Chapter 493: As fellow reincarnators, why is your treatment better than mine?

"Rudy, what's wrong?"

Broly looked at the boy who had suddenly sat down on the ground and fallen into a daze, then asked.

"No, nothing."

Rudeus snapped back to his senses, quickly climbed up, and waved his hand as he spoke.

"Mm."

Broly nodded, and judging from Rudy's Qi, he couldn't find anything wrong.

"By the way, you still haven't told me how you know my father."

Broly continued the topic from just now.

【Should I say it? Will I be killed if I don't?】

"Broly-san, if I don't answer this question, what will you do to me?"

Rudeus's voice sounded somewhat trembling, yet he asked anyway.

"Nothing much, this isn't an important matter."

Although Broly was a bit curious why Rudeus knew his father's name, even if the other party didn't intend to satisfy his curiosity, he wouldn't care too much anyway.

"Hah~"

Hearing such an answer, I felt some relief; the Broly before my eyes didn't seem to be the embodiment of violence aesthetics from the Dragon Ball movie I knew.

However, I couldn't rest easy yet, because the boy standing before me wasn't the version after he grew up.

I racked my brain, wanting to properly recall the Broly movie I watched in my previous life, but my interest in battle series really wasn't that great.

Although I had seen it, it had been so long that recalling the entire plot was truly difficult; if you asked me to recall some eroge, I could easily remember various details.

Damn it, my brain full of yellow games, quickly make me recall the passion of watching hot-blooded manga!

Perhaps under such coercion from me, my brain finally recalled some content.

Broly seemed to have done something like destroying a certain galaxy before growing up.

And the world I am currently in might be a planet he passed by when he was a child, and might even be destroyed by him casually.

"Broly-san, I can tell you the truth, but you must promise not to attack me, and not to get angry, okay?"

Because of such worry, I had to understand the other party's situation; if this place really was the Dragon Ball World, then I had better get on good terms with him, at least not let him destroy this world, so I said this.

"As long as you don't do anything to make me angry, I rarely get angry."

Broly indeed rarely got angry in this world, because the guys who usually made him angry often received a bento on the spot.

"I'm saying hypothetically, hypothetically if this world is actually a storybook, Broly-san, what would you think?"

I didn't use anime terms that natives wouldn't understand, but used words this world could understand to ask the Saiyan boy before me.

"Oh, I don't have any thoughts."

【Is it that plain?】

Rudeus complained internally, but then reacted—Saiyans and such were all a bunch of careless guys, right? Telling Broly the world was a storybook, he probably wouldn't understand or care, which was completely normal.

"That's good, well, I actually learned about you, Broly-san, from a storybook called 'Dragon Ball'."

I chose my words carefully and continued speaking.

"Dragon Ball?"

"Yes, Dragon Ball."

"Can you show it to me?"

"Ah, this, that thing isn't in this world."

Broly looked at Rudeus somewhat speechlessly.

"Of course, Little Brother absolutely doesn't mean to trick you."

Broly didn't speak, just looked at Rudeus, waiting for his explanation.

"I don't know, Broly-san, do you believe that people have previous lives?"

"I believe."

"I know you might not believe it, but I... huh?"

Rudeus stopped, almost thinking his ears had misheard.

"When I was a child, other memories would surface in my mind; back then I didn't know what they were, but now I think they're probably previous life memories, though I don't really care either way. Hey, Rudy, why are you looking at me with a ghost-seeing expression?"

Why am I looking at you with a ghost-seeing expression? Am I thinking that you have the persona of someone with previous life memories?

"No, it's just that this makes it easier to talk; I actually have previous life memories, and in my previous life's world, there were Dragon Ball storybooks there."

"I see." Broly nodded, then asked curiously: "So what is my story?"

"I see." Broly nodded, then asked with some curiosity: "Then what are my stories?"

Rudeus hesitated for a moment, but still said it out.

"You seem to be a Super Villain from a storybook."

Hearing this, Broly was somewhat speechless, but still shrugged: "Alright."

"Hey, Broly-san, aren't you angry?"

"Lately, haven't there been plenty of times I've played the villain?"

This left me speechless; in the play where my cousin the Knight saved Princess Sylphy, Broly was the best villain, every time making my cousin perform with great enjoyment.

Realizing this, I began to relax, and gradually told Broly his story, though only limited to what I could recall.

"The final story is like this: you died under Plot Armor Kill; well, Plot Armor Kill is like in knight stories, where the knight always defeats the villain and saves the princess in the end; although your power is terrifying, you were still eliminated by the needs of the story."

"The final story goes like this: you died under a Plot Armor Kill. Hmm, a so-called Plot Armor Kill is like a knight story — the knight in the end always defeats the villain and saves the princess. Although your power is terrifying, you were solved because the story needed it."

Broly nodded; sometimes when he acted out scripts with Alice, he would also be eliminated like that.

Broly nodded; sometimes when he acted out scripts with Alice, he would be solved like this too.

"So, Broly-san, you're saying you traveled to this planet with your father and are temporarily staying in this world?"

Rudeus exhaled, then asked.

"No, only I came to this world."

"Then what about your father?"

"He's in another world."

"On another planet?"

"No, another world, belonging to the world I'm from. Hmm, the story you just told is interesting, but I think it's probably not my story.

Because after my father Paragus and I were exiled to Planet Wanpa by King Vegeta, we never left that planet too far."

"Uh, but you..."

"I'm a bit special. There's something called the Crystal Palace in my consciousness, and it helped me come to this world."

This left me somewhat dazed, but through my inquiries, I came to understand the situation.

This isn't the Dragon Ball world; rather, Broly ran out of a Dragon Ball world whose plot I don't know, and came to this side.

As for why he came here, Broly's answer was quite sincere: simply to search for a wife recognized by the Crystal Palace. And Eris, Sylphy, and Teacher Roxy are the wives he found in this world.

"Then, Broly-san, are you a reincarnator too?"

"Perhaps, but I don't have detailed past-life memories, only occasional fragmentary memories that pop up from my consciousness. And those memories are mostly strange information, for example..."

Broly cited examples of memories that had once surfaced.

I confirmed it: the Broly before me should be a reincarnator like me, except he reincarnated into the Broly of the Dragon Ball world and lost most of his past-life memories, retaining only memory content similar to tsukkomi, and it's the spot-triggered type. And with age, Broly's own indifference has brought those memories to the edge of dissipation.

"Right, Broly-san, how old are you now?"

"According to the Crystal Palace, I'm 13 now. What about it?"

"Then this world shouldn't be your first transmigrated other world, right? What was the other world you transmigrated to before like?"

I was very curious about this and asked.

"Of course, I'm just asking casually. If it puts you in a spot, you don't have to say it."

Seeing Broly frown, I realized the other party might be a reincarnator like myself, but due to the loss of past-life memories, he might be basically no different from a native of the Dragon Ball world. In other words, the other party might have the Saiyans' violent temper.

"It's not that I can't say it, just that I've transmigrated to several worlds now, and the time span is a bit long. If I really told it, it'd be a very long story."

I put my mind at ease; as long as the other party wasn't displeased with my questioning, it was fine.

"No problem, just pick out the highlights and tell me."

I said this, and then listened to Broly's transmigration-and-wife-hunting story.

But the more I listened, the more I felt something was off, because the name of the first wife the other party found in his first world was very familiar to me.

What Ilya, Fujimura Taiga, Rin Tohsaka, Matou Sakura — does he really think I don't know Type-Moon, that I've never been a Moon Person?

Of course, the time point he transmigrated to seems to be during the Fourth Holy Grail War, not within the scope of the Fifth Holy Grail War I'm familiar with.

However, I know Saber participated in the Fourth Holy Grail War, so I asked: "What about the King of Knights Artoria? Have you met her?"

"Yeah, I have."

"Is she your wife too?"

"She's a capture target recognized by the Crystal Palace, but she didn't agree to become my wife."

Broly recalled carefully before answering.

"You didn't try a little harder?"

"Can't remember clearly, but I should have tried, right?"

"Even the you from childhood should possess power exceeding a Type-Moon Servant's, right? You could just force her to become your wife directly, couldn't you?"

When I said this, it was merely out of my own identity as a fanatical galgame enthusiast, angry at his failure to strive for a treasure he'd entered the treasury for, without the slightest awareness that I was treating another person as some kind of obtainable item.

"Forcing won't bring happiness, and happiness is very important."

Only upon hearing Broly's answer did I suddenly realize the other party's wife-hunting treated the Crystal Palace-recognized capture targets as people.

"What are you all talking about?"

Eris had finished playing by then, and at this moment she walked over with a dripping-wet Little Shilfy and asked.

"We're talking about some past-life things."

"Ahhh..."

"What's wrong?"

"This is a secret between the two of us. Is it really okay to just tell them directly?"

A secret like reincarnation and rebirth, I subconsciously felt was very important.

"What problem is there?"

Only after Broly counter-questioned me did I discover the other party was far more frank than me.

But I think this might be the confidence brought by powerful strength — even if people know he's a reincarnator, a transmigrator, so what?

"We're going home for dinner, what about you, Rudi?"

"Uh, I have to go home too."

"Then, see you tomorrow."

Under the dusk, Broly left with my female cousin and Sylphy as if nothing had happened.

【Ah, why?!】

At night, I lay on the bed, tossing and turning unable to sleep, the imbalance in my heart completely surging out at this moment.

Same reincarnators, why did the other party reincarnate into Broly's body, and even bring a capture cheat like the Crystal Palace?

I'm so envious, I want it so bad. The Crystal Palace and such — it's simply the ultimate fantasy artifact for a shut-in before death!

Of course, that's what I say, but if the price is losing most past-life memories and becoming no longer myself, it still makes me hesitate a bit. Even if my past life was terrible and not worth any attachment, I still don't want to lose this self's very consciousness.

Afterwards, I asked Broly about his other otherworld wife-finding stories; some I could recognize what world they were, like the Digimon one — that's a classic — but some I had absolutely no impression of at all.

And while hearing the stories of him finding wives, I also gradually realized that Broly, this person, his original motivation for finding wives wasn't some lustful heart, but simply that his life in his own world was too miserable.

Of course, according to his current saying, this situation has already been improved; now finding wives is just wanting to let more wives obtain happiness.

Damn it, envy-jealousy-hate emotions add another point; and the current me no longer has the worry about the previous world possibly being destroyed.

First, Broly isn't the Broly in my cognition; second, this world also isn't the Dragon Ball World, and doesn't have the Dragon Ball World's various dangers of planets being occupied and stars exploding.

"Rudy, hurry over and tell a story."

"Okay, Cousin Eris, I'm coming right over."

As repayment for Broly narrating other otherworld stories, I also narrated stories about the Dragon Ball World.

Of course, that wasn't Broly's story, because the Broly stories I know in the Dragon Ball World are only that many, and they don't match up, so it was Kakarot's story.

During this, it attracted Eris and Sylphy, making this story-listening thing become part of their daily routine.

But, the current me, although no longer having the worry about this world possibly being destroyed, has gained another big worry.

That is, some of the worlds Broly transmigrated to are anime worlds he knows, and many of the capture targets acknowledged by the Crystal Palace are heroines or supporting heroines with major roles.

Inferring like this, then the world I'm currently in, is it also possible that it's an anime world.

And Eris, Sylphy, Teacher Roxy, are this world's heroines or supporting heroines; building on this basis, then where is this world's protagonist?

Or rather, is this world's protagonist me, have I, without even myself knowing, already become the big cuckold whose original heroines and supporting heroines were randomly killed off by Broly.

Hmm, don't blame me for thinking this, after all I'm a reincarnator; according to normal story development, naturally I should be the protagonist, right.

Of course, having this worry doesn't mean I have the courage to oppose Broly; Broly is also a reincarnator, but his personality leans more towards a Dragon Ball World native.

Although compared to other Saiyans, the current Broly is more gentle, he still kills people.

In his wife-finding stories, although killing isn't mentioned much, by my estimation, the people who died by his hand are absolutely not few.

But this is normal too; even childhood Goku in Dragon Ball randomly killed others, let alone Broly, even if he isn't that movie-version violence aesthetics avatar.

"Sigh~"

"Rudy, what are you sighing for?"

The seven-year-old cousin grew tall and graceful, leaned over and asked the five-year-old me.

"Nothing."

What else can I sigh about; although over a year has passed, the concern is still there.

Even knowing Broly doesn't mind competing fair and square with me in normal capture, but he has the Crystal Palace, can see happiness value changes, it's just like having a cheat tool; my own cousin and Sylphy, I completely can't compete with him.

As for Teacher Roxy, very regrettably, before becoming a wife, Broly allows others to fair and square compete for capture targets, but if they become his wife and others dare have ulterior motives, that really will kill people.

I don't want to die, so even with three little beauties by my side, the me who was a lewd shut-in in my previous life doesn't dare do a single excessive thing, simply like a proper little gentleman.

【Calculating the time, that man in Broly's mouth should be coming to find us soon...】

The matter of one world having one reincarnator and one transmigrator, I've already accepted.

So, the matter that the world I'm in can actually time-loop, I also accepted after being surprised.

And the matter I've been conflicted about for over a year, precisely needs that man who can loop this world's time, named Orsted, to answer.

Twentieth loop, Dragon Calendar Year 411, late October, Orsted arrived at Buena Village; just approaching made the village's chickens not crow and dogs not bark.

Terrifying aura made all villagers who encountered him feel chills and trembling, yet the man ignored all this and stepped into the village.

(Chapter End)