Using ki attacks also meant Trunks functioned well solo, or as support while she or someone else needed to reload, since he could work with blasting from a distance. Not just in close-range, where he was more effective. Considering he was used to being a solo-fighter, it paid to be versatile.

Moving his hands back to his pockets, her question pulled him out of the malaise his thoughts had been in. "Meta-human would still apply to those able to use 'ki', as we discussed though." She hadn't been wrong in calling him and Leela 'meta humans'--just not the way they were using the term. It had been a bit silly, but still a good discussion topic, while they were exploring the engine area when she'd first arrived.

"It's..." Starting, and then pausing as he tried to figure out how to explain. "Well, to start with, ki exists in all living things. It's a kind of tangible force that is there because something lives." Checking to be sure she was following that easily enough.