Chapter 125

The Giant Frog's trait is immunity to blunt strikes, but this ability also has a limit; facing Broly's incoming fist, even though Broly's fist was deflected by the slippery mucus and most of the force was dissipated, the remaining small portion of force was not something a single Big Frog could withstand.

"Bang—"

The Giant Frog was blown away, and upon landing it directly flipped onto its back and died.

Broly jumped over, pried open the Giant Frog's mouth, and pulled out Aqua, who had been swallowed, from inside.

The skirt had no anti-gravity effect; a flash of Holy Light suddenly appeared from within the falling skirt.

And through the Giant Frog's body, Aqua was likewise struck dizzy by the fist force.

By the time she recovered, feeling the sticky sensation on her body, a fishy stench of mucus drilling straight into her nose, this Goddess-sama nearly broke down.

She hugged the boy beside her, but burst into tearful complaints: "Wah, Broly, I-I'm not clean anymore, I've been defiled by a frog!"

Broly was originally clean and dry, but now, hugged by Aqua like this, he also became sticky and gooey.

He was somewhat helpless at this Goddess Master's behavior, and could only comfort her: "Don't cry, don't cry, Aqua Master, I've already helped you solve that Giant Frog."

As Broly said this, he patted Aqua's sticky back and pointed at the Giant Frog's corpse beside them; worth mentioning, the pink Giant Frog was female.

"Is that so?"

Aqua sniffled, saw the Giant Frog corpse beside her, and was more or less comforted.

"Just now was just a mistake—oh no, it should be said I intentionally made an erroneous demonstration; Broly, you must not be like me, rushing in to feed the enemy before figuring out the monster's traits!"

Five minutes later, Aqua, who had showered with Water Creation Magic, recovered her spirits; she explained the extremely embarrassing mistake from just now, summoned her Goddess Staff, and prepared to make a new correct demonstration.

"Broly, watch closely this time; I will demonstrate the correct way to deal with a Giant Frog!"

Aqua held her staff and charged at a new Giant Frog again, but a staff is also a blunt weapon.

So, unsurprisingly, Aqua was swallowed again; this time, the one that swallowed her was a green Giant Frog.

"According to the records in Bathing Master Marianne's Handbook, Giant Frogs of this color are mostly male Giant Frogs……"

Broly, who had rescued Aqua again, recited the Handbook's content and gave his own Goddess Master a popular-science explanation.

"In other words, this time I was really defiled by the sticky body fluids of a male creature?!"

The light in Aqua's eyes vanished.

"I won't dislike you."

The mental voice Broly spoke dealt her a Critical Hit.

"Broly, Broly, Giant Frogs are so terrifying, let's go back to Town, okay? Let's switch to a different Subjugation Quest?"

Aqua no longer wanted to Subjugate any Giant Frogs; her body had already been beaten tattered by the Giant Frog creature.

"The Guild receptionist onee-san said, if you can't complete an accepted Quest, you have to pay a Penalty Fee."

The Adventurer's Guild's Penalty Fee system is meant to prevent Adventurers from randomly accepting commissions beyond their capabilities, leading to situations where some Subjugation Quests are accepted by incapable Adventurers who can't complete them, while capable Adventurers also can't complete them because the commission was already taken.

The commission Aqua accepted this morning was to Subjugate five Giant Frogs within three days, reward 25,000 Eris, Penalty Fee one-tenth, that is 2,500 Eris; this sum isn't much, but they can't bear it because they're currently living under someone else's roof and don't have a single penny on them.

"Then I'll go act as Bait again; Broly, you just continue like before and solve the Giant Frog that swallows me."

Aqua stood up; although she no longer wanted to be swallowed by a Giant Frog, forced by livelihood, she had to make some sacrifices.

"No need, Aqua Master; this Big Frog's strength isn't much, I can solve it alone."

As Broly spoke, he ran toward a Giant Frog wandering over not far away; with just one punch, he blew that Giant Frog away; upon landing, the Big Frog flipped onto its back and died.

Aqua: "???"

Hmph, she throws a punch and the Giant Frog is fine, she gets swallowed.

But Broly throws a punch and the Giant Frog flies, falls, and is successfully Subjugated.

What an era, even monsters come to act her out, this Goddess?! Aqua's mindset nearly collapsed; with tears in her eyes she watched Broly on the Plain, solving a blunt-immune Giant Frog with one punch each.

Croak-croak-croak sounds were incessant on the Plain; those were the death cries Giant Frogs let out after receiving a direct Painful hit.

"Total is 148 Giant Frogs, hiss……"

When they returned in the Evening, the receptionist lady in the Adventurer's Guild was somewhat shocked by the battle record on the Adventurer Card.

And even more shocked than her were the Adventurers who personally witnessed the scene of Broly, a mere child, transporting a mountain of piled Giant Frog corpses back into Town.

Prey piled like a mountain, originally thought to be just an exaggerated parable, turns out someone actually plays it for real.

"148 Giant Frogs, calculated at just the daily Subjugation price, that's 740,000 Eris……"

"So to speak, she eats a lot, but she works a lot too!"

"No, that's just a child; it must be that High Priest's merit."

The Adventurers' exclamations came continuously, letting Aqua's originally low mood gradually improve.

"No way~"

Aqua became somewhat embarrassed; because Broly's method of Subjugating Giant Frogs was too relaxed, she hadn't even given him a Blessing.

"That's right, this is all my Master's merit!"

But before Aqua could explain anything, Broly generously acknowledged before the surrounding people the deduction that the main merit for Subjugating so many Giant Frogs was Aqua's.

"If not for my Master's careful instruction on the front-and-back methods of Subjugating Giant Frogs, I also couldn't have easily solved so many Giant Frogs."

Broly was lying; Aqua's instruction was useless, but it didn't hinder him saying this, because Aqua's Happiness Value was rapidly rising amid the surrounding people's exclamations and praise.

Broly doesn't care for empty fame; if it can make Aqua happy, he is willing to yield all the merit for Subjugating Giant Frogs.

"Eh, not onee-san, but Master?"

"You don't know? Actually……"

Marian's party had already completed their Quest and returned a Step Ahead; upon hearing surrounding Adventurers discussing the vicious onee-san, a teammate who knew the "truth" through Marian immediately told other Adventurers the latest intel: the boy's parents were dead, adopted by a beautiful girl Master.

"So it's like that; that explains it; a Disciple serving his Master is perfectly normal!"

"Wait, who said yesterday that the stepmother-born vicious onee-san was enslaving her little brother?"

In the Corner, a short-statured Adventurer shrank his neck; yesterday Evening he only said it in passing, who knew everyone would take that vicious onee-san story as true; rumors often originate from this.

And this adventurer now didn't dare step forward at all, to admit he was the first one to fabricate the story, but the others at this time also realized, this might be others' daydreamed nonsense, and one after another they shifted the topic.

"As expected of High Priest Miss..."

During an avalanche, not a single snowflake is innocent, but these people still want, when they have their own needs, to be able to invite this powerful High Priest Miss's help.

Aqua, amid Broly and a group of adventurers' flattery, gradually became the great hero of the Giant Frog subjugation.

"Every year during the Giant Frogs' breeding season, farms near the Town always have some personnel and livestock go missing, but because of Aqua Miss and Broly Mister's active performance, I believe this year the quantity of Giant Frogs invading farms will be greatly reduced, the people inside the farms should also be much safer, I on behalf of the Axel Adventurers Guild thank you two, this is the fully calculated total reward given to you two!"

The receptionist Miss took out a large bag, one look and it was clearly the appearance of being filled with coins.

"Eh, seventy-four hundred thousand Eris is this much?"

Surrounding adventurers felt strange.

"Here is one million Eris, among which two hundred sixty thousand Eris, is the Guild's subsidy for you two single-handedly subjugating this many Giant Frogs."

Luna explained, according to past large-scale Giant Frog subjugation subsidies, this actually counts as giving less.

(Chapter End)