The Demon Realm Supreme Kai sat serenely on his throne, as though he had anticipated her arrival from the very start.
"You're a little early — earlier than I expected. Young one, you're still far too reckless. Look at what your careless provocation has brought you." He reclined in his seat with an air of perfect gentility, raised one hand in a casual gesture, and a moment later two servants carried out Frieza — black-eyed, swollen, covered head to toe in wounds, nailed to an iron rack.
The emperor had been beaten to an absolute wreck. Beyond the injuries blanketing his body, the tip of his tail had been snapped clean off.
Black-clothed Bardock and Paragus, both of whom had betrayed Aeos, stood flanking him on either side. They looked at Frieza, then at Ino — the hatred burning in their eyes was the same hatred one reserves for the person who ordered the destruction of Planet Vegeta.
Ino paid no attention to the glares of these minor players. She looked the Demon Realm Supreme Kai dead in the eye. "What's wrong with you? What's the point of trotting him out? You thought you'd make me think he was still on my side — when really you already pulled your dear adopted son back into the fold ages ago, just waiting for him to betray me again at the critical moment and hit me where it hurts? Old timer, your thinking is too rigid. That kind of cheap trick has been recycled hundreds of times back in the ninja villages where I grew up."
The Demon Realm Supreme Kai's face remained unreadable, betraying nothing of his true thoughts.
Frieza adopted a pleading, pitiful tone. "Please — save me! Isn't it your fault I ended up like this? Is there even a single shred of something you could call a conscience left in you?"
Ino pointed at him and laughed. "That is painfully fake. You clearly haven't read An Actor Prepares. Your expressions are overwrought, your delivery is theatrical — do you honestly think my intelligence is on par with Son Goku's?"
Goku, standing among the Time Patrol, pointed at himself. Vegeta grabbed him by the arm. Not you — it's talking about some other big idiot.
About two seconds later, the begging on Frieza's face evaporated in an instant, replaced by a cold sneer. His arms tensed — ropes, iron spikes and all, snapped free with barely any effort. He grinned with venom. "Father, may I kill her?"
The Demon Realm Supreme Kai nodded at his leisure. "But of course."
"Wonderful — I've been waiting to pay her back for ages! Die, you ugly woman!" Frieza let out a roar, and golden energy blazed around him like sheets of living flame. This transformation into Golden Frieza was swift and steady — none of the hollow, unstable aura of the last time.
"You think you can stop me? You've completely lost your mind." Ino was still weighing the question internally — did she need to enter Liberation right now? Even with the Potential Unleashed by the Old Kai, holding her own against Golden Frieza in her base state, inside a nine-year-old's body, was genuinely difficult.
Activating Liberation now would drain her stamina and shorten the time she had to fight the Demon Realm Supreme Kai. It seemed like a poor trade.
Future Trunks and Trunks both stepped forward, volunteering to intercept Frieza. Ino hesitated for just a moment — and in that moment she saw Frieza's face contort with savage fury as he thrust both hands forward in rapid succession, firing cone-shaped crimson shockwaves wreathed in flame.
"Flame Surge Wave!"
One beam of the Flame Surge Wave, loaded with overwhelming force, surged toward Ino. The other streaked directly at the Demon Realm Supreme Kai. Both parties froze for a fraction of a second. Each raised a hand and dispersed the energy in front of them — and by the time the smoke cleared, Frieza had already vanished without a trace.
"Hahahaha — now that is hilarious." Ino couldn't hold back. She burst out laughing. And with every second she laughed, the Demon Realm Supreme Kai's expression grew darker and darker.
All that scheming, and it had amounted to nothing.
The very first step had blown up in his face.
Ino jabbed a finger at him through the air. "All I can say is — you don't know Frieza, and you don't know people. Your body may have been restored to its youth, but your mindset hasn't kept up. You're too old."
"Are you mocking me?! You dare mock me — the most ancient Supreme Kai in existence?!" The Demon Realm Supreme Kai was furious. As far as he was concerned, Ino's audacity was nothing short of suicidal. Aren't you afraid to die?
"Last time, you caught me at my limit — exhausted from fighting the other two Supreme Kais of Time — and you scooped up an easy win. You don't actually believe you can beat me, do you?"
Ino's eyes blazed with pure fighting intent. She entered Liberation without another word. The gears of time behind her erupted in dazzling silver radiance, and — owing to her foothold in Ultra Instinct — her hair and eyebrows shifted to silver as well. She rose into the air, looking down at the Demon Realm Supreme Kai from above.
"Heh. You understand nothing. You have no idea who you're really dealing with. Kill her." The Demon Realm Supreme Kai gave a cold laugh, raised one finger, and from the empty air stepped demonified Kuronoa.
The former Supreme Kai of Time, her eyes burning crimson, lurched forward at a diagonal — aiming to tear Ino apart.
The Time Patrol, already braced for this, moved immediately.
Goku transformed into Super Saiyan 3, dropped into a horse stance, held both hands at his sides, gathered power for a brief, taut moment — then shoved them forward with full force toward Kuronoa.
"Ten Thousand Nations Shocking Palm!"
The technique's raw power was honestly nothing extraordinary — it lacked the focus and punch of the Kamehameha — but it had its own advantage: on impact, it locked the target in a prolonged stun.
Demonified Kuronoa took the hit square-on. Golden ki enveloped her, pinning her in midair. She struggled furiously against it.
"Now!"
Before Goku could even say the word, Trunks produced a universal capsule, popped the cap, and unsealed the rice cooker inside.
"Evil Containment Wave!"
Goku released the Ten Thousand Nations Shocking Palm; his own Evil Containment Wave picked up seamlessly where it left off. A swirling green vortex of ki locked onto Kuronoa, then began rotating at a steady rhythm, feeding her toward the rice cooker one pulse at a time.
"Hahahaha — this is genuinely funny. This is the plan you agonized over? A trick to fool children." The Demon Realm Supreme Kai broke into laughter.
Before his laughter had even finished, Ino's Time Domain yanked him inside.
Outside the Time Domain, Trunks's Evil Containment Wave was on target — but in the instant before the seal closed, Kuronoa's silhouette blurred and turned hazy. She slipped out of the current timeline, then snapped back a heartbeat later. The lock shattered. The demonified Supreme Kai of Time tilted her head and regarded her targets, her gaze dripping with contempt.
"Cheap tricks like that don't work on me. Mr. Trunks, your performance today is a little disappointing. I had overestimated you."
Kuronoa vanished like a ghost, reappearing dozens of meters away in a single blink, five fingers rigid as blades, driving them straight for Trunks's heart.
Goku roared, extended his staff, and caught the strike.
Kuronoa's combat power far outstripped the Saiyans'. All six members of the Time Patrol fighting together were still no match for her.
On Ino's side, Future Trunks, Future Gohan, No. 17, and No. 18 joined the assault as well.
In Future Trunks's hand, a deep-blue blade materialized — the Key Sword.
Sword light swept and sliced in every direction, shearing continuously through the Dark Power radiating off Kuronoa's body.
There was no need to defeat the former Supreme Kai of Time. They only needed to wake her up.
That had been the plan from before the battle began.
All ten of them surged forward at once, encircling the demonified Supreme Kai of Time. When someone took damage, they popped a Senzu Bean. Ino had gathered them from several different timelines and prepared two entire jars — so eat up. There was plenty to go around.
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