Chapter 264: The Correct Way to Open Evolution

Getting Broly's confirming answer, Chomusuke began hopping around the boy, its behavior very cat-like, curious about the person it had been waiting for while still maintaining a certain caution, excited yet restrained, even using its nose to make exploratory sniffing motions like a cat, sniffing the scent of the boy before it.

"I am Chomusuke." After familiarizing itself with Broly's scent, Chomusuke introduced itself, then asked, "Who are you?"

"I am Broly, the strongest Saiyan from Planet Nappa."

Broly also introduced himself.

"The strongest Saiyan from Planet Nappa?"

Chomusuke was a bit puzzled; its small yellow head contained no relevant data, it couldn't quite understand, but it quickly tossed this confusion to the back of its mind.

"Broly, so the person I was waiting for is called Broly, Broly, Broly..."

Chomusuke was very happy, bouncing around at Broly's feet.

"Then can I call you Roli?"

It asked again.

"As long as you like, anything goes."

Broly didn't much mind what others called him, especially this yellow furball before him who had raised the Happiness Value to 12 points upon meeting, and was still rising.

"Roli, Roli!"

Chomusuke bounced happily again, and this time it pounced on Broly; Broly caught the jumping creature in stride.

After being embraced, Chomusuke rubbed against the boy in his arms; its body was soft, its surface covered in a layer of fine down, the tactile sensation almost no different from a kitten, yet like a little cat acting spoiled toward its owner.

And Broly, like many a normal person, gently stroked the little guy in his arms, going from somewhat unfamiliar to practiced technique, quickly petting Chomusuke until it lay comfortably in his arms.

When he saw the Happiness Value on Chomusuke reach 20 points and gradually stop its rising trend, Broly stopped his hand.

"By the way, where is this?"

Looking at the surrounding dense forest, Broly asked Chomusuke in his arms.

"This is the Server Continent."

Chomusuke answered the boy's question, but just as it didn't know what Broly's Planet Nappa was, Broly didn't know what its Server Continent was either.

"Then is there food here?"

Broly asked again.

His Ki Sense ability, since coming to this world, seemed to have been isolated.

Although he could still sense, everything he sensed seemed to be a hollow condition.

"Is Roli hungry?"

Chomusuke jumped down from the boy's arms, wagged its tail once, and called out: "Come with me, I know where there's food."

Chomusuke bounced along in front, Broly followed behind, and before long they arrived at a fruit forest.

"Fox Tail!"

Chomusuke pounced toward a fruit tree, its tail bristling thick like exploded fur, and with a bang swung it directly against the fruit tree; the tree shook, dropping many fruits down.

Chomusuke bounced on the ground, using its head to catch fruits as best it could, then after using its tail to sweep the caught undamaged fruits on the ground into a pile, it wagged its tail at the boy behind it and said: "Roli, these are all edible, very sweet, come eat quickly."

Faced with the yellow furball wife's feeding, Broly didn't hesitate, walked over, sat down, and started wolfing down fruits.

As Chomusuke said, these fruits were very refreshing and sweet, but before he finished wolfing them down, Broly heard a buzzing sound approaching from far to near.

"Not good, it's Kuwagamon."

Chomusuke, hearing the movement too, was a bit anxious, thinking it should be the movement from its tail striking the fruit tree just now being spotted by the other party that attracted it over.

"What's wrong?"

Broly didn't quite understand what Chomusuke was nervous about.

"No time to explain this, quickly come with me to this side."

Chomusuke hooked the boy's hand with its tail, pulling him running toward a tree thicket.

Broly didn't resist, merely before leaving scooped up two fruits from the ground, then ran along.

"You drill in first."

Chomusuke used its tail to prop open the tree thicket, let Broly drill inside, then followed drilling in itself.

"Rumble—"

Not long after the one person and one Digimon drilled into the tree thicket, a large red carapace beetle fell from the sky.

"Shh, don't speak."

Chomusuke leaned near Broly's ear and lowered its voice; one person and one Digimon thus hid in the tree thicket watching the big guy outside.

Kuwagamon looked at the leftover eaten fruits on the ground, let out an angry roar; this was the fruit forest it occupied, yet it did not allow other Digimon to eat its things.

Pity, after patrolling a circle all around, it didn't discover the thief who stole fruits; in some anger it snapped two or three surrounding big trees, then this large red carapace beetle flew off aggressively.

"Kuwagamon, Champion-stage Insect-type Virus Digimon, its personality is extremely ferocious, it forcibly occupied this fruit forest, not allowing other Digimon to pick fruits to eat here; good thing we weren't discovered by it just now."

Chomusuke softly introduced the situation of the large red carapace beetle just now, and used its tail to wipe away the cold sweat emerging on its forehead.

Compared to Kuwagamon evolved to Champion stage, it is currently only a Childhood Stage II Digimon.

Above this there is still Rookie stage, only after that is Champion stage.

And each evolution form has an enormous strength gap.

If discovered just now, it would have been big trouble.

"I see."

Broly picked up a fruit, gnawed a bite.

Suddenly raised his head, because the buzzing sound approached again.

In the sky, the originally departed Kuwagamon returned on a feint.

First pretended to fly away, actually pulled distance higher, wandering in the high altitude.

Upon seeing Chomusuke run out to pick up fruits, Kuwagamon, like a hawk finding prey, plunged straight down from high altitude like a fighter jet.

And the act of snapping trees just now was actually to open up the view; the fruit left on the ground was then treated as bait to lure prey into hooking.

Clearly just a beetle, yet unexpectedly it has a brain.

Upon discovering Kugamon approaching again, Chomusuke's face changed drastically.

"Run."

It shouted at Broly, then ran off in another direction.

"Big guy, I'm here!"

Chomusuke treated itself as bait, luring Kugamon away.

Broly: "???"

Watching Kugamon, which hadn't noticed him, directly chase after Chomusuke bouncing into the forest.

And with trees blocking the way, Kugamon truly couldn't catch up to Chomusuke ahead for a while, but it kept its eyes locked on Chomusuke ahead, remembering this guy — a Rookie Digimon that often ran over to steal fruit from its fruit forest.

This time, it would definitely kill that little thief Chomusuke directly, sending its raw data straight back to Original Village.

【Ran this far, Broly should be safe, right?】

The gap between a Rookie Digimon and a Champion Digimon is enormous; just in physical strength, Chomusuke was already nearing its limit, yet the pursuing Kugamon still looked full of vigor.

Chomusuke stopped.

"Come on, Kugamon!"

Looking at Kugamon smashing down before it, Chomusuke decided to fight the opponent with its last bit of physical strength.

Although there was almost no chance of winning, it was still better than acknowledging defeat and waiting for death.

"Fox Tail!"

Chomusuke actively charged at Kugamon, its tail inflating greatly, like a thick stick, jumping up and swinging at the big beetle's head.

In response, Kugamon made no defensive or dodging movements.

On the contrary, it deliberately stretched its head forward. After Chomusuke's tail struck it but was bounced away by its own brain case, it grinned, revealing a somewhat mocking smile, seemingly mocking Chomusuke's overestimation of its capabilities as a Rookie.

The scissor-like scissor arms on its head clamped forward; Chomusuke dodged somewhat perilously.

Then it raised its foot and stomped toward the falling Chomusuke; Chomusuke dodged again in a flustered manner.

Kugamon enjoyed this process, but had little patience.

After Chomusuke dodged several attacks, it decided to accelerate the speed of finishing the opponent.

Although the time was very brief, encountering the person it had been waiting for, and still risking its life to protect that person, made Chomusuke feel no regrets.

Facing death, the Rookie Chomusuke was actually somewhat calm; just as it closed its eyes, preparing to welcome the fate of death.

A bang sounded right in front, followed by a creak, as if some heavy object had crushed and snapped the trees beside it.

Chomusuke opened its eyes; the boy it thought had fled had suddenly appeared before it.

"Why are you here?"

Chomusuke widened its eyes, subconsciously asking.

"I followed."

Broly said somewhat embarrassedly, after all Chomusuke had made him run.

"Where's Kugamon?"

Chomusuke asked again, this was its puzzlement.

"Over there."

Broly pointed to the side; only now did Kugamon shake its head, climbing up from under the broken trees.

"Roar~"

It roared, buzzed, and flew up, but did not flee.

Instead, it used Death Charge's scissor arms toward the boy who had suddenly appeared and blown it away.

"Careful!"

Chomusuke subconsciously called out a reminder, but the next moment the voice stopped, because Broly had already grabbed Kugamon's red scissor arms.

His footsteps hadn't even moved a bit, stopping the flying, crashing Kugamon in mid-air; no matter how Kugamon struggled, it was to no avail.

"This thing, you still playing with it?"

After doing this, Broly turned his head to ask Chomusuke.

"Uh, playing?"

Chomusuke didn't react, puzzled.

"Could it be you weren't treating this big beetle as a toy?"

Broly found it a bit strange, then looked at Chomusuke's panel in the Crystal Palace; the other's happiness value had indeed risen a bit.

However, that was because Chomusuke's self-sacrifice, in this process, obtained self-satisfaction, thus gaining the happiness value increase.

But in Broly's eyes, this was just playing.

Cats like playing with worms, very normal, right? Although Chomusuke this cat is a bit small, and Kugamon this worm is a bit big, but what's the problem with that?

On Nappa Star, Broly was even smaller than Vampa Spiders.

"I didn't, forget it, I don't play with Kugamon."

Chomusuke replied.

"Then can I roast it?"

Broly's eyes brightened, asking again.

Food, how can there only be fruit.

Still need a bit of meat, this big worm looks not bad.

"Roast it? How do you plan to roast it?"

"Of course it's roasted with fire, behave yourself, don't move around!"

Broly carried the Guga Beast, smashed it against the ground twice, and after knocking it unconscious, he moved the broken tree trunks from over there over here.

An energy beam struck the wood, and the trees quickly caught fire; since they were fresh wood, the water vapor needed to be burned off first.

After the water vapor inside the wood was burned dry and the flames gradually stabilized, he tied the unconscious Guga Beast to the tree trunk and placed it on top to roast.

The Guga Beast was scalded awake, tried to struggle, but was knocked unconscious again by a punch from Broly.

Chomusuke watched this whole scene, its pupils vibrating violently; this is the strength of the person it waited for? "Creak~"

After roasting for a while, not knowing if this fully red beetle was cooked or not, Broly tore off one of its arms to have a taste.

One bite in, his mouth was full of fragrance; it was the taste of roasted cicadas.

"It's cooked, we can eat now!"

Broly didn't enjoy it alone; he placed the torn-off arm in front of Chomusuke beside him.

【Digimon, can they really be eaten like this?】

Chomusuke was a bit doubtful; in the Digimon battles it had seen before, no Digimon victor ever roasted and ate the loser like this.

"You're not eating? The taste is very good."

Seeing Broly start eating, Chomusuke thought for a bit, then followed suit and ate as well.

No kidding, the taste of the Guga Beast's scissor arm was much better than the fruit.

As they ate, Chomusuke's body underwent a change.

"Chomusuke, what's wrong with you?"

Broly saw a cluster of data stream emerge on its body and hurriedly asked.

"What's wrong with me?"

Chomusuke found it strange, yet also discovered something was off; its perspective seemed to have heightened.

"You've turned into something like a little puppy now."

"Ah?"

In the Crystal Palace's prompt information, Chomusuke had already turned into a Puppy Beast.

And upon discovering it had evolved into a Growth Phase Puppy Beast, Chomusuke — oh no, Puppy Beast — was a bit stunned.

Following that, it thought of something, and looked at the Guga Beast arm on the ground that had been mostly eaten: "Could it be that I absorbed the Guga Beast's data and grew?"

【Encounter the person you wait for, and you can become strong...】

Vaguely, Puppy Beast recalled this sentence again.

Although it was blurry, it could no longer remember who told it.

But clearly, this sentence has already been confirmed.

"So this is the way one becomes strong after encountering the person they wait for!"

Arriving in this world, Holy Plan: 6, thrown into the personal space by Broly, currently lying corpse-like inside it!

One Guga Beast, divided and eaten by one person and one Puppy Beast; after eating their fill until only a pile of carapace remained, the Guga Beast's carapace turned into data stream and drifted away.

"So full~"

Beside the campfire pile, Puppy Beast propped up its round belly, lying next to the boy.

"I'll help you with a digestion massage."

Broly picked up Puppy Beast and placed it on his lap; he had learned this technique in the KonoSuba World.

Although this is Puppy Beast, not Aqua Master, there shouldn't be much difference.

Puppy Beast didn't resist; the feeling of having its belly gently pushed and rubbed was very good, and it soon fell asleep.

(Chapter End)