>>5595272“Don't you 'Hyoka' me, dammit!” she says, but you grab her by the arms and pull her in, holding her close. You can feel she wants to keep going, but lets you have this moment in silence. Then, once you feel ready let her go a bit, sighing out and sitting on the ledge.
“You're right. Its just.... I've felt so <span class="mu-i">tired</span> lately.” you say, looking down at your hands resting palms up on your knees. “No matter what I do, how hard I try, how long I fight for the right thing, nothing ever works out.”
“What do you mean?” she asks, walking over and sitting beside you. “What's not worked?”
“I guess it all started back in my original timeline.” you tell her, mind flashing back to all the death and pointless violence you'd witnessed in your youth. “I tried to help my mentor Gohan against the Androids, but it cost him his arm and then life. I go back to the past to help Goku, to fix my own timeline, but instead I split the timelines, doing nothing to fix my own time. I go back again to help, getting strong training with Father to become a powerful warrior, and go back to my own time to defeat the Androids. Only to get my energy stolen by Cell, who killed me then stole the time machine and made even more problems for that other timeline.”
“Then she appeared.” you say, leaning back and remembering the first time you'd met the Supreme Kai of Time. If you knew then what you know now, would you have even agreed? Or would you have stayed dead, moved on to whatever comes next? “The Supreme Kai of Time.”
“You never told me this story before.” she says, reaching over and placing her left hand in your right, giving you a gentle squeeze. “What happened next?”
“When my soul was brought forth for judgment by King Yemma, she arrived and leveled all her charges against me.” you tell her honestly as best you can remember. “For breaking the timeline and being the root cause of several branches, my soul was to be sent to the deepest pit of hell for the next thousand years or so. Or, I could work directly for her. I'd get my life and body back, but I would have to work for her until she was satisfied to 'atone' for my crimes.”
“And you agreed to it.” she says, frowning a bit in what looks like disappointment? Anger? You can't quite tell. “Just like that?”
“Of course. I thought I'd really messed up back then.” you tell her, remembering back to being scolded so fiercely by the tiny Kai. At the time she'd reminded you of your mother, scolding you for rushing off to fight the Androids instead of taking the time machine back to the past. “You should have heard her, I don't think I've ever heard her that angry since.”
