Chapter 210

"How is it? Feeling much better now?"

Youmu climbed up from the ground, tidied her clothes, and then asked.

"Of course, after beating up a group of fair-weather friends, my mood is absolutely wonderful right now!"

Huihui crossed her arms, wearing a displeased expression, and gave a response that said the opposite of what she meant.

"Just kidding~"

The other Crimson Demon girls, who had been hit on the chest or buttocks, started complaining one after another.

For them, the words about wanting to join the Crystal Palace just now were more in the nature of horsing around.

"Hmph, those who dare scheme against me, regardless of whether you were joking or not, will all become my enemies and receive a painful beating from me. Remember this well, my foolish clansmen. I, Huihui, am an insurmountable mountain for you all~"

Huihui spoke these words loudly.

"What do you mean? Weren't you the one schemed by Youmu? This guy has been secretly recording your romance with the otherworldly boy."

"Although I don't know if what she did just now was a joke, I can guarantee that your life from now on will definitely be the focus of her field research!"

"That's right, that's right. Maybe in the future, Youmu will even write a novel titled 'Love Observation Notebook of My Classmate Huihui' with you as the protagonist."

Everyone started denouncing Huihui. Huihui looked toward Youmu. The eyepatch girl pushed up her eyepatch, with absolutely no intention of hiding it.

"Rest assured, Huihui. If I write a romance novel with you as the protagonist in the future, I will definitely incorporate your majestic performance today in full. The title will be 'The Girl Who Fought for Her Beloved.' How about that?"

Huihui: "..."

Youmu's schemes were layered one after another, practically treating her like a monkey. She only felt even more depressed.

"I think that title is pretty good. However, if you want to use me as material for your field research, that also requires me to be willing to cooperate~"

Huihui thought for a bit, got an idea, and said this as she came before the boy: "Broly, I regret it again. I don't want to be your wife anymore. I'm very sorry!"

Broly: "???"

"Ah, how can you be like this?"

Youmu widened her eye not covered by the eyepatch and asked Huihui.

"Why can't I be like this? You want to use me as field research material, so I simply won't let you succeed. What about it?"

"But that's unfair to Broly~"

"Although I'm sorry to him, making you uncomfortable is more important. Hmm, Broly, you'll forgive me, right?"

Although Huihui's words sounded somewhat heartless, when she turned to ask the boy, Broly could see in the girl's eyes a coquettish, pleading look similar to what Aqua Master sometimes reveals.

"The one who is favored always acts with impunity..."

This line floated into Broly's mind, and he spoke it out.

"Uh..."

Huihui's heart instantly leapt to her throat. She discovered she was suddenly a bit afraid the boy before her would call her bluff.

But even if he would call her bluff, it was only natural. After all, her repeated flip-flopping, no matter how you looked at it, looked like she was being deliberately difficult.

【This kind of me, he'll definitely hate, right?】

Thinking this, Huihui's mood inexplicably fell. She suddenly regretted why she had to "regret it" again.

【Should I apologize now and take back these words?】

Huihui hesitated, then heard the boy continue: "But who asked me to be the one partial to you? So, I'll forgive you, Huihui. As long as you're happy, anything goes."

With Aqua, that big willful master, as a precedent, Broly's acceptance level for Huihui's small willfulness was very high.

"Ah, Broly, don't you mind that Huihui won't become your wife in the future?"

"Of course I mind. However, I've already done my best. If in the end she still doesn't want to become my wife, then there's nothing I can do, right?"

The Axis Cult's doctrine says even gods cannot predict whether the future you will be happy. So, you only need to guarantee the current you is happy.

Obviously, giving an answer that raises Huihui's Happiness Value is, for Broly, a happy thing.

Even if the Happiness Value belonging to Huihui ultimately cannot be converted into Happiness Points, the happy mood felt at this moment watching the girl's Happiness Value rise is not fake. That is enough.

This doting, partial attitude made Huihui's mouth open slightly. Her face was a bit red, and she pressed down the brim of the magic hat on her head.

"Huihui, are you moved? Embarrassed?"

Someone asked.

"No way! I'm just too smug! You guys all saw it, right? Excellent me is the one being favored!"

After saying this loudly, Huihui immediately sat back in her seat. She buried her head and wolfed down her rice, not daring to let others see her current expression, because she knew her face was definitely very red right now.

And today's meal was stewed meat. She had only taken two bites when she felt a heat current surging in her body. Huihui hurriedly took out her Adventurer Card to check and discovered she had leveled up.

"What meat is this?"

Only then did Huihui ask.

"It's dragon meat. The day before yesterday, the Axel Adventurer's Guild suddenly posted a quest to subjugate an evil dragon. I thought I hadn't eaten this kind of meat before, so yesterday I took that quest and subjugated an evil dragon that was spraying fire and burning villages everywhere. After that, I brought that dragon back to taste it, found the taste not bad, and brought some today. I asked Fire Shao to help make stewed meat using dragon meat as the ingredient."

"Have to say, Fire Shao's cooking skill is really good. The stewed meat he made is much more delicious than what I made myself yesterday. How do you find it?"

"So, this stuff really is dragon meat?"

Huihui widened her eyes.

"It really is dragon meat. What's wrong?"

Broly looked at Huihui, not understanding what her reaction was about.

Huihui: "..."

She also didn't quite understand Broly's reaction, why it was so flat.

"So, Broly, you've become a Dragon Slayer?"

The Crimson Demon girls looked at the boy with shining eyes and asked.

"What are you all doing? None of you are allowed to set your sights on him!"

"Huihui, didn't you already change your mind?"

"Then I've changed my mind again, again, and again. How about that?"

This noon's lunch was somewhat noisy and boisterous.

Huihui jumped back and forth between 【Will agree to become wife】 and 【Won't agree to become wife】.

The other Red Demon Clan girls, on the other hand, grew even more interested in Broly, who had exposed his Otherworlder and Dragon Slayer identities.

Especially after they each asked for a mouthful of stewed meat to taste, and basically every single one of them leveled up, their interest in the boy surged even more, because this proved the other party was truly out of the ordinary.

It's just a pity that, after taking turns questioning him, the girls discovered the boy's attitude toward them was limited to ordinary friends, and he had absolutely no thoughts on anything further.

"Unless you can be acknowledged by the Crystal Palace, and Happiness Values can appear on you as well, otherwise you cannot become my wife."

The boy said it like that, but when asked in detail how to obtain the Crystal Palace's acknowledgement, he didn't know either, leaving people with no way at all.

"Sigh, thought spring had arrived, but in the end, this is just spring belonging to Huihui and Yunyun."

Someone actually envied them by name, because an out-of-the-ordinary boy really hits the Red Demon Clan's XP; if choosing a partner had a score, Broly, who comes with all sorts of special settings, is an existence that comes with a fifty-point bonus.

"If I were you, Huihui, I wouldn't be jumping back and forth!"

Youyuhui said.

After the noon incident, she suddenly discovered her younger brother seemed a bit less appealing.

This is also right, how can home flowers compare to a wild flower younger brother who suddenly emerged, carrying all sorts of settings.

"Who asked you to mind your own business!"

Don't know if it's because of the dragon meat, but the flush on the tips of Huihui's ears still hasn't faded away until now.

"Otherworlder, powerful Dragon Slayer, Crystal Palace's destined romance..."

Youyuhui looked at the information recorded in her own little notebook and couldn't help but sigh; such interesting writing material actually can't be gathered up close.

No, that's not right either; if she approached from Yunyun's side, she'd definitely be able to intervene and gather material very easily.

However, Yunyun's personality is too go-with-the-flow, without any outstanding personality, while the one who can truly act as a novel's protagonist should be a special, personality-driven guy.

In other words, if she chose Yunyun as her novel's protagonist, she'd probably only be able to write a romance story where you can see the ending from the beginning.

Of course, with good writing, a warm daily-life doting romance story isn't necessarily unable to attract people, but then, as a rookie writer who hasn't created a story yet, Youyuhui feels her writing capability still isn't enough to support her writing that kind of story.

So, a protagonist like Huihui who easily creates story conflict is the best choice for gathering material, it's just that Huihui is currently very uncooperative, which troubles Youyuhui a bit.

【Any good ideas?】

Youyuhui thought of a plan, and this plan was actually thought up by her.

The next day, when Broly came looking for Yunyun again, Youyuhui took the initiative to intercept the boy on the Academy's rooftop.

"Youyuhui, I said, if you want to be my wife there's no chance, but if you want to mooch food off me, as long as I have it, then for the sake of you and Huihui and Yunyun being friends, I'm also willing to give you some tasty things."

As he spoke, Broly took out the dragon meat bento he brought today; yesterday's dragon meat was very popular, today he brought quite a lot again, only it wasn't stewed dragon meat anymore, but dragon meat chopped into minced meat, coated in Mianbaoxie, and deep-fried into pieces of Fried Dragon Meat Patties.

Once the bento was opened, a fragrance of fried meat immediately wafted out, mixed with the fat of another Ushi-type Magic Beast creature.

It's a dragon meat dish meticulously prepared by the Axel Adventurers Guild's top-tier Chef; Aqua Master, Darkness, Wiz all ate it and said it was delicious.

"I'm not looking for you to pester me into becoming your wife; of course, I'm very thankful for the food you gave me, so, to thank you for the delicacy, I've decided to be your Strategy Military Advisor!"

"Hm?"

Youyuhui recommended herself while eating the fried meat patty, saying she's a Red Demon Clan girl, so she understands Huihui, who is also a Red Demon Clan girl, better.

Since she can't intervene from Huihui's side, she'll choose to intervene from the boy's side; wanting to make Huihui become wife and Huihui not wanting to become wife, these two thoughts are the biggest conflict, and conflict can bring story plot.

And she, Youyuhui, will act as the assistant pushing forward this real-life capture plot, to help the boy capture the uncooperative, tsundere, and willful Red Demon Clan girl! (Chapter End)