Chapter 26: Crossing Over Again

With Broly's return, good days also arrived on Nappa Star.

Normal, delicious food made Paragus eat with tears of joy streaming down his face.

"Damn Vampa Spiders, never appear in my food spectrum again!"

Paragus even excitedly threw the spiders he had painstakingly hunted toward the distant horizon.

And happy days passed in a flash; before long, half a month had gone by.

When Broly discovered his Happiness Points had dropped to only twenty thousand, Paragus realized the severity of the situation.

"Broly, how long until you can go to another world to find a wife again?"

Sipping Happy Water in small mouthfuls, Paragus asked.

"According to the Crystal Palace's prompt, naturally waiting for Time-Space Energy collection takes five years."

Broly answered truthfully.

"Five years, isn't there a better way?"

"There is. We can rely on Mobile Charging to accelerate the energy collection process. Every time I traverse a spatial distance of one light-year, Time-Space Energy increases by one year's worth. That's what the Crystal Palace said."

"One light-year?"

Hearing this, Paragus was stunned.

"Can we take a spaceship?"

He asked.

"No, the body must directly contact externally changing space for it to count."

Broly replied.

Paragus was somewhat speechless; they didn't have a spaceship to begin with, otherwise he would definitely be even more disappointed.

"Father, is one light-year very far?"

Broly asked; he could also feel the speed at which Happiness Points were decreasing.

A Saiyan's appetite completely exceeds that of normal humans; even though the points used to exchange for food aren't many, they still can't bear two Saiyans consuming without restraint.

"One light-year is very far. Without a spaceship, relying solely on the body to run that distance, no Saiyan in their entire life can move such a vast distance."

The strongest Saiyan in Paragus's cognition was King Vegeta, but could King Vegeta move a distance of one light-year relying solely on his body?

Obviously, it's completely impossible. Although they are Saiyans, Saiyans are also people; being people, they have limits.

Facing distances measured in light-years, even as Saiyans, they are existences incomparably tiny.

"The Crystal Palace says this function can be upgraded with Happiness Points. Each upgrade halves the distance required for Mobile Charging."

Because of Paragus's words, the Crystal Palace provided an interpretation of the 【Mobile Charging Accelerates Time-Space Energy Charging】 module, and Broly also spoke according to the information surfacing in his mind.

"Eh, it can actually be halved?!"

Paragus was delighted, but then thought the original distance was a light-year, and calmed down.

"Useless. Even halved, it's still an unreachable distance."

"After halving, it can be upgraded again; after upgrading, it can halve again."

Broly continued.

"Ah, it's that kind of halving method?"

Paragus touched his chin and asked: "Then how are the points for upgrading calculated?"

"First time 1 Happiness Point, second time 10, third time 100, fourth time……"

"Increasing by 10 to the power of N-1? Your current Happiness Points can upgrade at most five times, reducing the one light-year distance to one-sixteenth. It sounds less unreachable, but it's still a terrifying distance."

Paragus thought for a moment, then said to his son: "Broly, upgrade this function. If we can never leave Nappa Star in the future, your Crystal Palace is our hope for living a happy life on Nappa Star, and the earlier a function like this is upgraded, the greater the returns."

Broly's math ability wasn't great, but he felt running a shorter distance to accelerate Time-Space Energy collection was definitely the right thing to do, so he followed Paragus's advice and spent half his remaining twenty-odd thousand Happiness Points to upgrade the Crystal Palace's 【Mobile Charging】 function.

【Mobile Charging】: Run, Host. Time flies like an arrow; when your speed is fast enough, you will be able to catch up to time.

【Currently, every movement of one-sixteenth of a light-year can charge the Time-Space Energy Slot with one year's worth of Time-Space Energy. Current energy collection progress is 0/5 (Note: it is not necessary to run a full one-sixteenth light-year distance for settlement; as long as physical movement in space occurs, it can accelerate Time-Space Energy absorption)】

"Tomorrow, I'll go get some Ba blood. You exchange Ba blood and Vampa Spiders for spider eggs."

Paragus suddenly said.

Going from frugality to luxury is easy; going from luxury to frugality is hard. The status quo is exactly that; the father and son had to change their current overly extravagant life of eating normal food in big mouthfuls.

"Of course, from now on, the food you exchange for, you eat yourself."

Paragus added, he was a bit afraid his son would lose his temper.

"Let's still eat together."

However, Broly didn't lose his temper. Halfway through shoveling his Katsudon, he passed the lunch box to Paragus.

"I'm going to charge."

Dropping that line, the boy ran out, gathering Qi and flying toward the distant horizon.

Inside the mountain cave, looking at the half box of Katsudon left by his son, Paragus's heart was somewhat moved.

His mood was somewhat complex. Saiyan familial bonds are actually not reliable; barbaric, selfish, snatching loot — these are common occurrences. Sharing good things, even between relatives, is a rare situation.

Paragus suddenly felt a bit fortunate that his son had been a comparatively thoughtful one since childhood, and hadn't turned into a normal Saiyan child just because he accepted traditional Saiyan education at a younger age.

This traditional Saiyan old father, at this moment, felt what was called familial affection. The fact that he nearly beat his own son to death two years ago didn't seem so terrifying in retrospect.

On Nappa Star, as long as there's no sandstorm, you can see a very beautiful, very clean night sky. Starlight falls unobstructed, wantonly sprinkling across this desolate planet. Broly moved his body with Explosive Ki beneath such a beautiful night scene.

Who knows how long he flew. Gradually feeling fatigue and hunger, he stopped on a mountain peak to rest. Just then, the sky curtain of approaching dawn was streaked by a blue trajectory, carrying a spaceship bearing the Saiyan child named Kakarot, passing by Nappa Star, yet heading for this world's Earth.

In the following days, Broly lived a simple, unadorned daily life: trading spider eggs, eating and drinking his fill, then doing Mobile Charging, returning to the mountain cave to rest only when tired.

The taste of Vampa Spider eggs remained as unpalatable as ever. Occasionally exchanging for normal food and sharing it with his father became the thing Broly looked forward to most.

As for why he didn't eat alone, Broly hadn't thought carefully about this issue; he just felt doing so was right.

Just like when he went to the Type-Moon World and met his wife who was willing to give him food to eat, he was also happy to share food with the people around him.

Time quickly arrived at Year 739 of the Imperial Calendar. At the edge of Nappa Star's atmosphere, a blue-green figure was flying around the entire planet. This figure's speed was extremely terrifying; within a short time, it had circled the planet again and again.

【Time-Space Energy fully charged. Initiate transmigration now?】

As the Crystal Palace, which had been silent for two years, once again displayed a prompt message, the blue-green figure finally stopped.

The seven-year-old Broly was half a head taller than when he was five. A blue-green skirt made of Bay Beast fur hung at his waist, returning him to the appearance of a little wild man.

"Huu huu~"

Panting at the edge of the atmosphere where the air was thin, strands of golden yellow faded from the depths of the boy's pupils.

In these two years, he had crazily made himself faster, breaking through his own speed limit every day.

After suffering for over two years, nearly three years, he had finally filled the Crystal Palace's Time-Space Energy. Looking at his remaining 18 Happiness Points, slowly produced by his wife while in a Happiness State, Broly only felt hot tears welling in his eyes.

Finally, he could set off for another world again, to earn Happiness Points.

However, before leaving, he had to say goodbye to his father.

Broly rapidly decreased his altitude. He had gone up that high in order to make his speed faster.

Soon, at the edge of the pit where Bay Beasts habitually stayed, he found the figure of his father Paragus. And this Saiyan father was using Bay Beast fur to weave clothes for his son.

Life on Nappa Star was harsh, and he was unwilling to let his son spend Happiness Points on anything other than food. So things like clothes had to be made by Paragus using local materials.

In seven years, this Saiyan father had self-taught a skill for weaving fur clothing. Although the woven items were not very durable, they were already considered a not bad local specialty of Nappa Star — handmade fur products.

"Eh, Broly, do you plan to rest a bit today?"

Upon discovering his son's arrival, Paragus asked curiously.

"Not rest, but enough."

Because he had been flying continuously for a long time to mobile charge, Broly had rarely spoken in the past two years.

Now, his pronunciation sounded somewhat unskilled.

"Enough?"

Paragus was first stunned, then overjoyed.

With a forceful tug, the unfinished fur garment was torn apart.

"Clothes."

Broly reminded him, but Paragus waved his hand.

"Who cares about clothes now? Broly, when you transmigrate to that other world this time, you must find wives there, the more wives the better.

But also don't forget to raise their Happiness Values. Any enemies who dare block you from finding wives or raising your wives' Happiness Values, no need to hesitate, just kill them all..."

Heaven knows how long Paragus had waited for this moment, yet during this waiting period, he had continuously pondered the plan for maximizing Happiness Point gains for his son.

"Broly, you must remember. After encountering a wife, don't rush to pull them into the Crystal Palace. You must raise the Happiness Value on the wife you encounter to the extreme, and only at the last moment when the time limit returns, invite them into the Palace."

"Mm."

Listening to his father's instructions, Broly nodded one by one, committing them to memory.

"Of course, if you encounter some unbeatable strong enemy, preserving your own life is most important. At worst, you just come back to Nappa Star and gnaw on spider legs for a few more years."

Transmigrating to another world, who knows what there is. Paragus passed on to Broly the experience he had gained from going to some dangerous unknown planets in the past.

And the core of this experience lies in the Saiyan ability to bend and stretch. If you truly encounter a strong enemy you can't deal with, just run away. This isn't anything shameful.

"Understood."

Broly agreed on the surface, but in his heart he did not want to gnaw on spider legs.

【No matter how strong the enemy, must fight to the bitter end.】

Holding this thought, using his remaining Happiness Points to leave a complete Katsudon for Paragus, Broly only then chose to transmigrate.

At the edge of the Gifnora Sea Tree Forest, Imperial Soldiers drove down a batch of children purchased from Slave Traders from the Slave Transport Vehicle.

After distributing a small knife to each of these children, a man with the appearance of an officer climbed onto a platform stacked from wooden crates and shouted at the yellow-faced, emaciated children below: "Want to eat your fill? Want to live? Both can be achieved right here.

See that forest over there? As long as you can survive crossing that forest and reach the open space cleared in the center of the forest, then you will be able to eat your fill and survive."

The children looked in the direction of the officer's finger. It was clearly broad daylight, yet the forest appeared somewhat dim.

And the beast roars that sounded from time to time caused many children to show fearful expressions; some even burst into loud tears.

Those crying were mostly children who had been sent here directly without having suffered much from the Slave Traders' whips.

"Now, you may enter."

The officer man didn't care about this and directly issued the order.

"No, that's the sound of a Danger Beast. I've heard it before. I'm not going in. I want to go home."

A big boy, trembling with fear, ran away from the forest.

"Bang~"

A gunshot suddenly rang out. A spray of blood bloomed from the fleeing boy's back, and he fell stiffly to the ground.

The boy let out a wail, but had not yet died. The officer who fired jumped down from the platform and walked over.

"Truly foolish. Entering the forest, you could at least gamble on the luck of not encountering a Danger Beast."

The officer drew the knife at his waist and, without a shred of hesitation, chopped off the boy's head on the ground.

"I give you a quarter of an hour. After a quarter of an hour, if there is anyone still existing here, we will kill them."

"Big Sister..."

In the crowd, a small girl nestled against a big girl, looking a bit scared.

"Don't be afraid, Kurome. Big Sister will protect you."

Taking her younger sister's hand, Akame comforted her with a sentence, then followed the flow of people into the forest.

Not far along, a snake-type Danger Beast dropped from a tree, biting the child at the front in one mouthful.

The children traveling together screamed and each fled for their lives, soon scattering in the Gifnora Sea Tree Forest where Danger Beasts were active.

Akame tightly pulled her Younger Sister, running toward a place that looked safe as best she could.

In the center of the forest, Imperial Soldiers were cleaning up some Danger Beast corpses; on the high cliff beside them, a bald-headed man watched the forest where beast roars frequently rose, and suddenly asked the man lying on the rocks behind him: "Gozuki, how many children do you think will qualify this time?"

"Who knows, but hundreds of children were thrown in; there should be some with enough potential and decent luck who can run out of there."

The long-haired man held a grass blade in his mouth, looking like he didn't care much.

And he indeed didn't care; those children were all expendables.

"Right, Gozuki, what's the most children you can train?"

"Let me think, hmm, I can train 7 at most."

"Fine, then I'll leave the seven children with the best scores to you; as for the other children who manage to run out, I'll take them all on this side."

"Bill, do you really think training a batch of children for assassination will actually be useful later?"

Gozuki suddenly asked.

"Right now the Empire is like a dry-grass heath, smoke rising everywhere; to put out the fire, hearts differ, unable to tell who is the Enemy.

However, if we cultivate assassins for putting out the fire, they should still be able to serve some function."

The bald-headed man replied.

"But, given those children's ages, to cultivate them to a degree where they can be useful will take at least seven or eight years; by that time, whether the Empire will still exist is uncertain."

"Haha, Gozuki, I feel your worry is surplus; no matter how decayed, the Empire has already lasted a millennium, it's Impossible it would just collapse in these several years, right?"

"Hope so."

Spitting out the grass blade in his mouth, Gozuki drew his sword and turned.

An avian Danger Beast that swooped down from the Sky, treating him as Prey, was cut in two, claws and body together, by the Demon Sword in his hand.

"Worthy of someone from the Rakshasa Four Ghosts."

Seeing this, Bill offered a sentence of praise.

(Chapter End)