Chapter Summaries

Yamcha used the Kamehameha against Tien Shinhan, who reflected it toward the stands, and Krillin stopped it from injuring the spectators. Tien Shinhan defeated Yamcha and broke his leg, but Son Goku gave him a Senzu Bean that healed him instantly.

• Son Goku warned Krillin that Yamcha's reflected ki blast might endanger Snow, and Krillin rushed to protect the spectators.
• Tien Shinhan reflected Yamcha's Kamehameha, and Krillin's ki blast stopped it near the stands without hurting anyone.
• Tien Shinhan knocked Yamcha down and broke his leg, forcing the referee to declare Tien Shinhan the winner.
• Son Goku gave Yamcha a Senzu Bean, and Yamcha recovered from his injuries immediately.

Krillin faced Chiaotzu in the World Martial Arts Tournament after Tien Shinhan crippled Yamcha and boasted about the Crane School. Krillin easily endured Chiaotzu’s close-range attacks and dodged his Dodon Rays, leaving the match underway.

• Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu mocked Yamcha and the Turtle School, while Goku encouraged Chi-Chi to beat Tien Shinhan if she wanted to.
• Jackie Chun defeated the Werewolf by using Krillin’s bald head and hypnosis to turn him back into a human.
• Krillin and Chiaotzu began their match, and Krillin stood unmoved against Chiaotzu’s kicks and blocked his punches with one hand.
• Chiaotzu flew into the air with Bukujutsu and fired Dodon Rays at Krillin, who dodged them and realized Chiaotzu was concentrating his ki at his fingertip.

Krillin defeated Chiaotzu with a Dodon Ray but accidentally blew off his arm, leaving him unconscious. Goku reassured Krillin that a Senzu Bean could heal Chiaotzu as the tournament moved on to Goku and Chi-Chi’s match.

• Goku figured out how to fly while watching Chiaotzu and promised to teach Chi-Chi the technique.
• Krillin copied Chiaotzu’s Dodon Ray and overpowered him, blasting off one of Chiaotzu’s arms.
• Tien Shinhan accused Krillin of permanently crippling Chiaotzu and vowed revenge.
• Goku told Krillin that a Senzu Bean could restore Chiaotzu’s arm and went to ask Bulma for one.
• The referee declared Krillin the winner, and the announcer called Goku and Chi-Chi into the ring for the next match.

Bulma used a Senzu Bean to restore Chiaotzu’s severed arm, while Tien Shinhan began questioning Master Shen’s teachings. Watching Son Goku and Chi-Chi battle, Tien realized how far the Turtle School fighters surpassed him as their fight continued in midair.

• Bulma gave Tien Shinhan a Senzu Bean, and Chiaotzu ate it and regrew his severed arm.
• Tien Shinhan thanked Bulma, who said she had helped because Chiaotzu was young and did not ask Tien to lose his tournament match.
• Tien Shinhan doubted Master Shen’s claim that the Turtle School was bad, but returned backstage to continue the tournament.
• Tien Shinhan watched Son Goku and Chi-Chi fight at tremendous speed and realized that they and Krillin were far stronger than he was.
• Son Goku and Chi-Chi rose into the air and struck fists, sending shockwaves through the ring.

After Goku defeated Chi-Chi in their staged match, Tien Shinhan fought Jackie Chun and discovered the old master could match his speed and strength. Tien announced that he had been holding back, leaving Jackie Chun and the others startled as the fight continued.

• Chi-Chi pretended to lose to Goku, and the crowd applauded their impressive-looking duel.
• Bulma worried that Tambourine would kill Krillin after the tournament and resolved to warn the others not to kill Demon King Piccolo.
• Tien Shinhan and Jackie Chun began their match, and Jackie Chun’s precise techniques kept Tien from gaining an advantage.
• Tien used his third eye to see through Jackie Chun’s Afterimage Technique, but Jackie Chun removed his outer garment and countered Tien’s faster attacks.
• Jackie Chun questioned why Tien followed Master Shen, and Tien threatened to stop holding back.

Jackie Chun tried to persuade Tien Shinhan to leave Master Shen and use his martial arts for good, but Tien Shinhan recognized him as Master Roshi and copied the Kamehameha. Jackie Chun forfeited by leaving the ring, and Tien Shinhan began to realize how far he had surpassed Master Shen.

• Tien Shinhan blinded Jackie Chun with the Solar Flare and struck him, but Jackie Chun quickly got back up and urged him to change his ways.
• Master Shen recognized Jackie Chun as Master Roshi and revealed his identity to Tien Shinhan.
• Tien Shinhan copied the Kamehameha after seeing it once and fired it at Jackie Chun, who deflected the blast into the sky to protect the spectators.
• Jackie Chun jumped out of the ring, conceding the match to Tien Shinhan.
• Master Shen called Jackie Chun a coward, but Tien Shinhan realized Jackie Chun had not used his full strength and that Goku and Krillin were also his students.

Master Roshi explained to Tien that he had entered the tournament to teach his students humility, then withdrew after seeing how much they had surpassed him. Krillin and Son Goku began their match, and Krillin used the Solar Flare to gain the advantage.

• Master Roshi told Tien he had disguised himself to remind his students that stronger opponents existed, and that he withdrew because they had surpassed him through continued training.
• Master Roshi encouraged Tien to change his ways, then left to watch from the stands.
• Krillin and Son Goku entered the ring and began a fierce fight that cracked the tiles beneath them, puzzling Tien.
• Krillin used the Solar Flare, blinding the audience and surprising Tien and Master Shen.
• Krillin followed with a series of strikes that sent Son Goku flying toward the edge of the ring.

Son Goku and Krillin fought a fierce match that ended with Krillin winning after knocking Goku out of bounds. Tien Shinhan learned that Mercenary Tao was dead and began questioning his goal of becoming the World's Greatest Assassin.

• Son Goku stopped himself from falling out of the ring with the Flight Technique, then clashed Kamehameha blasts with Krillin before Krillin vanished and reappeared on the ring.
• Son Goku and Krillin traded a rapid series of attacks as Master Roshi praised their strength and Bulma revealed they had trained for years wearing Gravity Bracelets under nearly ten times normal gravity.
• Tien Shinhan was shaken by the fighters' power, and Bulma offered Gravity Bracelets to him and Chiaotzu if they joined Master Roshi's school.
• Bulma told Tien Shinhan that Mercenary Tao had died three years earlier at the foot of Korin Tower, prompting Tien Shinhan to question his life's goal.
• The referee announced that Son Goku was out of bounds and Krillin had won, drawing cheers from the audience.

Krillin dominated Tien Shinhan in the World Martial Arts Tournament final and won the championship. The crowd celebrated his victory as Krillin’s friends recognized that he had been showing off for Snow.

• Krillin refused a break before the final, and Tien Shinhan entered the ring determined to challenge him despite the strength gap.
• Tien Shinhan’s punches and Dodon Rays failed to hurt Krillin, who calmly blocked the attacks and wore him down.
• Goku realized Krillin had been showing off for Snow, while Chi-Chi explained that Krillin was not trying to avenge Yamcha.
• After Tien Shinhan lost the will to fight, Krillin knocked him unconscious with a kick and won the final.
• The audience applauded Krillin’s championship and praised Master Roshi’s students.

After Krillin won the World Martial Arts Tournament, Bulma urged Snow to confess her feelings, and Snow became his bride in front of the crowd. Goku and Chi-Chi also shared a passionate kiss, and the group ended the celebration by planning an expensive seafood feast.

• Bulma encouraged Snow to act on her promise to marry Krillin, and a blue-haired girl briefly presented him with flowers.
• Snow ran onto the ring, embraced Krillin, and announced that she was his bride.
• Krillin and Snow kissed as the audience cheered and congratulated them.
• Chi-Chi kissed Goku, who blushed and returned her embrace.
• The Turtle School friends congratulated Krillin and debated where he should take them to celebrate, while Bulma proposed a seafood feast costing twenty thousand per person.

Snow suggested cooking seafood herself to save money, and Chi-Chi proposed learning to cook for Goku. When Goku realized Master Roshi was missing and feared Tambourine might attack him, he went to search while Bulma recognized that Demon King Piccolo had emerged and kept the others together.

• Snow calculated that Goku's appetite could make a restaurant meal cost a million and offered to buy seafood and cook for everyone.
• Bulma teased Snow about acting like Krillin's wife, and Chi-Chi suggested returning to Kame House to learn cooking from Snow.
• Krillin noticed Master Roshi was missing, and Goku remembered that Tambourine might be targeting the tournament's fighters.
• Goku told Yamcha to stay put and instructed Bulma and Krillin to take everyone to the plane while he searched backstage for Master Roshi.
• Bulma recalled that Demon King Piccolo had emerged and that Tambourine had killed Krillin in her previous life, so she kept the group aboard the plane.

On the plane, Bulma and Chi-Chi discussed their future family with Goku, and Chi-Chi suggested that Bulma’s sister Tights marry him too. The passengers then spotted Mr. Popo riding a Magic Carpet outside the plane.

• Chi-Chi asked Bulma if she was upset about Chi-Chi kissing Goku, and Bulma said she wanted Goku and their family to be happy.
• Bulma reassured Chi-Chi that the Capsule Corporation’s wealth would support the family, while Chi-Chi worried about Goku and their children eating too much.
• Chi-Chi suggested Bulma persuade Tights to marry Goku so the family fortune would not be divided with an outsider.
• Bulma privately wondered at Chi-Chi’s reasoning but avoided arguing with her.
• Puar and the others spotted Mr. Popo standing on a Magic Carpet outside the plane, and Bulma wondered why he had come.

Mr. Popo asked Bulma and the martial artists to defeat Demon King Piccolo without killing him, since Piccolo and Kami were once one person and Piccolo’s death would destroy Kami and the Dragon Balls. Meanwhile, Goku found the wounded tournament referee, who warned that a monster was hunting every contestant.

• Mr. Popo explained that Demon King Piccolo had returned and that Krillin, Chi-Chi, and Goku were among the fighters capable of defeating him.
• Mr. Popo revealed that Piccolo was the evil part split from Kami and asked everyone to defeat Piccolo without killing him so Kami and the Dragon Balls would survive.
• Bulma and the others agreed to help, and Mr. Popo offered to train them at Kami's Lookout after Piccolo was defeated.
• Goku hurried to the tournament backstage, where he found the referee and several martial artists badly wounded, along with a dropped demon poster.
• The referee told Goku that a monster had stolen the contestant list and intended to kill every contestant, so Goku gave him a Senzu Bean.

Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu confronted Tambourine after Master Roshi discovered Master Shen’s corpse and recognized the demon’s calling card. Chiaotzu was gravely wounded, and Tambourine launched another attack at him and Tien Shinhan.

• Tien Shinhan refused Master Roshi’s offer of a place to stay and went with Chiaotzu to investigate the distant fighting near Master Shen.
• Master Roshi found Master Shen dead and realized the killer might be a child of Demon King Piccolo.
• Chiaotzu struck Tambourine with a Dodon Ray, but Tambourine fired back and pierced Chiaotzu with a beam.
• Tien Shinhan caught the falling Chiaotzu, who warned him as Tambourine fired a ki blast at them.

Tambourine attacked Tien and Chiaotzu, but Master Roshi and Tien tried to protect them until Son Goku arrived and knocked aside Tambourine’s blast. Goku healed Tien with a Senzu Bean and faced Tambourine as the demon charged at him.

• Tambourine injured Tien, and Master Roshi kicked him away before telling Tien to escape with Chiaotzu.
• Master Roshi blocked Tambourine’s blast with a Kamehameha, then moved to shield Tien and Chiaotzu from another attack.
• Tien rushed in front of Master Roshi, but Son Goku appeared and casually swept Tambourine’s blast aside.
• Son Goku gave Tien a Senzu Bean, then turned to face Tambourine.
• Tambourine identified Son Goku as the tournament’s third-place competitor and charged at him with a punch.

Son Goku killed Tambourine with a single kick, while Demon King Piccolo learned of his warrior’s death and pressed the Pilaf Gang to find the final Dragon Ball. The Pilaf Gang had three days to locate it, and Piccolo planned to create another flying warrior to help them.

• Son Goku killed Tambourine with one roundhouse kick, leaving Master Roshi, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu stunned by his strength.
• Son Goku offered to take Master Roshi and Tien Shinhan back to Kame House for a meal.
• Demon King Piccolo told Pilaf, Mai, and Shu that he wanted eternal life and ordered them to find the seventh Dragon Ball.
• Demon King Piccolo sensed Tambourine’s death, grew furious, and swallowed the six Dragon Balls he had collected.
• Pilaf told Demon King Piccolo that the Radar had detected a Dragon Ball, and Piccolo gave the Pilaf Gang three days to find it.
• Demon King Piccolo announced he would create another flying warrior to accompany the Pilaf Gang, while his Birdman subordinate warned him not to overexert himself.

Old Piccolo created Cymbal to help the Pilaf Gang find the last Dragon Ball, while Goku learned the plan and followed the Dragon Ball’s signal. Goku found Mai and Cymbal searching beneath a cliff and decided to let them locate it so he could follow them to Piccolo.

• Old Piccolo spat out an egg and named the dragon-like creature that emerged Cymbal, then ordered him to help find the last Dragon Ball.
• Pilaf sent Mai with Cymbal to search while he stayed behind with the Dragon Radar, and Mai flew off on Cymbal’s back.
• Goku returned to Bulma’s plane with Master Roshi, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu, and Bulma explained Mr. Popo’s warning that Piccolo’s life was bound to the Dragon Balls.
• After resting overnight, Goku rode the Flying Nimbus toward the lone Dragon Ball on the Radar and found its signal beneath rubble at the foot of a cliff.
• Goku saw Mai and Cymbal moving rocks to find the Dragon Ball and decided to let them search so he could follow them back to Piccolo.

Son Goku confronted Demon King Piccolo just as Piccolo gathered the seven Dragon Balls, killing Cymbal and overpowering Piccolo in their fight. As the Pilaf Gang tried to steal the Dragon Balls, Piccolo emerged from the rubble and prepared an attack, while Goku recognized his attempt to provoke him.

• Mai returned with the final Dragon Ball, and Pilaf explained how to summon Shenron to Old Piccolo.
• Son Goku arrived before Piccolo could summon Shenron and declared that he had come to kill him.
• Cymbal attacked Goku on Piccolo's orders, but Goku killed him with a Ki Blast.
• Piccolo learned that Goku had also killed Tambourine, then attacked him and was kicked through a boulder.
• Pilaf urged Mai and Shu to steal the Dragon Balls while Goku fought Piccolo, and they crept toward them.
• Piccolo emerged from the rubble and threatened a new attack, but Goku saw that Piccolo was trying to provoke him.

Son Goku let Demon King Piccolo use Shenron to restore his youth, then faced him again after Piccolo vowed to repay the favor by killing him. The chapter ended as the rejuvenated Piccolo charged at Goku with a powerful punch.

• Son Goku survived Old Piccolo's ultimate attack, leaving Piccolo convinced he needed the Dragon Balls to regain his youthful strength.
• Son Goku told Old Piccolo that Shenron was about to appear and let him make a wish.
• Old Piccolo attacked Pilaf, Shu, and Mai as they prepared to make a wish, but Son Goku deflected the blast and saved them.
• Old Piccolo wished for his youth back, and Shenron restored him before scattering the Dragon Balls again.
• Piccolo thanked Son Goku for giving him the chance to regain his youth, then promised to kill him with his full strength.
• The rejuvenated Piccolo charged at Son Goku and swung a powerful punch.

Son Goku overwhelmed the newly rejuvenated Demon King Piccolo, who tried to threaten him with Mai as a hostage. Piccolo’s attempt to stop Goku with a thrown stone failed, and he prepared to flee.

• Piccolo used a technique that cost him lifespan to increase his power, but his attacks failed to hurt Son Goku.
• Son Goku struck Piccolo in the abdomen and prepared to finish him, while Kami closed his eyes expecting to die with Piccolo.
• Piccolo seized Mai and threatened to crush her head to stop Son Goku from approaching.
• Son Goku paused when Piccolo tightened his grip on Mai, but Piccolo’s stone bounced harmlessly off Goku’s knee.
• Piccolo realized his attack had failed and again threatened Mai as he considered escaping.