Chapter 495: Mission Must Be Achieved: Dragon God Orsted

"Senior Sister Roxy, I don't want to forget everyone!"

As the time of temporal reversion approached, Sylphy shrank into the embrace of the demon girl, speaking with tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry, Sylphy. Although temporal reversion will make us temporarily forget each other, once we rejoin the Crystal Palace, all our memories will return."

Roxy stroked Sylphy's soft green hair to comfort her. Sylphy was a gentle, dependent child who felt very uneasy about temporarily losing her memories after temporal reversion.

In contrast, Alice pulled on Broly's tail from the side: "Broly, since you've already married us, you must take proper responsibility toward us."

"If after temporal reversion, in the next loop you dare not take responsibility toward us, then even if Sylphy and Teacher Roxy are willing to forgive you, I won't forgive you!"

Alice's words made Broly laugh and cry at the same time. He'd have to be crazy to give up women who had already become his wives, but he also realized Alice was expressing her unease, so he used his tail to pull the girl—now not much smaller than him—into his arms.

"Not just the next loop—even the loop after that, and the loop after that, I'll take responsibility toward all of you."

Broly imitated Roxy's motion of stroking Sylphy's head and stroked Alice's red-haired head too, but since they were about the same height, he had to raise his hand, looking a bit strange.

However, after getting the words she wanted, Alice lowered her head like a cat, nuzzling and rubbing against the boy's arms.

"Does Sylphy want to go too?"

Roxy saw the girl in her arms, looked toward the situation over there, and asked.

"Is that okay?"

Sylphy at this age still lacked some decisiveness.

"Of course, Broly won't refuse you."

Hearing this, Sylphy wriggled out of Roxy's arms and ran over to Alice and Broly.

"Broly-brother, I want to too."

The green-haired and red-haired heads swayed in front of him; fortunately Broly had two hands.

"Then we'll go home first."

Although after temporal reversion, parents and family were still parents and family, they would lose the memories of this loop's experiences, so Sylphy and Alice still needed to properly say goodbye to their families.

After the two girls left, Roxy walked over, threw herself onto Broly's lap, and, imitating what Sylphy had just said, said to the boy word by word: "Broly-brother, I want to too~"

Roxy's sudden childish coquettishness left Broly stunned.

Their gazes met, and Roxy's cheeks gradually turned red, the blush spreading to the tips of her ears.

"I was just joking."

After reacting, Roxy lightly coughed once and said that, but just as she was about to get up, Broly placed his hand on her head and gently stroked it.

"If you want it, just take it. In front of Sylphy and Roxy, you're a teacher, but in front of me, you're just my wife."

"And Senior Sister~"

Roxy added in a small voice, then buried her face against Broly's abdomen, seemingly wanting to hide her shy expression at this moment.

"Say, Broly..."

Just as Roxy was becoming emotional and some fingertip-related pleasurable things were about to happen as a matter of course, Rudeus burst in.

"Ah, Teacher Roxy, Broly-san, I didn't mean to disturb you. It's just that your door wasn't closed."

Rudeus was a bit embarrassed. He had come to find Broly, but unexpectedly ran into the scene of the demon teacher and the boy being intimate and lovey-dovey.

"Cough, Rudeus, what's the matter?"

Roxy immediately sat up straight and asked about his purpose.

"I have something I want to ask Broly-san to do for me."

Rudeus pretended not to have seen the scene just now where Roxy had actively taken the boy's hand and led it under her skirt, then answered.

"Want something to drink?"

"Just a cup of tea will do."

"I'll pour it for you."

Roxy said this and left the living room as if fleeing.

"Broly-san, your life is truly enviable."

Rudeus said from the bottom of his heart.

"Speak. What do you want me to do?"

Broly asked directly.

"It's like this..."

Rudeus made his request.

"I hope that after temporal reversion, you can get to know me again. I don't want to forget the friendship and relationship between you, Teacher Roxy, and Cousin Alice and the others."

Rudeus said that, but in actuality, most of it was that he wanted to hug Broly's thick thigh.

"But you're not a member of the Crystal Palace. Even if I get to know you again, it's impossible for you to have this loop's memories."

Broly reminded him.

"I know that. But if I can meet Broly-san in every loop, that should be my good fortune. I hope Broly-san won't dislike me."

Rudeus said ingratiatingly, and it couldn't be blamed on him—not hugging such a thick Saiyan thigh would truly be foolish.

But speaking of not wanting to lose the friendship, that was also true. In his previous life, Rudeus had almost no friends, but in this life he had met Broly, Teacher Roxy, and Cousin Alice and the others, and these people were willing to play with him.

Honestly, Rudeus even felt that if he had been reincarnated as a girl in this life, he might even want to join Broly's Crystal Palace.

After all, Broly gave people a sense of security that was maxed out. For someone like him who lacked security, it held immense attraction.

Of course, Rudeus hadn't been reincarnated as a girl, nor was he gay, so this thought remained just a thought.

"That's no problem. Anyway, I'll still come to this side of Buena Village to find Sylphy at that time, and given her age, I can't possibly take her away from her parents."

Broly didn't mind continuing to get to know Rudeus. Although time in this world was reverting, he would also meet some friends who, within the reverting time, would always have their memories reset.

Like Water God Master, who belonged to the routine matters of getting to know each loop. And Death God Blueford, and Miss Nataea whom he hired to help pass messages each loop, and so on.

However, the matters of those people would be helped resolved by Orsted. Broly might not necessarily go get to know them every loop.

As for Rudeus, he is merely one among them, and one destined to refresh in this place, Buena Village, which he will come to in every loop thereafter.

"Right, Rudeus, do you still want to replicate the experiences of knowing us in this loop?"

Broly asked; there are many ways to re-acquaint, and different ways of acquaintance bring different feelings to people.

"Uh, if possible, I hope you, Broly-san, can speak frankly with me and tell me directly that in this loop, you are the big brother I acknowledge."

"Fine, but re-acquainting definitely requires making you believe me; do you have any secret that, once I speak it, will convince you?"

"That's simple: I am a Reincarnator with past-life memories; when the time comes, you just need to directly call out my Reincarnator identity, and no matter how absurd the matter, I should believe it."

"Your tea, Rudeus."

Roxy brought tea over at this time.

"Thank you, Teacher Roxy."

Rudeus accepted the tea, finished thanking her, and watched Roxy leave again; suddenly thinking of something, he added: "Of course, at that time I was definitely somewhat awful, not obedient like now. So, Broly-san, you must properly warn the me of the next loop not to harbor thoughts toward people he shouldn't, thoughts he shouldn't have."

"People he shouldn't harbor thoughts toward?"

"For example, Teacher Roxy and the others."

"So, you once harbored what thoughts toward them?"

"Feelings of admiration existed, but I definitely couldn't compete with you, Broly-san; so, Broly-san, make me give up hope early on — that's a good thing for me too."

Rudeus spoke thus, but in reality he knew his own nature well, worrying that the him of the next loop might be audaciously lecherous and do something obscene to Teacher Roxy and the others; once that happened, he was very worried he would be beaten to death.

Rudeus had already learned from Orsted that Broly would eliminate annoying fellows.

He didn't want to enter a fate of dying the moment he was born — a 'landing in a box' destiny — after some loop.

"Fine."

Broly agreed, and Rudeus left.

The next day, Broly went to Ars, and after obtaining this loop's Water God Style transmission, came to Dragon Roar Mountain with Orsted.

Compared to the previous loop, this loop's Time Reversal Battle had two additional spectator wives: Eris and Sylphy.

Cheered on by three wives, Broly fought a great battle of three hundred rounds with Orsted, finally ending the battle with the North God Style's Trick Swordsmanship.

Loop 21, Dragon Calendar Year 395, April: an Adventurer party from Licariss named the Fool's Party accepted an A-rank Commission to investigate the internal situation of the newly appeared Labyrinth at Winport.

To complete this Commission quest, the Fool's Party traveled toward Winport; on the way, they encountered a Merchant Caravan heading to Winport, and as long as they agreed to provide water and escort strength on the road, the caravan was willing to carry them partway on camel-beasts.

In May, Roxy and her Adventurer companions arrived near the newly appeared Labyrinth at Winport; Fool's Party Captain Hakkendru wanted to bid farewell to the caravan leader, but was pulled back by a responsible demon-girl.

"Captain, we are still in the middle of executing an escort Commission; as for exploring the Labyrinth, please wait until we reach Winport, regroup, and then come back."

"Eh, why not? Can't we just go explore the Labyrinth directly?"

Hakkendru was very disappointed.

"We don't even have a single Lantern on us right now; how can we explore a Labyrinth?"

"True."

Hakkendru was persuaded by Roxy; going to explore a Labyrinth without Lantern equipment is like going to the Toilet with a lantern — it's suicide behavior.

"Go this way; in just two days we can reach Winport."

The Employer pointed to the cliff and Tunnel Area on the right and said so.

"Won't a place like that collapse?"

Pig-Head Braze was somewhat worried.

"A detour would take at least half a month at minimum."

Horse-Head Nokubara looked at the map and said.

"I want to explore the Labyrinth quickly; let's go that way then."

Hakkendru hesitated no longer and headed toward the cliff tunnel region.

"No problem; don't be fooled by these tunnels looking like they'll collapse — actually they've maintained that appearance for many years; I've always walked this Path."

The large rabbit-like Employer stated sincerely.

"Rumble—"

Not two hours after entering the cliff tunnel region, a huge thunderclap sounded from the sky.

A heavy rain, very rare on the Magic Continent, poured down just like that.

"Ah, my goods mustn't get wet."

"Quick, take shelter in that tunnel over there."

Because of this torrential rain, we had no choice but to stay in a large tunnel.

Originally thought this heavy rain would stop soon, but the result was...

It rained for three days and three nights, with no sign of stopping.

Heard the caravan leader say this might be a Magic Power calamity seen once in decades.

Though the principle is unknown, in places where Magic Power accumulates on the Magic Continent, such meteorological disasters seem to occur.

"This rain is nothing, right? Can't we just brave the rain and go to Winport?"

Our Captain Drew didn't want to keep waiting here, but the Employer also had the reason that goods couldn't get wet, and the two had some disputes.

Roxy sighed, and just as she prepared to step forward to persuade the Captain, *boom* — a giant stone falling from the cliff crashed right in front of the tunnel entrance, blocking half of it.

"Bad; because of the heavy rain, the soil here has softened."

"What do you mean?"

"It means we must leave this area quickly, if we don't want to be buried alive here."

Faced with the danger of being buried alive, the Employer no longer cared about goods getting soaked and damaged, and drove the camel-beasts to rush out of the tunnel with us.

The torrential rain outside continued; in the jagged cliff tunnel region, one could occasionally see rocks falling from the cliff, or tunnels suddenly collapsing.

Watching the scene before me, I suddenly realized why this heavy rain was called a Mana Calamity.

"Can we survive?"

Roxy asked.

"We definitely can. Our team still has to reach the top of this world and become a legendary Adventurer team revered by all!"

Hakkendru gave a definite reply and calmly began to command.

"Braze, raise your shield, protect the Employer and Roxy."

"Come here quickly, Roxy."

"Nokubara, you open the path with me."

The Team proceeded forward; rubble fell constantly all around, and they even encountered an intersection directly blocked by a Giant Stone, seemingly leaving no choice but to go back toward the even more dangerous collapse zone behind them to Search for another Channel. Roxy stepped forward.

"As the grand Water Spirit, the Thunder Prince who reaches the Heavenly Court, with a majestic Sword of Ice, strike them down — Frost Strike!"

Roxy poured all her Magic Power into the only Frost Magic that might open a Channel, and succeeded in blasting a passable Breach through the blocked Path ahead, but her Magic Power was also exhausted. Just as she was about to collapse, she was caught by a Horse Head.

"The rest is up to you."

"Rest assured, Roxy. From here on, leave it to us."

"Nokubara, you protect Roxy well. Let's go!"

The Team continued forward, arriving at the final area after a series of scares but no real harm.

Hakkendru burst forth with power, slashing a falling Giant Stone heading this way in two.

"We're safe!"

Just as I, having recovered some strength and choosing to walk on my own, thought so too, Captain Hakkendru suddenly shouted toward me.

"Roxy, run!"

Rocks on the side cliff loosened; the Giant Stones falling at the Exit were not one, but two.

Just when I thought I was done for, a force from behind pushed me out.

Captain Hakkendru charged over and pushed me aside.

Because he had just unleashed his Swordsmanship, after pushing Roxy away, Hakkendru fell down. However, his face wore an expression of "Saving a Teammate was truly wonderful."

Just as Roxy was about to watch helplessly as this Captain was crushed to death before her eyes by the falling Giant Stone, a stream of light suddenly appeared in the world before her.

Orsted, clad in a white robe, arrived as promised. With one incomparably sharp Light Blade, he slashed to pieces the falling rock that would have crushed Hakkendru.

When he looked back at Roxy, the Demon girl, amid the emotional rollercoaster, was scared by the Curse he naturally carried, and wet herself in this world of heavy rain.

"Roxy Migurdia, what you asked me to do is already done. Remember: before Year 407 of the Jia Long Era, I will not allow you to have emotional entanglements with anyone.

In half a year, leave the team, depart the Magic Continent, go to the Miris Continent. Otherwise, I will kill your Companions..."

(Chapter End)