Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 29: External Wife
"Damn it, the bastard in charge of purchasing the child actually dared to embezzle this money?!"

By nightfall, only six children came out, two of whom had broken limbs. They escaped relying on their desire to survive and willpower. Bald man Bill was furious. He said they had carefully selected good seedlings, but this is the result?

The only explanation is that the money that should have been spent was embezzled by the logistics officer responsible for purchasing the children. Of course, embezzlement is just a common thing in today's corrupt empire, and high-ranking officials and nobles enjoy the filial piety of low-ranking officials and nobles.

In this empire where corruption is rampant, if one wants to make progress, it is not enough to rely on ability alone, but one must have money to pay tribute to his superiors.

Similarly, if one wants to live a good life, the clearest way is to squeeze money from the common people and to take bribes and embezzle money in various official matters.

However, it is precisely because of this situation that the empire has become so doomed. Various groups of people have frequently launched rebellions in various places, and some people who are dissatisfied with the current situation of the empire have fanned the flames with the intention of overthrowing the empire.

In this situation, the intelligence agency plans to form an assassination team to suppress the chaos in various places and kill those ambitious people hiding in the dark.

When selecting suitable children, they even encountered corruption within the empire itself. How could Bill, who was in charge of this matter, not be angry?

"They dare to take any money. Why don't they sell the ropes to hang themselves to the enemies of the empire?"

"Master Bill, someone really sold it. Not only ropes, but also weapons and protective gear. Have you forgotten that the guy who sold military supplies a while ago was hanged by us in the square in Carter City?"

The adjutant next to him reminded him. Bill's face froze. He glared at the adjutant fiercely and said angrily, "Bring the communication device over. I want the logistics department to chop off the heads of the anti-imperialists who dared to embezzle money!"

The adjutant quickly brought the communicator and Bill dialed the number. The imperial officer who received the call outside the forest changed his expression and immediately went to a tent.

Inside the tent, the young officer who had chopped off the boy's head during the day was pressing on a girl with lifeless eyes. When he saw his superior coming, he invited her to join in.

Then, with a bang, a bullet hole appeared on the guy's forehead.

"Go and raid this guy's house. He deserves to die for embezzling the money from the intelligence agency."

The imperial officer said viciously, and shot the girl under the corpse.

It doesn’t matter what the truth of the matter is. What matters is that the matter of placing the child was not handled properly.

Someone has to stand up and bear the wrath of Lord Bill.

It was not appropriate for him, as a superior, to carry the burden, but he was reluctant to ask his confidants to help carry it.

It just so happens that a guy from a declining aristocratic family has recently joined the army. Although this guy is quite capable and very respectful to him, isn't there anything that can be done?
The imperial officer now only hopes that there are still some nails in this poor man's house, and the money he extorts can be used to appease Lord Bill's anger.

. . . .

"Now, do you want those six kids?"

In the middle of the forest, Bill vented some of his anger, and after calming down, he asked Gozzi.

"You asked me to be your instructor, you don't want me to train some lechers, right?"

Gozzi asked back. He had already seen the children who had escaped. Apart from the two with injured or broken limbs, the remaining four intact ones did not look like they had high qualifications as assassins. Although they were already pretty good compared to ordinary people, what he wanted here were the elites.

"Then we can only wait until the next batch of children are purchased and put in."

"How long will it take?"

"It will definitely take ten days or half a month."

"Then shall we just keep waiting in this forest?"

"The forest is more dangerous at night. If you want to go back, you can wait until tomorrow to take a dangerous flight."

"It can only be this way."

Goziqi looked unhappy, but there was nothing he could do.

"Hey, you over there, go spread the mixed blood of dangerous species around. I don't want to get up at night and fight with the dangerous species that attack me."

A large amount of blood of different kinds of dangerous species was sprayed around the open space cleared in the middle of the forest. The mixed smell of blood could make dangerous species with higher intelligence than ordinary beasts feel afraid and they would not easily come to this area.

Because the mixed smell of blood means only one thing in the eyes of dangerous species, that is, in the area with this smell, one or more omnivorous top predators may appear.

. . . .

For example, now, in the southwest of the Jifunola Sea Tree Forest, an open space was blown out by an energy bomb. Here, near the river, there are a pile of corpses of dangerous species that have become food. The complex bloody smell they emit makes many dangerous species that act at night dare not approach easily.

Of course, there are also some foolish and daring dangerous species that come over and want to eat something, but the end result is that they also fall down and become part of the food.

"Everyone cut the meat into pieces so it will be easier to roast."

Broly had gathered more than seventy children. After they arrived at the resting place created by others, they quickly helped Broly prepare the food.

Some were looking for branches, some were making fire, some were cutting meat, some were looking for wild vegetables, and some people even picked some mushrooms.

The logistics officer in charge of purchasing these children did not engage in corruption, and these children who were forced to participate in the assassin audition did have their own abilities.

"Brother Broly, your meat."

A boy named Nahasu, after grilling a lizard skewer, was so hungry that he did not choose to eat it himself. Instead, he came to Broly with the grilled meat on a branch and handed the skewer to the boy.

During his days as an orphan, Nahaxiu would occasionally join other homeless children in a group to survive. Such a group was no different from a wolf pack in the wild. The leader always had to eat the first bite of meat to prove his leadership. Nahaxiu didn't understand this when he first started wandering, but after being beaten, he understood the reason.

Although Broly did not show any intention of becoming their leader, the rescued children did regard him as the backbone of this hastily assembled team because of his powerful strength and ability to kill dangerous species easily.

"You are a good person."

Broly was a little surprised when Nahashu suddenly fed him food, but he did not refuse. He gave the other party a good guy card and took the barbecue from his hand without hesitation.

With the example set by Nahasu, the other children seemed to have some awareness and came over to line up to hand over the things they had baked.

"This is my grilled venison."

“This is the tail of a two-headed snake that I grilled.”

"This is the wild vegetable and swamp crab soup I cooked."

"This is a raw roasted bear paw made with mud-wrapped chicken."

"These are the mushrooms I picked. They are colorful and beautiful. They must be delicious."

……

There was something strange mixed in with it.

"Stupid, those are poisonous mushrooms, don't give your brother weird food!"

The girl named Bonnie had the string of poisonous mushrooms in her hand thrown away directly.

"My mushrooms!"

The girl raised her hand and looked at the poisonous mushrooms that fell into the river when she flew out, with an expression that said, "If big brother doesn't want to eat them, I can eat them myself."

This person has a good ability to resist poison, which may be related to the fact that she has been finding strange and weird fungi to eat since she was a child, but she has never eaten herself to death.

“You are all good people!”

Broly didn't expect that there were so many good people in this world. One by one, they came to hand him food.

Although most of this was roasted meat from the prey he hunted, the meat processed by others did not belong to him.

Because he said that he would share food with those who helped to carry the things, so, that thing should belong to them, but these people were willing to share their own food with themselves.

Broly was very touched. Even though only Akame and Kurome were the wives recognized by the Crystal Palace as possible, he was now willing to treat these people who fed him food as his external wives in this world.

"You know, handing over the first bite of food is the rule for us to pay homage to the big brother. After paying homage to the big brother, you will be protected by the big brother. Those who want to snatch the restaurant's food scraps from us cannot snatch food from us unless they pay homage to other big brothers."

"I see. No wonder I couldn't compete with others in the city before."

The child, who used to be a wanderer alone, looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

"Then Luosang, have you ever worshipped Big Brother before?"

Another child asked.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be so chubby."

The child who was clamoring for his elder brother lifted up his clothes, revealing a shriveled belly.

Compared to other skinnier kids, he was fat.

"So you're here, where's your former big brother?"

"died."

"Eh?"

"When we were playing in the city, my eldest brother accidentally bumped into a passing noble and was whipped to death by the noble's guards.

After my eldest brother died, we couldn't compete with others, so I sold myself to a slave trader. I wanted to make a living, but I didn't expect to be sold to a place like this and be used as food by dangerous species."

The fat man had a bitter look on his face as he spoke, but he actually had extraordinary strength. The roasted bear paws cooked in mud-wrapped chicken style were given to Broly by him. At the same time, he was the main person who carried the body of the wild bear killed by Broly and walked here.

"However, I now have a new big brother. Big Brother Broly looks very powerful. He easily dealt with those dangerous species. I think even the nobles in the city can't kill him easily. If I follow him, I will definitely be able to eat my fill."

The little fat boy Losang looked at Broly who was sitting by the campfire on the other side, with an expression that if he met a good big brother, he would follow him. The children around him said that they also wanted to follow a good big brother who could take care of them and feed them.

A group of children were chewing meat and talking to people of similar age who were also sold here. After learning about each other's difficult lives in the past, their recognition of the newly-appointed eldest brother increased sharply.

This was due to the fact that they were rescued, but also because the other party was willing to share food with them and let them eat meat.

They fed Broly, but Broly also fed them.

(End of this chapter)