>>5784074“Uhhhh, what? I feel like I'm missing a whole lot here.” you say, not following the conversation at all. You are Trunks, the Supreme Kai of Time's Apprentice, leader of her Time Patrol, a Saiyan who has become a god. Yet despite all this you still feel like you're out of the loop, as if world-breaking events are happening yet you're still just a child, watching the adults talk. Like Gohan and Bulma did in your own time, talking about matters that you didn't wholly understand while eating, the world crumbling outside the Capsule Corp building you'd called home for so long. “What do you mean by 'he's back'?”
“You haven't told him?” Dumplin asks, turning his unsettling gaze from you to the Supreme Kai of Time, who looks up right at you. And, for just a moment, you can see the years weighing down on her. You'd heard Elder Kai, who is over 74 million years old, that they were Kais around the same age. But you know that she's even older, having had to sacrifice everything and undo all of reality before to stop Mechikabura. So, who knows how ancient a being she truly is?
“He knows of the reset. Just not....Him.” she answers, chills crawling up your back. To which the short Demon God sighs out, turning towards you.
“Well, I guess now's a good a time as ever. You know that she an' Mechikabura, along with myself were from that first reality, right?” he asks, you nodding to him once. “Good, makes this simpler. When she destroyed everything, there was another survivor from that battle. It wasn't just the two of us an' old Mechi that got out.”
“Hold on. You're not telling me....” you say in horrified realization, understanding as to why you could never beat Karn suddenly blooming in your mind. But that ray of hope is shot down, Dumplin continuing.
“When he was getting erased, he used that Stand of his to make one last wish.” Dumplin says, voice surprisingly somber. “He gave up his life, put all his power into that Stand so it could survive everything being destroyed and take his soul with it. Joining with another suitable Karn in this reality, their beings becoming one.”
“Wait, was that when....?” you ask, turning your attention to Chronoa who nods once, your mind suddenly expanding. So THAT was how Karn was able to change, to break through destiny itself and become a Fateless. “But why didn't you-?”
“I hadn't realized what happened until it was too late, the timeline permanently altered.” she answers, sounding defeated. “If only I'd figured it out sooner, if only I'd remembered it back then, then none of this would be happening. Everything would instead be playing out how it always would have.”
