The One Who Has No Enemies [Nasu]

It was hard to truly put into words the feeling that would invade his chest each and every time he returned to Namek. It was perhaps the closest thing to home he had right now, besides his actual home up there where mortal men were not meant to reach with their bare hands. There was just so much that happened here over the course of the past years; most of it was pretty bad too, and yet it made him feel at peace now. He looked onwards, silent and quietly, for a short moment.

“Here we are, Nasu. Uh, why are we here precisely? You forgot to mention that.”

The tiny fairy kind of hovered around Nasu and just looked around. She could not exactly figure out why Nasu felt this much peace, when she looked around all she could see was a wasteland, and yet the man asked precisely to be brought here. There were much better places to visit on Namek rather than this one in particular.

“I have used this place as my training grounds for a while. I might have retained my fighting instinct, but now it is time to see if the assimilation truly worked.”

The Saiyan told Azdaja, and she chose to remain quiet after that and just hover in his whereabouts. Ever since Nasu agreed to that crazy ordeal, he looked just the same but a part of her saw something else; he looked far more vigorous than he did a few weeks earlier. It was like there was a newfound flame in his eyes, one that sought ambition for once. Whatever his ambition now, though, was of course unknown to her. But she was curious. After all that funny business she kind of grew closer to him as a friend, even if in the end she was only supposed to watch over him as a tutor.

“Do not worry. I will not be long. I just need to stretch my limbs a little bit. Then we will find something to eat.”

Nasu smiled back at Azdaja, who just did so right back at him. For a denizen of the Otherworld she was about as voracious as any other Saiyan out there, but he could not blame her either! The food in the living world was just something else compared to the stuff you would go on to find up there. A few moments later, the man turned back ahead with a far more serious look; right now his body felt like a boiling pot; there was so much intrinsic energy within, and yet it was all tied together in many different knots.

He wished to untie each and every one of them to unleash all this innate potential that he had obtained just now.

Now, though, he kind of wanted to go back to the First Scar rather than this place… wherever it was? Thinking about it, he had never been around this area of Namek, so the thought of intense training was briefly paused by the innate adventurer’s curiosity that led him to question the place he was at currently. He believed he had seen most of this world already but apparently that much was not true at all. Well, if anything, he could tell that somebody else was nearby, so he quietly approached her.

Nasu did not hide his power level at all, but even if she was to sniff him out, she could tell that somebody was coming with no ill intent, perhaps no intent at all. It was as if a rock had been given life and was currently just heading her current location; indeed a man awakened to naught but nothingness itself.

“Hello. I am Nasu. Sorry if I bother you, but where are we exactly right now? I was heading for the First Scar.”

Thread Power Level: 132,467
Power Level: 662,335

Nasu has his x5 Form Active!

WC: 639
Total WC: 639

A stranger would of course perhaps be intimidated at first by Nasu’s raw power.

Especially right now. When a lot of power was bubbling in the depths of his soul, and there was only a thin silver lining between keeping it dormant and unleashing it all at once. Yet, he was perhaps the most peaceful raging river to have ever crossed the world at that very moment, and that was mirrored in the way he walked, his expression and his manners. There was something peculiar about Nasu and it was the fact that he acted by his morals, but there was also a primal heart that was chained and kept caged until it would finally be let loose.

“Hm?”

He hummed shortly when his introduction would be intercepted by this stranger. At first he did not exactly notice, as he was pretty sure it was just any Namekian but up close she was indeed, quite different from her kinsmen. The wings did give it away, but of course Nasu also realized how this one appeared to bear some semblance to a female, and yet he remained somewhat skeptical for he did not think that Namekians actually had any sense of gender at all.

Between his empty staring, of course the fact that she was from the Mazoku, kind of clicked something. It was not the first time he had heard about them, many of them were considered to be twisted or particularly tainted in one way or another. Alas, of course, he did not think that it was inherently an evil thing. Nasu of all Saiyans was perhaps one of their most Saiyan unlike specimens, and yet here he was a good dude through thick and thin.

So perhaps that was what led to her looking like that. Even the more time she spent chatting about her origins, the more he could see further details that strayed away than most denizens of this place. It was definitely a first.

His eyes also widened when she stated his name out loud, he just kind of looked quite confused. As if the name Nasu was apparently a familiar element, a similar episode transpired up in Heaven back when he met Gandigan and apparently, and somehow, knew a bunch of things about him. Did his name really get around all that much? Did he miss something?

“Yeah, that is my name.”

He stated an almost obvious fact, but one that he wished to make clear just to be sure. Of course the question whether she had beef with him or not was one that did indeed arise in his mind, but one that he did not take for granted right away, there was no clue that expressed that much just yet, but it could have been. Gandigan also was not very likable of him, but that was due to the previous actions taken with Lottus most of all.

“Ah… so you are Zhalla’s friend. Nice to meet you, Cabasa.”

Nasu smiled a little bit. So it was just that. Not that he would have minded if she was actually aggressive with him, rather perhaps that could have served as a good training session given the fact that she appeared to be, indeed, quite strong. The man did sort of feel a little more spicy when it came about fighting, something that he lacked in the past years, had certainly become a little more of a thought in his mind when he encountered a strong foe. But he did not exactly realize that it had become a common thought, instead he just acknowledged it.

“Do not worry, there is no need to be that formal.”

He curled an eyebrow when she bowed, while that was certainly appreciated he did not really find himself in the position of receiving such a greeting. Not to mention that anyone rarely ever bowed to him, if not on some rare occasion when he was younger, it was just not something that he cared to see, rather he was quite content at least to hear that she probably got along with Zhalla.

“So Lottus was here. Déjà vu I would say, from what you tell me. Except this time he switched targets. Instead of Hatchi… Namek? What kind of reason would he have to attack this place? As far as I remember he only wanted to destroy any place that could be producing destron.”

The fact that Lottus was here was indeed a bit weird. Of course it could very well be that Lottus simply was having fun on his own, without a real reason. It could very well be that he could not find any destron facility and that he got bored and started blowing things up, but he did not think that he would do something like that. Well, in either case, it sounded like it went as well as the other times went for him, so it was not like he felt any sense of regret that he missed the chance of seeing it himself.

“You Mazokus must be really strong then. Super Saiyans are no joke. I suppose Gandigan is not the only one who has reached that level then. Good. I might stick around a little longer then, see if I can find more sparring partners.”

Nasu did not actually know a lot of Namekians that were warriors or fighters in general. Most of the ones he knew were farmers or healers, very nice people of course but he could not ask them to spar out of nowhere like that. Rather he usually just had fun chatting or sometimes they would have dinner and stuff, catching up and stuff. Most of them were old friends, technically, since they had once helped him when Nasu was recovering from the evil demon possession, but as a man he was quite elusive of course, so he did not always get the chance to chat with those guys.

“Because it is one of the best training spots I know. Hardly any other place can strain my body like that alone. I must push further, to new heights. You look quite strong yourself. I am sure you get it, do you not?”

WC: 1036
Total WC: 1675

Of course Nasu did not really know this one individual, over the course of his time on this world, he had met several Namekians but none of them quite struck the image that she portrayed. Not to mention that of course this entire individual carried some serious power level from what he could tell, perhaps one of the strongest Namekians after Gandigan at this point in time. As for the strange amount of respect she had for him, well, he had no idea exactly what she had been told about the man. Especially considering that he had attacked Namek once himself. Truthfully, ‘himself’ was not the right term but he supposed that most people had already forgotten or forgiven him about that incident. It was all the same to him, of course.

Otherwise he did not see anything particularly weird about the respect she carried for him, after all, he did indeed help out the planet on more than one occasion. Time and time again, he was one of the many individuals that made sure no harm would come to pass to this world. Nasu did so, at first, when Kamae attacked for example, also as a means to pay back for the nuisance he caused himself a few months prior to that. But nonetheless, he believed Namek was by far the best state out of any planet. Not that it had any serious competition; Plant was pretty much just… that, and Earth had a bunch of politics and weird drama that he did not fully grasp.

“Zhalla is very strong, yeah. And she better be stronger than me now. I would be very disappointed otherwise.”

Nasu stated, partially as a jest and in another way ever since the man first unlocked the Super Saiyan form he saw two risks: first would have been the fact that other people would inherit a similar power, but with worse intent. In this case, Zhalla was at least a kind Super Saiyan so there was nothing he had to say about that. Second, was the fact that if that was not the scenario, then Nasu would have had to be called upon each and every time. By all means, Nasu was a defender at heart but he could not be everywhere at once. There were only so many battles one man could fight, especially one that already had his amount of experience on the battlefield, wars and whatnot.

“We will be working on that. I will make sure she is a natural Super Saiyan.”

What Cabasa hinted at, that perhaps she was the closest to match Lottus, well that might have been true but that was always considering the fact that the guy had any intent to attack Namek in the first place. What he was confused about was exactly this piece; why would Lottus attack this world? It had by far no mention even of destron, besides it was way out of his scope. There was no reason that he would attack Namek for, unless he missed a particular chapter in this story or perhaps there was no real reason behind it.

“Yeah, sorry. I was busy elsewhere for the most part until a short time ago. I used to hang around Hatchi for the most part, but I have got a lot of stuff up my plate now I have to deal with so I can not spare the time that easily anymore.”

She did not know what destron was, and he nodded, it was like he said; there was definitely none of that poison on Namek. The only way it would even touch the soil of this world was if somebody else, a stranger, would carry it along with themselves, but otherwise Namekians did not need that and they were not definitely the science tech type of guys.

“Destron is a lethal gas poison. It kills you but a few managed to survive it, albeit with severe damage and it is the reason why Lottus is mad most of the time.”

From what Cabasa explained, it sounded like that Lottus did not indeed attack Lottus. In the end he just jumped in a spar and pretty much screwed around with two Namekians. Well, that was a lot more reasonable for sure, from what he heard it sounded like things just escalated unwisely and sadly that was pretty much something he would expect from an encounter with Lottus. Gandigan was also another hot head, so there was of course a bunch of fireworks regarding this whole ordeal.

“I think so. But it takes little to take him from zero to one hundred, so be careful when you encounter him or anyone might spell their own doom by his hands.”

He found Lottus to be unpredictable, even without the entire destron stuff that affected his mind most of the time back then. Last time he went from trying to take over a city to attempting to destroy the entire planet when faced with obstacles, so it was not completely unwarranted from Nasu to advise them against ‘overdoing it’.

“In trying to antagonize him, you might get him to do something crazy. Last time, he tried to blow up Plant when people tried to stop him from taking over one of its cities - Hatchi, to be precise.”

When Cabasa mentioned the name of strongest Mazoku, the man was briefly taken back but not so much in shock but surprise that a name like this would resurface after so long. How long had it been? Over a year perhaps, since the first attack on Hatchi? He did distinctly remember his allies talking about this Namekian unit amongst the ranks of Fukushu, whilst the Saiyan did not get to witness him in person, he remembered the name just from the surprise alone that one of this world’s inhabitants would stick around with a character such as the Heran. Or well, he had no idea whether he had been hired on purpose or not, but still that was a big deal at the time for him.

“There is darkness alright… not that I know him, but, I have heard about him. Well. Not that I hold any remorses. It is just that he once worked with a former enemy of mine. All in the past, though.”

What even happened to Fukushu? He assumed he died, pretty much. There was no other way around it. As far as he had heard, while the battle above ground between him and Lottus was no joke, they were going absolutely brutal against the guy back then. He would not be surprised if he passed away.

The Namekian offered her own help in Nasu’s catch up training, something that he did indeed appreciate, nonetheless what he witnessed was something far different than any other Namekian he had encountered. It was almost sinister. Not that he assumed Cabasa to be evil. Good and evil was mostly bullshit, there was only light and darkness and Nasu had learned to use both.

“You must truly be exceptional to have grown so much in just a few months. However, do not think this will last. At some point, you will hit a wall, and then you will have to work twice as hard to keep pushing through.”

The man closed his fingers around the handle of the weapon he carried behind his back. The tie came undone almost on its own when he pulled it off and rose it up in the heavens for it was so tall, that one could barely even see its tip as if it touched both of Namek’s suns, and then he lowered it into the ground and stabbed the blade into the dirt while he held the sword still. Almost instantly, his power rose without any kind of transformation.

“Come, then. Show me the kind of power you would defend Namek with, Cabasa.”

Power Level: 415,000
HP: ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 250%
KP: 6/6
MP: 1/6
OOC Notes/Items Used:
Nasu uses [Utility] Ki Suppression to raise his power level.
WC: 1317
Total WC: 2992

You could debate whether or not Nasu was a strict teacher. Well. Most likely more strict than most, for he would likely toss you into a hell pit just to watch you return far stronger and more mature... but of course he had his own limitations, he would not have his students risk their lives if he did not believe they could actually pull it off. So of course there was a matter of appearances that could likely collide with his intentions, but he did not mind. Teachers were not usually meant to be 'friends'. Some comradeship was fine, because again life was a mixture of things and to grow up you should also get to experience what it meant interacting with the ones that you would be learning from- but without overdoing it. There was meant to be some kind of strictness, indeed.

So, while most likely actually conveying something to another was not actually all that difficult, really all it would take was usually some decent explanation and practical experience, to actually teach someone was an entire different thing. Perhaps it was an art, even. Something not everyone could do, but those who were really good at it could likely produce good students. However it was not like all it took was a good master.

"That is entirely her own doing. That is part of what I preach; if you love your kids, send them to see the world."

To babysit a student was honestly not beneficial to anyone. The teacher's time and the student's progress would greatly hinder, because the training was meant to 'formally stop' at some point - not that they would ever stop to learn - but rather they would have to walk on their own without the teacher having to hold their hand save for a few drops of guidance every now and then.

"But I will visit her soon. That was also part of the plan during my stay here."

Indeed it had been a while, likely since the actual attack on Hatchi that both Zhalla and Nasu got to actually discuss and train properly since at the time she was busy with the tournament. Speaking of which, he wondered who won... hm, well he could probably ask her later. Nevertheless Cabasa at least struck him to be a decent fellow for the most part. He did believe in the end she was just as concerned for Namek as anyone else, and while he did not know his fair share of Mazoku, even Gandigan confirmed him that much at least from a quick look- in the end all Namekians loved their planet. It was not like the Mazoku were inherently evil.

That was a long shot from the self destructive nature of some Saiyans and Tuffles that would likely just risk their planet to screw over the other side. Of course one could argue this place also mirrored a semblance of war, but there were subtle differences in the culture and manners they applied when dealing with questions of that utmost importance.

"Just stay close to her. Be her friend and train together."

Of course Nasu did not expect anyone to figure out the secret to mastering Super Saiyan. Even the man did not actually 'master' the form, rather he learned how to tap into it with ease, but there were strains forced on the body by this power that one could not simply ignore and consider this a natural state.

"After all it is not like there is a secret key, or spell to mastering a form. Think about it, what is the form you are most comfortable fighting in? I would wager all my zeni for anyone it is your own base form. Super Saiyan does not feel that way, because when we tap into it, we get a bunch of extra stress. It drains our energy. To master the Super Saiyan state, you must make it so that it feels like you are in your base form. Alas, that is not something I have not accomplished myself thus far... I have only obtained control over the transformation process. I can do it at will, whenever I want."

That was however a process that required the mastery of your own mindset. Truthfully so, there was not one single process one could go to obtaining any of the former things but there were some general key factors. To transform you would need to be mad, therefore if you can control your mindset, you can easily replicate the process and also stop it. Without any need for unnecessary emotion outbursts or personality changes. The way Zhalla did was probably tied to the moment she transformed and she simply lived it too vividly from what he could tell when he watched her battle.

He knew because that was what he also experienced when he tried to transform, back then at Amara's secret lab.

"Yeah. You got to see how Plant looks like now. Because it used to be different many years ago. That was mostly part of the destron usage, and sure also the endless wars that were going on back then. But life, and nature is mostly dead. The difference between Plant and the Scar, is that in a way, the Scar is quite 'alive'. All that raging lava, the tempests, it has a dynamic of its own that still inspires the power of life. On Plant? It is just barren nothingness, and all that it inspires you is Death."

Truly in a way Lottus was not wrong in wishing to destroy Destron, but it was also true that there was no way you could just erase it. God knew how many scientists across the universe likely knew about it.

"What Lottus does is try to kill anyone who may have been connected to destron production, because in a way he wants to do a good thing and remove that garbage off the universe. Sadly he is misdirected, and well, even if you killed the biggest destron players, I would not be surprised if more popped for years to come. Supply and demand kind of stuff."

Eventually his power rose to at least match her own, at least they could likely have a mostly fair spar for their own benefit. Nasu braved and readied himself against what the Namekian had up her sleeve.

"Those are fine words. But let us see if you can back them up."

He stated and watched while she charged her own energy attack, that eventually came running straight for him, however Nasu did not move. Rather he just disappeared out of thin air, as if the blast had reached him but from the ashes he once more reappeared and flew straight for Cabasa with that thing that was far too big to be called a sword.

Too massive, too thick, too long, and rougher than any other blade. Indeed it was more like a heap of raw metal.

He held it up with both hands on the handle and then cleaved down upon Cabasa, but while the strike looked like was indeed just the one, from each respective side a few more would reach, almost out of thin air.

Power Level: 415,000
HP: ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 250%
KP: 3/6
MP: 3/6
OOC Notes/Items Used:
Nasu uses [L. Defensive] Agile Quickstep (249,000) to dodge out of harm's way. Spends 2 KP.
Nasu uses [L. Offensive] Triple Force (83,000) against Cabasa. Spends 1 KP.
Gains 2 MP.
WC: 1200
Total WC: 4192