and Tights had never brought it up.
"It's not that I won't let you train, but if you really wanted to, why didn't you come to me in the first place?" Lin Chen asked.
Tights smiled. "You're not even from Earth. What could you teach me? Master Mutaito is famous all over the world. He's the right person to ask."
Lin Chen thought it over for a moment, then nodded. "That's true."
Just as the two of them had made up their minds, Bulma, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up too. "Big Brother Lin Chen, I want to learn martial arts as well!"
"Bulma?" Lin Chen and Tights both exclaimed.
Tights planted her hands on her hips. "Bulma, what are you butting in for?"
"I'm not butting in! I just want to train in martial arts, sis!" Bulma explained.
In truth, she wanted to spend a few more days with Lin Chen.
She was still a little girl, but Bulma had already begun to experience the stirrings of young love.
In the original story, Bulma had been a lovestruck girl from the moment she first appeared.
Though she was younger now than she had been at her introduction in the original story, Bulma had already been drawn to Lin Chen.
But her older sister Tights had gotten together with Lin Chen first, so the girl had kept her feelings bottled up.
Lin Chen hadn't picked up on any of this. He was just thinking that it might be good for Bulma to get some training.
The original story hadn't mentioned Bulma having any talent for martial arts.
Still, if Bulma trained, she might be able to protect herself when she went on adventures with little Goku in the future.
Besides, with Lin Chen's strength, he wouldn't be staying with Master Roshi for long.
If Tights gave up early, that would be that. But if she wanted to stick with it, Bulma's company would keep the sisters from getting bored.
So Lin Chen persuaded Tights, and she agreed to bring Bulma along.
After saying goodbye to Briefs and his wife, Lin Chen took the two sisters and flew toward Master Roshi's island.
Since he didn't know the exact location of Master Roshi's home, Lin Chen couldn't use Instant Transmission to get there directly.
Fortunately, he remembered that Master Roshi's home was supposed to be on an island in the ocean, so he simply flew that way with the sisters.
This time, Lin Chen also had a new Scouter Bulma had made.
She had redesigned it based on the Saiyans' portable Scouters. It was a little bigger than the original, but it had no detection limit.
In other words, it wouldn't explode just because the target's power level exceeded its maximum reading.
To calibrate the Scouter's accuracy, Lin Chen had even spent several days serving as Bulma's test subject.
Master Roshi knew how to sense ki, but outside of combat, he was just an ordinary old man. Finding him by sensing his ki would have been difficult for Lin Chen.
But with Bulma's new Scouter, Lin Chen found Master Roshi's location in no time.
"Bulma, this Scouter is really useful!"
"Really?" Bulma blushed at Lin Chen's praise. "Big Brother Lin Chen, there are a hundred more in the Capsule I gave you. Take them for now. My dad has the blueprints, too, so if you need more later, you can ask him to make them for you."
On a small island in the middle of the vast ocean, Master Roshi sat in front of the television with a roll of toilet paper in hand. He watched a sexy yoga instructor lead a lesson on-screen while using the paper to staunch his nosebleed.
Nearby, a Sea Turtle basked lazily in the sun beneath the window.
Just then, Master Roshi jolted and sprang up from in front of the television, then hurried out of the room.
"Master Mutaito, what's wrong?" the Sea Turtle asked, following him outside in confusion.
"A terrifyingly powerful ki is coming our way!"
Cold sweat poured down Master Mutaito's face. The ki he sensed was hundreds, perhaps even thousands of times greater than that of King Piccolo, whose power had once haunted his nightmares!
Who could it be?
How could anyone be that powerful?
"They're here!"
As Master Roshi spoke, his muscles immediately swelled.
The powerful stranger drawing near, their identity unknown, triggered the same instinctive response as an animal sensing danger.
At that moment, three figures descended from the sky and landed on the beach.
"Wow! So this is where Master Mutaito lives?"
"What a remote island! No wonder nobody knows where Master Mutaito is."
Master Roshi's bulging muscles deflated at once, and the stern look on his face turned into a lecherous grin.
"Hello, beauties! What brings you here?"
His gaze fell on the Tights sisters, then lingered especially on Tights, dressed in cool, casual clothes and with her curvy figure.
But the next moment, Master Roshi suddenly noticed Lin Chen walking up behind the two sisters.
Beads of sweat immediately appeared on his face.
So the terrifying ki he'd sensed earlier had come from this man.
Lin Chen glanced at Master Roshi's Scouter reading: a power level of just 20. So Master Roshi really did keep his ki hidden in everyday life.
Without Bulma's Scouter, it would have been very difficult to pick out the ki of a man with a power level of only 20 from this vast ocean.
"Hello, Master Mutaito," Lin Chen said with a friendly smile.
"What do you want with me?" Master Roshi asked nervously.
"My name is Lin Chen, Master Mutaito. This is my girlfriend, Tights, and this is her younger sister, Bulma. We're from West City, and we've come to ask you to take us on as students!"
"Become my students?" Master Roshi looked stunned.
"Young man, you're far stronger than I am. Why would you need to study under me?"
"Of course we do. Master Mutaito is known as the God of Martial Arts and has mastered all kinds of techniques. By comparison, I only know a few brute-force moves. I can't begin to compare to you. Besides, I'm not the only one who wants to be your student. Tights and Bulma would also like to learn from you."
"Ahem..."
Master Roshi cleared his throat, feeling rather pleased with himself. He hadn't realized he was so famous that even someone as terrifyingly powerful as this man wanted to study under him.
He'd have something to brag about the next time he saw Master Shen.
"It's not out of the question, but I have certain requirements for taking on students. You..."
Master Roshi was about to explain his requirements when a flash of white light appeared before his eyes. Lin Chen had raised his hand and fired a ki blast toward the distant sea.
BOOM!
An enormous mushroom cloud suddenly rose above the water.
Lin Chen turned to Master Roshi with an innocent look. "Master Mutaito, what were you saying just now? Huh? Why are you kneeling on the ground?"
"I..." Master Roshi sniffed. "Welcome to the Turtle School!"
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