On Earth, on a vast, open grassland.
After Porunga revived Piccolo and Kami, Earth's Dragon Balls were also restored. The group gathered the prepared Dragon Balls and shouted: "Come forth, Shenron."
The green Earth Shenron appeared: "State your wish."
Krillin stepped forward and said loudly: "Shenron, please revive all the... good people who were killed by the Frieza Force."
"This wish is simple," Shenron said, his eyes glowing intensely red.
The next moment, several beams of light descended from the sky. As the light dissipated, some of the Namekians who had died at the hands of the Frieza Force were revived.
Earth's Shenron dispersed, and Porunga reminded them: "You still have one wish left."
Krillin frowned: "Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tien have already died once. They can only be revived through Porunga. Who should we revive first?"
As they hesitated, a lazy voice came from behind him: "Since a year on Namek is only 130 days, why not just wait 130 days and revive the three of us together?"
Krillin spun around and saw Yamcha standing behind him, a halo floating above his head.
"Yamcha, how did you get here?" Krillin asked, shocked.
"Hehe." Yamcha smiled and pointed into the distance. "I'm not the only one who snuck back."
Krillin followed his finger and saw Chiaotzu and Tien there as well.
"Tien, Chiaotzu!" Goku said joyfully.
"Setsuna-senpai brought us back," Chiaotzu explained, raising his hand.
Only then did everyone realize that Setsuna had also returned.
"Setsuna, how did you get back?" Bulma asked curiously.
Setsuna said calmly: "I opened the Yomotsu Hirasaka to enter the afterlife, then jumped back to Earth from there. I also took a detour to King Kai's planet on the way and brought them back to catch up."
Krillin was dumbfounded: "You can do that?"
Bulma tapped her chin with her fingertip: "Sounds a bit like Space-Time jump."
Goku asked doubtfully: "Isn't that against the rules?"
He had heard while in the afterlife that only with special permission from Yemma could one briefly return to the living world.
Setsuna laughed upon hearing this: "Of course it's against the rules. Me, a dead person, staying in the living world is the biggest violation. So..." Setsuna looked up at the sky. "To avoid troubling King Kai, I plan to go to the afterlife to train."
At that moment, on King Kai's planet, King Kai heard Setsuna's words and breathed a huge sigh of relief.
They, the Kaio, had no way of dealing with Frieza, let alone someone stronger than Frieza who was completely unbound by the laws of the afterlife. At least, he couldn't think of any way to restrain him.
"Setsuna, are you going to train on King Kai's planet too?" Goku asked excitedly, eager to introduce him.
"Not King Kai's planet." Setsuna shook his head slightly. "The afterlife has accumulated countless years of existence. There should be quite a few 'strong warriors'. I plan to ask King Kai to organize a martial arts tournament in the afterlife."
Of course, this was actually meant to motivate Goku. In the afterlife, the only one truly deserving the title of strong warrior was Pikkon.
As for Goku and Vegeta, although there was currently a huge gap between them and Setsuna, as long as their base power level reached 3 million, with some external stimulation to successfully transform into Super Saiyans, they could instantly reach a level comparable to him.
"A martial arts tournament in the afterlife?" Goku was indeed excited. "Setsuna, I want to participate too!"
Krillin said helplessly: "Goku, you're alive right now."
"It's fine." Goku said nonchalantly. "I can just die again, and you guys can revive me later."
Everyone: "..."
'Hey hey! Don't say that so casually!'
Setsuna said with a smile: "Actually, we don't need to go through that trouble. I can directly take you to the afterlife. There are quite a few martial artists there who have special permission to train with their physical bodies. I think King Kai won't mind a few 'temporary visitors'."
"Won't mind, or doesn't dare to mind?" Krillin's mouth twitched slightly. He somehow felt Setsuna was a 'bully' in the afterlife.
Hearing Setsuna's words, Tien and Piccolo were deeply tempted. Their desire to grow stronger was no less than Goku's.
"I'm in too!" Tien smiled. "Perfect timing. We'll just delay our revival for now."
"I'll join too." Piccolo's expression was somewhat complicated. He still had remnants of the first Piccolo's memories, in which Setsuna was merely a slightly troublesome 'bug'. But how long had it been? Setsuna was already strong enough to kill Frieza. 'Could it be that Earthlings actually had some powerful bloodline he didn't know about?'
Yamcha stroked his chin. Although he was a bit hesitant, seeing everyone else going, he gritted his teeth and said: "Count me in!"
In an instant, all the Z-Fighters expressed their desire to participate.
Meanwhile, Vegeta's mind was in turmoil.
'A martial arts tournament in the afterlife, strong warriors accumulated over countless years in the afterlife... Was it through training in the afterlife that he became so powerful?'
Vegeta couldn't help but fantasize: 'If I could also train in the afterlife, could I achieve exponential growth? Surpass Kakarot, surpass Frieza, surpass this Earthling named 'Setsuna', and become a true Super Saiyan!'
Just thinking about these wonderful possibilities made his breathing quicken. But as the Prince of Saiyans, how could he bow his head and ask an Earthling for a favor?
After an intense internal struggle, he took a deep breath, as if using all his strength, and said in a low voice, using a tone he himself found incredibly awkward and stiff: "Um... could you... count me in too?"
"Huh?" Krillin and the others were startled, then showed strange expressions, 'This arrogant, self-centered guy could actually ask for help?'
Setsuna looked at Vegeta, who was clearly eager but trying to maintain his pride in the most awkward manner, and smiled slightly: "Alright, but only if you join as an 'Earthling'."
"What?" Vegeta showed an incredulous expression. "I am the Prince of Saiyans, of the proud warrior race! How could I possibly identify as an 'Earthling'?"
"Still the Prince of Saiyans?" Krillin muttered quietly. "Raditz said Goku was just a low-class warrior, but you still lost to him. As for Earthlings, Setsuna can kill you with one finger. And you still look down on us?"
"You!" Vegeta's face flushed with anger, but he couldn't refute because Krillin was speaking the truth.
Setsuna said calmly: "I don't care either way. If you end up so weak that you can't even beat Krillin later on, that's your business."
"Hey, Setsuna." Krillin protested gloomily. "I'm really strong too, you know!"
Vegeta, however, was secretly horrified, 'Not even being able to beat that little baldy? I might as well die!'
With that thought, Vegeta decisively said: "Fine, I'm an Earthling now!"
After all, he and Kakarot were the only two Saiyans left in this universe. And since the two of them couldn't exactly reproduce to create a pure-blooded Saiyan, he might as well accept reality sooner rather than later.