"Hey! I wonder how Goku and the others are doing?"
With a sigh, Krillin sat blankly on a bench in Capsule Corp's garden, without even the spirit to train.
He was not the only one. Yamcha was beside him, along with Goku's wife Chi-Chi and Bulma. The two women were equally listless. Tien was not there; he had gone off to train.
Suddenly, Krillin turned and started walking away. Yamcha quickly called after him, "Hey! Krillin, where are you going?"
"I'm going to train. If I weren't so weak, I could help Goku! Tien is still working hard to train, so what reason do I have to give up?"
The gloom in Krillin's voice was gone, replaced by resolve.
He had been too worried about Goku's safety to settle down and train, but Tien had turned his grief and anger into motivation. Krillin, too, hated his own weakness.
"I'm coming too. Even if I'm weak, it's still better than sitting here and waiting to die!"
Yamcha said in a low voice.
In truth, they were not weak anymore. They possessed the strength of the third level of the Realm of Gods. But their enemies had advanced even faster, leaving their battle power unable to keep up with the first echelon.
Earlier, Trunks and Chronoa had managed to connect with Goku, but some unknown interference had suddenly severed the signal carried by the power of time and space, cutting off all contact with him.
Many planets throughout their universe had also exploded. That told them Goku and the others must have been facing an extremely dangerous battle. In the past, they had always controlled their strength to prevent damage to planets, but now, they had no idea how many worlds had been destroyed.
What they did not know was that those