Chapter 114

Broly's return to Vampa Star was without fanfare; the moment he arrived he saw his father Paragus waiting like a Husband-Waiting Stone — a Child Stone — near the pit where the Vampa Beast dwelled, staring until his eyes ached.

That night, Broly exchanged nearly a thousand points of delicious food and shared it with his father, eating while recounting his journey in the other world.

Hearing that his powerful son had worked as a nanny ferrying children home in the other world, mastered the exquisite acting of throwing matches on the martial arena to earn money, and kindly helped solve water shortages in arid regions, Paragus could barely hold his composure.

"Broly, the things you did — they really don't seem like something a Saiyan would do."

Slurping cold shrimp noodles, Paragus gave his assessment of his son's otherworld journey.

"What part doesn't seem like it?"

"You're too soft-hearted. A normal Saiyan your age would at most not deliberately destroy people or things useless to themselves; actively helping — that's unthinkable."

"But they called me Big Brother and treated me to food; I wanted them to find happiness too — what's wrong with that?"

"Nothing wrong, but if you hadn't meddled with those irrelevant guys and just single-mindedly searched for a wife acknowledged by the Crystal Palace, you might have found more wives."

Paragus had no objection to his son's do-as-he-pleased behavior in the other world; his objection was that his son shouldn't waste precious time on irrelevant people or matters.

Broly: "..."

He felt his father's words were probably right, yet such a ruthlessly pragmatic way of putting it left him with an indescribable feeling.

Broly thought it over with his simple mind — what would happen if he didn't interfere with anyone besides his wife — and quickly arrived at the result: death.

If he hadn't known them at the start, he probably wouldn't have felt anything; but having already made the choice and done the deed, thinking that those little partners acknowledged only by him and not by the Crystal Palace would meet some terrible endings, Broly's mood turned sour.

Watching his father beside him wolfing down food, seemingly thoroughly satisfied by the feast, Broly felt a lump of resentment rise in his chest.

"Are you full?"

Only after Paragus finished eating did he ask.

"Seven-tenths full. Why?"

Paragus rubbed his belly; during the two months his son was transmigrated, he had been gnawing on unpalatable spider legs.

"If you're thinking of exchanging more food for me, forget it. Three hundred thousand Happiness Points may look like a lot, but part of it has to go into Mobile Charging — that alone will cost one hundred thousand."

"And of the remaining Happiness Points, some still have to be spent on the Internal Space Construction Permission unlocked after your Crystal Palace upgrade."

"So, Broly, let's be frugal."

Paragus assumed his son was worried he wasn't full and was about to exchange more food, so he started persuading him.

"No, I'm not trying to get you food. My mood's a bit bad and I want to beat you up. Asking if you're full was to confirm whether you'd vomit the food when I hit you."

"Eh?!"

Paragus's eyes bulged, but no matter how vivid his shocked expression, it couldn't stop his own son's fists from massaging him.

After being beaten black and blue, Paragus finally understood why he was hit — just like when he once harmed the Vampa Beast his son treated as a friend, his words just now amounted to telling people his son had already acknowledged as friends to die.

Though it felt a bit like reversed cause and effect, his son's unreasonableness was very Saiyan-like.

After making the other party feel bad, wanting to hit them back was the most normal thing in the world.

"This force — more restraint than before."

Because it was only superficial injuries, Paragus was a little moved, suddenly thinking Broly's seemingly meaningless actions in the other world had some meaning after all; in the past, angering his son might have gotten him beaten half to death.

And now, Paragus felt the charm of his son who had learned to throw matches!

"I was lacking consideration, Broly. You did well. We Saiyans should be soft-hearted and find joy in helping others."

Rubbing his swollen cheek, Paragus changed his tune and smoothed his son's fur the right way.

Broly calmed down; in the absence of conflict, he was still willing to listen to his father.

Next, in discussing how to use the Happiness Points, Mobile Charging was upgraded without question; with the consumption of one hundred thousand Happiness Points, Mobile Charging's description changed to:

【Every 1/32 light-year of movement charges the Spacetime Energy Slot with one year of Spacetime Energy; current energy collection progress: 0/5.】

Last time, Broly flew for over two years, nearly three; after the Mobile Charging upgrade, roughly only a year and a half of flight would be needed, perhaps even less — after all, his strength was also gradually increasing with age.

Pity that further upgrading Mobile Charging now required a staggering one million Happiness Points. Three hundred forty thousand points dropped to two hundred forty thousand; for the remaining points, Paragus's opinion was to put the majority into creating the internal space unlocked by the Crystal Palace upgrade.

The LV2 Crystal Palace possesses Internal Space Construction Permission, described as a Space of Love; each cubic meter requires ten thousand Happiness Points to create.

The specific function is like gaining an extra Personal Space — Broly's transmigration could only carry some close-worn items on his person.

But only close-worn items — for example, the stone slab and spider eggs from the first transmigration did not follow along because of the transmigration.

With the Crystal Palace's Space of Love it's different; according to the Crystal Palace's prompt, space purchased with Happiness Points allows stored items to be carried along.

In other words, if he goes to another world with such a space, Broly can bring back local specialties equivalent to the space's volume for free.

"Ten thousand Happiness Points can buy quite a lot of food, but with space, every time you transmigrate to another world you can bring back free food."

Paragus considered this a long-term investment; on a godforsaken place like Vampa Star, one had to think long-term.

Broly heeded his father and invested two hundred thousand Happiness Points into opening the Crystal Palace's internal space.

"But will forty thousand points really be enough for us to last a year and a half?"

After spending the mandatory points, Broly asked Paragus.

"Only by using them can we save; otherwise, given our personalities, the Happiness Points meant for long-term use would inevitably turn into food."

Paragus was also reluctant, but he knew his own family; if they didn't spend the investment points now, the father and son might later succumb to food's temptation and exchange the points meant for Personal Space into food and eat them.

The Akame ga Kill World trip yielded a huge harvest; he thought returning would bring food freedom, but on the first day back on Vampa Star, the vast majority of three hundred thousand Happiness Points were spent, and seeing only forty thousand left in the account, Broly felt like he'd overnight returned to pre-liberation.

Of course, compared to returning from the previous world it was far more comfortable, but only to the extent that he and his father Paragus could each have one Katsudon per meal per day — and even that was a bit short; they'd still have to keep eating Vampa Spider legs and eggs.

The next day, after two-plus months, a figure wrapped in energy reappeared in Vampa Star's outer atmosphere, moving at terrifying speed.

To make the next world transmigration before the cheapest normal food supply ran out, Broly went all out.

Ai Calendar Year 741: on Earth, Son Gohan who adopted a Saiyan child was crushed to death by Great Ape Son Goku; on Vampa Star, Broly also accumulated enough Spacetime Energy.

Before departure, Paragus prepared many replacement Vampa Beast Clothes for his son and placed them in the Crystal Palace's internal space.

"About finding a wife, I won't say much — same as always: when you go to the other world, pay attention to your own safety."

"I will."

Already nine years old, Broly compared to when he was seven, besides his body being more robust, seemed to have no other changes.

He was that kind of Saiyan whose body would fix its shape once he grew to a certain stage in childhood, only rapidly growing again when he reached the next growth phase.

"Crystal Palace, activate!"

Without dazzling light, Broly's figure once again disappeared on Nappa Star.

"Huh, are there extra souls that need guiding today?"

In the Afterlife Space, looking at the boy who suddenly appeared on the chair opposite, Aqua, who was gnawing potato chips, was somewhat surprised.

"It's a child, why is there no information on this child, forget it, since the person has already come here, then......"

Taking advantage of the time before the boy opposite had fully arrived here with his consciousness, Aqua hurriedly put the potato chips into the drawer of the bedside cabinet beside her, then switched to a dignified posture.

"Welcome to the World after death, pitiful child who lost your life so young, I am your guide, Water Goddess Aqua."

This was the first sentence spoken by the first person Broly saw after arriving in the New World, she was a beautiful woman with water blue long hair and a dignified appearance.

【Aqua, currently Happiness Value 0】

And the Crystal Palace proved the opposite woman's Forest Elf's Wife Identity.

"Child, you need not be afraid, death is not Terror, what matters is the Path ahead, with great me here, you are Destined to have a bright future!"

(Chapter End)