It was a typical November day, the temperatures themselves would still have been acceptable, but a strong and irrepressible wind already heralded the approach of the cold season. It was quiet in Satan City, even the gangsters preferred to stay home.
Disguised as Grat Saiyaman, Gohan flew over town looking for someone in trouble, but couldn't find anything but a cat in a tree. He was alone, Videl had apologized earlier that she had something important and personal to attend to, that he should keep watch alone.
"Uff, boring ... and what darn cold up here! Almost like that day ...", Gohan muttered to himself. He landed on a hill and took off the superhero's clothes and then made his way to the huge one To make his girlfriend's residence. Almost half a year had passed since the victory against Majin Buu, and memories of those terrible days were far away. As he walked, he thought of many things, but especially of that serious look on Videl's face before school. What could she have to do ...?
"Stop! Who are you?" A guard in black stopped him in front of Mr. Satan's residence, but when the Gohan recognized he became more sociable.
"Is Videl there?" Asked the young Saiyan.
"Maybe you can catch her ..." replied the man. "If you are not already gone ... today is a special day ..."
"A special day ...?" Repeated Gohan in amazement. "Today is the third of November ... I don't know what could be so special today ..." He remembered something very well, but he immediately chased the thought away. It certainly couldn't be THAT. "Can I come in?"
"Um ... please ... but I'm warning you ..."
"Thanks…"
Gohan stepped outside the front door and knocked on the massive dark wood, which was decorated with the symbol of the world champion. It took a few long seconds for the door to open.Gohan was expecting Tami, the housekeeper, as always, but this time it was different. Behind the door stood a very serious and sad Videl.
"Um ... hello ... Videl ..." he made a little unsettled.
"Hello, Gohan ... What are you doing here ?! Didn't I tell you, this is a personal matter?", Was the somewhat cool reply of the young woman.
"Yes ... but ... I was worried ...!"
"Ah ..." she replied thinly, then stared at him for a few seconds as if she wanted to see his real intentions. At the end she smiled softly: "Well, come in. You know, we're going on a little trip ..."
"A ... a trip?" Gohan repeated while accepting the invitation. Inside everything was as usual, also Mr. Satan was ready, it was the first time for the young Saiyan that he saw him in a black suit. His daughter had changed since she returned from school, and she was now wearing dark blue jeans, a black shirt and an equally black jacket.
"Are you ready, my little one?" The man wanted to know in a deep voice, his daughter nodded silently.
"But ... why are you wearing black? Has someone died?" Gohan escaped before he could prevent it. He covered his mouth hastily with one hand and blushed with shame. "Sorry ... I didn't mean to ..."
Fortunately, Videl didn't seem to take it negatively, on the contrary, she smiled a little at his somewhat native honesty. "Well, almost. Today is the anniversary of my mother's death. We want to visit her grave today ..." she then explained.
"Oh ... sorry again ... and my condolences ..."
"Alright. You couldn't have known ..."
There was an unnatural and uncomfortable silence, it was only broken when Videl spoke. "Gohan ... do you want to come with us? I'm sure she would like to get to know you ..."
"W ... what? Sure? But ... are you really sure? I mean ... that's something so personal for you ... I'm certainly just in the way ...!"Gohan exclaimed, completely surprised. He had never thought that, nor was he prepared for it! Videl seemed to sense his uncertainty, she stepped up to him and laid her forehead on his muscular chest and hugged him."
"Yes, I'm sure. I ask you ... I ... I need you. For years ... I haven't told anyone that ... I would be so happy if you would come with us ..."
Gohan took a deep breath and gently stroked the young woman's black hair. To be honest, he really didn't feel like bothering anyone at a memorial service, and the memorial service for his father seven years ago had been more than enough for him. On the other hand, it made him all the more aware of how she was feeling right now. Back then he would have been happy if someone like her had been there for him ...
"Good ... I'll come with you. But I'd better call home ..."
"Thank you ...", Videl smiled, then hastily wiped the emerging tears from her steel blue eyes.
Tooth minutes later, Mr. Satan's plane was ready to take off, but only he got on board, Videl and Gohan wanted to fly on their own. The flight would be long, but Videl just didn't want to give up the idea.
"I'll fly there alone. Why else did I learn to fly?"

After more than four hours of flight they could finally see their destination on the horizon: the city of New East City. No sooner did Gohan realize this fact than his mine darkened.
"The ... eastern capital ... but ... what that is not there, where ...? No, I must be wrong ... it can't be!", It suddenly went through his head. He glanced briefly at Videl to his right; she was almost at the end of her strength and found it difficult to follow him; several beads of sweat on her forehead were evidence of this.
"Can you still make it? We're almost there!" He wanted to know, slightly worried.
"Yes, yes! Everything in the green area ...!"was the typically stubborn answer that made Gohan smile. Satan was flying behind them, his plane was getting ready to land at the landing pad in the north of the city, they both could fly straight to their destination.
At the north-eastern end of the city, Videl indicated Gohan to land, a ten-meter high monument in the middle of a small park rose in front of them. The monument was in the shape of an obelisk, at its base it was written in gold letters:
"Dedicated to the dead of November 3rd, 762. We will never forget you"
Gohan was a little startled after reading these words, his heart began to beat faster. That date ... his thoughts went back to the past until twelve years ago. At the time he was just five years old ... his first big battle.
"Gohan? Earth to Gohan! Wake up! Come on!", Videl woke him from his daydreams. He must have looked so sinister that Videl worried when she pulled his sleeve. "Come on, please ... there ..."
"Yes, I'm coming! Hey!"
Videl dragged him to a marble slab on the edge of the park with many names engraved on it. A tombstone. Gohan read above that they were the dead of the Fifth Company of the First District Police Department in East City. Relatives and acquaintances had placed a number of photos and flowers at the foot of the slab.
"Please read the third name from the top. This is you. Lieutenant Masei ..."
Gohan did as he was told, he was more and more struck by this truth that was just opening up to him. He was so serious again that he didn't feel Videl's astonished look, he just kept staring at the photo of the young woman. Radiant green eyes and long, jet black hair.
"Gohan ... but ... what have you got? Are you ... so struck by it ...? Did you know anything about this tragedy?", She finally asked. The Saiyan shook his head and looked down.
"No ... I mean ... not exactly ... are you going to tell me?"In the meantime, Mr. Satan also joined them, wearing dark sunglasses and a hat to hide his identity. As soon as he heard this question, he began to tell with a seriousness that was unknown to him.
"So ... you have to know that I and Masei grew up here. We were even in the same class. I always wanted to be a professional fighter, but she was a police officer ... We lost sight of each other after school and then years later again. Well, we went out together ... then our story started together ... "
"Dad ... I think Gohan wants to know what happened AFTER ...", his daughter interrupted him.
"Leave him, Videl ... this way I can find out a little more about your mother ..."
"Well ... um ... in the end she dragged me to the altar ... But unfortunately we didn't spend much time together ... She was at work, I won a lot of championships ... but that changed when we had a daughter ..." he continued and proudly put a hand on Videl's shoulder. "It was perfect ... I was fighting for the title of national champion and she was about to be promoted to Commander ...! But unfortunately ... this damn day came ..."
Gohan listened in silence, meanwhile his heart was beating up to his neck, he already had an inkling of what would come next. He was on the verge of screaming not to tell any more, it was enough, but he couldn't. He had wanted to know and now he couldn't back down.
"I had taken Videl to one of my fights for the first time, I realized that she liked fighting ..." Satan then continued again. "It should have only been a two-day trip, nothing special ... we said goodbye on the morning of November 3rd, as always ... I never thought that I would have seen her for the last time ..."
The voice of the great world champion trembled and he had to fight the tears, so Videl took over in his place."There was a terrible earthquake ... more than ten judges ... the entire city was razed to the ground ... everyone perished ... It is unbelievable how destructive this quake was!"
"W ... really ...? A ... an earthquake ...?", Gohan repeated, surprised and unsettled. Meanwhile, his self-control had reached its limit, he felt as if the truth would soon break out in him like a tidal wave. He wanted to shout the truth to the whole world, but he couldn't! After so many years, people and the world had grown used to this view that they had fallen victim to an uncontrollable and unpredictable natural disaster. Could he justify it and simply destroy such a conviction? Say it wasn't like that? No coincidence? That someone was to blame for it? Worse, that she