Chapter 522: Return to Nappa Star, Warmly Greet Old Father!

Some changes in gravity made Broly realize he had truly returned to Nappa Star.

And the first thing he did upon returning to Nappa Star was open the Crystal Palace Panel.

He checked whether the abnormal time-space world of the Six-Faced World would affect the Crystal Palace's functions.

Then he saw the Crystal Palace display that everything was normal.

"Crystal Palace, which part of your functions cannot be used right now?"

Broly checked thoroughly, found no issues, and asked directly.

【Notice: All functions of this Crystal Palace can be used normally.】

The Crystal Palace replied immediately.

"But you said abnormal time-space would cause obstacles to the use of some functions?"

【Notice: This world's time-space is normal time-space.】

"What if I want to go to the Six-Faced World now?"

【Please go via the Cross-world Portal for a fee; the cost is……】

Broly fell silent, thought for a moment, then clicked the Group Chat Room.

And the Group Chat Room had gained many more conversations during the days he was out of contact.

At the very front was everyone worrying about his loss of contact; in the middle Aqua showed a very matriarchal bearing, stepping out to comfort everyone: 【Broly is powerful, definitely nothing will happen to him!】

However, not even a month had passed before it became 【Ah, my cute disciple still has no news, did something happen to him in the new world?】 — such left-brain-fighting-right-brain remarks, full of worry, forced the others to comfort her in turn using her own earlier words.

Broly watched Aqua Master's string of posts throwing a tantrum and rolling on the floor worrying about him, finding it both funny and heartwarming.

But now wasn't the time to read chat history; Broly quickly found Roxy and the others' avatars in the Group Chat Room and directly attempted cross-world contact.

"Is that Broly?"

Very quickly, Roxy's voice came from beside his ear.

"Roxy, how long has passed on your end?"

Broly asked directly.

"Uh, not long; you just went back and I received your communication on this side."

"Can you use the Crystal Palace functions normally on your end?"

"Ah, this, let's try."

Not long after, the Cross-world Portal lit up in Broly's Crystal Palace Space.

Roxy and the others, who had just parted reluctantly in the Six-Faced World, entered the Crystal Palace Space one by one, crossing worlds.

"I thought it would be hard to meet again in the future, but it turns out like this?"

Alice had cried before Broly left; even now the tip of her nose was still a bit red.

And now her mood turned somewhat frantic, feeling her parting tears had been wasted.

Because there was fundamentally no need to be sad; they could meet anytime.

As for the Happiness Points consumed by cross-world travel, they weren't even worth a glance to Alice, who had gained a massive amount of Happiness Points from the same world bug.

"Broly, how does the current situation count?"

Roxy asked curiously.

"Wait, let me ask the Crystal Palace."

Broly began questioning the Crystal Palace.

And before he returned, the Crystal Palace — which he had questioned and which had prompted him with 【Abnormal time-space may cause restrictions on some Crystal Palace functions】 —

now gave the same rigid reply as before: 【Everything in this world is normal; all Crystal Palace functions can be used normally.】

"Then if a time rewind occurs in the Six-Faced World now, what would happen to Roxy and the others inside the Crystal Palace?"

Broly asked directly.

The Crystal Palace paused for a while, then gave the answer: 【If a subordinate world undergoes a time-space rewind, then the Crystal Palace members belonging to that world will suffer the effects of the time rewind when they return to their own world.】

"What if they don't return?"

【This Crystal Palace's rule priority is higher than a subordinate world's rules; if they do not return, the subordinate world's changes cannot affect the Crystal Palace members who are in the Crystal Palace Internal Space and belong to that world.】

"Wait, then when I was in the Six-Faced World, how were you affected?"

Broly was confused; he hadn't forgotten that Roxy and the others would lose their previous-round memories and wife identities every round.

【This Crystal Palace's rule priority will be lower than the rules of the world the Host is currently in, and this is to reduce the rejection of the Host as an outsider by the isekai.】

"In other words, when I am in the Six-Faced World, you will be affected by the Six-Faced World's time rewind, but when I am not in the Six-Faced World, you conversely will not be affected by the Six-Faced World's time rewind — is that the meaning?"

【Yes.】

The Crystal Palace immediately gave a rigid affirmative answer, its attitude being: willing to follow that world's rules while in another world, but once out of that world, its own rules are the rules.

"Then when Roxy and the others suffer a time rewind in their own world, after the time rewind, will they still be forced to withdraw from the Crystal Palace?"

Somewhat uneasy, Broly posed another tricky question.

【This Crystal Palace's rule priority is higher than subordinate world rules.】

"That means the Six-Faced World's rewind will affect Roxy and the others, but their identities as Crystal Palace members will no longer disappear because of the time rewind, correct?"

【Host's understanding is correct.】

"What about memories?"

【Crystal Palace members' memories are protected by Crystal Palace rules; Crystal Palace rule priority is higher than subordinate worlds.】

Broly asked a whole series of follow-up questions before he fully understood the current situation.

The original worry that Roxy and the other wives might be assassinated by someone in the Six-Faced World — now there is completely no need to worry.

If such a thing truly happens, as long as Orsted rewinds time once, then no death will exist.

And in the Six-Faced World without Broly's existence, Roxy and the others' identities as Crystal Palace members will not be refreshed away; they should become like Rudeus who reincarnated and remembered his past-life memories — possessing the round memories from when they were wives right after being born or descending into the Six-Faced World.

The only drawback is probably that once the oldest wife, Roxy, is born, the Crystal Palace will synchronize with the Six-Faced World's time flow, and Broly estimates he will have to wait in the Dragon Ball World until the birth times of the other wives in the Six-Faced World arrive before he can see everyone again.

If a loop reincarnation occurs during this period, he would have to do it all over again.

And before that, everyone except Roxy will likely be in an abnormal state, unable to be contacted.

"So, keeping our world's current loop timeline continuing is our best choice, right?"

Roxy asked.

"Yeah, otherwise, besides Orsted and you all, the Six-Faced World will no longer have anyone else who possesses my memories."

Broly nodded.

【Broly, are you back?】

Right at this moment, a private message was sent over from the Group Chat Room.

【Aqua Master, I'm back.】

Broly sent a reply.

The next moment, the Cross-World Teleportation Gate lit up again.

Immediately after, a figure with the same hair color as Roxy, brimming with wisdom, appeared.

Upon seeing Broly, she flew straight over and pounced on him.

"Ah, Broly, you finally have news, I missed you so much~"

The Water Goddess Aqua pressed her soft chest against his face, hugging the boy into her embrace.

Not long after, the Cross-World Teleportation Gate shone with light again, and Darkness and Yunyun, who had received Aqua's message, also arrived.

As soon as they appeared on the Crystal Palace side, they ran toward Broly, and in the blink of an eye, they had the Saiyan boy completely surrounded.

"Hey, you guys, what exactly do you want to do with my Broly?"

Pushed away from Broly's side, Alice was a bit slow to react and hurriedly began shoving the others who were surrounding the boy.

"What 'my Broly'? This is clearly my Broly!"

Megumin shouted at Alice with some dissatisfaction.

"Megumin, don't be like that, saying it like that will cause conflict; we should say he's everyone's Broly."

The softer-natured Yunyun persuaded from the side; only members who have joined the Crystal Palace can enter it.

And this group of girls next to her are unfamiliar faces she hasn't met before, indicating they should be the new wives Broly found in the other world this time.

"As fellow wives, everyone should get along friendly."

"Yunyun makes sense, Megumin, you shouldn't use 'my Broly,' such a selfish way of speaking."

Darkness agreed from the side, though just now her face was buried against the back of the boy's head, sniffing hard.

"Shut it, a big cow with no mind of her own, a masochist knight always thinking about self-discipline, you don't understand I'm protecting our world's wife group's collective rights!"

Seeing her own world's people not helping her speak but acting as neutral mediators, Megumin directly started yelling at the two rudely.

"Demon King Megumin rarely did something protecting collective rights, but with the Crystal Palace's different-world wife groups increasing day by day, facing a newly appeared other-world wife group, my advice is to befriend them primarily, expand our world's say in the Group Chat Room, rather than directly coming out with a confrontational attitude."

Wiz, whose bust is not smaller than Yunyun's, pushed up the nonexistent glasses frame on her nose bridge, speaking with a strategist's air.

"You are Aqua Master, right? In my world, I often hear Broly mention you."

Roxy took the initiative to step forward and greet Aqua.

"Eh, is that so..."

Hearing this, Aqua was very happy.

"Who is this child?"

Seeing Roxy also had hair of a similar color to her own, Aqua asked gently.

"I am Roxy Migurdia. Nice to meet you."

After that, Sylphy and Ariel came over one after another to greet Aqua.

"Hmm, Broly, this time you have good taste; the wives you found are all very polite."

Just as she wanted to say something, someone @'ed her in the Group Chat Room.

【Aqua Senpai, don't neglect your duties during work hours and just leave the Heavenly Realm; the Chief God noticed you disappeared and came asking me where you went. I explained to the Chief God that you went to the Lower World to answer a believer's prayer. Please come back quickly, urgent~】

The one @'ing Aqua was Eris, and the Heavenly Realm of the KonoSuba World happened to be at its busiest time on a Monday right now.

Aqua, this Main God, suddenly running off gave Eris — who had only recently been transferred to her side by Aqua using Main God authority to assist with the myriad complicated affairs of the first workday after the holiday — a huge headache, especially since the Chief God just happened to come inspect the work right after Aqua left the Heavenly Realm.

"Ah, Master has to go back first. Broly, I'll come find you again after the holiday."

Aqua sprinted toward the Crystal Palace interior, the KonoSuba World's environment area, dropped those words, pushed the door open, and left.

Clearly also afraid her elite goddess persona would collapse in front of her top boss in the Heavenly Realm.

And in the KonoSuba World, besides the Goddess of Luck Eris who stuck to her post and didn't come, Lich Wiz, Princess Alice, and Evil God Wolbach also didn't come.

Wiz was busy running her shop, currently entertaining customers who had come in; and the Princess of Belzerg Kingdom who shares a homophone name with Alice was lecturing the knights of the Knight Corps gathered for training on the big playground.

As for Evil God Wolbach, she simply felt that just three months without contact was no big deal.

As a True God, sometimes a nap of hers might be calculated in years; moreover, she doesn't have as deep a bond with Broly as her disciple Megumin does.

While Roxy was soothing Alice and getting to know Megumin and the others from the KonoSuba World, Broly also posted news of his return in the Group Chat Room.

Three months out of contact; many wives who checked the Group Chat Room messages were asking questions like 【Is he okay?】 【What happened?】.

Broly naturally couldn't tell the actual situation he experienced in the Six-Faced World and make the other world's wives worry; he just replied one by one that he went to a place with spacetime disorder, lived well there, encountered no danger, and even found seven new wives.

"Eh, welcome newcomers (￣O￣)ノ!"

Seeing Broly's post, people quickly welcomed Roxy and the others below.

A string of +1s appeared under this sentence; Sylphy, who was watching the Group Chat Room, felt very surprised.

Nanahoshi Shizuka, on the other hand, was not unfamiliar with this Group Chat Room thing and quickly sent a thank-you reply on it.

During this, Lilith Beast X and Little Sakura sent messages wanting to come see him, but were stopped by Broly.

Of course, it wasn't that Broly didn't want to see them; it was just that before meeting, there were more important things to do.

"Don't rush yet, I'll upgrade the cross-world portal first, then come over when it's done."

Broly didn't hesitate, directly choosing to upgrade the cross-world portal.

【Cross-World Portal LV3, consumes 40 million Happiness Points (next level doubles), occupies additional 20 cubic meters of internal space, entering Crystal Palace across worlds costs 250 Happiness Points, crossing to another world costs 2500 Happiness Points, stranded fee in another world 250 Happiness Points, upgrade completion time: 11 hours 59 minutes 29 seconds】

Unlike the brief time used for upgrading to LV2, LV3 requires consuming more time.

"Ah, got scammed by that Aqua; if I'd known the cross-world portal could upgrade this time, we should've come later."

Seeing the cross-world portal start upgrading, Megumin shouted; her Happiness Points weren't many to begin with, she usually didn't bear to spend them, and the current situation was equivalent to just buying a product at regular price, then turning around and discovering it would soon be half price.

"I think it's fine; first-strike advantage is very important; at least we've already established a pretty good friendship with the new Crystal Palace companions."

After getting to know each other, Megumin and the others quickly chose to return; they also had some things to do in their own world.

And Roxy and the others also returned; if they didn't go back, being misunderstood as dead would be terrible when the Dragon God resets time.

As for Broly, he also exited the Crystal Palace; Planet Nappa still had his father Paragus, and some Bay Beast friends.

Things he couldn't say to his wives, he could say to his father; Paragus originally thought his son had only left Planet Nappa for three months, but upon hearing it was actually over three hundred years of time length, his eyes widened.

"Ah, Broly, after so long in another world, your spirit didn't develop any problems, right?"

"Aside from missing the people outside a bit, my spirit has no problems."

"That's good; by the way, did you bring back any food?"

"Wait, you're not going to say anything else?"

"What else would I say?"

Paragus was a bit puzzled; Broly looked at him, taking out Six-Faced World food.

After eating together with his father, he proposed: "Want to spar a bit, as post-meal exercise?"

"Cough, Broly, you sparring with me doesn't even count as exercise, right?"

"Relax, Dad, this time I learned suppressed-ki combat in that world, guarantee I won't use ki exceeding yours to fight you."

"Huh?!"

Hearing this, Paragus's eyes brightened, feeling he could finally regain a father's confidence, and hurriedly agreed.

Three hours later, Paragus returned bruised and swollen; his last shred of confidence as a father was gone.

In these three hours, he was actually beaten up by his son in a low-ki state using pure technique.

"Ah, I also really want to transmigrate, go to a world that lets me train combat skills for three hundred years!"

Paragus muttered with lingering regret.

【Phew, finally dealt with the Chief God; next, it's time to test the quality of this batch of Crystal Palace newcomers!】

KonoSuba World, Aqua, having just dealt with inquiries from her top boss the Chief God, thought this and opened the group chat room on the Crystal Palace panel, directly starting to slack off.