After the Void Scar completely dissipated, the multiverse crisis was resolved. The Grand Priest signed the final confirmation on a white stone tablet, and Whis synchronized the sealing data to the angels of all twelve universes. Zeno clapped once and announced, "Meeting adjourned," then yawned and said he was going back for a nap. For once, Beerus and Champa did not argue over who would leave first—Beerus said he was going back to try the newly arrived Pacific saury from Earth, while Champa said he needed to improve Universe 6's garlic pork rib recipe before Beerus did.
When Ji Ming returned from Zeno's Planet, the sun over Mount Paozu had just climbed above the pine forest. He pushed open the courtyard gate. Chi-Chi stood in the kitchen slicing radishes, her apron tied tightly around her waist, freshly slaughtered sea bass laid out on the cutting board. She glanced back at him. She did not rush over to hug him as she once had, nor did she inspect him from head to toe with reddened eyes for fresh wounds. She merely plucked a shard of light from his collar, told him the porridge was in the pot, and went back to chopping vegetables.
Standing in the kitchen doorway and watching her from behind as she chopped, Ji Ming suddenly remembered the first time he had returned from training at Kami's Lookout as a child. He had been covered in wounds then, and Chi-Chi had cried her eyes out, scolding Son Goku while piling food into Ji Ming's bowl. Over the years, he had returned from battlefields countless times. Every time, she had stood in this same spot, chopping vegetables in the same posture. Only now, she no longer cried. It was not that she did not worry; she simply believed he