Sora walked and walked for what seem days but has only been 5 hours. He had thought of flying many times but had thought that it was more entertaining to walk as he can meet many interesting people this way and he could encounter a cliche 'MC saves people from being robbed' trope. So he walked and he has not found a single person in 5 hours even if short, only cars passed by, but no robbing incident. He scouted like a man on a discovery channel trying to find an animal but to no avail.
Step by step he walked closer to the next Dragon Ball which seemed to be kilometers away on an island far out in the sea. The day was bright and hot, the heat seemed to be encroaching upon anything that breathed. A squirrel near Sora was panting and sweating as it tried going up a tree at a very slow pace. However Sora was lucky as he felt no heat on him due to using his [Ki] to block most of the heat by reflecting it.
While walking Sora decided to learn how to use the technique that he recently got so that he can cultivate his eyes, mind and senses. He wanted to know how effective this technique could be for him and how he can use it in new possible ways in his fights. So he looked at his inventory as he continued walking and searched for the Dongxuan Sutra technique. When he found it he mentally pressed on the technique and learnt it, and as the information was flowing into his head his eyes glowed a bright blue light and he halted his steps as this occurred.
Many pieces of information traveled into his head that showed insight on how he has to cultivate the technique. It didn't show the beginning phase when one begins to use the technique and not eve the first tier. The information also included the fact that once he breaks through to a new tier, he will receive information on that tier. Something he seemed glad for to receive but he hasn't started yet and it didn't show the beginning phase either. Which means its a gamble whether to keep going with the technique.
As he was thinking about the information the system gave about the technique and how he will be training in it to achieve its pinnacle, a group of 4 people had come out of the forest laughing and saw a little kid standing next to the road with his eyes closed-- Sora.
"Hey boss, look. Its free meat just standing there, lets check if he has anything valuable on him to steal," a short chubby guy with pink hair says.
The tall man standing next to the pink haired man smiles in glee and practically yells, "YES BOSS! We have to rob the kid clean. Chin here got the brightest idea today."
Both turned to each other, smiled and gave each other a thumbs up, but their boss ruined the atmosphere for them, as one of them blushed and the other's face turned green from disgust. "Shut up you dimwits. And stop acting lovey dovey, its sickening. Save it for when you guys get your own room. Lips go and get the kid and rob him clean so we can go eat already. I'm starving."
The boss looked at the man next to himself and ordered Lips, the big lipped guy, as he smiled menacingly but looked more weird. Lips moved close to Sora who opened his eyes slowly as he heard everything they said and turned to look at the group of bandits with an innocent look. "Mister can you take me home?? I think I am lost." Sora tilted his head to appeal more but it didn't work on them as the bandits were used to seeing stuff like this.
"Nah kid, how about you just give us your money and anything valuable on you that can help us buy something to eat." Lips licked his big lips and put his hands in front of himself and moved his fingers about. Sora looked at the man in disgust and just sighed.
He dropped the act, and made his eyes close slightly while putting on a serious face and saying, "I gave you guys a chance by baiting you to be nice at least but I guess it doesn't always work." 'At least not like when I was 'old'.' Sora moved quickly in front of Lips catching him off guard and slightly scared as he tried stepping back. However Sora expected this and stepped on his foot causing him to fall backwards and on to the ground.
Sora sent a quick punch to the man's stomach as he made him cough out blood and go unconscious. The other bandits saw all this go down and had gone petrified. They couldn't move from their place from seeing their friend be taken down so easy and coughing out blood. They think their friend has been killed by a single punch from the little boy. Sora looked towards the rest and lightly chuckled, he ran in front of Chin, jumped and kicked him on the side of the face to send him flying to a nearby tree effectively knocking him out.
Both the boss and the tall guy were the only ones left, they looked at each other with understanding in their eyes as they nodded to each other. "We have to take down this kid..." They then faced Sora again as they clenched their fists and got on low positions.
Both then ran at Sora who was just standing there waiting for them to appear 3 feet away from him so that he can take them down. They ran like their lives depended on it towards Sora, one of them jumped up in the air as the other slid to Sora. They both had fierce faces full of determination, then all of a sudden the one in the air fell rapidly to the ground on his knees and fell next to the man, who is now also on his knees, that had slid to Sora. And before Sora could do anything to them, they slammed their heads on the floor right in front of him and yelled, "... to an amusement park!" They had prostrated themselves in front of Sora and banged their heads on the floor just to say that.
Sora took one step back as he was dumbfounded and surprised by their actions and words. However he had just attributed it to them saving their own skin and being retarded. A rather amusing idea crept up his mind as he smiled rather devilishly as he rubbed both hands together and thought of what to do to the bandits. As the two remaining bandits looked at Sora and all they saw was an innocent smiling kid rubbing his hands, and they damned their thoughts for thinking he was innocent looking.
Sora opened his hands together and spread them out to his sides as if he was about to preach to his fellow brethren, and he said, "It is simple, to attain salvation from my beating for you is to give me YOUR valuables. I do not need no amusement park to have fun. Like I used to say, 'Giveth me thy wage and thee shalt attaineth salvation'" And he ended his 'preach' with a bright and easygoing smile.
Both bandits shivered with fright when Sora said the word beating and when he said that he will let them off with just giving him their valuables they were practically jumping with happiness. So they gave him everything they had on themselves which included their phones and 20,400 Zeni. Sora pocketed all the money and the phone of the tall guy in his backpack. He lifted the phone of the boss and decided to keep it as his. As he held it on his hand, he began checking if there was a password for the phone and was correct as when he turned the phone on, it had told him to enter the passcode.
"Hey you, the boss, what's the password of your phone? And if you don't tell me I will break every single bone in your body." Sora clenched his fist in front of the bandits and looked at them in the eyes with an angry face. 'I might as well become a bandit, cause this is fun.'
The boss began shaking in fear as he looked at the fist and then at Sora's face and said, "Th.. the password is, 'ImABadBitch23'" As the bandit boss was saying this he began to cry on the inside and began to rethink his life choices of this day.
"pfft." His lackey was trying so hard to hold in his laugh from hearing his boss' password for his phone.
"What?"
"..."
"Anyways thanks for this, I will leave now. Even if you are so poor, even for bandits, this phone is from a pretty good brand. So... just go steal something better, don't bother me," Sora said this as he looked through the apps and left walking as the boss stood up and began beating his lackey with tears streaming down his face. 'Hey system, can you buy some headphones for me?'
[Headphones bought!]
'Great.' Sora smiled as he took the headphones out of the inventory and put them on as he connected the phone and the headphones. He opened the music app, found a song to put and played it as he kept walking forward to his destination.
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(5 days later)
WOOSH
Water sprayed everywhere, as the waves moved forward and crashed onto the side of the cliff as a small lonesome figure with headphones on and a leopard garment around his waist looked over the sea. The sun was out and shined on everything, it was a perfect day to go swimming and that was exactly what the lonesome figure thought. He removed the headphones and removed every article of clothing besides his underwear and leopard pelt. He placed everything all in the backpack and it soon disappeared and what had appeared in its place were swimming shorts.
Sora puts on the swimming shorts and after putting them on he begins to stretch a bit as he looked towards the ocean and the seemingly endless vast sky. He stops stretching and walks backwards, once he went back a couple of feet, he begins to run at quick speeds to the edge of the cliff and jumps as high as he can and dives into the water.
Sora swam as fast as he could to reach the island that was in the sea far away as quickly as possible while chanting in his mind, 'Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...' (A/N: Dori from Finding Nemo, lol for any who probs didn't catch it or watch the movie.)
Soon an island made its way into Sora's view as he kept swimming towards it. As he got closer to the island, a pink house with red roof was seen on the island with the words 'KAME HOUSE' on the front of it. Jumping out of the water he made it to the land and swept his hair back and walked towards the house.
An old man standing in front of the house with a cane in hand, a Dragon Ball hanging around his neck and his back slouched forward while wearing sunglasses. Next to him was a turtle that had eyes that shone with high intelligence, which was rare in animals. The old man turned to look at the approaching Sora and walked to him, "Hey whats a kid like you doing here?"
"Well I am here to get the ball that is around your neck." Sora pointed to the ball that was on the old man as he took out a towel from out of nowhere.
The old man looked at the ball and then back at Sora while sporting a grin on his face, "Well what do you have to offer for it?"
Upon hearing the question, Sora smiled lightly while taking out his backpack from his [Inventory] and then pulling out the phone of the tall guy. "Here you can have this phone for that ball."
"Bah. If I am not named Master Roshi the Turtle Hermit then I am not me. I will not take the phone it doesn't really fancy my tastes." The man named Roshi said as he began to turn around and walk away.
Sora smirked as he saw the man walk away and said, "But don't you want to meet women you can talk to without them being weirded out that you are old? You can even meet very perverted women, which are rare."
As soon as Roshi heard what Sora said, he stopped in his tracks and turned slowly towards him as a dangerous glint passed through the sunglasses. "Can that... really make it.. happen??"
"Pfft. Anything can happen nowadays, now tell me Mister Roshi, deal or no deal?" Sora gave a big smile and extended his hand which held the phone. Soon the phone was out of his hand and in its place was a three star Dragon Ball. "Great! Now for the searching for women thing, just go to an app that says, 'Date Me'. Okay I'm leaving now, see yah Roshi."
Sora flew away and began searching for an island that was far away from the island but was abandoned as well. Once he found one he went towards it and began to take out every Dragon Ball from his backpack and placed them in front of himself as he readied himself and recited the words to summon Shenron. "Eternal Dragon, -"
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Age of MC: 5 years