Chapter 612

"Broly..."

"What is it, Aqua Master?"

"Don't return to your body yet. Sit here for me."

Aqua pointed at the spot where she had been sitting and spoke to the Saiyan youth's soul.

Broly didn't know what his master intended, but he obediently sat where she indicated.

The moment he sat down, Aqua also smiled and hugged his physical body, settling into his spirit body's embrace.

"It used to always be you sitting in my lap. Now it's finally my turn as your master to sit in yours."

Aqua tilted her head back, her face flushed, wearing a sly smile. Her white neck, framed by water-blue hair, extended into the blue-and-white sailor-style goddess uniform. A pale green butterfly bow tie covered her full chest, beneath which rested the head of her own childlike physical body.

"My spirit body is a bit hard. Are you comfortable sitting like this, Aqua Master?"

Broly felt that if it came to a human cushion, Aqua Master's soft body was still the best.

"I find it quite comfortable. A firm chest, defined abs — being held by someone with your large build gives your master a real sense of security. Of course, if you leaned back a bit so I could lie completely on you, that would be even better~"

Aqua acted spoiled toward her disciple. Broly complied, letting the goddess master lie on his spirit body.

"Broly, I feel like something's poking my butt from below. Is that your tail?"

"Aqua Master, my tail isn't there. I think that's my..."

Aqua hurriedly climbed up and covered her disciple's mouth. She feared this honest disciple would say more and this chapter wouldn't pass review again.

"Broly, I think you'd better go back into your body first."

"Huh? Aqua Master, didn't you want to lie in my arms?"

Broly looked at her with some puzzlement.

"I do want to lie in your arms, but..."

Although Aqua acted like an old driver, as a goddess she was undoubtedly pure in the physical sense. She was just a little afraid of accidental discharge.

Of course, if Broly were smaller, she'd probably be quite willing to sneak ahead of the other Crystal Palace members and taste her disciple's soul spear.

However, a spear the thickness of an infant's arm gave her some trepidation. She doubted whether it could really enter her body.

"Alright, holding you is tiring for your master. Hurry back into your body."

Aqua ultimately didn't explain, simply returning the physical body to Broly in spirit state.

Broly scratched his head, unable to fathom what his master was thinking, but obediently returned to his body.

His perspective shrank again. He jumped twice in place.

Although the large spirit body hadn't felt unfamiliar, he was indeed more accustomed to his small physical body.

"Broly, come here~"

Aqua patted her fleshy thighs, beckoning her disciple over.

After Broly rested his head on his master's lap, he suddenly realized.

So his master just wanted to give him a knee pillow.

"This is how it should be!"

Aqua stroked her disciple's fluffy hair, nodding in satisfaction.

A warm reunion scene between master and disciple should be like this.

As for what just happened, it could have completely developed from a surface story into an eroge. Better not to speak of it.

Seeing his master looking quite happy, Broly didn't disturb her.

He just watched the thing blocking half his vision, sometimes trembling lightly, sometimes shaking.

Aqua Master and Jianshan Huangquan are completely different types.

One trains often, has almost no excess fat, the taut type.

One neglects training, often sneaks potato chips, the soft type.

"Right, haven't asked yet. What about your prospective mother-in-law's soul?"

As she stroked, Aqua noticed the vegetative woman beside them and asked the disciple on her lap.

"The land god below told me her soul is in the Tsuchimiya Family's inherited spirit beast's core. I'll retrieve it."

Mentioning proper business, Broly answered seriously.

"How do you plan to retrieve it?"

Aqua asked curiously.

"I haven't decided yet. Kagura said to maintain the happiness impact to generate the most happiness points. I don't know whether to come clean with her and the others. If I do, I can directly get Byakuei's killing stone from the Tsuchimiya Family."

Broly confessed honestly.

"Come clean about what? Just keep hiding it."

Aqua waved her hand.

"Wouldn't that be not too good? As it stands, my prospective mother-in-law should be revivable."

"What's not good about it? Even if you hide it, you'll definitely still get Byakuei's killing stone, won't you?

And since either way can revive someone, of course we choose the option that maximizes benefit."

Aqua is quite calculating. She firmly supports whatever benefits her disciple.

"Then I'll follow Aqua Master's advice."

Broly nodded.

"Don't move your head around. You're making my legs itch."

The white shadow ninja stood to the side. It felt it shouldn't be here, but should be hiding outside in the light.

After waiting on the rooftop for about twenty minutes, Sanzu Kawahiro returned with a coffin.

"Aqua-sama, everything is entrusted to you!"

The butterfly youth knelt on the ground, while the female ghost behind him still seemed rather dazed and confused.

The coffin was lifted, the lid opened, and a putrid stench emerged; inside the coffin lay a rotting female corpse.

Aqua pinched her nose, glanced at the female corpse once, then turned her head to look at Sanzu Kawahiro for a final confirmation.

"You're sure you'll do what you said, right? If you dare go back on your word, I'll have my cute disciple teach you a harsh lesson!"

"As long as Aqua-sama resurrects my mother, I will become Aqua-sama's most devout believer!"

Sanzu Kawahiro said, banging his head heavily against the ground.

Seeing this, Aqua didn't hesitate and directly cast a Resurrection spell on the corpse inside the coffin.

The rotting corpse regained the appearance of fresh flesh and blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And after the body was resurrected, Aqua used the Lotus Staff to push the dazed female ghost back into her own body.

After the body absorbed the soul, the woman in the coffin opened her eyes.

"Didn't I die? Why am I here?"

The woman was somewhat bewildered by her situation; she seemed to have no memory of becoming a ghost after death.

"Mama~"

Sanzu Kawahiro then excitedly lunged into the coffin and embraced his mother.

After an explanation, the woman finally learned that she had been resurrected.

However, her complexion was not good, because the only method of resurrecting people she knew of was the power of the Nine-Tails.

"Kazuhiro, how could you abandon the family's responsibility and use the Killing Stone and the Nine-Tails' power without authorization to resurrect me?"

"Ah, Mama, I didn't..."

"By doing this, I would rather lose my life."

Just as the woman was scolding her son, she was interrupted by the dissatisfied Goddess beside her.

"What Nine-Tails' power? This is clearly my Aqua's power! What are you two doing? Trying to pretend it didn't happen?"

How should I put it? Aqua sometimes reads the atmosphere well, but sometimes she doesn't; and when she doesn't read the atmosphere, she sometimes becomes someone's savior — just like now, she suspected this mother and son were putting on an act to welch on her hard-earned fee.

This interruption could only be called a stroke of genius; Sanzu Kawahiro, who was at a loss facing his strict mother, suddenly found an opening to explain himself.

"Mama, I didn't use the Nine-Tails' power to resurrect you; I prayed to Aqua-sama to resurrect you. Aqua-sama is a Main God from the heavens; a lower-world monster like the Nine-Tails isn't even worthy of carrying Aqua-sama's shoes!"

"Eh?"

Aqua tilted her head; for some reason, at this moment she sensed a dense power of faith from the butterfly youth before her, directed at her as a Goddess. The faith he provided was almost on par with those devout believers in the KonoSuba World's Axis Cult who had believed for over a decade.

After an explanation, even explaining that the lady Tsuchimiya lying dead next to them had also been resurrected after death but not yet fully successfully, Sanzu Kawahiro's mother, Lady Sanzu, hurriedly stood up and bowed repeatedly to Aqua in apology.

"Aqua-sama, I will forever remember the grace of your resurrection. Whatever you need, we will surely repay!"

"No need to be so polite; just make sure your son does what he promised."

Aqua waved her hand; she likewise sensed faith toward herself from the woman. Though not as devout as her son's, she still counted as a shallow believer, and toward believers, Aqua had always been relatively tolerant.

"Kazuhiro, I'm sorry; it was Mama who wrongly accused you."

The woman nodded, then apologized to her son beside her. Sanzu Kawahiro felt a bit guilty; if he hadn't defected to the Shadow Ninja, encountered Broly-sama, and then met Aqua-sama, he estimated he might truly have become someone his mother might never forgive even after resurrection.

【Fortunately, none of that happened.】

Thinking this, Sanzu Kawahiro's faith in Aqua grew a few degrees more devout.

"Right, you want to join the Axis Cult? Then you might need this."

Upon receiving the Axis Cult Doctrine Handbook handed over by Broly, and flipping to the doctrine allowing believers to evade responsibility, Sanzu Kawahiro felt his consciousness buzz with a *dong*, as if a lost lamb had finally found its home.

"Eh, why are you crying?"

Broly looked at Sanzu Kawahiro suddenly shedding tears, thinking something had happened, and asked.

"Broly-sama, I'm just too moved. I never expected our Axis Cult's doctrine to be so generous, that Aqua-sama actually understands me so well, *sob sob*..."

Sanzu Kawahiro couldn't contain himself; he, who had always wanted to evade family responsibility, had always been treated by his father as a cowardly, incompetent, unqualified family heir.

But now, he saw the Axis Cult doctrine allowing believers to evade responsibility — how could he not be moved, how could he not feel a sense of belonging?

"Aqua-sama, I'll go back and prepare the fine wine. Besides, this is far from enough.

I believe the mortals of this world should hear the Gospel you bestow.

So, I boldly request Aqua-sama to grant me the right to spread your faith in this world on your behalf!"

"Eh, there's such a good thing? Then of course, the more believers the better!"

Aqua agreed directly.

Broly: "..."

He suspected whether the Doctrine Handbook he gave Sanzu Kazuhiro had been engraved with mind-control magic by KonoSuba World's Axis Cult believers, but cross-world mind-control magic shouldn't work either, right?

Broly couldn't understand how his summoned beast's ox-and-horse employee just directly job-hopped to Aqua Master's camp.

However, the Black and White Ninjas' play is almost over anyway; if the other party wants to job-hop, let them job-hop. Master's happiness is most important.

Food Spirit World, the future Grand Pope of the Axis Cult branch, clutching the thin yet world-shaking wisdom-filled Axis Cult Doctrine Handbook, bowed deeply to Aqua once more before preparing to take his freshly resurrected mother home.

Broly instructed Sanzu Kawahiro and his mother before they left not to spread the matter of Lady Tsuchimiya recklessly.

The two nodded in agreement.

"Aqua Master, are you coming back with me, or should I have the White Shadow Ninja look after you first?"

Since he still had to keep concealing things, Broly couldn't discard his current identity; so he still had to go home and play the Isayama Family's adopted son. But Aqua and Lady Tsuchimiya's resurrected bodies needed separate arrangements, so Broly asked his Master's opinion.

"Me? That's obviously going back with you."

Aqua said as a matter of course.

"But my current identity is the adopted son taken in by the Isayama Family; Sister Huangquan and the others probably think I'm an orphan with both parents dead."

"Doesn't matter; I'm not your parent, I'm your Master."

"So, Miss Aqua is the master who taught Broly scrubbing techniques?"

Jianshan Huangquan's complexion was strange, looking at the blue-haired girl suddenly brought home by Broly, she asked.

"That's right, it's me. If you don't believe me, I can give you a demonstration."

Aqua made a motion of rolling up her sleeves, eager to try and said.

"No, I believe you. Broly indeed has very powerful, helping-people-scrub craftsmanship."

Jianshan Huangquan waved her hands repeatedly.

"So, Broly, before, you were always scrubbing people in the women's bathhouse?"

Tsuchimiya Kagura then asked curiously.

"I think he probably hasn't scrubbed men before, right?"

Aqua looked at Broly.

"No."

Broly then shook his head and answered; this service he had always used on his own wife.

"Anyway, we met by chance on the road, then I lost my job, Broly said he wanted to repay me, so he brought me home."

Jino Setsuna: "..."

Isayama Meifu: "..."

They all felt Aqua was somewhat unreliable, especially the other party's water-blue hair unlike common sense, and overly young beautiful appearance, completely not like the other party self-proclaimed to be a thirty-something working adult; saying she was younger than them, they would all believe it.

"So, Broly, you choosing a water-blue phone, is actually also because of your master?"

Jianshan Huangquan then thought of something, suddenly asked the boy.

Hearing this, Broly was stunned, subconsciously took out the slide phone from his pocket.

Aqua looked over; upon seeing the water-blue slide phone, her eyes narrowed into crescent moons, revealing a happy expression.

"Hmm."

Broly thought carefully, felt it really was so, then nodded.

"Ah, Broly, this kid~"

Aqua pounced over, directly hugged him in her arms and rubbed.

Isayama Meifu and Jino Setsuna made eye contact, then nodded at each other.

Although this person's identity was somewhat suspicious, but without doubt, the other party's current appearance indeed showed abnormal fondness for Broly.

Then...

"Master Aqua, if you don't mind, why not just stay at my home for now."

Jianshan Huangquan spoke, directly inviting the superficially unemployed Aqua to stay at home.

"Eh, why do you also call me Master?"

Aqua glanced over and asked.

"Isn't this proper? You are Broly's master, while I am Broly's older sister, so, speaking by seniority, you are my elder."

Aqua: "Huh?!"

She looked at Jianshan Huangquan, suddenly had a kind of mother-in-law looking at son-in-law, the more she looked the more pleasing feeling.

And following Tsuchimiya Kagura and the others also calling her Master one after another, Aqua felt this batch of soon-to-join Crystal Palace newcomers were the most polite girls she had ever seen.

(Chapter End)