Chapter 6: Have you seen balls like these?
"What an ergonomic design. A display employing some sort of 3D sensing tech, replicating the familiar feeling of pressing a button but on a touch screen. What a great idea. Not to mention also the unique programming language composed of only two possible states, a binary code. Who would've thought that an oversimplified coding system could be used in such creative ways? Also..." Dr. Brief was currently studying Zayn's iPhone. Despite how futuristic the world of Dragon Ball was, it was based on a 1980's vision of the future.
Zayn's iPhone, although lacking in the hardware capabilities that the technology of Dragon Ball could employ, it was still something that utilised thousands of humanity's greatest minds and decades of collective creative designing years spent producing many iterations of the same tool, a 'sound telegraph' or a as the most recent evolution of it is called 'Phone', with concepts that seeks to make the user experience most friendly and convenient.
"I am glad that you see the potential in it as well and also thank you for taking the time to see to my request." Zayn commented as watched the genius inventor marvelling what's supposed to be his dead 'father's' invention.
"Haha don't worry about. Although at first, I did this because of my wife's insistence, it has now completely gained my interest. I see now why you made me sign that contingency earlier before inspecting this invention. Your father didn't have patents protecting his concepts, so you didn't want me to replicate them without your permission? To an extent I feel offended by this young man, but it is also understandable. It is your father's legacy after all." Dr Brief said while nodding his head in understanding.
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(Flash back, 1 Hour Earlier)
…..Zayn embraced Mrs. Brief tighter when all the sudden
"Mom where's my Sandwi-ch-ch…...oh." Bulma's eyes turned wide as she
"Honey, why is the tea taking so lon-n-ng…...oh." Dr. Brief, watched his wife being touched by another man and was so shocked that he forgot to pat his cat.
"Meow meow meo-o-oow...meow?" Even the cat in Dr. Brief's shoulder stopped meowing.
Dr. Brief's eyes looked straight into Zayn's eyes, never leaving them until then he looked towards his wife who is still in Zayn's embrace. In fact, it seems that she is currently hugging Zayn tighter than before and is even patting his head while doing so and then he heard her say
"*Sniff*, it is okay Zayn everything will be alright. *Sob*, I know I can't replace the loved one that you lost but remember this, that you will always have a place in my heart and if you ever need any support, always remember that our home is now also yours and that I will always be here for you."
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(Bulma's POV)
My mother is kind, clueless and sometimes naïve, but she is still my loving and kind mother. However, there are times where I feel like she gets a little too flirty with men. Now that I think about it, this is probably a trait I got from her but that's not what's important right now.
I have always had the suspicion, locked at the deepest parts of my mind that mom will one day cheat on dad. She's the nicest person ever and is kind and and and…. But I always felt that one day, a man will use her naivety and innocence against her, to trick and manipulate her into cheating on dad.
"I know I can't replace the loved one that you lost...", "..you will always have a place in my heart…" "…our home is now also yours and that I will always be here for you."
Yeah…She's not just cheating, she's already fallen in that man's arms, quite literally.
'I can't believe this. I should keep a closer watch on Yamcha.'
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(Dr. Brief's POV)
'Why? What have I done wrong? WHAT DID I DO TO DISERVE THIS!?'
Toxic thoughts kept on rumbling my mind at each passing second. In this moment I stopped believing that she loved me, that she was the one for me. Beyond anger, all I felt was sadness. She threw everything that we built together for another man. Twenty-seven years of commitment gone, just like that.
At least that was what I thought until the young man in panic, suddenly tossed my wife away from him across the kitchen and moved towards me while shouting:
"Wait it's a misunderstanding! I swear I can explain!" Said the young man who seemed more anxious about this situation than my own cheating wife.
"Dr. Brief please take a seat I promise let me explain what's happening-" Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by my wife.
"Zain why are you pushing me away dear? Come here let me hug you again" My wife who was just tossed away a moment ago, stood up and without any care in the world nor any care for me her husband and went back to hugging young man in front of me.
I sighed and sat down at the dining table while facing the young man.
"So…What's this all about?" I asked
"Sigh… I will explain everything but first" The young man then turned his gaze to my wife and said "Mrs. Brief could you please give me some space?"
The young man sat down and with that, the long chain of misunderstandings was finally broken.
(END OF POV)
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Dr. Brief who has now satiated his curiosity, turned to look away from the phone and into Zayn's direction. Hiding a smile under his moustache, he calmly said
"The Capsule Corp. will be happy to incorporate your father's revolutionary concepts into our products. I can offer you 50 million Zeni along with a 2.5% royalty on all profits made of products sold which use your father's tech. Alternatively, we could purchase the Intellectual property and rights of your father's invention for a total of 1.4 billion Zeni. I made these two offers while considering several factors such time and resources invested in designing such alien and foreign operating system, the time spent on trial and error in making iterations of the user interface and other aspects. Although the hardware used is also completely new and refreshing to see to be honest with you, it is lacking and inefficient compared to what is already in the market."
"...…."
Zayn, currently on the verge of laughing like a maniacal joker, kept on a serious upfront as he listened to Dr. Brief's offers, very generous ones at that. Zayn thanked Steve Job's in his heart and started to think about this more seriously.
'If I am not mistaken, the value of Zeni in this world is equivalent to the Japanese Yen I would assume. Choosing to go with the 2.5% offer is better in the long run as I will likely amass a tremendous amount of wealth as long as I am patient enough to wait for the concepts and tech in my iPhone to be integrated into the Capsule Corp's products and have them impact the daily life of the people of this planet. Now is it worth it to wait months or possibly years for that when instead I could do the very same with a wish granting dragon?'
"Dr. Brief, can I please counter both of these offers with one of my own?"
Rising an eyebrow Dr. Brief asked Zayn "Hmm, I thought the offers were generous enough but sure, what would you like instead?"
Zayn smiled at his reply and then took his iPhone which was placed on the table in front of him. He opened up a picture of something on his phone and then turned the screen to have it face Dr. Brief.
"I want them Orange Big Balls instead Dr. Brief."
A photo of all the Seven Dragon Balls resting on a golden cushion was presented out of the blue to Dr. Brief.
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