Chapter 464

Hearing Hitogami's words, Orsted's eyebrow twitched.

He wasn't merely interested in this matter; he had been dreaming of it.

"But, Hitogami's main body is in the World of Nothingness. How do you intend to hit Him?"

"Hit Him in a dream."

Broly answered as a matter of course.

He truly couldn't deal with Hitogami offline in reality, but online he could.

This loop's Hitogami didn't know him yet; he just needed to release his Ki Sense a little.

Given that guy Hitogami's situation of seeking him out every time, there was a high probability he would continue to seek him out this time as well.

"But wouldn't doing it like that be somewhat meaningless?"

Orsted frowned and asked.

"Don't you underestimate dreams. This is an ability I learned from succubi of other worlds, and I've already become able to restore dreams to a degree close to reality.

So even if it's a dream, the pain brought by striking inside it is incomparably real. For those with insufficient willpower, if they die in the dream, there's a risk they'll die in reality too."

"Then what do I need to do?"

"First eat dinner, then bathe, relax your mood. After that, stay away from me, so you don't disturb me luring Hitogami in. Once I've lured Hitogami into the dream, you just lie down next to me and sleep. At that time I'll pull you in."

"But how will I know if Hitogami has entered your dream?"

"That depends on you watching my expression and acting accordingly. My meeting with Hitogami is in a Deep Dream. Although I can't maintain conscious awareness outside, I can synchronize the dream's expressions to give you hints."

"Understood."

Returning to the inn, finishing the pre-sleep preparations, the plan to lure Hitogami into a dream for a beating commenced.

In the World of Nothingness, most of Hitogami's energy was focused on watching His own future, but a small portion was placed on the Outside World.

In the World of Nothingness where there was nothing, watching the Fate Trajectories that people of the Outside World would experience was Hitogami's main way to pass the time.

And sometimes, He would grant revelations to people of the Outside World. Usually He gave good revelations first, and when the other party trusted Him, He would suddenly stab them in the back.

Very few people would discover the problem lay with the revelation, and wouldn't blame the tragedies they experienced on Him. But after those people experienced despair, Hitogami would still show great kindness and tell them the truth, then watch them, at the end of their tragic lives, regret believing in Him, regret believing in the matters of the dream revelation.

At those times, He would even step out to mock those people's lack of effort, laugh at them for actually entrusting their lives to Him, an unknown god, to control. He praised their foolishness, appreciated their pain...

You ask if this feels good?

Honestly, watching those people of tragic fate want to hit Him yet be powerless against Him, He simply felt incredibly good.

Just, today was slightly different. A powerful aura suddenly appeared in Future Sight. This made Hitogami perk up and probe toward the owner of that powerful aura.

Then, right on a bed in a luxurious inn room, He discovered a sleeping boy.

After merely a brief pause, Hitogami infiltrated the other's dream.

"Hitogami, finally meeting you again."

Upon entering the dream and seeing that boy, the other party put on the air of an old acquaintance and greeted Him.

"Who are you?"

With three parts vigilance and seven parts curiosity, Hitogami asked.

"I'm Broly. I'm your friend!"

Broly bit down heavily on the word "friend," and proceeded to tell Hitogami about the previous sixteen loops.

Listening to the story of the Dragon God, himself, and the Broly from another world.

Hitogami was first surprised, then delighted. The situation where Future Sight remained bright made Him choose to believe the boy's words.

"So, you've already defeated the evil Dragon God Ten?"

"Right."

"How about this? I'll continue helping you search for your fated target, but you also continue helping me defeat the evil Dragon God. How about it?"

Hitogami asked.

"Regarding this matter, you'll have to ask Orsted's opinion."

"What do you mean?"

"His meaning is: you're in for terrible luck!"

When the sound rang out from behind, Hitogami's lower back was also pressed down by Orsted's hand.

Dragon Saint Battle Aura burst forth. Hitogami's lumbar vertebrae emitted cracking sounds, and He was blasted away.

A wall emerged from the white mist. With a bang, Hitogami was slammed onto it.

And this was precisely the wall of the Immortal Demon King Atofy's Colosseum.

"Pulling you into the dream, strengthening the dream, really takes time. Good thing that guy Hitogami is quite concerned about your existence."

Broly said to Orsted who had entered the dream.

"Why? Aren't we friends?"

Pulling himself out from the wall, Hitogami questioned Broly.

"Before the seventeenth loop we were. In the eighteenth loop, when I discovered you used lies to exploit me to deal with Orsted, we weren't anymore.

And now in the nineteenth loop, I again discovered you deceived me even while helping me find Capture targets. So, you have to pay the price."

"Think you can deal with me? Do you have the capability? I am a god, a true god!"

"Bang—"

Broly's figure vanished from the spot. When he appeared, his foot was already kicking Hitogami's faceless face.

"Why are you this fast?"

Broly first gave the other a combo series of punches and kicks, beating Hitogami until he had no power to fight back, then kicked him toward Orsted with one kick.

In response, Orsted directly unleashed a Hand Blade Light Blade combo on Hitogami, tearing his skin and flesh, directly rending him into tatters.

"Two against one — if you've got the guts, fight me one-on-one fair and square!"

"Who'd fight fair with the likes of you? Right now, you're nothing but a stress-relief tool for us."

"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, ow..."

Human God finally reacted — the earlier bad premonition wasn't a hallucination; it was just that the beating happened in a dream, not in reality, so his Future Sight couldn't see it, but this pain right now is real.

Broly and Orsted teamed up in the dream, the two of them pummeling Human God all night until dawn in the outside world ended the thrashing.

"Ah, this is the best night's sleep I've had in all these years — thank you, Broly!"

Orsted woke up refreshed and sincerely thanked Broly, then asked if Broly would continue beating Human God tomorrow.

"Can't continue — I can't actively link into that guy Human God's dream; he has to come to me before I can trap him in the dream. And do you think after us two wildly bombarding him all last night, he'd still possibly come looking for me on his own?"

Hearing Broly's words, Orsted felt a touch of regret — such a great thing as painfully striking Human God, unexpectedly couldn't happen again.

"However, next loop, we can do it again."

Immediately after, Broly added another line.

At those words, Orsted froze, his serious face quickly curving at the corners of his mouth into a faint smile: "I suddenly find myself looking forward to the next loop."

For Broly, beating Human God was just incidental — the moment he found Roxy yesterday, he had a purpose in this world.

"Still short nine Ranoa Silver Coins — if I factor in daily living expenses, after paying university tuition I need to keep at least three Ranoa Silver Coins in savings, otherwise I'll be that strapped."

Counting the total assets in her money pouch, Roxy couldn't help but sigh — Ranoa Magic University's magic learning resources are good, but attending here costs too much.

"Roxy, good morning."

Just as the demon girl was thinking of going to find Teacher Ginas to ask him to write a recommendation letter, a clear voice greeted her from the side.

"Good morning..."

Roxy subconsciously replied, then reacted and asked in surprise.

"Wait, Young Master Broly, why are you here?"

"Obvious — once I learned you're a student here, I decided to enroll."

Broly answered as a matter of course.

"How did you enroll?"

Roxy subconsciously asked.

"A friend of mine has a bit of money power — I took the magic stones he gave me and handed them to this academy's director; the director happily shook my hand and approved my enrollment application."

Roxy: "..."

She'd almost forgotten — at Ranoa Magic University, anyone with money can attend.

However, that's not the school's problem — it's that all kinds of magic research simply burn too much money.

If not for rich people's kids enrolling with high sponsorships.

Then this school's various magic research projects definitely wouldn't be so many.

Even more impossible to reach the point where as long as students here graduate, the graduation certificate equals a bloodline certificate, proving a person's excellence.

On the Central Continent, Ranoa Magic University's graduation certificate carries enormous weight — because graduates are either talented people or financially capable people.

"Then congratulations are truly in order, Junior Brother Broly."

Roxy looked at the boy with dead-fish eyes, congratulating him insincerely.

"Are you worrying about money?"

Broly asked — he'd heard the demon girl's muttering just now.

"A bit short on cash."

Roxy didn't deny it.

"I have money, I can give you some."

Broly pulled a money pouch from the Crystal Palace and held it out to Roxy.

The pouch was stuffed full; from the slightly open mouth, Roxy saw a flash of gold-yellow.

A whole pouch of gold coins — no wonder he's the fool... cough, the generous figure who posted a find-person commission.

"Thank you for the kindness, but this is your money, not mine."

Roxy refused — as the saying goes, unsolicited kindness hides ulterior motives; moreover, the boy genuinely has an agenda.

Even if Broly looks very young, at thirteen she knows some noble children are already fooling around with their maids at that age, even having kids isn't rare.

And she has no intention of selling her body's purity right now.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing the demon girl decline his money and detour around him, Broly hurriedly followed and asked.

"The library."

Though wary of the boy, Roxy still answered — on account of yesterday's meeting fee.

"Can I come with you?"

"As a newly enrolled magic university freshman, don't you have classes to attend?"

"I'm self-funded — this academy's director gave me Free Student status; I can move freely, choose to attend classes or choose not to."

Hearing that, Roxy's mouth twitched — just how many benefits did the other party give the director for Ranoa Magic University's director to grant such absurd treatment?

"The library's function is borrowing books — many books inside are esoteric; are you sure you can understand them?"

Roxy was somewhat doubtful.

"No problem — if I can't understand the books, I can watch you."

Broly said as a matter of course — perhaps it'd been too long since he encountered a capture target; even just watching this demon girl, Broly felt happy.

"Junior Brother Broly, if your appearance looked even a little older, saying that kind of thing would count as sexual harassment."

Roxy retorted.

"But you look like you don't mind me teasing you."

Broly looked at the Happiness Value on the Crystal Palace Panel rising slightly and said with certainty.

"I'm just being a bit tolerant toward you because you gave me one Silver Coin as a meeting fee yesterday, so don't misunderstand."

Roxy hurriedly denied it, but her ears were a bit red.

Although the words 【not reading books, but looking at you】 just now were Broly's objective statement spoken truthfully, to the ears of the demon girl, they made her somewhat shy.

After all, no one had ever said such things to her, and these words meant 【those profound and precious magic books in the Library are actually not as good-looking as she is】.

This sounded a bit subtle, but for Roxy, who valued magic knowledge, this already counted as flirtatious words.

It was similar to what some playboys would say to women: 【this flower is beautiful, but you are more beautiful than this flower】.

"You want me to write you a Recommendation Letter?"

Ginas looked at the demon girl in front of him, frowned, and asked.

"Yes, Teacher Ginas. I want to obtain the tuition reduction for excellent students at the Magic University, and that requires a teacher's Recommendation Letter."

Roxy maintained her bowing request posture and did not hide the reason she wanted the Recommendation Letter.

"But why should I write a Recommendation Letter for you?"

Ginas asked.

"You'd better write it."

Broly rolled up his sleeves, full of threatening intent.

"Who is this?"

Ginas curiously looked over.

"A child who enrolled today, a Free Student specially approved by the Orphanage Director."

Roxy explained in one sentence, then pulled Broly to the Side.

"Asking Teacher Ginas to write a Recommendation Letter is my business; please don't intervene, okay?"

"Uh, alright."

Looking at the demon girl's serious Small Face, Broly nodded.

"Teacher Ginas, please don't quibble with this child either."

Roxy said to the white-robed man again.

"I certainly won't quibble."

Ginas nodded. He had actually already received the news sent out by the Orphanage Director this morning that the Academy would increase funding for Magic Research Projects led by Mentors this year, and he thought it was a benefit brought by this boy full of wealth who enrolled today.

"Roxy, I will only write Recommendation Letters for my students. If you want my Recommendation Letter, then join my Water King-tier Magic Research Project and become my student."

Ginas looked at Roxy and said again.

"Eh, with my current level, can I join Teacher Ginas's research project?"

Roxy asked with wide eyes.

"I recognize your talent in water magic. As for whether you have the qualification to join my research project, it depends on your own Effort."

"Then the Recommendation Letter..."

"I can write it for you first, but if you later fail to meet my requirements for guiding students, I will also expel you from my research project."

"Thank you, Teacher Ginas. I will work hard."

"You should call me Mentor now."

"Yes, Mentor Ginas."

Roxy was very happy.

With the Recommendation Letter, she only needed to earn enough one Ranoa Gold Coin to guarantee three months of stable study life at the Magic University.

"Young Master Broly, can you stop staring at me?"

The demon girl raised her head, looking at the boy's Gaze beside her while reading, not knowing why it made her especially concerned.

"Oh."

Broly obediently stopped looking at Roxy, but instead stared at the cover of the book she was reading.

After a While, Roxy raised her head again.

Seeing the boy's Idle appearance, she couldn't help but Sigh.

"If you really have nothing to do, I recommend you read this 【Magic Power Beginner】."

The demon girl took a basic magic theory book from a bookshelf in the Library, handed it to Broly, and said.

Broly did not refuse. After taking the book and flipping through it, he found that the knowledge of Magic Power Circulation recorded inside was somewhat similar to the magic he had learned in the KonoSuba World, and since he could understand it, it wasn't boring.

In the Evening, after Roxy stretched and came out from the book knowledge, she discovered the boy beside her was still looking at the book she gave him in the morning, and had already flipped to the last page.

"How is it? Is there anything you don't understand?"

Roxy liked studious children. Thinking that she was the one who recommended the book to him, she actively asked.

"I understand everything."

The magic basics Wiz taught him were much more complex than this.

Of course, due to the difference in Worlds, there were some differences in Magic Power Circulation.

But during the period of reading and experimenting, Broly had already found the most efficient Magic Power Circulation method.

"Uh, did you learn magic before?"

"I did."

"No wonder. If there's anything you don't understand, you can come ask me."

"Okay."

"Gurgle..."

Just then, Roxy's stomach suddenly growled.

This was only natural; after all, she had been reading books all day.

"Do you want to go together..."

Roxy was just about to ask Broly if he wanted to go to the University Cafeteria to eat when a piece of rose-colored dried meat was handed over by Broly.

"Eh, Beast Race wind-dried meat, where did you pull this thing out from?"

"Crystal Palace. Do you want to eat it?"

Roxy swallowed her saliva; if it were money, she would definitely refuse, but right now it was just food.

"I'll pay you back."

Having said this, Roxy accepted the boy's feeding.

The chewy and fragrant wind-dried meat brought a look of satisfaction to the demon girl's face.

At the same time, it also made her subconsciously overlook an important matter.

"Is the Library a place for eating?!"

Appearing behind them at some unknown time, the Librarian Chief's roars made Roxy, reacting belatedly, pull Broly along, chewing the dried meat in her mouth while apologizing and running out.

"What if we get banned from the Library? What to do?"

Once outside, Roxy started to worry a bit.

"It's fine. At that time, I'll give her a condition she can't refuse."

(Chapter End)