Chapter 18: Articho and Arisa! The Time Patroller's First Date Ever?!

The Time Patroller was surprised that the two of them will be having dinner inside of a restaurant.

"So we're going to be eating here tonight?" Articho asks the girl he loves, despite not being officially a couple.

"That is correct." Arisa answers to him. "I discovered this restaurant when I was first introduced with the penthouse. This place serves both French and Italian cuisine."

"Not a lot of customers here, huh?" He looks around, noticing a few customers being served by waiters and maids.

However, the one thing he eyed curiously on is the outfits the said maids are wearing. They are wearing white knee length dresses with white tunic sleeves as each maid have a different secondary color.

"Go find us a seat." The popstar tells him, walking towards the women's loo. "I need to use the restroom."

"Seriously?" He questions. "Right now? Why didn't you go earlier?"

She replies by stomping one of her high heels on his left foot as a cartoonish vein appears over her head.

Articho yelps in pain. He's now holding his sore foot.

"All right, you made your point." He winced. "I'll go find us a seat."

"Much better." She nods, before continuing to the restroom.

"Now I better find the best table here."

He tells himself as he looks around.

The one particular spot got his attention. It was right next to the window and had a great view of the city.

"That should do it." The young man nods as he makes his way towards the table. "Now I just need to wait for Arisa to freshen up."

The Time Patroller started looking around the restaurant, noticing the different patrons and serving staff.

"This is nice." He quietly mutters.

"Can I take your order, sir?" A teenage girl's voice asks him.

Articho turns his head to the side to see one of the maids speaking to him. She has long, dark purple black hair with pretty almond shaped dark purple eyes and a gentle but shy smile. The uniform was the same as the other maids, with the secondary color of indigo.

"Oh, I'm actually waiting for someone." He explains. "But could you bring us some non alcoholic refreshments? Oh! And surprise us with an Italian meal for my friend and a French meal for me."

"Certainly." She nods. "I'll be back in a moment to bring your drinks."

Then the waitress began to make her leave.

"Well, she was nice." He murmurs. "Though she has beautiful almond eyes, I'll give her that."

The doors outside of the bistro opens as a few more customers enter. Two of them peaked his interest.

Both were Tokiwadai students. One of them had pale brown hair with straight bangs. Styled into a bob cut, but perfectly straight and flat. She's wearing her summer uniform from the school she represents.

Beside her right is another girl with short hair dyed as a pale red color. With a bob cut. She also has the same color eyes. The young middle school girl with a slender body frame, making her seem boyish in appearance.

Another person also took his interest. He has spiky hair dyed blond, and wears a pair of shades and a green Hawaiian shirt. The spiky hair reminded him a lot like Sicily's younger foster brother.

But there's something about him that feels... off somehow. Like he's following or looking for someone.

But before he can wonder even further, he sensed some movement around his table. The Time Patroller turns around to see Arisa smiling towards him.

"Did you order for us already?"

"Yeah, you could say that." He slyly smirks, looking away. "I asked them to surprise us."

"Aww, that's so sweet of you." The popstar smiles, before sitting down. "I can't wait."

P"You're welcome." The Time Patroller gestures his hand out at her in respect. "Anyway, what's so special about this bistro? Why establish itself here in this thirty story apartment complex instead of a hotel?"

"Allow me to explain." She begins, gesturing her hand out at the bistro they're in. "It's because this restaurant has the best view of this apartment, overlooking the city. Plus, the best quality dishes around."

"I can see that." He deadpans. "Just get to the point."

"The point is, this restaurant is owned by the Kongou Airline company. More specifically to the heiress. Of course, she's never actually visited this bistro that she bought out of in the first place."

"So that why this bistro is so popular, and well staffed?" The Time Patroller was surprised.

"Not exactly." She sweatdrops. "You could I say that I was somewhat involved in this, even though I'm not a part timer employee here."

"You?" He spatters in disbelief. "As I recall, you were literally the worst chef I know of. And all you're good at is making toast and jam."

"Hey!" She kicks his shins with her heel from underneath the table. "Not as a chef, you simpleton."

"How many times do you have to keep kicking me or stomping on me?" He complains.

"Until you start listening to me with your ears, instead of your stomach and dick."

"All right, already." He told her. "You know, this is a fine establishment."

"It sure is." She smiles towards the boy she loves. "I knew having dinner here was the best idea."

"Here are your drinks, sir." The same maid calls out from a short distance, carrying the beverages.

Just then her right ankle wobbles, losing her footing in her sock covered high heel pumps.

"Wahhhh!" She gasps in a panic and begins to fall on her front.

But someone was able to catch her, from completely falling. The surrounding serving staff and patrons gazed at the direction of the commotion.

"There ya go. Easy does it." Articho says, holding her steady by the waist. "That was too close. You alright, ma'am?"

The dark purple black haired girl was surprised to hear the voice of the customer she was serving.

"I-I-I'm fine. Thank you for helping me." She told him, turning red.

He then let's her go carefully. Buy some miracle, the drinks haven't spilled or made any mess as they are safely and neatly placed on the table.

"Whoa. Looks like you manage to place our drinks on the table without having to move them yourself." He comments.

"It's thanks to my ability." The waitress explains. "Well, technically, my clumsiness must've flew the drinks on the table. (nervous smile) Heh, heh."

"Well whatever it was, it sure was amazing. So don't sell yourself short." The Time Patroller assured.

The maid smiles at him before looking at Arisa.

"Oh! Didn't see you there. Sorry about that." She apologizes. "How's it going, Arisa?"

"I'm doing well, Awatsuki." The popstar nods. "And I see that you're hard at work as ever."

"Gee, thanks." Awatsuki chuckles nervously.

"You know her, Arisa?"

"Oh!" She realizes that he's left in the dark. "Articho, this is a good friend of mine who works as a part time maid here."

"Nice to meet you, Sir." The girl says giving a bow. "My name is Maaya Awatsuki. When I'm not working here, I am a first year at Tokiwadai."

"A first year like Shirai?" He wonders in surprise.

"Yes. Shirai so happens to be one of my classmates." Maaya explains.

"Her ability, Float Dial, allows her to control the buoyancy of objects around her. Even people and animals."

"Hold on a sec. You know Kuroko Shirai?" The buoyancy user did a double take.

"Yeah." He frowns. "She's so goddamn annoying."

"It's a long story." Arisa added. "In fact, we just hung out with her with a couple of our classmates not too long ago. We even got a chance to hang out with Misaka."

"And you even met the Railgun as well?"

"Sure did." The popstar smiles in confirmation with her eyes closed, tilting her head.

"I love your dress, by the way." The purple raven haired girl compliments.

"Thank you." The pink haired girl smiles before showing her heels she's wearing. "What's your opinion on these?"

"They do show the beauty of your toes." The maid answers. "I take it you used your feet to seduce this boy right here?"

Arisa's face turns deeply red.

"A-Actually, I seduced him with my lips and my body." She corrects her. "But yes. My feet and toes, too."

"In lay man's terms, Arisa's both my friend and concubine." Articho drops a bombshell to the maid with his arms crossed.

"Oh my." Awatsuki giggles. "Is this true, Arisa?"

"In a way." The pink hair popstar truthfully told her. "A-Anyway, how's Wannai?"

"Oh, she's over there. tending to some of the customers." Maaya pointed out, as the other girl was pouring some tea for the two Tokiwadai students.

She is a girl around Awatsuki's age and is slightly shorter than her. She wears the same attire as her best friend except the secondary color is green instead of indigo. She has short wavy light-brown chestnut hair, and also blue eyes.

"Thank you so much, Wannai." The third year bobcut haired girl nods.

"No problem, Kobayashi." She smiles back at her senpai. "I'll be back with you meals in a moment."

As Wannai heads back to the kitchen, Awatsuki looks back at the two teens.

"I better head back with your surprise meals as well." She smiles. "I'll let you continue on with your date. Enjoy the drinks for the time being."

Maaya then proceeded to follow her friend into the kitchen.

"So..." Articho begins. "What should we talk about?"

"Anything is nice." Arisa shrugs.

"Okay then. How about... my Super Saiyan forms?" He suggests. "I'm sure you're curious about them."

"Well, I do remember the first two regular forms you have." She recalls one of her memories. "I also remember you as a giant Golden Ape. You were on the road to attain primal Saiyan ki before you permanently lost your tail."

"I remember that. That was the first time we met." He chuckles. "Of course, you were hiding behind the scenes at the time."

"You know me so well." The reincarnated Kai chuckles as well. "So can you tell me your other forms?"

"As you wish." He nods before raising an eyebrow. "Wait, you do remember my stronger forms, right?"

"Stronger forms?"

"The ones with god ki?"

"Eh?!"

"Huh. Guess you don't really remember." He sighs. "Which also means you no longer remember the knowledge of what god ki even is. That's not good."

"What are you talking about?" She asks confusingly.

"You'll find out soon enough. If I get the chance to fight another strong Esper that is. Hokaze was an okay opponent, but her current power level barely kept up with my base form. Not even the Kaioken without increasing the multiplier. Wendy, however, is almost as strong as a Super Saiyan, especially at full power. She got knocked around so easily in my base and Kaioken is because her guard was down."

"Really?" The popstar questions in shock. "You had a hard time beating her as a Super Saiyan?"

"Barely. My big mouth and her Dark Form's power drainage helped me beat her. I'm lucky that she never got the chance to master it. Can you imagine if she did, with more time and training? She would've pushed me in using the level beyond Super Saiyan."

"You know something else about her. What is it?"

"Well, do you recall her having albino hair after I used a Super Spirit Bomb on her?" He asks.

"I do, and her skin became pale white. And her ears were pointy. Just like me when I was back in my old form."

"I think Wendy's a Demon." He theorizes. "The red and black aura, the transformation equivalent to the first Super Saiyan form. It's not a coincidence. There's only one person who would even think about interbreeding with humans as an experiment. You don't know this, but a certain 'friend' of ours is here on this Earth. That's what Parsley was warning me about."

"Fu?! Here?!" She perks up in disbelief. "First Black, now that guy?!"

"Unfortunately." He sighs in annoyance. "It's most likely he's been here travelling through time as much as Black has been."

"Wait, you knew that Black's been traveling forward in time this whole time without telling me about this?"

"I wanted to make sure that it was really you, Ari." He explains. "So calm down about it. Not like I had any other choice. Besides, he's no longer a threat to us. How else was I able to snatch his ring away from him before I turned him into a gingerbread cookie and sealed him away in a teapot?"

"His ring?" She questions before looking at her right index finger where the silver band is on. "You mean this ring that you gave me as a gift?"

"Yep." He answers with a popping sound. "Since you literally don't remember, what you're wearing is a Time Ring. That's how he's able to jump from one point in time to another. And... there's something I need to tell you."

"What?"

"Not long after he was stranded here, Black started to interbreed with humans. He told me that since his body will lose its youth at eighty, given that he's technically mortal, he wanted to create a new Saiyan race under him as well as find a perfect successor to carry on his legacy."

"So in other words, a majority of the population is either Human, Saiyan, Demon, or who knows what else."

"That's the theory." He scratches the side of his head with a finger. "Either the majority of one or the other. Or all of the above."

"This is a lot to take in." Arisa admits.

"You were the Supreme Kai of Time, Arisa." He shrugs. "It's not that hard to understand."

Just then, Maaya started headed back towards their table. And it seems her best friend is helping out as well.

"Here you are, Sir." The girl with the beautiful eyes says. "One Beef Bourguignon."

She places the French dish in front of the Time Patroller.

"Thank you."

"And for you, Arisa, Frutti di Mare." The maid with beautiful hair announced, placing the seafood pasta dish in front of the popstar.

"Thank you so much, Kinuho." Arisa smiles.

"We hope that the two of you enjoy." She nodded with a genuine smile before looking at Articho. "It's also a pleasure to meet you, Articho. Any friend of Arisa and Shirai's, is a friend of ours."

"Sure, no problem." Articho told her, even though he wanted to say something else. "Ya know, you look awfully familiar."

"I do?"

"Does 'Serena' ring any bells?"

This question causes the chestnut haired girl's cheeks to turn pink out of embarrassment.

"I get that a lot." She told him. "Though I might have inherited her personality."

"Except for her rebellious side." Maaya points out. "Which is the only trait you lack."

"Awatsuki!"

"Oopsie." She giggles. "My bad."

"The two of you get along so well." The Time Patroller compliments.

"We do." Kinuho nods. "Anyway, we shouldn't take up any more of your time, so we'll let you enjoy your meals before it gets cold. Come on, Awatsuki. Other customers are waiting for us."

Soon the two best friends left to attend to the other customers of the restaurant.

Both Articho and Arisa dig in their food. And they started to enjoy it.

"This is great." He says, enjoying the beef taste. "I can see why you like this place."

"I appreciate the compliment." She smirks with pride. "The Galileo Bistro does more than just serve dinner. There's breakfast, lunch, even desert. Though, you already know about the latter since that applies to every other restaurant in existence."

"That's true."

"Hmm?"

"You said you need to keep up with your training, which means you need to fight more. Who do you plan on fighting? It's clear you want to fight Sogiita."

"Yeah, but he's not enough to satisfy me." Articho sighs frustratingly. "And a majority of Espers are ranked Level 0. Not to mention Espers are technically pure blooded human, so they're way too weak to even hold their own against me. Having a strong ability doesn't make them the better fighter. Even if I were to train them, there are three reasons why I can't and won't do it. One, I work better alone. Two, training them to my level will take years, and it's already made abundantly clear that humans have short lifespans and grow old quickly, and years is what I don't have since Saiyans lose their youth at eighty. Three, they die so easily as they'll use up their ki too fast. Their bodies aren't designed to handle that kind of stress like other species can. Sorry, but it's fact. And who the hell am I gonna fight against? Majority of the Level 5s have never been in an actual fight before. They've done nothing but rely too much on their abilities, and the only people they've fought are street punks, terrorists, and other low ranked Espers, who are way weaker than them. They're a joke, Arisa. And not even worth my fucking time. Hell, Vegeta might agree with me since humans are literally stupid and weak. Though they're creativity and adaptiveness is no pushover. Still, that's not enough to defeat a Saiyan. If you think they can, count how many times they've beaten at least one. Come on, humor me. Name one Saiyan they've fought and defeat without the help of another Saiyan or anyone else who uses ki."

The popstar begins to open her mouth, before closing it.

"That's what I thought."

Meanwhile across from where they're sitting at now, they're being watched.

"So he believes that Sogitta will be boring for him to fight, huh?" Kakine wondered. "Interesting."

Kaibi was currently sipping some tea.

"Are you sure we should be doing this?" She questions. "He may be cocky, but being a liar isn't one of them."

"What do you know?" He snorts. "Didn't you hear him what he just said? He's looking for someone to fight that's worth his time."

"And you believe that person is you?" The young blonde raises her eyebrow.

"Why else is my ability called Dark Matter?" He counters. "Since he's never heard of me, this'll work to my advantage. If he knows who I am, he would just shrug me off like I'm not even there."

"Good call, I guess."

"By the way, even though we are observing, the dress you're wearing tonight is really beautiful on you." The dirty blonde haired Level 5 smirks towards his girlfriend.

She is wearing a red long sleeve bandage dress with a square deep cut neckline and skin-tight body con fit which put her figure on display. Completing it were a pair of black strap heels, that show her feet and glazed nails, and a slim pearl necklace.

"I'm glad you're pleased." She smiles, batting her eyes. "Perhaps, later, we can get a little intimate together."

"Perhaps." He shrugs. "As long as you're on the pills."

"IF I'm on the pills." She grins mischievously. "Then I'll just have to take one in the morning after you fill me up."

"You better not be screwing with me." He frowns. "You're pranks are never funny. Especially if you're planning to get yourself pregnant."

"Just kidding." Kaibi giggles. "Probably."

Kakine growls in annoyance when she said that last word.

"I believe that I should be a little harder with you, in certain areas."

She gasps, covering her mouth.

"You wouldn't dare?"

"Heh." Her boyfriend cockily grins. "Try me."

Kaibi grins, without her boyfriend knowing, as she started secretly pulling down her panties from underneath her dress.

"I guess I'll take that risk after all." She told him, sliding under the table.

Meanwhile, over at another table.

Tsuchimikado watches both tables, eavesdropping on their conversations.

"So that's how it is?" He told himself. "Perhaps I should ask the Amakusa to investigate this. To think Saiyans aren't the only ones living among us. Of course, we already know about mythical creatures originating from the spirit world."

"Here's your order, sir." A girl with midnight blue short hair says. "One Curry rice. Enjoy."

"Thank you, Maika."

She then smiles at her foster brother before walking away.

"I always love coming here for dinner." He sighs dreamily at the sight of seeing his cute sibling. "Hopefully one day I'll be able gather enough courage to tell her how I feel."

Over with the two Tokiwadai students, near Articho's and Arisa's table.

"They seem to be doing fine." The Level 3 Telepath says, smiling. "What do you think, Kirifu?"

"They make a cute couple." The Level 3 Telekinetic answers with a smile. "Was it a good idea for me to come with you?"

"You're the only one outside the Queen's clique I can trust." She telepathically admits. "It'll be too suspicious for Articho to notice. From what she and Hokaze told me, he's not only one of the smartest, but he's able to make the Queen tremble in fear. In fact, he's the only one to scare her."

"Really?" The redhead was surprised.

"It's true." Kobayashi told her friend. "Shokuhou tried to brainwash him for disrespecting her and he got behind her without her even seeing him move."

"What?" Her best friend blinked. "You're suggesting that he's faster than the human eye can track?"

"It's a possibility."

She concluded, as they continue to observe the two.

Later...

Arisa and Articho just finished with their meals.

"That was so good." The popstar declared, placing her silverware down.

"Damn, Arisa. You've never eaten this much before." Articho was very shocked. "You must have been really hungry."

"Guess I was." She shrugs her shoulders, before giving a burp. "Excuse me."

"No problem." The Time Patroller waves his hand. "Say, can you do something for me?"

"Is something wrong, Articho?"

"No." He shakes his head. "I don't think you want to do that."

"I'll do anything for you."

"Take them off." He says bluntly.

The girl tilts her head in confusion for a second before her cheeks turned pink.

"Here?"

"No one's looking, Ari." He assures her. "Do you trust me?"

"I... I do."

"Then when are you waiting for?"

His date started blushing, as she moves her hands down towards the skirt of her dress. And she was able to grab a hold of her lace white thongs. She wiggles her body slowly, carefully pulling down her thongs before they touched between her heels. Then stepping out of one of the holes, the popstar was able to completely take off the lingerie.

She then looks at her supposed lover, blushing shyly.

"It's done." She told him, placing her panties in her handbag.

Articho grins mischievously.

"I know exactly what we'll be doing in the elevator."

"I can bet." The pink haired teenager smiles.

As the two left behind their payment at the table, Kobayashi and Kirifu were all red face.

"I can't believe she actually did that."

Kinuho and Maaya had their faces the same way.

"Wow. Her panties are pretty." The Float Dialer says.

"They sure are." The Hydro Hand user agrees. "We should buy some for ourselves."

The couple passes by Kakine, without knowing it, as the table started to rattle a little bit. It appears he's too preoccupied at the moment for some peculiar reason.

The Time Patroller and reincarnated Kai got to the elevators, as one of the doors opened up. When they got inside and the doors closed, the lift begins to ascend to the penthouse floor and Articho and Arisa stand beside each other.

Arisa smiles, standing next to him. Her lover crouches down and uses his fingers to touch her glittered toe nails beneath her slip on peep toe heels, rubbing both big toe nails and kissing them.

"Your toes are just a beautiful as ever."

Arisa giggles in pleasure as his lips were tickling her toes.

Articho then goes behind her and slowly stands back up as his right hand slithers from the popstar's right ankle to her leg up all the way beneath her dress where she had already removed her thongs.

Arisa gasps loudly at this violation.

"A-Articho?!" She yelps.

"Relax." He replies as his hand is squeezing her ass cheeks. The boy then rubs her vaginal lips with two fingers, causing them to open up, releasing thick love juices.

"You're very wet, don't you know?" The Time Patroller whispers in her right ear in a husky tone. "My beautiful concubine."

"Were you serious about me being your mistress?" The pink haired popstar wonders, curiously.

"Yes." He smirks before his fingers lightly push on her cherry inside her canal. "And no."

"N-No?" She asked, as her feet started fidgeting around inside the elevator and wiggling her sexy toes. "Ahhhhh."

The girl then started moaning. He carefully thrusts his fingers in and out without accidentally breaking her hymen.

"S-Stop it." She moans, this time a little louder. "Keep this up, and you'll make me an aroused animal."

"Make me, Ari." He cheekily grins.

"You asked for it!" Arisa groans, turning her head to the side, kissing him seductively on the lips. Mysteriously, she was able to move her hand towards the groin area of his pants and successfully pulled out his cock, giving it a couple of fast and strong strokes.

Just then, the elevator stops at the penthouse floor, where a certain purple haired girl was standing outside when the doors have slide open. She gasps in surprise, blushing furiously and her monkey tail moving left and right.

The pair haven't noticed her yet.

"Am I interrupting something?"Mitori stutters.

They stopped making out to see the girl. When Articho recognizes her, he looks down and realizes his fingers are still inside Arisa's vagina and his dick still in her hand.

"Oh, crap basket!"

The popstar screams in horror, blushing harder.

"Pull your fingers out!" She demands in a panic.

Acting quickly, he was able to pull out of her without deflowering her. And then he puts his member back where it belongs.

"This so embarrassing." Arisa groans, completely humiliated. "I didn't want anyone else to know about our relationship like this."

"What the hell, bitch." He glares at the purple haired girl. "Way to ruin the moment with my friend here."

"My name is not bitch, FYI." She replies with an annoyed expression as her left eye twitches at the offensive slur. "It's MITORI KOUZAKU."

"Like it matters now." He rolls his eyes before tilting to the side, noticing a familiar looking tail till he expresses a dramatic face. "Ehhhhh?! A tail?! You're a Saiyan like me?!"

"Saiyan?" She questions, raising her eyebrow. The purple haired girl looks at the thing behind her. "You mean...?"

"Uhhh, yeah?" Articho simply answers. He suddenly got behind her and started pulling on the girl's tail. "Wow! I never thought you'd grow one. Plus, it's been awhile since I've seen a Saiyan tail up close."

"Owwww! Be careful, it's still sensitive." Mitori yelps before her body started getting weaker, dropping to her knees. "Wait, what's happening to me?? Why am I feeling so weak right now?"

"Just as I suspected." The Saiyan pointed out.

"Articho, what's happening to her?" Arisa wonders.

"Whenever someone pulls on a Saiyan's tail, his/her power level dwindles. And since she's vulnerable to this major weakness, that means she hasn't built up tolerance like most elites and low class Saiyans have back in the day."

He then releases his grip on the girl's tail, allowing her to quickly recover. Mitori slowly gets back up as her stamina returns.

"What the hell was that?!" She snaps at the boy. "You just can't do that to people! I don't know what's the deal with this cat tail, but clearly you know more about it than me."

"It's a Saiyan tail." He corrects her. "And Saiyans are a race of superhumans that originally have monkey like tails."

"Monkey?"

"No shit." He deadpans. "You're not familiar with the character Sun Wokong? Ya know, 'Journey to the West'? It's like that. Except he's no Saiyan."

"Oh." She realized, remembering that story and folklore. "You're lucky there's no full moon right now." He continues before mumbling to himself. "It'll be a real pain in my ass to clean that kind of mess up without any Dragon Balls."

"What's happens at a full moon?" Mitori questions, confused. "Is it similar to a werewolf situation?"

"Wow, you're good at quick guessing." He comments. "But anyway, yes. Stare at it for too long, you turn into a Great Ape."

"A Great Ape?!" She exclaims.

"They're giant gorilla monsters with monkey tails." Arisa explains, shaking a bit in fear, nodding. "With glowing red eyes and sharp teeth with fangs sticking out."

"They kinda look like this." He explains taking out a photo. "See?"

She looked at the image as her eyes widened in horror. And then, she hears a mighty roar of the giant gorilla.

"Kyaaaahhhhhh!!!!" She jumps in fright.

"Hahahahahahaha!!!" Articho laughs his ass off, holding his stomach. "Made you look! Oh man, taking ventriloquism at the academy was worth it!"

The purple haired girl glares at him with anger.

"Right. Sorry." He apologizes with a chuckle. "Ahem! I think it's best we remove your newly found tail immediately. Believe me, the last I want is for you to go bananas as a giant monkey and nuke the entire planet. After all, Great Ape were the Saiyans' original forms before we evolved into our current human ones."

"And how are we going to do that?"

"Congratulations, Kouzaku. You just became the patient to my favorite board game 'Operation'." He begins to chuckle mischievously. "I hope you're prepared for my house of pain. Because it's gonna hurt. A lot."

"Ehhhh?!" Mitori eyes widened in fear.

"I'm not going to like where this is going, aren't I?" Arisa nervously questions.

"Nope." He simply answers.

Later inside the penthouse...

Mitori is laying on her chest on an operating table Articho has in his capsule kit. He insisted that she needs to be naked so that the clothes she's wearing aren't in the way of getting sliced off by accident.

She hesitated, but agreed.

And now that's she's already nude, the purple haired girl was nervously blushing. Her tail was already moving around due to her emotions. Secretly, she was really enjoying this."

The Time Patroller forms a jagged white aura around his right hand, creating a dagger-like ki blade.

"Now I want you to listen to me carefully because I'm only gonna say this once." He begins to explain. "As you might've have heard of ki being the Japanese term for the Chinese word 'chi', it's our life force that we can weaponize to enhance our strength, speed, and stamina. It's how we can fire energy blasts out of our hands, especially learning how to fly at hypersonic speeds, which makes Academy City's fastest jets look like anti-tank missiles. You following? Good. Then you should also be aware of ki blasts or conjured energy weapons can cauterize wounds in an instant. That should make things easier for me to cut off your tail without you bleeding out to death."

"Bleed out?!" She exclaims, terrified of what's to come.

With one swift stroke, Articho instantly cuts off the girl's Saiyan tail diagonally. Just close to the back of her waistline where the tail is attached to.

After it was cut off, her eyes widened in pain.

"AHHHHHH!!!" She screamed in agony. "Damn, it hurts! It fucking hurts!"

"Sorry, it had to be done." He shrugs, not regretting his actions.

"YOU ASS!" Mitori roars in anger before her body flinched in pain. "Ahh!"

"Easy there." Articho told her. "Now comes the hard part."

"Wait a sec, I thought we're done!"

"Not quite." He shakes his head. "I need to pull that stump of your cut off tail out of your body, otherwise, it'll grow back."

"It grows back?!"

"Definitely." The Saiyan nods.

"O-Okay." She stutters. "Do it."

"Hold still." He tells her. "This is going to sting a bit."

Arisa closes her eyes, not wanted to see the next part.

"Here I go." Deactivating his energy blade, he grips the sides of the stump. "Ready?"

"I am." She nods, nervously.

With a mighty pull, a ripping sound is heard. Finally, the boy rips the stump out of the back of her waistline with blood dripping off of the root stem.

"HOLY SHIT!" Mitori screams like a banshee, biting her lip. "It burns!

"Got it!" Articho declares, holding up the stump. "My very first surgery has been a success! Time to apply some S.P.U.G. on the gaping hole of your waistline and we're done."

The Time Patroller then pulls something out of his pocket.

"Hey, Arisa. I could use an extra pair of hands here."

"S-Sure." Arisa stutters as she stands next to him. "What do you need me to do?"

"You're gonna apply the medicine on her bleeding hole." He answers. "Sounds simple enough."

"That's it?" She blinked in surprise.

"Yep." He answers. "That's it."

"I'll do it." She nods in determination.

"Be my guest." He gestures with a smile before handing the medicine to her.

"Thank you." The popstar told her lover, as she poured some of the liquid on her fingers and applying it to the hole.

The purple haired girl moans, feeling the cold liquid on her wound.

"There you go." Arisa says. "It'll take a few minutes for the wound to close up. Once that hole where your tail use to be, you'll have a more human-like appearance again. However, the amount of blutz waves to become a Great Ape remains in your genes. And while it's true that a full moon or a power ball isn't enough to transform Saiyans without a tail, there are other ways to do so. Either a blutz wave machine or someone who can naturally generate and build up those waves within their Saiyan cells without requiring the need of a tail."

"Whoa."

"Damn straight." Articho agrees. "At least you still remember some of the things you know about the Saiyans, Arisa. And if you absorb and generate more of those waves that exceeds the required amount, you'll turn into a Golden Great Ape, which is basically a Super Saiyan as a giant gorilla."

"Super Saiyan? You mean that blond haired transformation?" Mitori questions.

"Huh? You know about the form?" He counter questions in shock.

"How else was I able to spy on your little battle with that pointy eared girl?"

"Of course you would." He facepalms. "Just like you were spying on me and Arisa last night."

"Wait, what?" The pink haired girl questions, looking at the purple haired girl in confusion and disbelief.

Before Mitori could say anything else, a knock was heard outside of the empty room Articho set up as an infirmary.

"Huh?" Everyone was confused.

"Who could that be late at this hour?" Articho wonders.

"I'll get it." The popstar says.

"No, stay with the girl." He orders.

"You're giving me orders now?"

"It's better to have another girl treating her here than a boy who just saw the opposite sex butt naked. But if you're inclined to trade places with me, I would be glad to-"

"Say no more!" The popstar quickly answers. "I don't want you to get any funny ideas of getting your rocks off."

He chuckles at this quick response from her.

"Duly noted." The Time Patroller replies as he walks out of the room. "And it's not an order, it's logic."

He then closes the door, before he was met with a girl wearing a red dress he doesn't recognize.

"What the-? How'd you get in here?" He questions, caught off guard. "I was about to answer the door, ya know. So how were you able to get in?"

"I was able to unlock it." She shrugs.

"You know you're trespassing in my friend's home, right?" He points out. "So unless you have some business here, I'd suggest you tell me before I kick you out."

"Fortunately for you, I do have business." The blonde girl answers. "Business with you. Well technically my boyfriend does."

"Oh really?" He snorts. "You're gonna have to be a little more specific than that, sweetheart."

"I have come here on his behalf to give you a message."

"I'd rather hear what he has to say himself than send someone to do his dirty work." He eye rolls. "I know you're hiding behind the corner, pal! Come on out so we can talk whatever business you have with me. I don't like having my own time wasted."

The person that was hiding behind the corner made his appearance.

"It would appear that you are smarter than you appear to be." The boy with dirty blond hair speaks.

"You know, that was a very dirty trick you did, having your girlfriend lock-pick the room just to get me." Articho retorts. "I was about to answer the bloody damn door. You guys have no patience."

"That's just the sort of people we are." The blonde girl answers.

"All right, what do you want?" Articho questions. "As you can see, I was quite busy."

"What I always want." Kakine begins to answer as the door opens behind Articho, in which Arisa and Mitori - with her clothes back on - exit the room to hear what the commotion is going on outside. "Son Articho, I challenge you to a fight."

At last, Kakine has declared a duel against our Time Patroller. And it seems that this is something Articho cannot ignore.

Next time on Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Articho's New Mission!