>>5220680“Okay, now, everybody? No one touches the crystal without any protection. Don’t want any curses or mind manipulation or shards of it creeping into one’s soul or anything of the like. We good on that?” you ask your allies.
“Oi, wasn’t born yesterday.” Sala grumbles.
Hado gets in closer, looking over the crystal. “Yeah… something’s definitely up with it. I’m gonna have Jaki get a look too.” He taps his Scouter again, soft beeps coming from it.
“Now, I believe there’s one more thing we need to address here.” You clear your throat. “FU, QUIT HIDING! I KNOW YOU’RE HERE!”
There’s a pregnant pause in the air… then you hear someone snacking on some kind of popcorn or hard candy. “Wow, you didn’t even sense me out! Impressive!”
Sala and Hado are taken aback as they see him appear, Sala taking a defensive stance. “Bloody hell! What’re you here for?!”
Fu munches on more snacks. “Watchin’ cool stuff go down, obviously! Knew it wouldn’t be limited to just the tournament matches.”
You give him a heavy-lidded stare, then shake your head and return your focus to the pterodactyl demon. “So, how about you start telling us what EXACTLY you were doing here, yeah? Come on. Spill the beans.”
He gulps, trying to scoot back a bit. “W-we were just trying to return our lost comrade to us! So what if we needed to gather some… energy from certain places. It was all to bring ‘em back!”
https://youtu.be/jbE2b9jqK9sYou look back at the crystal, and the eyes inside all… look right at you. Eugh. “Yeeeaaaah no, I don’t think that’s gonna cut it.” You cross your arms and glare. “You’re trying to bring something worse into the world, aren’t you?”
“Not worse! Better! An improvement of what came before!” he shouts indignantly.
Hado lets out a gasp. “This… thing is trying to combine several essences into one. Jaki says they might all have sacrificed themselves into it to form some kind of… gestalt.”
Pantea looks at it uneasily, and then notices the octagonal pedestal it’s placed on top of. She gulps, then telepathically notes to you, ‘Doesn’t that sound like Nazar?’
It… vaguely does. ‘So these jerks are trying to imitate them…’
“It might already be at the point of self-sustaining. Yeah, Izumi made the right call, it might attempt to influence any who get into contact with it.” He holds a hand up. “Might be better to destroy it.”
“Oh I wouldn’t do that here if I were you.” Fu warns. Oh now what…?
>DRAGON BALL TUFFLE QUEST KAI #45… Paused.>Twitter account is @KatoQm, will have status updates there>Got some questions for the QM? Suggestions? Throw them at ask.fm/QMKato and I’ll try to answer them as best I canAll right folks, that's all for tonight! We’ll be back tomorrow ~6:30 pm PST. Thank you all for playing! Did y’all have fun? Please stay safe out there!
