"Huh? Just talking?"
Goku was very surprised. He had also thought this was a young man who wanted to challenge him. After all, in recent years, countless martial artists had come to West City wanting to challenge Goku and make a name for themselves through him. However, most of them could not even beat the instructors at the martial arts dojo, let alone get a chance to spar with Goku himself.
He thought this young man was the same, but unexpectedly, he only wanted to speak with him privately.
"Yes, there are some important things I want to tell you... Don't worry, I have no ill intentions." The young man seemed to feel that those words were not convincing enough, so he gave a reason that Goku would accept. "And I am also a Saiyan."
"What?"
Goku was not the only one surprised. Everyone present was astonished.
"Aren't Goku and Raditz the only Saiyans left? There are other Saiyans who survived?" Yamcha's question to Krillin behind him left Krillin speechless. How would he know anything about the Saiyans' situation?
The young man, however, glanced at Yamcha in surprise, but quickly turned his attention back to Goku.
"Let's go over there and talk!"
"Uh... okay!"
Goku could not tell whether what the young man said was true or false. But the other party was quite strong and very polite. He decided to talk to this young man and figure out his identity and what he wanted.
The two flew into the distance. Although the people standing there could still see them, the distance was too great for them to hear the content of the conversation. That did not include Piccolo, whose hearing was far superior to that of Earthlings, or Ethan, whose physical strength and five senses had been continuously improving.
Not long after the young man and Goku stood alone in the distance, the young man suddenly transformed into a Super Saiyan, which shocked everyone again.
"Is that a Super Saiyan? So he really is a Saiyan!"
"I didn't expect this young man to not only be a Saiyan, but also so powerful!"
Everyone there knew how strong a Super Saiyan was, and all of them were surprised by the young man's strength. Then they saw Goku also transform into a Super Saiyan.
"What are they going to do?"
The answer appeared quickly. The young man and Goku had a simple spar.
The spar ended in an instant. Yamcha and the others had not even reacted to what was happening when the two returned to their normal states and continued talking face-to-face.
Unfortunately, they were standing too far away to hear what they were saying at all. Only Piccolo's face became very serious.
Ethan listened to the conversation in the distance. Trunks was introducing himself and warning Goku that a powerful enemy would appear in three years.
Especially when he heard that Trunks was actually the son of Bulma and Vegeta, Goku was greatly shocked, because Vegeta was already dead in this world, and he had not seen much interaction between him and Bulma. No matter how he thought about it, he could not imagine those two getting together and having a child.
Could it be that Vegeta had been revived with the Dragon Balls for some reason?
After explaining things, Trunks also asked something he had wanted to ask for a long time. "Um... actually, there's something I find strange."
"What?"
While Goku was still thinking about how Vegeta and Bulma had gotten together, Trunks suddenly asked about Frieza. According to the information he knew, Frieza and his father, King Cold, were supposed to attack Earth at this time and then be killed by Goku.
But he had specifically waited at that location for a while, yet Frieza never arrived. Left with no other choice, he flew toward West City and deliberately released his energy, hoping to attract Goku's attention. According to what he knew, his mother Bulma had always lived in West City, and Mr. Yamcha also often stayed there. If a strange powerful person approached West City, Goku should come to check the situation.
He had not expected Goku to actually be in West City, which saved him a lot of trouble.
"Hmm? Frieza died a long time ago!"
"No, he didn't die. Although Frieza was seriously injured by you, he was rescued by his father, King Cold, and after recovering, he will come for revenge... If he hasn't come yet, then you need to be careful. Maybe my arrival has caused some things to deviate..."
Trunks had not figured out what was going on yet, and Goku had not reacted yet either.
"But I killed King Cold too!"
"Hmm?"
Trunks realized that something seemed wrong. King Cold was dead too? Had he not arrived too early, but too late instead?
"Have they already been to Earth?"
"No, Frieza was killed by Ethan on a desolate planet. At that time, Frieza didn't even leave behind a corpse, so it's impossible for him to still be alive. And King Cold was someone I killed a year ago when I met him on Namek."
"What? Frieza wasn't killed by you?"
Trunks realized the seriousness of the situation. What Goku was describing was completely different from the information he knew.
"Mr. Goku, could you tell me in detail about what you've experienced over the past few years?"
Goku did not refuse and directly told Trunks about his experiences over the past few years. Meanwhile, Krillin and the others in the distance also noticed that Trunks seemed very shocked.
"What are they talking about?"
"Maybe it's about Saiyan matters?"
"Maybe there are surviving Saiyans in the universe, and they want Goku to go back?"
Standing in the distance with nothing to do, Krillin and Yamcha let their imaginations run wild. Only Piccolo stood there with a cold face, looking serious and green. But he was always like this, so no one found it strange.
On the contrary, Ethan remained silent, constantly staring into the distance, which made everyone a little puzzled.
"Ethan, are you very concerned about that young man?"
"It's alright..."
He glanced slightly at Piccolo beside him, and Piccolo immediately realized that Ethan could also hear the conversation in the distance. After exchanging glances, they tacitly said nothing and continued standing there, waiting for Trunks and Goku to finish talking.
In the distance, Goku had finished recounting his experiences over the past few years and had also mentioned that Vegeta had been killed, which completely threw Trunks into confusion.
"Different... a lot of things are different..."
Trunks thought these changes had been caused by his time travel. Even his own father was dead. If that was the case, would he still be born? Was this the punishment for traveling through time, to erase him at the source?
"Uh..."
Seeing Trunks' expression, Goku did not know how to comfort him. He only reminded Trunks of one fact. "Aren't you still alive and well right now?"
"That's right!"
Trunks had been raised by Bulma, and although he had not become a top scientist, he knew a great deal of various subjects. He immediately understood that rather than returning to the past, he had come to a parallel world.
Because no matter what he did in this world, it would not affect his own world.
He had come here to warn Goku about the androids. His biggest goal was to find a way to defeat them with the help of Goku and the other warriors, then return to his own world and use the method he discovered to resolve the crisis there.
"Hmm... I don't really understand this kind of thing. Maybe you should talk to Ethan or Bulma."
"Ethan..."
This was a very unfamiliar name. He had never heard of this person from his mother. He was curious about what kind of person Ethan was, but he could not stay there for too long. After explaining everything to Goku and giving him the special medicine for heart disease, he prepared to leave.
"Are you going back? Not staying here?"
"My world still needs protection. After all, I'm the only warrior left there."
After saying everything he needed to say, Trunks left directly. Goku, on the other hand, was racking his brain trying to figure out how to explain all this to everyone. A warrior from the future warning them about a powerful enemy that would appear in a few years sounded very hard to believe.
While he was trying to figure it out, Krillin and the others were a little puzzled when they saw the young man fly away right after. Did he really just come to chat with Goku?
When Goku walked back, Yamcha immediately asked what they had talked about.
"Oh, well... how should I put it?"
Although he already knew that Vegeta and Bulma were not together in this world, and that it would not affect the young man's existence, the part about being "from the future" was still something he did not quite know how to explain.
"If you don't know how to say it, I can say it for you."
"Ah, you heard it!"
"Yes... Ethan can explain the scientific stuff. He heard it too."
Turning his head to look at Ethan, Goku saw him nod slightly.
"That's great!"
Since Goku did not know how to explain it, Piccolo summarized the main points for everyone. As for Trunks' identity, he did not keep it secret. Anyway, it did not seem like an important secret anymore.
"From the future? Bulma's child?"
At first, they found it hard to believe, but hearing that he was Bulma's son made it seem highly credible. If there was anyone on Earth who could build a time machine, that person would most likely be Bulma.
"No wonder that young man's clothes had the Capsule Corp logo."
"But why would Bulma's child be a Saiyan?"
When Trunks' identity had been mentioned earlier, his father's name had not been brought up. But as soon as everyone thought about the child having Saiyan blood, they all focused their attention on Goku.
The two of them had almost grown up together and were close enough that something happening between them did not seem strange.
"I didn't expect it, Goku!"
"It's not me!"
(To be continued.)