Master Roshi is a really shit teacher. He has hundreds of techniques and he's having me do things I would be able to have better gains with by carrying more weight and doing similar motions.
clearing fields with my bare hands? same results as weighted swimming.
carrying milk in weighted jars? running with ankle and arm weights.
Trying to find a thrown rock with Ki attached? What the fuck is the point I know how to sense Ki and could get better gains by meditating on life in the surroundings.
The only one gaining a lot from this is Goku, but that's because he's a Saiyan who had natural strength but not much training.
1 week from start of training.
"Roshi," I said, pulling him aside, because I refuse to call him master after having me waste time like this.
"This training isn't benefiting me or Bulma. we're just going to leave Goku to train with you because it seems to work for him. But I just don't see it working for us."
Roshi gave a sly grin that disappeared just as fast. My eyes narrow at that.
My eyes narrow. "What are you planning old man?"
"Nothing." he said, not fooling anyone.
Bulma frowns and pulls out a capsule. she throws it aside and a large piece of machinery with a timer on it. "Old man, if your planning something nasty with little Goku over there, I'm going to bring launch and Goku away and start the timer. This is a miniature black hole generator. It will punch through spacetime and eat you and your island. How does that sound?" she says, sounding extremely chipper.
Roshi gets on his knees and starts begging "I just wanted to drive you away before I ended up owing you money for training you! With my habits it was only a matter of time! I also expected you to leave after a week of no increase in strength, so I purposely gave you easier weights! I'm sorry! Please don't implode my island, It's where I live and where I live and keep my magazines!"
I stare at him in disappointment.
Bulma stares at him in disgust. She starts walking towards Goku in his room in the mansion.
"Goku! We're leaving! get your stuff and let's go! Launch, I'm sure you'd like a better place to stay than this hole min the wall!"
"Okay sure!" she says following Bulma outside. Goku on her heels.
I go inside, and find the banjo fan.
"This War-fan looks nice, I'm taking it as payment for fucking with us." I say.
I get onto Cumulus and goku gets onto Nimbus.
Bulma and Launch get onto her copy of Cumulus.
We fly off, into the sunset. Roshi, dumbstruck, is left behind.
I hear a click from Bulma's direction but I decide not to think about it.
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A timer on Roshi's island started to loudly count down from 30 seconds.
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It doesn't take us long to arrive back at master Oke's shop. Bulma uses her basically unlimited wealth to buy variable weighted gear and enchanted combat clothes that can change shape and incorporate enchantments of anything fed to it.
in other words, feed it a dress? It can look like a dress.
feed it iron? it's now hard as iron.
feed it enchanted weights that can change their weight? well now it can change it's weight at your will too. Bulma leaves the shop with 6 million Zeni less, and we leave the store- to find Launch missing with our capsule baggage gone.
"Wow, I didn't take Launch for a thief." Bulma pouted.
I prepare to go track down a blonde lady with a love for guns that is sometimes a purple haired girl with a ditsy personality, but Bulma just pulls out her phone and presses a sequence of buttons.
Her luggage appears in front of us again, missing nothing. She picks it up like a purse and I shrug.
"That's a cool security feature." I say, nodding.
Bulma grins. "I know, right! I designed it myself! praise me!"
I oblige, "My adorable blue haired bombshell girlfriend can't really be this amazing while still being an awesome genius? can she? I must be incredibly lucky and blessed. All should worship the martial might and mental power of the Goddess Bulma-" I decide to continue my tirade until Bulma pinches my side.
"Stop stop stop!" Her face is crimson in embarrassment and I chuckle.
"I'm hungry" Goku says, completely oblivious to what's happening around him.
I shrug. "I could eat."
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after a quick meal at a buffet that Goku gets us banned from. We walk outside and instead of calling down our cloud companions, I say, "we should walk to our destinations, we need the extra training after that geezer sabotaged us."
Bulma nods.
"What does sabotaste mean can you eat it? Sounds yummy."
"Goku, Sabotage just means an action that causes someone or something to not perform well on purpose to the disadvantage of someone."
Goku just looks at me confused.
"It means the old man cheated and that was bad okay Goku?" Bulma says. smiling happily while internally being pissed off at Roshi.
seeing Bulma's hidden distress I grasp her hand and squeeze it gently. "Your really good with kids." I say.
Her fake smile turns Geniune and then she looks into my eyes with a smoldering look. She inches closer our lips almost touching and then goku shouts. startling us out of our romance.
"I get it! so Roshi is bad because he did cheaty mean things and was very tricky!"
"Uhuh. that's right." I say.
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elsewhere, at sea, near (former)Roshi island.
Roshi stared at where his island used to be and a tear went down his cheek. "Farewell, porn mags and comfy beds. and nice shower, and television, and-" Roshi continued to list stuff he'll never have back as
Turtel swam beneath him.
'Serves you right you old perv. turtel thought