"As long as I live I will keep my promise to you"...
King Kaio never imagined that one day the moment of his death would come. He was an eternal being, he had seen and lived many ages, met many young warriors and faced many dutiful tasks for his superiors, but never, never would he have imagined that one day he would pass away. Agreed that he actually already lived in the Afterlife, but sincerely he would never have believed that one day he would become a permanent part of it, especially against his will.
It was a really weird feeling...
"Enough with those long faces, don't be offended! I already told you I'm sorry for involving you, right?". The voice of the young sayan, which flew beside him, roused him from his brooding on his current condition, awakening the slight sense of anger he still felt from the small lethargy of his reflections.
"You have no excuses. I can't stand that you wronged me this way," he turned to him, giving him one of his scolding looks, "You insulted me Goku! You insulted King Kaio himself! I am more important than the Supreme!" . How could that boy not understand the trouble he had gotten them into?
"How dare you? How could you do that? You used my beloved planet to save yours! It's crazy! But how did you come up with such an idea?" at each world he spoke, he sensed the anger boil up in him, also feeling the enlargement of a vein on his temple. That boy had done it big this time!
"Come on King Kaio, I've already apologized a million times!", Goku replied innocently, not realizing that doing so would only make the situation worse, "It was the only solution I found at the moment. In short, when you insist like this, you're really unfair, you know?"
Unfair?
UNFAIR?
Goku was destroying his beloved planet, condemning both him, Bubbles and Gregory to death, and HE was the unfair one?
"Stop it Goku! Be careful how you talk! How dare you address your Ruler in such a tone?". If he didn't immediately apologize and stop acting like a baby, King Kaio swore to himself that he would throw the young man straight into the Underworld!
Luckily for him, Goku quickly apologized, deciding to keep quiet for a while; the King took the opportunity to try to calm the nerves. That boy sometimes really put them to the test!
They flew silently along the Snake for a while longer, until it was the young man again who broke the silence.
"But tell me something King Kaio, I no longer feel Cell's aura around. Does this mean that he fell directly into the Underworld?".
That question actually took him by surprise!
"Now that you make me think about it, who knows where it's gone?", the King looked around bewildered, actually realizing he didn't feel the cyborg's aura, "I can't see it, it's not there! It's really strange, once you pass away, the first thing you get called back to King Yammer, is that way for everyone!"
"What?", Goku looked at him in bewilderment, as a terrible conjecture made its way into his brain, "What do you mean by that?".
He really hoped it wasn't like he thought, but the words King Kaio spoke shortly thereafter confirmed his suspicions.
"Well... I mean Cell is still alive! That monster is still alive...".
"What a mess!"
Not only had he sacrificed his life and poor King Kaio's planet in vain, but it meant that Earth was still in danger!
small chapter to make you understand in which period of the series our story takes place :D
p.s. the dialogues are taken from episode number 188.