The Big Fight

Exchanges Too Fast to Follow

The chapter opens with Krillin slumped against the arena wall, stewing over the punch he never saw coming. Peering over the barrier, Goku casually mentions that he watched the whole thing clearly. Neither the announcer nor the crowd has any idea what just happened. Krillin pushes himself back onto his feet and locks his focus onto his opponent. Jackie Chun shifts, Krillin announces this time he can track it, and the two fighters collide in a blurred exchange before leaping apart to opposite sides of the ring.

Rock Paper Scissors at Full Speed

When the announcer asks what just occurred, he receives only silence. The fighters attack again, blurring through another lightning sequence before landing. This time Krillin drops facedown on the tiles, apparently caught by a clean hit. The announcer starts the count, but the young monk claws his way upright at eight. From a few paces away, Jackie Chun privately acknowledges that the boy has clearly put his training to good use. Before the fight can resume, the announcer insists on understanding what just happened, and Krillin and Chun cheerfully walk him through a baffling sequence of strikes punctuated by a round of rock paper scissors, all executed in the span of a heartbeat. The announcer refuses to believe it.

Panty Bait

Back in action, Krillin springs his secret weapon: a pair of women's underwear tossed onto the tiles in front of his opponent. Jackie Chun instantly dives for the prize, exactly as Krillin hoped, and the monk kicks him full force while he is distracted, launching the old master clean off the platform. Watching in disbelief, Yamcha abandons his theory on the spot, convinced that Master Roshi would never have surrendered his focus for something so cheap.