"It's nothing. I was just offering a routine greeting. If they were around, I wouldn't mind meeting them."
Since becoming a Time Patrol officer, Gran had never actually met the Time King.
"..."
Kronoa was utterly speechless. "Then you really are unlucky. The Time King isn't at Cross Street right now."
"All right."
"So what exactly did you come here for?"
Kronoa looked at Gran warily. She always felt that this guy was up to no good.
"What did I come here for?"
Gran swayed lightly on the swing and pondered. "Can I use a Time Ring to return to the past?"
"You can, but what are you going back to the past for?"
Kronoa immediately jumped off the swing, her face grave. "You aren't planning to go back and change something, are you?"
As far as time was concerned, traveling from the present to the future was the method Supreme Kais used to observe the development of mortal civilization. It would not create a Parallel Timeline.
But traveling from the present back to the past was like when Future Trunks brought the Heart Disease Special Medicine back in time. That method would create a Parallel Timeline.
That was also a grave crime of manipulating time!
"I'm not planning to change anything. I just want to investigate something."
"What?"
"The origins of the Demons!"
Gran also stepped off the swing. With his hands behind his back, his gaze was as sharp as an eagle's.
Both training and investigating the Demons had been part of his original plan.
Now that the Destruction Rule had improved and his Space-Time Power had progressed, it was time to properly investigate the Demons.
Kronoa's pupils suddenly shrank. "You want to investigate the Demons?!!"
"What? Judging by your reaction, do you know where the Demons came