Kanzeon found Goku standing before the gate curled up and in pain. His diadem had shattered once more and he had his arms wrapped around the lifeless form of Kaguya-hime. He was silent, his emotional wounds keeping him still. The goddess approached him, looking down at the corpse of her trainee. For some time Kaguya had showed great promise. She and Tenpou would be the only bodies left after this great massacre. It pained her deeply to see the once vibrant woman laying dead.

"How long...are you gonna stay like that?" She whispered. Goku didn't respond.

"It's a good thing your diadem came off. None of heaven's army will lay a finger on you knowing full well the depth of Seitan's power. But aside from that, a normal body would've long since starved to death. Or tell me...is that what you want Goku?" It seemed like it was. The boy had been sitting with the slowly decaying body of Kaguya for days now. Everything else was being sorted out to completion around him and yet here he sat. Being what he was, he could have devoured the young woman's body for sustenance but the fact that he didn't spoke volumes. He'd loved them all and their loss was what broke him.

"Not Seitan Taisei but he who can perceive that which cannot be seen. That was the name he gave you. You must know how it was...that you were able to reach the World below alive due to their sacrifice." Her voice was calm but as the boy still didn't respond she went for a stronger approach.

"Are you going to waste it?! All the wishes that were entrusted to you by Konzen, Kaguya, Kenren, and Tenpou?!" She screamed. This brought a result. Goku reared his head, still managing to place Kaguya's body gently to the ground. As soon as his body left contact with hers she became silver dust that blew away on imaginary wind. Goku charged at Kanzeon. The woman allowed him to cut her upper arm before wrapping him in her embrace.

"I've made you suffer so much." She squeezed, falling to the ground with him. Goku made no moves to escape the hug, falling limp.

"In place of my beloved apprentice Kaguya, my nephew Konzen, and their companions Kenren and Tenpou. Let me be the one to tell you...I'm so happy to have met you." The words made the legendary creature burst into more of pain that reached so deep into his heart that it would leave root there for a long time. Kanzeon wished to remove this pain, to help him rest now that he had lost so much. She pressed her hand to Goku's forehead and a golden glow appeared on his brow. She could feel Kaguya's magic rising within the boy and she smiled. The woman's final gift. Goku slumped over in a deep sleep.

"When you wake you will forget everything about the days you spent in heaven along with those you met. But I promise that the memories that are carved into your soul will never disappear. They will become you blood and bone and give you strength to live. So for now, just sleep, embracing in your heart that seed of hope." She whispered stroking Goku's hair. The boy was peaceful in sleep not knowing of the future that awaited him, nor that he would be reunited with the people he cared so deeply for that their death had once broken him completely.

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Nariya wiped her brow, the laundry was beginning to become a burden now a days. She felt the wind rustle through her hair and for a moment there was a voice whispering to her.

"I'm here..." It seemed to say. She looked up at the sky with a frown.

"Nariya, are you alright?" She turned to meet eyes with her surrogate father Jirou. He looked concerned but she shook her head.

"No, it's nothing." But it didn't feel that way. Something in that voice brought a fluttering to her heart. Soon, things were going to change.