Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 199 Tic-Tac-toe General
The magic props of Piao Saburo's family can indeed be said to be masterpieces if we only talk about the production techniques, but if we talk about the specific effects of the magic props, then it can only be said that they are a bit subtle.

According to Piao Saburo himself, he does not like to make mass-produced magic items that can be made by ordinary magic item craftsmen.

"If you want to do it, make some more powerful or special exquisite magic items!"

Broly didn't know whether the magic tools were of high quality or not, but their family's poverty was probably related to the head of the family who insisted on making 'high quality' magic tools.

"You use some extremely costly detailed magic patterns to achieve some aspects that have no practical effect. It is difficult for us to give you a high purchase price for your product."

They had basically looked at the magic items, but now they entered the bargaining stage. Darkness was talented in this area. Instead of Wiz, who used to pay for certain magic items as soon as she saw them, she started bargaining with the Piao Saburo couple opposite.

Broly was not interested in the mercenary bargaining process. He ran to the yard (actually it was a fence made of branches outside the wooden house) holding a lantern with the magic inscription "Concentration" and started playing tic-tac-toe with Xiaomi.

"Write a character of your own in the grid each time. It can be O, X, or any other character. The first person to connect three characters in a line wins."

Broli drew a tic-tac-toe on the ground with a branch and explained the rules of the game to Xiaomi.

He learned this game from the kids playing in the streets of Axel.

It was probably something left behind by a reincarnated person who came to this world in the past.

However, after Broly learned it, he rarely had the chance to play with others.

After he beat up a street kid who lost a game and wanted to cheat and fight, along with his parents, and noticed that some of the kids were looking at him with some inexplicable fear...

"Oh, Xiaomi knows!"

Xiaomi nodded, feeling a little excited. There were no children of her age in the village, so she had no playmates before and never had the chance to play this kind of two-player game.

"How childish~"

Hoste stood by and watched the two little ghosts, who were having sex on the ground with branches in their hands.

Half an hour later, among the figures of OOXX in the afterglow of the setting sun, a demon appeared.

"Damn it! How come I lost again? This game is so difficult!"

"Hoster, you are a fool. It's my turn, it's my turn!"

Broly is like an invincible Tic-Tac-toe general, facing the constant challenges from the little girl and her familiar.

. . .

As night fell, Huihui went home holding her belly. Today she was invited to Ruanhu's house to celebrate her brother's birthday, but she was at the house of that brother-obsessed guy, eating cake until she was full.

Being full is a rare thing for their family. Thinking that she could give her meal to her sister tonight, Huihui's steps couldn't help but become lighter.

"Xiaomi, I'm back, look what my sister brought you!"

As they approached the door, Huihui shouted, holding up a box containing a small piece of cake.

"Hey, my sister is back!"

Hearing the voice, Xiaomi came back to his senses from the argument with Host [who was playing tic-tac-toe against Broly].

Thinking of the food she had packed home from a dinner party in the evening, Xiaomi couldn't wait to tell her sister the good news.

"Hoster, take me to meet my sister."

"Hey, can't you go and greet them yourself?"

Hoste originally wanted to sneak away, but was stopped by Xiaomi. He could only hold the girl in his hands and walk towards the main entrance of the house.

"Sister, I'm here!"

The door was not opened by my lovely sister, but my sister's voice came from the side.

“Were you playing in the yard?”

When Huihui said this, she turned from the main entrance to the side of the wooden house and saw her sister being held in the hand of a tall demon and walking towards her.

"Bang~" the cake box in her hand fell to the ground, and Huihui felt a little unwell.

"You devil over there, let my sister go!"

When faced with such a situation, Huihui did not run away. Instead, she quickly came to the fence, pulled up the branch stuck in the ground, held it in her hand, pointed it at Hoste who was walking over, and roared at the devil in a threatening manner.

This is the rule of survival in the forest. When you encounter a ferocious beast, never turn around and run away. Instead, get any weapons that may be nearby and confront the beast face to face.

Oh shit, this trick might work against wild beasts, but would it work against demons? The demon that captured her sister is obviously no ordinary creature. If her sister wasn't in the other's hands, Huihui would definitely turn around and run away the moment she saw the demon.

Holding the wooden stick towards the devil, Huihui could see that the stick in front of her was shaking constantly.

[Don't be afraid, it's just a demon. You will become a great magician who masters the most powerful explosion magic in the future...]

Huihui tried hard to suppress her inner fear, but in fact she was actually boosting her morale.

[Besides, my parents will be home by about this time. As long as they are back, dealing with a few demons won't be a problem.]

Although she was a member of the Crimson Demon Clan, before she learned magic, Huihui was no different from ordinary girls of the same age.

Just when Huihui mustered up the courage to face her fear, Host simply put down the millet in his hand.

"Hey, don't get me wrong, your sister asked me to bring her here."

After explaining this, Hoster raised his hand to show his harmlessness.

"Ah, my poor sister, have you been bewitched by the devil? Do you want to help the devil use yourself as bait to capture your sister?"

Huihui looked cautiously at her sister who was running towards her and said this.

"Sister, what nonsense are you talking about? Host is my familiar."

"Ha, do you think I will believe your nonsense?"

Huihui said this to Hoste.

"My sister is only five years old. Even I don't have a familiar, let alone a five-year-old like her, who has such a big and handsome demon as a familiar."

"Ah, well, thank you for the compliment, but what your sister said is true."

Hoste scratched his face a little embarrassedly.

[Humph, foolish demon, this is my clever plan. I am trying to fool you with some flattering words, so as to delay the time...]

"Hey, sister, didn't you say that Xiao Hei is your half-familiar?"

Xiaomi asked out of curiosity.

"Idiot, that was an excuse I made up in order to bring Hei into the academy so he could eat the other guys' lunch!"

"Whatever is fine, Xiaomi, if it's none of my business, I'll go back."

"You can play first, but it will be my turn later."

The Tic-Tac-toe board has been expanded since the beginning of the game, but due to the differences in proficiency and player IQ, neither Xiaomi nor Host has ever defeated Broly.

After the conversation, Host walked to the backyard by himself. After the demon left, Huihui reluctantly relaxed. She looked at her sister with a strange look and asked, "Xiaomi, what's going on?"

"What's going on?"

"That demon..."

"I told you, he is Xiaomi's familiar!"

"But before I left this morning, Xiaomi, you didn't seem to have any familiars, right?"

"Host became Xiaomi's servant around noon."

(End of this chapter)