33 Chapter 32 - Different League

"Moving on to the last match before the semi-finals, we have a returning contestant that quite the Crane School with his partner Tien, Chiaotzu! His opponent is one of surprise, one of absolute ordinary... Shen! Will the severe underdog beat the seasoned veteran?

Let the match being!"

Everyone was of course confused at the prospect of one of them being in the tournament stage with someone who could probably kill him in a second.

Nobody was expecting the brave man to charge headfirst the little albino man with no hesitation. Chiaotzu expressionlessly pointed his finger at him and said the magic words.

"Dodan Ray."

The light yellow beam shot out and was about to hit the man on the bridge of his glasses. Until the image faded into an afterimage of course.

He appeared behind the flying man and tried to take him out with a swift blow. Instead, Chiaotzu saw him coming and moved in the same direction of the attack. It looked like Shen just pushed Chiaotzu the way he floated away,

"You are pretty good, too bad that you are only using your heightened body for your reflexes."

Jumping up, he leveled the playing field looking right into the eyes of surprise. In fact, everyone was surprised that he could give one of the toughest opponents a run for his money.

However, his jump didn't just even out their altitude, he went above and beyond literally. Taking an abnormally large breath, his chest expanded only to be released back into the air into Chiaotzu's face. Chiatozu tried so hard to brute strength through the wind but couldn't handle the sheer pressure.

Crashing on the arena floor with a splat, the wind crushed the cheeks flat for a couple of seconds. Coming out from the daze of the situation, he had no time to react when he saw Shen coming down like a top.

Bunching his muscles when the impact spewed dust everywhere. When the dust cleared Shen was standing next to the down martial artist. He had a sliver of consciousness within him, but that soon died out when he heard the last words the announcer.

"It looks like Chiaotzu is out for the count! The winner is Shen!"

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Tien ran up on stage to help Chiaotzu. Picking up him, he gave the stank eye to Shen's smiling face.

"Good luck in the next round."

"Good luck? From what I gather, its good luck that you lost in your round or else you would have to fight me."

Not dignifying that with a response, he swiftly turned around and headed to give Chiaotzu medical attention. Shen was about to walk back into the waiting area until the break was over when a strong arm held fast onto his.

"Kami-sama, why are you here? Do you doubt my strength?" Goku talked while they were both still not looking at each other at all.

"That is not it Goku, you have gone far past anything I set for you and even did your own thing for a little bit. It is just that you will not go so far as to kill Piccolo when I need you to." Shen from the very beginning saw that Goku for some reason did not want to kill him. No matter the reason, a seed of malice can not cultivate and threaten the world.

"It doesn't matter if he lives or dies, what matters is what he does with his life. Who you are thinking about isn't a Demon King, but a newborn who can still change."

"I am God with no evil inside of me. Piccolo is the manifestation of that evil. He and his children will carry that forever." With that, Shen forcibly pulled his arm back and went his merry way like they never talked.

Goku wasn't too worried about Kami doing anything. The main thing that he was worried about is if the Mafuba will be a problem. Piccolo probably didn't learn the Counter-Mafuba because Roshi didn't reveal that card to him.

Looking at the person in question, he was standing on stage with a very nervous Krillin.

"This is the start of the semi-finals between two very talented martial artists! Whoever wins this will move to the finals and have a chance to win the title of the World's Strongest Under Heaven! This will be Krillin vs Piccolo.

"Let the match begin!"

"I have been training for 3 years! I won't be thrashed around like last time!" Krillin was raring to go getting a little impatient to test his strength.

"That was what the last person said."

"Yeah but that was Yamcha..."

Starting the match, both opponents clashed together in the center. Krillin was doing a good job keeping up with the green Yoshi, as he tried his hardest to use his small stature as an advantage and not a weakness.

Ducking under his legs after the fistfight, he stopped his momentum with his hands when he held onto the ground right behind Piccolo. Thrashing out his feet like a horse, he made Piccolo fly towards the ring out. But everyone knows that at this point, ring outs don't really mean anything anymore.

Piccolo quickly stabilized himself and did a sharp U-turn at rocketing speeds. Krillin had just stood up from his attack to be met with one of his opponents. Krillin thought that Piccolo was only going to go for a straight forward attack with the way he positioned himself and his speed.

That is why he was truly surprised when his guard was completely useless to the extended arm that reached around it. Crashing onto the floor harshly, he thought that his skull was going to crack as the concrete did under him.

Krillin finally remembered who he was dealing with. It was not some run-in-the-mill Bob or Bob, but the Demon Piccolo's son. His thoughts came slow and muffled. In fact, his consciousness was already blurring when he felt both of his feet getting grabbed.

Piccolo landed in front of Krillin where his feet were stationed and grabbed ahold of them. He then flipped Krillin out of the stage and onto the spectator stands. There you can see two people talking not paying attention to fight at all.

"Hey lady, I finally found you. Last time we met you told me I would get a year's worth of food, but instead, I got only a week's worth and some other useless garbage." Yajirobe finally found Bulma after going through the crowd annoying a lot of people.

"Oh, it's you. That's why you are here? I knew you weren't strong when you got eliminated so quickly. I forgot you wild folk eat so much."

'I am not weak! I-It's just those guys are monsters!'

"Anyway, I am here for that payment that you still owe me." Yajirobe wanted to get his food and leave as quickly as possible. The crowds annoyed him to no end.

"Well I don't have your kind of year's worth, but um oh! I got an idea." Reaching into her pocket, she pulled up a small gadget that looked like a gun with a cone instead of a barrel. Aiming it at Yajirobe before he could do anything, she fired the gun.

Everyone around her from the previous tournament remembered what that horrible thing did and quickly stepped back leaving Yajirobe to his fate.

"What is that, wait what is happening to me?!"

Yajirobe was shrinking as he was talking. He couldn't move as he was shrinking as he saw the world grow larger and larger. It was finally done when he was slightly smaller than the size of her phone.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" Yajirobe's voice came out squeaky and cute betraying his words and intentions.

"Oh stop whining will you. This way you can eat more for less. I will give you a fridge again so don't eat everything like last time. Just click this button when you want to grow again."

She tossed him a tiny button and capsule. His eyes lit up when the thought of doing everything while small dawn on him. But before he could reach out to his prize, the world around him started to get darker and darker. Looking up at the Sun to see what was the problem, he instead saw a falling monk in orange come straight at him.

Krillin's butt landed directly on the poor man. He felt like a hotdog, unable to move or protest at his situation. Bulma took one look at the sleeping Krillin and her and Chichi decided to move to the other side of the arena to get a better look.

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"Here comes the second match of the Semi-finals! Will the previous World Champion be able to beat the surprisingly strong Shen that popped up out of nowhere?

Let the match begin!"

"Kami, I respect you and I am grateful for everything that you taught me, but unfortunately, I will have to beat you here." It was Goku's turn to show his mentor that everything he did wasn't in vain.

"Goku, as your master, I know of a weakness that even you may not know of. Good luck overcoming it." This was Shen's only chance to win. He knew Goku' monstrous strength will triumph, so he could only win with some leverage.

"And I know something about you too, do you wish to know what it is?:" Shen leaned in to hear what weakness could he possibly have leaked out to his student. But before he could think anymore, his vision turned black as he fainted.

Goku was in front of him and punched him right in the solar plex. Normally you wouldn't faint from the attack, but he twisted it in a way that would hit the sweet spot of his fainting.

Goku's voice was coming from his afterimage distracting the God as Goku did his top speed to do his attack. When Goku heard that Kami knew his weakness, he couldn't take any chances at that point. The only option was to end it fast and quickly. He only needs to wake up and see everything work out.

"A-And wow! What a knockout! The winner is Goku!"