"Kakarot..." Bardock murmured, then paused for a moment. "Fine, I promise you. I will fight for you. As for whether I can get this damned championship, I make no guarantees."
"Good, it's a deal then."
Ino leaned down as the North Kai whispered a few words to her. she feigned a sudden realization.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten. Mr. Bardock, your son indeed isn't here, but your daughter-in-law and grandson are."
Bardock: "???"
After his soul awakened, not only was his son still alive, but now what? He even had a grandson?
"Let's go, follow me to take a look. consider it a family reunion. By the way, take this. This was preserved by Old Berry all this time." Ino handed him that very distinctive red bandana.
Bardock tied on the red bandana. Coupled with his taciturn nature and unyielding tenacity, he really did have a bit of that First Blood John Rambo vibe.
Ino led him to find Chi-Chi and Gohan.
At this time, Chi-Chi was still earning money with Gohan. The Grand Kai had many books like Earth Ancient History and Earth Paleontology available for exchange with credit points. She wanted to give her son more knowledge, so she was incredibly busy every day. Gohan, to tell the truth, had no interest in fighting or martial arts competitions. He didn't want to see his mother working so hard, so he had been helping out all along.
The Ox-King had come over to help for a while, but Chi-Chi, disliking her own father's clumsy hands and feet—claiming he wasn't material for delicate work—had chased him away.
The lecherous Master Roshi also wanted to come and help, but likewise, he was sent flying by an iron pan.
However, when Krillin's matches ended, he would come over to help.
Chi-Chi did not refuse this.
Today was also a busy day. Krillin had finished a new round of preliminaries early and came to help the mother and son. He was just bowing his head to wash dishes when a burst of fierce killing intent suddenly emerged. He turned his head abruptly.
"Ya?" Gohan had, at any rate, been trained by Hinata for a while. He now had a battle power of a thousand or so and similarly sensed the abnormal ki. His action of turning his head was only a beat slower.
First came astonishment, followed by disbelief.
This appearance was?
"Gohan, move faster! The customers out front are waiting for... for?" Chi-Chi poked her head out of the kitchen and unexpectedly saw Bardock standing at the door.
"Goku?! No... who are you?? Why do you...?"
Bardock paid her no mind. His majestic frame crouched down as he looked Son Gohan in the eye: "Child, what is your name?"
Son Gohan subconsciously looked back at his mother. Chi-Chi had a face full of shock and hadn't reacted yet, so Gohan could only press his palms together and bow: "Unc..."
Ino coughed once: "Call him Grandpa."
"Oh, hello Grandpa. My name is Son Gohan."
What kind of name is that? Bardock looked toward Ino.
"Let me introduce you all. It's a long story. This gentleman beside me with the halo over his head is named Bardock. He is a Saiyan, and he is Goku's father... This is Chi-Chi. She is Goku's—or as you call him, Kakarot's—wife. This child is named Son Gohan, their son. As for why he is called Son Gohan... it should be to commemorate the old man who adopted Goku. Goku always regarded that old man as his own grandfather."
Strictly speaking, the martial artist Son Gohan was also Master Roshi's disciple, and at the same time, the Ox-King's senior brother. Chi-Chi, as the Ox-King's daughter, was actually a generation below Son Goku. Fortunately, people of the martial world didn't care about these things; everyone addressed each other as they saw fit.
Bardock pointed at Krillin to the side: "Who is this bald guy?"
This bald guy... Ino weighed her words. The timing and occasion of Krillin's appearance were slightly off. Being beside someone else's daughter-in-law and grandson at this very moment... it was hard not to invite a misunderstanding.
"Uh... this is Krillin. He is Goku's good friend."
Bardock deepened his tone, repeating: "Good friend?"
Ino chose to use her own reputation to vouch for Krillin: "They are good brothers who share life and death."
Among Saiyans, those like Bardock and Gine who came together because of love were the extreme minority. Most would just have a go when the mood struck, then hand the children over to professional teams within the clan for raising and training. The affection between parents and children was nearly zero. By comparison, Bardock was the Saiyan who valued family the most.
He rubbed Son Gohan's hair.
Gohan would be able to become a scholar in the future, so his IQ was not low. The relationship before him wasn't complicated. He raised his head, his eyes holding curiosity, and called out "Grandpa" again in a low voice. This time, the "Grandpa" was completely different from the polite title used before.
Bardock was a Saiyan after all. He looked Gohan up and down: "This child is a bit weak. If my body is to participate in high-intensity combat, I need a period of recovery training. Let this child train together with me, alright?"
He seemed to be asking Ino, but he was actually soliciting Chi-Chi's opinion.
When facing her husband or her own father, Chi-Chi could say that Gohan didn't need training. However, as a daughter-in-law facing her father-in-law, she couldn't be that forceful.
Ino took two steps back, signaling I'm not getting involved in your family affairs. Krillin was also very silent at this moment.
Chi-Chi thought for a moment: "Alright then."
As long as the adult agreed, Son Gohan's personal opinion didn't need to be considered at all.
Ino first took Bardock to participate in a round of preliminaries.
The opponent was very average. Even though Bardock had just awakened and couldn't even display thirty percent of his full strength, he could easily defeat the opponent.
Pikkon encountering the Fourth Raikage was entirely a dirty trick played by the West Kai to strike at the morale of the North Galaxy. Speaking seriously, these strong individuals wouldn't meet in the preliminaries.
After letting Bardock complete the preliminaries and obtain the qualification for subsequent matches, Ino took them to her residence on the Grand Kai's Planet.
They arrived in front of a giant device that looked like an oven.
This was the gravity room Ino had commissioned Amado Sanzu to build for her. In its limit state, it could reach 100 times gravity.
There were three doors in front of the "Giant Oven," representing three rooms. Inside, they corresponded to 10 times gravity, 50 times gravity, and 100 times gravity respectively.
Ino's attitude toward this thing was just like her attitude toward gym memberships and treadmills in her past life: train for two days, then put it on the shelf to gather dust.
When the Konoha delegation came over, it wasn't clear if it was Hinata or Shizune who mentioned it, but the news of the super gravity training room spread from one to ten, and ten to a hundred.
Ninjas emphasized tactical combat—analyzing enemy intelligence and then delivering a fatal blow. They didn't have much interest in this kind of super gravity training.
Might Guy and Rock Lee, master and disciple, were different. Guy-sensei threw a tantrum and rolled on the ground, insisting on training here. He even asked Inoichi to come out and help plead his case.
Ino really couldn't refuse the request out of courtesy, so she could only let these two in. Before letting them in, she even instructed them to exercise only in the 10 times gravity room and not to go to the other two rooms.
Coming in to check today, there was no one in the 10 times room at all. Obviously, they had gone to the room next door.
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