I Want to Go for a Walk

When daybreak came, Kashius stared at his surroundings in utter confusion.

The forest that had once been thick with trees and lush greenery was now wrecked beyond recognition. Several massive trenches had even been gouged through it.

Kashius knew those had been caused by the energy blasts he and little Wukong had fired from their mouths after turning into Great Apes. And yet, the house where Kashius, Son Goku, and Son Gohan lived was completely unharmed.

That left Kashius astonished. After losing his reason, he actually had not destroyed this little house? Did this little house have some strange power?

"Grandpa?!"

"Right, where's Grandpa?!"

Kashius suddenly thought of Son Gohan. He remembered very clearly that before he lost his reason, he had told Son Gohan to run away quickly, to get far away from him and Wukong.

But after Kashius began sensing the surrounding "ki," his expression turned extremely grim.

He did not find Son Gohan's "ki." Although his current strength was not very high, Saiyans were extremely sensitive when it came to sensing "ki."

Otherwise, in the original story, when Wukong drank the Ultra Divine Water, he would not have been able to detect King Piccolo's location from so far away.

Back then, he had been an extremely great distance from King Piccolo.

And now Kashius could not detect Son Gohan's "ki" at all. That left only two possibilities. First, Son Gohan had already left this place and gone somewhere very far away, so far that Kashius could not find him at all.

Second, Son Gohan had already been killed, just like in the plot, though he did not know whether it had been by his hand or little Wukong's.

In Dragon Ball, Son Goku had once said, "Grandpa said you can't look at the moon in the sky when it's full."

So Son Gohan could survive Son Goku's first Great Ape transformation. But now, because of Kashius's arrival, Son Gohan had, on the very first time...

"Mm~!"

"Little brother~! What happened? How did this place become like this? Where's Grandpa?"

Little Wukong woke up not far from Kashius, sleepily rubbing his eyes. He looked around at the surroundings, and after spotting Kashius, he asked him in bewilderment.

"Uh... you idiot! You're the one who wrecked this place!" Kashius roared outright.

"Ah, I did it? No way. But I don't remember anything. Did you get it wrong? I don't have that much destructive power."

Son Goku looked innocent. After glancing around, he stared at Kashius with wide eyes, looking utterly blameless.

Ignoring little Wukong, Kashius began to recall what had happened last night. He believed that as long as he was willing to think, even though he had been an irrational giant ape last night, he should still have some memories.

Even if doing so was very difficult.

Seeing that his little brother was ignoring him, little Wukong began cleaning up the damaged areas around them.

It was worth noting that at this moment, Kashius and little Wukong were both completely naked...

As Kashius thought back, the events of the previous night began to piece themselves together in fragments.

After he had knocked the Great Ape-transformed little Wukong away, he had thought Son Gohan was safe. Who would have known that Son Gohan would then be blasted into nothing by an energy cannon from Son Goku not far away?

The moment he thought of that, Kashius's expression became extremely complicated. It seemed the plot had still followed its original course.

In the end, Son Gohan had still been killed by little Wukong. Although in the original story, Son Gohan had been trampled to death, it was all the same. Dead was dead.

Looking at little Wukong, who was dealing with the ruined scene not far away, Kashius felt a pang of misery in his heart.

Should he tell little Wukong about this?

Forget it, forget it. Better not tell him how Son Gohan died for now, in case he became too heartbroken and blamed himself too much, then did something stupid in his innocence.

"Big brother?!"

As soon as Son Goku heard Kashius's voice, he put down the giant tree in his hands and ran toward him.

"Kashius, what did you call me for? This place is really messy. Looks like we'll have to clean up for a long, long time before it goes back to normal."

"Brother, I have something to tell you. Don't be too sad."

Kashius thought for a moment, then looked at Son Goku with a solemn expression and slowly spoke.

"Grandpa... is already dead."

The scene instantly became terrifyingly quiet. Even the birdsong could be heard with perfect clarity.

After several minutes, Son Goku's sobs rang out, followed by loud wailing. Tears fell like spring water, streaming down endlessly.

With his eyes brimming with tears, he looked as pitiful as could be.

"How could this happen? How could Grandpa suddenly die? Where's Grandpa's body? Where is it?" Son Goku asked through choked sobs and tears.

At this moment, Kashius's expression was frighteningly dark, but he said nothing and only watched Son Goku quietly.

"Grandpa was killed by a bad person. His body was blasted by that bad person until not even a scrap was left."

He still said it. At the very least, it could make Son Goku feel a little better. At the very least... it gave him a target for revenge.

"So, Wukong, we have to become stronger, even more powerful. Only then can we avenge Grandpa."

Kashius looked at Son Goku with a serious expression, took a deep breath, and spoke slowly.

Son Gohan's death hurt him deeply too, but what could he do? It had already happened.

Little Wukong was simple-minded and never doubted the truth of what had happened. He had always believed his grandpa had been killed by enemies, so he had to become even stronger in order to avenge him one day.

After that, Kashius was suddenly startled by Son Goku's innocent tone.

"So, Kashius... little brother... can we clean up this wrecked mess now?"

Kashius: "..."

To be honest, Kashius was already in the terminal stage of laziness. There was no cure.

Aside from training, all he did was train.

Forget doing chores—even the food he ate was caught by little Wukong for him. He was so lazy that, uh, there was no need to go into detail.

Still, because of that, Kashius's combat strength was just a tiny bit higher than little Wukong's. However, also because Kashius had influenced him by training from childhood, little Wukong was not only stronger than he had been in the original work, but had also gained an initial grasp of how to use the Kikoho.

But when it came to ki, since Kashius had never explained it to him in detail, he did not really understand the thing. You could say he half-understood it.

Still, if Kashius's combat strength was 100, then little Wukong's was at least 80, even if it was not 90.

By that measure, on the current Earth, he could be considered an expert.

"Hey, Wukong!"

Kashius adjusted his tone and spoke to little Wukong with a serious look.

"Mm? What is it?" Little Wukong blinked his big eyes and looked at Kashius in confusion.

"I want to... I want to go out for a walk!"

"Sure. Remember to bring back food tonight."

Faced with little Wukong's innocent reply, Kashius was so angry he wanted to rush over and give a certain idiot a vicious beating.

"No, I mean I'm leaving this place. I want to go outside and take a look around, travel a bit! Not just walk around in the forest!"

Kashius sat on a rock and looked at the sun slowly rising into the sky.

"You're leaving here? Leaving the forest?" Son Goku was a little shocked and confused, the cowlick on his forehead swaying back and forth, painfully eye-catching.

"Yeah, Wukong. The world is so big. I think it's time I went out and saw it."

"Mm, okay. I'll wait here for you to come back." Little Wukong looked at Kashius and said with a solemn expression.

"Wukong, if you run into a girl in the future, leave with her. If you follow her, it'll be easier for me to find you later."

"But remember, you can't tell her I was the one who told you to go with her. Got it?"

When Kashius heard that little Wukong planned to wait here for him to come back, he was scared stiff.

"Mm, okay. If I run into the girl Grandpa talked about, I'll follow her."

"Good! Then I'm leaving!"

Watching Kashius gradually disappear into the distance, little Wukong seemed to think of something and shouted, "Little brother! Don't you want to put on clothes before you go?"

In the distance, Kashius, who had been leaping back and forth through the trees, froze on the spot. Then, with a bang, he planted straight into the ground.

Kashius: "I'd like to ask, Author, do you have a knife..."