Who wants an excerpt from Chapter 17? YOU do! Because I said so!
GTR Chapter 17 wrote:
“Pan!” Goku cried out upon finally spotting her. “Trunks finally fixed the ship’s oven! We can have fish sticks tonight!”
Pan and Regano made no change to their pace in approaching the ship as the former was escorted “home” by the gentlemanly latter. Pan naturally saw fit to point out Goku’s inherent absurdity as they reached him.
“Grandpa,” she said. “Why are you so excited about plain old fish sticks? You’ve spent every day we’ve been on this planet feasting on exotic seafood.”
“That doesn’t matter,” Goku lectured her as if it should be common knowledge. “There’s no substitute for good ol’ breaded fish sticks.”
“Plus, at the rate you’ve been going,” Trunks added. “You’ll end up driving every fish species on this planet to extinction.” He looked at Regano. “We can’t keep mooching off you guys forever.”
“Yeah, Pan,” Goku added. “You should figure out whether you’re gonna marry Regano or not already. I mean look, he’s even escortin’ you back to the ship at night even though he doesn’t even need to at all. Just like what Goten’s out really late doin’ every time he goes out with a girl.”
“Stop it, Grandpa,” Pan insisted, though out of little more than habit at this point.
“I’ll be completely honest,” Regano said, not wasting an opportunity to pour on the charm. “My time spent with you these past few days has already given me a lifetime’s worth of happiness. Even if you don’t accept my proposal in the end,” he started to turn to leave. “Then wherever your travels take you, I hope you’ll remember our time together even half as fondly.” He waved to them all as he began to float up into the air. “Goodnight!”
The three watched him soar away, the red evening sunlight luckily camouflaging Pan’s slight blush. Once Regano was well out of earshot, Goku spoke up again.
“That’s weird.”
Trunks had a curious look on his face as well, and Pan was evidently the only one of the three not to pick up on why. “What?” She asked. “What’s weird?”
“That last thing he said,” Trunks pointed out. “About wherever our travels take us?”
“Yeah?” Pan still didn’t get it. “So what?”
“Well, he knows we can’t leave without the Dragon Ball,” Goku said. “Right?”
There you go. One short scene, not containing anything really spoilery because, well, I had intended for this to be in Chapter 16 originally, before I decided on a better cutoff point. I may post another one soon, if a particular scene strikes me as workable for it.
Also, another reminder to vote in the chapter title poll if you haven't already. Remember, I'm gonna keep it running up until the day I actually publish this bad boy.
The chapter itself is coming along great. I'm not going to make any specific time predictions because we all know how much that always jinxes things, but... soon. Very soon. I've got a piece of artwork I'd like to churn out BEFORE the chapter, as well, so at the very least you can look forward to that appearing in the next week or two.
