[Flashback] Let's Pick It Up Once And For All. Soy Training!

The Earthling Saiyan arched an eyebrow in an unexpected feeling of amusement. “Dead?” - were the letters that the man spelt from his mouth, as he was surprised to even hear the mention of such a word. Did people seriously think he was dead? Maybe he couldn’t blame them; he did disappear for a while, without too much of a warning. Yeah, he should have probably waved over or something, but well, thankfully he was far from death!

“I haven’t been dead in a while!— Since, y’know, we met after all those years and everything, but yeah, no worries,” - said the man before he let his shoulders raise for the slightest of moments in a careless motion. “I can kind of see why you’d think that. I should have probably mentioned I was leaving with the dragon. My bad!” - he exclaimed with just one of his brow furrowed and a smile that pressed against the side of his mouth almost in an apologetic manner.

Tomo, though, did bring up an interesting point when it came to Tomina’s role in her revival. To be precise, the resurrection of every individual of good-will that had lost their life in the latest fifteen years. Now, that was something that was beyond the small confusion Corn had received earlier— this was actually shocking. Not for the wish itself, but rather the wisher.

“Tomina, wait, we talkin’ about that Tomina, right?”

He interrupted, almost in a joking way, but like, he couldn’t actually believe it for a moment but, then again, the kid did prove herself to be a lot more than just a grumpy Kingdom Saiyan soldier, so, maybe it was possible.

“Just wow. Just wait until the next time I see that girl— I am definitely gonna nag her about that!” - he chuckled briefly before he waved it away with his hand; not like he would honestly make fun of her, it was just… such a good action and everything for someone he had observed to be rather far from such a behavior but, then again, people were a lot more than what they looked like, right?

The Saiyan woman did also give herself some space in the sentence as she pointed out about how apparently she was ‘a good girl’, or well, not literally that, but that was mostly the sense of it and, well, it was quite a comfortable attempt at ending the speech with a light-hearted joke. He could appreciate that, yeah! Though, he also did reply similarly to her tone.

“You ever been bad before? I still haven’t gotten to see that— True, though, I don’t know what you were up to before we met, but hey, you’ve been a nice person for as much time as I’ve known you. Like, uh,” - he paused briefly and rested a hand on his hips, as a little support while his hand proceeded to do the gestures that followed his words all the during his face formed a smile. “You did cheer on me during the tournament, I remember that! Thanks about that; it was nice to feel that I can count on you.”

An abrupt silence followed from the man’s side, as he didn’t quite know what to add as his mind blanked for a moment but it did recover and the Saiyan brought back the topic he had previously mentioned. “In more ways than one, too! You’ve grown a lot stronger since we fought— you gonna keep that power to yourself or are you gonna show it to me?” - blasted out the man in a full out challenge towards Tomoroko with a confident smile. “I remind you we still have some lessons to go over, Tomo.”

If Tomoroko was in search of sensations that would have made her feel alive, then the Turtle Hermit had two fists ready to make her feel them all.

Corn chuckled briefly, he just shook his head in response to the dragon. “Nothing too important! I’ll tell you some other time,” - he said but, though, he did really agree with Tomo; that girl’s alignment was indeed a mystery, but, he believed that she was more than just Lettis for sure.

“Yeah, I know! Well— I didn’t really treat her bad. I had a little of that idea with Nasu, but, he’s definitely an amazing guy. You should be proud of him!”

The moment Cornatto asked out for Tomo’s ‘doings’ in the world had come almost as something obvious to the girl; not that Corn really knew much about what Tomo used to do, honestly, he was out there doing stuff on Earth or with his old friends on some Galactic Patrol squadron, but really, he wasn’t that much informed! Though, if anything, he guessed that they had been blessed that she had turned her path a little straighter then!

Or did she? There was still a war and everything, but, it was still kind of just, in the past and perhaps, in the end, Corn didn’t see it as a necessary evil, but maybe, he didn’t exactly know any and all details in its regards, but rather, he only saw it as a way the Alliance expressed its needs to prevail and allow not for the Empire’s existence which only gave the Saiyans a bad reputation.

If anything, though, whatever she might have done in the Empire, he believed her to be quite the likable person. Maybe a little too much, though, just like the moment she winked at him and shot that sentence at him, that— admittedly blew like compressed air exploding right in front of Cornatto and had him widen his eyes and let out a little bit of a nervous laugh in response.

“I am— all for it, yeah, haha...”

It did feel this warmth scratch a little against the surface of his face but, he immediately tried to fluff it away with a little thing about how he noticed her cheering on him, at least that bit, and well, maybe it just got things a little worse than what he had expected and instead had both of them be silent and well— maybe embarrassed until the spirits were cooled off, or were they— though, by the indication of Tomoroko’s strength.

However, both Saiyan spirits fired up once more at the mention of a little contest; definitely not expected, huh? But what would you have seen it coming from Corn? He would have liked to gauge his old friend’s power! No, he definitely wanted to, actually, she felt stronger than she did in the afterlife, after all.

He smirked. “No promise,” - he responded before she finally decided to start things out with a flurry of attacks, as a few of them sent Corn backward with the sore sensation of her fists over his torso until he lifted up both his fists to clash against hers— each of them put together with their forces and had the man starting to like this as she was going all out: no trying to kill somebody, no drama, nothing serious— just two people enjoying the hell out of a battle!

“Woo, hey— put more of it into these! Burst it all out!” - he exclaimed. Somehow he could feel that Tomo could give more, maybe she had become a little numb because of the time she spent in the world of the dead, but if anything, Corn was gonna pull her out of that shell, but that, too, brought him to the fact that so far, he was only taking in her hits— so, he thought, it’d be time to have a little fun!

“Let’s see how you’re gonna deal with this!”

He brought his hands down, to cause a little impact against her strikes, for him to break the hold just momentarily and quite literally spun on her feet and moved sideways, for him to attempt and grip on her arm as a lever before he adjusted his body front against her back and tried to go for her other arm, for his arms to extend down her armpits before clenching his limbs and lock her upper arm with his forearms— he was basically going for a grapple from behind, holding her tight enough against him to see if she could muster up enough strength to escape.

The action that took place was quite swift and also involving; not that the two hadn’t fought before, but at least, Corn was enjoying this. It had been a while since he had risen his fists and as much as this was just something friendly. Well, it could be fun. Maybe it was Tomo who could be that enticing, no idea. It was hard to tell, honestly, knowing the guy and his liking to battle.

But regardless, though, there was a certain point during the battle that Cornatto figured out he’d go ahead and try out something a little different. Maybe a test of strength, yeah, one could consider it that but in the same capacity, maybe it was just to make her unleash out her full strength, after all.

What the Earthling Saiyan did was literally just grab her and then he kept her still, that was about it. Yet, such a little action could bring so many consequences— and feelings. No literally. For soon enough, in the man’s consciousness sneaked a weird sense of… warmth. Almost as if his chest had begun to burn within at the movements of the Saiyan woman that pretty much had her stroking against his body.

She went as far as stomping his feet, but that did little given the leverage and the difference in power.

And then, she tried with her tail.

And she did get something, but not what she had expected. He pretty much felt goosebumps from bottom to top the moment the two ‘entities’ collided and as she continued, he simply started to get redder— as he sweated a little and sort of, tried to back away.

“W-wait, hold on over there with that thing, Tomo!”

A few moments later, though, she pulled out her trump card: the Super Saiyan and finally she freed herself from his grasp as he was pushed back somewhat, but yet he braced himself and smirked.

“Alright! Okay, let’s see how you deal with this…”

The man closed his fists tightly and roared to the top of his lungs his next words.

“KAIOKEN TIMES TEN!!”

He unleashed a crimson aura as he was now empowered beyond his base power and pretty much gestured at Tomoroko to come at him. “I’ll only use the Kaioken for now. I can’t hold this forever, so you have a window at beating me. Let me see what you’re gonna do with that now!”