8 Chapter 8 - Gang

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"You can't be sleeping right now?!" Bulma screeched.

Yamcha sighed internally. Of course, he didn't want Bulma to know that he was awake and was just trying his hand at meditating.

Why did she have to assume he could sleep in a foreign environment? Sure, he was tired, but not reckless or stupid.

Yamcha opened one eye and used Observe on the two thugs. For now, he decided to have Bulma feel a little fear so she could learn that actions have consequences.

Even adult Bulma was quite reckless, like bringing an infant Trunks to an android battlefield, endangering her children. Always being too close to battles, and then the whole slapping Beerus thing, the guy whose name is the God of Destruction. She's a walking disaster.

Sure, he didn't even think about these things in the anime. But here, it was a whole different matter.

[Leku - Lvl 4]

[A lackey of the Rabbit Gang. He joined because he had a hard life and grew up poor. He didn't want to be poor any longer; he wanted to be the one in power. His difficult life led him to become a ruthless man. (PL: 5)]

[Observe Skill Leveled Up]

[Kimchi - Lvl 2]

[A locket of the Rabbit Gang. She joined because he likes rabbits. She is good at drawing her boss as a female and… (PL: 4)]

Yamcha blinked as he read the woman's description and blinked twice before closing his eyes and shaking his head.

Bulma noticed that and called out. "Yamcha! You're awake!"

He didn't pay much attention to her. Instead, Yamcha was wallowing in regret for using Observe so much. Despite learning a new thing that he never even thought about. How could a human mind come up with something like that?!

"Hehehe, cutie-" Baam! Within an instant, Yamcha got up and punched the rabbit gang member right in the face, sending him flying and crashing into a tree-sized mushroom. He was a little surprised by his strength, as he didn't even go all out. But this guy had gone flying even easier than Goku, who was smaller and lighter than the goon.

Though thoughts went through his mind in a split second, he turned toward the other culprit, who looked at him with fear and tried shakily to grab the rifle strapped to her back. "Y -You, do you know who you're messing with?!"

Yamcha only stared at her, not intimidated at all. This was supposed to be a background character, someone she should have just beaten, though since she was lower level than him, he had been able to get a lot of information on her with the Observe Skill.

Seeing that her intimidation tactics weren't working, she resorted to her last resort. "I -I am a woman. You wouldn't hit a lady, right? Look at this-" Baam!

He punched her hard enough to knock out a couple of teeth. She fell to the ground, unconscious.

"I am a deep believer in equality, don't spew misogynistic things like that around me," he shrugged and grabbed the rifles they had dropped, easily snapping them in two over his knee.

"Yamcha!" Bulma hugged him and latched like a koala.

He tied the two people to the weird mushroom trees to avoid the cliche scenario of the enemies waking up and calling over more people. So even when they woke up, they wouldn't be able to report anything.

Yamcha went as far as taking their radios and hiding them behind some other mushroom trees. He didn't destroy them, just in case. They might have had some kind of built-in chip that would notify the other gang members if the radio was broken.

The name Rabbit Gang didn't ring bells with Yamcha. He did remember a rabbit from the original Dragon Ball, but he wasn't sure that guy was connected to this.

So with that in mind, Yamcha sat shotgun as Bulma turned on the car and started driving away. When suddenly, he remembered something… and looked around. Oolong and Puar were with them in the car.

But where the hell was Goku?!

"Wait, where is Goku?" Yamcha asked.

"Hm?" Bulma looked at him, confused. Then she turned and looked to the back and called out. "Goku! Where are you?"

No answer came, and she looked at the dragon radar and turned the car around. "He is still in town. Probably got distracted by something. That something has a 99% chance of being food."

Yamcha shrugged. "Probably."

Thankfully, Goku kept his four-star dragon ball on him since it belonged to his grandfather. So by using the dragon radar, they could find him easily.

As they drove back into town, Yamcha saw dozens of rabbit gang people going around and trashing the place. "Three of our gang members came to this town today and have gone missing. The perpetrator must come out; if he does, we might not kill his family."

'His words aren't quite PG-13. Things like this would have never been said in the anime. Though there were many swear words used in the Manga.'

Thought Yamcha while standing by the side. He wondered if Goku had gotten himself in some kind of problem. Oh, who was he kidding? Of course, Goku had gotten involved with something.

At least the three missing guards weren't Goku's fault; Yamcha knew that. He had taken out only two gang members.

He waited to see what the gang members in town would do. Each of them had a rifle, and Yamcha wasn't bulletproof yet, so bullets were still risky to him.

So he planned his escape routes in case something happened. Rushing in an unknown situation against an unknown group is what Shonen Protagonists did, and Yamcha was far from a protagonist.

Because Yamcha knew that if he got involved with this, he would have to spend time here. At least a couple months to make sure that the citizens' weakness wouldn't let another gang form.

Sure, he was blaming the victims a little here, but if a gang forms it's because there are weak people to exploit. That's the simple derivative of this.

Yamcha sighed, and shook his head, dismissing all thoughts of being a Hero. Helping people had a price, and no good deed would go unpunished as they said.

Also, Bulma would likely die if a shootout broke out. She wasn't fast enough, or mentally prepared to deal with a death and life situation.

"Heh, so no one is going to say anything?" Said one of the gang members, which Yamcha assumed to be some kind of captain in the gang, because he was the one speaking and the fake rabbit ears he was wearing were white. "Well…"

The man trailed off and kicked a stall close by, an apple shop, and boxes of apples fell onto the ground and one rolled to Yamcha's feet. It was red and plump, he crouched down and grabbed the red fruit and wiped it off on his shirt.

"You!" Suddenly one of the gang members turned toward Yamcha and pointed their gun at him. "You think you're some big shot or something?"

Yamcha looked at the barrel of the gun. He should be afraid, it was logical to be afraid. But… he wasn't. Was there something wrong with him? Did he finally get that Shonen fearless mentality?

No, not really. Because as he looked at the barrel of the gun, it seemed almost too lacking. He had seen an old man blast a mountain with an energy beam.

Guns didn't feel that threatening anymore, even with the memories from his last life, Yamcha contemplated. But he didn't say such thoughts out loud. He didn't see any need to antagonize the guy. "No, we are just looking for my little brother, he got lost too. Maybe the same guy that did that to you guys made my little brother disappear too."

Bulma looked at him as if he was out of his mind, as Yamcha came up on the spot with a fake story.

From the corner of his eye, he noticed a woman and her daughter being kicked down by a Rabbit Gang member. "Your daughter just pushed me!"

"Sir, she is just a kid-"

Baam!... The hit from the but of the rifle came right into her face and the woman was knocked down. The back of her head slamming into the ground, and forming a puddle of blood.

Suddenly, two notifications appeared in front of his face.

[You have got 2 New Quests]

He started reading them both.

[The Good Guy]

Help the young daughter and her mother. Get rid of the Rabbit Gang, and make the town finally be at peace. Save the people of this town.

Rewards: 3000 Exp, Heroes Bracelet (Rare).

[The Bad Guy]

Help the Rabbit Gang grow. The gang has been facing limitations lately and hasn't been able to grow into a bigger multi-city gang. Join the Rabbit Gang and help them.

Rewards: 3000 Exp, Invisible Slashing Blade (Epic), 3 Healing Potions.

The first thought that came to his mind was that he could refuse both Quests and he would be neutral. Guns were dangerous after all, despite him feeling like they were kind of lacking. But he no longer was the average guy. "Bulma, get in the car."

"Huh?" She looked confused, but followed and did so.

The gang member that was close to him, frowned at this and pointed his gun straight at Yamcha's head. "You bastard! Who do you think you are-"

Yamcha did a karate chop to the man's neck, and with his fists that had trained to handle the Wolf Fang Fist and break rocks, so he went a little easy. But even a little easy for him was to have the man's next move to an uncomfortable looking position and his eyes rolled to the back of his head.

Seeing the man's still wide eyes, Yamcha didn't panic. This wasn't some movie where the character would have a shock, or an anime where he was the protagonist that even forgave his parents. Killing, everyone of the human ancestors had done that to survive, even the most loser person has had ancestors who fought against mammoths and saber tooth tigers, and killed others to survive.

So with that in mind, Yamcha didn't hesitate to make the next move as he used Observe on every member of the Rabbit Gang within less than a second. Then for the first time, he encountered a message.

[MP is down to 0]

He hadn't known that Observe used MP, or any kind of energy. Still, he felt a little metally tired. But he tried ignoring that, as his fingers changed into claws, and an afterimage of a wolf was left behind him as he rushed toward the Rabbit Gang Members close to him.

Blood, brutality, and death would have covered the streets, even though his Power Level was only a bit over twice that of a normal human. The average mafia goon was no match for him. As before the other gang members could even catch on to what was happening, Yamcha was in their midst. Punching livers, crushing weapons, and knocking people out with hits to their necks or the back of their heads.

Unlike the movies, when someone is knocked out by hitting them on the back of the head, there is a high chance they get brain damage. Though he wasn't sure if this world worked by the same rules, or even the humans had the same psychology, because he knew for sure that the humans in his last earth couldn't shoot out beams. But in the end, Yamcha didn't care if some thugs got brain damage, that's if there was anything to damage to begin with.

Within a split second, Yamaha had turned himself into a monster of movement. He kept an eye on all of the guns and where they were being pointed at. The thugs were moving kind of slow.

By the end of it, only a couple people were left and they by now had time to point their guns at him. Unlike the others, those two weren't close by, so if Yamcha charged them, then they would be able to shoot at him.

"They weren't even able to shoot me," Yamcha peered at the two attackers left and smirked at them. "You guys are probably used to being able to intimidate people with just the rifles, right? No one was insane enough to fight against you."

"I -I-" one of the gang members started talking, panickly, and the other made the mistake of glancing at the other.

Yamcha charged, a gunshot rang out, but he had lowered himself so much to the ground that the bullet passed over two feet above his head. He didn't concentrate too much on the people and kept his eyes on the gun barrels. He wasn't fast enough to dodge a literal bullet, but if he paid attention to the gun barrels and the direction, he could move away before bullets shot out.

Within three seconds, five gunshots, and a small graze on his shoulder later, Yamcha had reached them and with a punch to their chins, brought them down easily.

After the whole ordeal, Yamcha looked at the downed people and went to crush each gun they had.

"Fuck, now I am going to have to deal with all this shit." Yamcha sighed, and approached the mother of the kid that had been kicked down. She had blood looking down on the stone, as the kid cried next to her.

The kid was a little girl, around five years old, with tears and snot on her face. Yamcha crouched down to the woman, and held her head up. He sighed a little, if he had enough MP to use Observe, he would have seen if she had a serious injury or not.

Still, he used a capsule and pulled out some bandages and turned the woman's head around so blood wouldn't spew out of her too much. He the looked around and asked. "Is there a doctor here?"

After that, a man came out and helped the mother. Yamcha stared the daughter in the eye, she was crying over her mother's body. If he leaves right now, this whole place will probably be messed up by the gang. Maybe even the kids will get killed.

'Ah, choices like this are quite troublesome.'

Though his thoughts felt calm, for some reason, Yamcha felt anger bubbling inside of him.