"I never imagined he actually came from the future!"
"Not the future. Didn't you hear Piccolo's explanation? It's supposed to be a parallel world."
"Parallel? What's a parallel world?"
"Kakarot, you idiot! Do you still not get it?"
"Vegeta, if you know, why don't you explain it to me?"
After hearing Piccolo's words, everyone began talking at once, their faces full of curiosity.
Once Piccolo had given them a rough account of the history of Trunks's world, everyone present was dumbfounded by what had happened in that other world.
"Vegeta, you really were amazing! You actually became the King of the Saiyan," Bulma said happily.
Vegeta, however, was anything but happy.
"Damn it! How could the me in that world be so stupid? He actually died at the hands of Androids? What a useless fool!"
"By the way, Lin Chen, why didn't the story seem to mention you?" Son Goku asked, raising his hand.
Lin Chen shrugged. "That's why I said it's a parallel timeline. A lot of things are different. I didn't exist in that timeline. Anyway, all of this happened in another timeline."
"Mr. Lin Chen, since you said it's a parallel timeline, then what happened there shouldn't happen to us, right?" Yamcha asked.
Before Lin Chen could answer, the others nodded in agreement. "Exactly. A world like that shouldn't have anything to do with us, right?"
"Not only do we have Lin Chen in our world, but it seems we don't even have a Dr. Gero here, do we? I've never heard of him," Krillin said with a shrug.
"No. Dr. Gero does exist!" Vegeta interrupted them. "Just like in that world, Dr. Gero is currently working for us Saiyans."
"What?"
Everyone immediately cried out in surprise.
None of them had expected the Dr. Gero from the