Goku Fights Krillin

Because Goku and the others were far too strong, the preliminaries of the World Martial Arts Tournament ended very quickly.

As for the contestants advancing to the finals, they were Jackie Chun—uh... in other words, Master Roshi's alias—Kid Goku, Kashius, little Krillin, the water-starved Nam, the monster Gira, Yamcha, and a savage.

That night, after Kashius and the others who had made it through the preliminaries ate a meal at a restaurant, they each returned to their rooms to rest. Of course, because Kashius and Kid Goku had such huge appetites, they nearly ate the restaurant clean out of food.

In the end, it was Bulma who dragged Kashius and the others away under the restaurant owner's dumbfounded stare.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, the night was over.

When everyone arrived at the tournament venue, they each walked onto the stage with practiced ease and waited for the host to speak.

"All right, dear audience, now we'll draw lots to decide the order in which these contestants will appear."

After several backstage staff carried the drawing box up, the blond host wearing sunglasses said, "Now, contestants, please begin drawing lots."

Before long, everyone had finished drawing their lots one after another and was waiting for the matches to begin.

"Now then, I'll announce the order drawn by the contestants."

The blond host cleared his throat, then continued.

"The first match will be contestant Kashius versus contestant Yamcha.

"The second match will be contestant Son Goku versus contestant Krillin.

"The third match will be contestant monster Gira versus contestant savage.

"And the fourth match will be contestant Jackie Chun versus contestant Nam."

After announcing the order of the contestants, the host declared grandly, "Now, the finals of the World Martial Arts Tournament officially begin! Please welcome contestant Kashius and contestant Yamcha to the stage!"

"Uh... going up against Goku's younger brother right away. My luck really is a little bad." Yamcha walked onto the stage with a helpless look on his face.

"Yamcha, you can do it! You have to win!"

"That's right! You have to win!"

Yamcha's pet and Bulma both began cheering Yamcha on.

As for Kashius's side, there wasn't a single person he knew cheering for him. That was understandable. Since the contestants who had yet to go onstage were all backstage, Kid Goku and Krillin hadn't had time to say anything to Kashius either.

"Even though you're Goku's younger brother, I won't hold back. Come at me with everything you've got, Kashius!" Yamcha said while taking up a defensive stance.

Kid, where did you get the confidence to tell me to go all out? If I really attacked with full strength, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to take it. For Bulma's sake, I'll make sure you don't lose too badly.

After secretly making up his mind, Kashius simply stood where he was, waiting for Yamcha to make a move.

"What? You're still not attacking? In that case, I'll make the first move!"

After waiting a long time without seeing Kashius act, Yamcha couldn't help speaking up.

Actually, a certain black-haired guy was thinking this: eliminating someone without even giving them a single chance to show off was a very impolite thing to do.

Therefore, Kashius decided to give Yamcha a little more presence.

"Watch this! Wolf Fang Fist!"

With Yamcha's loud shout, his entire body swiftly charged toward Kashius.

His punches were so fast only afterimages could be seen, and the whistling sound of the wind being torn apart all displayed the power of this move.

However, unfortunately for him, the one he had run into was Kashius, a Saiyan of the warrior race born for battle. He was destined to lose.

"Yo, you've got quite a bit of strength. But this is as far as it goes!" Feeling the force coming from Yamcha's hands, Kashius was a little surprised and intended to see what else the other party could do.

However, after dodging several of Yamcha's attacks, Kashius lost all desire to keep fighting. He was simply too weak.

"See ya~"

As he spoke, Kashius vanished from where he stood in a flash. When he appeared again, he was already behind Yamcha.

He gently extended a finger toward Yamcha and lightly flicked him from behind, sending Yamcha's entire body flying out of the ring.

The surrounding audience was left dumbstruck one by one, and Bulma and Yamcha's pet were even more stupefied.

"All right, it seems contestant Kashius is quite powerful, winning the match so easily. I declare contestant Kashius the winner of this match."

The host lifted his sunglasses slightly and spoke.

"Now, we begin the next match: contestant Son Goku versus contestant Krillin."

"Do your best, Krillin, Goku!" Kashius greeted the two going onstage, then retreated backstage.

"Goku, although I know there's a huge gap in strength between us, I'll still give it everything I've got!"

"Come on, Krillin! Let's have a good fight!"

As the two finished speaking, intense collision sounds rang out from the stage.

"Kamehameha!"

Krillin forced Goku back with a punch, then gathered his hands together and fired a Kamehameha at Goku.

A pale-blue wave of light gathered from Krillin and rushed toward Kid Goku at extreme speed.

Krillin had always possessed great talent. After figuring out ki, and with Kashius's help on top of that, Krillin could now quickly use the Kamehameha.

"Come on, Krillin!"

Kid Goku looked at that Kamehameha wave, his face solemn. After a loud shout, a fierce aura erupted from his entire body.

Out of respect for Krillin, Kid Goku intended to take this Kamehameha wave head-on.

Kid Goku's hands slammed hard against the Kamehameha wave. But was a Kamehameha wave really that easy to catch?

It could be said that after Krillin unleashed the Kamehameha wave, his combat power had skyrocketed severalfold.

Kid Goku was gradually pushed backward, sweat starting to cover his face, and he looked as if he was struggling terribly.

"Goku!"

Krillin shouted again, and a soaring vortex of energy erupted around his body as he rapidly increased the output of the Kamehameha wave.

At that moment, Goku no longer dared to hold anything back. A powerful aura burst from his entire body, veins bulging across his small hands as his muscles swelled.

His right foot stomped hard onto the ground, directly smashing a deep pit into the ring. With a loud shout from Goku, his hands heaved upward, forcibly changing the trajectory of the Kamehameha wave.

BOOM~!

After a dazzling explosion, Kid Goku's figure appeared on the ring. At that moment, his face was not only covered in sweat as he gasped for breath, even his legs had gone a little weak, as if he might fall over at any second.

As for Krillin, after using all his strength to unleash the Kamehameha wave, he had already exhausted all his energy and was only holding himself up through sheer refusal to admit defeat.

But when he saw that Kid Goku had taken the Kamehameha wave he had fired with all his strength, he could no longer hold on. He pitched forward and collapsed.

At that moment, backstage, Kashius glanced at the tense-faced Jackie Chun. Then his figure flashed, and he instantly appeared in front of Krillin. Gently lifting him up, Kashius planned to take Krillin away to have his wounds bandaged.

"Goku, once you're in a fight, you can't hold anything back. With your strength, you shouldn't have ended up in such a sorry state!"

After leaving those words behind, Kashius carried Krillin back backstage.

Kid Goku was left alone, standing blankly on the ring.

In truth, Kashius had not expected the match between Goku and Krillin to end this way either. He had expected even less that Krillin's talent would be so strong. As expected, he really was worthy of being called the strongest Earthling in the future.

"Kashius..." After muttering quietly, Kid Goku dragged his weary steps back backstage.

The audience, stunned by Krillin's Kamehameha wave, now erupted into thunderous cheers.

"That was amazing!"

"That was incredible!"

"This really is the World Martial Arts Tournament!"

"Exactly, exactly! Even such a young contestant can be this strong! It's seriously awesome!"

Hearing the tidal wave of applause, the stunned host finally came back to his senses and announced in a halting, disordered voice, "Th-That was truly... truly a spectacular match! Now I announce that the winner is Contestant Son Goku!"

Below the stage, after seeing this scene of Krillin and Goku's battle, Yamcha was so shocked that he could not speak, inwardly crying out that he had been a frog at the bottom of a well.