Then why didn't my Gohan crawl back out?
Trunks stared in disbelief. He had never imagined that the Gohan before him had started out by defying all odds like that.
He had checked carefully back then. His Gohan had no ki left at all. He really had been dead.
But...
This Gohan standing before him hadn't died!
Son Gohan waved his hand, enveloping them both in a ki barrier that sealed off their voices and ki.
Son Gohan continued, "There's nothing strange about it. Time changes from moment to moment. Every second can create a different life."
"Just like in this world, who could have imagined that Dad, as strong as he was, would suddenly die of a heart disease?"
"A lot of things happen without warning. It could be a single heartbeat, an ant bite, or even a difference in the soil's temperature. In any case, I suddenly woke up..."
"That was probably where our two worlds began to diverge..."
"Later, Trunks and I found a spaceship at the old Capsule Corporation site, and your mother managed to repair it."
"The spaceship had a gravity system installed, which made our training twice as effective..."
"After that, I happened to remember Dad mentioning, when I was very young, that there was a strange Hyperbolic Time Chamber at Kami's Lookout. So Trunks and I went looking for it. We were lucky. The Androids hadn't destroyed Kami's Lookout yet, and we managed to find the Hyperbolic Time Chamber..."
Trunks couldn't help asking, "The Hyperbolic Time Chamber? What's that?"
"It's a place perfectly suited for training. The gravity inside is several times Earth's, and a year of training in there is only a single day outside. Unfortunately, each person can only spend two days of their entire life in it."
"But that was