Chapter 121

Arrival in this world was in the afternoon, but by this time it was already dusk.

"Come in."

The one who took in Broly and Aqua was a female adventurer named Marian.

On the road, according to what she said, she once also had a younger brother, and adventured together with him.

Only, when exploring a certain dungeon, they encountered an ambush by undead monsters.

Her younger brother chose to act as rear guard to strive for a chance for her to survive, and since then had never appeared again.

Although afterward Marian brought more adventurers to rescue him, they did not find her younger brother's corpse, but in this world, going missing during dungeon exploration basically equals the person being gone.

"Hey, Broly, have you noticed she keeps giving me sidelong glances from time to time?"

Aqua was not warned in the least by Marian's hinting gaze, leaned close to Broly's ear, and started whispering.

However, this whisper was not a whisper at all, because Aqua's speaking voice was still quite loud, and this was not a noisy street but a quiet house they had already entered, so the sound could be completely heard by Marian in front who was leading them to the temporary rooms.

"This is my younger brother's room. I hope the person living inside is either a good kid like my younger brother, or a guy who can cherish his own younger brother. Miss Aqua, what do you say?"

After opening a spacious bedroom door, Marian turned around and asked the Water Goddess behind her with a somewhat grit-teeth tone.

"I feel what you say is right, Miss Marian, but I feel your smiling face seems a bit terrifying..."

Aqua shrank her neck hiding behind the boy; this Goddess-sama did not understand why she would be treated with such an attitude, yet unexpectedly could see through that the female adventurer named Marian before her held an unkind attitude toward herself.

"Is there? That must be your illusion then. Alright, Broly, please come in quickly. The wardrobe has my younger brother's clothes, but the upper ones are a bit large; you can take the lower ones, those are what my younger brother wore in childhood."

Marian looked at Broly, directly switching to another attitude, speaking with an incomparably gentle tone.

Honestly speaking, just from appearance, Broly and her younger brother do not resemble each other at all.

But if arguing the vigor of caring for an older sister, Broly is extremely similar to her younger brother.

This is also the reason she was still willing to actively offer to take in the other party to rest after seeing Broly's terrifying appetite.

Of course, ordinary three meals a day she can supply, but providing food like the terrifying amount of food the other party displayed at the Adventurer's Guild.

She, who only has a bit of small money and is just preparing to retire from the adventurer industry, cannot afford to supply it, so she gave advance notice.

"Thank you, Sister Marian."

Broly sincerely gave thanks again.

"The toilet is over there. If you need to, you can go take a bath."

After handing the room key to Broly, Marian pointed out the location of the bathroom in the house.

And her other reason for not giving Aqua a good face lay in Aqua's clothes.

One look and you can tell they are of very good quality.

And the clothes on Broly are like they were woven from plant thorns.

Try to ask: two people traveling together, one big one small, the big one dressed well, the small one dressed poorly, the big one clearly looks like the one managing the money, while the small one clearly looks like the one being managed, then the small one dressing poorly, whose reason is it ultimately?

The answer is self-evident; Aqua took the blame once again.

"Domo domo (embarrassed), I also want to take a bath. Can you also lend me some change of clothes?"

Aqua asked with a smile.

"Tsk~"

But what greeted this Water Goddess was Miss Marian's impatient expression, and the sound of smacking lips.

However, perhaps because Broly was still there, Marian still used a slightly coarse voice, speaking like dismissing a beggar: "Wait here, I'll go find some unwanted rags to give you."

Finished speaking, she left.

【0～0。】

Aqua looked aggrieved, and after the person left, cried sniffing while hugging Broly beside her: "Wuwuwu, Broly, why is only I being treated with such obvious differential treatment?"

But Aqua asking Broly this question, Broly also did not know how to answer.

He could clearly feel Marian's goodwill toward himself, yet did not understand her reason for disliking Aqua.

"Aqua, don't cry. After I earn money in this world, I'll buy you new clothes to wear."

Broly could only stroke Aqua's soft blue wool head, comforting her like this.

"Broly, this kid of yours is really good!"

Aqua was moved; Happiness Value rose clatteringly.

"Huh?!"

Even Broly was a bit surprised watching, only feeling this Goddess-sama is really something.

First day's Happiness Value, and it can break a hundred.

However, what's more absurd is, her Happiness Value can rise and also fall. Upon discovering she herself was too useless, actually producing the thought of wanting to rely on a child to earn money to buy new clothes, Aqua entered a somewhat depressed state.

"Are you okay?"

Broly, holding the prepared change of clothes, asked her.

"Broly, do you think I'm reliable?"

Broly: "......"

【How do you want me to answer?】

"Should be reliable, right."

Broly looked at Aqua, with only seventy points of Happiness Value remaining, and answered.

"Then I should be very worthy of your trust, right?"

Aqua asked again.

"That's a must."

Broly saw her Happiness Value rising and said.

"Good, your future healthy growing-up life, I Aqua-sama will arrange for you."

Aqua is easy to coax; she perked up directly, pointing at Broly's nose and saying.

"Okay."

Broly looked at Aqua's happiness value, which had returned to just over one hundred points like a roller coaster, and indicated he had no objections whatsoever.

"Then good, let's go take a bath now, I'm going to wash you clean!"

Aqua was full of fighting spirit.

"Eh?!"

Broly originally wanted to refuse, but then suddenly thought that the other party was the wife he wanted to invite into the Crystal Palace, so he didn't refuse after all.

"Hey, Broly, why do you have a tail?"

A familiar-sounding question came out of Aqua's mouth.

"I said I'm a Saiyan, and it's perfectly normal for Saiyans to have tails."

But unlike Fujimura Taiga's reaction back then, Aqua didn't care about this kind of detail at all.

"Forget it, never mind that, Broly, hurry up and lie down on this stool."

In the bathroom, Aqua patted a wooden stool and said.

Broly was very obedient and lay down on it.

"Watch my Water Goddess Scrubbing First Form, Water Creation, Water Flow Impact!"

Just heard Aqua behind him shout like that.

"Gurgle gurgle......"

In the water flow, Broly let out a continuous string of bubble-blowing sounds.

"Watch my Scrubbing Second Form, Cleanliness Stain Amplifier, I spray~"

Holding the body wash shampoo that some reincarnator or other brought to this world, Aqua aimed from the side and pressed down seven or eight times in a row, pop pop pop, a continuous stream of viscous transparent body wash fell onto Broly's body and tail.

"Watch my Third Form......"

A soaking wet towel was thrown onto Broly's waist with a slap, and Aqua, whose underwear was also somewhat wet, appeared at Broly's side.

Leaning in close, her eyes like a Northeastern scrubbing master seeing someone covered in years of grime, she grinned a wickedly charming smile.

"Watch my Filth Peeling Technique!"

Roli up her sleeves, she grabbed the towel and started acting as a scrubbing master.

"What's wrong?"

Marian heard strange noises and intruded, only to see a scene like a vicious older sister subjecting her younger brother to cruel back-scrubbing torture.

"I'm giving him a scrub!"

Aqua answered without even lifting her head.

"Mhm, Aqua is giving me a scrub."

If Broly, lying prone on the wooden stool with his whole body covered in foam, hadn't added this line, the Fighter-class Marian who barged in would probably have moved to clean up the Great Water Goddess-sama who was acting as a scrubbing master.

(Chapter End)