Let the Contest Begin!!

Months of Grinding

The chapter opens back on the delivery route, except now Goku and Krillin carry the turtle shells strapped to their backs while they haul the milk to every door. What used to feel brutal has become routine, and the two blaze through every task Roshi sets for them in record time. The montage of rolling months underlines just how far the pair have come since their first stumbling lap of the island. Reading lessons, field work, construction shifts, swimming with sharks, and the infamous bee tree have all become part of an ordinary day at Kame House.

One Month Out

With the World Martial Arts Tournament only thirty days away, the boys proudly demonstrate that they can now shove the enormous boulder Roshi once used to shame them. The sight genuinely startles the old hermit. He finally explains that he is not sending them into the tournament just to walk away with the prize money. The entire point is to see how much of his teaching has actually stuck under the pressure of live combat against strangers. To test the results one last time, he swaps their twenty pound shells for forty pound ones and sends them back to work under the doubled load without complaint.

Off to South City

On the final day before departure Roshi has the boys peel off the shells entirely and leap as high as they can manage. Both clear the height of a two story building without breaking a sweat, a startling jump for kids their age. The trio changes into matching suits cut in the same style as Roshi's own and boards an airplane bound for South City. A taxi ride later they arrive at Papaya Island and step onto the grounds of the World Martial Arts Tournament, eager to see whether all that sweat was worth it.