The Warrior of Pure Heart | Dragon Ball Z

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"Have you not heard about the Sacred Water before?" Korin asked curiously, to which Chi-Chi responded by slowly shaking her head. "When Goku and Roshi came up here for the first time, it was precisely to look for this water since it is well known that if you manage to drink it, your abilities will increase considerably."

"Really?" Chi-Chi exclaimed, surprised. She then turned to look again at the vessel on the column. Its surface shone with the light of the morning sun that touched it. "Is it some kind of magical water?"

Chi-Chi continued contemplating the vessel in silence, initially overcome by a marked feeling of skepticism. Indeed, the idea of magical water that made you stronger sounded a little unrealistic to her. However, she could not forget that she lived in a world in which there were balls that, by gathering them, could make any wish come true, including reviving the dead. A world where she could fly on a cloud, travel to the very shore that separated this world and the other, or fully recover her strength and heal from all her wounds after eating only a small seed. And, especially, a world where a man like her husband could perform feats far surpass those of any other human being.

If Chi-Chi had thought about it objectively, everything would have sounded, to some extent, possible in comparison.

"And Goku and Master Roshi drank from it?" Chi-Chi then asked with marked interest, looking again towards Master Korin.

The old hermit nodded solemnly.

"They both drank the water. And by the time they did, they had become astonishingly stronger. Thanks to that, Goku managed to defeat Tao Pai Pai when he was just a child."

Chi-Chi knew that story. Upa had talked about it the night before they began climbing the tower. Furthermore, if she remembered correctly, Tao Pai Pai was one of the participants in the tournament five years ago, seeking revenge against Goku. So, Goku was able to defeat him thanks to the water.

"That means that if I drink from it... can I become stronger? Enough to be able to train with the others?"

"It's likely," Korin answered calmly. "Definitely, if you manage to drink it, you will have become much stronger than you are now. And so I could give you a sleigh bell to go up to the Lookout. What are you saying? Are you interested?"

Chi-Chi's first reflex was to answer that question affirmatively, without even thinking about it too much. However, although her mouth opened to speak her response, she backed away at the last moment and remained silent a little longer.

Something seemed a little strange to her about all that. Would just drinking that water allow her to go up to see Kamisama when, a moment ago, Korin flatly refused to do so? Would it really make her that powerful? Why didn't he offer it to her from the beginning instead of telling her all that stuff about her going home?

She didn't want to think badly or get too paranoid, but something was definitely making her distrustful.

"Are there any side effects?" Chi-Chi asked suddenly. "From drinking the water, I mean."

"Not at all," Korin responded normally. "No negative effects different from drinking normal water."

"There's no trick, then?" Chi-Chi murmured, narrowing her eyes.

"No trick," Korin replied in a smiling voice. "If you drink the water, I will give you a bell. You have my word."

He then raised his right hand (or claw?) in a sign of oath.