Growth

Akira POV

I have been on my own for about 2 weeks now, and in this time I have grown incredibly well. When I woke up on the fist day, I trained my Ki sense until I had mastered, now being able to pinpoint others to an exact location for hundreds of miles, but also get an exact reading on how strong someone is.

All it took was 1 extra day (think about it, Vegeta mastered Ki sense by only knowing about it by the time he arrived on Namek, in the span of a few days, as in the pod he sent most of his time asleep), and the I moved on to improving my strength.

my training clothes only weight around 20 pounds together, which is good as with how weak I am, carrying that load constantly was a struggle. I Mentally note I am lucky to be half saiyan, as that is my theory as to why Gohan didn't stunt his growth with training for an early age.

After mastering Ki sense, hunting became a breeze, and so I started to train my ki, and body. despite the initial challenge moving around in my weighted clothes, it only took about a week to adapt to them, making the gain much less.

In that first week, I had managed to refine and train my ki incredibly well, improving at what I assume would be a staggering rate. I was still apprehensive about my hidden power, but figured as long as I never accessed my hidden power, and train my ki, I would be fine.

I didn't have a reference point to base my current strength off, sense I can't exactly read power levels, but I due to my enhanced Ki Sense, I could pinpoint his power relative to mine, and gain a rough estimate.

Piccolo right now is way ahead of me, my power punt compared to his. I remember in the show his max power without weights is in the 400s, in the early 20s I think. I'll place him at 420 for simplicity.

taking a rough estimate, I'd say my power level has shot up to around 15-20. with that power level, I am already much higher than basic humans, but with the full potential if my Ki unlocked, I would say my strength is far beyond normal human levels.

I notice that the power gain is pretty ridiculous compared to what Dad had as a kid, my power already surpassing what his was as a 12 year old, around 10-12. I just goes to show the insane potential and power of mixing Human and Saiyan DNA.

but once my body got used to the weights, my improvement slowed down a bit. the following weak, I trained myself to the ground, much harder than the week before, to make up for the lack of weights, and my power jumped from a rough estimate of 15-20, to 30-35. A staggering improvement in most people's eyes.

in fact, by my estimations, I should be around as strong as Dad when he finished Roshi's training. I have a theory that Goku gained constant improvement throughout the tournament, due to the tons of damage he took.

I don't believe that Zenkai's only work at near death, only when badly damaged. Plus he naturally improved during the fights he was in, becoming stronger and stronger the more he fought.

with his tail growing back, if my theory of tails improving a saiyans strength if only a little, then it makes more sense why he was able to stand up to Roshi at the end of the tournament. granted Roshi wasn't going all out, as he did in the next tournament against Tien, but hsi power level if I remember should have been around 130-140.

It goes to show you the insane improvement Saiyans have with fighting, Dad going from 30-40, to around 120-130 by my estimations. Sadly I don't have anyone to fight, so I won't that way until I start training with Piccolo. But it's till insane to thing the growth I have already experienced, gaining the same boost dad did, with months of insane training, in just around 2 weeks with significantly less brutal training.

I sit in a cave I carved out with ki blasts, staring at the fire Infront of me. My clothes almost completely unharmed aside from a few small scratches due to how durable Piccolo made them.

I had just finished my meal, a few large bones laying to my side. I grab the water skin I made out of the animals I've hunted, mentally thanking my dad's survival training again. in the time I have been our here, I haven't just changed physically, but psychology.

What I had yet to realize, is that I'm not really the same person that died, and not just metaphorically. What happened is that I was reborn as an entirely new person. I may have the memories of my past life, but they just influenced me.

My soul was cleansed of my old life, becoming effectively a new soul with a clean slate. I guess that's why my old memories felt sort of disconnected. I never really thought about it, but I can now realize that the memories of my past life don't impact me as much as they should, like watching a video.

My old ideals and philosophy aren't my own, I'm not the guy that died, the guy that lived the life I remember. it's why I adapted to my new body and gender so quickly despite living 18 years as a man, why my personality has changed so drastically to what it was, hell why I can fly on the Nimbus, because int his life, I am pure of heart, pure of ant bad deeds I may of done on my past life.

this realization hit me like a train. I had thought of myself as they person I was before, not the person I am now, and I was having trouble rationalizing this. I couldn't easily let go of all my past lives attachments, life my connections to important people, like my mother.

But they adapted to this new life, making Chi-Chi my mom in my mind. This also led to another realization, the connections we have with others are far more powerful that what I thought. even with my soul wiped clean, my connection and love of my mother, the only person always their for me in my old life, remained.

I don't even understand how it's possible, but it's real. I makes me wonder how truly powerful the mind is, makes me wonder about the power of connections. Well one this is for sure, I am Son Akira, no matter what, and while it will take me along time to figure out my problems, for now I need to focus.

I stand up, and walk outside of the cave. i see a nearly pitch black wasteland, barely alumanated by the starlight. I look up at the moonless sky, looking at all the star glistening like gems. I remember my old life memories. I slowly raise my hand to the sky, remembering all the times I wished to escape the life and world I felt trapped in, I would reach upward at the sky, and-

I look at my clenched had, held to the sky, and remember that I did escape the life I felt trapped in, escaped the souls eating reality of my old world. In that life, I wasn't ever going to mean much in the grand scheme. The only way humans can be remembered is etching their way into history, but history eventually forgets.

In the grand scheme of the universe, nothing really matters, the universe will never truly care, neither will higher powers. that ROB didn't care about me, I can tell, he only wanted to use my for his own amusement. only in the eyes of others people will be ever be remembered for who we are.

But humans grow old and die, and with that, the people who truly met you, know who you are, even if they tell your story, the people they tell will never truly know. until the story fade away, forgotten.

that was what kept me from even trying for a long time, a realization that none of it really matters, I would never truly accomplish anything, it made it hard to try. my fist clenches harder. But in this world I can be remembered.

their are real gods, immortal beings who control the very multiverse. In this moment, I decide what I want to do. as I stare at the beautiful starry sky, I vow I will etch my name into the kind of every god, into the very fabric of reality, into the kind of Zeno himself.

only then can I ever he truly remembered, truly accomplish something. I will become so strong that even Zeno will tremble at my name, always remembering the strongest their ever will be.

Son Akira, The Strongest Being To Have Ever Existed.