A few days passed with Broly and Alea intimately cuddling and fooling around with each other. Alea had already calmed down and recovered greatly, but Broly could still tell that it affected her even if she tried to hide it from him.
Days and weeks passed with Broly pressing her into telling him what she actually felt and although she initially told him that it wasn't necessary, she stabilized emotionally through it a lot. At some time, Cana and Zangya joined them in their daily routine again and everything slowly returned to normal. While Broly could tell if something disturbed Alea, so could she. She felt that he acted weirdly sometimes. She had followed Broly one time to the bathroom and saw him heavily coughing over the sink before spitting some blood out.
She instantly threw a fit as of why he didn't tell her about it. She forced him to explain everything that happened on earth, the fight between the demons and the time patrol and that he killed Reap, but he didn't go into detail with that. He told her that he was currently recovering from a soul injury that was caused through his recklessly usage of it.
After he killed Reap, he estimated that he would need about 2 years on his own to recover from it completely. He, of course, left out the fact that he was constantly in pain, but it seemed that she still realized that fact even without him mentioning it. After he was done, she only stared at him silently before her eyes became watery.
"You, big idiot! I-I don't want you to suffer just because I was a little upset about my death. What- if- it got wors-" She said before beginning to sob, not able to finish what she wanted to say. She wiped away the tears that were flowing down her cheek with both her hands.
Broly embraced her before gently saying, "I wasn't there when you needed saving, at least I wanted to be here when you recover." Alea buried her head in his chest and was hugging him tightly while sobbing quietly.
They remained like that for a while before Alea took a step back and looked straight at Broly. Her tears had dried and her eyes were filled with determination.
"You said that the Origins Spirit Crystal might accelerate your recover, right? Then I will go with you and protect you!" Broly smiled bitterly.
"You went through a lot-"
"No buts! Broly, I am not a child that you need to protect! I was careless and got killed that wasn't your fault or anyone else's! If I had been stronger, I would have survived." Alea interrupted him and spoke as if there was no room for negotiation, which only made Broly frown.
"Stronger? You already train so hard, there is-"
"That's where you are wrong." Alea interrupted him again as she knew what he was going to say.
"Your guidance allowed me to get stronger than what I would have been on my own, but I don't train as hard as I could have, and I am speaking for Cana and Zangya as well." Broly was stunned, he wanted to say something but decided to let her finish.
"Cana wanted to kill Frieza, Zangya wanted to conquer the universe and I wanted to become the leader of the Saiyans, but our ambitions were replaced with you. We wouldn't go out to train or fight others for years to have another breakthrough if it meant not seeing you, but you would and did.
We only push ourselves as much as you expect us to, but we don't have the same drive as you have. We had you to protect us if needed and guide us. Unconsciously we began to slack. The three of us had talked about this a short while ago and we came to the conclusion that we need to change something to get stronger.
We only stayed on Exousia if you didn't order us but now, we want to accept more missions and gain more experience. I think to start this off, it would be a good idea to bring you back to health and then start our training to become stronger. How about it?" Alea spoke resolutely.
Broly stayed quiet for a second.
"I disagree." Alea's eyes widened. She didn't think he would reject it so straightforwardly.
"We still need to destroy that assassin organization, after that do as many missions as you like." Alea was stunned for a while before her face blossomed with a beautiful smile.
"Yes!" Alea shouted cheerfully.
"Seems like I have pampered you too much. Alright, after we eradicated that organization, you will have to fulfill a quota like any other person. You will be assigned the most dangerous mission, considering your strength. There are many galactic emperors that will need to be slayed by you."
"Understood!" Broly embraced her and went on to tell the others. He told them about important stations of the organization and gave them the mission to completely destroy them. Unexpectedly, the organization was reaching into every corner of the universe.
Most of the members, of course were unimpressive, but there were still many of them. Because there were many, they needed branches where missions would be handed out and most would reside there during the time of their mission.
Aize with Taro, Cana with Zangya and Broly with Alea would go out in three teams leading tens of elite teams to eradicate them quickly. Since they would teleport between the locations, they would be able to quickly target the stronger stations without worrying that news spread.
Before they could move out though, Broly needed to recover. Broly and Alea teleported away without anyone noticing, while the elite teams were preparing themselves and gathered back on Exousia.
Broly and Alea appeared in the solar system where they had found the construct with the crystal inside. They quickly looked around the orbit from the destroyed planet. They had left the hall behind, since they couldn't teleport it away. Fortunately for them, the magic from the construct had made it so it was in sync with the planet it was on. They knew the area where to look fro it.
It didn't take them long to find it. Still orbiting the star with its imposing gate that was able to resist a full out attack from Broly at that time. Broly was actually confident that he could break it apart with his current strength but there wasn't a need to do so.
They quickly flew towards it and Alea opened the gate with telekinesis. As expected, the crystal was still hovering there as ethereal as before. Although it was only 2 meters tall now, it was still an extraordinary sight to view at with it shimmering in and out of existence.
Alea closed the gate again and observed the surroundings while Broly was preparing to absorb the crystals power.
He cut into his palm and used his soul to connect with the crystal while he was touching the crystal physically as well. To move his soul now was painful but nothing he couldn't endure. He circulated according to the technique and quickly felt the energy from the crystal enter his body and into his soul.
Fortunately, his guess was correct. His soul that was blurry and dim before began to solidify and become clear again. Surprisingly, the energy was barely enough to heal his soul completely. There was a bit remaining, but the remaining energy couldn't be used to enhance his ability to generate more soul power anymore. He had already tried it with the energy crystal, so it wasn't much of a surprise.
Broly felt refreshed and instantly knew that his soul's strength had increased tremendously. When he absorbed the crystal for the first time, he felt like his soul expanded to every corner of his body, but that was just his perception. His mind became clearer which made him more perceptive of his body and its every movement, now, however, he felt different.
With Kakos' fighting style he was able to guide his soul to another body part and fuse it with that part and its energy. He was only able to guide his soul that way through imitating Kakos. Now after healing, he felt like it was easy to guide his soul through his body.
It seemed like his control over his soul rose tremendously as well.