Chapter 614: Aqua: Eh, Evil Spirit, Does That Count as Dangerous Too?

"Watch over her, don't let her run around everywhere."

Broly instructed the White Shadow Ninja with a sentence, then stepped on the spot and returned to the home at the seaside villa.

"Aqua Master's technique is truly amazing."

Isayama Huangquan and the others walked out of the bathroom with faces flushed red, their words full of praise for Aqua's bath scrubbing technique.

"Of course, I am the Water Goddess; when it comes to the ability to cleanse and purify, I am a professional!"

Aqua raised her head and stuck out her chest, her white T-shirt trembling slightly.

"Water Goddess?"

Tsuchimiya Kagura voiced her doubt.

"Ah, this is just a nickname, a way people praise my superb bath scrubbing technique."

Aqua reacted to having misspoken and hurriedly supplemented with a sentence.

【A Water Goddess with superb bath scrubbing skills in a large public bathhouse, how truly subtle~】

The girls looked at her, and in their hearts they actually produced the same thought.

"Broly, we've finished washing, you go wash quickly."

Isayama Huangquan saw the boy arrive at the living room carrying a fruit platter and said a sentence to Broly.

"Okay."

Broly glanced at his own master, then agreed with a sound.

"Broly, I'll help you scrub your bath~"

Aqua understood and hurriedly spoke.

"Eh?"

The girls looked over in surprise, and Aqua tiptoed and followed into the bathroom.

"Broly's master truly takes care of him~"

Jino Setsuna said, and the others nodded.

"Just don't know why someone with such superb bath scrubbing technique as Aqua Master would be unemployed."

"Uh, Meifu-nee, when you go to a large public bathhouse to bathe, do you let someone help you scrub?"

"I don't know."

"Hm?"

"Because I've never been to a large public bathhouse."

Isayama Meifu said as a matter of course.

"I have been, but I've never had the habit of letting a stranger scrub me."

Jino Setsuna spoke.

The crowd, unfamiliar with this aspect, after a round of discussion, reached a conclusion: the bath scrubbing industry might be a sunset industry, and young people nowadays don't go to large public bathhouses much.

Even if they do go, they don't really like hiring bath scrubbers to scrub them.

So, it led to the result that bath scrubbing talents like Aqua Master, who possess the title of Water Goddess, miserably suffered unemployment.

"Aqua Master scrubbing for us might be to show her own value, not wanting to become someone who eats free meals in this home."

Isayama Huangquan speculated thus, and everyone felt it was quite reasonable.

"Sister Huangquan, you won't drive her away, right?"

Tsuchimiya Kagura tugged Isayama Huangquan's sleeve, seeming somewhat worried.

"You little lass, does your sister look like that kind of person?"

Isayama Huangquan pinched the girl's cheek; not to mention Aqua has superb bath scrubbing technique, even if she didn't, just based on the identity of being Broly's past bath scrubbing technique master, the young girl wouldn't mind replacing the boy to support her in old age and see her off.

"Ah-choo~"

In the bathroom, Aqua, who was scrubbing Broly's back, suddenly sneezed.

"Aqua Master, did you catch a cold?"

Broly turned his head and asked.

"Hah, how is that possible, I am a goddess; not to mention getting sick or catching a cold, I won't even experience birth, aging, sickness, and death."

Aqua washed her hands clean, rubbed her own nose, feeling it might be due to the body wash.

"Maybe the smell of this body wash is too pungent, which made me sneeze."

Pausing a moment, she then continued to ask: "Could it be that a native god of this world, because they couldn't find the soul we wanted, gave you such a piece of false information, making you go retrieve a soul that wasn't your future mother-in-law's, causing you to stuff the wrong soul into your future mother-in-law's body?"

Broly pondered for a moment, then nodded: "It's not impossible; once the Sheep Talisman can be used again, I'll go into the Great Spirit Vein and ask that group of Land Gods."

After Aqua helped Broly wash his body carefully and came out, Isayama Naraku just happened to return home, and this one-armed old grandfather brought back news for the household that the Tsuchimiya Family Spirit Vein Land was attacked and the Inheritance Ritual was destroyed.

"Ah, Uncle Nara, is my father okay?"

Hearing this, Tsuchimiya Kagura's face was full of anxiousness; having already lost her mother, she didn't want to lose her father again, even if her father was usually quite strict with her.

"Don't panic, Kagura, your father is fine."

Isayama Naraku raised his hand and pressed down, letting the girl sit down first.

"He merely suffered Spiritual Backlash from the Inheritance Ritual being destroyed; it's nothing serious, recuperating for two or three days will let him recover, and what's most important right now should be you."

"Me?"

"The Spirit Vein Land where the Inheritance Ritual was held has already encountered attacks twice; the first time, your mother's corpse was snatched away."

"Eh, my mother's corpse was snatched away?!"

Tsuchimiya Kagura widened her eyes, yet stood up again.

"This isn't the point; a corpse after death is merely a skin bag."

Isayama Naraku comforted with a sentence, then continued speaking.

"Initially, Director Shinguuji inferred from this that the person who took your mother's remains did so to decipher the Tsuchimiya Family's bloodline, thereby obtaining the method to subdue Byakuei.

Afterwards, the incident of the Black Shadow Ninja Spirit attacking you occurred, stopped by White Shadow-sama, thereby letting us learn the specific situation of the Twin Ninja Spirits.

And upon discovering they could not deal with you for the time being, and the Inheritance Ritual was about to be completed, the Black Shadow Ninja Spirit once again launched an attack on the Spirit Vein Land of the Inheritance Ritual.

But although the other party seized Byakuei, they may not necessarily be able to subdue Byakuei; after inference by me and Director Shinguuji, the Black Shadow Ninja Spirit's next target should still be you, the purpose still being to decipher the Tsuchimiya Family's bloodline, to revive the Great Youkai — the Nine-Tails……"

Broly just stood to the side listening; if he weren't the mastermind behind the scenes himself, he would probably find Isayama Naraku's explanation very reasonable.

Of course, aside from some flaws in the details — for example, if they want to decipher the Tsuchimiya Family's bloodline, why not directly arrest Tsuchimiya Kagura's father? Or the hidden information that reviving the Nine-Tails actually doesn't require deciphering the Tsuchimiya Family's bloodline at all.

"We must strengthen our protection of you." Isayama Naraku said, then asked again, "Right, has White Shadow-sama come to the house recently?"

"Not recently; Father, White Shadow Teacher said the things it can teach us have all been taught, the rest requires us to comprehend ourselves, and it must go deal with its own dark side, saying it will only come guide us again if there is an opportunity in the future."

Isayama Huangquan spoke the truth.

"Is that so……" Isayama Naraku pondered for a moment, then said to the few people: "Huangquan, during this recent period, if you can go out less, then go out less."

After their strength had greatly increased, Isayama Huangquan and the others had not stayed cooped up at home, but now it seems they have to turtle up again.

"This group of people has been worked by you and the well-arranged plot into this nervous, tense state; when the truth is revealed later, will there really be no problem?"

Aqua sent a private message to Disciple in the Group Chat Room, asking.

"No problem; Sister Huangquan and the others promised that if I deceive them in the future, they will also forgive me once!"

Broly appeared full of confidence.

On the day he discovered that his performance, in the eyes of others in this world, was actually that of a super genius, Isayama Huangquan and Tsuchimiya Kagura said many words of apology to him about not intentionally concealing it.

Although Broly didn't care much about this, he still took the opportunity to extract from the two a promise of forgiveness for if he deceives them in the future as well.

"Eh, a woman's mouth is also a lying demon; although they are a young woman and a girl, you still need to be careful, don't go too far, lest when the time comes they don't forgive you and even lower your Happiness Value."

"Rest assured, Aqua Master; Sister Huangquan and the others are still relatively credible; what they say they will do."

"Huh, Broly, are you insinuating something about me?"

"Of course not~"

"Who is this?"

The master and disciple's private exchange was interrupted; Isayama Naraku looked over.

He had wanted to ask for a long time; after all, Aqua sported a head of eye-catching water-blue hair.

It's just that when Broly came out just now, he was halfway through speaking on this side, and it wasn't good to stop.

"Hello, I'm Aqua, I'm Broly's Master!"

Aqua directly stepped forward and began her self-introduction.

"Eh?"

Seeing the look of surprise on Father's face, Isayama Huangquan hurriedly helped explain.

"Father, Broly previously relied on his scrubbing skills, working part-time in the Public Bathhouse to support himself; Miss Aqua is the Scrubbing Master who brought him along……"

"Broly, did we work part-time at the Public Bathhouse?"

Aqua asked curiously; of course, this was asked in the Group Chat Room.

"No."

Broly gently shook his head.

"Then how come……"

"Probably something Sister Huangquan daydreamed up based on my words; but actually I just made everyone happy through scrubbing to earn Happiness Points."

"Uh, that does indeed count as supporting oneself."

Aqua felt Isayama Huangquan's words, if forced to say, actually had nothing wrong with them.

"I see."

After hearing his daughter's explanation, Isayama Naraku nodded.

"Miss Aqua, you are Broly's Master, you have kindness toward this child; logically speaking, no matter how long you want to stay at our house is fine, but our house, just as you heard on the side just now, may have danger afterwards.

Hmm, if you are willing, I can arrange a new job for you, guaranteed generous treatment; wonder if you would be amenable?"

"Don't want to; I just want to be together with Broly."

Aqua refused directly without a second thought.

Work?

What work?

She came to this Isekai for a vacation.

Incidentally, help her own Disciple a bit, revive one or two people on this side.

Looking at Aqua's intimate action of hugging Broly's arm, Isayama Naraku's brow couldn't help but furrow.

Somewhat suspecting Aqua is the type to engage in a master-disciple romance.

But he soon saw the niece and the Ikuyo sisters and the others beside him.

Forget it; this Adopted Son Broly's Peach Blossom Luck is simply astonishing; just the ones in the house who will be his wives in the future already number five; adding one more Master now seemingly makes no difference at all.

"I'm just worried you staying here has danger; if you're not afraid of danger, then I have no reason to drive you away either."

"Danger, what danger?"

Aqua subconsciously asked.

"I don't know if you believe it; it's just that some dangerous Evil Spirits may come attack our house."

Isayama Naraku explained.

"Eh, Evil Spirits, that counts as danger too?"

Aqua asked with some astonishment, as if unable to equate Evil Spirits with danger.

"Hm?"

Everyone looked over.

Broly: "..."

"Uh, my master is the same as me; she can also see spirit bodies. She can use a chicken feather duster and a broom to clean up spirit bodies, just like sweeping away dust and trash."

"Eh?!"

Everyone was a bit surprised, but it also felt reasonable; they could completely accept that the super genius Broly would have a scrubbing master who could also see spirit bodies and deal with them.

"That's right. Evil spirits and the like, in front of my Aqua, are all just trash."

One would have thought Broly was puffing out his chest praising his own Goddess, but she indeed wasn't exaggerating; the evil spirits of this world truly weren't enough to look at in front of her.

Unless there were creatures like the Giant Frog, then judging by Aqua's abilities and stats, in the Spirit Eater world she is an existence who can walk sideways.

Even if those pure spirit body land gods born from Great Spirit Veins came, in front of Aqua they would probably just be taken away by a few casts of Great Purification.

As the saying goes, countering is greater than heaven; special effectiveness beats gods. This phrase is extremely fitting for Aqua's current situation in this world.

"Since that's the case, then I won't say much more."

Adopted Son Broly previously had shallow experience and couldn't figure out his own power positioning, but by now he had long since seen the situation clearly. Since he still spoke saying this Aqua Master was powerful, the other party must certainly be a capable person. Isayama Naraku wasn't rude enough to directly say he wanted to witness the other party's exorcism skills.

"Huangquan, I still have to go arrange some things. You'll entertain the guests at home properly in my stead."

After Isayama Naraku finished giving these instructions, he hurriedly left again. Only, around this seaside villa, there were now some additional Exorcists serving as protection.

There's only the logic of a thousand days being a thief, not a thousand days guarding against thieves. Isayama Naraku and Shen Gongji Shobu had been tracking the traces of the shadow ninjas from beginning to end.

In the evening, when arranging sleeping rooms, Aqua dragged Broly into the room Isayama Huangquan had arranged for her, using the reason that she hadn't caught up with her Disciple in a long time.

"Snap~"

Looking at the closed room door, Isayama Huangquan and the others stared at each other in blank dismay.

And in the end, they also didn't have the nerve to knock on the door and have Broly come out to sleep with them.

Or propose to this Aqua Master they had only met today the suggestion of all sleeping together under one big quilt.

"Tonight, it looks like we can only sleep together."

Back in the room, Isayama Huangquan routinely laid out a futon.

Although Broly was missing tonight, previously the two Jino sisters had been added.

So, if they were to sleep together, they still had to lay out futons.

"Not having Broly to hug, it's really a bit uncomfortable."

Lying down, Isayama Meifu had a hollow, empty feeling.

"Mei-nee, if you don't mind, then hug me."

Jino Shizuru got along very well with her, probably because the faintly cold temperament on Isayama Meifu was a bit like her own sister's.

"Sister Huangquan, is my father alright?"

Tsuchimiya Kagura asked the girl beside her.

"Kagura, Father already said Uncle is fine."

"Then my mother's remains..."

Isayama Huangquan didn't know what comforting words to say to the girl, so she could only pull Tsuchimiya Kagura into her embrace, gently stroking the back of the other's head with her hand, soothing her with actual action.

As for Broly, the Sheep Talisman's twelve-hour cooldown had already arrived. He directly used the Sheep Talisman to let his soul leave his body, handed his body over to his own master, and his soul sneaked underground, secretly leaving the seaside villa home.

Arriving at Hibiya Park, he familiarly passed through the seal entrance and directly entered the depths of the Great Spirit Vein.

"Land gods, all of you come out for me!"

The moment he landed, Broly stomped one foot on Naraku's Sea of Residual Souls, and the entire space violently trembled as a result.

At this moment, he was just like a certain monkey who had once wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace; only he didn't have a Golden Cudgel, possessing only an excessively powerful spirit body.

"Ah, Broly-sama, I wonder what instructions you have this time?"

A land god in the form of an old man emerged. Seeing the boy's posture of demanding answers, he hurriedly asked.

The other land gods also didn't dare to be negligent and quickly all rushed over to this side.

"You said the soul I wanted was in Byakuei's core, but after I got hold of Byakuei and stuffed it back into my prospective mother-in-law's body, why did her behavior become like that of a dog?"

Broly didn't beat around the bush and directly interrogated them.

He had believed the other party's words, so after seizing Byakuei he didn't hesitate much and directly stuffed it into his prospective mother-in-law's body.

"Ah, no, you didn't do any processing and just stuffed Byakuei into a living human body?"

The old man land god, hearing his description, was also a bit dazed.

"This needs processing?"

"Of course it does."

"Then why didn't you say so before?"

"Uh, but you didn't ask either."

Broly: "..."

The old man land god looked at him somewhat innocently.

(Chapter End)