"You have a keen nose, able to smell such a subtle difference?" Shu saw "Mai's" demeanor change drastically, and she rubbed his dog head in a familiar yet strange way.
"What is going on, Mai? You are? ...It's actually you?!" He suddenly realized; wasn't this the guy who taught him ninjutsu last time!
A quarter of an hour later, Ino, occupying Mai's body, saw the boss of the trio: Emperor Pilaf, wearing gaudy clothes with the Chinese characters for "Fried Rice" on his chest.
This was the first boss young Goku had faced in the true sense. However, time is fair. The once wealthy and powerful Emperor Pilaf was now incredibly destitute. Having spent these years desperately searching for Dragon Balls and facing the tyrannical martial force of the Saiyans, he was like Don Quixote charging at windmills. Now he was so poor that he clinked when he walked; not only were his clothes tattered, but his face was also full of wrinkles.
Even if he wanted to go out and work, no one would hire him because he was simply too old.
"Who exactly are you? Release Mai immediately!" Pilaf still cared quite a bit about his two subordinates.
He raised a laser gun, wanting to aim at Mai, but realized this was his subordinate and hurriedly lowered it. However, the next second he felt something was wrong and raised it again.
Raised, lowered, raised again, lowered again.
Swirls had already appeared in the eyes of the dog-headed Shu beside him.
Ino, controlling Mai's body, flicked a finger and knocked his laser gun flying. Such a fierce combat value reminded Pilaf of the fear of being dominated by Saiyans, and he hugged the dog-headed ninja, shivering together, old tears streaming down his face.
Ino looked disgusted: "Don't worry about who I am. I want to make a deal with you."
"...What, what? What deal?"
"You help me manufacture an ultra-large-range Dragon Ball Radar, the kind that can be used in the universe, and I will ask Earth's Shenron to restore youth to the three of you. What do you think?"
Pilaf's reaction was a bit intense: "I don't want to restore youth; I want to conquer the world!"
His two subordinates, including Mai whose body was occupied by Ino, were a bit moved. They dreamed of restoring their youth, especially the dog-headed ninja Shu, whose lifespan was coming to an end.
However, they still respected Pilaf as their boss. The wish to conquer the world was actually a dream the three-person team had always held.
Ino asked in return: "Conquer the world? Is the world you speak of the Earth, or the entire universe? Shenron doesn't have the ability to cover the entire universe. If you only want to conquer the Earth, that's possible, but next time there's an alien invasion or something, you'll need to resist it. After all, if aliens come to Earth, they will definitely look for you first."
The dog-headed ninja and Pilaf looked at each other for a moment, both feeling that this was indeed fraught with crisis!
Pilaf even fantasized about the scene of himself being beaten up by aliens.
They had also seen the images of the Frieza Force's invasion before. The three of them were very cowardly, or rather, the place the three of them were staying in now was a remote backwater. The Frieza Force didn't care about their location and didn't consider their area as a primary target for invasion.
"Emperor, I don't want to die! Wuwuwuwu!" The dog-headed ninja hugged Pilaf and started crying; he cried so heartbreakingly.
Pilaf was also afraid of death. The fact was, he didn't quite understand what conquering the world implied either.
"Then... then, then alright, let's just restore youth. Remember your promise!"
"Deal."
They didn't even know what Ino was called or where her home was, yet they agreed to this slightly absurd transaction.
Two days later, Ino obtained an ultra-large Dragon Ball Radar the size of a washbasin. This thing could conduct large-scale searches with planets as the unit.
She left Earth and returned to Konoha Village.
On the way, she visited the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce, played with the little fox for a while, talked with Karin, and then did some things unsuitable for children. Finally, she handed the Super Dragon Ball Radar to Karin, asking the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce to help her find the traces of the Super Dragon Balls.
At this time, within the scope of the universe, the Frieza Force had already declined. A large amount of territory became vacant, and major chambers of commerce, financial groups, and some tyrannical cosmic forces all joined the scramble to stake their claims. The entry of the Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce was not abrupt.
Ino had no way to cross space to the Sixth Universe; she could only think of another way for the Super Dragon Balls over there. For now, she would find the Super Dragon Balls in the Seventh Universe first.
...
Frieza's brother, Cooler, was leading his subordinates toward Earth. The North Kai notified the Earth warriors of the news immediately.
Unlike the previous invasion by the Frieza Force—where the distance was short, taking two spaceship jumps and a few days of flight to arrive—Cooler was currently at the other end of the universe. To fly to Earth, similar to Vegeta's invasion back then, would take more than a year.
Cooler often said his strength was ten times that of Frieza. This was purely bragging. In reality, he measured it against Frieza's battle power when entering his Final Form. After entering his Final Form, Frieza could still further unlock his battle power limits, he just didn't have a physical transformation for it. regardless, Cooler's battle power was definitely stronger than Frieza's. For the current Earth, he was absolutely a powerful enemy.
Under the leadership of Son Goku, a new round of intense competition began.
130 days later, the Namekians expressed: We can't compete with you guys, goodbye!
The Dragon Balls of Planet Namek were restored to normal. Ino used their Dragon Balls to resurrect Kitsuchi and Fu. These two still had a strong attachment to the shinobi world, so she let them be resurrected directly. The Fourth Raikage, Killer B, and Zabuza continued to stay in the Underworld to train.
The Namekians used their third wish to find a planet suitable for habitation and left Earth.
In order to mooch off the training facilities at Bulma's house, Vegeta put his plan of 'eating soft rice hard' onto his daily schedule. Originally, like the Namekians, he was just staying temporarily, but now he didn't even mention when he would move out.
Piccolo also had thoughts of re-merging with Kami, but he was still hesitating. He wanted to train by himself first and only merge when he really couldn't out-train the others.
Krillin and Tien Shinhan both began a new round of training.
The Namekians didn't even have a planet, so naturally, they couldn't serve as Ino's model planet. If the higher-ups asked, "Where is this very civilized planet of yours? Can we see it?" and she said, "It's all in the documents," that wouldn't do. A physical object was still needed.
Fertile water should not flow into others' fields. Ino returned to her hometown, preparing to build Konoha into a model civilized village!
At this time, more than four years had passed since the Infinite Tsukuyomi of Kaguya Otsutsuki and Obito. Tsunade had been Hokage for four years and truly could not bear it any longer.
Ino was twenty-two years old this year, not young anymore.
Minato was twenty-three when he succeeded to the position of Fourth Hokage back then. Her current age wasn't much different; being Hokage was no problem.
Tsunade slammed her hand down: It's you, Seventh Hokage, come on!
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