Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 2: Plump and juicy, bugs are so delicious!

The moment the transfer began, the surrounding scenery turned into lines and swept backwards at an extremely fast speed.

In less than two seconds, it was like entering a dark tunnel. Everything around was plunged into darkness, but soon the colors returned, but it was still the appearance of countless lines.

Just when Broly was curious and was about to reach out to touch the lines around him, the scenery suddenly froze and his figure appeared on the stairs of a basement.

There was a rustling sound behind him, mixed with a faint sob.

"Ok?"

Broly turned around and saw a large group of wriggling insects crawling just below the stairs where he was.

Among this group of fat and tender insects, there was a slightly bulging insect bulge, and the faint sobbing sound came from inside.

Broly thought about it, then jumped into the center of the pile of insects and reached out to open the insect bag that was making the noise.

After the pile of insects was pulled apart, a naked little girl was revealed underneath. There were traces of tears on her face and her eyes were red. It was unknown how long she had been crying. She kept whimpering from her mouth. After she saw the light again, she stopped in a daze.

"Do you sleep in the food pile?"

Broly asked curiously, his eyes fixed on a worm crawling on the girl's fair chest. These worms were white and tender, and although they had some sharp teeth, they looked much more delicious than the larvae of the Wampa spider, which made Broly swallow his saliva.

Hearing this, the young Sakura Matou didn't know how to respond for a moment. She was sent to the Matou family as an adopted daughter by her father half a month ago. On the day she became an adopted daughter, she was brought here by an old grandfather named Matou Zouken.

"Your magic attribute is hollow. You need to undergo some transformation to better inherit the magic seal of our Matou family."

The dry and haggard-looking old man said this at the time, and then threw the adopted daughter of the Toosaka family, whom he had just obtained, into the underground insect warehouse.

Completely ignoring the girl's crying and fear, he controlled the imprinted worms in the worm bin and made preliminary modifications to them, using the corrosive magic power carried by the imprinted worms to corrode the girl's virtual magic circuits.

This process is not only horrifying in appearance, but is also an unspeakable torture for the individual being transformed, who will suffer pain all over their body, similar to that of being pricked by needles.

It only took the girl a few days to go from crying and struggling to enduring with sobs, but she always hoped that her family would come to save her.

It doesn't matter if it's an elegant and gentlemanly father, or a gentle and virtuous mother, or even worse, an older sister who occasionally bullies you.

However, the relatives who were imagined to come and save him did not appear. Instead, an unfamiliar little boy who looked only slightly older than him appeared in front of him.

In the desperate situation of being surrounded by insects, he peeled off the bad insects that were crawling on his body and biting him, and squatted down to look at himself with concerned eyes.

Although she didn't understand the other person's question, she always said thank you when someone helped her. The etiquette education she received from the Tōsaka family was not forgotten just because she became the adopted daughter of the Matou family.

Enduring the remaining stinging pain in her body, young Sakura got up from the ground and tried to open her mouth to say thank you to the boy in front of her, but her throat was a little hoarse and she could only make a sound as thin as a mosquito.

Broly couldn't hear what she said, but after the girl climbed up and revealed her full appearance, a piece of information emerged in his mind.

[Matou Sakura, one of your figurine wives, can be invited to become a member of the Crystal Palace. ]

"You are my wife?"

Broly asked this question in a questioning tone.

"Eh?"

Faced with this problem, young Sakura was a little confused.

But she thought of her mother in the past, who had told her fairy tales when she was a child.

After Prince Charming saved Kuroyukihime, the two became husband and wife.

"I'm not your wife, but I can be your wife."

Compared with fairy tales, my own situation seems to be similar.

After having this thought, young Sakura answered in a low voice.

This time the sound was barely audible.

"If it's my wife, I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"

Broly reached out his hand to young Sakura.

Crystal Palace has said that a wife is someone who will give him food to eat.

[And the other party has so much food here, he should give me some, right? ]

Broly thought so.

Looking at the worms that were surrounding him again, there was a little more eagerness in his eyes.

Suddenly I became someone else's wife, and suddenly my own husband asked me for food.

This was something that young Sakura had never experienced before.

However, she had experience playing house games and she knew what to do now.

When your husband is hungry, as a wife, you should serve him food.

But every time she was called into the insect pile for transformation, she was told to take off all her clothes, but now she had nothing on her body.

Faced with the boy's hand asking for food, young Sakura was a little at a loss. At this moment, the door of the insect warehouse was pushed open, and a hunched figure walked in with a cane.

"Sakura, who is this?"

Matou Zouken looked down at the boy who appeared in the insect warehouse and looked like a homeless beggar, and frowned and asked his adopted daughter.

"Grandpa..."

When young Sakura saw Matou Zouken, her body began to tremble. To her, Matou Zouken was an extremely terrifying person.

"I don't know him. I will accept the reformation obediently. Please don't punish me."

Having said this, the frightened girl lay back down on the cold ground.

[As expected, miracles don’t exist. Facing Grandpa, this little brother who came to save me will definitely be killed…]

Tears flowed uncontrollably again, and she didn't know whether they were for the boy who was about to die next to her, or for herself who would soon continue to undergo transformation by the Imprinting Worm.

"I am really old. I actually let a kid break into the worm warehouse and discover something unusual. Boy, you are really unlucky. But since you broke in here, please become food for the worms. Go, eat him."

Matou Zouken raised his hand and gave orders to the swarm of insects in the insect warehouse. The marked worms that received the orders became aggressive the next moment.

"But don't hurt Sakura. Her body is the precious placenta of the Matou family, which can produce offspring with better qualities."

The Crest Worms avoided young Sakura and crawled all over Broly's body, tearing at the boy's flesh with their sharp teeth.

There was a tearing sound, and the tattered combat uniform was torn into pieces by the sharp teeth of the engraved worm, making some noises.

"Woooooooo..."

The girl sobbed even louder. She could do nothing and ended up killing the person who came to save her.

"Your grandfather is such a good man!"

However, such a sound was heard from the humanoid pile covered with insects.

"Suck~"

Immediately afterwards, some sounds of swallowing were heard.

Broly attacked left and right, caught the worms that crawled onto his body, and began to devour them.

The worms taste neither bitter nor astringent, and are indeed much tastier than the larvae of the wampa spider.

[The shell is crispy, the meat tastes like chicken, and the protein content is eight times higher than beef...]

As the worms were sucked into his mouth one by one, this information appeared in Broly's mind.

The little hand grabbed and another worm was caught.

With a slurp, he sucked the tail end of the worm in his hand into his mouth.

With a "slurp", the teeth bite down and the rich and delicious juice bursts in the mouth.

With a casual throw, the worm's head with sharp teeth was thrown aside.

And there, quickly, a small pile of worm heads appeared.

The insect's head without a body and its mouth full of sharp teeth were still opening and closing.

At this time, both the little girl Sakura and Matou Zouken felt a little buzzing in their heads.

Are those things called imprinting worms actually edible?
But no matter what they think, the facts are there.

The Saiyans' diet is quite broad. As long as the food they eat does not cause harm to them, they can digest most of the food they eat.

Compared to some indigestible foods (such as alien foods), the imprint worms of the Type-Moon world are obviously good nutrients and contain sufficient energy (magic) substances.

"Boy, you are not a normal person, who are you?"

Matou Zouken questioned, he had already discovered that the sharp teeth of his Crest Worm could not bite through the skin of the little devil below. "I, um, my name is Broly, and I'm a Saiyan."

Even though the other party gave him so many delicious foods, Broly was still very polite and answered Zouken Matou's question.

"Saiyan, who is that?"

Hearing this, Matou Zouken was a little confused. He searched his knowledgeable mind for a while, but could not find any information about the Saiyans.

"Forget it. No matter who you are, since you dare to eat my worms, you are ready to pay a sufficient price, right?"

"Hey, isn't this the food you gave me?"

Another worm exploded in his mouth, and Broly asked in surprise.

"How could it be something I gave you to eat? Every worm here was carefully cultivated by me. They are precious engraved worms that can be used to change the attributes and qualifications of magicians. The cost of a single worm is more than 500 million. Moreover, I have invested a lot of time and energy in it..."

The secular finances of the Matou family have not been very good in the past hundred years, and this insect warehouse in the basement occupies a considerable amount of the Matou family's wealth. It can be regarded as a kind of real estate like a magic workshop. And looking at the number of insect heads left over there, if it wants to be restored, it will definitely require a large amount of money to be invested.

“It turns out it’s not for me to eat.”

Broly felt a little disappointed, but he didn't stop moving his mouth and sucked the worm that crawled to his mouth into his mouth.

"It crawled in by itself. It's none of my business."

As he argued like this, he chewed the worm in his mouth and swallowed it, looking like he wanted to take the opportunity to eat a few more mouthfuls of delicious food.

"yue~"

Next to her, the girl finally couldn't bear it anymore and started retching on the ground.

"Are you provoking me?"

Matou Zouken's face looked very ugly, and he waved his hand to summon some flying carved insects.

"kill him!"

These insects, which looked like enlarged versions of wasps, flapped their buzzing wings and attacked Broly.

【New food is here again! 】

Broly's eyes lit up, and he grabbed one of the wasps in his hand, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

"Bang~"

Then, the giant hornet that was put into his mouth and bitten open exploded directly in his mouth.

"Idiot, this is a suicide bug that I modified."

Looking at the smoke and dust caused by the explosion, Matou Zouken said with a smug look on his face.

“It turns out that it’s inedible.”

But Broly's somewhat disappointed voice sounded in the smoke and dust.

"Nani, are you okay?"

After the smoke and dust from the explosion settled, Broly was not injured at all except for the last piece of clothing that was blown off.

"Don't you know the law of smoke without injury?"

Broly asked back in surprise.

"Wait, my wife was frightened by the explosion and her happiness level is decreasing. Please increase her happiness level as soon as possible.

The higher the happiness value, the easier it is to capture a wife, and after the other party agrees to the invitation to become a member of the Crystal Palace, the host's one-time conversion of happiness points will be higher..."

Broly read out the instructions of the Crystal Palace in his mind and turned around to see the girl shivering on the ground behind him.

So, what is the use of this wife?

Broly had such doubts, but his body acted faster than his thoughts. He grabbed the other hornet-like crested insects and came in front of Zouken Matou. Before the old man could react, he forced the insects in his hand into his mouth.

"Bang~"

It was the same explosion, Broly was fine, but Zouken Matou had his head blown off.

Without a head, the skinny body slid straight down the stairs to the ground.

In the insect warehouse, the worms had no one to drive them, and after sensing the extreme predator aura from Broly, they quickly shrank into the corner of the basement.

"Inheritance law?"

Broly muttered the new information that emerged in his mind, then floated down to the girl's side and spoke awkwardly to the girl on the ground.

"I killed your grandfather, and now his food is yours. I'm still a little hungry. Can you give me some more food?"

Broly showed off a lot of worms in the worm warehouse, but compared with the Saiyans' big appetite, these worms were obviously not enough.

"Eh?"

Hearing this, young Sakura looked up and saw her grandfather's headless body not far away.

"what?"

Rather than feeling frightened, she actually felt a sense of surprise in her heart.

“You still want to eat those bugs?”

She asked.

"Any questions?"

Broly tilted his head, not really understanding the question.

“That’s not food.”

Young Sakura got up from the ground again, wiped the tears from her face and said.

Broly: "..."

He felt seriously deceived, as Crystal Palace clearly said that his wife would give him food.

As a result, this wife didn't give him any food at all, and was not as generous as her grandfather who was killed by her.

"Can I take you to eat something actually edible?"

But soon, another word from young Sakura calmed Broly's resentment.

“What is something that is actually edible?”

Broly was very curious. In his short life, insects were the most common food.

"Like cakes and puddings and stuff."

Young Sakura thought about it and thought of some of the most delicious things she had ever eaten, and said to Broly.

"Cake? Pudding?"

Broly seemed to have some impression of these two terms in his mind, but he couldn't remember what they were.

However, his anticipation was indeed full.

"Where are they?"

"It's in the refrigerator. Uncle Kariya bought it for me a few days ago."

Young Sakura replied.

The death of Matou Zouken dispelled a lot of the gloom in her heart.

Even the hoarse voice regained some vitality.

"What is a refrigerator?"

"The refrigerator is... well, come with me upstairs and take a look, and you'll know."

Grabbing Broly's hand, young Sakura pulled the boy up the stairs.

She didn't want to stay in this bug warehouse in the basement for even a moment.

After taking Broly out of the basement, young Sakura went straight to the kitchen.

“This is the refrigerator.”

When they got to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, she showed Broly the real thing, and the cold air coming out of the refrigerator scared Broly.

The little Saiyan quickly stepped back and jumped some distance away, somewhat wary of the thing emitting cold air in front of him. No information emerged in his mind, but he cast a questioning look at the girl next to him.

(End of this chapter)