Levos locked onto the coordinates Gack had provided in his mind and used Instant Transmission.
In the next second, he appeared on a small planet filled with Japanese-style buildings.
The moment his feet hit the ground, Levos spotted Trunks and his group walking out of a palace.
"Trunks?" Levos blinked in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
"Mr. Levos!"
Seeing him, Trunks and the others were shocked and delighted at once. They immediately laid everything out why they had come, what they had learned, what they were trying to do.
When Levos heard that the petite, arrogant-looking girl was Vegeta's reincarnation, his expression turned… complicated.
Vegeta reincarnated as a girl?
If Earth's crew ever found out, who knew what kind of faces they'd make.
"I see." Levos nodded, then suggested, "Since you've already found the reincarnation you were looking for, why don't you come back to Earth with me first and meet everyone?"
His proposal was rejected with brutal efficiency.
"Earth? I'm not going to some backwater where inferior races gather." Bajitena folded her arms and lifted her chin high. "Paragus actually chose weak Earthlings to breed with Saiyans… it's a disgrace to our people! Luckily, I became a warrior, so I don't have to carry out those nauseating tasks."
Nanaba and Latiliss nodded repeatedly, openly showing their contempt for Earthlings.
Trunks's expression darkened. He stared at the proud, stubborn girl in front of him and couldn't help speaking up.
"But, Dad… I'm the child of the 'noble Prince Vegeta' you keep talking about… and an Earth woman."
Bajitena went speechless.
A long moment passed before she denied it with absolute conviction.
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible! Saiyans are too proud a race and a Saiyan prince would never contaminate noble blood with inferior blood!"
She glared at Trunks, eyes wide and furious.
"And I don't have a son like you!"
Everything the two of them were saying felt like the ultimate insult to Saiyan pride.
At the end, Bajitena doubled down.
"I'm not going to Earth, and I want nothing to do with anyone on that planet. Ever."
Her stubbornness gave both Trunks and Levos a headache.
In the end, Levos had to back down a step.
"Fine. You don't have to meet the people you knew in your past life. But at least come back to Earth to rest for a bit. We can discuss our next move there."
Only then did Bajitena calm down. She snorted her version of agreement.
"Oh, right, Mr. Levos," Trunks asked curiously. "You came to see Lord Zuno… for something specific?"
"I want to ask if there's a way to travel freely between universes," Levos answered honestly.
The moment he said it, Bajitena's trio burst into laughter without even trying to hide it.
"Hah! You think Lord Zuno is someone you can meet just because you feel like it? We waited seven years just to ask a few questions!"
"Exactly! And if you want the right to ask questions, you have to offer a tribute. You're a grown man don't tell me you're going to kiss him too?"
"…Huh?" Levos looked genuinely confused. "So you kissed him?"
Just imagining Bajitena regaining Vegeta's memories and realizing she'd kissed Zuno… Levos didn't know what kind of meltdown would follow.
Bajitena squirmed awkwardly. Trunks quickly answered for her.
"Yes, Mr. Levos… and they did too "
"All of you?" Levos blinked. A strange, surreal feeling rose in his chest.
He wanted to laugh, but he forced his face to stay straight.
Seeing Bajitena, Nanaba, and Latiliss all flushed with embarrassment and rage, Levos silently decided he'd help the other two recover their past-life memories as well.
He turned and walked straight to the palace entrance to speak with the staff.
As expected, the answer was: no direct meeting. The earliest appointment was more than ten years out.
"I see…"
Levos nodded thoughtfully.
Then, an indescribably terrifying pressure dropped over the entire planet like a god's palm.
The air seemed to freeze. The planet itself trembled faintly.
Every alien waiting in line outside the palace including the staff went deathly pale under the crushing aura. Cold sweat poured down their faces. Even breathing became difficult.
Deep inside the palace, Zuno, with his oversized head, fell off his chair, shaking like a sieve.
"Quick! A distinguished guest has arrived invite that lord outside in immediately!" Zuno's attendant shrieked, voice warped by panic.
In the next second, the staff who had been arrogant moments ago came running with the humblest posture imaginable, escorting Levos into the palace like he was royalty.
The whole process took only a few seconds.
Outside the palace, the smile of amusement on Bajitena's face froze solid.
In its place was pure shock blank, stiff, and disbelieving.
What… had they just seen?
That man simply stood there he did nothing and the entire planet bowed before him?
Compared to their years of waiting and humiliating "tributes," it was like heaven and earth.
Soon, Levos walked back out of the palace, clearly satisfied with the information he'd gotten.
He glanced at the stunned Bajitena, the corners of his lips lifting slightly.
Bajitena felt her worldview shatter again and again in a single day.
First, she'd discovered the Vegeta she'd been searching for was herself.
Then she learned her past self had married an "inferior Earthling."
Now, a seemingly ordinary Earthling was using methods she couldn't even begin to understand solving in seconds what had taken them years and humiliation.
"Damn it… I'm Bajitena no. I'm Prince Vegeta of the Saiyans… and I did that. I'm not even as good as some ordinary Earthling!"
A crushing tide of frustration and helplessness surged up.
Her mindset completely collapsed.
Levos didn't say anything. He just raised a hand and gently sliced across the air.
Space tore like canvas, a rift opening out of nowhere. On the other side lay Earth lush wilderness stretching under a wide sky.
He stepped through calmly, then waved at the still-dazed group behind him.
"What are you standing there for? Move."
Bajitena watched with her own eyes as the massive spaceship was tugged forward by an invisible force, gliding smoothly through the rift and settling onto Earth's grass like it belonged there.
No sound. No flash. No theatrics.
Yet the impact was greater than any world-shattering explosion.
Bajitena's mind went completely blank.
What Levos had just displayed… had already surpassed everything she believed she knew about power.
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