Chapter 426

The Pure Blood Society matter came to a close, and the promotion of the Gastrea New Law no longer faced any obstacles.

Countries dispatched quite a few people to exchange insights on the Gastrea New Law with the Holy Son of Heaven.

At the same time, they also invited the Scorpion Cult to establish branch churches in their Safe Zones.

At some unknown point, everywhere Broly looked, there were nothing but smiling, agreeable good people.

"Good people?

Broly boy, you mustn't misunderstand; those guys aren't good people at all, they're just a bunch of sycophantic villains.

When you're weak, they're evil wolves gnawing at you; only when you're strong do they become wagging, fawning dogs.

However, this is merely a posture they put on for show; who knows what thoughts they harbor behind the scenes, so you'd better stay sharp, lest you get bitten by evil wolves pretending to be loyal dogs."

Hiruko Kohina's father, Hiruko Kagetane, always liked to say profound things.

"Then how should I distinguish between evil wolves and loyal dogs?"

Broly politely asked for his guidance.

"Tail down is a wolf, tail up is a dog?"

A joke about distinguishing wolves from dogs surfaced in his consciousness, prompting Broly to ask involuntarily.

"That is indeed a way to distinguish them, but people generally don't have tails, so we can't tell them apart by whether their tails are up or down; to distinguish them, we can only do so when those guys bare their fangs."

Hiruko Kagetane answered seriously.

"But I can't stay in this world forever."

At this, Broly felt troubled.

"I heard about it from Kohina, therefore I believe we should build a sufficiently powerful guard armed force for the Scorpion Cult before you all leave; what do you think?"

"That makes sense, but how to do it?"

"Use the Perfect Gastrea Transformation ability to recruit the top-ranked Initiators, send them employment offers from our Church's Judgment Hall, and invite them to join."

"Sounds good, but what if they refuse?"

"Top-ranked Initiators generally have high Gastrea Virus Erosion Rates in their bodies; under such circumstances, if they still refuse us who can help them, that would be highly suspicious.

Of course, I don't mean the children themselves — who usually aren't over ten — have a problem, but rather their Initiator Partners, the Civil Security officers, might.

Those people may have brainwashed or coerced their own Initiators, or done who knows what else; the reason they'd refuse to join the Scorpion Cult is probably just one: they might not want to become our friends.

Although this world doesn't operate on 'not a friend means enemy,' people who aren't friends will in all likelihood become enemies of the Scorpion Cult in the future……"

"Hiruko Kagetane, you bastard, you're selling anxiety to Broly again!"

Just as the Masked Man was about to continue, the passing Satomi Rentaro directly interrupted him.

"Oh, Satomi boy, you need to understand: I'm doing this for the good of this world. Only if the Scorpion Cult maintains absolute military superiority can this world more easily keep peace, and war won't easily break out.

Now, the Pure Blood Society has been purged, Cursed Children are gradually being accepted, social conflicts have greatly eased, and it seems the whole world is about to join hands and enter an era of peace and unity.

However, all of this is premised on the existence of a powerful Scorpion Cult.

But Broly boy, Aqua, and Lady Eris cannot possibly stay in this world long; once they leave, do you think the current situation can hold?"

"What you say makes sense, but I personally distrust you. Expanding the Judgment Hall, then after Broly leaves this world, leading a bunch of Judgment Hall members to stir up trouble here — that's what I think you personally might do."

"That's truly heartbreaking; do I look like that kind of person?"

Hiruko Kagetane's words earned unanimous nods from the boy and the Saiyan boy.

"So we just do nothing? You have to know, many things are easier to do when you're strong; wait until you're weak, and trying to do them again will be hard."

Satomi Rentaro agreed with Hiruko Kagetane's words, so that very day he submitted an application to join the Judgment Hall to Eris, who now manages the Scorpion Cult.

In the boy's words, a madman-like figure such as Hiruko Kagetane needs someone to check him; even though he didn't consider himself qualified, he still had to step up.

Subsequently, the matter of increasing Judgment Hall members was also put on the agenda, except the recruitment targets shifted from the top-ranked Cursed Children themselves to all top-ranked Civil Security pairs.

Those who agreed — no need for more words — were directly pulled into the group.

As for those who didn't agree, Hiruko Kagetane would usually conduct an investigation.

Once he confirmed that those who refused had obvious disagreement with the Scorpion Cult's Doctrine — for example, abusing their own Initiator partners — Hiruko Kagetane would smile happily and deliver a Death Set Meal to them.

Clearly having no faith in the Little Scorpio, yet this Judgment Hall Deputy Chief Hiruko Kagetane acted just like a genuine fanatical Believer.

Everyone knew Hiruko Kagetane was merely using the Scorpion Cult's Doctrine as a pretext to openly slaughter, but no one could say it wasn't justified.

This madman Hiruko Kagetane had found his place in the New Era: Deputy Chief of the Scorpion Cult's Heretic Inquisition Court.

His daughter Hiruko Kohina followed him, and amid the slaughter of heretics opposing the Scorpion Cult, she became even happier.

And when sending conversion invitations to top-ranked Civil Security worldwide, Tina could finally no longer hide her identity; she sought out Broly and confessed voluntarily.

"I'm IP Ranking 98, Black Wind; my main profession is an assassin, and my target for coming to Tokyo this time was…… to assassinate the Holy Son of Heaven."

"No wonder, I always felt you were a bit odd."

"Sorry, Broly, I didn't mean to hide it from you."

Tina lowered her head and apologized; she only felt her friendship was ruined.

"It's fine, but do you still want to assassinate the Holy Son of Heaven now?"

Broly didn't mind the concealment, but was troubled by what the girl intended to do.

"No, because the employer is already dead — that Saito Zongxuan."

Tina shook her head.

"Eh, that's good then!"

Broly relaxed.

"Broly, you don't blame me?"

"What would I blame you for?"

"Blame me for trying to assassinate your wife."

During these days staying on This Side in Tokyo, she had already figured out the relationship between the Holy Son of Heaven and the boy.

"Uh, seems like I should blame you a bit."

Broly first nodded in agreement with Tina's words, then immediately said: "But who told you to also be my wife!"

Hearing this, Tina's eyes widened at once, her small mouth opened, and she let out an 'Eh' sound.

"What are you surprised about?"

Seeing this, Broly also widened his eyes looking at her.

"You never told me this!"

Tina said.

"Uh..."

Only now did Broly recall that he indeed seemed not to have told Tina this matter.

"Then, are you unwilling?"

The Saiyan boy became somewhat nervous, recalling the multi-kneeling capture situation at the very beginning in this world.

"Uh..."

Miss Owl's hands fidgeted behind her back, and a faint blush surfaced on her fair small face.

"I'm not unwilling, just, do you not dislike my assassin identity?"

She asked in a small voice.

"Why would I dislike it?"

Broly was somewhat puzzled.

"I've killed many people."

"More than me?"

"Uh..."

Tina reacted, shaking her head.

"Then do you agree?"

Tina's lips moved hesitantly, then she lowered her head, letting out a faint 'Mhm' sound.

"Eh, eh, don't push~"

Just at this moment, the room was pushed open, and Aqua fell on the ground.

And on her body were respectively lying Aihara Enju, Sennju Kayo, Hiruko Kohina, Little Scorpio, and a cat-ear girl named Shichui.

Shichui, this child only joined the Scorpion Cult in the past week; the person who brought her over is named Xize Zhangmo, who is Satomi Rentaro's senior brother.

After discovering the girl was also a capture target acknowledged by the Crystal Palace, Aqua used Pope Authority to transfer this girl over to live here.

This was originally a very timid girl, but under the influence of Aihara Enju, Sennju Kayo and others, she can now even come eavesdrop on corners.

"I, I wasn't eavesdropping on purpose, I was just pulled over."

The cat-ear girl stammered somewhat, explaining the reason she appeared here.

"Tina, didn't expect you're actually an assassin, want to spar with me later?"

Hiruko Kohina was quite interested in Tina.

And Sennju Kayo, pressed underneath, gave Tina a thumbs up.

The Owl Factor girl's small face finally couldn't hold it in, like a ripe red apple.

"Aqua Master, this wasn't me pushing."

Aihara Enju was explaining.

"Yes yes yes, I know it wasn't you pushing."

Aqua climbed up, then said to Tina: "Little Tina, you made a correct choice, don't worry, no matter what your identity was before, from now on there's only one identity, and that is my Broly's wife, in the future as long as you properly listen to this Master's words, there absolutely won't be any problems."

"Mama, what is a wife?"

Little Scorpio asked from the side.

"Wife means important family member."

Aqua answered.

"Then Papa is also my wife?"

Scorpio pointed at Broly and asked.

"You should call your Papa husband, and you are his concubine."

Aqua corrected.

"I'm the concubine, Papa is husband..."

Little Scorpio mumbled, and since becoming human until today, she can already speak fluently.

Just, her personality is very simple; whatever Aqua says, she believes.

"Papa husband, husband Papa~"

Broly thereby gained two new forms of address.

"I come from NEXT, Promoter is Professor A. Rand's publicly forged Civil Security identity, and besides that, inside NEXT there are also some of my younger sisters, their rankings are all in the top hundred..."

After the blush period passed, Tina began introducing her situation.

If possible, she hopes her younger sisters can no longer continue doing assassin work.

And this time the Scorpion Cult's recruitment of high-ranking Civil Security is a very good opportunity.

That night, a certain underground military base in Washington suffered a visit from the Saiyan boy.

"Damn~"

The base was attacked, and the Cursed Children inside naturally counterattacked.

But unfortunately, their strength differed too greatly from Broly's, and they were easily knocked down by the Saiyan boy.

Erin, the one with the most explosive temper, let out such a roar, yet beneath the boy's feet, she simply couldn't get up.

"Professor A. Rand, first meeting. My Tina, she was previously in your care."

An Rand was somewhat taken aback; he had already realized this was Tina leaking the secret, but...

"No such thing; it was I who received more care from that child."

Recognizing the Saiyan boy, he replied with a smiling expression.

"I wonder, Broly-sama, you have come to my place — is there something you wish to instruct?"

An Rand asked.

"Tina doesn't want her younger sister to continue doing assassin work; coincidentally our Scorpion Cult needs some protection personnel, so we thought to provide them a new job. Wonder what you, as their guardian, think?"

Broly looked at the white-coated man before him and asked straight to the point.

"That is naturally excellent. Actually, I've long not wanted to take on assassination dirty work commissions either; it's just that in this country one has no choice, and to obtain better treatment, one must put in corresponding effort."

To this, An Rand surprisingly did not object; his attitude was so good it caught Broly somewhat off guard.

"I thought you would refuse."

"I still want to live a while longer."

Professor An Rand spoke the truth and recommended himself.

"Broly-sama, I wonder if your Scorpion Cult accepts research personnel like me?"

Broly: "..."

Originally thought it would take some effort, but the result was not so; An Rand was very cooperative.

And under his command, the explosive-tempered Erin directly gave up resistance.

The other few girls were the same.

"An Rand, you old stubborn fool, you actually betrayed the oath we once swore together."

When An Rand arrived in Tokyo bringing his subordinate assassin girls, Muroto Sumire, the Scorpion Cult's number one researcher, met him. Upon learning the girls by his side were all Cursed Children who had undergone mechanical modification, Muroto Sumire immediately began berating the man who was actually quite old, merely with dyed-black hair.

The so-called oath was that back when presiding over the New Human Creation Plan, the four executing scientists, to uphold their bottom line as humans, swore together not to perform mechanical modifications on healthy, non-disabled people.

"Although I betrayed the oath, at least I let these children live better."

An Rand defended himself.

"Raised as assassins by you, and you say they live better. Truly, scum is scum!"

Muroto Sumire looked at the man with disdain.

"Isn't it because there was no way? The New Human Creation Plan was halted midway; if I wanted to continue research, I had to solve the funding problem."

"Broly!"

"Wait, Doctor Muroto."

"What is it, Tina?"

"Doctor Muroto, although Professor An Rand used us as killing tools, under his hand we never suffered abuse.

Compared to other normal Cursed Children, our lives truly are better. Even if there is danger within, he indeed gave us a place like home. So, please do not harm Professor An Rand."

"Fine, but his mechanical modification research may cause him to keep seeking new Cursed Children to modify, yet that violates the Scorpion Cult's doctrine."

"Eh, Muroto Sumire, you can't speculate on me like that. I can also conduct normal mechanical modification research — for example, researching mechanical prosthetic limbs and internal organs more suited to the physically disabled.

If you're willing to give me the opportunity, I can even give up my current mechanical modification research and transfer to researching the Scorpion Cult's theology!"

"Hah, no wonder you old geezer climb the pole; turns out your aim is our Scorpion Cult's Purification Jutsu and Healing Waza."

"Muroto Sumire, you and I are both researchers; you should better understand the curiosity and desire to explore the unknown in people like us.

Your Scorpion Cult is aggressively recruiting top-ranked Civil Security combinations, presumably to ensure the sect's grassroots martial advantage.

As long as the Scorpion Cult is willing to employ me, not only will the few children by my side become the Cult's future loyal believers, I myself will also bring ample repayment to the Scorpion Cult thereafter."

Professor An Rand spoke and took out several USB drives, all of which were advanced technical data he had copied before leaving Washington.

Below were development data for various high-power weapons; above were new Monolith structural design diagrams to improve Varanium metal utilization efficiency.

"He wants to join, let him join. If this person has problems later, have Hiruko Kagetane cut him down."

Regarding Professor An Rand's shameless attempt to join the Scorpion Cult Research Department, Aqua held a don't-care attitude; talented people wanting to come be the Scorpion Cult's workhorses, she couldn't ask for more.

Of course, if the other party wants to do dangerous research — like researching her own daughter Xiao Tian Scorpio — then no need to be polite with them either.

As long as they dare show such signs, the moment they stick their head out, kill them instantly.

Having strength is confidence; even if Hiruko Kagetane can't handle it, there's still Scorpio. It's just a matter of explaining a few more sentences to Xiao Tian Scorpio.

"Pay more attention to that old man. If he's disrespectful to you, then..."

Aqua gave a thumbs-up and made a throat-slitting gesture on her neck.

"Understood, Aqua Mama!"

Xiao Tian Scorpio nodded in reply, face stern, learning from Aqua and also making the thumbs-up throat-slitting gesture.

(Chapter End)