>>5735192“Chilli, are you up?” you reach out to your son telepathically, hoping that he's awake. And, fortunately, you get an answer immediately.
“What's wrong?” he asks, worry immediately flooding through the link. “Is it-?”
“Time Kai's here, might need your help backing me up.” you tell him.
“I'll be right there.” he replies, immediately ending the link as you focus your full attention now on the Kai.
“That power, it... Something's WRONG with it.” she says seriously, eyes narrowing a bit. “I no longer sense it from you, not as you are now, but earlier today you tapped into a power that doesn't belong in this reality. What did you do?”
“What, don't you recognize it? It should be familiar to you, after all.” you say, trying to use a bit of confidence and bravado to hide the worry twisting your guts into knots. And it works, the Kai's eyes widening in surprise.
“No, it can't be...” she says, taking a step back midair. “That's impossible.”
“Come on, Kai. Mechikabura survived, Dumplin survived, and now you know I survived too.” you say, clenching your fists and letting your emerald aura blaze up wildly around you as Chilli's ki appears inside your ship by Freeza's ki. She takes another step back, muttering something to herself as she stares at you in shock. “I know what you did to me.”
“I didn't have a choice!” she shouts angrily, a hint of desperation in her tone as she stamps a foot. “Mechikabura would have ruined everything, I had no choice!”
“No choice? You're so fucking desperate to cling onto your power you'd rather destroy EVERYTHING?!” you roar, the Kai actually flinching at your sudden volume. “Because YOU refused to lose, you'd rather let all of existence be erased, everyone's lives and afterlives taken away because of YOU?!”
“You ignorant mortal! You don't understand what you're talking about!” she shouts back as you sense Chilli rush out of the ship, his body rendered completely invisible with his light-bending spell he'd used back at the tournament against his sister. “If Mechikabura won, he would have caused more suffering than you can possibly perceive, demons don't care for mortal kind and seek only their suffering.”
“Like you and the other so-called gods are any better.” you reply, summoning your Stand around your right fist. Her eyes immediately go to its crimson-scaled hide, you doing what you can to keep her focus on you and not your son. Any second now....
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