Chapter 418

"What is the Crystal Palace?"

Tina's face showed a puzzled expression.

"Something that exists inside my head."

Broly explained.

【Similar to Xianfeier's chip?】

Tina guessed, then said to the boy before her, "Nice to meet you, Broly."

Possessing the means of brain chip implantation, it was only normal that she also had the data of someone ranked in the top hundred of the International Police.

And although her main profession was an assassin, on the surface she also held the identity of an Initiator, except her Promoter partner was forged by Professor A. Rand.

"I'm also glad to meet you, Nightingale."

"Just call me Tina."

The two little ones shook hands with each other, then Tina handed over the small handbag she was holding.

"This is?"

After taking the handbag, Broly looked at the girl before him in confusion.

"First meeting, I didn't know what you like, so I brought some money."

Tina said, then unzipped the handbag in the boy's hand, revealing bundles of banknotes inside.

"You can take this money and buy whatever you like, consider it a greeting gift from me."

"Tina, you really are a good person!"

Broly sincerely gave the girl a Good Person Card.

"But I can't take your money."

He pushed the handbag back.

"Why?"

"Because I didn't prepare a gift for you."

"But I don't need you to prepare a gift for me."

"But you gave me something, yet I have nothing to give you."

"Then what do you have on you?"

Broly felt his pocket, took out a few candies: "Only candy."

"Then give them to me, that way it counts as exchanging gifts with each other."

Tina took the candy from the boy's hand, then stuffed the money-filled handbag back to him.

"Let me take you inside the gymnasium to have a look."

This time Broly didn't refuse again.

"Okay."

Tina nodded, then followed behind.

"I heard the Scorpion Cult's Mass Ritual is about to be held here?"

After entering the gymnasium, there were some staff setting up the Crime Scene, the girl asked.

"Yes, but converts won't be let in until seven in the evening."

"The driver who drove me here by taxi told me the Scorpion Cult is backed by the Holy Son of Heaven, is that true?"

"It's true, the Holy Son of Heaven gave us a sum of money."

Just as Tina wanted to pursue asking further, Aqua walked over facing them.

"Broly, where did this child run off to again?"

"Picking up a friend."

"A girl?"

"Her name is Tina, also acknowledged by the Crystal Palace."

"Eh, didn't you say it wasn't?"

"I'm also unclear, after meeting, the Crystal Palace gave a prompt."

"Hello, I'm Aqua, Broly's most beloved Master, I wonder how you and my Disciple got to know each other?"

Aqua gave a one-sentence self-introduction, then started probing.

"We met online, at the time little bro, um, Broly was flaming someone on the Internet..."

Tina honestly explained the situation.

"Then how do you view Broly?"

Aqua nodded, then asked again.

"How do I view him? I think he's a good person, willing to argue with others online for the sake of a Cursed Children's friend."

Tina's Happiness Value rose a little again.

"So that means you have a favorable impression of my Broly?"

Aqua asked again.

"Uh..."

Tina hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Although it was only their first meeting with Broly, she indeed counted as a familiar stranger.

When chatting with the boy online, she was also quite happy and glad.

"Master Aqua, Tina also gave me a greeting gift."

"Eh, what is it?"

"Money, a whole bag of money."

"Huh?"

"Tina, if you don't mind, I want to donate the money to the Scorpion Cult, okay?"

Broly asked the girl in the green dress.

"Uh, that's what I gave you, you can dispose of it however you want."

Tina had no objections.

"Aqua Master, here."

Broly handed the bag to Aqua.

"Very good, Tina, right? You're quite impressive, I think highly of you."

Aqua took the money, feeling satisfied with the girl.

"Aqua Master, Tina also wants to join the Scorpion Cult."

Broly brought up this matter at this time.

"Ah, this……"

Tina had just wanted to open her mouth to say something, but Aqua had already patted her own chest.

"No problem, when the time comes, I'll personally help her conduct the conversion baptism.

As for now, just come along and help out."

Aqua grabbed Tina's hand, pulling the girl toward the lounge.

"May I ask, what do you need me to help with?"

Tina could only follow along, but asked from behind.

"It's not anything too difficult, just inject these syringes into the mineral water."

After pushing open the door and entering the lounge, Aqua answered this question.

And inside the lounge, boxes of mineral water were placed.

Aihara Enju and the other Initiator girls were holding syringes, injecting them into unopened mineral water bottles.

"This is?"

"Free drinking water to be distributed to the converts attending Mass."

Tina instantly understood; this matched her understanding of religious methods perfectly.

"So, these are stimulants?"

Tina pointed to the side, at the solution packed in something like oxygen tanks, and asked.

"No, this is Gastrea Virus Original Solution."

Aqua answered her question.

"Oh, so it's Gastrea Virus…… wait, Original Solution?!"

Tina's mouth fell open.

"Mineral water? Gastrea Virus Original Solution? Injecting Gastrea Virus Original Solution into mineral water?"

Tina's small face went blank all at once; is this some kind of large-scale poisoning scene?

"That's right, faith is a kind of demand; only appropriate crises can increase people's faith in gods, while simultaneously strengthening the piety of those who are already believers."

As Aqua spoke, she was already squatting down, skillfully injecting trace amounts of Gastrea Virus into every bottle of mineral water to be gifted to converts attending Mass.

"But, isn't Gastrea Virus only effective if injected……"

Tina's words weren't finished when her mouth was covered by someone.

"What did you say?"

The room was filled with the click-click sound of needles piercing mineral water bottles; Aqua hadn't heard the girl's words clearly, and asked.

"Don't tell her that Gastrea Virus only works if injected."

Eris whispered in Tina's ear.

"Uh, having people drink mineral water carrying Gastrea Virus, isn't that a bit not good?"

Tina nodded, then asked again.

"Nothing bad about it; our Scorpion Cult possesses the ability to purify Gastrea Virus that hasn't deeply fused with life. This is a unique skill in this world, and we must properly leverage our advantage."

Aqua didn't mind at all; not using an advantage when you have one is foolish.

Heaven is exactly because some goddesses are too honest that, back when the other world needed heroes, only her side could rapidly output large numbers of heroes.

Not mentioning the situation where those heroes made the world even more chaotic after crossing over, just asking whether heroes crossed over or not, and judging success by results, Aqua is undoubtedly a successful priest.

"Alright, stop dawdling, hurry up and help work."

Aqua stood up, stuffing a bottle of Gastrea Virus Original Solution into Tina's hand, making her go to the side to fetch a few boxes of mineral water to inject.

"Broly, this kind of thing seems to have no meaning."

Tina leaned close to Broly's side, reminding him in a small voice.

Gastrea Virus taken orally, each 500ml bottle of mineral water, injected with just this tiny amount.

Even if someone with mouth ulcers drank it, they probably couldn't get infected with Gastrea Virus.

"Just doing it for show."

Broly was also injecting the mineral water.

"Come, let me introduce you; this is Eris, this is Aihara Enju, this is Sennju Kayo……"

Broly began introducing the people around him to Tina.

"As for this one, she's Tina, a good friend I met on the Internet; she came to see me, and is also preparing to join the Scorpion Cult."

"Nice to meet you."

Eris said.

"Are you also a capture target?"

Aihara Enju asked instead.

"What is that?"

"The wife Broly wants to find."

Sennju Kayo answered.

"Huh?"

Tina blinked blankly, and feeling that Aihara Enju looked somewhat familiar, she pointed at the girl and said, "Ah, you're that school hero Cursed Child."

"You know me?"

"I know Broly because of you."

Tina nodded.

"So I'm still your matchmaker?"

When Aihara Enju said this, she carried a bit of sourness.

"By the way, do you watch Tenchu Shoujo?"

But immediately, she asked.

"What is that?"

Tina looked at her in confusion.

"Ah, you actually haven't watched Tenchu Shoujo?"

Aihara Enju widened her eyes, as if not watching Tenchu Shoujo was a very strange thing.

"So, what exactly is it?"

"It's a super popular anime that airs on TV every evening at six o'clock on time."

"Uh, I'm American, I don't watch this stuff."

"Are you interested in learning about it?"

Aihara Enju started promoting it, explaining the plot of Tenchu Shoujo.

Tina felt inexplicable at first, but was gradually drawn in by the plot of Tenchu Shoujo spoken by Aihara Enju.

Plus, with the other Originator girls chiming in one after another, Tina, this girl who had just arrived here, actually felt somewhat integrated into the group.

Time quickly came to six in the evening; even though there was work to do, it couldn't stop the children from watching cartoons.

Tina was brought along, staff delivered boxed lunches, and a group of little brats sat on the chairs in the lounge, eating while watching the TV on the wall.

Time approached seven o'clock; the injected mineral water was moved to the gymnasium entrance, waiting to be distributed to the converts coming to attend the Mass, while Broly went to the large fish tank in another lounge and woke up Scorpio, who was sleeping inside to rest his spirit.

"Scorpio, this is Tina~"

"Tina, this is Scorpio."

Broly introduced the two to each other.

Tina looked at the octopus girl before her, very shocked.

"Ti、na?"

The little octopus girl babbled, uttering somewhat nonstandard pronunciation, and leaned her body over.

Tina was startled and subconsciously stepped back.

"Don't worry, she just wants to use the tentacles on her hair to sense you."

While Tina was getting to know Scorpio in the lounge, the crowd of converts also began entering the gymnasium.

Everyone smoothly received the enhanced mineral water.

And to get these fake believers to drink the water, Aqua had the staff distribute some small snacks that would make people feel dry-mouthed to every entrant.

Soon, someone who had eaten snacks opened the mineral water bottle and drank the water inside that had been mixed with trace amounts of Gastrea Virus.

Seeing this, Aqua was very satisfied.

Time approached eight o'clock, and the Holy Son of Heaven arrived.

As the host, Aqua warmly welcomed the first believer in this world, the Holy Son of Heaven.

All the lights shone on the Holy Son of Heaven, focusing on hanging the important guest on the wall to increase the grandeur and formality of this Mass Ritual.

"The establishment of the Scorpion Cult is a small step in eliminating barriers between people, but it is a big step for everyone in this world moving together toward a bright future."

"Believe that under the joint efforts of our Scorpion Cult and the Gastrea New Law promoted by the Holy Son of Heaven, this world will become better and better, and everyone will be able to possess a happy life!"

The beautiful expectation for future life is one of the main doctrines of the Scorpion Cult, but some people who came to attend the Mass were impatient.

Were they here to listen to these empty words and nonsense? They were here to take advantage and get freebies; if the Holy Son of Heaven didn't actually appear, there would surely be a commotion.

"Next is the long-awaited debut of the Divine Child; please give warm applause from all present, calling for our Divine Child~"

Sitting in the audience seats, Hiruko Kagetane clapped with weak hands; a few days ago, seeing the Saiyan boy post a world-dangerous thread online, he thought he could pull the other onto the path of destroying the world.

As a result, that night at the Holy Son of Heaven's private banquet, before he could finish speaking, the Saiyan boy ran away.

When he saw the boy again, Broly had started a religion.

Upon inquiring, oh my, the religion the boy started was very similar to the path of a cult.

It was just more like a special combo launched in combination with the Gastrea New Law proposed by the Holy Son of Heaven.

"Is this preparing for the unification of politics and religion? Whose handwriting is it—the Holy Son of Heaven's, or that mysterious master of Broly boy's?"

The eyes behind the mask stared at Aqua on stage; Hiruko Kagetane actually hadn't thought much in his head, simply regarding the Goddess who wanted to establish a faith religion for her cute daughter as an ambitious person with great ambitions for this world.

Until Scorpio truly made a shiny appearance, releasing glorious divine arts (healing and purification with special effects) on stage, and after Hiruko Kagetane felt his emptied body become somewhat relaxed, he uttered an unbelievable sound from his throat: "Damn, does this world really have gods?!"

Even someone like Hiruko Kagetane was like this, let alone others.

At this moment, the more than three thousand freebie-seeking crowd present were all staring with wide eyes and open mouths.

Those who had originally been terrified by the Scorpio's transformed appearance, upon feeling the improvement and changes in their own bodies, some directly knelt down.

Faith that had originally been nonexistent, false, yet became real the moment the god's glory descended.

"Our Scorpion Cult solemnly promises: as long as your faith in the Scorpion God is pious enough, even if you are unfortunately infected with the Gastrea Virus, the incurable disease of the current world, you can come before the Holy Son and accept purification treatment.

And for the Cursed Children who have carried the Gastrea Virus since birth, although the Scorpion God cannot purify the Gastrea Virus that has completely fused with your lives, he can bestow upon you the posture of evolving into New Humans..."

The blind girl's eyes regained their light; sitting in the vanguard, the first thing she saw upon recovering her sight was the octopus girl floating in mid-air above the stage, her whole body radiating light wantonly.

The other party's expression was cold as she looked at the crowd below, her eyes without a ripple, just like a true god descending to the mortal world, appearing sacred and unapproachable.

The girl subconsciously clasped her hands together, and like her mother and younger sister beside her, as well as more ordinary people in the field, offered her faith to the Scorpio on the stage.

【Didn't need the Gastrea Virus at all, huh. If I'd known earlier I wouldn't have gone to this trouble...】

Aqua's gaze was sharp, yet she couldn't find any non-believers in the audience; she was expecting some ignorant person to jump out and cause trouble so she could properly kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, but the Mass Ritual proceeded to the end and no such person jumped out, leaving this Goddess with somewhat of a grumble in her heart.

At this time, Tina had already come to her senses; she turned her head to look in the Holy Son's direction, thinking to herself this was an excellent assassination opportunity.

But unfortunately, she currently carried no weapons on her person; wanting to assassinate at close range, there were guards beside the target, and she was a sniper — unless she could approach the other party's side without anyone knowing...

"This is the Holy Son of Heaven."

"This is Tina, my friend."

The Mass concluded smoothly, and the Holy Son arrived backstage.

Broly brought Tina to the Holy Son's presence and introduced the two to each other.

"The one at the side is Tenkō Kisara."

"Hello, Miss Tina, nice to meet you."

Tina looked at the hand the Young Holy Emperor extended, realizing she was now less than one meter from her mission target.

【Make a move?】

"Miss Tina, what's wrong?"

"No, I just didn't expect that a big shot like you would actually know Broly."

"Me, a big shot? You might be mistaken; Broly is the big shot."

Tina reacted, finding herself unable to refute those words.

The Scorpio is real, which means what Broly told me on the Internet before is also highly likely to be true.

Miss Aqua is a Goddess, Miss Eris is also a Goddess, and Broly together with the Two Goddesses turned the Scorpio back into a human — uh, no, into an octopus girl; as for now, they really are building momentum and deifying her.

Tina suddenly felt this world seemed somewhat magical.

(Chapter End)