Chapter 102: Seems I've Lost Another Meal Ticket

Leone hooked a belt around her waist with one hand while clutching the mantle clock, and held Broly's hand with the other, leading the boy along at a brisk pace.

She only stopped when they reached a deserted alleyway, wearing an expression of great satisfaction: "Hah, that guy definitely won't be able to sleep tonight!"

"Why?"

Broly was somewhat confused.

"I just went back and forth haggling with him, the bargaining was that intense, but on the very last throw-in item I paid the bill directly without haggling — he's sure to think I found a bargain at his stall, and that kind of thought will make him miserable."

Leone explained to Broly with a smile.

"So you bought this thing purely to make him miserable, not because you heard the belt make a sound?"

Broly asked curiously.

"That's right, I just wanted to make that guy miserable. Eh, wait, you can hear the sound too?"

"I can hear it, so what?"

Leone rubbed her ears; she had thought she was hallucinating.

"The sound you heard — it couldn't be a wild beast's low growl, could it?"

"Correctly speaking, it's the low growl of a lion-type Danger Beast. I've eaten plenty of that thing."

Broly recalled the taste of lion-type Danger Beasts and smacked his lips.

"The taste is sweet and pungent, the blood smell is comparatively heavy, and it's not very tasty."

Broly's evaluation: not as good as beef or chunks of cattle-type Danger Beast meat.

"Your food spectrum is quite wide."

Leone spoke, and at her ear she heard a lion's whimper — it seemed to be coming from inside the belt.

"A belt that can make sounds — it wouldn't be something carrying a Curse, would it?"

Leone was somewhat worried.

"An item with self-awareness might be a Teigu. I've heard my companions say that some Teigu autonomously choose their owners."

Since she could hear the sound, Leone might be one of the owners chosen by this belt.

"What is a Teigu? Forget it, do you want this thing?"

Leone asked Broly.

【Can Eat】

Broly looked at the belt, yet this thought surfaced in his mind.

"Doesn't look tasty."

But in the end, Broly shook his head.

"A belt is for wearing, why would it make you think of eating?"

Leone was somewhat speechless. She glanced at the belt in her hand, and felt that because of Broly's words just now, the belt seemed to be meowing at her, looking like it hoped she wouldn't hand it over to the boy beside her.

Clearly it's a belt, yet strangely cute.

Something this cute probably wouldn't harm anyone, right? Thinking like this, Leone put the belt on her waist.

Not to mention, this belt is quite light — wearing it on the waist, you can't feel any burden at all.

"What what, Beast King Transformation?"

Having put on the belt, Leone seemed to hear more sounds. As she spoke out the sounds ringing by her ear, the beret on her head was pushed up, and a pair of beast ears stood extremely perky, trembling and shaking, shaking the beret right off.

"Ah, I've been cursed, turned into a monster!?"

The girl experiencing transformation for the first time was somewhat panicked, and even more so when she saw her hands turn into beast claws.

"This should be an Enhancement-type Teigu, capable of strengthening the holder's physical quality."

Merad had shared quite a bit of Teigu intelligence. Broly compared it with that intelligence and concluded what type of Teigu the belt Leone had put on was.

"No need to worry. Once an Enhancement-type Teigu's use is cancelled, it will stop altering the body."

"Then how do I cancel its use?"

"Don't know."

Broly answered honestly. Merad had only told him Teigu intelligence, but hadn't told him how to use Teigu.

Leone: "......" "Damn, I can't take it off at all!"

She tried to remove the belt at her waist, but the belt stuck fast to her waist and abdomen — absolutely could not be taken off.

If forced off, it seemed the only way would be to tear off the skin of her waist along with it.

"Creak~"

The mantle clock tucked under her arm was crushed to pieces by the girl exerting all her strength while trying to remove the belt.

"Ah, I spent a hundred and eighty on that mantle clock!"

Leone cried out in pain, looking utterly heartbroken at the shattered mantle clock on the ground.

"Don't be sad, I'll cover this loss."

Broly hurriedly comforted her.

Leone's Happiness Value dropped, but then quickly rose back up.

"Oh right, you're the one treating and paying the bill."

Leone stopped being sad at once — only her current cat-eared girl appearance also made her feel quite troubled.

No, not troubled at all. Upon discovering her power had suddenly become astonishing, Leone was like a child who'd gotten a new toy, rapidly testing out her transformed body.

"So amazing!"

With just a single jump she easily leapt onto the roof of the connected building, and this astonishing jumping ability made Leone feel extremely excited — a feeling of suddenly becoming a martial arts master.

Broly watched the yellow ping-pong ball above his head from the alleyway, and an evaluation that perhaps he wasn't qualified to make of others surfaced in his mind: childish brat.

Indeed, for a Saiyan who can jump higher than transformed Leone with just a casual leap, it's truly hard to understand Leone's current excitement.

After jumping for a while, Leone remembered she was still on the job, so she quickly jumped down from the roof, landing on all fours like a feline animal, without making a sound.

"This thing was bought with your money. If Little Boss wants it back, I'll return it to you after I figure out how to take it off, how about that?"

After landing, Leone noticed Broly's gaze on her waist and remembered this. The girl, experiencing the powerful strength after transformation, felt quite conflicted about it, even thinking of running away with the treasure she had scavenged at her waist, but in the end, she just said this.

"No need to return it. This was originally something you chose yourself, and I only helped pay the bill."

To Broly, Teigu were just strange tools. He was preparing to buy a large amount from the Empire, so encountering this Enhancement-type Teigu in the Black Market was naturally no big deal.

At least, compared to Leone's own Happiness Value, it was hardly worth mentioning.

"Eh, you really want to give this thing to me?"

Leone was a little surprised, but then she thought of the scene of the boy firing an energy wave to blast his clothes in the evening, and it seemed normal again.

Seeing the boy nod, Leone thought that accepting such a valuable gift required repaying the other party, so she asked Broly, "Little Boss, is there anything you need me to do for you?"

"How about being My Wife?"

"Except for that."

"Then may I ask, why are you unwilling to be My Wife?"

"Hmm..."

Leone thought for a moment and replied, "One reason is that Little Boss is still too young, and another is that I currently have no thought of devoting myself to another."

"Then how can I make you agree to be My Wife?"

Broly pursued the question.

"When you grow up, and when I have the thought of devoting myself to another."

"Then when will you have the thought of devoting yourself to another?"

Broly asked again.

"I don't know about that. Actually, I'm still unclear about marriage and such, always thinking of doing many things before starting a family."

"What things do you want to do?"

"Probably, repaying those who were still willing to give me a mouthful of food and let me live healthily until now after I lost my parents."

Broly: "..."

He seemed to have lost another Meal Ticket.

(Chapter End)