Trunks looked around him, then up at the sky.
The sky was purplish-red, completely different from Earth's.
And there were several suns in the sky.
"Where is this... Is this not Earth?" Trunks asked in surprise.
Immediately after, Trunks saw Rumsshi and Helles appearing in the distance.
The two of them were sunbathing on lounge chairs.
"Why is this Vegeta brat back again?" Rumsshi looked towards them.
"He even brought someone with him... Rumsshi, look, that person looks a lot like Vegeta. Could he be Vegeta's illegitimate son?" Helles pondered.
"I think so. This kid messes around everywhere, so having an illegitimate son is perfectly normal," Rumsshi nodded.
"Let's go, Trunks, follow me." Vegeta led Trunks to Rumsshi.
"Vegeta, who is this kid? Your illegitimate son?" Rumsshi asked.
"Dad, they are..." Trunks scratched his head.
"See this elephant? I'll have him train you from now on, to nurture you properly," Vegeta said.
"You... Hello to you both." Trunks quickly greeted them politely.
"What did you say? Vegeta! Are you kidding me? Did I say I'd take a disciple?" Rumsshi said unhappily, shaking his elephant trunk.
"Call him Godfather." Vegeta instructed Trunks.
Trunks: "????"
"Godfather?" Trunks was stunned.
"What? Is he really your illegitimate son? How did your illegitimate son grow this big?" Rumsshi was astonished.
Vegeta smiled noncommittally, without any intention of explaining.
"Hey, kid, what's your name?" Rumsshi asked, looking at Trunks.
"I... My name is Trunks," Trunks replied.
"Vegeta, you're something else. Are you going to name all your sons Trunks?" Rumsshi was speechless.
"Um... I... I'm not Dad's illegitimate son..." Trunks hurriedly explained, "I'm from 20 years in the future!"
"What? 20 years in the future!" Rumsshi sat up from his seat, "You've messed with time?"
"This... What do you mean?" Trunks didn't understand.
"Vegeta, you're crazy!" Rumsshi said with a wry smile, "Do you know that time travel is a serious crime! Especially traveling back from the future to the past, it's strictly forbidden!"
"It wasn't me, so what are you so scared of?" Vegeta said with a laugh, "It was Bulma from another timeline who built the time machine, and she sent Trunks to our timeline. But Trunks seems to have gone to the wrong theater. Strictly speaking, his timeline and ours are completely different."
Then, Vegeta briefly introduced Trunks's timeline to Rumsshi.
"This doesn't seem right," Helles pondered.
"What do you mean?" Vegeta asked.
"Wasn't Trunks's Earth in the Seventh Universe?" Helles replied, "Logically, even if he traveled through time, he should have traveled to the Seventh Universe. Isn't the Earth in the Seventh Universe of our timeline already transferred to the Tenth Universe? So, if he traveled through time, he should have appeared in space."
Vegeta thought carefully about Helles's words and felt they made sense.
"Ah... After I traveled here, I did find myself in space," Trunks scratched his head and replied, "But I noticed a strange vortex in space, and my time machine was sucked into it. By the time I reacted, I inexplicably appeared on Earth... Could it be that we have more than one universe?"
"Oh? There was a cosmic passage where Earth used to be?" Rumsshi was slightly taken aback.
"There's a possibility!" Helles nodded and replied, "Cosmic passages sometimes appear between universes. It's also possible that Earth originally belonged to the Seventh Universe, but you were forcibly transferred to the Tenth Universe, so a cosmic passage was left there."
"That would likely be a one-way passage, only allowing rapid travel from the Seventh Universe to our Earth in the Tenth Universe, and we couldn't go the other way," Rumsshi analyzed.
"Let's talk about the cosmic passage later, it's all unimportant," Vegeta replied, "Rumsshi, I'm leaving my son to you. Train him well. In the future he comes from, two monsters have appeared. You must at least train him to defeat those two monsters."
"Don't you see I'm busy?" Rumsshi said with a dark face.
"Busy sunbathing and playing basketball?" Vegeta rolled his eyes.
Rumsshi: "..."
Helles: "..."
Anger flared on Helles's face, his dark complexion turning crimson.
You say this in front of your son, do you think that's appropriate?
"Playing basketball? Do you guys like playing basketball too? I'm really good at basketball too," Trunks chimed in.
Helles didn't want to talk anymore.
Rumsshi was also speechless.
"Excuse me, do you two often play basketball? Can I watch you play?" Trunks asked again.
Helles took a deep breath, his chest heaving.
Rumsshi also clenched his fists tightly.
This brat is definitely Vegeta's son, no doubt about it!
You even want to watch us play basketball?
"We'll discuss this later. Kid, you want to train with me, right?" Rumsshi snorted.
"Um, Godfather... Dad, is that how you call him?" Trunks was a bit embarrassed.
"That's right," Vegeta nodded.
"But Dad, is he really that strong? I can't tell at all," Trunks scratched his head.
"Let me put it this way, besides me, he is the most powerful god in this universe," Vegeta said.
Rumsshi: "..."
What are you saying?
Making it sound like I'm not as strong as you.
But thinking about it now, I really am not as strong as Vegeta.
This kid is growing day by day, while I'm just here sunbathing... and playing basketball.
Forget it, I won't dwell on these things.
My Kaioshin is stronger than me, what is there to fuss about?
The Gods of Destruction from other universes should be envious.
That's right, does your universe have a Kaioshin like this?
Once he figured this out, Rumsshi stopped dwelling on it.
"Hey? God? Dad, you said he's a god?" Trunks suddenly came back to his senses, "Are you a god too, Dad?"
"This elephant, your Godfather, is the God of Destruction of this universe," Vegeta explained, "And I am the greatest god in this universe, called the Kaioshin."