own inner being. Bulma winces when she notices him, but quickly regains herself, grabs a screwdriver, gets up from the scaffolding and goes to the place where the small cover, the maintenance hatch, is open on the outer wall and from which some wires and cables hang. "I'm sorry! It will certainly take another week until the spaceship is ready to fly again. It couldn't be faster!" she now speaks calmly to him."Aha." he answers quietly. Vegeta is a little surprised at her. She seems so calm and relaxed that he can hardly believe it. From the anger and disappointment a week ago nothing was to be seen in her. He also amazes that she is about to talk about the spaceship. No "hello", no rumgerzeter and no rumzicken like he was used to from her. She has probably already left it behind and forgotten. “You don't seem to care now?” He ponders. "So, was it just an adventure from your point of view?" he asks himself confused. Was he, she got caught in the act? "What is it? Do you want anything else?" Bulma now pulls him out of his thoughts. "Uh ... no!" it comes quickly from him and he looks at the ground. Bulma turns back to her wires and sorts them according to the plan her father gave her. Vegeta looks up at her and thinks about what to say. Bulma seems to acknowledge that he wants to get rid of something and helps right away."You probably thought I was crying my eyes because of you, right?" it comes cool from her. Vegeta looks at her in amazement. "I'm sorry to disappoint you! But I'm long out of the teenage age where you cry after your past love!" Bulma continues, with a touch of faint anger in her voice. "Doesn't sound like you don't care." replies Vegeta, feeling her aura flickering with nervousness. Bulma turns around and glares at him: "Shut up !!" Vegeta startles at her tone of voice and is afraid she will throw some tool after her. Bulma's look suddenly becomes sad and hurt. "It's just because ..." she stammered, turning away from him. Vegeta is listening. "Oh! Forget it! It's none of your business !!" she screams again and makes a gesture that you only make when you wipe tears from your face. She turns around shortly after him. "What is it ?! What are you still doing here ?!Just get out of here !! "she stands up on the scaffolding, leans against the railing and yells at him. Vegeta's gaze stays steadfastly on her face. He looks into this injured face in whose eyes shine tears. She just looks terrible and he realizes how much he had hurt her. He had feared that from the start, he just shouldn't have responded to her then. "Don't look at me so pityingly! And now just go and leave me alone !! "she snaps at him again. Vegeta lowers his gaze to the floor and surrenders. There would be no point in talking to her now, he notes and turns to the door. Bulma looks on as he disappears from the room. He hasn't said anything to her, no, he hasn't even turned back to her. Somehow he makes a dejected impression on her, she now remarks. "Maybe he wanted to tell me something else? "she asks herself now and wipes away the last tears." Maybe it is really time to talk to each other?"She ponders and her gaze wanders to the place where she had previously welded on the strange scratches in the outer shell. The way these scratches look must have been shot at them with a kind of laser. Because the metal of the outer shell has melted and there are strange ones Residues on it. “So you must have actually attacked him and he just fought against you?” She tries to put together the puzzle that represents the whole thing on the alien planet where Vegeta wiped out a whole race again: Bulma turns her gaze to the door through which Vegeta had just disappeared and thinks intently: "What happened to you? Maybe this incident on the planet is to blame that he rejects me? "She drops the hands that she had put on her hips earlier." Or the other way round ... "she sighs, kneels and slaps her hands softly sobbing on her face. “Maybe it was all just my fault?” she thinks resolutely."I can no longer work today." she sighs, now a little calmer, descends the scaffolding and makes her way to the living area of ​​the Capsule Corporation.



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