Chapter:80 “The Devil’s Mark - Legend of gine !!

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Quite a weird thing, huh?" Tien said, as if reading her thoughts.

"Huh?" She looked at him.

"Hard to believe that there such things as Dragon Balls that could grant any wish you want, including bringing people back from the dead!" He said, sounding as disturbed as Gine felt about the whole thing.

"Yeah... it really is." She agreed.

"On top of knowing that King Piccolo is out there somewhere, on the loose again..." He added, looking out the window towards the sea.

"Well, I know this is going to sound bad..." Yamcha started to say, "...but I think maybe we should use the wish to defeat King Piccolo."

"What?" They all turned to him, stunned.

"I know we have to bring Krillin back to life but from everything I've been hearing, this monster sounds unstoppable." He tried to explain but shrunk when Gine glared at him.

"J-just thinking out loud, you know. As a last resort in case-" He stammered to explain himself, then stopped.

Gine looked around at everyone gathered. They all must have been up a while longer than she was, discussing nothing but Piccolo. After her and Roshi's little quarrel yesterday, the elder martial arts master most likely talked nothing but doom and gloom while spreading doubt about her abilities.

She decided to not press it further though. She turned back to Yamcha and said, "We'll beat him, we have to. But yeah, I guess you're right, Yamcha. Only as a last resort."

Yamcha sighed in relief when he realized Gine wasn't going to pummel him and tried not to remember the disagreement between her and Master Roshi. "Right, exactly. I mean... it's good to have backup plans, right?"

"Are you sure that's a good idea, Yamcha?" Puar asked. "I thought the Dragon Balls turned to stone for a whole year after a wish has been granted."

"Yeah, it sure is a long time to let Krillin's body hang around." Said Turtle, eyeing Krillin's corpse.

"Ew, and what about the smell?" Launch added.

Yamcha looked down and scratched his head sheepishly, "Oh yeah, didn't think about that." He said defeatedly.

Gine thought the same thing too. She remembered the smell of rotting flesh, and she'll be damned before she is reminded of that again.

"If you ask me, bringing him back to life sounds creepy." Piped Oolong. "So maybe we should just leave him be."

Gine looked over at Oolong, just when she thought they couldn't think of anything crueler that could be done to Krillin even after death.

Bulma spoke towards them from the table, "Well, I could make a freezer capsule to see if I can preserve him until we find the Dragon Balls again."

Gine looked at her. Could she really do that? If so, then she had seriously misjudged her and was glad she was full of surprises.

Then Bulma glowered at Oolong. "And one for backstabbers too."

"Hey, I was just sayin'." Oolong said defensively. Strangely, Gine found those words in that phrase oddly catchy to her.

Suddenly, the TV spoke up. "There were several more killings of world class-martial arts fighters today as-"

"Hey, come here, listen!" Chi-Chi exclaimed as she turned up the volume. Their attention caught, everyone else quickly gathered around to watch.

"...A hundred and three more killings were added to the toll as King Chappa and his entire school was found murdered in his temple this morning..."

The image changed from the news anchor to pictures of the inside of a temple, where the floor looked more like a mass grave of bodies piled on top of each other.

"This latest report came in just after a series of murders throughout the outskirts of East and North Cities where other martial artists were known to be living, where in some cases they were massacred alongside the entire population of villages they lived in. Please be advised that the following images are very disturbing..."

The screen showed pictures of a few desecrated towns she didn't know, but she did know what had happened by just the first glimpses. Blackened craters, crumbled houses and dwellings, and the streets and land littered with bodies. Some human or humanoid, some were animals. Men, women, and children. All dead. Slaughtered.

Gine felt her blood run cold. She had seen this kind of sight aplenty in what should have been another lifetime ago. But now, it all came rushing back to her as if it were yesterday. The scene of countless worlds... Gine didn't notice that Chi-Chi was softly whimpering at seeing the horrible images too.

The screen then changed to showing still pictures of faces. That distraction helped Gine shake her head to break herself out of that trip towards those painful memories and tried to focus on the new images less she gives in to despair.

"Police are still baffled as to the motives of the killer, and why only martial artists are targeted. As to the identity of the killer, the only clue the police have are pieces of paper found with each of the bodies with the word 'devil' encircled in it."

The aforementioned piece of paper with Piccolo's crest was displayed. Gine felt herself catching her breath, worry filling her mind. She glanced over at Roshi and saw that he looked petrified, his worst fear realized.

"This latest evidence seems to point towards the hideous-looking winged monster that attacked and killed superstar Pampet without warning in the middle of a boxing match just last night. As that c

reature dropped the same piece of paper on this victim as well..."