The next day, in the early morning, Goku and Roshi stood in a clearing facing each other.
It was time for that sparing match. Goku's excitement could be barely contained as the boy had been waiting for this for several years!
A white flaming aura layer surrounded the boy as he stopped holding back, and his Ki started to climb.
When Roshi sensed that, he was slightly taken aback.
"That's some energy you have there! I guess I simply can't hold back." The old man removed his shirt, and his muscles inflated.
At that moment, his Ki spiked as well. The pair took identical stances, using the turtle style.
"Let's go!"
Goku kicked off as his foot broke the ground and rushed to deliver his fist.
Roshi immediately showed his countless years of experience as he masterfully dodged it, even with his inflated body size.
The old man dodged before trying to punch, but Goku simply floated away.
"Oh? impressive utilisation of that technique!"
The old man praised Goku for using flying in combat. He wants to see his rival's face when he sees his student learning this art by himself.
Goku swiftly floated to face to engage in hand-to-hand combat, which slowly shifted into higher gear.
Their exchange started to get faster and faster.
The boy's eyes slowly changed to cyan instead of black. His Ki started to increase rapidly, and Roshi slowly started to lose ground.
'So that's what it was… some sort of transformation?'
The old man immediately took his distance and assumed Kamehameha's stance.
When Goku saw this, he jumped back and did the same.
"Goku! Show me your Kamehameha!" The old man pulled his hands back and started to charge his beam.
"Right!"
The Saiyan did the same.
Both of them started to charge.
""Ka–Me–Ha–Me—""
Blue balls of energy gathered in their hands before pushing forward and releasing the energy waves towards a collision.
"""HAAA!!!""
The beams collided, creating a beam struggle.
Roshi did this to make Goku feel that 'pressure' he wanted.
Upon collision, Goku felt that pressure as if he were getting pushed into a corner.
'It appears Roshi is stronger than me at his max power!'
As he felt that pressure, he started tapping into his 'inner power', which was all it took for that to happen!
That moment…
'The Gates' for his inner power opened. He mentally visualised this moment long ago, but this time, his body listened to him, and a reaction happened.
His hair spiked and turned gold.
At that moment, his aura ignited, becoming a proper flaming, not the simple white layer.
At the same time, his power magnified and dwarfed Roshi many times.
Goku's Kamehameha wave consumes the old man's, sending it flying into the distance and exploding in the sky, destroying whatever clouds were there.
"...Incredible… what is this?"
The old man slowly lowered his hands and looked dumbfounded at the golden boy who was struggling to keep the transformation going.
Before he could say anything, the boy collapsed, and the transformation was gone.
"...amazing… his power increased severalfold, no tens if not twenty times!?" Turtle Hermit dismissed his bulk up.
He slowly walked over to passed-out Goku.
'It appears I need to send him to Korin. He might have the means to help this boy properly control this transformation.'
Roshi placed his hand on the boy. His eyes slightly widened as he sensed that boy's base power increased as well!
'I see, so it was something akin to a limit breaker?'
The hermit picked the boy and then proceeded to take him back to his house.
~~~
"Ugh…"
Goku opened his eyes. He quickly realised that he was in Roshi's house.
For a second, he pondered what happened. How did he end up here? The last thing he remembers…
His eyes widened as he recalled his transformation!
He swiftly left his bed and inspected himself.
His base power… doubled? Somewhere around that! At the same time, he sensed that his 'inner gates', which he brands as inner power, had been opened.
That means there is nothing holding him back!
The boy swiftly left the house and took some distance.
Once away from it, his switch flipped, and his body bulked. His eyes turned cyan, and his hair spiked before turning gold.
A flaming aura ignited as he easily transformed into Super Saiyan.
"A-Amazing! I feel so light now!" The boy inspected himself and performed some casual exercises.
He realised that his power might have increased, but it was not fifty times. It was much less. Considering that his body is not mature enough and his base Ki is very small, it should become around fifty times by the time his control over it increases.
Honestly, after achieving this form, he can sense that after passing those 'gates', he is walking through a wide wilderness, ready for exploration and to find new limits.
After spending a couple of minutes in this transformation, Goku felt enormous exhaustion as he dismissed it, collapsing on the ground with a head full of sweat and haggard breath.
"...Okay… this is intense… the moment I undid, I felt like someone punched me in the gut."
The boy took several more breaths before calling for his magic to recover himself.
He quickly sensed that his base Ki increased once again.
"Let's see…"
The boy returned to the house and went through his stuff.
He had his dragon balls, a couple of capsules Bulma gave him and, of course, the Scouter.
The boy put it on and then checked his power level.
"... 451… damn…"
The boy removed the scouter as he looked with disbelief.
The last time he clocked his power, it was at 115…
"It appears Super Saiyan will push me towards a certain boundary before I reach a certain plateau…"
The Saiyan mumbled to himself as he placed the scouter back and then returned to the outside. He needed to recollect his magic, but now that his power had increased that much, he should have a wider range of absorption.
After spending a couple of hours doing just that, Roshi was back with tired-looking Yamcha and Krillin.
"You two go rest; I will speak with Goku." The old man sent the two to the house to rest while he walked over to Goku's side.
"Goku, there is not much I can assist you anymore. But, I know a place where you could continue your train.
"There is a tower in the Sacred Land of Korin, and you will need to pass a barren wasteland to reach that place. It will be a good place for you to continue your training." The old man explained this to Goku, who was thinking the same thing at that point.
"...I will go there after I stabilise my new transformation, Master Roshi." The Saiyan boy nodded with a smile.
"Very well, just don't overdo it," the Turtle Hermit replied with a nod before walking to his house.
After that, Goku focused on his training, which he had done before, and that was to stay in Super Saiyan as long as possible.
It was similar to his Oozaru training, where he would sometimes spend the entire day and night in Great Ape form. Now, that was a challenge as he would need to continuously absorb the waves even during the day when the amount the moon was radiating was significantly less, as the celestial body was on the other side of the planet at that specific time.
But in the end, after many trials, he succeeded in multitasking.
So, the Super Saiyan transformation is similar in that regard, maybe even more difficult. After the transformation, his body ends up extremely exhausted, and if he pushes it more than necessary, he could even die because of the multiplier factor of the transformation.
Goku realised that on his second day as Super Saiyan.
The concept is similar to that of a skyscraper. The foundation of a skyscraper is his base power. So, if one wants to have a tall building, one needs a strong foundation.
At this moment, if he goes to Super Saiyan, he uses not only his Ki to transform but also his Ki, which is drained alongside his stamina, to keep the transformation going.
If he drags it more than necessary, he will start damaging himself, which will lead to a zentai boost later on.
Honestly, he is gambling with his life by unlocking this form so early in his life and with so little Ki.
~~~~~~Half a Year Later~~~~~~
Time went on, and Goku's constant training did bear great results. By this point, Turtle Hermit, Yamcha, and Krillin were used to seeing Goku sporting his blond rather than black hair.
It has reached the point that the boy even sleeps in Super Saiyan as he learned to keep it on all the time.
Because of this, his Ki reached high levels. The boy even stopped using the scouter for fear that it would break. As far as he is aware, these old models of scooters don't work beyond 2 thousand.
As Goku passed that limit a couple of months ago.
He did sense that his Ki finally stabilised around 5 thousand as he was using the scouter's benchmark before he stopped using it.
It's his rough estimation, but it should be around that level.
Regardless, now that he is at such a stable level, he can continue with his training!
The Super Saiyan boy jumped from his new tree stump with a flip. He landed close to the house.
"Goku? You already done with your training?" Krillin asked the blonde.
"Yes, my power has stabilised. I think it's time I travel to Korin's tower," Goku said to the bald kid.
"...Oh. I see. Sad to hear that you are leaving." The ex-monk sounded dissapointed.
By this point, Yamcha and Krillin had become close friends with the Saiyan, as Goku helped and gave hints on how to improve Ki's control.
Because of that, they became quite powerful by human standards.
"You guys should visit Korin after you guys graduate this school."
"...I guess…"
"Come now. If you started, you should not stop midway now." The blonde Saiyan grinned as he offered his fist.
Krillin sighed as Goku showed again how lunatic he was.
Reaching Korin's place is extremely difficult, and he has no idea how to fly!
"UGH… Fine!"
The fellow turtle student bumped his fist at Goku's.
"Good. Then I will see you there."
Saiyan waved at Krillin before walking to speak with Yamcha and Master Roshi.
~~~
"Goku, follow me." Master Roshi was already prepared for Goku's departure.
The boy followed his Master to the house.
Inside the house, they went to a storage room where boxes were placed. He opened one of them. Inside the box was a red Gi with the 'Turtle' symbol on it.
"This is for you." The Hermit Turtle pulled out the Gi and offered it to the boy.
"So…cool…" He finally got the classic Goku clothes! But he noticed the colour was slightly darker.
"I was thinking the classic orange, but then I realised that it doesn't fit that well with your Super Saiyan hair. Orange is great, but too much can bloat it."
Goku nodded at his Master.
"Indeed." Regardless, he took the Gi and changed.
Once in new clothes, he swiftly used magic on them, making them grow and adjust if needed. He then improved their durability and made them dirt-free as well!
"...Oh, right!"
The Super Saiyan got an idea!
"He swiftly placed his hand on his chest, then called forth his magic. He created a blue undershirt, blue wristbands, and the iconic weighted shoes.
These clothes were actually weighted clothes that were enchanted to always be heavy.
That means regardless of his power level, he will always have this resistance, which he can use for training!
Training 24/7!
After he was done, he could feel that he was quite sluggish now.
"Hmm? What are those?" Master Roshi walked over and inspected the blue undershirt.
"Weighted clothes."
"....Hohoho…"
"Before you, can you make these for those two?" The old turtle 'smiled' at his graduating student.
"Of course," Goku nodded as he left the house and looked for Krillin and Yamcha.
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…
…
"GOKUUU!!! NOOO!!!" Krillin screamed from the top of his lungs as he got Goku's farewell gift…
~~~~~~Meanwhile~~~~~~
A black portal with dark purple boundaries appeared high above a forest.
A person dropped out of it. Her clothes were unique as she had two earrings, elven-like ears, light blue skin and darker blue hair.
She looked like someone had beaten her and done something to her power as black lightning surrounded her whole frame.
"...Damn… you…Demigra…"
The girl mumbled before falling into the forest below.
A golden blur was rushing through the sky with absurd speed, leaving a trail of gold as it blasted through the ocean surface, creating waves and then blasting through the clouds as if it was having fun.
"There it is!"
The streak of light stopped, revealing itself to be Goku, who was looking at the pillar in the distance.
It was Korin Tower!
The boy was about to land somewhere in the forest to take a break before starting his climbing journey.
After all, climbing the tower is his next training. Weighted clothes make it much more challenging.
But at that moment, his eyes stopped at something in the forest. It stood out quite a bit. It was a crater with a person in the middle of it!
The boy slightly narrowed his eyes. The clothes of this person were quite familiar.
"Is that… a Kai?" The Super Saiyan mumbled to himself as he proceeded to descend to the ground. Upon landing, he dismissed his flaming aura, and his hair became regular blonde.
Goku walked into the crater, getting to the middle, his senses trying to sense anything from the Kai he was seeing lying on its stomach.
He could see that Kai had blue hair.
The boy gently grabbed the Kai and turned it around to see the face.
"N-No way…"
What he was looking at was Aeos… The Ex-Supreme Kai of Time! A female Kai who caused a big tournament with timelines at the stake! In a way…she was the Antagonist of nearly the entire arc until Demigra popped up…
OR Something like that. It has been years since he has watched anything from Dragon Ball, which makes it obvious… As he is living in Dragon Ball at this very moment!
Regardless, The girl in his hands was supposed to be an extremely powerful being, Something only Ultra Instinct Goku could fight.
But all he was sensing from this girl was a weak life force and diminishing Ki.
"…Is she actually dying?"
The boy grabbed her and proceeded to take her out from the crater and then floated into the air and looked around, spotting a lake with a little clearing. Big enough to put his capsule house.
He floated there and dropped his capsule. With a poof, a house appeared. He took her into the house and placed her on a bed.
Then he put his hand on her and started channelling his magic and starting to heal her wounds.
"Interesting… Someone has sealed her powers… or taken her powers?" Goku sensed that there was some sort of seal around her core being.
'It feels extremely dark… or demonic in nature…'
'Whatever it is, this thing is draining Kai's lifeforce, not allowing her to recover.'
The boy pondered for a bit as he dropped on his ass and crossed his hands, pondering what to do.
…
…
…
"Of course… It's kind of easy!"
He stood up, and his right hand glowed white, almost golden; what he had was positive magic mixed with Ki.
Once charged enough, he placed it on the kai girl and started to loosen the seal.
The seal was very strong but not flexible. It was quite easy to overcome it. All he needed to do was turn his energy into something like a needle and then attack the seal.
After a couple of tries, he was successful, and once in the place, he started moulding the demonic energy into a positive one and then channelling it to restore Kai's lifeforce.
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…
…
"AND done! This should stabilise her condition." Goku stood up and stretched out. At that moment, his stomach rumbled loudly.
"YEP! It's time to cook!" The Saiyan rushed from his house towards the lake. It was time to catch a big fish!
The boy didn't notice, but Aeos' eyebrows slightly twitched. The Supreme Kai is rapidly recovering, considering her body is patched up and the seal is weakened. Enough for her to recover.
~~~
"Ugh…" A soft female voice groaned as a pair of blue eyes opened…
"Where am I?" The Supreme Kai looked around. Her eyes slowly scanned her surroundings, but then her nose picked up the smell of food.
"... Someone is cooking…" She slowly moved up.
Her eyes immediately widened as she inspected herself.
"...My injuries… This is magic…" The girl inspected herself. She quickly discerned that it was magic, and then her eyes bulged as she sensed that the seal placed on her was damaged in a… strange way!
"...Someone overpowered Demigra's magic!?!"
But then she scanned it again and quickly concluded that it was not overpowering—more like leeching…
It's another seal on top of Demigra's seal… In other words, a seal that stripped her power is now revitalising her.
It brought a smile to her lips as it was the most interesting way to show a middle finger to the demonic deity…
Aeos slowly stood up and walked towards the doors. Once she opened them, she saw a campfire and a fish being cooked.
"..." Her eyes trembled as she saw someone she did not expect to see.
'...Son… Goku…'
More questions than answers started to pile up… How in Zeno's name can he use Magic? She has never met a variant of Son Goku who can do that!
'And why is he a Super Saiyan?'
The Ex-Supreme Kai of Time shook her head. For now, she will push these questions aside.
"...Are you the one who healed me?" Aeos asked him with a curious tone.
"Oh, you awake. Yes, it was me." He smiled at her and nodded at her question.
"You have my gratitude. May I know your name?" She asked curiously as she walked over and took her seat on the fallen tree trunk.
"Its Son Goku and yours?" He introduced himself as Goku, which only made Aeos' eyes tremble as she realised that she was in some strange timeline. This Goku was far too strong for his age.
For a second, she wondered what year she was in.
"You may call me Aeos."
"Aeos…well Aeos, I tried to remove the seal you have, but It's far too strong, so I made it in a way that it should break on its own in a couple of months." The Saiyan boy swiftly changed the conversation concerning the seal in Aeos' body.
"That Seal has been cast by a very powerful being…I am impressed you were able to touch it at all." The Supreme Kai of Time said with a small, strained smile.
'Well, he is a Saiyan… they make no sense in the first place.'
"Oh, it is strong, but it's magic; it's opposite to Ki. Ki counters Ki, but Magic is much more flexible. I simply attached another seal to it and made it start draining the seal that was draining your life."
"..."
When she heard that, the Kai lady simply massaged her forehead. There were so many things that could have gone wrong, but she will brush it aside for a bit.
"Regardless, you have my thanks." The girl thanked him again before closing her eyes and scanning her reserves of Ki and magic…
She had no magic at all… and her Ki reserves were less than 1% of her regular reserves… In other words… By all means and purposes, if Goku had not found her like this, she would be dead by now.
A resigned sigh escaped from her mouth.
Her eyes slightly became hollow. It had been the same thing over and over again. She protected time, and like always, some evil thing attacked, trying to take it over, almost beating her before she beat it. Time passed, and then she did it again, and again… again…
Even when she passed the torch to her disciple, it still continues…in a long line of evil beings, she has beaten Demigra, a Demon God. In her eyes, it was just another opponent.
She had beaten him before, but then he resurfaced and caught her by surprise, most likely angry that she and her allies beat him last time. The endless cycle of conflict continued.
Well, this time around, he nearly succeeded in killing her.
"...Say… Goku… What do you think of Time?" She asked him a question as she opened her eyes and looked at the Saiyan.
"Time… in what sense?"
"...In general."
"Well, then it's like a river, no? It has a beginning and end like anything else."
"Indeed. But, what do you think about things which repeat themselves over and over again?" She asked him but then decided that it was not worth confusing this battle-obsessed individual.
"Nevermind—"
"It's alright. Instead of thinking long-term, which is something I don't do as there is no need. Living beings, no matter how strong or weak, should only worry about the next day. Because it kind of destroys the sense of wonderment, don't you think?"
He stopped working with spices as he looked at his hand.
"...Wonderment of next day… hmmm…" The Supreme Kai of Time regained some of the life in her eyes as she wondered for a bit.
"I mean, I am quite a good example of it." He said to her with a smirk.
"My Grandpa found me in the mountains. Ever since then, it has been an adventure. I am learning martial arts, learning to control my inborn powers, and then going on an actual adventure to collect magical stones. I do wonder what will happen next."
When Aeos heard that, she slightly snorted. She is well aware of his adventures.
"You are right."
At that moment, her stomach rumbled as well. It was like her body reacted to the fact that she was not giving up.
However, that smirk Goku showed her only made her blush from embarrassment. Here she was showing such an un-majestic side…
"Don't worry, I prepared enough Fish for both of us."
"..."
The retired Supreme Kai of Time didn't say anything. Instead, she simply pretended that nothing had happened in the first place.
~~~
"..."
"..."
After eating, there was a strange silence between the two of us. Aeos had no idea what to say. The girl knows the individual who beat her like the back of her hand. She knows his life and his struggles…
"Since you have no magic at the moment, why don't you absorb magic from outside to loosen the seal?" He opened up as he was drinking his herbal tea after eating the fish.
"...Excuse me?"
She snapped from her thoughts as she looked at him.
"...Absorb magic from outside to weaken the seal."
Kai's left eye went up as she looked confused, or more like looking at him as if he was an idiot.
"...Magic doesn't work like that. You either have it or you don't." She sighed loudly.
"It is the same with regular Ki; you train it, not absorb it," she clarified to him.
"Ehhh? No." Blue energy gathered in his cup as his tea got refilled.
"..."
Aeos looked at that with disbelief.
"...Goku… From who did you learn about magic?" The girl asked with confused disbelief.
"Who? I learned myself after spending days studying a magic ball. Originally, I had no affinity for magic, but I learned to sense it and then absorbed it from outside to power myself."
The Kai looked at him with disbelief.
'Only a Saiyan… only a Saiyan is mad enough to do such a thing…'
After overcoming her disbelief, she laughed for a second.
"Fine. Show me how to do it."
"Alright."
He walked behind her and then placed his hand on her back. The girl looked confused for a second, but then she sensed his Ki flow into her. It expanded from her like a net and started to gather Magic from the air.
"...Impressive control of Ki, no wonder you are Super Saiyan already." The lady, by accident, slipped.
"...Oh, you know my transformation?"
"...Thats… well…I heard legends about this transformation." The Kai tried to wiggle herself out of the small mishap.
Goku decided to give her an olive branch at that moment, and Aeos realised that as well.
"So you are not from Earth, aren't you?" Goku asked with an innocent tone.
"Indeed, same as you." Though she played along as well.
It's like he is collecting dust from the air. Just how long did he train to reach such high control over his Ki?'
Aeos already understood how Goku can use magic without having a proper affinity for it.
He is piggyback magic with his Ki. He did that until he learned to sense magic.
But the hurdle for this…
'Did he learn to wield Ki as a toddler?' the Supreme Kai of Time joked to herself until she realised that it was an actual possibility…
One will never know with these Saiyans…
"Even if we gather magic from the air, the seal is far too powerful to make a difference." She sighed loudly, as the amount they gathered was quite small compared to what held her down.
"You are far too focused on the weight of the seal. Have you realised that what is holding you down is magic? It's not a Ki-based seal.
Magic is far more flexible. For example, do you sense what the seal does?"
Goku didn't even sound distressed while saying that.
"Of course… this seal took all of my magic and is draining my life force."
"Indeed. But it doesn't have anything else. It doesn't have any self-preservatives or defences.
It's a lump of magic pressing on you," he explained to her as he channelled positive Ki energy and shaped more needles, which soon rushed into the magic seal.
"..."
Aeos sensed all of it.
"How can you tell all that?"
"It's the taste of magic. Everyone has those."
One of her eyebrows went up as she wondered how much time he had spent developing an ability like that.
Even she doesn't have such a thing. But then again, she always had large reserves of magic and Ki, there was never a need to develop what he has…
After a while, she regained around 1.5% of her Ki…
They did spend quite a bit of time on this, but it will take her ages to return to where she was before the incident.
"Phew! I am tired. Anyway, I think we should call it a day." Goku lowered his hand from Aeos' back as he sighed in a tired voice.
"...Very well." The Supreme Kai of Time nodded as she closed her eyes.
"Anyway, I will take the couch, and you can keep the bed." He said that while walking to the capsule house and waving his hand.
The blue-haired Kai sensed how he entered the house. Once he had done that, she opened her eyes and looked at her hands.
"This method might work. It's a very unorthodox method, but it does work," Aeos said to herself as she inspected her reserves. Since she is no longer dying, she is regaining her Ki little by little.
But it will take years by this point to get back to her peak.
"Well… for now, I should lay low and not reveal myself; who knows if that freak is watching me?" she mumbled to herself as she stood up and walked to the house.
The moment she entered, her eyes ended up on Goku, who was already asleep.
One of her eyebrows went up as she saw that he was sleeping as Super Saiyan.
'Isn't it supposed to be a temporary transformation?'
The Kai pondered at what she was seeing. As someone who employed Goku's father and Goku's son as her fighters, she has seen plenty of times how they would transform and then dismiss the transformation. But nothing like what she was seeing before her.
~~~
As Goku woke up the next morning, he looked around as he sensed someone in his house. For a second, he wondered who, but then he realised that his life just went from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Heroes real quick.
'Oh well. Well, it appears she is trying to copy my method.'
The Super Saiyan scratched the back of his hair as he walked to get a shower. What he saw was Aeos sitting on his bed, most likely meditating the whole night.
Ten minutes later, Goku was out of the bathroom and walked outside to prepare some food.
Around thirty minutes later, the Supreme Kai was out of the house, but she looked quite annoyed.
"Didn't work?"
He asked her as he sensed annoyance in her Ki.
"No. it did not. I tried several methods. How do you even differentiate air from magic? You made your Ki gather the smallest of magic particles! It's like collecting sand piece by piece!"
The blue-haired Kai sounded like a little girl who was failing in a video game and now ranting to him how it doesn't work…
After her rant, he suggested, "Well, then piggyback magic from a magic object and use it as a reference."
She swiftly lost her annoyed look.
"...That could work."
"It will because that's how I learned to sense." Goku went over and picked up a rock, using outside magic as a power source. He moulded it into a pendant.
"Here."
He walked over to her and gave it to her.
"...My thanks."
She inspected the pendant. It was a simple pendant which looked like a dragon ball with four stars.
The blue-haired Kai placed the pendant on her neck, and the next second, she sensed an increase in her sensory range and depth.
"...Not bad. This will help me."
"Good, I will make breakfast soon, so don't get too busy with your training." He said to her after turning around and walking to the campfire where he was already cooking a boar.
"I won't." She smiled slightly while returning to the house and proceeding to train again.
When she went inside, Goku slightly grimaced.
'I shouldn't get all buddy-buddy with her, considering she doesn't mind killing billions for the sake of balance.'
The Super Saiyan thought to himself as he was having a hard time dealing with his strange emotions. There's no doubt his previous life is playing a part in this. He still recalls Aeos' adult form from the anime. It reminds him of those Cold Goddesses, which he used to call his 'waifus'.
But that was when all of it was just a drawing on a PC screen… Yeah…
It's different here.
~~~
Around twenty minutes later, Blue-haired Kai left the house, and this time around, there was a small smile. It meant that she was successful with the method.
"Right on time."
"I know. I am quite good with time." She smiled slightly while saying that.
"That's a good skill to have." He smiled back as he handed her a plate full of exquisitely prepared meat and vegetables.
Aeos hummed when she tasted the boar meat. It was tender and roasted to perfection.
As she pondered the taste, she remembered that Goku was supposed to be barely capable when it came to cooking, and he never went beyond basic frying methods. As soon as he grew up, he married that human woman.
"What are you going to do after eating?" She asked him after pondering about another difference in timelines she knows.
"Climb that Tower." He pointed at Korin's tower.
"It's the next stage in my training. I desire to reach the peak."
She raised her eyebrow at him again. It was quite a common thing by this point to raise her eyebrow at him, and she had only known this Goku for a day at most.
'Well, the Son Goku I know simply wants to be 'strongest', but this one wants to reach peak…
Those two things might sound the same, but they mean different things.'
Aeos pondered on the meaning before asking him something.
"With your Super Saiyan strength, you should be able to fly to the tower easily or jump to the top."
"True. But I do not care about raw power at this moment. Master Korin is a cat hermit who uses his own training methods. My Saiyan physiology makes me stronger than normal beings, but it's the flexibility of the masters of these lands that allowed me to reach where I am now."
"...I see…" She looked at the tower in the distance for a bit. She did want to land in Lookout and ask Kami to help her, but her Timeline Travel was off-target, and she ended up in the forest with her measly reserves. No one even noticed her land…
Aeos' travelling to a recently diverted timeline is a way for her to hide from Demigra. Not many beings should know about this strange place.
"Anyway, it's time for me to go."
"Hmm, before you go. We are not even. You saved my life and taught me how to recover my powers. I do need to pay you back in some way." For a second, she wondered if she should summon some sort of Master for him to study under or get a fully charged set of Dragon Balls… or something! Otherwise, she will feel like someone is weighing her down.
"It's not like I will reach the peak of the tower on the first try. The whole climbing is training on its own." He patted his chest before explaining some more.
"Besides, I don't have many things that I would need." He shrugged before casually mentioning something which made him pale the next second! His tongue slipped!
"Well, Fiance is one of those I don't have. I don't think you would accept such— a role…" He said that before, he needed to dodge a yellow ball of Ki energy from Aeos.
"...You should—"
The blue-haired Kai stopped in her tracks as she was about to say: 'Hold your tongue', but then she recalled something important.
She is no longer restrained by her position. In a way, she always acted like she was the Supreme Kai of Time, but that position has not been hers for a very long time.
"A-Are you okay? Honestly, forget what I said." Goku waved his hands as if he was surrendering.
"No… It's fine. I wanted to say that I had a position that didn't allow me to marry, but I forgot that I had left it behind." She shrugged before smirking at him.
"How about this… Goku. I will accept it if you beat me in a spar." The blue-haired Kai spreads her hands in a similar fashion as a certain antagonist does.
"...Are you serious?"
The one who was the most dumbfounded was Goku!
This girl is a Kai! A Deity! Not just any Deity but a Deity of Time!
Obviously, the only reason Aeos is considering this is not that she just feels that she owns him but that his potential is absurd. He is a mortal who breached the divine barrier in every single timeline where he didn't die from the heart virus.
In addition, she wants to see if her children with this specific Goku will be exceptional. As someone who likes gathering talent, it's a must.
"Of course. That is if you can impress me, Goku.~" Her tone slightly changed, and it made Goku slightly twitch. It reminded him of Witches, Demonesses, and Seductresses.
"F-Fine. But you know that it was just a stray thought!"
"Hahaha! Even if it was a stray thought, you were thinking about me in such a way!~" She winked at him before getting serious.
**Resigned Sigh**
It appears he was running away from a mama bear, but he ended up on literal Deity…
"Alright, let's go; there was a clearing in that direction a few miles away." Goku ignited his aura and flew away. Aeos followed after him. Her aura was blue and flamy with particles, which tells him that she is a DEITY even with the 1% she has!
As they landed, the Supreme Kai of Time looked at Goku, who got extremely serious.
'Fufufu… even if it was straight thought, Goku, you are pretty serious about fighting me~.'
"Goku, don't disappoint me, or is this a fight for the sake of a fight?" She asked him as she realised that he was Saiyan, so he would look for any and all reason to fight… which made her feel slightly disappointed.
When Goku heard that, he lost his serious face for a second.
"Not at all. This is a lifetime opportunity. I know that you are special, like very special, So I will give my all!"
As Goku said that, he crossed his arms, his golden aura ignited, and his Ki started to climb up.
Aeos looked pleased to hear that. She was impressed by how much Ki he had at this point in his life.
"Are you not afraid of the luggage that comes with me? You sensed that seal; it's just one of the enemies I have." She ignited her aura as well, and she stopped holding back on whatever she had.
But even then, she is much stronger than Goku.
"Amusing. You are telling a Saiyan about possible future battles. I thought you knew my kind and what kind of baggage we come with." He showed her a confident smirk.
"...FUFUFU… true…"