King Kai's Doubt and Humor (Recommended First Update)

"Are you one of Frieza's men?"

North Kai fixed his gaze on Raditz, his questioning tone carrying obvious disgust.

Because ever since Son Gohan had subdued him, Raditz had still been wearing the standard armor of the Frieza Force, and North Kai was very familiar with that thing.

After all, the two antennae on his head could clearly see any scene anywhere in the North Galaxy, which he managed!

And Frieza, that emperor of the universe, had always been a thorn in North Kai's heart, one he could never pull out. He truly vexed him to no end.

Seeing Raditz in Frieza Force armor, naturally, he was not in any kind of good mood.

Son Gohan was startled, secretly thinking he had miscalculated. North Kai was a very kind and humorous person, so for his tone to be this rejecting meant the problem was a little serious.

So he hurriedly said, "Lord Kai, please don't misunderstand. He has already turned over a new leaf and no longer serves the Frieza Force. Besides, Frieza is his enemy!"

"Enemy?"

North Kai's antennae beneath his sunglasses trembled slightly, and then he smiled. "So he's a Saiyan. No wonder you'd say that."

Son Gohan naturally knew that North Kai was well aware of how Frieza had destroyed Planet Vegeta back then.

The top priority now was to clear away North Kai's resistance toward them. After all, if the first impression was bad, he was afraid North Kai might hold something back from them next.

"You can train with Bubbles and Gregory."

After North Kai finished speaking, he was about to sit back in his car, but Son Gohan grew anxious. Bubbles was naturally the little monkey, while Gregory was that creature that looked very much like an insect.

What kind of joke was this? Kaioken and Spirit Bomb were both North Kai's special techniques. If they did not learn from him, how could they possibly learn them?

"Lord Kai, please wait."

Son Gohan said loudly, "We came here to train under your respected guidance, and our purpose in training isn't just to make ourselves stronger!"

North Kai, who had already placed one foot into the small car, stopped. He turned to look at Son Gohan and asked, "Then what did you come here for?"

Son Gohan's mind raced at high speed. If he were an ordinary person, he would naturally roar, "I came here to train under you so I can defeat Frieza."

That was right. Frieza was certainly North Kai's heartache, but doing that would be like loudly telling a company CEO that you wanted to defeat two Ma big shots right in front of him.

It would only make North Kai feel that this person was purely daydreaming!

When Son Goku met North Kai back then, he had only wanted to become stronger to protect Earth from being invaded by Vegeta and Nappa. He had not known anything about Frieza at all.

Two seconds later, Son Gohan said, "Our purpose in coming here is to become stronger, to protect our homeland from being invaded by evil aliens. If Lord Kai does not believe us, you can check whether there are two evil auras currently heading toward our Earth."

Hearing this, North Kai put his foot back on the ground, and the feelers on his head began to tremble slightly.

Very soon, he raised his head and looked at Son Gohan. "That's right. There are indeed two fellows with dense evil auras flying toward your planet. Judging by the time, they should arrive half a year from now."

Son Gohan could hear that North Kai's tone had already begun to soften. It no longer held the coldness and disgust from the start.

So he pressed the advantage, speaking in a righteous tone. "Lord Kai, we do not dare say how strong we can become through training, but if one day we truly do reach sufficient strength, we will not let those evil fellows of the Frieza Force off!"

Son Gohan delivered this line with what he believed was his most justice-filled expression. He felt that no matter what, surely North Kai would not refuse him now, right?

Sure enough, North Kai was moved. After pondering for a while, he said, "Aside from that fellow, I truly do not sense much evil aura from you."

Then he asked in a tone carrying a trace of hope, "If—and I mean if—in the future, you really train and grow to a very powerful level, will you go challenge that Frieza?"

"If we fear this and fear that, then why bother training to become stronger? We might as well just stay peacefully on our own planet as salted fish, right, Lord Kai?" Son Gohan said in a very confident tone.

But North Kai's next action surprised Son Gohan.

After listening to Son Gohan's impassioned speech, North Kai was not moved, nor was he shocked. Instead, he raised both hands and covered his mouth.

Then a stifled laugh kept leaking out through the gaps between his fingers.

Son Gohan's face twitched slightly. He knew North Kai had a very low threshold for laughter and especially loved bad jokes, but he had not expected the other party to laugh at a moment like this. It was very awkward, all right?

Behind him, Son Goku and Raditz exchanged a glance, both seeing strangeness and confusion in each other's eyes.

Piccolo was somewhat speechless, though with that face of his, it really was hard to tell what expression he had.

"S-sorry. You're too funny!"

North Kai barely held back his laughter and said, "I didn't expect you to be someone with such a strong sense of justice, yet still so humorous."

Humorous...

Several black lines slid down Son Gohan's forehead.

However, when he thought of the change in North Kai's attitude, the stone weighing on his heart finally dropped.

No matter how confident he had been before, when the time came to face it, there would still inevitably be some worries and unexpected developments. Fortunately, everything had now been completely resolved.

North Kai coughed twice and regained his previous serious expression. "All right. Since that is the case, the four of you may all train under me. As for what results your training brings, that will depend on whether you work hard yourselves. I won't guarantee that each and every one of you can become 'strong'!"

But just after he finished speaking, North Kai suddenly covered his mouth again. Then, as if unable to hold it in, he turned around and burst into hearty laughter.

This time, it was not only Son Gohan; the three people behind him were equally speechless. Excuse me, what was so funny about that?

After he had laughed enough, North Kai finally turned back around and said, "Starting today, your first training goal is to catch Bubbles. As long as you succeed, you can move on to the next stage of training."

As North Kai's words fell, Bubbles, who had just arrived at his side, raised both hands slightly and began hooting.

The expressions on the faces of the three people behind Son Gohan were all somewhat strange. Catching a little ape like this—who were you looking down on?

Only Son Gohan's face revealed an interested expression. He did not think this goal would be as simple as they imagined.

After all, from the moment he had just landed on King Kai's Planet, he had noticed that the gravity on this planet was very strange. If they truly thought this goal was simple, then they might be gravely mistaken.