After a day of travel, Krillin, Goku, Master Roshi and Launch finally arrived at the venue for the World's Martial Arts Tournament.
As soon as they arrive, Master Roshi took Krillin and Goku to the registration point to sign up. There, Krillin saw a man with a wild main of hair and a scar across his face, another blue haired woman, a humanoid pig and a blue cat flying in the sky at the registration point.
'These four, they have to be Yamcha, Bulma, Oolong and Puar! It's awesome seeing my favorite childhood characters in real life!'
When Bulma and the other four saw Goku and Krillin, they immediately came over to greet them, "Long time no see, Goku, Master Roshi, Launch, who is this?" Bulma asked when she saw the bald Krillin who looked nervous to be meeting them.
"This is my fellow disciple and best friend, Krillin!" Goku replied childishly.
"Hello, my name is krillin." He introduced himself formally, trying to hide his shock at meeting these legendary characters. After all, Goku might be one of the strongest beings in the universe, but Bulma was the absolute smartest being in the universe after all!
"Okay meet and greet later, you two should go sign up!" Master Roshi urged.
Krillin, Goku and Yamcha went to sign up. After confirming the registration information, they went to the designated hotel to rest. Master Roshi used the excuse of going to the bathroom, but actually secretly signed up under the name of Jackie Chan.
Soon, Krillin and his group arrived at the hotel to rest. At this time, Master Kame took out two sets of red robes with the word "turtle" on them.
"These are the clothes I prepared before hand. You should wear them in the competition tomorrow, but don't ruin the reputation of the Hermit style!"
Goku, who originally only had one or two sets of clothes, was extremely happy when he saw new clothes. "Thank you, Master Muten." Goku said with an excitable giggle.
Krillin, who was standing next to him, also took the clothes, his eyes gleaming in excitement. "Thank you, Master Roshi."
Accepting the orange Gi's seemed to fully lock in the idea that this was all real and not a figments of his imagination, he felt nostalgia at the clothes but also overwhelming excitement for the future!
"You must do your best in the competition, take a good rest today and recharge your energy. Especially you Krillin, you swam the whole way here after saying your body was sore."
"Understood master!" Krillin answered honestly. During the swim he got more accustomed to his body but doing so made him incredibly tired, he was ready to fall asleep at the first chance he got.
*****
The next morning, Krillin and the gang arrived at the venue early. Since the preliminaries were held inside the venue, only the contestants were allowed to enter.
Bulma, Oolong, Puar, launch, and Master Roshi could only wait outside for the results. Roshi used the excuse of having a stomachache to go to the toilet, but in fact he was going to disguise himself as Jackie Chan to participate in the competition!
(Inside the venue)
"This competition is divided into the preliminaries and the quarterfinals. There are a total of 8 arenas in the preliminaries, the one who is knocked off the arena or unable to get up for more than 10 seconds is declared the loser." There was a pause of silence to allow the contestants to process what was said.
"The quarterfinals will be participated by the strongest fighters in each arena of today's preliminaries, and will be held in the big arena outside. The quarterfinals will last for a total of three days. The rules are the same as the preliminaries. The one who is knocked off the arena or unable to get up for more than 10 seconds is declared the loser. Does everyone understand?" The referee with brown hair and a pair of big sunglasses explained to everyone.
This referee is exactly the same as in the Dragon Ball anime. The rules of the World Martial Arts Tournament are also the same Krillin thought.
Getting no questions from the contestants, the referee continued.
"The number drawing will begin now!"
Multiple lines were formed Infront of desks that had a box on it.
The contestants would draw a paper from the box that had a number on it, the contestants would then file a single line Infront of a large board and they'd right down where they'd be placed.
After ten minutes, the contestants had finished drawing. Krillin was drawn to arena number 4, Goku to are a number 6, Yamcha to arena number 1, and Jackie Chan to arena number 3.
'Fortunately no one is in the same arena as me, I seriously doubt I'd even be able to defeat Yamcha right now!' Krillin had gotten use to his body but not fully, there was a limit to just swimming and he hoped fighting would fully adapt him to this body.
Currently he was at a power level of 52, regaining 12 more power levels since awakening but he still hasn't even reach the original krillen level yet!
"Hold on a second, isn't this Krillin?" A malicious voice came up from behind.
Krillin and his companions looked closely and saw three bald monks walking towards them.
According to the memory of the original Krillin, these three monks were the three who bullied him out of the Monk Temple.
Because Krillin was small and weak in the past, he was often bullied by these three brothers. The one in the middle of the three was the eldest brother, the one on the left was the second brother, and the one on the right was the third brother.
"Krillin, don't you even say hello when you see your senior brother?" The second senior Monk said viciously.
"I am no longer a fellow disciple, I am now a member of the turtle hermit school." Krillin replied firmly, shaking off the fear his body subconsciously felt looking at his past bullies.
The eldest monk looked at the number in Krillins hand and smiles "Oh, in the same ring as me I see! Looks like you'll have to be carried out of the arena on a stretcher then, it'll be just like the good old days back at the monastery!" The monks voice was condescending as him and his brothers laughed and walked away.
Hearing the the monks attempted at mockery, Krillin just casually shook his head as he looked at the monks feeble power level of 17, 14, and 10.
Will he still hasn't full adapted to this body, he knew he knew defeating someone with a power level of 17 wasn't gonna be a challenge at all..
[Scenario detected, now issuing a quest: Defeat the eldest monk in the arena within 10 seconds. Task reward: one Senzu bean.
Does the host accept the task? Y/N]
Krillin immediately chose yes, It was basically asking Krillin if he wanted a free senzu bean with the strength difference between him and his opponent.
[The host accepts the mission] .
"Krillin, did you know them before?" The monkey tailed boy asked.
"They were my three seniors when I trained at the monastery. They always bullied me because I was weak, but that ends today" Krillin voice was confident.
"If anything of them are in my arena, I'll be them up extra hard then! Then we'll advance to the quarterfinals together to compete for the championship." Goku encouraged Krillin.
"Thanks, let's work hard together!" Krillin patted Goku on the shoulder.
Waiting around for everything to get sorted out, Krillin watched as Goku got called to the arena while he waited beside his own. It wasn't even a fight as Goku immediately just punched his Dogman opponent out of the ring the moment it started!
"Krillin, please come on stage." Hearing the announcer call his name, he looked away from Gokus fight andnbegan walk up the arena steps to meet his opponent.
Opposite him was an incredibly muscular man who weighed at least 400lb.
"Little boy, you should go home and drink your mother's milk, or I may kill you by accident." The muscular man wanted to get into Krillins head.
"Thank you for your concern but I'd also like to give you the same chance to leave, for your own safety." Unlike the man's threat, Krillin really meant his warning. He'd never fought anyone before and was worried he might accidentally kill this man.
The muscular man let out a snort of anger, dismissing the boys warning and instead entered a sumo combat stance as the referee raised his hands up.
"Begin!" the referee ordered.
The tense leg of Krillin exploded him forward towards his opponent, time seemed to freeze as his perception increased drastically. As he arrived before the man, the mans couldn't react to Krillins speed, all he could do is widen his eyes in shock as Krillins fists landed square into his abdomen.
It happened in an instant, the muscular man was sent flying out of the arena and slammed into the ground, the whole process was over in less than a second!
The stun locked referee watched with agaped mouth before quickly recovering. "Krillins wins!"
'Thank God I just threw a casual punch, if I actually went full force I probably would've punched straight through his chest!' Sweaty from this shocking realization, he began walking off the stage.
"I didn't expect this kid to be so awesome," muttered the contestant below.
On the other side, Goku was smiling ear to ear watching Krillin defeat his opponent as easily as him.
The eldest brother of Monk Temple was shocked to see krillin win so quickly, he moved so fast that he appeared as a blur!
The eldest monk disciple look at the Krillin exiting the arena and began to break out in cold sweats. Excusing himself to the bathroom, the eldest monk disciple entered a stall before reaching into his pocket and pulling out a white pill.
"Thanks God i got my hands on this, that old bastard better not have been lying!"
The pill gave off faint levels of energy and the monk immediately swallowed it! Grunting in pain, the monksmuscles and veins bulged, his breath was steaming hot, and his ki levels began to rise!
*****
After nine rounds of competition, the other fighters in each arena had finally placed quarter finals. Goku, Yamcha, and Master Roshi disguised as Jackie Chan had all entered the top 8.
They all came to watch Krillin match, his opponent was naturally the eldest monk from the Shaolin Monk Temple. The other two brothers were eliminated by yamcha and another contestant.
As soon as Krillin walked onto the stage, he noticed the bulging muscles of the Monk who bullied him. The sudden change in appearance caused krillin shock, making him use his systems once again to check his power level.
To Krillins absolute shock, he found that the monks power had reached 80!
Nervous sweats began pouring out of Krillin, he didn't understand how his power grew so quickly and that's when he did another scan to make sure his System wasn't faulty.
This time it showed a power level of 12, another scan showed it reached 54. With each scan Krillin did on his opponent, he noticed their power level constantly fluctuating.
'Is my system broken? No something weird obviously happened to the monk, but why the hell is his ki so unstable! His muscles are huge as well, Is he cheating with enhancement drugs? I don't know or have any evidence so I can't call him out on it! I can only do my best...'
"Both fighters are you ready!" The refered yelled out. The eldest monk nodded a bloodthirsty grin while Krillin nodded nervously.
"You may begin!"
As soon as the referee finished speaking, the monk launched himself at Krillin! His speed was so fast that Krillin could barely dodge! The bald boy just barely slipped the punch and stumbled to ground, vunerable to a follow up attack!
Krillin expected a punch or kick to drill into him and break bone but no attack arrive. Quickly rolling upwards Krillin jumped back and got into a defensive stance, his mind in confusion.
'Why didn't he finish me off, I was wide open? Unless...' scanning the monk once again Krillin was shocked to see there power level was only at 7!
'I see! Whatever they did makes their power level fluctuate greatly, when his PL is high he can attack at speed faster than the eye could perceive but when his PL is low... He is basically defenseless!'
As he realized the situation, the smirk on the senior monks face grew larger as he charged forward once again at blinding speed. The punch was so fast Krillin couldn't dodge this time, he could only hastily block the attack and get flung back as his arm erupted in oain.
The monk didn't let up as he continued to rain down blow after blow on Krillin, his attacks felt like sledgehammers! Krillin felt his arm bones beginning to break, the attacks were being blocked but soon they'd break past and land on his head, possibly killing him!
The monks hands were moving too fast for him to even perceive, his kind whirled trying to come up with a solution when suddenly the attacks lost potency!
Feeling the equivalency of a teddy bear punching him, an image appeared in his face that cause him to smile.
[Daisuke Gōri: Power level is 3]
Lowering his arms completely, A hook was coming straight towards Krillin face as he was just a step away from falling out of the arena. It was all but certain the boy would lose but something happened that shocked the crowd.
The punch that previously seemed to be faster than light and unable to avoid or block had been stopped dead in its track, Krillins hand was grasping firmly onto the monks wrist when a clear snapping sound was heard even in the large crowd!
The scream of pain drowned out the crowd as the monk held onto his now broken wrist but Krillin wouldn't end it with just this. The muscles in his thighs and arms tensed up, he ran forward and unleashed a punch that he didn't hold anything back!
The first landed square in the monks stomach, bloody spittle spat out as he got sent flying from one end of the arena to the other end before slamming into the ground below!
"W-what a turn of events, the Winner is Krillin!"