Come and Fight

Kashius's sudden words left not only Krillin and Goku stunned, but even Master Roshi, disguised as Jackie Chun, was dumbfounded.

His whole body froze in place like a statue, petrified.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Kashius, what's going on? This is way too sudden." After standing there blankly for a few seconds, Krillin was the first to react.

"Yeah, yeah, little brother, you're not joking, are you?" Even the simple-minded Kid Goku couldn't help speaking up.

However, Kashius ignored Kid Goku and Krillin, his burning gaze still fixed on Jackie Chun.

"Hey, hey, hey, are you going to say yes or not? Say something. You can't just leave me kneeling like this."

After getting no response for so long, Kashius was starting to get a little angry too. What the heck? He was just asking to become his disciple. Did he really need to think about it this long?

Besides, yours truly was a Saiyan, a warrior race with a boundless future.

"Ahem, well, little Kashius, there's no need to rush this matter. How about we discuss it properly after the tournament is over?"

At that moment, Master Roshi, who had recovered from his petrified state, spoke while pretending to be calm.

Heh heh, looks like this old man's charm hasn't faded one bit. Even an arrogant little brat like Kashius got down on his knees and begged me to take him as a disciple. How should I describe this feeling? Mm, one word—awesome!

"Mm, think about it?" Kashius was furious inside. You even had to stall when taking on a disciple? What the hell. Looks like I've got no choice but to use my trump card.

Then, under everyone's astonished gazes, Kashius calmly stood up. He even deliberately patted the dust off his back, wearing a look that said everything was already under control.

After that, he slowly walked over to Master Roshi's side and whispered a few words into his ear. Master Roshi's expression changed drastically, and he accepted Kashius as his disciple on the spot.

Everyone watching was left completely dazed, crying out that the scene had changed too fast and they couldn't keep up.

Just then, the host's voice came from outside.

"Now, we begin the finals! Please welcome contestant Kashius and contestant Son Goku to the stage! Everyone, greet them with your applause and cheers!"

"Tch, dirty old man!" Kashius secretly despised Master Roshi in his heart, then slowly walked onto the ring.

In truth, Kashius had another reason for taking Master Roshi as his master.

Over the past five years, although Kashius's combat power had kept shooting upward, which should have been something to be extremely happy about, Kashius had recently discovered that his grasp of ki was getting worse and worse, until these past few weeks.

Kashius had been completely blocked in his understanding of ki. Aside from his combat power still increasing, he had not made the slightest progress on the path of ki.

Perhaps this was what they called a bottleneck, something that would always appear once one's strength reached a certain level.

But Kashius knew that if he did not break through here, his future increase in combat power would become incredibly slow.

If that were the case, Kashius might as well find some place to live in seclusion.

After all, the future Z Fighters' combat power would soar at ridiculous speed, the kind where they would suddenly go full throttle at the slightest disagreement.

However, Kashius knew that their combat power could rise so quickly for two reasons. One was the improvement of their physical condition, and the other was their understanding of ki. Otherwise, if they kept speeding along like that, they would overturn sooner or later!

Uh... to put it simply, their foundation would be unstable, leading to no further progress at all on the path of martial arts. As a transmigrator, Kashius did not want to spend this life accomplishing nothing in the end.

Ask yourself, who didn't want to experience the thrill of being the protagonist? Who didn't want to have a dream of saving the world? Who didn't want to be invincible throughout the universe?

It was precisely because of this that, in order to make up for what he lacked on the path of martial arts, Kashius decided to take the experienced Master Roshi as his master.

He would lay the foundation for his future path to becoming stronger!

"Hey, little brother, this time, let's have ourselves a real fight!"

On the ring, Kid Goku took a fighting stance toward Kashius, his expression filled with caution.

"Don't worry. This time, I won't hold anything back, so go all out, little brother!" Perhaps to help Kashius get into the mood faster, Kid Goku spoke again.

"In that case, let's fight! My beloved big brother!"

"Aaah—ha?!"

With Kashius's loud shout, an incredibly powerful aura suddenly erupted from his entire body. In an instant, sand and dust flew, and the ring trembled.

The space that had been as still as the surface of water now gave off faint cracking sounds, and visible ripples even appeared in the air.

Under Kashius's full-force burst of aura, tiny bits of dirt and stone slowly floated up, then were completely crushed into fragments beneath that terrifying pressure.

The contestants present and the audience were all shocked beyond belief, each of them looking at Kashius as if they were looking at a monster.

No, they were looking at a monster! A human-shaped monster!

Just how strong are you, Kashius? This was Krillin's thought.

I can't believe I was fighting a monster like that before. Just thinking about it is terrifying! Yamcha thought from below the stage.

He looks so unbelievably cool! That was what Bulma thought in her heart.

Kashius, if you're already this strong, why do you still want to become this old man's disciple? Master Roshi's heart was filled with doubt.

"Th-this, this... is this really a level humans can reach? It's just too shocking!!!" The host off to the side felt that astonishing, overwhelming aura and stood frozen in place. He did not even notice when his sunglasses fell to the ground.

"Hahaha! Kashius, I'm so happy! Come on! Let's have a good, satisfying fight!!!"

"Aaaah!!! Haaa!!!"

With a thunderous roar from Kid Goku, an aura that was no weaker than Kashius's suddenly erupted from his lean body.

"Goku! You really are terrifyingly strong! Uh... hahaha!" Kashius didn't know whether he was laughing or sighing in awe.

But there was one thing he did know: he felt like his entire body was on fire, his blood boiling—roaring!!!

"Kashius! I know you always held back when you fought me as a kid. To make you fight me with everything you've got, I've spent almost every moment of these past five years training, all for today!!! My little brother, come on! Fight me!"

Hearing that Kid Goku had long since noticed what he had done back then, Kashius felt even more depressed. So he knew all along that I was hiding my strength. Well, no wonder. He's Son Goku, after all! A monster with an insanely sharp sense for battle!

"Come on! Let's fight with everything we've got, brother!"

"Come on, Kashius!!! My little brother!!!"

"Ah~ha?!"

With roars from both of them, they each charged madly toward the other.

Then they swung their fists! In the next instant, two small fists collided heavily together!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The pressure storm brought about by the clash of those two fists swept across the entire arena in an instant. Piercing sonic booms! The sound of air tearing apart! They exploded through the whole place!

This battle between brothers had truly begun!!!