Chapter 399: With Broly Here, the Tokyo Area Is Safe!

Time rewinds……

"Sennju, take out the high-explosive bomb."

In the forest, Ibuki Shoukan stopped his steps after passing by a Stage III Gastrea nest and suddenly said to the girl following behind him.

"Brother Shoukan, what do you plan to do?"

Although Sennju Kayo didn't understand why, she still took the bomb from her backpack and handed it to the man in front.

"That is of course to blow up this nest and give the others some trouble!"

The man who received the high-explosive bomb said this and directly set a delayed explosion time.

"Eh, is that okay?"

"What's bad about it? The guys coming over are all competitors; giving them some trouble lets us take the 2 billion reward alone!"

"Things are like this; Shoukan-nii threw a bomb into this group of Gastrea's nest in order to take the 2 billion reward alone."

"Is your Promoter an idiot? Shouldn't what we need to care about right now be finding Hiruko Kagetane as soon as possible and stopping Scorpio's arrival? What the hell is taking the 2 billion reward alone?"

Hearing that the huge explosion was actually someone artificially delaying others' progress in finding Hiruko Kagetane, Satomi Rentaro felt his head somewhat explode.

"Brother Shoukan's head is full of muscle; he's always been the type to do whatever he thinks of, and I also find it very hard to persuade him."

Sennju Kayo showed a helpless expression.

Other pairs are usually the Promoter using their brain and the Initiator responsible for the combat part, but Sennju Kayo and Ibuki Shoukan's pair is the opposite situation.

Sennju Kayo, who possesses the Dolphin Factor and has a better brain, is responsible for using her brain, while Ibuki Shoukan, who has well-developed limbs and a simple mind, is responsible for the combat part.

But Initiators are usually treated as tools, and this causes Sennju Kayo to not have absolute say in her own pair.

She can often only go along with the well-developed-limbs, simple-minded Ibuki Shoukan, doing some support-type assist logistics work.

As a result, the absurd situation before our eyes appeared: Ibuki Shoukan mindlessly threw a high-explosive bomb into the Gastrea nest, blowing up a group of Stage III Gastrea that were sleeping soundly in the nest.

And the huge commotion caused by the high-explosive bomb brought huge trouble to the search teams.

"Then how did you get separated from your Promoter and end up being chased by a group of Gastrea?"

Aihara Enju asked curiously.

"The sound of the high-explosive bomb detonating woke up a Stage Four Hammer Dragon; we were attacked by it. Brother Shoukan lured the Hammer Dragon away, and I hid, but then I was chased by the Gastrea that came running over afterwards."

Satomi Rentaro: "......"

After a moment of silence, he asked: "So you're saying the high-explosive bomb you guys threw also screwed you guys over?"

Sennju Kayo's small face reddened a bit, and she bowed her head to apologize: "I'm sorry."

Satomi Rentaro's head was very big.

With a Promoter that stupid, their Civil Security Ranking is actually still 1584; it's simply unreasonable.

"This isn't your fault; if you want to blame someone, blame your Promoter who doesn't listen to you."

Broly comforted Sennju Kayo.

"Hm?"

At the side, Aihara Enju's eyebrows furrowed slightly, feeling the boy was somewhat off.

It seemed he was a bit excessively attentive to the girl before him.

"Right, are you willing to become my...... hm, friend?"

Broly originally wanted to say wife.

But in this world, he had already suffered six consecutive rejections.

So he decided to start as friends with the girl before him first.

"Eh, are you asking me?"

Broly hurriedly nodded, nervously looking at the girl before him.

"You're strange, unexpectedly willing to make friends with a Cursed Child like me."

Sennju Kayo looked at him with a strange gaze.

"You didn't choose to become a Cursed Child; this is your mother's fault. She shouldn't have been infected with the Gastrea Virus while pregnant.

And it's precisely because she was pregnant with you that she didn't turn into a Gastrea. So you are a Cursed Child, but you haven't done anything wrong.

On the contrary, when you were born, you saved your birth mother. So you are the true hero, and I just want to make friends with a hero, hm, the kind of friend with an extremely intimate relationship."

Broly said seriously.

These words made everyone present listen in a daze.

"Broly, who told you this kind of thing?"

Satomi Rentaro asked curiously.

"It was Doctor Muroto Sumire; this is the situation she told me."

Broly answered honestly.

"What kind of friend is 'the kind with an extremely intimate relationship'? Is it our relationship?"

Aihara Enju's focus was on the other side; she looked at the Saiyan boy, also somewhat nervously asking.

"No, but even more intimate, the kind of friend who can promise to become my wife in the future."

Broly spoke the truth again.

"Huh?!"

Sennju Kayo's mouth gaped open.

A boy she was meeting for the first time said he wanted her to be his wife.

This made the girl with an IQ of 210 feel somewhat incredible.

"Ah, this......"

Aihara Enju's face flushed red in an instant; she wanted to say something, but then found she couldn't say anything.

Ever since meeting Broly, the boy had never hidden his intention to find a wife.

It's just that all the targets Broly encountered who could be recognized by that Crystal Palace refused to become his wife.

And among those who refused, she herself was included.

"Excuse me, aren't you joking with me?"

Sennju Kayo asked at this moment.

"Of course not, I'm super serious, not joking with you."

Broly kept a straight small face and answered the girl.

Aihara Enju stomped her foot beside him.

Shoes colliding with the ground made a tap-tap-tap sound.

"Are you willing?"

Broly merely gave a strange look at his pigtail friend Aihara Enju, then withdrew his gaze and placed it on the gold-haired girl with small braids tied on both sides in front of him, and asked again.

Hearing the boy ask again, Aihara Enju also stopped her foot-stomping, held her breath and looked over, somewhat nervous about the answer Sennju Kayo was about to give.

Satomi Rentaro pinched his brow; he was very familiar with Aihara Enju's reaction — calling it jealousy might be slightly off, but describing it with the term "guarding one's food" was absolutely correct.

Unknowingly, the Saiyan boy living in his home had risen in Enju's heart to a status where she would worry about him being snatched away by others.

However, Satomi Rentaro could also understand; if he were Aihara Enju, and the boy had done so much for him, he would also be moved, cherish the other party deeply, and worry about them being snatched away.

The girl was currently in this state of wanting to guard her food, yet discovering the food couldn't count as her own property.

Anxiously stomping her feet, nervously holding her breath, until Sennju Kayo uttered a "Sorry," only then was the pent-up breath finally exhaled.

"If it's just as ordinary friends, I'm very willing, but if it's the kind of friend who becomes your wife in the future, then forget it."

Sennju Kayo refused Broly, but the Happiness Value on her Crystal Palace Panel kept rising continuously.

Being proposed to was very sudden, but Sennju Kayo still felt very happy, because there was someone in this world willing to accept her.

But Sennju Kayo, who possessed the Dolphin Factor, was too smart; her smart brain allowed her to see a longer future.

The identity of an Initiator would keep her in a situation where she might die at any moment, or turn into a Gastrea.

Compared to the harm her death would bring the boy after building deep feelings with him, Sennju Kayo would rather not harbor any fantasy or expectation toward a beautiful future that was fundamentally impossible to exist, right from the start.

As the saying goes,

Without expectation, there is no disappointment.

Without a beginning, no one gets hurt.

"Is that so..."

Broly became dejected; this was already the seventh capturable target he had encountered in this world, yet the result was still refusal.

"Broly, don't be sad..."

Aihara Enju patted the boy's shoulder to comfort him, but for some reason, her mood was very happy at this moment.

On the Crystal Palace Panel, her Happiness Value also reflected her true mood, rising another 2 points to reach 31 points.

"I... I'm fine."

After discovering the change in Aihara Enju's Happiness Value, Broly suddenly lost some motivation.

Among the capture targets in this world, Muroto Sumire seemed to have left him a sliver of hope, but it felt more like she was drawing a big cake for him, the purpose being to make him help do work.

The others all refused very decisively, leaving no room, while Aihara Enju, the only friend he'd made, now showed a situation of words not matching her heart.

Clearly he treated her so sincerely, helped the girl reverse the Cursed Children stereotype at school, and the other party also said she'd cheer for his wife-finding behavior, but the result was that now, seeing someone else refuse him again, she put on a comforting appearance on the surface, yet was overjoyed inside.

The harm this caused Broly was even higher than the harm from Sennju Kayo's face-to-face refusal; to describe the Saiyan boy's current mood with a line of poetry: "I offered my heart to the bright moon, yet the bright moon shines on the ditch."

Broly treated Aihara Enju as a friend, but now felt Aihara Enju didn't treat him as a friend; this made the Saiyan boy very disappointed, yet he said nothing.

"Broly, now really isn't the time to be dejected; in a little over an hour, Scorpio will arrive. We must find Hiruko Kagetane before then, retrieve the Seven Star Relic, and prevent the Great Extinction Event from occurring!"

Satomi Rentaro walked over, patted Broly's shoulder, but still hoped the Saiyan boy could cheer up.

For the youth, the boy and girls' lovey-dovey stuff was a trivial matter; stopping Scorpio from reaching Tokyo Bay was the major matter.

However, Broly's view was different; Scorpio's imminent arrival wasn't a big deal to him — finding a wife was the big deal.

"Let Scorpio come if it wants; anyway, it's just a matter of one Energy Bullet."

Broly already had no mood to accompany this act of pretending not to see the Hiruko father and daughter; he wasn't very invested in either opposing side right now.

After all, among the alignments here, not a single one had a wife willing to agree to join the Crystal Palace.

Since neither side has a wife, might as well drop it.

The people here can do whatever they want.

Survival or death — what does it have to do with a Saiyan from another world?

Fine, at most for the sake of having acquaintances locally, he could help by throwing one or two Energy Bullets after that damn Scorpio swims near here.

As for whether one or two Energy Bullets can solve a Stage Five Gastrea, Broly had no doubt whatsoever.

In his view, the Gastrea of this world were merely creatures providing ingredients; and as ingredient-providing creatures, the Gastrea's strength wasn't even as good as the Vampa Spiders on Planet Vampa — he felt a couple of Vampa Spiders could run rampant among this world's Gastrea.

"Ah, Broly, you can deal with Scorpio?"

Satomi Rentaro reacted belatedly; after reacting, he widened his eyes and asked.

Broly didn't speak, just raised his hand aiming at the forest to the side where rustling sounds were gradually emerging.

When a Gastrea charged out, an Energy Bullet carrying his pent-up frustration was fired from his small palm.

"Boom—"

The Gastrea was annihilated; the forest behind it also turned to dust, and a wide forest avenue appeared directly in the forest.

Flames burned at the edges; the path the Energy Bullet traversed was completely cleared; no creature survived this terrifying attack.

The still-unspent Energy Bullet then suddenly veered upward just before reaching a giant stele, shooting into the high sky, turning into a reverse meteor and disappearing from everyone's sight.

Satomi Rentaro's mouth gaped wide; facts speak louder than eloquence, and Broly's casual strike completely surpassed his imagination.

Naturally, it also surpassed the imagination of the two other girls present, as well as the imagination of everyone who happened to witness this scene.

But compared to Satomi Rentaro and the others who knew the truth, everyone else merely assumed some terrifying Gastrea in the forest had launched this terrifying attack.

"Broly, you're amazing, is this a super-large Magic Flash!"

Aihara Enju rushed over, grabbing the Saiyan boy's arm and shaking it excitedly.

"How did you do that?"

Sennju Kayo's mind had somewhat crashed; she couldn't understand how the boy had fired that blast.

"This is an Energy Bullet, an Energy Bullet condensed using Qi."

And faced with their praise, Broly instead behaved rather calmly.

The praise of a girl who couldn't become his wife left his heart Bathing Master Aqua's Life.

He was tired, a mental fatigue.

The sense of frustration accumulated from being massively rejected in this world, because of Aihara Enju's attitude just now, burst out all at once.

It didn't manifest too specifically, but he fell silent, simply not wanting to deal with the clamoring Aihara Enju beside him.

Towards Sennju Kayo's look of wanting to ask but not knowing how to voice the question, Broly also completely ignored it.

The Civil Security search net is tightening, and Hiruko Kagetane's traces have also been discovered in the warehouse district.

The battle intensified, signal flares were sent out, and many Civil Security officers headed for the Old Port Warehouse District.

Satomi Rentaro also wanted to go, but then discovered the Saiyan boy, upon arriving at a hillside with a better view where the coastline could be seen, simply sat down cross-legged right there, showing not the slightest intention of continuing forward.

"Broly, aren't you going over there?"

He couldn't help but turn back and ask.

"Even if I go over there, what then? Will Hiruko Kohina agree to become my wife, or will Holy Son of Heaven or Tenkō Kisara agree to become my wife?"

Broly retorted.

Satomi Rentaro: "..."

He finally realized Broly was somewhat acting up emotionally.

Just, why exactly?

The youth was quite confused; clearly Enju already liked him more and valued him more.

【Is this the reason that girl refused?】

Satomi Rentaro looked at Sennju Kayo and silently thought.

However, staying here is fine too; the Gastrea attracted by the battle commotion in the forest behind will ultimately need someone to block and deal with them.

Otherwise, if a group of Gastrea join the battlefield, estimates are that aside from their side which has Broly, everyone else would probably die.

After personally witnessing Broly's shot that cleared the forest area within sight with an Energy Bullet, Satomi Rentaro no longer had the previous sense of urgency.

Even if Scorpio came, so what? Could it withstand Broly's terrifying Energy Bullet? Even if it could withstand one shot, he had asked the Saiyan boy — blasts like that, the other party could casually throw out many.

So, no need to panic at all, because with Broly here, Tokyo District is absolutely safe.

【New Capture Target discovered, Scorpio, current Happiness Value 0】

(Chapter End)