As I slowly open my eyes, I was lucky enough to have not been blinded by a bright light this time, sitting up, I noticed I was covered in bandages and I could feel slight waves of pain coming from across my entire body.
Sage-'Ugh, the last thing I remember was running towards 21 to finish our fight, and seeing how I'm still alive it's safe to assume 21 didn't win.'
Hoping off the bed, I head toward the exit but before I open the door, it opens on its own, and on the other side is 21 carrying a large plate of food, which caused my stomach to let out a loud growl.
21-"Can you stop looking at me like that, and yes the food is for you."
Moving out of the way, I watch as 21 walks past me heading toward the table while placing the plate down, and with how hungry I currently am, I didn't question her any further and immediately sat down and started eating.
As I started stuffing my face with food, I got curious about the outcome of the fight, so I looked up and 21 who is sitting across from me, and asked her.
Sage-"So, who won the fight?"
21-"Neither of us, during our final exchange, I had managed to knock you out with a kick, but my ki was completely exhausted which made it impossible for me to finish you off. So we tied, sadly."
Sage-"Hmm, surprising, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been a problem for you to devour me in that weakened state?"
21-"You're right about that, but I have my own pride Sage, and I'm not about to do something cowardly like devouring you when I wasn't the one who won the fight. When I devour you, I want to have the satisfaction of defeating you in a battle, otherwise, it'll mean nothing if I kill my rival, will it? Besides, I actually couldn't if I wanted to, the moment you went unconscious, your body was wrapped in an ethereal pink cocoon, even if I was at my peak, it would've taken a while for me to break it."
Sage-'Nala must've put some protection runes on me that'll activate if I go unconscious.'
Sage-"How long have I been unconscious?"
21-"One-week, quite fast considering the state you were in, though I should've expected as much."
Having finished my food, I stood up and did some light stretches since my body was feeling a little stiff, when I finished I looked over to 21 before teleporting myself to Nala's lab, as I'm sure she must be worried about me.
Sage-"As thanks for the food, I'll wait for you to catch back up to me, before our next fight."
Appearing inside Nala's lab, everything looks the same as I remember, not sensing Nala's ki, I make my way towards the exit and arrive at our home, though the instant I do I see Nala launch herself at me before wrapping her body around me.
Nala-"Where have you been for the past week, mister!? And why are you covered in bandages!?"
Sage-"Well, maybe if you unwrapped yourself from me I would be able to tell you."
Getting constricted by Nala when injured isn't the best experience I've had with her, but it could be worse, when Nala finally unwrapped herself from me, we sat down on the ground while I explained what happened starting from arriving at Towa's base.
Nala-"I see, so you're telling me, you had spent one week with 21 while unconscious?"
Sage-"Yeah, why?"
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After 2 hours of constant scanning and testing that Nala performed on me when she found out I had stayed with 21 for a while, I was finally set free, though she still forced me to stay at home just in case she missed something from the scans, well at least until I returned to my peak, so until then I just past my days by training Mia, and spending time with my family.
Just like that a couple of months passed by, with me spending time with my family and every now and then going to do some serious training with 21, though we had completely forgotten about Towa as we no longer saw her as a threat if she couldn't unseal Demigra. We had also forgotten to mention this to anyone else, causing Chronoa to continue her actions of setting up traps and getting ready for a large-scale battle while leaving the Saiyans to undergo intense training in preparation for protecting the crack of time. However, I'm glad we didn't say anything, otherwise, things could've turned out a lot worse for us in the future.
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Towa POV
Floating in the air above the crater where my base used to be with Mira, I currently felt no emotions, not anger, rage, sadness, or even humor at my situation. I've spent all of my life, trying to unseal Demigra from the crack of time and bring glory to the demon realm, yet all of my hard work has been for naught, as the only things that could help me achieve unsealing the crack of time have been destroyed, and to make matters even worse one of the beings who caused my destruction was something I created.
Towa-'Hehe, it seems I'm really going to have to settle with my last plan.'
Reaching forth, I summon my cracked staff from the bottom of the crater and make a portal that leads me straight before the crack of time, something I managed to create when I was young with the help of small light-blue women, with the same color hair. As I stepped through the portal, I knew my presence would be immediately noticed, but I didn't care, it wouldn't matter to me anyways soon.
Standing before a large crystal in the middle of a dimension that is separated from time and space, I clasp my hands forward and channel all of the space-time energy I currently have, and shoot it out toward the crystal in the form of a beam, however, pretty quickly I notice the amount of energy I have isn't enough as I'm only causing the crystal to shake. Mentally preparing myself, I start transforming all of my life energy into space-time energy, and by doing so it drastically increases my power, allowing me to start cracking the crystal, but I can feel myself growing old.
After what felt like hundreds of years, I finally manage to crack the crystal, breaking the seal placed upon Demigra, allowing him to finally escape, however, by then I've lost so much life energy that I'm nearly dead, merely hanging on with the last bits of remnant life energy.
Chronoa-"TOWA!!!"
Weakling turning around, I see the current Supreme kai of time standing in the distance with a horrified look on her face, a look that puts a smile on my face as I slowly drift off to eternal slumber before Mira catches me and disappears.