Solving the Remaining Problem

The sky was clear, without a cloud in sight.

It was already noon.

Bulma emerged from the Research Lab and stretched.

She ran into Lazi Li, who had just gotten up, in the kitchen...

Bulma immediately gave her a knowing look.

"Was last night okay?"

At the sight of her expression, Lazi Li's face turned bright red.

Bulma laughed, remembering what her own first time had been like.

Then she hooked an arm around Lazi Li's. "Come on, tell me. We're sisters now, and Jiang Ling connects us, too. What can't you tell me?"

"It's just... it hurt a little at first..." Lazi Li said, terribly embarrassed.

"Ohh, it was your first time. I was the same," Bulma said with a smile and a nod. "It stopped hurting afterward, right?"

"Mm."

Bulma's lips curled up. "That's because things don't hurt once they're flowing."

Lazi Li pondered the meaning of her words, then suddenly understood.

It was true! Once things were flowing, they didn't hurt!

It only hurt that once, and then it was nothing but pleasure...

"Big Sister Bulma, where did you learn that?"

Lazi Li asked curiously.

"Where else..." Bulma pursed her lips. "Jiang Ling did that to me the first time, too. He comforted me by saying things wouldn't hurt once they were flowing... And, well, once they were, it really didn't hurt..."

At that moment, the two women began to feel a bond between them, as if they'd found a kindred spirit.

Sharing the same experience was the surest way to bring people closer.

"What time did you two go to bed last night?"

"Uh... six in the morning..."

"Holy crap, could you handle that? Since when was Jiang Ling so incredible?"

"I have an Infinite Power Core, so I managed. As for him, I don't know. I don't understand men, after all..."

"Damn! Looks like I'll have someone to share the burden with tonight!"

"What are you saying? Aren't you embarrassed?"

"Come on... We're practically sisters."

Just then, Jiang Ling walked up behind them and put an arm around each of their waists. "What are you talking about?"

"Go away. We're talking about women's private matters~"

"Exactly."

Bulma casually felt him, then said in surprise, "Why is yours just hanging there? That doesn't seem right..."

Jiang Ling scratched his head. "Is it possible it's just exhausted?"

Bulma: "..."

Lazi Li lowered her head in embarrassment.

After all, she was the one who'd started it...

That afternoon, Jiang Ling gathered himself and headed out.

He had something to take care of, to bring the android incident to a perfect close.

He flew to North Capital and arrived at Dr. Gero's Research Base.

This was where Dr. Gero had been killed.

Now, it was nothing but ruins.

Jiang Ling searched through the base and finally found an entrance.

It led underground.

At the bottom, a computer was still running.

Beside it stood an Incubation Pod. Inside, an embryo was slowly taking shape.

It was Young Cell's embryo!

The Cell whom Goku had previously destroyed had come from some future timeline. He had killed Trunks, stolen his Time Machine, and traveled here.

Which meant there was still a Parallel Timeline where Trunks had been killed...

Jiang Ling shook his head, putting those wandering thoughts aside as he looked at the embryo before him.

He muttered to himself.

"Cell, Cell... If I don't nip you in the bud, I really will have failed my conscience."

As he spoke, Jiang Ling punched through the Incubation Pod and pulled out Young Cell. Energy flared in his hand, and the newly formed embryo was completely destroyed.

"Whew~~"

Jiang Ling let out a breath. He looked around and noticed that there were plenty of documents here, too.

With a wave of his hand, he put them all in System Space.

Then he took out a pile of empty beer bottles from System Space and filled the basement with them. They were bottles he'd saved from all the times he'd been drinking, and he'd kept forgetting to throw them away.

He returned along the same path, exited the ruins of Dr. Gero's Laboratory, and hovered in the air, looking down at the wreckage as an energy blast gathered in his hand.

"There's no reason for this lab to exist anymore."

He hurled the energy blast down and turned away without a trace of hesitation. He left without taking so much as a cloud, but left behind countless beer bottles...

Boom!!!

The mountain, the Research Lab, and everything in the basement were reduced to ashes...

Nothing was left.

"As expected of me, Earth Environmental Ambassador."

Muttering to himself, Jiang Ling returned to the villa.

He saw Bulma sitting on the sofa in a loose top, holding a snack.

She munched on it while engrossed in a TV drama.

Jiang Ling dropped onto the sofa and wrapped an arm around her slender waist.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing. I missed you."

"You rascal~"

Jiang Ling took out the research documents he'd collected from Dr. Gero and handed them to Bulma.

"Can you use these?"

Bulma took them and looked through them, her eyes lighting up. "Yes, very much. Where did you get these?"

"I went to Dr. Gero's place."

"I see."

Bulma nodded in realization, then focused intently on the documents in her hands.

A strand of hair slipped over her delicate profile. With that earnest expression, she had an indescribable air about her.

Jiang Ling's heart stirred.

He quietly used his tail to lift the hem of her loose top.

More and more of her fair thighs came into view.

Jiang Ling glanced down, his pupils contracting as he drew in a quiet breath.

That little minx.

She wasn't wearing anything underneath!

Was she really so casual at home?

Jiang Ling swallowed, then quietly moved his tail over and tickled her...

"Mm... Jiang Ling, stop fooling around... I'm reading these~"

Bulma squirmed and murmured coquettishly.

She said that, but her face had begun to redden...