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No Balls!

Manga ChapterCh. 2

Bulma pops out a pocket-sized house and tries to civilize her wild new traveling partner. Goku meets his first bathtub, his first bed, and his first girl without a tail, all in one very awkward overnight stop in the forest.

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One Capsule, One House

With the sun going down, Bulma decides the pair should stop for the night and tosses a capsule that unpacks into a fully furnished house. Goku, who has spent his entire life in a simple mountain cabin, is stunned by electric lights and a running television. Bulma eventually notices that he smells, and when she learns that the boy has no idea what a bath even is, she reluctantly decides to wash him herself.

Lessons in Civilization

While scrubbing Goku down, Bulma is startled to find that his tail is real and that he can wag it at will. She assumes, having never seen a boy unclothed before, that all males must come equipped with one. Rattled by the whole encounter, she retreats to the tub for a bubble bath of her own, only for Goku to wander in and bluntly compare her chest to a rear end. Dinner goes no better, as Goku rejects bread and other city food and instead hauls in a wolf and a centipede from the woods to cook up. At bedtime he assumes he will share the bed, but Bulma makes him a spot on the floor. As she brushes her teeth she asks about his family, and Goku explains that his parents abandoned him in the forest before his grandfather took him in. He falls asleep before she can finish explaining summer vacation.

A Shocking Discovery

Later that night, Goku creeps over to the sleeping Bulma, lifts her blanket, and investigates between her legs. Horrified to find her missing what he believed every human being possessed, he shakes her awake and blurts out that she has lost her balls. Bulma, assuming he means the Dragon Balls, bolts upright and rushes to check on them, finding all of them safe. Outside the capsule house, an unseen visitor with a turtle-shaped shadow begins to approach.

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