"Dad... Please stop... He is older than you and more powerful than you." Xialing said.
"Huh!!" Xu stopped in his tracks when his daughter said that. He never expected that his daughter would speak such words. 'More older and more powerful?'
What the hell!!
"Husband please stop with your nonsense. He is our guest that we invited and all you have been doing is ostracising him without any proof. All he wants to do is give us the child. Can't we at least try to know the reason?" Ying Li said.
Xu's eyebrows twitched when she said that. His own wife had taken the side of the enemy. His son was the enemy's greatest fan. And it seemed like his daughter too wasn't optimistic about him.
"See your family is more reasonable than you." John said as he took back the weapons from his gate. John never really wanted to fight Xu, he just wanted him intimidated.
"You really just want to give us the child even though you know my history?" Xu asked as he was still skeptical. Goku was a Saiyan so it made no sense for a superhero to let a bad person like him adopt one of the most dangerous people known to the universe.
At least that's what the story was depicted by John. So he was confused why he was choosing his family for the upbringing of a world destroyer.
"Ying Li was able to make a good out of world conqueror, I am pretty sure she can raise Goku to be a good person and teach this child all kinds of martial arts. Its his destiny." John said as he finally held the child near Ying Li for her to take.
She hesitated a bit but finally raised her hands to hold the child
"Ying Li, if you take this you have to understand you will be raising a potential child of your own." Xu reminded. He could understand that Goku would need to be brought up in the most kind and gentle way to take away his savageness.
Ying Li after a second of hesitation finally extended her hand to hold Goku. Goku, who had been sleeping, woke up and saw that he was in the arms of someone else.
He looked at Ying Li for a second before smiling happily and hugged her. Ying Li felt elated seeing that Goku didn't have any violent nature as of yet and had a sweet smile on his face.
"See he is a baby and you can take care of him." John said. The family of 4 had complicated looks on their faces. They just adopted one of the most powerful beings of the universe and they had to do nothing about it.
Actually, there were two reasons why John wanted this family to adopt Goku. First was Ki, John didn't have any proper knowledge of Ki. And for Goku in order to be powerful, he needed to learn Ki. He wasn't sure if what Ying Li learned was Ki or something else but at least Goku would learn proper martial arts from them. Moreover, the history of ten rings.
The ten rings in the comics are totally different then the one Xu used. These weren't even 10 rings but 10 bracelets. Who named them ten rings? He or she must be stupid.
And secondly, he wanted someone to keep an eye on Ta Lo. Ta Lo in comics was just a dimension for the Chinese Gods. But here this too was different. So he wasn't sure how he would keep an eye on this. And since the beings which he saw in the Shang-chi movie were powerful and they even had a dragon, Goku was the best candidate to defend them.
Though Ying Li needed to mend her relationship with Ta lo first, that could be achieved slowly.
"Why are you giving him to us? Tell us the truth?" Ying Li asked. Though she would love to adopt a new baby, she needed to know the real reason.
"So that he can learn martial arts, Ki and even be a protector of Ta Lo."
Ying almost stumbled when he mentioned Ta Lo, she never expected him to know about that place too.
"Just for this reason?" Xu asked skeptically.
"Of course. You don't think that the Avengers course corrected the fall of him for no reason near this place." John said.
"We would love to have a Saiyan as a sibling." Shang-chi said
"Yeah, it would be our honor. We will take care of our new brother in the best way possible." Xialing said.
They both were enthusiastic about the new member of the family, though they were forced into the situation, who wouldn't like a very powerful brother. They could take care of their little brother and later conquer the world by 'riding the big shoulders' of their young brother.
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