same time.




Finally, Dende rose and held out his hand to Zoe to help her up. He noticed the scars on her forearm.


"As good as new ... just that one ..." he shrugged apologetically.


"Never mind. I've lived with it for so long ... Thanks!"


She smiled so brightly at the young Namek that the latter blushed a bit and said "Don't worry!" stammered.


Vegeta took this procedure too long again.

"I have to go into the space of spirit and time!" he threw in the conversation without any noticeable transition.


“What?” Dende spun around in amazement.


"You already understood me!"


"Yes ... but why ...?"


Even before the young god finished his sentence, the young woman intervened.


"You don't want to do this thing on your own, do you?"


"Who should I take with me? You?"


“What thing?” The two Namekians only understood the station.


"Who said that I could become something? Besides, I was thinking more of Piccolo!" Zoe countered meanwhile, ignoring Dende's question.


"Before I fight this cucumber together, pigs learn to fly and fish learn to ride bicycles!" Vegeta growled.


"Thank you likewise!" Piccolo growled back.


“Oh, you're so refreshingly impolite again today!” Somehow it was also fun to argue with him.


"Go ahead and cry!" Vegeta growled with a grim expression on her face.

Both Zoe and Vegeta felt reminded by this saying of a certain scene in a demolished living room. Completely unexpected for Dende and Piccolo, the two burst out laughing.


Piccolo indicated a slight wiping gesture in front of his face when that one sentence came back to Dende's mind.


But only his pupil can save us and him ...


"What is it now? Can I go in now?" asked Vegeta, who had recovered from his fit of laughter.




"Take her with you!"




All heads turned to the young Namek.


"I beg your pardon? I think I misheard!" Vegeta wasn't very fond of Dende's idea.




"Take her with you and teach her to fight!"




"I don't think about it! Why should I ..."


"Damn it! Just do what you are told! I have my reasons, after all. Either you take them with you or you can rub the room in your hair!" yelled at Dende Vegeta.



Everyone stared perplexedly at the otherwise gentle Namek. One was simply not used to such outbursts of emotion from him.




"It's okay! I'll take her with me. Even if I don't know what that will do," Vegeta growled angrily. "


"'She' has a name too, by the way, and that's Zoe!" interjected the young woman who was about to complain that she was not asked about this matter at all.


Popo, who had just reappeared with a pile of towels on his arm, said calmly:


"Eat something first and make it dry before going into the space of spirit and time."


Then he disappeared again and in a very short time filled the table with the contents of half the pantry.


"Then I'm probably outvoted ..." Zoe sighed and sat down on the bench.


Vegeta took a towel in resignation and tossed it to her.


"That makes us two..."


"Can we actually find out what exactly has done you so ..." Piccolo began his question, which was already on his mind at the beginning of their visit.But then he was busy watching Vegeta and Zoe clear the table in Saiyajin fashion.


* I'd better ask again later ... *




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Chapter 9.: Frustration 1