Dragon Ball World

Ye Bai slowly opened his eyes and raised a hand to shield them. A ray of sunlight shone down, painfully stinging his eyes. He noticed that something was wrong with his hand—it was tiny. He got to his feet and carefully looked around. Towering trees surrounded him, and not far away, a thin wisp of smoke slowly rose into the air. Looking down at his hand again, he saw that it was clearly a child's hand.

"What's going on? Where is this? Wasn't I already dead?" A clear, childish voice rang in his ears.

"My voice... Did I transmigrate?" Ye Bai thought. He remembered that he had just finished working overtime and was standing by the roadside late at night, scrolling through his phone while waiting for the lights to change. Suddenly, he heard a series of crackling sounds. He turned toward the source and saw a blinding expanse of white headlights—a dimensional-travel artifact had smashed through the guardrail and charged straight at him.

Before transmigrating, Ye Bai had been a nobody with none of the three burdens: no mortgage, no car loan, and no kids. "I just handed in my resignation not long ago. I was supposed to be free in a couple of days. Damn it, I haven't even deleted my browsing history yet!"

Ye Bai's helpless, furious roar echoed through the forest, startling the birds nesting there into scattering through the sky.

In the yard of a house in the distance, a crab-haired boy turned around, scratched his head, and looked toward the sound. "What was that? Is someone in the forest?"

The crab-haired boy set down the wooden post in his hands and quickly bounded toward the source of the noise.

Looking at his tiny, childish hands, Ye Bai said, "Fine, I transmigrated. But why did I have to transmigrate into a child?" Then he looked down. He was wearing nothing, and his little brother was swinging freely below. "Good thing I didn't transmigrate and change sex. Some people transmigrate and even end up changing genders." Ye Bai shuddered.

"System? Little System? System Daddy? System Grandpa?" Ye Bai looked around the godforsaken place and called out softly.

"Holy crap, I don't even have the transmigrator's cheat. I don't even know what world I've transmigrated into."

"If it's a peaceful era or ancient times, that'd be fine. In a peaceful era, I could still survive. In ancient times, I could learn from Li Bai, write poems, and tease some ancient girls. Hehehe~" Ye Bai thought with a lewd grin.

A disturbance came from nearby, and then a figure bounded through the distant trees toward him.

"Holy crap, leaping across rooftops and walls? Is this a martial arts world?"

"I'm screwed. I wonder if I have any talent for martial arts. Do I have a chance to find a master and learn?" Before Ye Bai had time to think for long, the newcomer had already leaped down from a tree into an open patch not far away and stared at his lower half.

Ye Bai's eyes went wide as he looked at the newcomer. Crab-like hair, a round face, huge eyes, a blue martial arts uniform, and a dark brown tail swaying behind his butt. "I'm done for. I transmigrated into the Dragon Ball world without a cheat."

Son Goku looked at the naked male human child about his own age and said, "Who are you? Why are you here? Why don't you have a tail?"

Ye Bai hurriedly looked behind his own butt. "I'm completely screwed. I didn't even transmigrate into a Saiyan."

Ye Bai turned to Son Goku and said, "Hello. I can't remember anything. I don't know why I'm here either. When I opened my eyes, I was suddenly in this place for no reason."

"And not everyone has a tail. You're a Saiyan, so you grow one."

Son Goku scratched his head, tilted it, and smiled at Ye Bai. "Hahaha, really? I haven't met anyone besides Grandpa before."

Ye Bai looked at the somewhat dim-witted boy in front of him and asked, "What's your name? Why are you living in a place like this?"

"My name is Son Goku." He pointed at the smoke rising in the distance. "My home is over there. I heard someone yelling in the forest, so I came to take a look."

"Oh, hahaha, that was just me getting too excited and accidentally making a noise." Ye Bai scratched his head.

A rumbling growl suddenly came from Son Goku's stomach.

Clutching his belly, Son Goku said to Ye Bai with some panic, "I'm so hungry. I have to go back. I grilled a fish earlier, and I haven't taken it off yet."

Then Son Goku turned and rushed back toward his home, his figure bouncing through the trees and gradually disappearing from sight.

Ye Bai stretched out his right hand toward Son Goku as though trying to grab something. His mouth opened and closed before he called in that direction, "I'm not done talking yet! Can you take me with you?!"

Ye Bai helplessly lowered his arm and slowly walked in that direction, on the verge of tears. Fallen leaves and dirt crunched beneath his feet, along with the occasional small stone, and the reality of it all—along with the sharp pain of gravel pricking his soles—felt painfully vivid.

"I really transmigrated. And it's the Dragon Ball world. No cheat, no old grandpa, no system... what a hellish start."

"How am I supposed to survive? The early Dragon Ball world should be okay. As a human, if I work hard enough, I can barely stay alive. But what about the later stages? I wonder if the Dragon Balls can grant a wish to turn me into a Saiyan."

"If they can, maybe I can still look forward to the future. If they can't, then what am I supposed to do? Sigh, I'll just take things one step at a time."

Ye Bai crawled out of a clump of bushes, naked and looking utterly bedraggled. Seeing the small path before him and the house in the distance, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Good thing it wasn't far. Otherwise, I'd be the first transmigrator to die in a forest on the very first day after transmigrating."

Ye Bai slowly walked into the yard and called toward the house, "Son Goku!"

Son Goku set down the three-meter-long grilled fish in his hands, looked toward the yard, and slowly ran out when he saw Ye Bai.

Son Goku came up to Ye Bai and said, "Oh, it's you."

"Why aren't you wearing clothes? You have a willy. Grandpa said people with willies are boys."

Ye Bai rolled his eyes at Son Goku. "I don't even know how I got here. The moment I opened my eyes, I was naked in this place."

"Also, my name is Ye Bai. Or you can call me Xiaobai. Can you lend me some clothes?" Ye Bai asked Son Goku awkwardly.

"Sure, but all my clothes are the same. Grandpa prepared lots of similar training uniforms for me before."

"Ye Bai, wait here. I'll go get them." Son Goku turned and ran into the house.

Before long, Son Goku came back out carrying a stack of blue training uniforms and handed them to Ye Bai.

Ye Bai took the clothes, thanked Son Goku, and began pulling them on. Then he suddenly stopped and said to Son Goku, "Uh, Goku, do you have any underwear?"

Son Goku looked at Ye Bai blankly. "What's underwear?"

"It's the small kind of pants you wear inside your trousers to cover your willy." As Ye Bai spoke, he gestured out the shape of underwear for Goku.

"Oh, no." Goku scratched his head as he answered.

Ye Bai remembered. It seemed that Son Goku really hadn't worn underwear as a child, and he often appeared naked on screen. But as a Chinese person, Ye Bai still felt very uncomfortable not wearing underwear. Still, he had no room to be picky now, so he obediently put on the pants.

"Goku, I saw you bouncing through the trees in the forest earlier. Was that martial arts? Can you teach me?"

"Yeah, my grandpa taught me. If you want to learn, I can teach you."

"Once you learn, someone can fight with me." Son Goku looked at Ye Bai expectantly.

Ye Bai's mouth twitched. "Saiyans really are battle-crazed, even Goku when he was little."

Ye Bai came back to his senses and said to Goku, "Sure. Teach me first, though—I can't beat you right now." Then his expression turned serious. "Goku, please teach me from now on."