"I can't anymore. I'm exhausted. I need to rest."
Inside the private cinema room, Bulma had just taken several hundred billion in business from Karn and had no strength left.
Although her days had been fulfilling, they had been just as exhausting: the mall's fitting rooms, the yacht out at sea, the hovercar on the mountain racetrack, the private cinema room, and the mountaintop beneath the night sky.
Fortunately, Bulma often ate Senzu Beans to replenish her stamina. Otherwise, she would have been too tired to move long ago.
But this had been the most fulfilling year of her life. She had happily traveled everywhere, visiting almost every place there was to see; she truly enjoyed nature's beauty by day and took several hundred billion in big business by night.
"Are you going back?"
After their exercise ended, Bulma lay on Karn's chest, tracing circles as she asked with great reluctance. A year ago, she had heard Karn say that he would return after making another wish with the Dragon Balls.
But afterward, she had failed to hold herself back, gradually falling for him as they shopped and traveled. Only today had Bulma realized that she was already far too attached to leave him.
"If you want me to stay, I'll come visit you often, but I still have to go back."
"Because of the other me?"
"There are other reasons too, Bulma. You understand. One person can hardly satisfy me."
"You're infuriating! Can't you tell a lie to comfort me?"
Bulma suddenly sat up angrily, though her lower body did not move away. She was so clever that she had long since noticed Karn had more than one woman, but she had never exposed it. Besides, this man really did know how to comfort someone, scoring full marks in