Chapter 2: Plump and Juicy, Worms Are So Delicious!

The moment the transmigration shift began, the scenery around him turned into lines, streaking backward at extreme speed.

In less than two seconds, it was as if he had entered a pitch-black tunnel, everything around plunged into darkness, but soon the colors returned, still appearing as countless lines.

Just as Broly was getting curious and about to reach out and touch the lines around him, the scenery suddenly froze, and his figure appeared on the stairs of a basement.

Rustling sounds came from behind him, faintly mixed with an almost inaudible sobbing.

"Hmm?"

Broly turned to look, and right below the stairs he stood on, he saw a large swarm of wriggling worms crawling about.

And among this group of plump worms, there was a slightly bulging worm mass, from which the faint sobbing came.

Broly thought for a moment, then jumped into the center of the worm swarm and directly reached out to pull open the mass making the noise.

After the worm swarm was pulled open, a little girl completely naked was revealed underneath, tear tracks on her face, her eyes red and swollen, no one knew how long she had been crying, the whimpering sounds from her mouth stopping and going blank after seeing the light again.

"Are you sleeping in the food pile?"

Broly asked curiously, his gaze fixed on a wriggling worm crawling on the girl's white chest; these worms were white and tender, and though they had some sharp teeth, they looked far tastier than Vampa Spider larvae, making Broly swallow his saliva.

Hearing this, young Matou Sakura didn't know how to answer for a moment; she had been sent to the Matou Family as an adopted daughter half a month ago by her father, and on the day she became an adopted daughter, she was brought here by an old man named Zouken Matou.

"Your magic attribute is None; you need modification to better inherit our Matou Family's Magic Crest."

That was what the withered, vigorous-looking old man said back then, throwing the Tohsaka Family's adopted daughter, whom he had just gotten, into the underground Insect Warehouse.

Completely disregarding the girl's crying and fear, he controlled the Crest Worms in the Insect Warehouse to perform initial modification on her, using the corrosive Magic Power carried by the Crest Worms to corrode the girl's Virtual Attribute Magic Circuits.

And this process was not only horrifying to watch, but for the individual being modified, it was an indescribable torture, with the whole body suffering pain like being pricked by needles.

The girl went from loud crying and struggling to enduring with low sobs in just a few days, always holding in her heart the thought that her family would come to rescue her.

Whether it was her elegant gentleman of a father, or her gentle and virtuous mother, or even her sister who occasionally bullied her.

However, none of those relatives she imagined would come to rescue her appeared; instead, an unfamiliar little boy who looked only slightly older than her appeared before her.

In the desperate environment surrounded by worms, he pulled off the bad worms crawling on her and biting her, squatted down, and looked at her with concerned eyes.

Although she couldn't understand the other's question, one should always say thank you when helped; the etiquette education from the Tohsaka Family had not been forgotten just because she became an adopted daughter of the Matou Family.

Enduring the lingering stinging pain on her body, young Sakura climbed up from the ground, tried hard to open her mouth to say thank you to the boy in front of her, but her throat was hoarse, and she could only make a sound as faint as a mosquito.

Broly couldn't hear clearly what she was saying, but after the girl climbed up and revealed her full appearance, a piece of information surfaced in his mind.

【Matou Sakura, one of your figure wives, a capturable invitation target to become a member of the Crystal Palace.】

"Are you my wife?"

Broly asked this question in a questioning tone.

"Huh?"

And facing this question, young Sakura was somewhat dazed.

But she thought of her mother in the past, who had told her some fairy tale stories when she was young.

After the White Prince rescued the Black Snow Princess, the two united and became husband and wife.

"I am not your wife, but I can become your wife."

Comparing with the fairy tale story, her own situation seemed similar.

After having this thought, young Sakura answered in a small voice.

And this time the voice could barely be heard clearly.

"If I'm your wife, I'm hungry; is there anything to eat?"

Broly reached out his hand to young Sakura.

The Crystal Palace had said that a wife is an existence that gives oneself things to eat.

【And since she has so much food here, she should give me some, right?】

Broly thought so.

Looking at the wriggling worms swarming around again, the eager look in his eyes increased by several points.

Suddenly becoming someone else's wife, and then suddenly being asked for food by her little husband.

This was something young Sakura had never experienced before.

However, she had experience playing house, and she knew what she should do now.

When her husband was hungry, as a wife player, she should serve food to him.

But when she was called into the worm swarm to accept modification, she was always told to take off all her clothes, and now she had nothing on her body.

Facing the boy's hand asking for food, young Sakura was at a loss, and just then, the door of the Insect Warehouse was pushed open, and a hunched figure walked in with a cane.

"Sakura, who is this?"

Zouken Matou looked down from above, looking at the boy who looked like a wandering little beggar added to the Insect Warehouse, and asked his adopted daughter with a furrowed brow.

"Grand, Grandfather..."

Seeing Zouken Matou, young Sakura's body trembled; to her, Zouken Matou was an extremely terrifying person.

"I don't know him; I will obediently accept modification; please don't punish me."

Saying this, the frightened girl lay back down on the cold ground.

【As expected, miracles do not exist; facing Grandfather, this little young man who came to save me will definitely be killed...】

Tears flowed out again uncontrollably, not knowing if they were for the boy about to die beside her, or for herself who would continue to accept Crest Worm modification later.

"I am indeed old; I actually let a child break into the Insect Warehouse before discovering the abnormality, kid, you are really unlucky, but since you have broken in here, please become food for the worms; go, eat him."

Zouken Matou raised his hand to issue an instruction to the worm swarm in the Insect Warehouse, and the Crest Worms that accepted the instruction became aggressive in the next moment.

"But don't hurt Sakura; her body is the Matou Family's precious mother-body placenta for conceiving offspring with better qualifications."

The Crest Worms avoided young Sakura, crawled all over Broly's body, and tore at the boy's flesh with their sharp teeth.

A ripping sound rang out, and his tattered Combat Suit was torn to pieces by the Crest Worms' sharp teeth, making some noise.

"Wuu wuu wuu..."

The girl's sobs grew louder; she could do nothing, and had killed the person who came to save her.

"Your grandfather really is a good person!"

Yet from within the pile of humanoid worms covered by worms came such a sound.

"Slurp~"

Soon after, sounds of eating things followed.

Broly struck left and right, grabbing the worms crawling onto himself, and began to devour them heartily.

The worms' taste was neither bitter nor astringent; they were indeed far tastier than Vampa Spider larvae.

【The shell is crispy, the meat tastes like chicken, and the protein is eight times higher than beef...】

As one worm after another was stuffed into his mouth, such information surfaced in Broly's mind.

A small hand grabbed, and another worm was caught in hand.

Slurp, the tail end of the worm in hand was sucked into his mouth.

Pop, as his teeth bit down, full, plump juices burst in his mouth.

With a casual toss, the sharp-toothed worm head was thrown to the side.

And there, a small pile of tiny worm heads quickly accumulated.

The worm heads without bodies, their sharp-toothed mouths, still opened and closed.

At this time, whether it was the young girl Sakura or Zouken Matou, their heads buzzed.

That Imprint Worm thing—turns out it's edible? But no matter what they thought, the facts lay before their eyes.

The Saiyan diet is still very broad; as long as what they put in their mouths doesn't harm them, they can digest the vast majority of food that enters their stomachs.

Compared to some hard-to-digest food (such as Aliens), the Imprint Worms of the Type-Moon World are obviously good nourishment, possessing sufficient energy (Magic Power) substance.

"Kid, you're not a normal person; just who are you?"

Zouken Matou questioned him, having already discovered that the sharp teeth of his Imprint Worms couldn't bite through the little ghost's skin. "I, um, my name is Broly, I'm a Saiyan."

Since the other had given him so much delicious food, Broly was still very polite and answered Zouken Matou's question.

"Saiyan, what kind of person is that?"

Hearing this, Zouken Matou was somewhat confused, searching his knowledgeable and well-read mind for a while, but found no information about Saiyans.

"Forget it, no matter who you are, since you dare eat my worms, you must be prepared to pay a sufficient price, right?"

"Eh, isn't this something you gave me to eat?"

As another worm burst with juice in his mouth, Broly asked back in surprise.

"How could this be something given to you to eat? Every worm here was carefully cultivated by me, precious Imprint Worms used to change a mage's elemental attributes; a single one costs over 5 million, not to mention the time and effort I've invested..."

The Matou Family's secular finances haven't been good in the past hundred years, and this Insect Warehouse in the basement occupies a significant portion of the Matou Family's wealth, counting as the kind of real estate that is a mage's workshop; look at the number of worm heads left over from being eaten—if they are to be restored, a large sum of funds will definitely have to be invested again.

"So it's not for me to eat."

Broly was somewhat disappointed, but his mouth didn't stop, sucking the worm crawling to his mouth into his mouth.

"It crawled in by itself; it's none of my business."

He defended himself thus, crunching and swallowing the worm in his mouth, looking like he wanted to take the opportunity to eat two more bites of good food.

"Yue~"

Beside him, the girl finally couldn't hold back and began to retch on the ground.

"Are you provoking me?"

Zouken Matou's complexion was very ugly; he waved his hand and summoned some flying Imprint Worms.

"Kill him!"

These worms, looking like enlarged versions of wasps, flapped their buzzing wings and charged at Broly.

【New food has arrived!】

Broly's eyes lit up; he casually grabbed one of the wasps, put it in his mouth, and took a bite.

"Bang~"

Then, the large wasp put into his mouth and bitten open exploded directly in his mouth.

"Stupid goods, this is a Self-Destruct Worm modified by me."

Looking at the smoke and dust blown out, Zouken Matou said with a self-satisfied complexion.

"So it's not edible."

But Broly's somewhat disappointed voice sounded amidst the smoke and dust.

"What, you're actually fine?"

After the smoke and dust from the explosion cleared, apart from the last piece of clothing on Broly being blown up, he didn't have the slightest injury from the explosion.

"Law of smoke without injury, don't you know?"

Broly asked back somewhat strangely.

"Wait, because of the explosion, the wife was frightened, and the Happiness Value is now decreasing; please raise the Happiness Value as soon as possible, Host."

The higher the Happiness Value, the easier the wife is to capture, and after she agrees to the invitation to become a Crystal Palace member, the Happiness Points converted by the Host at once will also be higher...

Broly read out the prompt content from the Crystal Palace in his mind, turned his head, and saw the girl trembling on the ground behind him.

【So, what use is this wife anyway?】

Broly had such a doubt, but his body moved faster than his thoughts; he grabbed the other large wasp-like Imprint Worms and came before Zouken Matou, and before the old man could react, he shoved the worm in his hand into the other's mouth.

"Bang~"

It was the same explosion; Broly was fine, but Zouken Matou had his head blown off.

Without a head, the withered body slid straight down the stairs to the ground.

In the Insect Warehouse, the worms, having lost the person driving them, after sensing the extreme Hunter aura from Broly, quickly shrank to the corner of the basement.

"Inheritance law?"

Broly muttered as new information surfaced in his mind, then floated down to land beside the girl, speaking somewhat clumsily and bluntly to the girl on the ground.

"I killed your grandfather, and now his food is yours. I'm still a bit hungry, can you give me some more food?"

The worms in the Insect Warehouse had been devoured by Broly in no small amount, but compared to a Saiyan's big appetite, these few worms were clearly not enough.

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Young Sakura raised her head and saw her grandfather's headless corpse not far away.

"Ah?"

Rather than fear, her heart actually produced a feeling of pleasant surprise.

"Do you still want to eat those worms?"

She asked.

"Is there a problem?"

Broly tilted his head, not quite understanding the meaning of this question.

"That's not something to eat."

Young Sakura climbed up from the ground again, wiped the tear stains from her face, and said.

Broly: "…"

He felt seriously deceived; the Crystal Palace had clearly said a wife was an existence that would give him things to eat.

As it turned out, this wife didn't give him anything to eat at all, and was not as generous as that grandfather of hers whom he had blown up.

"Can I take you to eat things that are truly edible?"

But soon, Young Sakura's next sentence made Broly's resentment quiet down.

"What are things that are truly edible?"

Broly was very curious; in his short life, worms were the most common food.

"For example, cake, pudding, and such."

Young Sakura thought for a moment, thought of some of the tastiest things she had eaten, and said to Broly.

"Cake? Pudding?"

Broly's mind seemed to have some impression of these two terms, but he couldn't remember what they actually were.

However, his expectation was indeed fully raised.

"Where are they?"

"In the refrigerator, Uncle Yan Ye bought them for me a few days ago."

Young Sakura replied.

Zouken Matou's death made the gloom in her heart dissipate quite a bit.

Even her hoarse voice recovered some vigor.

"What is a refrigerator?"

"A refrigerator is... well, come upstairs with me and you'll see."

Grabbing Broly's hand, Young Sakura pulled the boy up the steps.

She didn't want to stay in this Insect Warehouse basement for another moment.

And after taking Broly out of the basement, Young Sakura went directly toward the kitchen.

"This is the refrigerator."

Arriving at the kitchen, she opened the refrigerator and showed Broly the real thing, while the cold air emerging from the refrigerator scared Broly.

This little Saiyan quickly jumped back some distance, somewhat vigilant toward the thing emitting cold air in front; no information surfaced in his consciousness, but he cast an inquiring gaze toward the girl beside him.

(Chapter End)