ch. 36 Snake way!

Flying out of the portal Krillin suddenly felt the change in dimensions, instead of of flying upwards vertically he was now going horizontal.

Krillin quickly flew upwards and turned back to see thousands of sinners trying to enter earth, only for a scorching steam to break through the portal and kill the sinners who had surrounded the portal!

As the steam of the furnace once again blocked it's path, the sinner just sat down and watched the steam quitely, waiting for another chance to escape hell.

"I guess if there's nothing else to do, they might as well wait at the only exit to hell and hope for a chance to escape." Krillin watched the sinners for a moment before he spotted a blue and red Ogre racing towards him!

Without any reservations he began flying upwards to the golden yellow road above him, putting away his fan away and draggimg piccolo with him.

It would be impossible for anyone in the afterlife that King Yemma labeled a sinner to fly out of hell, but Krillin and Piccolo hadn't been labeled anything yet as they were still alive! Even Piccolo Jr who was considered evil incarnate could leave hell as he hadn't been labeled a sinner yet.

Landing on the golden road Krillin looked left and then right, he didn't have a single inkling which direction lead to King Kai's planet.

'System use a ticket to show me the location of Goku.' Suddenly an internal compass formed in Krillins mind.

Krillin knew that Goku would be going to Kai's planet so he decided to use a ticket on Goku to permanently know his location instead of wasting it on North Kai's planet location.

Krillin closed his eyes and focused intensely on his compass, sensing that Goku was heading in his direction he realized which direction King Kai's planet was.

"Looks like your training starts now, here put these on." Reaching into his storage Krillin pulled out weighted vest, armbands and shoes.

Piccolo picked up the heavy shoe and looked at Krillin glaringly, dropping the shoe in a huff of anger.

"You can get angry at me but wearing these will increase your strength, do you want to forever be under my control or do you want to become strong enough to overthrow me" Using the right motivation, Krillin smiled as Piccolo Jr eyes widen and he gave the clothing a second glance.

With an angry and begrudging look, Piccolo put the training cloths on and slowly took a heavy step forward.

Krillin put on a similar but heavier training clothes and began walking at a similar speed to Piccolo, Krillin could traverse the entire snake way in less than a week if he flew, but he knew he needed to train up Piccolo Jr for the future of the Z Fighters.

With each thumping weighted step, Krillin got closer and closer to learning the second vital technique he absolutely needed to grow stronger as a human, the Kaio-ken technique!

*****

It had been 16 days since Krillin had began walking the golden snake road, Krillin and Piccolo hadn't changed weights but the two's traveling speed had gone from a slow walk to a light Jog!

Krillins sweat cake body took a step forward as Piccolo suddenly collapsed, the tendon in his green leg having snapped under the constant pressure. Instead of complaining, the little Namekian let out a grunt of pain and anger before using his racial healing ability, regenerating the tendon before catching up to Krillin.

Piccolo's body was very receptive to Olibu's strength training, his body's active healing ability was much stronger than Krillin passive healing. Krillin had to use Shenrons healing magic a couple times on himself just to keep up with Piccolos constant growth.

'To think that healing maguc was this incredibly for training, I wished for it to cure Goku's heart virus in the future but to think it would drastically increase my strength!'

With the healing magic reducing Krillins need to rest to zero, and his purified body lowering his need to sleep, Krillin found himself continuesly growing stronger and stronger! Unlike the Saiyans who suddenly get a dramatic increase in strength all at once, krillin was growing stronger at a steady rate.

By krillins educated guess, disregarding any saiyan transformation or zenkai boost, he had a growth rate faster than the saiyans!

Looking the sweaty Piccolo trudging forward with determination, Krillin came to a stop.

"That's enough of the clothes training for you, you'll travel the rest of the way the way without weari" "wHy" Piccolo cut Krillin off in a broken voice.

Krillin looked a little stunned at Piccolo speaking for the first time but a cheeky smile grew in his face.

"What's this? Babys first words!? I wish I had a camera to capture this moment, ooh try and say papa, call me Papa!" Piccolo Jr had all of the memories of King Piccolo but the mentality of a child, that being said he still understood Krillins was making fun of him!

Gritting his teeth in anger, Piccolo clenched his fist before restating himself "wHy tAkE oFF? YoU sLoW mE sTrEngTH gaIN" The namekian hadn't fully developed the vocal cords for proper speech yet, making his voice sound quite eree.

Instead of attacking Krillin like he normally would've, the namekian understood there was no point and would rather hide his strength for when he actually attacks.

"Well Junior, the man your father/your previous self killed is close by. We'll be traveling with him to our destination so we don't need to waste time on this golden road"

Hearing that Goku was closing in on them, Piccolo quickly threw off the training clothes and quickly got into a combat stance from Demon King Piccolos memory. He didn't want the clothing to slow him down in combat as Piccolo Jr thought Goku came looking for revenge.

In the original anime it took Goku more than 150 days to travel snake way, now it took him just 16 days to reach the halfway point! Krillin spotted an orange blur running towards the duo on the snake way, as they got closer Goku spotted the two and stumbled in shock!

Walking over to the downed Goku, Krillin looked at him in confusion.

"Are you okay Goku?" Krillin said offering his hand up.

"Are you okay Krillin! Were you also killed by those android guys!" Goku shouted in confusion, not knowing how Krillin could be in the otherworld otherwise.

"Nah I didn't die Goku, I infact avenged you and had Kami send you to the North Kai. I couldn't let you get too far ahead of me so I snuck into hell and flew up here to join you in your training."

"So you didn't die, that's great! By the way, who's the green kid?"Goku said in confusion.

"Oh him? He's the son/reincarnation of the android that Killed you." Krillin didn't hold back any information.

"Really? A reincarnation? " Piccolo Jr began to sweet buckets as Goku turned his attention towards him.

"Yup, his name is Piccolo Jr. I decided to take him under my wing to show him the errors of his ways, do you mind if he joins us?"

"Nah it's fine, the more the merrier haha. My name is Goku, Piccolo, it's nice to meet you!" Goku's carefree attitude stunned Piccolo, he though he'd be a lot madder finding the reincarnation of the assassin that killed him.

Looking at the happy go lucky smile on Goku's face, a never before felt emotion flickered in Piccolo's heart when he remembered what his previous self did, regret.