With Madison off exploring True Reality, Nia had already visited, using the time to clear her mind.
Well, it wasn't exactly Reality Nine…
Now, she sat at a small outdoor table in a bustling city within Reality 12.
Though it resembled other Realities, this one was a Mana-Qi verse, where cultivators grew stronger through battles, losses, and more.
[A/N: Think Super Saiyans...]
She sat watching the streets, alive with movement, leaning back in her chair with one leg crossed over the other.
Yet she wasn't really enjoying the atmosphere—her mind was elsewhere.
For the past two months, ever since Ash's emotions had grown so turbulent, she had decided to enter True Reality and had been searching for ways to make herself useful.
Over 80 millennia ago, Nia promised she would always stand by Ash's side, but lately she'd been nothing more than a shadow trailing behind him.
