[Future Gohan]
"Please carry on into the future I can never reach..."
Many people wondered why Gohan hadn't waited until he was stronger before going into battle.
Because some things had to be done, even when he knew they were impossible.
There was no time to spare in that world.
He knew nothing of the Lookout or the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
All he had was a population that dwindled year after year amid the ruins.
And a "countdown to death" called the Androids, forever hanging overhead.
This wasn't a battle fought in pursuit of victory, but a desperate act of resistance.
Kid Gohan, who had disliked fighting since childhood, now shouldered the burden of protecting Earth, just as his father had.
From then on, Earth had one less learned, gifted scholar.
But it gained a one-armed warrior who could stand on his own.
People kept talking about how weak Future Gohan was, yet almost all of them deliberately ignored his desperate circumstances.
Before that, his childhood had been the same as that of Gohan in the main timeline.
From the wrenching separations and deaths of the Saiyan Saga to the battles of wits and strength on Planet Namek.
Under the protection of Uncle Piccolo and his father, Future Gohan had slowly grown stronger through it all.
Until his fate was completely rewritten when he was eight.
His brilliant, invincible father was ruthlessly taken by heart disease.
The brutal Androids wiped out every one of the Z Fighters.
Faced with such a situation, the Gohan of old would surely have broken down.
But he was no longer the boy who burst into tears at the slightest provocation.
He decided to follow in the footsteps of the generation before him and try to change this absurd reality.
Over the next ten years,