Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 793: Fame Rises, But with Negative Sides...

"Now that the resurrection magic has succeeded, why did Mr. Broly invite me to be his technical advisor?"

After regaining his composure, Amid quickly thought of this question and looked at the Saiyan boy with some doubt.

"Because the resurrection magic I possess has certain requirements for the resurrected object, among which the hard requirement is the integrity of the resurrected object's remains."

If the body is incomplete, after being resurrected, it will quickly fall back into a state of death due to localized necrosis of the incomplete parts.

Broly offered an explanation.

"So, Mr. Broly, you actually need me to provide prosthetics to repair the remains?"

Amed asked.

“No, Miss Amid, the prosthetics you are making now cannot meet my needs. What I really need you to do is to improve the prosthetic technology for repairing remains according to the needs of resurrection magic.”

Broly emphasized that prosthetic technology needs improvement.

“Okay, I think I can handle the job of technical consultant. However, before accepting your invitation, I would like to have a friendly discussion with Mr. Broly regarding the remuneration.”

Miss Battlefield Saintess revealed her inclination to accept the invitation.

"Is one hundred million fali too little? Then I can increase it to two hundred million fali."

Broly assumed the other party thought the pay was too low and said so directly.

"No, one hundred million fali is not a small amount."

Amid quickly waved her hand, but couldn't help but mutter a complaint.

"By the way, Mr. Broly, is this how you always try to inflate someone's status?"

Is there a problem with this?

"Shouldn't they raise the price little by little, slowly negotiating with me, like negotiating a business deal?"

"I'm not here to do business, and I don't need this little bit of money."

“My previous impression of a generous person was that of my lord, who was a nouveau riche. But now it seems that true generosity is like Mr. Broly, who talks about a price increase of one hundred million Faris as if it were only one or two million Faris.”

"That's about right. The difference between earning 100 million Fali and earning one or two million Fali is just that I go deeper into the dungeon and fight a few more monsters."

Broly nodded in agreement.

Amid: "..."

She had only casually complimented the other person, but their response left her speechless.

This is truly a case of encountering someone who is not short of money.

"Actually, I don't need a hundred or two hundred million in compensation."

Fortunately, she wasn't short of money.

"For me, one or two hundred million fares is just about treating more seriously injured people and collecting their treatment fees."

"Then, Miss Amed, what would you like?"

"Resurrection magic".

Compared to the reward of one or two hundred million fali, what truly attracted Amid was the resurrection magic that the other party possessed.

As Orario's top healer, Amid has also encountered situations where the wounded were too badly injured to save them. If she had had resurrection magic at that time, perhaps she wouldn't have been unable to save the injured.

"Of course, I know about my request..."

Amide hadn't yet said the part about it being "somewhat excessive".

"no problem."

She heard the boy's voice immediately agree.

"what?"

Miss Battlefield Saintess's mouth dropped open. She was prepared to spend tens or hundreds of billions of Fali to learn resurrection magic at her own expense, but she never expected the other party to agree so readily.

"Um, is there anything else you need?"

"No, no, on the contrary, Mr. Broly, are you really willing to teach me the resurrection magic?"

"Wasn't this the request you made?"

"But isn't this extremely precious magic?"

"Well, actually, resurrection magic is a bit of a useless spell."

"Huh?"

Seeing Amid's confusion, Broly decided to reveal the truth: "Resurrection magic consumes an enormous amount of mana. Without using top-tier mana-restoring potions, most people simply can't use this spell. And the longer the target has been dead, the more terrifying the mana required to resurrect them becomes..."

"Yes, magic that defies the laws of nature and achieves miracles only consumes a lot of mana, which is normal."

Amid nodded, seemingly accepting the condition of consuming a huge amount of mana.

"The main problem isn't the high mana consumption of resurrection magic. The main problem is that if the person using the resurrection magic isn't lucky enough, they might exhaust all their mana and still fail to revive the person."

"what?!"

"That's right. This is still a magic that depends on luck. If a person is not lucky enough, even the magician who created the resurrection magic will not be able to use it successfully."

Broly used Fels as an example, and Amid on the other side fell silent after hearing it.

"So, Miss Amid, do you still want the resurrection magic as payment?"

Seeing her silence, Broly asked directly.

"If you want to change something else, you can do it now. Whether it's paying more or wanting some rare monster materials, I can agree to any of these conditions."

Broly was very considerate and let the person in front of him make his request again.

"No, I need to use the resurrection magic."

After thinking about it, Amid decided to stick to her own idea.

"Fine, if you still insist on using it knowing how stringent the conditions are."

Broly nodded and said nothing more.

"Speaking of which, shouldn't Mr. Broly have kept these stringent usage conditions from me?"

Amid glanced at him and suddenly asked.

"Uh, why should I hide it from you?"

"Aren't you afraid that once I learn about the stringent conditions for using resurrection magic, I'll simply refuse your invitation?"

“I hadn’t thought about it, but I felt I should be honest with you, Ms. Amid, as your partner, on this matter.”

Broly scratched his head and then spoke frankly about his true feelings.

“Mr. Broly, you are quite different from what is rumored outside.”

Amid was taken aback at first, then chuckled and said something.

"Rumors from the outside world?"

Broly was just about to ask about this when there was a loud knocking on the door.

"Miss Amid, a new adventurer has had his breastbone shattered by a monster, and we need you to go and take a look..."

The person who came was a female nurse who came to inform Amide that there were seriously wounded people who needed her to come and treat them.

“Mr. Broly, I have something to attend to now and I cannot continue to entertain you.”

Amid quickly stood up and apologized to him. "It's alright, go ahead and do what you need to do. Anyway, I've achieved my purpose for coming here."

Since the other party was busy, Broly naturally couldn't continue to bother them.

After agreeing with Amid that he would start working as a technical advisor the next day, Broly left the Dean Clan.

However, on his way to Freya's Familia, Broly was puzzled about what the rumors about him in Orario were.

"Never mind, I'll find Bell again tonight..."

Before Broly could finish his mutterings, just as he turned a street corner, he saw a white-haired boy and a girl with long, straight black hair in a kimono walking towards him.

"Hey, Broly, you're back from the dungeon?!"

Bell looked somewhat surprised when he saw Broly.

Since there was no dinner party this time, Broly did not inform his younger brother that he was back.

"Um, Belle, and Miss Ming, what's going on with you two?"

Broly glanced at the boxes the two were carrying and couldn't help but ask a question.

"This is a potion to cure a person's alcohol addiction. Didn't Miss Lily go to the dungeon with you, Broly? Three days after she left, some drinkers in the Soma Familia started getting restless. Mr. Chandra was worried that someone might want to get his hands on this batch of potions, so he said he needed someone to go and help keep things quiet, so..."

Bell was there to help maintain order in the Soma Familia's territory, while Yamato-no-Mikoto came to help after learning about the boy's situation.

"Well, it seems that some members of the Soma Familia need to quit drinking again for a while."

Broly nodded and then asked Bell about his new nickname.

"Brother Broly, this is what happened..."

It turns out that after he led his team to fight monsters in the dungeon, Orario began to have some rumors about the inside story behind his war game with the Ishtar Familia.

One of the rumors is that he took a liking to a fox-girl and wanted to redeem her, but when that failed, he became enraged and secretly plotted a war game with the Ishtar Familia, with the aim of forcibly taking the fox girl away.

What comes to mind when you think of a man who recklessly starts a war for a beautiful fox-girl?

Regardless of what you might associate it with, some people in Orario have come up with some historical stories that have also happened in this world.

For example, a monarch who, because of a stunningly beautiful woman, arbitrarily launches a war against his country, ultimately leading to the destruction of his nation.

Such a character is usually called a "tyrant blinded by lust". However, Broly was strong enough to win the war against the Ishtar Familia with an overwhelming advantage, so the title "tyrant" is not quite appropriate, and he became known as a "tyrant".

"Hmm, I already know the tyrant's nickname, but what does the prefix 'extreme desire' mean?"

"Mr. Broly, the Orarios have a habit of giving nicknames to the defeated characters."

For example, if an adventurer always fights goblins, he might earn the nickname "Goblin Slayer".

If he were to switch to fighting Goliath, he might become a giant killer.

In the war game, you defeated the goddess Ishtar and sent her back to the heavens. Her nickname in the mortal realm is the Queen of Lust and the Queen of Extreme Desire.

You defeated her, so…

"So I've inherited her reputation for extreme lust?"

"I'm sorry, Brother Broly..."

"Hey, Bell, why are you suddenly apologizing to me?"

"This is because the nickname 'Extremely Lustful Tyrant' wasn't widely known at first, but because of my unauthorized intervention, it has tarnished your reputation, Brother Broly."

"Ok?"

Broly looked at him with a puzzled expression, while Yamato explained to Bell from the side.

It turns out that nicknames like "Extremely Lustful Tyrant," which stemmed from speculation about the inside story, were initially not well-known and could not be accepted by everyone.

Some say he initiated the war game with the Ishtar Familia because he had his eye on the fox-girl, while others defend him, saying he started the war game because he wanted to have an S&M relationship with his fellow Familia members who were injured in the process.

"Just a few days ago, in a restaurant, Bell overheard a group of adventurers discussing this. One of them was vehemently asserting that you were just a lust-driven person. Bell was a bit indignant and started arguing with him..."

The war game was over. Bell originally wanted to tell everyone the truth about saving the sacrificed fox woman and, incidentally, clear his name of the stigma of S and M.

As a result, his firsthand account as the person who sparked the war game and was involved in the incident has instead aroused skepticism from others.

"You said your leader sent you to pretend to be a customer and start a war game in order to save the fox girl who was about to be sacrificed by the Ishtar Familia. Then tell me, why would the Ishtar Familia sacrifice its own members?"

That's because...

Bell wanted to answer, but found that he had no way of answering the question at all; the fox girl's magic hammer was a secret and he couldn't talk about it.

The idea that the Ishtar Familia wants to deal with the Freya Familia hasn't happened yet, and probably no one would believe it if I told them.

Unable to answer, Bell, the person directly involved, stepped forward to give his own account, which successfully made the inside story that gave rise to the nickname "Extreme Lust Tyrant" go viral in Orario.

"Most people think that this is the truth behind your war game with the Ishtar Familia, and they see you as a tyrant who takes a fancy to girls from other Familias and is determined to get them, driven by his own desires to the extreme..."

"And according to rumors, even the Loki Familia suffered greatly, forced by your tyrannical power to hand over three of their own maidens, including the Sword Maiden, to be offered to you for your pleasure..."

Broly: "..."

He suddenly understood why the people from the Deankat Familia had looked at him that morning with three parts hostility, seven parts wariness, and thirteen parts fear.

Originally, Loki's Familia should have come out to explain, but Broly's wing ability was also a secret, so they couldn't say anything about it either.

As a result, the Loki Familia handled the matter quietly. Loki denied the outrageous claim of providing sexual pleasure, stating only that it was a matter of free choice for the children of the Familia to choose their own partners, and that she would not interfere.

Without knowing the wing skills, no one believed this claim, which led to the rumors about the Tyrant of Extreme Desire spreading even further.

In particular, the Kali Familia, which has now taken over the Pleasure Street and opened a free-for-all arena there, often has its Amazonian warrior members in the Fighting Kingdom say this when faced with adventurers and patrons who come to fight for free in the Pleasure Street:

“What kind of men are you cowards? A real man should be the tyrannical lord with insatiable lust. I can still remember that afternoon in the abandoned warehouse of Melon in the harbor, when he took down all the female warriors of our clan. Ah, even though we tried our best, we still couldn’t satisfy that lord…”

"So, Mr. Broly, the prefix of your nickname, which means 'extreme desire,' also implies that you are very strong in that area."

At this point, Yamato's face flushed slightly, and she cautiously asked, "Mr. Broly, did you really manage to defeat all those Amazonian female warriors of the Kali Familia who had defeated male adventurers in just one afternoon?"

"I did knock them down, but I meant to beat them all down with my fists!"

"Uh, is that so?"

"if not?"

"I thought you used that... well, special move you used in the war game with the Ishtar Familia."

A former member of the Ishtar Familia later testified that your techniques were comparable to the charm arts of the god Ishtar.

Broly: "..."

Very well, there's also the issue of him choosing to show mercy and using the Ecstasy Finger on the Ishtar Familia. And who dares to say that he wasn't a tyrant of extreme lust when it came to that special move that made people unable to resist opening the floodgates?
At this point, Broly's reputation was completely ruined.

The only good news is that his younger brother, Bell, has cleared his name of the stigma associated with S and M.

By taking the blame for his elder brother, the team's reputation as the team's shining star was solidified!

"Forget it, reputation isn't that important to me."

"Ah, Broly, what if you meet someone you still want to meet in the future?"

"Well, I'll explain it properly later."

Broly shrugged and stepped forward to pat the white-haired boy on the shoulder.

“Bell, you don’t need to take this to heart.”

I have other things to do, so I won't disturb you two while you work."

After saying goodbye to the two on the street, Broly continued on his way to Freya's Familia's residence.

(End of this chapter)