Bab 4: Chapter 4
It's been six months since I started my training with Erlang, and I have to say that this is hard as hell! For the past few months, after he taught me how to sense energy (which had my nerdy heart beating rapidly), he alternated between having me meditate and fight him. The beatings I received from him was ridiculous! My fighting experiences came from mostly street fights and tussles I got in with assholes. I mean, I have Turles' fighting experience as well but, my body will try to respond to an action at the same time as I try to do something different, causing a delay of action. Hence why I continue to do meditation training.
Speaking of my body, Being a girl isn't as weird as I thought it would be. Then again, I'm still a child so maybe that has something to do with it. Though having a tail is super convenient! It's like having a fifth limb! I do really miss my junior though. So that's number one on my list of things to get done. Find the dragonballs and get my dick back! Also Erlang is strong as shit! I'm pretty sure if he were to fight Frieza he could beat him up until his final form! Though that last form would probably trash him from what I can see (Thank you ki sensing!). A heavy twack sound was heard as something heavy impacted my head.
"Ow!" I yelled, rubbing my head from my cross legged position. Erlang stood over me with a thick stick, the object of my pain for the last few months.
"You were distracted, if you want to get to the level of power that you need to survive, then you need to concentrate!" He said with a slight frown on his face. Happy-go-lucky Erlang doesn't exist when he's in teaching mode. When he's not teaching, he returns back to the always happy him. It's a mystery how he switches just like that.
"I'm sorry, it's just that it's getting harder to purify my energy. It's like this is the best it can get." I said, looking down. I was kinda disappointed in myself. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong, otherwise I would be able to keep going with this purification but, It's like there's a wall keeping me from going any further. Erlang sighed, causing me to look at him as he sat beside me. He's been doing that a lot lately, as if something was weighing down on him.
"I know you're trying as hard as you can but, you don't have a lot of time left, and neither do I." He said, the last part was in a whisper but I still heard him.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked. Clearly, he's hiding something from me. Now that I think about it, I don't know hardly anything about him. The only thing I really know is his name and that he's on this planet to get away.
"I mean that, I recently looked at your souls and noticed that your souls are fusing faster than before. You have less than four months left before complete fusion of your souls." The only sounds being made now was the wind blowing through the trees. The more than six months of time I had just got shortened down to less than four, which is quite the mood killer, though that's not what I meant.
"That's not what I asked you and you know it." I stated, giving him the meanness look that a five year old could give. Then again, this five year old has killed more people than most war veterans. You know, mass genocide and all, which doesn't really bother me as much as it would have had I come here three year's earlier. At this point, I've killed my fair share of people and that was before I had the benefit of Saiyan adrenaline to keep me distracted. But that's a story for another day. Erlang leaned back until he was staring at the stars through the canopy of trees.
"I'm dying." Oh. Well shit. When did this start? I've been able to sense energy for a while and his energy hasn't fluctuated yet. I can't claim to be the best at sensing but, even I would notice if someone is dying unless…
"How?"
"Old age. I may look young but I've been alive for a few millennia. I've seen civilizations rise and fall. I remember a time before the Planet Trade Organization even existed. I've fought strong people, improved weak people, I even met a few Gods along the way. I was content, mostly. I just wanted to find someone I could pass on my legacy to. Then I found someone who interested me. A young child with two very strong souls in her body. One soul by itself was stronger than any soul I had ever seen in my life, and the girl had two! I thought 'this might be the one. Someone whose soul is strong enough to handle my legacy.' But I fear that I won't be able to get you strong enough to survive the merge before I die. I don't have a lot of time left." Wow, that's a lot to take in. As he spoke, I could see the contentment but also the sadness and loneliness too. I can't imagine living that long. Hell, in my previous life a young black man like me would be lucky to make it to our forties and he lived for millennia! That's a lot.
"How long do you have?" I asked
"A few months, a few days, it could be a few minutes but I'm going to make sure you live long enough to hand over my legacy to you." Damn that's not a lot. He could literally drop dead on my right now. Erlang sat up quickly, startling the hell out of me, and rolled his shoulders with a smile.
"Alright enough with the depressing stuff. Let's get back to purifying your energy!" He said, happy Erlang was back.
"Okay so how am I supposed to do this? Cause I'm still kinda stuck." Erlang looked me in my eyes as if thinking of something before a metaphorical lightbulb went off.
"Remember when you told about that show that's similar to this world?" He asked and I nodded. What? Mad because I told him what I know? The guy can see my fucking soul! At this point I'm sure he already knew what I was telling him before I told him. Besides, if I can change something, then I will, which is why I'm gonna change a lot of the things that happened in the story.
"I think you have a predetermined misconception about Ki that is limiting your ability to use it for other things. So I want you to throw away everything that you know about Ki." He said. It made sense. In my head, ki lets one punch holes into mountains and throw super cool energy attacks at enemies with a scream. Erlang went into full teacher mode.
"Ki is life force. It's the energy that makes up life. When you use it, you are basically using up your life force. So why do we do it? Because the body will not allow you to use up a certain amount. How does it do that? The body has a filter that stops a certain amount of energy from being used. As you get stronger and the more Ki your body can hold, the more the filter will allow to get through. However, there is a way to bypass the filter, which will start to burn your actual lifeforce, which will slowly break down the person's body. The filter is also there to keep an abundant amount of your lifeforce from entering a body that can't handle it. That is called a limiter. Ki or lifeforce is produced by the soul in the body. The larger the soul, the more energy is produced. Which is actually why your two large souls are a problem for you. If your souls were to merge, the amount of Ki it would produce would outright destroy the filter, the limiter, and the body altogether, unless your body is strong enough." He listed off. I understand this is all important but, It's as bad as school was! If we weren't talking about something as cool as Ki, I would be bored out of my mind! I raised my hand to stop him real quick.
"I understand this is important but, what does that have to do with purification?" He laughed a little before going back to his teacher mode.
"You sound just like my first son!" He said. First son? As in there are more? You know what, I don't have time for all of these extra thoughts.
"Anyway, in order to push past the filter, you would have to use your will power. But how does willpower work? Ki follows the will of a person, no matter what knowledge they have. The Saiyans have no clue about techniques to sense or feel Ki yet, they are able to use Ki for various skills beyond what others can do. So how do they use moves like the energy ball you used to turn yourself into that giant beast without the ability to sense energy? Because they willed it to happen. You think of Ki as a tool when you should think of it like a limb." He said. I sat there dumbfounded by his logic. Because he was right! There are very few races that know how to sense Ki yet just about every race in the multiverse can use Ki to some degree to do some crazy things.
Willpower huh? If I think of it like a limb then instead of trying to grasp a hidden energy then I might be able to do something. It's like, washing in a lake. I willed my energy to look like me and I imagined myself scrubbing it clean, like a mother would a child. I could feel it getting cleaner! It's getting clean faster than it did using my other method.
"Alright, once you get that done, I'll teach you one of my most favorite techniques. It's something that might just help with your situation." He said. I opened my confused eyes to his bright smile. Seeing my confusion, He held his hands together and he suddenly split. I was shocked! I forgot that Tien did this once before but I thought it was something that was specific to his people. Standing in front of me were two Erlangs, both with equal shit-eating grins. The Multiform Technique! I couldn't hide the wide grin from splitting my face. I couldn't wait!
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
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