The hint of blush remained, when she said she was impressed. Looking down a bit, then she was speaking again and he had a half-second to sense...something. It wasn't like dealing with a ki user--but he recognized whatever it was as the same thing she'd done while touching his hand earlier.

That half-second, arms coming up to brace himself and he was pushed back. Noticing the effects around him too, cataloging--it reminded him of the force expelled with certain ki attacks. Or powered-up transformations.

Eyes-narrowed, staying crouched as he slid an inch or two back, and then they were widening as she... did those two tube-things just fly into her hands and become weapons? That impressed him. "First--I can't do that. Secondly---I want one." For the first time in a long time, Trunks actually was grinning like a child.