To Go Even Further Beyond - Chapter 23.1 (Patreon)

Y'know, the place is kinda nice, I have to admit as I walked along the bridge leading to a large mansion-like buildings. The sky above is in the shade of burnt orange, almost gold, just like the clouds hovering beneath the bridge.

Maybe I should look into a set up like this in my world? I mean, I gotta be honest, bright blue just is so not my thing. If I'm going blue, I prefer a dark blue, like the colour of the flag of one of my past lives' home country.

It's why Super Saiyan Blue, is obviously trash compared to Super Saiyan four. One has crimson fur with a burnt orange gold energy, the other is a bright, blinding cyan blue….everywhere.

Just thinking of looking out of that kind of aura all around me makes me shudder, it'd like give me a constant headache. Granted, blue looks good on some things, like my sexy sexy awesome girlfriend. Just, not a super saiyan transformation bro.

As I made my way down the bridge, I passed by hundreds of soul wisps of the dearly departed, and many of a blue skinned ogre. Funnily, not a single one stopped me to ask me about something.

Maybe because I have my body they just think I'm free to come and go as I please? Well, whatever, not my problem.

A few minutes of strolling was all it took for me to reach my destination and I made my way into King Yemma's office, the check out station.

My eyes immediately went to the man in charge of judging the dearly departed, god he huge. Titanic even, he had to be a good three hundred feet tall or more.

You'd think he'd be stronger though, y'know with his occupation. But the scouter is telling me, the exact measurement of his battle power is only two thousand, six hundred.

Granted, even a battle power over a thousand is apparently in the top five percentile of Universe Seven, so maybe it's not that bad actually?

….Or maybe Universe Seven is really just that pathetic nowadays. Well whatever, I'll fix that soon.

As King Yemma finished up with one soul and sent them on their way, I skipped the rest of the line and stepped up in front.

"Goku?" Yemma blinked, giving me a confused glance, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you still be with King Kai right now? Don't tell me you fell down to the standard Hell again?"

"I'm not Goku," I replied, "My name's Kakarot, I'm his clone created by Kami."

"Kami?" Yemma's nose drew up in distaste, "That fool, always doing such stupid things." he grumbled, and began flicking through a massive book beside him.

"Ah, here we are, Kakarot, strictly speaking, you're less than a year old huh?" Yemma mused apparently reading my information off of the book, "You're karma rating is quite good, better than good you're way in the green, heck you already have hero status and will be able to keep your body if you die, good on you boy."

Huh, how did that happen? Like, I've not actually done that much good have I? I mean I murdered Tao and perved on Bulma like straight away, what exactly qualified me for hero status?

"Well, thanks I-

"Oh, what's this?" Yemma's eyes suddenly widened, "You're not under my jurisdiction? Seems you have a connection to a higher power? Seems one of the higher ups have claim for you and the Supreme Kai at that!"

…Wait, what?! I've not even fucking met Shin or done anything that could have clued him in to me considering how ignorant he is. Unless he sensed me when I transformed that first time back on Namek and he sensed me then?

Strictly speaking, back then I should have been stronger than the main timeline Gohan against Cell as a Super Saiyan 2, which was what originally clued Shin in if I remember right.

…Or maybe it's Chronoa? After all, she did tell me all I needed to do was call for her and she would hear me and come.
Well, questions for later I suppose.

"Well, no need for me to worry over you I suppose," Yemma mused, closing the book over and looking back down at me, "So what can I help you with Kakarot? Make it snappy will you? I'm a busy busy man and that punk Frieza just got his jollies blowing up another planet, low population or not, I need to be fast if I want a break at all today."

You know, I really don't envy his job. Ganbare Yemma-chan!

Well, I'll try not to take up much of his time.

"Right, I'll be quick," I promised, "I recently came into a planet of my own, it's connected to my energy and growing from it in a dimension connected to me, I want to become the guardian of it."

"Is that so?" Yemma didn't even act surprised, "Well, I can do that much for you, I just need to get a look at it for a bit."
Well, that was simple enough. I waved my hand and opened up a large portal as high up as he was tall while sitting down, displaying the landscape of my personal dimension. I opened it at random really, so what was displayed was a wide open grass land with many a creature running around.

My eyes landed on one humongous t-rex casually walking across the grass lands and curiosity getting the better of me since I haven't checked on them in a while, I tapped my scouter and checked it out.

11,912.

Hmm, not bad, not bad at all. See, I had a little experiment going on. More or less, I drained a ton of fruit from the tree of might into a bunch of lakes, rivers and the ocean itself that had formed.

I wanted to see if I could let species of a planet growing stronger passively, just by messing with their food and drink supply.

Maybe it'll be worth putting into action soon.

The thing about the mortal level, it was pretty much three fold. Zeno's monitoring of them was on three categories. The overall strength of the universe, the living conditions and the population.

Right now, I could only really deal with the overall strength, but living conditions should improve for a race when their longevity and sheer strength were increased massively, right?

I mean, this T-rex alone, assuming nothing kills it, will probably live a few hundred years.

"Hoh," King Yemma hummed, and I noticed, his eyes had taken on a golden gleam as he peered into the portal, "Not bad, not bad at all. The wild life alone are quite impressive, and while the sentient population is low, the technology of this world is leaps and bounds ahead of most planets."

Was that the same technique I got from Kami, for watching over entire worlds? I hadn't really tried it out much, maybe I should. It looked pretty handy.

I wonder…could I find Buu's prison with that?

"Well, if you want to take up the occupation, I see no reason why you cannot," Yemma shrugged, and reached into his drawer, when he pulled his hand back out, he held a tiny, tiny little fragment of light between two his thumb and pointer finger, if it weren't for how absurd I am, I wouldn't even be able to see it, "Here, by my authority, I grant you the honour of being the overseer and god of this planet." and then he tossed the little ball of light at me.

It flew down and struck me in the chest, before phasing right into me. I shuddered as I felt it aligning with my ki and seeping deep into it, a tiny little spark that I probably wouldn't have noticed at all, if not for my experience when I first came across the spark of super saiyan ki within me months ago thanks to the Ultra Divine Water.

Hmm, perhaps it gave me more insight into sensing things within myself? After all, back in the day, it was what allowed Goku to learn how to sense ki freely.

So this is god-ki huh? It's so tiny an amount I can't do anything with it right now, but, I'll fix that soon.

Actually, now that I'm taking the time to look within myself. There is another spark that I had not noticed before, a fizzling bolt of green lightning-like ki that I've never seen before.

…It reminds me of Broly. Perhaps, because I turned him into a fruit and ate him? Is this the ki of the legendary super saiyan?

I'll need to look into that later.

…And I'll need to hold off on transforming for a little while until I make sure it hasn't like made me into an utter rage machine in my super saiyan states.

God- me fucking damnit! It's like something always pops up to give me more fucking work to do.

"Right, so you're the god of that world now, I'm sure knowing Kami you know what's expected of you," Yemma mused, interrupting my thoughts, "Now is there anything else Kakarot, or can I get on with my busy busy annoying workload?"

"Thanks, and sorry but there is one little thing," I ran a hand through my spiky black hair, "Can you tell me what my family are up to right now? Where they are in Otherworld, the Saiyans Raditz, Gine and Bardock."

"Hmm, that's right, those three are your family are they not? Annoyances, the lot of them," Yemma huffed, "Gine is in heaven, she had enough karma to avoid hell upon the destruction of Planet Vegeta. The Saiyan Bardock ended up thrown through a temporal rift and died over a thousand years ago, but through continuous effort, good deeds and penance he manged to earn the right to join his wife in heaven, even giving up the chance to keep his body and train in the heroes paradise."

….Well, that's good I suppose. At the very least, they're happy. And I guess, father ended up back in time and fought Chilled in this universe. Good for him, he became a super saiyan. But, I'm mostly relieved mother never went to hell, she was far too kind and soft to to go there.

I can't really meet them now, but I suppose knowing their enjoying their afterlife together is relieving and good enough for me.

"And Raditz?" I asked, though I've got a good idea. He's probably being bullied down in hell.

Yemma winced, "…That I can't give you an answer for," he replied, "You see, the saiyan Raditz, because of the incompetency of my staff, actually managed to escape hell and we've currently lost track of him, he's kept a rather low profile since then."

Wait, what!? Raditz, my brother Raditz, who had all the strength of a newborn Saibaman, escaped hell!? When even fucking Frieza, Cell and shit couldn't!?

Man, I guess he really is my brother huh? Only badasses related to me could do shit like that.

Wait, actually, now that I think about. Didn't Raditz escape hell in one of the games as well? One of the budokai ones I'm sure.

And…he ended up shacking with that ginger snake chick that tried to seduce Goku. I can't remember how he escaped though.

Heh, guess those in charge didn't keep their eye on the 'birdie'.

"Thanks Yemma, I'll see you later." I bowed my head in gratitude to the massive ogre and made my way out.
Yemma merely grunted and tossed me a short wave, before diving right back into his workload.

Once I got outside the check out station I stepped to the side of the path and pressed two fingers against my forehead and spread my senses out.

If Yemma can't find Raditz, I probably won't be able to. But I know an idiot who can point me in the right direction thankfully.

And all I had to do was look for a power akin to my own.

And look, there it is, pitifully weak in comparison to mine, though, surprisingly, stronger than Piccolo and Gohan's were before I juiced them up on fruit.

The fuck!?

An instant later, I slipped through dimensions and appeared on a tiny little green planet right next to the power.

"Woah!?" a familiar voice yelped in shock and I turned around to see someone who looked like a taller, lamer, less built version of me in orange, flat on his ass and gaping at me, "You look just like me!" Son Goku gaped.

My hand twitched with the desire to erase him from existence.

I did not, and instead merely measured his power level.

21,250.

….How the fuck? He should only be approaching eight thousand at this point. How did he get so much stronger than the original timeline when he's been too far away for my actions to effect!?