Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 804 Miss Adi Wants to Repay a Kindness, The Heretic's Approval
"Seele, I'm sorry."

The next morning, Ryu went to the Abundant Mistress Tavern and found the girl who was sweeping the entrance. She confessed to her that she had also fallen in love with the boy.

"Ryu, I trusted you so much, and this is how you repay my trust?"

“It was my fault, Seele. You can hit me or scold me as you please. I promise I won’t talk back or fight back. Even if you want my life, I will have no complaints. After all, you saved my life back then.”

Liu bowed deeply to Seele and offered her wooden sword, giving off a feeling of apologizing with a sword on her back. She had been wondering which women Broly would provoke, but instead, she had run into them and fallen in love with the Saiyan boy.

Although Adi gave her advice last night, after actually seeing Seele, Liu subconsciously chose a course of action that was more in line with her own clear-cut personality of gratitude and resentment.

"If that's the case, then..."

Ryu felt the wooden sword being taken from her hand and sighed inwardly. Sure enough, it was absolutely unforgivable for someone she loved to have their trusted person steal away from her.

Just as Ryujin was about to make the decision to pay for a life as she had said, Seele, who had taken the wooden sword, gently tapped the elf in front of her on the back of the head with the back of the sword.

It hurt a little, but there was no real damage. Liu turned her head in confusion and looked at Seele in front of her.

"This stab is punishment for your constant disregard for your own life."

Seele put the wooden sword back on her shoulder, put her other hand on her hip, and said.

"Ah, Seele, aren't you angry with me?"

"What's it to you?"

"But I fell in love with the person you like. You entrusted me with the task of keeping an eye on him, but I ended up stealing from him. I'm such a terrible person."

"Ryu, what you said is correct, but the premise is that I really want you to help keep watch."

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"Is it possible that I actually knew Broly wanted to run into you, so I deliberately used the excuse of needing to keep an eye on him to ask you to go and keep an eye on him?"

"Huh?!"

Liu sat up in astonishment, staring at the ambiguous smile on the girl's face. Her mouth gaped open, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"I thought from the beginning that you would fall for it, but I didn't expect that after you fell for it you would come and confess to me, and even do the thing of carrying a sword to apologize."

"Oh dear, Ryu, it seems you really do love Broly quite a bit, you're even willing to give up your own life for him."

"I...you...ah..."

In the back alley of the Abundant Mistress's Tavern, Liu slumped to the ground, her face as red as a boiled shrimp. She was stunned by what Seele had said, and her mind went blank, causing her to have trouble speaking.

"Stop with the 'you' and 'me' stuff. Here, take your wooden sword."

Seele returned the wooden sword to Ryu and then helped the elf on the ground up.

"Congratulations, Ryu, you've found the person you love in your life and found your own happiness."

While Liu was feeling a little embarrassed, Xi'er smiled and sincerely congratulated her.

"Then, Seele, you will find happiness with me in the future, right?"

After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, Ryu was still a little embarrassed, but now she didn't have to worry about persuading her friend to accept the idea of ​​sharing a husband. She asked in a low voice.

"Yeah, I think so."

Seele smiled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes; a hint of sorrow lingered in her gaze.

As Freya interacted with Broly in her goddess form, the more she interacted with him, the more she felt that the Saiyan boy had an invisible sense of distance from her in her goddess form.

This sense of unfamiliarity and distance is reflected in specific behaviors, namely, the different treatment given to her when she is in a goddess-like state versus when she is in a girlish state.

For example, when feeding a boy a small cake, if the girl feeds him, he will gently lick and suck her fingers after finishing the cake. But if the goddess feeds him, it becomes a matter of finishing the cake and that's it.

For example, if the girl takes the initiative to get close to him, the boy will never refuse. Whether it's kissing or touching, Broly will satisfy her. But if it's the goddess herself, it becomes a situation where the distance is pulled away before it even begins.

In this situation, Freya's feelings were very complicated. She even called Heiji back and chose not to respond to the Hestia Familia's proposal for cooperation on resurrection magic for the time being, and thus also prevented Broly from going to the Battle Wilderness.

Recently, Freya wanted to be alone and figure out what she really thought about her feelings for the boy.

If only I weren't a goddess...

Looking at the shy yet happy elf, Seele suddenly had this thought.

But she quickly shook her head, dismissing the absurd idea.

She is a deity, and she has been so since the moment she was born and gained consciousness; this cannot be changed or denied.

"Alright, Ryu, there's still work to be done at the shop. If you don't have anything else to do, I'll go back to work."

"Ah, I'm sorry, Seele. I made plans with Adil today to accompany her back to the Ganesha Familia, so I can't stay at the shop to help out."

"It's okay, if you have something to do, go ahead and do it."

Seele saw Ryu off.

At the main entrance, Adi was waiting.

Seeing Liu and Xier walking out of the back alley together, chatting and laughing, I breathed a sigh of relief for my friend.

"how?"

"Everything went smoothly. So, it turns out, Seele is..."

On the way, Adi asked about the apology, and Liu told her the truth about the surveillance.

Adi felt increasingly uncomfortable as he listened.

From her perspective, what happened to her friend.

It's like being sold out and then happily helping the seller count the money.

Even if the person who sold Liu was Liu's benefactor.

However, Adi wanted to say something, but then he remembered what the little girl had said to him last night.

What truly made Ryu give herself to someone else and fall in love with another was her resurrected self.

“Ryu…”

The girl slowed her pace, finally stopping, and called out to the elf in front of her.

"What's wrong, Adi?"

With a happy expression, Liu turned around and looked back at her friend with a determined expression, as if she had made a decision.

"I heard that you took on a lot of debt in order to resurrect me."

"You mean this? It's alright, Adi, it was all my own choice."

“I don’t think this is right. At the very least, let me help shoulder some of the debt.”

“But I’ve almost paid off all the debts you incurred from your resurrection.”

"What about emotional debts?"

"Huh?"

"Since you can't turn back and have fallen in love with someone else, I will stay with you and help you attract the attention of the person you like."

"Uh, Adi, what do you mean by that?"

“Mr. Broly is a womanizer and likes to meet other women, so I will submit to him and try my best to please him with my fairly good looks, so as to keep his heart and prevent him from continuing to flirt with other women.”

Ryu: "..."     "Don't worry, Ryu, I will definitely try my best to seduce Mr. Broly and make him stop messing around with other women, so you won't feel wronged!"

Ryu was somewhat stunned. Her friend was holding her shoulders with both hands. She could feel that Adi meant well, but this good intention made her friend determined to use her beauty to seduce the Saiyan boy. How was she supposed to respond to this?

“Adi, you don’t actually need to…”

“No, if you can repay my kindness, then I must also repay your kindness. You are my benefactor.”

"I……"

"No need to say more or try to persuade me, I have already made up my mind."

After struggling to change her friend's bizarre decision, Ryu felt a bit tired.

"Since that's the case, then so be it. However, Broly might not agree to your offer of money."

"Hey, I'm not bad looking, am I?"

"It's not bad, but it's not a matter of whether someone is good-looking or not; it's a matter of whether you can accept them emotionally."

At least, the Broly I know is more loyal and sentimental than someone who only cares about looks…

To make her words more persuasive, Ryu even cited the example of the Kali Kinkaku from before.

“A group of attractive Amazons tried to seduce him but failed; they were rejected and even kicked out.”

"Huh?"

Adi's mouth was slightly open. This happened before she was resurrected, so she had no idea about it. She thought that the Saiyan boy in the Hearth Hall was a beautiful woman and she would take him.

"But it's okay, I'll talk to him, he should be willing to accept you."

Adi: "..."

Isn't something a little off here?

“Broly is a good man. If you want to be with him, that's fine. It just so happens that we can support each other when he meets someone else.”

Unable to change her friend's desire to repay a debt of gratitude, Ryu tried to think more positively. After changing her perspective, she actually felt that having an acquaintance join Broly's Crystal Palace was not a bad thing.

At least, in the future, if we have to do some naughty things with each other, we can do them together with our friends without being too shy.

. . . .

Broly was unaware of what had happened on Ryu's side. After Fels contacted the Heretics, he took Fels and Winnie to the dungeon.

The heretics in the dungeon questioned their proposal to obtain the magic stones of the dead heretics in an attempt to resurrect them.

“Fels, it’s not that we don’t want to believe you who have always helped us, but those magic stones were once our companions.”

To us, it's like the bodies of our deceased relatives and friends in the world above ground; you want us to hand over the bodies of our former companions.

"At least let us see up close who will accept these magic stones, right?"

Broly did not refuse the heretics' request to see him and confirm whether he was worthy of their entrustment of the magic stone of their former companion.

"Besides you, we also hope that you can bring our companions along, so that the dragon girl you took away can tell us how you have treated her these past few days since you took her away."

The heretics are very wary of adventurers. They seem more willing to trust their fellow heretics, who are also intelligent and rational but are still relatively new to the world, than Fels, a mysterious fellow who often provides them with some help but has never shown his true face to them.

"That depends on Winnie's opinion. If she is willing to see you, then I will take her with me to the underground city to meet you."

. . . . .

"Ha, I knew it. A guy who can ask our companions for their thoughts must be fine, right?"

The two groups successfully met in the nineteenth level of the underground labyrinth. Reed, the lizardman, who had heard from Winnie the Little Dragon Girl about how well she had eaten, drunk, slept, and even been taken out shopping and playing after being disguised in the surface world, smiled and said to the stone dragon Guros beside him.

These two had previously held completely opposite views on Broly's response that it depended on Winnie's opinion.

The heretic leader, the lizardman Reed, felt a sense of equality from Broly's words, while the deputy leader, the stone dragon Gross, had a different perspective.

"If the person's response later is that our companion doesn't want to meet with us, then it's possible that our companion who was taken away has already been killed."

"Hey, they agreed. What do you say?"

"Then maybe they were enslaved."

It's hard to say about Shi Long Gu Luosi in other aspects, but he's definitely stubborn. It wasn't until he actually met Winnie and saw that the little dragon girl was well-nourished and full of energy that he had to admit that the Saiyan boy who led Winnie down the dungeon was a good person who didn't hate them as heretics.

"Even if he's fine, what about the other adventurers? I'll be careful, and before we meet, I'll have everyone prepare for a possible battle. What's wrong with that...?"

“Sorry, Mr. Broly, that’s just the kind of guy Grous is.”

"It's alright. I've heard about the situation of you heretics. Being careful won't be a problem."

Broly was unconcerned by the heretic's vigilance.

He looked in Winnie's direction, where Little Dragon Girl was happily playing with the monsters in the Heretic's Den.

Winnie was happy on the surface, but she never felt as comfortable as she does now.

This is probably because he has companions who are also monsters but possess rationality.

"This time, we will take the magic stones left behind by your fallen comrades and go back to the surface to try to resurrect them..."

Broly said.

"The reason we didn't attempt resurrection in front of you in the dungeon is because we don't know how the dungeon will react if we use resurrection magic or open the Gates of the Underworld. And even if there's no reaction, the appearance of the Gates of the Underworld in the dungeon is just too conspicuous..."

Fels added an explanation from the side.

"If the resurrection is successful, and your companions retain their rationality after the resurrection, then we will quickly begin to push forward the plan to get the people on the surface to accept the existence of your heretics."

"Oh, how do I do this?"

Reed asked in surprise.

"The specifics of how to proceed depend on whether rationality remains after resurrection. If it does, it will be simpler to get the people on the surface to accept the existence of you heretics."

But if that's not possible, it will be a bit more difficult. However, it doesn't matter; regardless of whether one can remain rational, I have corresponding solutions.

Broly once changed the world's perception of the cursed child in the Gastrea world, and it's not that difficult to get the world to accept the heretic in this world.

If the resurrected monster can regain its rationality, then it can rightfully become the cursed child of this world. But if it can't, then it can put on a show of a rational monster actively rescuing adventurers who almost perished in the dungeon.

Actor Broly was even prepared; the guy in Rivera town, Modo, had previously said he was at his beck and call, and this was perfect timing.

Of course, we'll have to wait until we get back to the surface and try to revive the Heretic's Magic Stone we've obtained before deciding on the specifics.

"Rei, Fei'er, Laniere, bye-bye. I'll come down to see you again later. Once everyone on the surface no longer rejects us, I think you can leave the dungeon and go to the surface."

Then, we can bask in the sun together, feeling the warmth of the sunlight on our skin; we can also soar freely in the blue sky, roll around on the grass, and catch beautiful butterflies together…”

Before leaving, Winnie said this to the heretic's playmate.

Little Dragon Girl's lively words made the group of heretics imagine such a wonderful future, and their faces couldn't help but show longing.

"Okay, even though we don't know what a butterfly is, we'll catch them together."

The heretics and other monsters waved from where they stood, watching Broly leave with Winnie's hand and Fels, who was wearing a black robe but whose true face had been revealed.

. . . .

"What, Miss Adidas, you want to be my unofficial wife?"

(End of this chapter)