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After a warm send-off from the owner and staff of the barbecue restaurant, Goku, Naruto, and the others were led by Kakashi to an unassuming blacksmith's shop.
"Hey, Murakami-san, I've brought you some business," Kakashi said as soon as he entered, addressing a middle-aged man who was hammering away in a corner.
"Oh? It's you, Kakashi. What'll it be this time, kunai or shuriken?" Murakami glanced over without lifting his head.
"Neither. This time, it's these kids. They're looking to buy some wearable training weights," Kakashi said, stepping aside to reveal Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.
"Training weights?" Hearing this, Murakami's interest was piqued. It was rare for anyone to come in asking for training weights.
After all, they were only really used by those who specialised in taijutsu.
While most ninja practised taijutsu to some extent, they primarily focused on ninjutsu and rarely went so far as to purchase weights to supplement their training.
"That's right! Mister, we would like to purchase these. Do you have them here?" Naruto pulled Rock Lee over to the shop owner and pointed at the weighted bands on Lee's ankles.
"Oh? Aren't those the ones I sold to Guy? I take it you're Guy's student, then." Murakami instantly recognised the weights on Lee's legs as the ones Might Guy had purchased from him several months ago.
He remembered the inscribed characters for "Guts" (根性), which Guy had specifically requested to motivate his student.
"Yes, sir. I am Guy-sensei's student, Rock Lee. Thanks to your weighted bands, my strength has improved immensely," Rock Lee said with a slight bow.
"You should be thanking your teacher. He's the one who paid for them; I just sold them to him."
"You are right, sir. I am also very grateful for everything Guy-sensei has done for me!"
Cutting the small talk short, Murakami walked over to an iron chest, opened it with a click, and gestured inside. "They're all in here."
Naruto ran over to look and saw about a dozen iron bands of various sizes inside the chest.
"There are so many!"
"Yep. There are four that weigh 500kg, four that weigh 250kg, and six that weigh 100kg. Which ones do you want?"
"I want the 500kg ones!" Naruto answered without a moment's hesitation.
"Same here," Sasuke said, stepping forward.
After a glance, he also chose the 500kg option. Lee was wearing a 500kg on each leg; if they chose anything less, wouldn't that be admitting they were inferior?
Just then, Goku stepped forward to look and, as if an idea had just struck him, asked, "Mister, do you have weighted wrist guards and vests here?"
THUD!
THUD!
THUD!
On the street, Naruto and Sasuke walked with grimacing faces, each step producing a heavy, booming sound.
"This is so heavy!" Naruto gritted his teeth, his face flushed red. He felt like he was using every ounce of his strength to lift his feet.
Earlier, after Goku's inquiry, Murakami had confirmed that he, in fact, sold weighted wrist guards and vests.
So, in addition to the leg bands, they had also purchased the other two items.
Currently, both he and Sasuke were wearing a weighted vest weighing 1000kg and two weighted wrist guards weighing 250kg each.
Combined with the 500kg leg bands, the total weight they were carrying was a staggering 2000kg!
"Hey, are you two really going to be okay?" Sakura asked, watching them with a worried expression. She was afraid they were going to pass out at any moment.
At the same time, she secretly patted her own flat chest in relief.
Thankfully, she'd had the foresight not to put the weights on immediately, instead asking Goku-sensei to bring them to the training grounds tomorrow.
She knew she couldn't stand wearing these things 24/7; at most, she could tolerate them during training hours.
"O-of course we're fine!" Although he was struggling, Naruto was stubborn. Give up this quickly? Not a chance!
Beside him, Sasuke didn't respond, but the determined look on his face made it clear that he was going to see this through to the end!
Seeing that the two wouldn't listen to reason, Sakura let out a silent sigh. Then, as if remembering something, she turned to Goku, who was walking beside them.
"Goku-sensei, how did you know that training weights also came in the form of wrist guards and vests? Have you used them before?"
"Yep. I used them a long, long time ago," Goku said, a nostalgic look on his face.
He had used them while training at Kami's Lookout, which was now several decades in the past.
"In that case, Goku-sensei, how heavy were the ones you used?" Sakura asked curiously.
At this question, Naruto and Sasuke, who were trudging along ahead, both subtly perked up their ears, waiting for the answer.
Even Kakashi, who had been on the verge of yawning, was suddenly wide awake.
Goku's true strength had always been a mystery to them.
After all, when he had fought Zabuza, he had defeated him with just a few moves, making it impossible to gauge the depths of his power.
But hearing how much weight he used to train with might give them a clue.
Goku stroked his chin, frowning in thought for a moment before replying, "I think it was... 200kg?" It had been so long ago that even he wasn't entirely sure.
"Only... 200kg?" Hearing his answer, Sakura's eyes turned into little dots. Up ahead, Naruto and Sasuke nearly stumbled.
"No way! Goku-sensei, you must be lying to us, right?" Naruto yelled, turning around with great difficulty.
Leaving aside everything else, the rock Goku lifted during their daily training weighed several tons. How could his training weights have only been 200kg?
"Haha, I was still very weak back then," Goku said with a laugh, rubbing his head.
"In that case, Goku-sensei, what's the most weight you think you can handle now?" Sakura, giving up on the previous question, asked for his current self-assessment.
"I'm not really sure about that," Goku replied, scratching his head, looking a bit troubled.
He hadn't done any extreme weight training in a very long time; who knew how much he could handle now?
But then, he suddenly remembered his training on Grand Kai's planet after he had sacrificed himself during the battle with Cell.
Hadn't North Kai put eight-ton weights on him? Wait, hadn't South Kai later increased that to forty tons?
At this thought, the answer came to him. Without considering how astonishing the number was, or how it didn't seem to align with his current, suppressed power level, he just blurted it out.
"I remember now. It was probably forty tons," he said with a simple-minded grin.
"H-how much?!"
Everyone had thought they wouldn't get an answer, but Goku had suddenly provided one. But wasn't that answer a little too exaggerated, a little too far beyond the realm of human comprehension?
"Hey, hey, forty tons... how many kg is forty tons?"
Among the group, only Naruto wasn't stunned into silence by the answer, because he was still cluelessly trying to figure out the conversion rate between tons and kg.
"Naruto, you big idiot! You don't even know that?" Sakura, who had been shocked into a stupor, snapped back to her senses at the sound of Naruto's loud voice, her face darkening.
"One ton is 1000kg, so forty tons is 40000kg!"
"Huh? 40,000?!—whoa!"
BOOM!!!
His mind completely blown, Naruto lost his balance and, with the "help" of the weights he was wearing, had a violent, intimate encounter with the ground.
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