My Comment: I made this chapter short so can catch up with the wasted time! I also graduated from high school two weeks ago so now I have time to party!

Replies: (Not today)

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Chapter 10

No matter what Gohan told the pink-haired maid, she refused to eat the senzu bean, so the Saiyan had to resort to extreme measures.

"What are you do-" *Smack*

She couldn't finish her sentence as she was quickly silenced with a chop to the neck. Her body became limp as she collapsed onto Gohan's shoulder. Now without her consent, he feeds her the remaining half-senzu bean and after several seconds her injuries finally received the healing it desperately needed.

Now, after putting the maids to their specific bedrooms, Gohan began his search of Beatrice...

The Hallways were now vacant of any conversation. There were no conversations between an irritated Beatrice and laid-back Roswaal. No longer was Subaru's voice flirting with an oblivious Emilia that didn't seem to understand the meaning of a "Date" or any of his flirtatious innuendos. And no longer was Rem and Ram in the kitchen figuring out what to cook for lunch and dinner.

All was silent. Roswaal and Emilia were absent and the village suffered massive death and damages. As Gohan continued to explore the hallways he could hear kids laughing while a raging Drill-Haired Loli was following them while spitting out death threats.

Gohan darted his attention toward a group of Familiar ki signatures.

"What the?"

Beatrice comically fumed in anger toward the innocent children happily skipping in the hallways with a stolen Book in hand.

Her Blank Gospel.

"GIVE IT BACK!" Shouted Beatrice with the cutest irritated Loli face she could express.

"Haha, C'mon miss Beatrice, have some fun!" Cheered Lucas as he tossed the Loli's Gospel toward his buddy Cain.

The Fuming Loli hovered like an angered Ghost toward Cain but the kid caught the book before Beatrice could catch it.

"Yeah, try to keep up, Miss Beatrice!" Cheered Cain while taunting the Loli.

"YOU BRATS, I'LL SEND YOU FLYING WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON-" Beatrice stopped her flight upon spotting Gohan blocking her path to prevent her from hurting the kids.

"Beatrice..." He said bitterly. "Thank you for keeping your end of the promise." Said Gohan as he snatched away the Gospel from Cain's hands.

The two kids were dumbstruck by Gohan's speed.

The Loli harrumphed and faced away from Gohan. "Return my belongings... I suppose."

Gohan glanced at the book but before he could return it to her, she snatched it from his hands and quickly retreated to her library through last ditch Portal.

"..!?.." Why does Beatrice care about that useless thing so much?

Suddenly Lucas pulled on Gohan's gi thus snapping him out of his thoughts. "Hey, mister."

Gohan looked at the two kids. "Yeah?"

"I want to go home."

Gohan froze and visibly began to sweat. What should he tell them?

Cain then hopped onto Gohan's back catching the Saiyan off guard. "C'mon mister, fly us there!" Cheered Lucas.

In response, Gohan grabbed Cain and gently placed him onto the ground next to Lucas.

"Not today." Said Gohan.

"Aw!" They complained in sync. "You're no fun." They both said.

"Nevermind tha.," Said Gohan. "Let's find the rest of your friends."

"Yeah, off to the library, we go!" Cheered Cain. "Race you there!"

As Cain ran to where he thought he could find the library, Lucas shortly followed after. Gohan knew they wouldn't be able to find the library on their own so he followed them.

"Hey!" Gohan called out to the kids. "Is everyone else inside the library?"

Lucas tired remembering... "Uh-huh."

"Quick, follow me. I know a shortcut."

"Really?"

Gohan nodded. "Of course."

The two kids stopped running in the hallways then looked to Gohan who was following them. "Show us the short-cut, Mister!"

Gohan remained Silent and simply approached the hidden entrance to the library.

"Mister! Where are you going?" Lucas and Cain followed the Saiyan as he opened a random door.

The forbidden archive of books was now visible to them. The remaining village children were surprisingly behaving better than Cain and Lucas.

Dine and Meina were seated together on a spiral staircase reading a book together. Meanwhile, there was a huge mess of books on the floor due to a big ruckus that occurred when the boys awoke to mess with Beatrice.

The Loli begrudgingly accepted Mild's help to return every book to their respected shelves like the nice boy he is.

Gohan stepped into the library with both Cain and Lucas briefly following him.

Beatrice then noticed Gohan and the two troublemakers behind him. "hn!" She was so irritated with Gohan for forcing her to share her only safe space with so many snot-nosed kids. Who could blame her? The kids went from calm to insane real quick! Using the books as toys is what brought the loli to fume like crazy in the first place.

As Mild placed the final book into its bookshelf Gohan pat his shoulder. "It's time for you to go home."

As the children became excited to return home, Gohan could barely contain his urge to cry.

"Beatrice," Gohan called the Loli.

She begrudgingly looked at him with disdain without giving him a reply.

"Send them home."

The loli knew what Gohan meant. She would happily send these nuisances away via portal because it was the fastest way possible. And with the waving of her hand, a portal appeared under each and every child thus sending them to their home in an instant.

The last of their expressions were shock and fear when they fell into the portals.

And just like that. The library was emptied of all children. Only Gohan and Beatrice remained in the archive.

"Are you just going to stand there?" Asked Beatrice.

"Sorry. I'll leave you to your private space."

The Saiyan fled the library just as he said he would.

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Universe 7

At Kame house there was silence. Goku was seated alone eating a large pile of sea-food, albeit slowly.

Oolong and Roshi were viewing playboy magazines at a far corner of the living room.

Yamcha was seated on the couch with Puar, Krillin was seated on the floor watching the TV and finally, Piccolo was standing alone at the front porch simply staring at the Ocean. The Namekian was surely disturbed by something. The Fact they couldn't wish Gohan back from Universe 9 had pissed him off.

'Just who's the bastard so interested in Gohan that he had to drag him to another universe?' Wondered Piccolo.

Hardening his fists he shouted: "This isn't right!" His shout caused Goku to almost choke on some salmon.

"Cough, cough!" Like a projectile, Goku spat his food across the living room and almost hit Roshi. Goku then briefly looked at the crumbs on his table then proceeded to put it into his mouth again.

"Ew." Said Puar, disgusted with Goku's eating habits.

"Easy there, big man!" Roshi shouted to Piccolo. "You almost caused Goku to choke!"

Piccolo wouldn't calm down and barged into the living room almost breaking the front door off its hinges, causing Yamcha and Puar to stagger away from the Couch in hopes of avoiding the Namekian's wrath.

"Are we just going to do NOTHING?" Piccolo shouted to everyone in the living room.

Goku miraculously stopped eating his food to hopefully calm down the raging Namekian. "Piccolo... You know what Shenron said."

Piccolo shot a glare at Goku in response. "Yet, we still haven't asked Porunga!"

"Piccolo." Goku sadly said. "I've checked yesterday."

"And what did-"

"Porunga said no."

Piccolo winced upon hearing this.

A depressing silence had befallen the Z Fighters until Goku smirked and raised a thumbs up.

"Don't' worry piccolo, I have a plan." He said with a smirk.

Roshi glanced away from the Playboy magazine and lowered his shades to view Goku better. "What crazy idea do you have now, Goku?"

"The dragons say, it's beyond their power, right? So what if we upgraded the dragon?" Goku asked.

Piccolo frowned. "You think it's that simple?" He asked, but then the shared Namekian voices inside of piccolo's head berated him for a while.

"Shut up! Kami!" Everyone in the living room stared at the Namekian.

"How's Kami?" Asked Goku.

"You shut up too!" Demanded Piccolo. But after a while, he came to an agreement with the voices in his head and his demeanor changed from stressed to relaxed very quickly and everyone noticed this.

"What's wrong, Piccolo?"

"Your idea might not be so bad after all." Replied Piccolo.

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Universe 9, Lugunica

Gohan flew as fast as he could to the sanctuary to meet up with Emilia and Roswaal. Perhaps Gohan can make things right.

First, he needs to ensure Emilia is still capable of making an appearance to the Royal selection. Then he can focus on all other problems.

As Gohan approached the sanctuary like a blur in the sky, a slight headache bothered him but he dismissed it as a symptom of stress.

The natives of the Sanctuary saw a bright light quickly coming at them so they embraced for the worst to happen only to be surprised when it was just a Demi-human with the capability of flight.

Gohan quietly landed in the Townsquare which quickly made him the center of attention. When Gohan laid eyes on the natives they were shy at first but seeing that Gohan has a tail they became more trusting of him.

They quickly assumed him to be another one of Roswaal's affiliates.

Gohan would have asked for Roswaal's location but he could already sense the clown's presence inside a cabin. Gohan sensed two people with him. One of them to be Emilia and the other one to somehow have an energy similar to that of Beatrice.

'Is Beatrice here?' Gohan thought to himself. 'No, that can't be. Beatrice isn't likey to exit the library unless forced to do so.'

Having now approached the front door, he kindly knocked to await a response. To his surprise, a pink-haired loli in robes opened the door instead of what he thought could have been Beatrice's energy signal.

The loli looked up to Gohan as if she was expecting him to arrive.

"Uh, hello?" Said Gohan.

"You must be the Super Saiyan."

"H-how did you find out?"

She turned around and gestured for him to enter. "Lord Roswaal has informed me of your magical powers."

Gohan wasn't comfortable with the misunderstanding. "Erm, it's not-" He didn't have time to correct her as she walked away to what was most likely Roswaal's sleeping quarters.

Deciding he should speak of something else. "Quick question, do you know Beatrice?" Asked Gohan.

She stopped walking then looked to Gohan. "I haven't heard that name in a long time."

"It's nothing, nevermind."

She blankly stared at Gohan then continued walking to Roswaal's bedroom. "He's waiting for you." She said upon stopping in front of a bedroom door.

Could Roswaal perhaps be upset with Gohan?

Gohan opened the door the see a smug-looking Roswaal dressed in rags and seated in bed. The Saiyan was confused to why Roswaal eyed him the way he did. What does the clown have in mind?

Emilia stood aside with eyes devoid of life. She didn't even acknowledge Gohan's presence.

'Is she alright?' Thought Gohan as he observed the half-elf.

"Ah, Gohan-san. How are you?"

"Hello, Roswaal."

"I've been awaiting your arrival for quite some time, yet I didn't believe you would make such an early appearance."

"I'd like to apologize for-"

"At ease, Gohan. I have a way for you to redeem yourself."

"Y-you do?" Asked Gohan.

"Indeed. But first I must know if you're capable of energy transfer?" Asked Roswaal.

"Y-yes. It depends if its-."

"That's good. Because Miss Emilia must attend the Royal selection."

Gohan's eyes widened. "When?"

"Tomorrow."

Gohan was dumbfounded. "But I thought she was stuck here."

"That's true." Roswaal nodded. "Which is why I thought things through."

"What exactly do you have in mind?" Asked Gohan.

"For her to attend, you must act as her Gate."

Gohan was getting more confused. "Gate?"

"Listen carefully," Roswaal said sternly. "If Miss Emilia were to exit the sanctuary without you mediating as her Gate, the consequences would be devastating."

Gohan became nervous. "That's too risky." He nervously said. "I'm barely getting the hang of mana transferring."

"Gohan, I'm sure you've seen the effects Miss Emilia suffered upon having entered the barrier surrounding the sanctuary."

Gohan remembered Emilia's critical situation. In fact, Gohan remembers having suffered a slight headache upon having entered the barrier. How was he able to survive the effects of the barrier if it was supposedly fatal?

Gohan nodded. "Yes. I remember."

"Then you're aware of what will happen if you fail to mediate for her?"

"..." Gohan glanced at Emilia again and yet she didn't acknowledge his presence.

"Fine, I'll do it." Said Gohan.

Roswaal smirked in delight. "Thank you, Gohan. Get the hang of it today, because tomorrow, we'll arrive at the Royal Capital."

"You'll go too?"

"Very much so. Despite my condition, I obligate myself to attend, for I am Emilia-san's sponsor."

"Then I'll do my best."

"Please do."

Let's get back into this story and take it seriously for once!