The smoke and aroma of barbecue drifted through the endless white space.
Jiang Ling and Trunks grilled enough meat and vegetables for a dozen people, then started eating.
Jiang Ling mostly ate oysters, grilled kidneys, chives, and things like that. He just liked that sort of food.
"Trunks, eat more of this stuff. It's good for your body."
"Is it?" Trunks asked doubtfully. No one had ever taught him these things before, so he didn't understand.
Jiang Ling smiled. "Yeah. Once you have a girlfriend, you'll know the benefits."
"I do have a girlfriend..."
"That fast? Aren't you still young?"
"What's young about me!" Trunks's expression instantly changed. "I'm an adult, okay? I'm nineteen!"
Boys were very sensitive to the word "small," whether it referred to their age or to other things.
"Nineteen, huh? You don't look it."
Jiang Ling was surprised, and for some reason, his heart soured a little.
Someone else's nineteen involved already getting a girlfriend.
Then he looked at his own nineteen—still lying in bed playing games, if not playing with his little brother.
Comparisons were infuriating.
But Jiang Ling's curiosity was piqued, and he pressed, "Then have you two done that yet?"
"Done what?"
"You know, that."
"What what?"
"It's..." Jiang Ling thought for a moment, then clapped his hands a few times. "This."
Trunks shook his head. "I don't know what you're talking about..."
Seeing his utterly baffled look, Jiang Ling fell silent.
It seemed that Bulma in this world had never taught Trunks about that sort of thing.
Maybe she had been too busy researching technology, or maybe under the pressure of the Androids, she simply hadn't considered that kind of education.
Jiang Ling suddenly felt the burden on his shoulders grow heavier.
Originally, he had come to the future timeline to teach