Void…
So this is death, huh? All my fear of death drove me to crush every fighter to become the best in the world, but still I couldn't defeat the strongest opponent… death.
"When there's death, there comes rebirth."
A deep monotone voice brought me out of my inner monologue.
I turned around, and I was surprised to see a familiar tall, red-haired, muscular figure.
"Yujiro Hanma.."
Excitement filled me, but before I could say anything, the red-haired man grinned at me, and it looked like I was staring straight at Satan himself.
"Kid, I'm making you go to a world that you desire in your heart… but you'll have to bear the name and bloodline of a Hanma."
"Holy shit! Yes, please do! This is the best thing I could ever ask for!"
Yujiro's grin got wider.
"Bye now."
He slapped me, and then I saw white. For a while I thought Yujiro was lying, but then…
Drip
Drip
Drip
My eyes slowly started to open as I felt droplets of water falling onto my forehead.
"So he wasn't lying."
"Wait."
I paused, and I realized something.
"I'm a child."
But that was besides the point. I felt strong, like twenty times stronger than my days in professional boxing.
I threw a jab, and it was sloppy at first, but I realized I also felt smarter too. I threw another jab, and I realized another thing — I was getting better fast.
Well, I am a Hanma now, so might as well abuse the potential. But I want to see if my potential could match Yujiro's.
I shook my head. Well, all of that could be for later. I finally acknowledged my surroundings, looking around to see rocks and bats everywhere.
"Wait? If I'm in a cave, then how can I even see? So that must mean I can see in the dark too."
I moved forward and kept walking.
I heard bugs crawling around and rocks shuffling with each of my heavy steps.
I walked faster and faster till it was a full-blown run, and then after some time I saw a glowing white light.
"Hell yeah! I'm almost out!"
I increased my speed, and in a couple of seconds I was there, and I jumped, and then—
Swoosh!!
I started falling.
"Ah shit!"
SPLASH!!
I sank into the water, dazed, but snapped out of it, resurfaced, and swam to shore.
"I'm finally outside," I said while panting.
I looked down at the water right next to me and was surprised to see my new appearance.
A child with wild black curly hair, olive skin, an angular sharp face, and a muscular body for a child.
"Definitely a Hanma. But why do I look a bit like Pickle and Baki at the same time?"
Before I could continue my inner monologue, a huge yellow pterodactyl swallowed me whole in an instant, and now I'm in the stomach of an ancient dinosaur.
"What the hell? What's this?" I felt something burning my feet, and then I realized that it was stomach acid.
"Yeah, no, get me out of here! I don't want to die like this!"
I punched and kicked at the meaty walls around me, and the pterodactyl started to cough and then crash onto the ground after I punched it very hard with all my strength.
I got out and then lay on the ground.
"What. The. Fuck." I gasped.
I hurriedly got up and ran away from the unconscious pterodactyl.
"Wait!"
I heard a voice and turned my head toward it and saw an oddly familiar skinny man with a wooden cane, a turtle shell on his back, bald, with sunglasses, and a bushy white long beard.
"Kid!"
I didn't even respond to him, as I was still shocked knowing that I'm in the Dragon Ball world.
[Master Roshi]
I was looking for my best friend Turtle, and he always gets lost sometimes. I followed Turtle's ki signature, and I found a giant pterodactyl unconscious with a boy coming out of its mouth.
When I watched the muscular boy talking to himself out loud like a madman and begin to leave the area, I called out for him.
"Wait!!"
"Kid!!"
The boy stopped, and he turned his head toward me.
And I watched as his face went from confused, to shocked, to excited.
"Who might you be?" the child said calmly, but his eyes showed he was anything but calm.
"My name is Ryo… Ryo Hanma."
"Well then, Ryo, have you seen my friend Turtle anywhere?"
"No, I haven't, but I'm guessing since you're here, then he might be here somewhere."
The boy said, kicking the pterodactyl, and then it spat a huge brown sea turtle out.
"Well, that answers it, doesn't it?"
I instantly rushed to Turtle, seemingly disappeared, and I put Turtle on my back.
"Well, I'll be off now, Ryo. Take care." I waved.
Before I could walk away, the boy stopped me. "Can you show me ki?" the boy asked, basically pleading.
Since it was just a simple demonstration and not teaching him, I focused a certain amount of ki into my palm, controlling it into a ball.
"See this? This is ki." I threw it at the pterodactyl, vaporizing it, and I saw the boy watch in awe and calculation.
[Ryo Hanma]
After Master Roshi left, I made a ki ball easily.
The ball of ki glowed with a red and black energy crackling with power.
"Well, that answered the question of possessing Yujiro's talent and potential," I thought excitedly.
After I watched Master Roshi make a ki ball, I saw how the ki circulated inside him and how he controlled it, and I copied him and easily did it.
Dragon Ball, huh?
Well, I know I will be the strongest in this universe. I just need to survive and thrive.