"Yes...and no." Trunks responded, about the training. "I've been a fighter my whole life, but hadn't had anyone to properly train me, until Gohan when I was 14. That was just a few weeks...before he was killed." It still hurt, remembering--maybe if he'd BEEN there he could've done something. Part of him felt even worse, because he knew he wouldn't have listened---Gohan had been right to knock him out, or he'd have died too. A slight head-shake, bringing himself out of the memories.

Bowing low, to her and formal, a hint of laugh in his voice as he stayed in the position. "Thank you. Besides, sparring is a form of learning. You test someone, and challenge them--you don't hurt or kill them." Decidedly serious, but then his own eyebrow is raising. "Sabers...? Besides, I think you were holding back at times too."