บท 149: Ch. 149: Immortal Master Raika
"No."
"Just train him for a few days."
"No."
"Mistress has given her order."
"I don't care."
"You sit here doing nothing, not living, not dying, for all eternity. You have nothing to lose." The girl in front of the young Yardratian reminded him.
"And nothing to gain." He answered.
"Actually, I lied." The girl admitted. "If you refuse, you will die."
"Threats? Really?"
The girl shrugged in response. "Do you even care whether you train him or not? What does it matter to you if a universe that you have nothing to do with is destroyed? He'll never be able to kill you, after all."
The Yardratian bit his lip for a moment before giving the girl a sharp nod. Almost immediately after getting the affirmative, she disappeared like smoke. "Spirit form, huh? Trusts me that little... But she seemed to be rather invested in this young man. Maybe he'll be worth my time..." He muttered to himself, a small smile playing across his lips. "I wonder if those girls would become angry with me if he somehow died during my training? I suppose that's a bridge that I'll cross if it comes to it."
...
Goku blasted forward towards the life signs that he was sensing when suddenly, they became further away, Not much further, mind you, but noticeable enough. Confused, Goku paused mid-air for a moment before shrugging it off. blasting forward once more. Then, the same thing happened again.
"What the? YAAAH!" Even more confused, Goku decided to do what he always did when faced with adversity. Rush through it headfirst by force. With all his might, Goku blasted forward. Once. Twice. Five times. Ten, he kept going.
"You're an idiot, you know. You can't escape from a Spatial Area with brute force. Especially not at that weak level." Suddenly, Goku found himself passing a tall man with pink skin and a large head. The man's clothes seemed strange to Goku, but this was an alien planet, after all.
"So you're the one doing this?" Goku asked, stopping in front of the alien after being teleported backwards again. He immediately put his guard up. This man's energy was strange... Goku could sense it, but he couldn't sense the bottom of it at all, and the weirdest part was how perfectly controlled it was, despite being so dense.
The man shrugged casually. "Welcome to Yardrat. I am Raika."
"Why are you trying to keep me here?" Goku asked the man.
"You impressed me, defeating Frieza, Goku. I've decided to become your teacher. Temporarily, at least." The man explained to Goku.
"What?" Goku exclaimed, surprised. "How do you know my name? And that I defeated Frieza?" Nobody had been on Namek when it exploded. Perhaps King Kai, Shay, and a few others were capable of watching the fight remotely, but they'd have to know about it in order to see it. How did this guy know about him?
"You're not going to find anything too useful if you go to that town." Raika changed the subject, gesturing toward the general area that contained the people that Goku had been going toward, "Perhaps they have deteriorated versions of my old teachings, but the chances of you actually learning those techniques..." He trailed off, shrugging once more. "Your choice. I'll give you five days to leave this area. Or at least find yourself on the right track, I don't particularly care." With that, the Yardratian vanished without a trace.
"So I need to get out of here, huh?" Goku didn't really know what he thought about the strange guy, but the fact remained that he needed to leave the designated space one way or another, so he decided to not think about what followed. "Man, I miss Chichi... and Gohan and Hanna, too." looking around, Goku thinks on his next move, before he makes his decision. "Man, I'm really bad at stuff like this. I'd rather have something to punch." He mutters, flying into the air.
His decision was pretty simple. Goku flew as high up as he could, holding his breath in the upper atmosphere before attempting to pass over the invisible barrier, only to find himself teleported back again. "So... no way to go over it, huh? How about under!?" With a shout, Goku begins digging deep into the dirt toward the barrier. The moment that he passed it, the air seemed to disappear from Goku's lungs as he suddenly found himself buried alive, no space to move, and not even any air to breathe. Goku immediately goes into a panic and begins desperately climbing toward the surface with all of his might, but it's no use. He's too deep underground. 'Am I... going to die like this!?' Goku can't help but think as he quickly begins to run out of air in his lungs. "I... WON'T...!" Goku exclaims as his mind went blank. Out of sheer desperation, Goku's aura changes, becoming denser and rougher as his hair turns golden. "KAMEHAMEHA!" With a shout that takes the entire remainder of the air in Goku's lungs, Goku unleashed the strongest Kamehameha he can muster with whatever energy he has left. Then, everything went black for him as he lost consciousness.
...
"Alright, so there's no way to get around it by going up, and I'm not about to try that again, that's for sure." It'd been an hour since Goku'd woken up, inside of a hole so deep that he could barely see the sky from inside it, and he'd just finished eating lunch in his spaceship. He'd had the idea to use it to get out of the teleporting space, but he found that every time he tried to start it, a timer would appear instead. According to the timer, the ship wouldn't be flying anywhere for the next year and a half or so. "That's it!"
Suddenly, Goku had an epiphany. Reverting the ship back to its capsule form, he sat down cross legged near the center of the teleporting area.
...
'Finally.'
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