Chapter 244

Who can foresee the future?

Had they known there was a Divine Doctor like Broly who can even cure Black Ash Erosion, who would have gone and chopped off their own hands, dug out their own eyes?

Rick comforted the somewhat self-blaming Shuvi with a word, then once again thanked Broly from the bottom of his heart, and then knelt down: "Please, my other companions have also suffered Black Ash Erosion, please help treat them as well."

The moment the Ghost Plan execution began, Rick and the others had already put life and death aside; relying on the method of self-mutilation using Elf Corpse Black Ash to erode their own bodies, they made it so Other Races could not easily probe their Human identity, thereby achieving the effect of hiding their identity.

And those eroded by Black Ash, even with the Purification Liquid provided by Shuvi, their lives would enter a Countdown; this process is accompanied by Pain, and various body organs would gradually wither into exhaustion.

The people participating in the Ghost Plan, under the Covenant which does not allow sacrifices to appear, uniquely excluded only themselves — just such a group of Stupid fools; now that they see hope, Rick does not want such a group of Stupid fools to die.

"Will those people give me good food to eat?"

Broly asked.

"They will, definitely will."

Rick froze for a moment, then hurriedly answered.

"Fine, I can help treat them; where are the people?"

Jibril was left behind; although given the personality of the God behind her, she most likely would not make a move against weak Humans, but better safe than sorry.

Uncertain of the War God's attitude, and whether they could be probed through Jibril, Rick brought only Broly alone to the newest Human Stronghold.

Those who had executed the Ghost Plan were transported over; every person had thick Bandages bound on their bodies, and their bodies were more or less all Defective in parts.

"We severed the parts of their bodies where Black Ash Erosion was most severe and had already necrotized, but the Black Ash Erosion has already entered the Body Internal; doing this can only let them live a little longer, but living like this is very Painful; some have chosen to leave this World."

Rick introduced the injured's situation, yet his mood grew increasingly low.

"At this point why still say this; we are all Stupid fools, all Stupid fools who want to live to the End; but you, Rick, how did you suddenly come back, what about the Plan?"

"Don't Worry, the Ghost Plan is still executing."

"That's good."

"However, Rick, if the Plan cannot succeed, you and Shuvi must evacuate in time."

"Right, one Failure doesn't mean anything; we're all Used To it; but if you also die, how can Corone support the village alone?"

The Defective injured, smiling, said to Rick.

Clearly they were gambling the lives of many Legacy Bearers — oh no, now they should be called Covenant Will Bearers — yet this group of people did not give Rick too much pressure.

Everyone dies eventually; even if this time is still a Failure result, it is also the closest Humanity has come to achieving Victory (Peace).

"No one will blame you, Rick; everything you did was for the settlement's survival."

The Covenant Will Bearers' words left Rick not knowing what Expression to show.

"Are you going to treat them or not?"

Broly urged from the Side; this Transient Stay Duration was too short, leaving him with little Patience.

"Treat, of course treat."

Rick hurriedly nodded, then introduced Broly's Identity to his companions.

"This is the Doctor who can treat Black Ash Erosion..."

Before he finished speaking, Broly threw Life Energy at the crowd; those hit twitched.

When Corone Dola rushed over to This Side, what she saw was a group of Epilepsy patients having seizures.

"Rick, what exactly is going on?"

"Sister, this is treating the Black Ash Erosion disease on their bodies."

Rick explained one sentence to the Red Hair girl who had followed over.

"Eh, I'm cured?!"

Not long after, Corone Dola witnessed a medical miracle; the originally seizing injured patients stood up one by one, letting out exclamations from their mouths.

And when Corone learned that Rick was also cured this way, she became somewhat Excited and came to Broly's side, took the boy's hand and thanked him: "Truly thank you so much, Broli-sama; thank you for saving Rick, for saving so many people Here."

"Then how should you repay me?"

Broly asked bluntly.

"As long as it's something I can do, no matter what repayment you want, I Agree."

Corone answered without hesitation.

"Then, in four days' time, devote yourself to me."

"Okay, eh?"

The wine-red haired woman agreed, then Reacted and froze somewhat, Worried she might have misheard, and asked: "What Your Excellency said is, you want me to devote myself?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

Broly was even more Nervous than Cronier, Worried this third Crystal Palace Recognized wife to pop up might still have some dog-shit marriage partner on her.

【Corone Dola, current Happiness Value 27】

"No, this..."

Corone's brain was somewhat Chaotic; she was thanking someone for saving her Family and younger brother, how did it suddenly become that the benefactor who saved her Family and younger brother requires her to devote herself?

Rick was also somewhat Dazed; this is proposing to Shuvi but failing, so the other party prepares to become his brother-in-law? However, this doesn't seem impossible either; even if his Ghost Plan fails, letting Sister marry this Saiyan, having a Combat Power capable of defeating the Flügel to assist Sister, their Clan would definitely fare a bit better.

"Do you have a marriage partner already?"

Broly asked.

"No."

Corone hurriedly waved her hands.

"Then do you have someone you like?"

Corone looked at Rick.

"Rather than saying it's a person I like, it's more like the concern for my younger brother's safety."

Corone said; she and Rick are not blood siblings, yet they are closer than blood siblings.

"So the repayment you mentioned was actually a lie?"

Broly asked again.

"Absolutely not."

"Then, can you promise to become my wife in four days?"

Broly asked his final question.

The Covenant Will Bearers were all a bit stunned, and the human small girls who followed in behind them also froze.

But soon, someone said: "Agree to him, Miss Corone."

"Yeah, as long as you agree to him, our settlement won't lack a doctor anymore, and one who can treat Black Ash Erosion at that."

"Is Big Sister Corone getting married? But who is this person? Is he a survivor Rick brought back from outside?"

Various voices came one after another, basically none with any malice; they were just concerned about what answer Corone, the settlement's leader, would give.

"Broly, if my sister doesn't agree to you, what will you do?"

Detecting the situation was not good, Rick interrupted everyone's words and asked the boy.

"If she doesn't agree, then she's deceiving me, and I hate being deceived, so you'll have to produce double the original reward in food as compensation."

"Ah, just double the food?"

"Not double the food — do you want me to say I'll destroy this settlement instead?"

Rick's mouth corner twitched; he hurriedly waved his hands: "Absolutely not, I just think double isn't enough, it should be double plus a bit more to be enough."

Rick stepped back, shielding Corone in front of him, and said quietly to this sister who had raised him since childhood: "Big Sister Dora, if you don't have someone you fancy, I think you can agree; Broli-sama is very powerful — even the Flügel are no match for him……"

Rick didn't say too much, but as the human settlement's current leader, Corone understood, and believed this might be a precaution Rick prepared for the settlement in case his own plan failed (though it was a misunderstanding).

Corone looked at the boy who closely resembled a human but absolutely shouldn't be one, and nodded: "To repay your kindness, I am willing to become your wife."

【Corone Dola, willing to join Crystal Palace, agree?】

Broly selected 【No】, then raised his hand: "Not become my wife now, but become my wife in four days; as for these four days, I will work hard to do some things that make you feel happiness."

"Ah, this……"

Hearing this, Corone Dola's face flushed red; although there were some things she had not yet done, not having done them didn't mean she didn't understand.

"Then I will wash my body clean and wait in the room for you to come make me feel happiness."

Corone said this.

"Good."

Broly nodded, but before that, he had to bring Jibril over here. Happy things should be done together with everyone.

Rick opposed this, but couldn't bring himself to directly refuse.

After thinking, he proposed letting his own Big Sister Dora leave together with the boy.

As for the settlement here, he had the most prestigious Covenant Will Bearer temporarily take lead.

And at this time, the time remaining until the Ex-Machina finished preparations and directly detonated the frontline battlefield was only ten hours.

Shuvi held Rick, Broly held Corone, and they returned to the frontline cave.

"Then, we'll head out first; this place is temporarily left to you."

Watching the Saiyan boy put his sister down and call Jibril over, looking ready to directly do some happy things, Rick took Shuvi's hand and prepared to leave the cave.

"Eh, you're not staying to do it together?"

Broly asked curiously.

【Nani, can this be done together?】

Rick's expression nearly cracked; he hurriedly waved his hands: "Happy things are best done with the one you love; Shuvi and I are outsiders, so we won't join."

Rick finished speaking and directly pulled Shuvi's hand and ran off, leaving only Broly, Jibril, and a somewhat uneasy Corone Dola in the cave.

"Why did you bring a weakling here?"

Jibril asked curiously.

"She's also someone who'll become my wife in four days; I brought her to do some things together with you that will make you both feel happiness."

Broly answered honestly.

"Do happy things — bringing her along, is that not too good? This child is still so small……"

Corone herself was prepared, but looking at the Flügel girl who looked even smaller than Nona, she couldn't help asking.

Corone's words made Jibril and Broly both look over at once; meeting their gazes, Corone fell silent instantly, suddenly remembering the fact that neither of the two before her were human.

Perhaps they only looked young on the surface, but in reality were old monsters of other races who had lived who knows how many times longer than her.

"Your gaze resembles Azriel's — you're definitely a pervert too."

Jibril frowned; in her young-girl form she looked harmless, and Corone had already sneaked glances at her many times, reminding Jibril of that Flügel big sister in Avant Heim who always liked to cling to her.

"Doing things that feel happiness — does it depend on size?"

Broly was a bit confused.

"It doesn't depend on size?"

Corone retorted.

"Anyway I don't care about size."

Broly answered.

Corone: "……"

"By the way, what are these things that can make us feel happiness?"

Jibril asked.

"That's obviously dreaming — are you two ready? I'm going to make you dream together with me."

Broly placed his hands on the two of them, and without waiting for an answer, pulled Jibril's and Corone's consciousness into his Dream World.

A gentle breeze blew across the grassland, white clouds drifted in the blue sky, and Corone, who had appeared here, watched this scene with wide eyes; Jibril was likewise filled with curiosity.

"Where is this?"

She asked.

"My Dream World."

Broly answered.

"In this world, one can basically achieve whatever one desires; I'll grant you all partial permission to manipulate the dream, you can imagine whatever you want."

Broly continued speaking.

"Then, I want your head."

Jibril immediately said.

"No problem."

Broly agreed, and without hesitation took his own head off his neck and handed it to Jibril.

"Ah!"

Corone cried out in alarm.

"Don't worry, this is just a dream; even if the head is taken off, you won't die."

The head in Jibril's arms was still saying this, while over there the boy who had removed his head already had a new head emerge from his neck.

In the KonoSuba World, the level of the Dream Manipulation Skill Broly learned from the Succubus was second only to the level of the Absorption Touch Skill he learned from Wiz.

And in the dream, everything exists.

Just as Jibril figured out the situation of the Dream World and engaged in fierce battle with the Energy Scythe against Broly's copied consciousness body in the dream, another part of Broly's consciousness brought Corone to a grassland isolated from the battle.

He didn't know what Corone wanted, so he condensed some delicious foods he had eaten before and shared them with her.

Of course, because it was a dream, no matter how much one ate here one couldn't fill one's stomach; it was merely tasting the false flavors from Broly's memories.

"How is it, is the cake and ice cream delicious?"

Broly asked, but he himself didn't eat, because as the master of the dream he couldn't be deceived by the remembered flavors; the more he ate the delicacies here the more he would crave, and in a situation where he couldn't eat in the outside world, this was an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

"Mhm."

Corone ate until she became a flower cat; hearing Broly's question she nodded repeatedly, the delicious foods she had never eaten before moved her to the point where tears nearly flowed out.

"If it's delicious, then eat more."

Broly stuffed another piece of roast dragon meat to Corone, watching her continuously rising Happiness Value, he also began to look forward to those delicious foods that could be exchanged with Happiness Points.

"What a pity, Rick and the others unexpectedly didn't come in together; otherwise they could also eat these delicious foods."

Corone sighed a little; who could have known that the boy's idea of happiness would actually be having them share a beautiful dream.

"Then shall I go bring him in?"

Broly asked.

"Eh, is that possible?"

Corone widened her eyes.

"Of course."

Outside, Broly used one mind for multiple tasks; on one hand maintaining the dream for the two people, on the other hand going outside to search for Rick's whereabouts.

And when he found Rick, for some reason this youth was somewhat panicked, while the mechanical girl was squatting in front of him.

"What do you want with me, eh, Sister Dora and this Flügel, what happened to them?"

"They're currently in my dream; Corone wants you all to come in together."

"A dream?"

"An ability similar to the Vampire Race?"

After Shuvi's explanation, Broly learned that this world also had a species with abilities similar to the Succubus ladies from the previous world.

And after Rick understood the situation, he nodded, indicating willingness to share a dream, and soon also entered the Dream World.

However, Shuvi was a bit difficult; she was an Ex-Machina, and Ex-Machina are innately immune to Mind Control, so she could only look at Broly somewhat innocently.

"By the way, what were you all doing just now?"

Broly was somewhat curious about the situation just now, and couldn't help but ask.

"Rick and I were just preparing to do some adult things, only you suddenly came looking, so we were interrupted."

Shuvi replied.

"Adult things?"

Broly tilted his head, felt he was only ten years old and still a child, so he didn't ask further.

In the dream, looking at the world of blue sky, white clouds, and green grassland, Rick opened his mouth wide.

(Chapter End)