Ino sighed for a moment; this spiel sounded familiar. Wasn't this just a rehash of how she had bamboozled Sakura back in the day?
She observed carefully. The style of the clothes looked fine; if someone hadn't seen a Supreme Kai before, they wouldn't be able to forge this robe even if they tried. She vaguely remembered that the West Supreme Kai was indeed a female, but the other party's tone, which was full of scam artist vibes right from the start, made it really hard for her not to be vigilant!
The voice inside the Supreme Kai robe seemed to want to build some rapport and asked kindly, "You look very tired?"
"Yes." Ino immediately switched to a different face. "I had a huge fight with my family. My mom and dad have already separated, and dad found a stepmother. That stepmother is truly... her heart is entirely stuck in the money pit. She snatches other people's treasures every day, and the eminent monks in those temples hate her to death. That's not the end of it; she actually wants to sell the tea plantation my mom left me! I had a big fight with her before I came out. It's really annoying!"
The voice inside the Supreme Kai robe seemed to deliberate for a moment: "...This relationship is indeed quite complex. However, judging by my long life, you will all definitely reconcile in the end."
"Thank you, you really are a good person. Want to see the tea leaves produced by our tea plantation? They were all planted by my grandfather personally back then. The nourishing effect is very good. Let me give you some." Like performing a magic trick, Ino took a leaf directly out of the air.
The God Tree that had grown in Ino's spiritual world before was just like the God Tree planted by Kaguya Otsutsuki. After being toppled and reborn, she had observed a few days ago that this reborn God Tree seemed to have turned into a tea tree.
Why was there such a change? Truly strange.
Plucking the tea leaves turned the void into reality; if brewed, they could nourish spiritual power.
At this moment, Ino took out a tea leaf, aimed at a gap, and threw it in from a distance.
As expected, the oval-shaped leaf with serrated edges was instantly torn to shreds from three directions by the laser weapons that had been very quiet inside the room.
Ino said, seeming very annoyed, "What a pity, it seems I can't help you. Looking at your state, you mostly likely won't buy tea either."
She asked, as if suddenly remembering, "Why did you find me? That Saiyan from before... did you not communicate with him?"
At this point, it had only been a few decades since Bardock's death. Ino really wanted to know how Bardock had handled this "I am XYZ, send money" scam routine.
The woman's voice in the Supreme Kai robe sighed lightly: "I have to say, that communication was truly boring. The abilities I have remaining now are very limited, and I can't use the language comprehension ability. I had to learn the Saiyan language, but no matter what I said, the other party wouldn't believe it. I said I was a Supreme Kai, but that Saiyan monkey obviously hadn't heard of a Supreme Kai. He thought I was lying to him, left angrily, and never came back."
Ino nodded lightly. This fit the Saiyan personality, and it also fit their horizons. Having high battle power didn't mean one knew much. Bardock's "I am a barbarian" approach could indeed resist ninety-nine percent of scams.
She thought for a moment and said, "You say you are the West Supreme Kai? The current universe only has the Supreme Kai, there is no West Supreme Kai anymore. Who are you?"
The voice inside the robe remained very gentle as she said, "Supreme Kai? Could it be that you are referring to Shin?"
Ino didn't speak, only nodding lightly.
The other party continued, "It really is Shin... has so much time passed? Shin must have been working very hard these years. He was the youngest Supreme Kai among us back then. That great war was simply too cruel."
Ino interrupted her: "Cruel? Pardon my bluntness, but in the history I know, the West Supreme Kai was the first Supreme Kai to be sacrificed."
The other party's voice raised a bit uncontrollably: "I said, I didn't die, and it wasn't some sacrifice. The reason I say that battle was cruel is because my soul did not die; instead, it resides in this clothes. I watched the subsequent battles the entire time. The North Supreme Kai and I were defeated one after another. I survived as a remnant soul, while the very old North Supreme Kai died in battle. Afterward, the Majin absorbed the South Supreme Kai, who was the strongest among us, and finally, he even absorbed the Grand Supreme Kai... That is why I said that battle was cruel. Young person, do you have any more questions?"
Ino pondered. The process the other party described was about the same as what she knew; the probability of her being the actual person involved was as high as sixty percent.
Right now, it seemed like a good opportunity to offer timely assistance. Bardock didn't understand the reasons within, effectively plugging his ears and chanting "I'm not listening," which solved the problem once and for all.
Ino knew the inside story. She believed the other party was telling the truth, but in these times, the ones who drown are always the ones who know how to swim. Nine times out of ten, those who get scammed are smart people like her who know part of the inside story, are good at filling in the blanks with their imagination, and are greedy...
Those who truly have no desires or demands basically won't be fooled.
What to do?
Knowing too much information, she actually began to worry about personal gains and losses.
The voice inside the robe sighed lightly: "If you are unwilling to share life force, that is up to you. The Supreme Kais are Gods of Creation. That barbaric Saiyan could not understand a form of existence like mine, nor was he willing to understand my duties. But I believe you understand the Core People and know that Supreme Kais have the most basic principles. If you let me out, that would be the greatest contribution to the current universe."
That voice spoke on and on, then suddenly asked casually, like making small talk, "By the way, I still don't know your name?"
Ino said reflexively, "Haruno Sakura! I told the Tuffles outside earlier. Can your sensory abilities not detect that? I thought you knew."
"Haruno Sakura? Hmm, I know, I've always known." The voice inside the robe suddenly became obscure and unfathomable. She repeated the name once, then spoke in an unpredictable, drifting tone: "Haruno Sakura, please help me turn off the switch on your right hand side, then lend me your body to use. Thank you for your dedication; I will forever remember your name."
This voice was very soft and thin. If one didn't listen carefully, one wouldn't hear it at all, but once you listened carefully, you would discover a bewitching implication within it. The energy driving this bewitchment was extremely high-end; it was an energy higher than chakra, higher than ki.
This energy had no form or substance, but it could be sensed. It merely stuck onto Ino for a moment, appearing to catch something, before breaking through space and flying toward a very, very distant place.
Ino: "...?"
The voice inside the robe: "...?"
The voice inside the robe was knowledgeable and experienced. After dazing for a moment, she quickly figured out the reason: "You aren't called Haruno Sakura at all! You... you aren't even from this time period?!"
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