Chapter 480: The Dragon God Who Ate a Mouthful of Dog Food

"What are you writing?"

Broly curiously leaned over and asked, and Roxy had no intention of hiding it, openly displaying the small notebook in her hand to the boy.

"Roxy Migurdia Strategy Guide — Authored by Roxy Migurdia?"

Broly read it out, wearing a face full of question marks.

"After the next loop's regression, I'll definitely forget you for a period of time again. To make it convenient for you to capture me, I'll prepare a strategy guide belonging to myself."

"At that time, before the time regression, you remember properly. After the next loop, you'll definitely be able to capture me more easily."

Roxy explained like this, and this was 【True Self-Capture】.

"I actually remember it all — what you like to eat, what you like to do, how you like to be treated."

"Is that so?"

The demon girl's face was somewhat red.

"Uh, mine definitely isn't comprehensive. After all, sometimes I can't figure out what you're thinking either."

"For example?"

"For example, at the start of this loop when you shouted 'Senior Sister' at me, you were somewhat resistant, but later you accepted it. I don't understand why."

"That's naturally because at first I felt unaccustomed, then I got used to it, so I accepted it."

Roxy and Broly spoke intimately, reviewing the boy's effective capture methods this loop and her own changes of heart.

"It's getting late. Let's continue on our way."

The two discussed while eating, and after finishing the food, Broly once again carried Roxy on his back, letting the girl continue experiencing first-person flight mode.

Broly didn't fly too fast, nor did he go in a straight line — one moment soaring in the high altitude, the next skimming low over the ground at high speed.

Occasionally he would stir ripples on the water surface, deliberately making noise to attract sea beasts. When a sea beast broke the water surface and opened its huge maw, looking like it was about to swallow them flying low above the sea level, Broly would accelerate a tiny bit, breaking free from the beast's jaws by a hair's breadth.

Roxy experienced the sensation of riding a fantasy-version roller coaster this way. Broly could feel Roxy's nervousness, and the excitement after the nervousness. They advanced while playing around like this, and two days later, found Orsted on the Long-Eared Race's territory in the Great Forest of the Milis Continent.

"How did you come here, and even bringing Roxy Migurdia?"

Orsted felt somewhat surprised at Broly's arrival carrying the demon girl.

"The Human God invaded Roxy's dream."

"Eh, your wife became a Human God Apostle?"

"No, just that the Human God, through her, told me the locations of the other two capture targets."

Broly explained to Orsted the conversation with the Human God in Roxy's dream.

After listening, Orsted fell silent for a moment, then asked: "Then Broly, what do you think?"

From a purely profit angle, the price the Human God offered had already surpassed him.

"Unmasked capture targets are no different from strangers to me."

Broly answered.

"If Roxy is my most important wife in this world, then you are one of my most important friends in this world."

Hearing this, Orsted's rigid face couldn't hold. He hurriedly raised a hand to cover the corners of his mouth that wanted to curve up, suppressing his voice as he continued: "Other friends, besides the Death God, who else was there?"

"Water God, North God, Oni God, Sword God... these all count."

Broly counted the people he knew in this world. Although the people of this loop might not necessarily know him, Broly still treated them as friends or teachers.

Roxy reached out and tugged the boy's shoulder. When Broly turned back to look at her strangely, the girl asked: "Those Gods you mentioned — don't tell me you mean the current era's God-Rank powerhouses?"

"Mhm, that's who I mean. In other loops I had dealings with them. They're either my friends or teachers who taught me skills."

Broly nodded in answer, then immediately pointed at Orsted and said: "And the one before your eyes is the current Dragon God, Second of the Powers."

The smile on Orsted's face was gone. The number of people counted as this boy's 【friends】 seemed a bit many.

"However, if we're talking length of time spent together and relationship, my relationship with Orsted counts as the best."

Broly added.

Hearing this, the Dragon God who had just lowered his hand from his face twitched the corners of his mouth twice involuntarily.

"We're just ordinary friends."

He explained this to Roxy.

Roxy: "..."

Due to the curse, in her eyes Orsted looked like a terrifying monster, but right now he seemed to be desperately suppressing joy in his heart — looking extremely creepy, yet somehow with a subtle comedic feel, a total sense of clipping through a filter.

"Back to business. I think accepting the Human God's suggestion is fine too."

Orsted said.

"Eh?"

Broly looked at him somewhat surprised and asked: "You don't want me to help you beat the Human God anymore?"

"Broly, do you still remember my initial request?"

Orsted counter-asked.

"Wasn't it to have me help you solve the Demon God King Laplace who'll revive in Dragon Calendar Year 500, and then let you successfully go to the World of Nothingness to beat the Human God?"

"Correct. Then let me ask one question: Is the Human God the Demon God King Laplace?"

"Uh, no."

"Then that settles it. I never asked you to help beat the Human God. The Human God's demand to you is the same as if he hadn't made one."

Broly thought carefully and found this logic indeed had no flaw.

"Right, Broly. Before this, did you ever think about directly making a move on that Human God guy?"

Orsted asked again.

"I have. That Human God guy pisses me off. If there's a chance to beat his main body, I absolutely won't mind doing it."

"That's right. The Human God can't accurately predict the situation on this side. He only knows you'll make a move. Therefore he proposed this mutually non-interfering demand."

Orsted's guess was pretty much right; he had fought the Human God for so long that just by seeing that guy lift his butt, he knew what kind of fart the guy was about to let out.

"So, as long as that guy's advice isn't problematic, you can listen to it; there's no need to consider me."

【Mr. Orsted is really a good person, it's just that his gaze is a bit too terrifying.】

Roxy, who had heard of the grudge between the Human God and the Dragon God, thought to herself, but the trembling caused by the curse on Orsted's body still made her unconsciously hide behind Broly.

Perhaps feeling her behavior was a bit rude, Roxy found a topic and asked: "Mr. Orsted, what are you doing in this place?"

Roxy felt that if the other party needed help, she and Broly could just help out together.

After all, she also knew that her husband's daily expenses were all funded by this Dragon God beside them.

"I'm preparing to ambush a thief regiment here."

Orsted did not hide what he was preparing to do and answered the girl's question.

"Mr. Orsted, do you have a grudge against that thief regiment?"

Roxy asked tentatively.

"No, there isn't."

Orsted shook his head.

"Huh, then why do you want to ambush others?"

Orsted stopped speaking, only turning his gaze toward Broly.

"Uh, Roxy, Orsted should be killing for me."

"Hmm?"

Seeing the demon girl's confused and blank look, Broly explained to her that his self from other loops had once been recognized as a ranger by the Long-Eared Race.

"That thief regiment is a slave capture team; I don't like those guys, and I often dealt with them in previous loops, but after finding you, I wanted to stay with you, so Orsted offered to help me handle it."

"Ah, can it be like that?"

Roxy's little mouth opened wide.

"This is just mutual help between friends; Broly helped me defeat a strong enemy in the future, and I just help him handle some trivial matters."

"Although I have to do it all over again in the next loop, anyway I don't have much to do other than training my combat skills."

"Uh, Orsted, when this loop ends, I won't fight you anymore."

Broly felt that having others handle trivial matters and having others train combat skills was indeed a bit excessive.

"If I don't fight, wouldn't my training in this loop be for nothing?"

Orsted refuted.

"Let's just fight, and this kind of fight is also beneficial to me; at least after my skills improve, when I go to the World of Nothingness to deal with the Human God alone, I can be more relaxed."

"What about those trivial matters..."

"In the next loop, I'll take care of everything before Year 407."

"Uh, okay, but the trivial matters on the Asura Kingdom side in this loop, I'll handle them myself."

"Mm."

After the two finished communicating, Roxy, realizing something, immediately asked: "Mr. Orsted, after you and my husband rewound time, didn't you return to the same time point?"

"No, Broly returned to the Strife Plains area in September of Year 407 of the Jia Long Era, while I returned to the Dragon Roar Mountain Ruins in January of Year 330 of the Jia Long Era."

Because of Broly's relationship, Orsted didn't hide anything from the demon girl.

"Ah, so early, then don't you have to wait a long time every time?"

"Is seventy-seven years considered long?"

"Even by the lifespan of our Migurdia Tribe, that's nearly half a lifetime for one of our people."

"Perhaps I spent too long in the time rewinds, and now I've become somewhat numb to the passage of time."

"Calculating by how much time you can help increase my husband's stay in this World each time he rewinds, by Year 500 of the Jia Long Era, wouldn't there still be reincarnations..."

"352 times; if each time the time is stayed until the very end before rewinding, there should be over seventeen thousand years. What's wrong?"

Orsted's calm refutation instead made Roxy not know what to say; the girl thought for a moment and asked: "For such a long time, don't you feel it's long?"

"Before meeting Broly, the time I spent to defeat the Human God was even longer, twenty or thirty thousand years; I can't remember anymore. In those loops, I ended in failure every time, and this kind of reincarnation made me feel very tired."

"Until I met Broly and received his promise, I knew I would definitely succeed in my revenge after more than three hundred rewinds, so this kind of waiting, no matter how long it takes, won't feel long to me."

Roxy felt a chill in her heart; when she heard the grudge between the Human God and the Dragon God from Broly's mouth, she didn't have a deep feeling, as if listening to a story.

But now, hearing Orsted's words with her own ears, she gained some understanding of his level of hatred toward that Human God.

Of course, she didn't come to ask about this; the topic just accidentally extended.

"Mr. Orsted, can I also ask you for a favor?"

Roxy's face turned a bit red, because in the end, she also wanted to trouble the other party.

"What is it?"

Orsted cast his gaze over, but the moment they locked eyes, Roxy's whole body stiffened, and a bone-chilling cold spread from her back to her entire body.

"Sorry, go ahead."

Noticing the demon girl had stiffened, Orsted realized he might have frightened her, quickly looked away and said.

"Haa..."

Hugging the boy beside her, Roxy took a long breath before speaking the thing she wanted to ask for.

"I want to ask Mr. Orsted, in May of Year 392 of the Jia Long Era, could you help me save someone in the Tunnel Area north of Winport?"

"Save who?"

"The captain of my first adventurer party, Hakkendru; he was the one who took me into the adventurer party after I left my village and gave a 14-year-old me a place to belong. I was well cared for by him, but to save me, in the A-Rank Transport Request in May of Year 392, he was crushed to death by a giant stone from a tunnel collapse, smashed to pieces; the only thing left intact was the hand that pushed me away and fell."

"I've always remembered him, and this is also my life's regret. Captain Hakkendru was a very good person; he had his own dreams and shouldn't have died for me. I thought there was no chance to change it, but you showed me an opportunity. I beg you."

Roxy came before Orsted, enduring the fear brought by the curse, and bowed to the Dragon God to make her request.

"I can understand wanting to save someone who once died for you, but please forgive me for refusing this request."

"Ah, why?"

Roxy raised her head and asked.

"This kind of thing shouldn't be very difficult for you, right?"

Broly also looked over with some confusion.

"If something like a fate turning point undergoes a huge change, a person's fate will also change greatly as a result."

Orsted explained, then gave an example: "For example, if that person named Hakkendru were saved, Roxy Migurdia, would you still go to Ranoa Magic University to study?"

"Uh, probably not."

Roxy hesitated for a moment, shook her head, and answered. She had shut herself in for some time in Winport after the adventurer party disbanded following the captain's death, discovered a ship leaving the Magic Continent, wanted to see the scenery of the Other Continent that Teacher Bardikand spoke of, and thus chose to board the ship and leave the Magic Continent, which led to her studying at the magic university.

"But even if I don't go to the magic university anymore, that's fine, right?"

Compared to what happened after going to the Other Continent, Roxy hoped more that the captain who once saved her life could survive.

"This brings up another issue."

"What issue?"

"Roxy Migurdia, I ask you, did you ever have feelings for the captain of your first adventurer party?"

"Huh?"

"Answer yes or no."

"Uh, yes."

"Then, if he hadn't died and you hadn't recovered your current memories, you and him would have had the possibility of further development."

"By then, would you face my friend Broly as someone else's wife?"

Orsted's tone was very serious.

"Ah..."

Roxy opened her mouth wide, wanting to refute, but felt it wasn't impossible.

Although she could be certain that she loved the boy now, she couldn't be certain that her seventeen-year-old self would like a boy she didn't know at all.

"Broly, are you willing to see this kind of situation?"

Orsted asked the Saiyan again.

"Of course not."

Broly gave the answer without hesitation. He didn't want to see Roxy becoming someone else's wife.

But, seeing Roxy looking somewhat disappointed, Broly thought for a moment and said: "Orsted, save that person."

"Huh?"

Orsted looked at him in confusion.

"This is a regret Roxy wants to make up for, so let's just make it up."

"What if she becomes someone else's wife?"

"Then I'll steal her back."

Orsted: "..."

"This isn't playing house, what do you mean stealing me back if I become someone else's wife..."

Roxy also felt somewhat amused and exasperated, but to say she wasn't moved by the boy's words would be false.

"Forget it, let past regrets stay in the past. I definitely don't want to become anyone's wife except Broly's."

Compared to making up for past regrets, her own boy was a bit more important.

As for Captain Hakkendru, she could only silently say sorry to him in her heart, counting it as a debt she owed him.

Orsted didn't know what dog food was, but without a doubt, when he heard Broly ask the girl if it was okay, and the demon girl looked at him with somewhat melting eyes and answered that it was okay, goosebumps rose all over him.

"Stop, Roxy Migurdia. If you don't mind me scaring you in the next loop, I can agree to help you save that guy named Hakkendru."

The Dragon God interrupted the lovey-dovey show in front of him and said.

"But I don't want to become someone else's wife."

"This kind of thing isn't necessarily going to happen. Even if it did, I would intervene and stop it before that kind of thing happened."

"Tell me about your original fate trajectory before Year 407 of the Jia Long Era. I will pay attention to you in the following loops and conduct a certain amount of interference in your life."

"Ah, wouldn't that be too much trouble for you?"

"It is somewhat troublesome, but who made you Broly's wife, Roxy Migurdia? Be glad about this identity."

(Chapter End)