Age 752.
Dai was travelling around the world to become stronger in order to participate in the world martial art tournament sees a huge pillar that was extending towards the sky.
"Goku." Then Dai heard a voice of a small child who was wearing traditional clothing yell out as he runs towards him to hug him.
Dai not knowing who the boy was punched him in the face before the boy was able to make contact with him.
"I am not Goku. I am Dai." He said as the boy fell to the ground with a purple eye.
"Wahhhhh." The child started to cry before forcing himself to hold back his tears.
"Upa. What happened?" then a tall muscular man who was wearing similar clothing to the child comes out from a small tent nearby because of the cry.
"Goku?" The man said as he looked at Dai.
"No. You are not Goku." The man said as the carefully examined Dai.
"Back off. You are not welcome to our ancestor's land you Goku imposter." The man said as he took a fighting stance.
"This is going to be fun," Dai said as he smiled and he prepares for a fight. He felt that the man is stronger than most people that he faced during his training and was getting excited.
He leapt forward and kicked in the face blowing the man away.
The man crashed into the pillar at a high speed.
He seems to be injured but still got up.
Dai smiled as he thought that this is going to be better than he expected.
However, he was disappointed as the man was unable to keep standing still and fell to his knee as he continued to struggle to get up.
"Stop. Don't hurt my father anymore." the little boy said as he stopped between the way of Dai and the injured man.
"Upa. Run he is dangerous." The man said to the boy who shakes his head as he stand still.
Why are they acting like that do they seriously think I am going to kill both of them? I am just going to break all the bones in that guy's body and leave the child alone. Dai thought in his head.
But he immediately realized that it was not a bad thing since he could use this as an opportunity to get information about Goku.
"..... Fine. But both of you have to tell me what Goku did here." Dai said.
"Kill me. I am not going to reveal the location of the person who risked his life to save me and my son." The man said as he used all of his strength to fight Dai.
He knew he could not win against Dai so he thought that he should at least try to stall so that Upa could run.
"I think you are misunderstanding. I am not looking for him because of impure motives. You can see that I am related to him just by my face alone. I am just curious about the things that he is during in the time that I didn't see him." Dai said as he immediately caught on that his threat would not probably work on the two people.
So he decided on another method. Pretend to be Goku's ally to squeeze the information from the two people.
"Goku's relative?" The boy asked as he looked at Dai.
Dai was someone who looked exactly like Goku apart from his clothing.
He was wearing a black shirt and black pants with a white belt on his wrist. It kind of resembles a Gi but it was not a Gi. The reason why Dai was wearing this clothing was it was a cheap clothing option that allows him to move freely.
After all, prioritizing his movements and increasing his combat capabilities are the most important thing to him.
"Are you sure that you are not his enemy?" the man asked Dai again.
"If I was his enemy why would I be willing to talk to you now? I would just use your son as a hostage to force you to talk. After all, he seems weak." Dai said.
However, the reason why he didn't use the child as a hostage is simply that misinformation can be given when someone is not being genuine.
And also the fact that having a lot of people hating you can potentially lead you to your downfall. It is better for people to think you are a good guy that they can trust rather than a dangerous person that they need to be careful of.
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After a while, the man was talking about how Goku saved him and his son a while ago while being treated by his son.
The one attack that Dai used on him sent him flying into the pillar and broke his right arm so he was wrapped in bandages around the area.
"Training from the guardian of the land, Korin?" Dai said in an interest.
"Yes. By climbing this tower that stretches to heaven." The man named Bora said.
"Is he really strong?" Dai asked.
"Yes. Goku was struggling with the bad guy before he climb up the tower. And after that, he become really strong and beat that guy without any problem." Upa said to Dai.
"Do you need to do anything special to climb this tower?" Dai asked the two.
"You can climb the tower if you want at any time. I even used to try climbing the tower in my younger days. I failed but it still was a great memory." Bora said to Dai.
"After seeing Goku succeed I think I should try climbing it again in the future," Bora said as he smiled.
"I am also going to try climbing it tok when I become older and stronger," Upa said to Dai.
"Climbing the tower can make you stronger," Dai said as he smiled.
He then looked at the tower that seems to be endlessly extending towards the sky.