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Gine looked into her son's eyes, smiling back at her.
"Neither can I." She said quietly.
The following day, after she helped him finish the morning chores, Gine and Gohan were out front of the hut, standing apart and squarely facing each other.
"Go ahead and come at me like you did the other day." Gohan instructed.
Gine looked at him surprised and worried. "A-are you sure? I almost killed you last time."
"You needn't worry." He assured her. "I've suffered worse in my younger days, and I know you won't try to seriously hurt me. And besides, this is just a friendly spar."
"O-okay." Gine said, not entirely convinced. "I trust you, but I just don't want to accidentally hurt you."
Gohan smiled at her. "I appreciate your concern, Gine. But I'll be fine, and I'll hold nothing against you if you land a blow on me."
It was refreshing for Gine to hear words like that; she'd been too used to grudges for training fights back on Planet Vegeta.
"Thanks." She said with a smile in return.
"Alright then..." Gohan got into stance. "Go ahead and come at me."
Gine readied herself and charged him.
She threw punch after punch and kick after kick at Gohan. He made a serious effort to dodge all of her attacks since she was rather fast. But he observed her movements easily, mentally noting that she was very sloppy. No technique or plan of attack at all, just throwing attacks out there and hoping to hit something like an amateur.
The fight went on for several minutes, Gohan trying to not get hit but dodging her every move. Kakarot sat on the porch watching them, mesmerized.
After ducking low from a sweeping high kick, Gohan strikes her in the side of her leg to make her lose her balance. Gine fell on her side and groaned, but it didn't hurt too bad. Gohan stood over her victoriously.
"How'd you do that?!" She asked as she sat up, amazed how he took her down.
"You leave yourself open a lot." Gohan commented, but grimaced as he massaged the hand he struck her with. "But you sure do have tough skin though."
"Well, living on a planet with gravity ten times stronger than this one can do that." Gine said as Gohan helped her up.
"I don't doubt it can." Gohan said.
"But I still don't get it, though." Gine continued, "I thought you humans wouldn't be able to beat someone like me since I'm built stronger as a Saiyan. Or am I just that bad at fighting?" She added, not too proud of that last hypothesis.
"Relying on brute strength alone does not mean weak spots cannot be exploited." Gohan answered.
Gine took in what he said, he had a point. But still, she had trouble trying to comprehend that idea.
"Where I came from, strength means... er, meant, everything. It meant that no matter what our opponents had in the way of weapons or knowledge, if their power levels were weaker than ours, they couldn't beat us."
"Power levels?" Gohan asked in puzzlement.
Gine caught herself and explained, "It's a numerical system of measuring strength or power that we used to evaluate our opponents. If the number of power or strength was measured to be lower than us, they were weaker. Higher than us, stronger."
"And how did Saiyans go about measuring these 'power levels?'" He asked.
"With devices we wore, called scouters." Gine explained by cupping her hand over one ear to visualize it. "They measured power levels whenever we went into battle so we would know if we could handle whatever planet we were assigned to or had to call for backup."
"I see." Gohan thought over what she told him then said, "If you asked me, I'd say it's a foolish way to enter battle."
Gine raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?" She asked.
"As I said, relying on strength alone does not guarantee that you would win a fight. If you had opponents who were much faster than you or knew pressure points, magical abilities or things of the like, you could still be beaten. Like how I managed to take you down, even though you are much stronger than I am." Gohan said.
Gine was taken aback by what he said, not expecting such an answer to her question.
"But, I- I mean, we always believed that strength was what determined everything. We believed that the strongest Saiyan should be our king, and Frieza ruled over our king since he had the highest power level ever known." She said, feeling slightly unsettled by having everythi
ng she knew being challenged in the face of unknown knowledge.
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