Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 9: Stone Gift
"But as far as I know, the Matou family also participated in this Holy Grail War."

Kotomine Kirei said with a frown.

“I know what you’re worried about, but Matou Kariya, who joined the war on behalf of the Matou family, is just a guy who gave up the path of magic halfway through.

Although the Holy Grail War places more emphasis on the strength of the summoned Heroic Spirits themselves, if the Master is a half-baked magus, then no matter how powerful the summoned Servants are, it will be useless because they themselves are weaknesses as the Masters.

However, you do have to be on guard, which is why I asked you to come here.

Kirei, I need you to use the power of your Servant Assassin to investigate the circumstances here.

Regardless of whether this is a conspiracy by the Matou family, or an unknown force really kidnapped Sakura, I hope you can figure out what's going on here.

Then bring Sakura back as safely as possible."

"Got it, Tokiomi-sensei."

"This is a picture of Sakura."

Toosaka Tokiomi took out a photo from his pocket. There were two little girls in the photo, who were his two lovely daughters.

And the younger one, when she was still called Tousaka Sakura, smiled so innocently and happily.

"What a lovely child, not inferior to Miss Lin at all."

Kotomine Kirei said politely with an expressionless face.

"Sakura's talent is indeed not inferior to Rin's, but unfortunately the Tohsaka family only has one magic inheritance. No matter which child inherits the magic inheritance, the other child who cannot inherit the magic inheritance will suffer the misfortune brought by the rare talent."

As he spoke, Tohsaka Tokiomi sighed. This was also the reason why he did not refuse when the Matou family proposed to adopt a daughter from the Tohsaka family as the future successor to the Matou family's magic.

"Okay, Kirei, hurry up and act. I'm worried about the child's safety."

Tōsaka Tokiomi picked up the red wine glass and signaled to the disciple next to him that it was time to take action.

"Is the child lost, Tokiomi, why don't you come to me for help?"

After Kotomine Kirei left, a blond man walked in from the balcony. He had a pair of crimson vertical pupils like those of a snake. Who else could he be but Mr. Jin, an enthusiastic citizen of the future Fuyuki City? He looked bored and wanted to find something to do.

For the former fifth king of Uruk, searching for his minister's missing daughter was just a way to pass the time.

If Tōsaka Tokiomi kneeled down and begged him with a pious attitude, Gilgamesh would help him as if he was just doing something he did when he was bored and wanted to satisfy his subject's request.

"How dare I ask the great hero king to condescend to me? This is just my own personal matter."

In response to the kindness of his servant, Tōsaka Tokiomi spoke respectfully.

"Huh, what a boring guy."

Seeing his respectful appearance, Gilgamesh suddenly felt disappointed. His situation was like a tyrant who suddenly wanted to do something good, but his subordinates did not believe that he would do good things. However, due to his noble status, they dared not refute him. Then they had to deal with him by showing the same respectful attitude as Tōsaka Tokiomi at the moment, which was impeccable.

Toosaka Tokiomi: “…”

If this wasn't the arrogant and proud Hero King, he would have treated the other party as an ordinary familiar.

Although the two remaining Command Seals in his hand could also force the opponent to obey, using the Command Seals on such a waste of effort would be a waste of effort. How could he fight the Holy Grail War later?
Does he have to use gem magic himself to fight against those monstrous heroic spirits head-on?
Just as Tōsaka Tokiomi responded to the King of Heroes' comments with silence, Kotomine Kirei suddenly walked back from outside the study.

"Why are you back?"

Toosaka Tokiomi asked, breaking the silence.

"Teacher, you don't have to look for your daughter. She is outside."

Kotomine Kirei replied with a somewhat subtle expression.

He was just about to go out to look for someone with the photo when he ran into three people who were about to ring the doorbell at the door.

And one of them is the little girl in the photo.

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Tōsaka Tokiomi was stunned for a moment, and then asked about the specific situation.

"I didn't ask, but the people who sent your daughter home were two people, one big and one small.

The younger one is a boy about the same age as your daughter, and the older one is a girl holding a bamboo sword.

The other party looks aggressive, but he is just an ordinary person. "

Kotomine Kirei explained what he had seen, and followed Tōsaka Tokiomi outside.

"father!"

When Toosaka Tokiomi arrived at the entrance outside, he heard his little daughter's surprised cry, but it was just a cry.

Young Sakura stood outside the door of the Toosaka family with a hesitant look, not daring to step into the house.

"cherry……"

Tōsaka Tokiomi's gaze softened, but before he could say anything, he was greeted by the 1988 Type-Moon World's version of T0.

"You must be the father of this child. I never thought that a rich man living in such a big villa would abandon his young daughter!"

Fujimura Taiga started cursing as soon as they met, pointing the bamboo sword in her hand at Tōsaka Tokiomi's nose. She was furious when she saw young Sakura shrinking back and not daring to enter the house.

What on earth had this child endured in this family that even when he was at the door and it was already open, he still stood outside and didn't dare to go in.

"A bastard like you who abandoned his daughter, can you still be considered a man or a father?!"

The scolded Tōsaka Tokiomi: "..."

The corner of Kotomine Kirei's mouth twitched next to him, while Mr. Jin behind him had an expression of watching a show as if he was just watching a spectator show.

"Today, she can come in if you want her to, and she will have to come in even if you don't want her to. If you don't want to be kicked out of this house by me with my fists, you'd better be sensible and let her go home!"

After Fujimura Taiga's opening scolding, Broly also raised his fist and walked forward, making a threatening gesture on the other side of the young Sakura.

The two people, one on the left and one on the right, are like street Yakuza threatening shops that dare not pay sanitation management fees.

However, the two people who did this were a young and beautiful junior high school girl and a little boy who looked like he was in the last year of kindergarten, so the actual effect was Connor's version of the dragon's roar.

Toosaka Tokiomi thought that the disappearance of his little daughter might be a conspiracy of the Matou family in this Holy Grail War. He also thought that there was really a master with other despicable means who was plotting against the Matou and Tosaka families.

But he never expected that his little daughter would come to his house with two such people the day after the news of her being kidnapped came.

One of them started to curse him and say he was not a good father as soon as they met, and the other one, who was not very old, raised his fist and threatened him.

For a moment, Tōsaka Tokiomi had three questions in his life: "Who am I?", "Where am I?", and "What am I doing?"

"My daughter was probably abducted from the Matou family, right?"

After a pause, Tōsaka Tokiomi asked this question to his disciple.

"If what you said when you informed me with your familiar is correct, it is like this."

Kotomine Kirei replied expressionlessly.

"Who can tell me now what exactly is happening in front of me?"

Tōsaka Tokiomi asked, but Kotomine Kirei couldn't answer him because he didn't know what the situation was.

"Foolish minister, why don't you just ask your daughter and you will know the situation clearly."

Mr. Jin was like a guiding light at this time and gave his instructions.

Toosaka Tokiomi: “…”

Then he walked up to the girl, stood at the entrance a short distance away, and asked, "Ying, can you tell Dad what happened? Someone from the Matou family came to see you yesterday and said that you were kidnapped."

"No one kidnapped me. I was rescued. After arriving at the Matou family, I was thrown into a basement full of bugs by my 'grandfather'.

Those bugs were crawling on my body and it was so painful.

It was Broly who suddenly appeared and saved me from the pile of bugs."

Young Sakura plucked up the courage to tell her father about her experiences in the Matou family.

Toosaka Tokiomi frowned upon hearing this.

The Matou family did have the magic to manipulate insect familiars, but he could not understand why his little daughter, who was adopted as the heir to the magic world, was thrown into a basement full of insects.

"Why did that guy Matou Zouken throw you into a basement full of bugs?"

he asks.

"Grandpa said he wanted to transform my magic attributes."

Young Sakura answered honestly.

[Magic attribute, but isn't the magic attribute of the Matou family water? Could it be...?]

Tōsaka Tokiomi had some guesses, but he didn't express them out loud.

"Then they are?"

He turned and asked about the two people next to him.

“This is Broly, the one who saved me from the Bug House.

This is Sister Fujimura, who took us in last night when we were homeless."

Young Sakura introduced.

Toosaka Tokiomi: “…”

Homeless, what a homeless person.

It was so ironic to hear these words coming from the little daughter's mouth.

“There may be some misunderstandings here.”

Taking a deep breath, Tōsaka Tokiomi broke the stalemate at the door and spoke.

Fujimura Taiga was still thinking about bugs and magicians, and when he heard Toosaka Tokiomi's misunderstanding, he immediately exploded.

"There's no misunderstanding. Look, she doesn't even dare to step into her own house. That tells you what an irresponsible father you are!"

Toosaka Tokiomi was scolded again, but since the girl in front of him was an ordinary person and had taken in his little daughter, as an elegant gentleman he could not get angry. He could only patiently explain that his daughter was adopted into another family as a foster daughter.

Of course, Toosaka Tokiomi did not mention the inheritance of the magic way, he simply said that the Toosaka family and the Matou family were old friends.

In his mind, he had already regarded the incident of his little daughter being abducted by the Heroic Spirit as a situation where his daughter could not withstand the transformation of her magical attributes and then ran away from the Matou family, with her helper being the boy named Broly next to her.

"Then why don't you let her go back to her real home?"

Broly asked.

"There's no such thing as not letting you go home. It's just that this involves the inheritance of the family business. After the adoption is completed, we will make a clear division. This is inevitable. When Sakura grows up, if she wants to come back here, there will be no problem."

[Ah, is this how wealthy families deal with adopted children? ! ]

Fujimura Taikawa sighed inwardly. From what he had just heard, this Tiger of the East Wood had already imagined in his mind some of the drama about the two wealthy families adopting children.

However, Broly did not have such a rich imagination as her, and Toosaka Tokiomi's words only made him feel confused.

He shook his head and asked the man at the entrance: "So, can she go home now?"

"Of course."

Tōsaka Tokiomi nodded and said.

Young Sakura's eyes lit up, but she was still a little hesitant.

"The previous separation and estrangement were under normal adoption circumstances, but this situation is no longer normal. So, Ying, you are still my child."

The elegant gentleman opened his arms to his little daughter.

"Oh Dosan~"

Young Sakura couldn't help it, so she ran into the house and threw herself into her father's arms.

"Woooooooo..."

She couldn't help crying, but her father's arms were still so broad.

I think if my father knew what happened to me in the Matou family, he would definitely come to take me home.

That bad grandfather must have deceived her father and didn't let him know what actually happened to her in the Matou family.

That's why her father didn't come.

Young Sakura found an excuse for why her father didn't come to save her.

With the excuse, she quickly forgave the man who was her father, and continued to regard him as an important person she depended on, gradually gaining a feeling of peace of mind from him.

[Matou Sakura's happiness value is continuing to rise. ]

"Although I have figured out that this is a misunderstanding, I still want to say that you are still an irresponsible and bad father for giving your daughter away to someone who abused her without even knowing the situation of the adoptive family!"

Fujimura Taiga was still ranting, and Tōsaka Tokiomi had no way to refute this, so he could only say, "It was indeed my negligence, but I am grateful to both of you for helping my daughter."

After thinking for a while, Tōsaka Tokiomi took out two high-quality gems from his pocket.

"My Tosaka family is in the jewelry business."

As he said this, he handed the gem in his hand to the boy and girl in front of him.

"These two gems are not precious. Please accept this thank you gift."

Fujimura Taiga wanted to curse a few words, but the man in front of him gave him too much.

Broly just took a look and lost interest in the blue stone after realizing it was a stone and not food.

[Shiny gems are common props for increasing the happiness value of the opposite sex. They are mainly used as gifts. ]

However, the reminder of the Crystal Palace that appeared in his mind made Broly change his attitude towards gems.

"For you."

He took the sapphire from Tōsaka Tokiomi's hand without any hesitation, then turned around and stuffed it into the hands of the young Sakura next to him.

"Eh!?"

Young Sakura was stunned when a sapphire was stuffed into her mouth, and subconsciously looked up at her father beside her.

"What does it mean?"

Toosaka Tokiomi was a little surprised and asked with a slightly frown.

"I gave her a stone, do you have any objection?"

Broly asked bluntly, causing Tōsaka Tokiomi to choke.

(End of this chapter)