Chapter 503

"Say, Broly, when can we really go on an adventure?"

In the 40th round, spring of Dragon Calendar Year 417, under a tree on the slope of Buena Village, Alice lay on the boy's lap and asked.

"Haven't we already gone on adventures?"

Broly, who was folding tree leaves, looked strangely at the red-haired girl who was already 12 years old this year and looked much older than him, and retorted.

"I'm not talking about the experiential adventures you take us on, but real adventurer-style adventures—taking commissions at the Adventurer's Guild, using the sword in hand to deal with dangerous monsters, exploring labyrinths, defeating strong enemies, and earning rewards and reputation!"

"Sister Alice wants to undertake genuine adventurer adventures."

Sylphy summarized from the side.

"Exactly."

Alice nodded her head, completely unconcerned about the back of her head rubbing against Broli's Child.

"We'll probably have to wait another 11 rounds."

Broly thought for a moment and said.

"Ah, why so long? Can't it be sooner?"

"It can be sooner, but if you go adventuring outside before you're an adult, Alice, it will worry your family."

"We can just not let them know, like in some previous rounds."

"Alice, you don't really think your family just let you do as you pleased in previous rounds, do you?"

"Huh, isn't that so?"

"Ghislaine did her job of taking care of you properly; when you returned to the Boreas Family, she would report your situation."

"Oh, is that how it is?"

"Of course. Otherwise, do you think your father and grandfather could be so reassured letting you live outside with us alone?"

"But going on an adventure shouldn't matter, right?"

"Then they would worry."

"How about asking Ghislaine to keep it secret?"

"She is even more loyal to your grandfather; she won't keep it secret for you."

"But there's still you; you can prove that letting me go adventuring won't be dangerous."

Alice said again.

"If I frequently take action during adventures, then for you it wouldn't be an adventure, but just a purely observational experience."

"Ugh~"

Alice was impatient, but couldn't refute Broly's words.

She rolled around several times on Broly's lap before lifting her legs and jumping in place.

"So annoying, I'm going to practice sword!"

After saying that, Alice picked up the wooden sword beside her and went to the open space on the other side to swing her sword.

And this attitude meant she was willing to wait for the day real adventures began.

Broly and Sylphy, who was already a big girl at 10 years old, exchanged glances and continued teaching each other how to play the leaf flute.

On a bright afternoon, Rudeus arrived at this side of the slope and heard the melodious leaf flute music.

"Broly-san, listening to your flute, I feel like I've transmigrated to the world of Digimon and become one of the Chosen Children."

"Is something the matter, Rudy?"

Broly put down the leaf, looked at the boy walking over, and asked.

"My father wants to invite your family to come to my house for dinner tonight."

Rudeus said the reason he came to find them.

"Is it for Aisha's birthday?"

Sylphy asked.

"This is the only thing my father thinks he can do for Aisha: celebrate his daughter's birthday."

From Sylphy's reaction, Rudeus was certain that in the previous round, his father must have done something similar.

"We will take Aisha with us."

"Norn is also looking forward to meeting Aisha."

Norn is Zenith's daughter, a few months older than Aisha.

Because of this older brother Rudeus, the girl met her paternal half-sister.

And because they were similar in age, these two little ones got along quite well.

As soon as they met in the evening, they happily gathered together.

Zenith and Lili also greeted each other, discussing the difficulties of raising children, and their relationship was quite harmonious.

"Broly-san, please accept this little brother's bow~"

Paul Greyrat had drunk quite a lot of wine and suddenly ran over to bow down before Broly.

He was very grateful to Broly for taking in Lili and her daughter, but some things could not be said openly.

So, when somewhat drunk, he did this kind of absurd thing.

Just as he was about to make a drunken mistake and prepare to say some heartfelt words, Rudeus stepped forward in time.

"Father, you're drunk; let me take you back to sleep."

Rudeus walked over.

"No, I'm not drunk, I want to……"

From an angle where his mother couldn't see, the boy threw a precise uppercut that struck his father's chin.

Paul's drunken words stopped abruptly, and he was knocked out cold by his own son.

"Broly-san, can you help out?"

Broly nodded, helping Rudeus move Paul back into the room.

Then he said to the boy beside him: "With your father looking like that, I feel he'll eventually expose his affair with Miss Lilia and the birth of Aisha."

"Sigh, if we can delay it a day, let's delay it a day."

Rudeus could also see this trend of the truth being about to be exposed; he sighed and said somewhat helplessly.

"How about, in the next cycle, we just don't tell your father that Aisha is his daughter?"

Broly suggested.

"I think it's useless. My father isn't an idiot; he should be able to guess it."

"And my mother, actually, I feel she might have noticed a bit too."

"Lately, her attitude toward my father has become somewhat unfriendly."

"You've really worn yourself out for this family."

"Exactly, that's how it is."

Rudeus sighed, truly unwilling to see his parents fight.

"But compared to me, who only has memories of the current cycle and only needs to worry about current cycle matters, you, Broly-san, are the one truly worrying."

"Every cycle requires re-capturing Teacher Roxy, Cousin Ellis, and Sylphy and the others, yet you still have energy to help with things on my side."

"Re-capturing isn't difficult; just follow the steps and you'll succeed. It doesn't take much of my energy."

"But doing similar processes repeatedly must take a lot of patience, right? Don't you find it boring, Broly-san?"

That's what Rudeus said, and he truly thought so in his heart.

"No matter how excellent and attractive a Galgame is, after playing it over ten times and experiencing most of its content, you'll feel tired when continuing to play."

"And Galgames with average playtime under four or five hours are like that, let alone Galgames in reality."

"You know, every time Broly re-captures, it takes two or three years. I know how hard the spoiled and willful Cousin Ellis is to deal with, and how troublesome Sylphy's clingy, crybaby childhood was."

"But even so, how many times has Broly repeated the capture, and how much time has passed...?"

Just thinking about it, Rudeus felt Broly was basically not a normal person, at least not someone like him could achieve.

"Although it's a bit plain, I don't find it boring, and it's not exactly repeating the same process either; there are always small changes each time."

"For example, this time, Roxy was reading 'Roxy's Autobiography,' learning fairy tales written from my previous cycle's stories since childhood, and meeting me again with the premise of understanding future development directions."

"Even without recovering memories of previous cycles, she in this cycle seems like someone I've known for a long time..."

"Like an old married couple, with a similar heart-to-heart understanding."

Rudeus continued.

"Right, and under that understanding with me, she personally experienced the autobiography fairy tale she saw in childhood, and in reality was re-captured by me reenacting events from the fairy tale."

"Rudeus, you might not know, Roxy was so happy back then—after regaining her memories, she hid from me for two days."

"And..."

Rudeus: "..."

What else could he say? Listening to it, what should have been a boring repeated capture process was actually not boring at all, but was almost being played with flair by Broly and Roxy.

Things like writing capture manuals, the two discussing setting new capture scripts—although Roxy agreed to become Broly's wife as the final HE ending, the process of agreeing to become a wife was full of variety: romantic, forceful, touching, and so on, endless in number.

"Broly-san, stop."

Seeing Broly about to feed him dog food in a big way, Rudeus, his scalp numb, hurriedly called a stop.

"What's wrong?"

Broly looked at Rudeus in confusion; he had just spoken about his own role as a wandering swordsman in Cycle 33, befriending the wandering mage Roxy, and finally the two entering the marriage hall in a major capture cycle script.

"Nothing, I'm just amazed at your memory, Broly-san. If I'm not mistaken, this was at least decades ago for you, yet you remember it so clearly."

"You say that—this has nothing to do with my memory. It's just that after each cycle's stay duration ends, my body gets refreshed once. Even if I was full a second ago, I'd be hungry the next. And although memories continue, they're also refreshed once, feeling like they happened not long ago."

Broly explained the reason his memories remained fresh.

"So that means, even though you, Broly-san, have spent 40 cycles in this world, over two hundred years, you still remember everything that happened over those two hundred years?"

"No, I've actually forgotten many things not too important to me. I only remember things or people important to me."

Refreshing is refreshing, fading is fading; even if memories are refreshed once, it doesn't affect Broly continuing to fade some things or people not that important to him.

"Then do you miss your wives from other worlds?"

Rudeus curiously asked, and this question silenced Broly.

"Ah, Broly-san, if you don't want to answer, you don't have to."

Rudeus, having reacted, hurriedly tried to cover.

"I miss them, but it's fine. My memories of them have never blurred, and after I leave this world, only I will remember that I haven't seen them for a long time."

Rudeus stared blankly at Broly saying these words, very much wanting to ask if the other really understood: with each additional reincarnation cycle, only three months of stay duration is added; to go from the current 417 years to the year 500 of the Jia Long Calendar, exactly how many more reincarnations and how much more time are needed? But in the end, he remained silent.

After a while, Rudeus smiled and asked the Saiyan boy: "Then Broly-san, may I have the honor of becoming someone you remember?"

"I've helped you for so many cycles already; what do you say?"

Late summer of Jia Long Calendar year 417, Rudeus's family spread out and discussed Aisha's matter. After some twists and turns, Zenith compromised.

But not for Paul's sake—rather for Aisha's. She didn't want this child to not know who his father was. Of course, this didn't have too much impact on Aisha.

Having more fathers or fewer fathers didn't hinder her from growing up happily in Broly's home.

Early September of Jia Long Calendar year 417, Broly's family received Rudeus's invitation again.

"Today is my birthday, and your family, Broly-san, has helped me so much. Please let me express my thanks."

Rudeus took out his private money (earned from working part-time doing magic tests for Roxy). Knowing the cycle was about to end, he generously spent all the money and prepared a birthday banquet with abundant food.

But on the day after Rudeus's birthday, the sky suddenly darkened, and huge magic power suddenly appeared in the direction of Roa City.

Terrifying magic power poured down from the sky, spreading from the core region of the Fittoa Region. And before reaching Buena Village, an even more terrifying energy beam was detected by Broly, who had come out to check the situation due to sensing an abnormality, and was fired at the incoming magic power stream.

"What?"

Broly watched his own Energy Bullet vanish without a trace in the Magic Power Flow, and the next moment he himself was submerged by the Magic Power Flow.

By the time he came to his senses, Broly discovered he had appeared in the High Altitude ten thousand meters above, while his Energy Bullet seemed to have arrived at This Side ahead of him, blasting onto the vast Ocean below and creating a massive Breach in the Sea beneath.

Large amounts of water vapor evaporated and rose, massive quantities of seawater churned ceaselessly, and one could see some gigantic Ocean Magic Beasts, whether as living creatures or as Corpses, being swept along in this churning sea area.

Orsted, who had come over to find Broly, halted his steps, personally witnessing the distant Fittoa Region submerged by a terrifying Magic Power Flow.

"Transfer Calamity?!"

Orsted recognized what was happening above the Fittoa Region, hurriedly Summoned his Mount Tatsu, and rushed toward the Fittoa Region direction.

By the time he arrived at This Side, the Core area within the Fittoa Region was already a scene of ruins.

Be it Buildings or population, they seemed to have all vanished from this land.

Oh no, that's not right, there's still one person.

Outside the Roa City suburbs, at the exact center where the Transfer Calamity erupted, a black Changzhi girl Wearing a Modern Era Hospital Gown lay collapsed there.

(Chapter End)