Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 4: Standing up is your lie, quarreling is your purpose!
After Broly left the Matou family, some insects gathered in the place of the head of the headless corpse in the insect warehouse, forming a new old man's head.

"What a dangerous brat. This kind of power cannot be possessed by a normal human. But I can't sense the magical aura on him. That guy should be a heroic spirit."

This is the only explanation. Matou Zouken pretended to be dead after his head was blown off because he understood the gap between himself and the Heroic Spirit. After all, his real body was in this insect warehouse, and he was really afraid that his real body would be affected in a fight.

"It's no secret that the Matou family is involved in this Holy Grail War, but who is the guy behind the attacker? Why did they take Sakura's child away from the Matou family? Did they think they could use the child to threaten the Matou family, or did they plan to use the child to threaten the Tosaka family?"

Matou Zouken muttered to himself, walked out of the basement, paced in the corridor outside, and suddenly stopped at a window near the corner.

"Perhaps, this could also be the attacker sent by Tohsaka Tokiomi. The reason is that Tohsaka Tokiomi discovered that the magic of the Matou family had changed from water attribute to insect attribute. Because he did not want to break the alliance with the Matou family, he used this trick to take his daughter back from the Matou family."

The old man’s zombie-like appearance was reflected on the glass window, but his sharp eyes narrowed as he talked to himself.

"No, with the character of that brat Tōsaka Tokiomi, who is obsessed with the rigid family precepts of the Tōsaka family, he is not the kind of person who would secretly betray the covenant. And considering that he is an absolutely calm and competent magus, the so-called family affection may not be enough to make him do something that violates the principles. But it is hard to say. Humans are creatures with complex emotions. What if that brat Tōsaka Tokiomi..."

Having said this, Matou Zouken stopped.

"I am also a little confused now. Things like this have to be tested. Why make random guesses when the truth can be revealed by testing?"

Matou Zouken shook his head and continued walking forward.

"Hey, Grandpa, you're home?!"

As soon as I turned the corner, I ran into my so-called grandson.

"Ah, no, now is not the time to talk about this, Grandpa, Sakura has been kidnapped by a dangerous guy, you should go and save her."

[This foolish grandson has no talent as a magician, but has the innocence and kindness of a child. I wonder what this innocence will be twisted into when he grows up and realizes that he is a talentless waste. I am looking forward to it just thinking about it...

Ok?
I, the elder of the Matou family, actually look forward to the distortion and pain of my descendants. It seems that my soul is also a little broken. The Holy Grail, the Holy Grail, I must obtain it quickly before I completely forget my existence as a magus. But before that...】

"Shinji, have you finished your holiday homework?"

"Uh, it's not done yet, Grandpa, now's not the time to talk about this!"

The young Second Master was a little anxious, but he still answered his grandfather's question.

"You haven't finished your homework yet, so what nonsense are you talking to me about?"

The creepy smile on Matou Zouken's face disappeared, and he directly scolded the young Second Master.

"Go back to your room and do your holiday homework."

"But Sakura..."

"She's just your adopted sister, so stay out of her business."

The young Second Master felt aggrieved, but he did not dare to disobey his grandfather's will, so he could only go back to his room.

. . . .

In Fuyuki City, where the Fourth Holy Grail War has already begun, a conflict is taking place in a restaurant specializing in rice bowls.

What happened was that Broly was enjoying his pork chop rice bowl, but the rice bowl restaurant suddenly stopped serving him food.

"Why don't you continue serving the meal?"

"I would like to continue serving you food, but you two kids ordered so much food. Do you really have the money to pay the bill?"

The restaurant owner crossed his arms and expressed doubts. He said that the current social economy was not very prosperous and a while ago someone came to his restaurant to eat and eat and then ran away without paying.

Today, two little kids, whose hair had not yet fully grown and whose height was no higher than his thighs, came into the restaurant and acted a little arrogant. When asked about adults, they said that the adults would be here soon.

As a result, half of the ordered food was served, but the adults the two little kids mentioned were still nowhere to be seen. The restaurant owner couldn't help but suspect that they were again the guys who came to his restaurant to eat for free. Before most of the remaining food was served, he came out to inquire about the situation.

"money?"

Broly was stunned for a moment, then the concept of money emerged in his mind, which was a common transaction item for purchasing food.

Broly understood immediately that it should be the Baya blood of this world, but he didn't have such a thing, so he couldn't help but look at the young Sakura.

"Excuse me, how much does our order cost?"

The girl asked politely.

"Including the rice bowls that haven't been served yet, the total you have to pay is..."

The restaurant owner said a number, and young Sakura took out the pocket money given by Matou Shinji and counted it carefully, and found that the coins in her hand were only enough to pay a small change.

The restaurant owner also noticed the girl's embarrassment, so he added: "If you only count the food you've already eaten, you only need to give me another 2,000 yen."

Young Sakura: “…”

This is the disadvantage of not even entering primary school. You can’t even do the simplest addition and subtraction, and the meal expenses are obviously over your budget.

Young Sakura looked at Broly, as if trying to seek help from the older boy, but Broly looked at her innocently.

If young Sakura can be considered a child in a civilized society, then Broly is just a little savage from a desolate planet in the Dragon Ball world.

His father Paragas only taught him knowledge of fighting, but not arithmetic, and he also did not teach him the information that popped up in his mind from time to time.

Therefore, Broly is also a glutton who only cares about ordering food and eating without paying attention to calculations.

At this moment, he did not have the blood (money) of this world, so he could not help the girl in front of him.

The intersection of their eyes and Broly's innocent eyes made young Sakura realize one thing, that is, the little brother with a tail who saved her from the insect warehouse seemed to be a poor guy who couldn't even afford a normal meal. She could only look at the restaurant owner: "I don't have any more money."

"If you're short of money, you can ask an adult to pay the bill."

The restaurant owner said.

Young Sakura was a little silent. When she left the Matou family, she thought that she could finally return to her real home.

It was not until I followed Broly into this restaurant to eat that I suddenly remembered what my father said to me when he sent me out.

"Sakura, from today on, your last name will be changed to Matou, and you will no longer be a child of the Tousaka family. Neither I nor your mother will have anything to do with you.

From now on, if you face Rin again, don't think of her as your sister. You will be fellow travelers on the path of magic, and also rivals.

If one day you sisters have to face a fight with each other, please don't feel sad. Instead, you should be happy that your own magical talent has not been wasted..."

For a father who has already said he would cut off ties with his family, is there really any place for him in his current home?

Young Sakura didn't understand this clearly, but she knew that if the restaurant owner found her biological father, Tōsaka Tokiomi, because she had no money to pay for the meal, it would definitely make the elegant and gentlemanly father feel ashamed and embarrassed.

"I have no home. My parents don't want me anymore."

Young Sakura said with great disappointment.

Restaurant owner: “???”

"So, you guys want to eat a free meal?"

His expression was somewhat unhappy, and his tone became unfriendly.

"I can help you with the debt."

Young Sakura hastened to say that her aptitude for magic allowed her to receive a wider education, including magician's covenants and deals.

This is also the reason why she was ignorant but did not make a fuss when she was sent to the Matou family. Overall, she is a sensible child.

Her understanding also made her want to pay for the shortfall in the meal bill through labor, but she ignored the fact that she was too young.

"Are you kidding me, what can a little brat like you do?"

The restaurant owner obviously did not accept this suggestion. The two children's clothes did not look like those of poor children or homeless children. He just thought that they were children who had a fight with their families. He insisted that the girl call home and ask her parents to come over.

"Reminder, Matou Sakura's happiness value is decreasing, please pay attention to her condition."

The reminder of the Crystal Palace resurfaced in his mind, and Broly realized the girl's reluctance. "Hey, don't embarrass her."

He said it directly.

Hearing this, the restaurant owner looked over and asked, "Do you have the money to pay the bill?"

"I do not have."

Broly shook his head decisively. If he had the Baya blood of this world, he would have given it long ago.

"Then can you call home and ask your parents for money?"

The restaurant owner asked again.

"I don't know who my mother is, but my father is not in this world."

Broly shook his head again in response.

"You have no money, and you can't call home for money, so are you kidding me?"

It looked more and more like a case of free dining, which made the restaurant owner even angrier.

"Do you believe me? I'll call the police to arrest you two bad kids for eating without paying?"

The restaurant owner threatened, not noticing that the look in the child's eyes was gradually becoming more dangerous.

Broly does not have the Baya blood of this world, but in the past he had no concept of using Baya blood to exchange for food.

When he was younger, he and his father Paragas obtained food on the planet Vampa by the most primitive method of hunting Vampa spiders themselves.

In other words, hunting down the restaurant owner who owns the food in front of him is the easiest way for Broly to solve the problem of not having enough Baya blood to trade for food.

However, obtaining food without trading may lead to the destruction of the ecological balance. But before smelling the aroma and entering the restaurant, Broly saw many creatures without tails on the road.

Considering that there was no transaction using Baya blood in the past, and that food was obtained by directly hunting Wampa spiders, the ecological balance of Wampa Star was not disrupted. So, it should not be a problem to just kill such a tailless creature.

Besides...

Broly looked towards the curtained kitchen. The aroma of food kept coming from that place. He thought that as long as he got rid of the owner of the food next to him, the food inside would also belong to him.

The more Broly thought about it, the more excited he became. Just as he clenched his fists and was ready to hunt down the restaurant owner.

"Bang~"

At the next table, however, the sound of a table being smashed was heard earlier.

"This is really unbearable to listen to. Boss, you are an adult after all, how can you have the nerve to embarrass two children?"

"No, who is this Excellency? What does this have to do with you?"

"My name is Fujimura Taiga. This really has nothing to do with me, but I cannot bear to see an adult like you bullying two little kids like this."

The person who stood up and spoke was an orange-haired girl with a single ponytail tied at the back of her head. She slammed the table with one hand and pointed at the restaurant owner with the other, and said these words with a righteous look.

"How can this be considered bullying? Is asking for money considered bullying? They don't have enough money to pay for the meal themselves!"

The restaurant owner argued.

"Yes, these two children don't have enough money to pay for the meal, but don't they have their own difficulties? Didn't you hear that just now?"

One doesn't know that his mother and father have passed away, and the other has lost his home. He must have been abandoned by his biological parents.

"Who knows? Children love to lie. What if this is a lie they told and they want to deny it?"

The restaurant owner looked a little unnatural.

"I did not lie."

Broly and young Sakura retorted immediately, saying it almost at the same time.

Fujimura Taiga nodded. She was willing to believe what the two children said.

"What if they weren't lying?"

She asked the restaurant owner.

"I run a restaurant, not a welfare institution. Do I deserve to lose money?"

The restaurant owner asked back, orphans should go to the welfare home to beg for food, why are they eating for free in his restaurant?

"You shouldn't have lost money, but your behavior is annoying. Can't you just speak softly? Facing children of this age, you actually said you wanted the police to come and take them away."

"Didn't I just want to scare them?"

The restaurant owner said with some grievance that in this day and age, it is almost impossible to put two obviously young children in jail for such a small matter as eating and dodging when it comes to the protection of minors.

At most, the police would come and take the two children away for a lecture, and then call their parents to come and pick them up, if the two children really still have parents.

"frighten?"

Fujimura Taiga raised his voice, walked over with his shoes stomping on him with great force, pointed at the restaurant owner's nose and started lecturing.

"Do you know how much psychological harm such threats will bring to children? What if they become afraid of the police and no longer willing to trust them? Can you afford such a social responsibility accident? Children are like beautiful flowers, but in this society, there are always some bad adults who want to destroy them..."

As it was getting close to dinner time, people came into the restaurant from time to time. After seeing the quarrel inside, they realized that this didn't seem to be a good place to eat, but it seemed okay to eat watermelons.

As long as the guests who are not in a hurry come into the restaurant, they will all look at the restaurant entrance to see the fun happening inside.

"Alright, alright, it's my fault, okay? I'll apologize to them, please stop talking."

The restaurant owner saw the customers crowding at the door to watch the show. If he continued to be pulled down by this extremely combative girl, his bad reputation of bullying lonely children would spread out, and he would also be labeled as a person with no sense of social responsibility and without the bearing of an adult. So he simply gave in.

"Humph, this is your fault in the first place. You are a smart guy."

Fujimura Taiga let out a long breath, looking like a victorious general. The restaurant owner apologized to the two children next to him for scaring them, and chose to accept the cost of the meal that had not yet been served, leaving only the change in the girl's hand.

"Crack~"

However, Fujimura Taiga walked over and placed two thousand yen bills in front of him.

"I am not a bully. I will make up for the meal expenses of these two children."

She said so.

"Yes, sir, you are very kind."

The restaurant owner changed his face and smiled, from looking unlucky and counting his bad luck to being enthusiastic about treating customers.

"By the way, if you had told me directly that you were willing to give these two children extra meal expenses, I wouldn't have argued with you."

"Ha, don't. I feel much better now after having a fight with you."

Fujimura Taiga has been feeling depressed recently because of an unpleasant argument with his parents over hair dyeing.

Through this quarrel in which I spoke up for justice, I was able to express my feelings in a very good way.

Restaurant owner: "..."

So, you stood up to have a fight, that must be it?

But considering that the other party pays the bill and we don't have to bear any losses, we won't charge for the extra emotional value.

“Welcome next time!”

(End of this chapter)