"The door's broken," Yamiru said as he walked in, dripping wet—well, more like entering the "doorway"...
The door had been shattered, leaving a hole in the house that affected the air conditioning system. Yamiru didn't mind. He could sleep by the roadside for a month without a problem. But Tights was much more delicate, and Yamiru cared about her health and comfort.
"It's okay, Aza-va(The robot who once taught Yamiru to pilot a plane) will fix it," Tights said, taking out a capsule with a smile.
She had already put away the laser gun and walked to the door, seeing Yamiru, whose clothes were completely soaked, leaving a puddle of rainwater on the floor.
Tights urged Yamiru to strip off his wet clothes and handed him a clean towel to dry off.
Then she playfully smacked his backside, nudging him toward the bathroom. "You should take a bath first, don't catch a cold."
Yamiru was about to say that he wasn't so easily susceptible to colds, but then he suddenly remembered the time when he first met Tights.
Tights, of course, remembered too—the time when Yamiru was weak and on the verge of death, suffering from a severe cold that nearly took his life. He had spent a long time in the hospital, lying in a bed before finally getting through the dangerous period.
She patted his chest and comforted him, "Alright, go take a hot bath, be good."
"Yes, ma'am."
Yamiru finally shrugged and wandered off.
Tights smiled and returned to the living room sofa. After a moment, she made two more cups of coffee. As she continued reading the "Private Server" proposal written by Yamiru, she thought to herself, "It's been a while since we used the Dragon Balls to revive Uncle Bardock and Aunt Gine... If I calculate the time, the Dragon Balls should be ready to awaken soon."
"What are you reading?"
Yamiru, having finished his bath, appeared behind her on the sofa.
"Your fantastical plan~" Tights replied, setting down the stack of papers, picking up the hot coffee on the table, only to realize that Yamiru was already floating in mid-air behind her and had settled down right behind her.
Tights naturally shifted forward a bit, going from leaning on the sofa to leaning on Yamiru...
"Thanks," Yamiru took the coffee, sipped it, and smiled, "Is it really that outlandish? I think it's a pretty normal idea… Honestly, I don't want to be separated from you just for the sake of training. If there was a way to enter a training platform anytime, anywhere, wouldn't that solve the problem?"
In truth, Yamiru's idea of the "spiritual world" was inspired by a novel from his past life, Devouring the Starry Sky, but he didn't intend to build the spiritual world as a "virtual universe network".
If he had to compare it to something in Devouring the Starry Sky, the spiritual world was more like the "Dark Universe".
In the novel, characters would enter the Dark Universe when traveling at faster-than-light speeds, greatly enhancing the efficiency of interstellar travel.
Yamiru also had a plan. If Shenrong strictly followed the contract to create the "spiritual world", Yamiru could use the various "islands" within the spiritual world for interstellar travel.
He would just need to fly from the "Earth Island" in the spiritual world to the nearby "Namek Island", and he could travel from Earth to Namek.
Even... traveling between different universes.
Yamiru could directly jump to the Earth or Saiyan Planet corresponding to the "islands" in the Sixth Universe, and then travel to the respective planet in the Sixth Universe through the corresponding "island".
The reason behind this approach was that Yamiru's primary goal in building the platform was to serve his own training needs.
Gathering powerful individuals of the same level to exchange knowledge and improve martial arts skills at any time and place was the key. However, if it wasn't his real body, there wouldn't be any training effects at all.
The Dragon Ball world isn't as fantastical as some might think. Even though Vegeta was heavily injured by Krillin and later revived by Dende, his battle power had already surpassed 2 million, which would have qualified him to become a Super Saiyan. But still, he needed the following four years on Earth to slowly develop the necessary S-cells in his body.
Korin had also said that martial arts mastery, to some extent, seems useless. The world is full of people with no martial arts skills who are still as strong as monsters. Take Bardock for example, or the powerful warriors across the universe. Many people can grow stronger without mastering ki. However, people are different, and Yamiru couldn't get over the mental block. If he didn't complete Korin's lessons, he wouldn't feel satisfied. To use the Turtle School's philosophy, it would be like "losing to oneself."
Yamiru didn't possess the traits of being absent-minded, simple, naive, or pure—characteristics that seemed to come naturally to comic book characters. These weren't qualities he had.
Therefore, the "terms and conditions" clearly stated that anyone transferred to the spiritual world would have a real, authentic body.
Although Yamiru couldn't improve his strength through combat like Goku, he could still increase his martial arts experience and comprehension by sparring with powerful individuals of similar levels. Additionally, his training with Bardock and Goku's rapid growth under pressure made Yamiru realize just how much he had been suffering. His experience felt more like being tortured... This further solidified his decision to wish for the creation of the "spiritual world" platform.
The Karin Tower had already been visited, and it seemed the God of Earth had no intention of meeting him...
The Mount Five Elements was his last hope, but Yamiru wasn't willing to go there to beg for help in a pitiful manner just before seeing the light of dawn.
Thus, without understanding ki, wandering around Earth wouldn't lead him to find many suitable opponents.
Since he couldn't find them, he decided to make them come to him—that was Yamiru's natural solution. This idea began to form when he first took Goku out of the Mount Paozuto search for the Dragon Balls. The second time, when he experimented with the note for Goku, he already had a rough outline of the idea. By now, after continuous discussions with Tights, the concept was nearly complete.
It was just up to Shenrong to come through!
After spending a moment snuggling on the sofa, Yamiru and Tights began to talk about food.
"I'm a little hungry," Tights said.
"What do you want to eat?" Yamiru asked.
"What can you make?" Tights laughed while snuggling in his arms. "How about rice in the rice cooker? You've gotten pretty good at it since you learned."
Yamiru sighed, "Because of that rice cooker, I might just turn into a rice cooker chef..."
Leaving the sofa, Yamiru walked to the kitchen, took out some ingredients from the fridge, and began washing them. Next to the cooking pot was the rice cooker Yamiru had bought, the one in which he had originally stored the seven Dragon Balls. It was actually a multifunctional rice cooker, capable of cooking porridge, rice, and even soups...
As for the seven white stones that had once been inside, they had been removed and were now placed in...
"Hmm?" Yamiru stopped washing the vegetables and meat.
To his surprise, the large bowl that had once held the seven powerless Dragon Balls no longer contained the white stones, but instead, seven radiant, golden-orange Dragon Balls!