Chapter 617

"It looks like the separation was very clean."

"This should be fine now."

"Put the soul inside."

……

In a daze, Tsuchimiya Mai vaguely heard such voices; when she regained clear consciousness and opened her eyes, she discovered she was lying on a bed, and beside her stood two beautiful women — one with water-blue hair, the other with brown hair.

The brown-haired one's chest was obviously a bit larger than the water-blue-haired one's, and upon noticing she had awakened, she leaned over in front of her face, waved her hand at her, and asked, "Can you hear me?"

"Mm, I can hear you."

Tsuchimiya Mai replied; perhaps because Byakuei had already been living in her body for a period of time, this person's voice was not hoarse at all.

"May I ask, where is this? Is it the world inside the Killing Stone?"

She sat up, but her consciousness still lingered at the last moment before her death.

"The world inside the Killing Stone? No, this is the Operation Room. Your takeover surgery was a complete success. From today on, you are a true, genuine man!"

Aqua put on a serious face and answered the other party's question.

Tsuchimiya Mai: "???"

Her hand subconsciously reached between her legs, felt a soft diaper, and inside there didn't seem to be anything extra that shouldn't be there, which let her exhale in relief.

"Aqua-sama, please don't make this kind of joke with someone who has just been resurrected."

Wiz felt this was very bad; if it had been back when she had just turned into a Lich, someone saying this to her would definitely have frightened her.

"For her sake I did that much work, and now I can't even crack a joke?"

Aqua said dissatisfiedly.

The matter of working during vacation had clearly let her accumulate a lot of resentment.

Aqua doesn't blame her own Disciple, but she will shift the responsibility onto someone else's head.

The newly resurrected Tsuchimiya Mai became the target of that displaced blame.

"Resurrect me? What is your purpose? What did you do to my husband?"

Tsuchimiya Mai asked in rapid succession like a machine gun; she knew the fate of her own soul, but now she had been resurrected by strange people — clearly something had happened to Byakuei, or rather, the Tsuchimiya Family.

"The purpose of resurrecting you? That's naturally there. Come, no nonsense, hurry up, sign this contract for me first!"

Aqua directly produced a contract, slapped it onto the legs of Madam Tsuchimiya who had just fully resurrected, looking exactly like a vicious tyrant trying to force someone into signing an unequal treaty.

"No matter what your purpose is, I absolutely will not agree."

And this attitude made Tsuchimiya Mai confirm one thing even more: someone who resurrects the dead in violation of the natural laws of life and death is absolutely not a good person; the other party definitely intends to use her to achieve some unspeakable goal.

"Hah, whether you agree or not is useless. Your daughter is now infatuated with my Disciple, and this is a modern-background world — it doesn't follow that set of old rigid rules about parental command and matchmaker's word. Modern times advocate free love; even if you object, you have no way to stop your daughter from marrying my Disciple and becoming my Disciple's wife afterward!"

Aqua sneered, and at the bedridden, hyper-vigilant Madam Tsuchimiya, unleashed a combo of blond-parent language.

"Woof—"

Beside them, a little white dog barked in agreement.

"???"

Tsuchimiya Mai felt her brain was somewhat insufficient; what on earth was all this?

Only at this moment did she pick up the contract on her leg and look at it, but saw written on it:

She, Tsuchimiya Mai, as the mother of Tsuchimiya Kagura, after being helped to resurrect by prospective son-in-law Broly, must firmly support prospective son-in-law Broly in marrying her daughter Tsuchimiya Kagura.

If she breaches the contract and opposes this marriage, then she admits she is an ungrateful mangy dog; afterward she will have no toilet paper when using the toilet, no seasoning packet when eating instant noodles, vegetable prices will always rise when she buys groceries……

Following that was a whole string of 'vicious' curses that made her feel like crying and laughing at the same time.

"I'm sorry, I was a bit rude."

Aqua's contract made Tsuchimiya Mai's vigilant mindset ease up.

"Can you tell me how long I've been dead?"

She thought for a moment, then asked.

Tsuchimiya Mai felt she should have been dead for a not-short time.

After all, even her own daughter was already at the stage of discussing marriage.

"Madam Tsuchimiya, you have been dead for less than three months as of now."

Broly answered her question honestly.

"So it's three... hmm, three months?"

"Correctly speaking, it's still less than three months — ten days short of a full three months."

"Who are you?"

"I am Broly, your daughter Kagura's future husband, and also your prospective son-in-law."

Tsuchimiya Mai looked at the boy beside her, whose appearance looked even younger than her own daughter, and fell silent for a moment.

"Can you tell me what happened between you and my daughter during these less-than-three-months I was dead, and why I was resurrected by you?"

"After your death, your daughter Kagura was taken to the Isayama Family by Sister Huangquan, and I, as a child taken in by the Isayama Family, confirmed at first sight of your daughter that I wanted her to be my wife……"

Broly detailed for Tsuchimiya Mai the process from their first meeting to becoming acquainted.

"As for the reason for resurrecting you, it's simply because Kagura was saddened by the passing of you, her mother, and I wanted to make her happy; therefore I decided to resurrect you who had died."

"Ah, just that reason?"

"Mm, just that reason."

Tsuchimiya Mai felt her resurrection reason was a bit absurd, but looking at the boy's sincere gaze she didn't know what to say.

She thought for a moment, then decided to find out exactly how she had been resurrected, and from Broly's mouth she heard the series of events: discovering an empty coffin when digging up a grave at midnight, night-raiding the Tsuchimiya Family's Spirit Vein Inheritance Ground to seize her corpse.

"This is my Aqua Master, the Main God of the Heavenly Realm of an Isekai; resurrecting the dead is as simple as eating and drinking for her.

This is my Teacher Wiz, a Lich standing at the pinnacle of the Undead in an Isekai; your soul being cleanly separated from the Killing Stone is also thanks to her help."

He revived the physical body but found no soul, so he forced his way into the Great Spirit Vein and clashed head-on with the Land Deity inside the Great Spirit Vein searching for her soul, then broke into the Tsuchimiya Family Inheritance Ground to seize Byakuei, discovered the soul wasn't right and broke into the Great Spirit Vein again, nearly blowing up the Great Spirit Vein, then requested outside aid from a Spirit Expert, until he finally revived her.

After listening to the whole thing, Tsuchimiya Mai only found it utterly absurd, but she had indeed been resurrected, which seemed to prove the other party wasn't lying.

And for the sake of his daughter, the other party could actually go this far — let alone disagreeing to him marrying their daughter, even when their own daughter Kagura married him, this mother-in-law would probably have to kneel down and kowtow twice to him.

Tsuchimiya Mai had a thousand words in her heart, but when they reached her lips, they turned into: "Kagura, is she alright?"

"Good, very good."

Broly told Tsuchimiya Mai again about her daughter Tsuchimiya Kagura — how she can now easily slay over a dozen B-grade Evil Spirits and is a current Quasi-Sword Saint.

"Of course, compared to Sister Huangquan and the others she's still lacking a bit, but mainly it's because Kagura's body hasn't developed yet and isn't suitable for excessive training."

At some point Tsuchimiya Mai was already kneeling upright on the bed, and when Broly's words reached here, she placed both hands in an eight-shape on the bedding before her, and the next moment her waist bent deeply down.

"A debt of gratitude too great to repay; if you don't dislike my little girl, from now on her whole life will be entirely entrusted to you, Mr. Broly!"

Broly looked at the almost-mother-in-law on the bed formally entrusting her daughter to him, and only felt that his hard work resurrecting her hadn't been in vain — at least she hadn't created any obstacles for him regarding marrying Kagura after being resurrected.

"Mother-in-law needn't say that; how could I dislike Kagura? From now on her life is in my hands."

Broly patted his chest and guaranteed it to Tsuchimiya Mai with a promise.

Thinking for a moment, he picked up the little white dog from the ground and stuffed it into Tsuchimiya Mai's arms.

"This is Byakuei; it's your Tsuchimiya Family's spirit beast — consider this returning it to its original owner."

"Woof~"

Tsuchimiya Mai: "..."

Looking at the little white dog in her hands sticking its tongue out at her and wagging its tail, for a moment she didn't know what to say.

She didn't question the little white dog's identity, because Byakuei's aura was something she knew all too well.

"Does Mother-in-law need to rest and recuperate? If so, I'll bring Kagura to see you in a few days; she still doesn't know about the surprise I've prepared for her."

"I feel very good right now and don't need to recuperate; I'm just afraid this might turn into a fright, so you'd better think about how to explain it to that child, and of course, to the others too."

"No need to worry, I've already thought of how to explain it to everyone."

Broly waved his hand and said with full confidence.

"I'm sorry, Sister Huangquan, Sister Kagura, I deceived you."

Returning home, Broly gathered everyone in the house, even calling in people from the Countermeasures Bureau and the Exorcist Alliance, and came before Isayama Huangquan and Tsuchimiya Kagura — *snap*, both knees hit the wooden floor, a sudden ambush-style dogeza, and he began apologizing.

"Ah, Broly, even if you deceived me, Sister forgives you, but why are you doing dogeza to me in public?"

"Right, whatever you deceived us about, Huangquan Sister and I won't blame you."

Everyone was a bit dazed; Isayama Huangquan and Tsuchimiya Kagura directly crouched down, trying to help Broly up from the ground, but they discovered their own strengthened bodies, when preparing to pull Broly up, were like pulling a stubborn rock — they couldn't budge him at all.

"I know you won't blame me, but an apology still needs to be made."

Broly straightened up, said this to the two with a smile, then looked at Isayama Meifu and the others beside them and apologized to them too, then to Shen Gongji Shobu and Isayama Naraku: "I'm sorry, I deceived you all as well."

"Uh, Broly, don't just apologize — we still don't know what you deceived us about, and we're completely baffled!"

Isayama Naraku spoke, and everyone else nodded; they were all rather inexplicably confused, just summoned here by this kid.

"Explaining dryly with words is a bit troublesome; I'll just let you see directly, *clap clap*~"

Broly clapped his hands, and two ninja spirits emerged from behind him, one on the left and one on the right.

"White Shadow Teacher? Black Shadow Ninja Spirit!"

The White Shadow Ninja appearing was fine, but after the Black Shadow Ninja radiating Evil Spirit aura appeared, everyone had a stress reaction.

Those drawing swords drew swords, those drawing guns drew guns, yet all were somewhat nervously watching the Black Shadow Ninja — but the next moment, the Black Shadow Ninja and White Shadow Ninja both did a dogeza together, leaving these people dumbfounded.

"No, what on earth is going on?"

Sakurai Ikki felt his brain wasn't quite enough.

"Very simple, because both of them are spirit bodies I created."

"Ah, so Broly, you're actually the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"More or less; and the apology just now was for manufacturing a groundless crisis and making everyone busy for so long — sorry for the trouble."

Broly bowed in apology again, and the two ninja spirits behind him made the same motion — one with special-effect black flames forming words of apology floating behind it, the other holding a sign written with an apology.

Looking at the scene of super-genius Broly, Great Spirit Vein's Guardian Deity White Shadow Ninja Spirit, and Great Yaoling Black Shadow Ninja Spirit born from Naraku, all three in a tripod formation doing dogeza together, everyone suddenly didn't know what to say.

As the saying goes, you don't hit a smiling face; moreover, the smiling faces here likely possess strength surpassing theirs.

"No, I can't understand — Broly, just why did you create this crisis?"

"At first, it was to train Sister Huangquan, to raise her strength."

Broly answered honestly, pointing at Iinaga Noriyuki nearby.

"He told me that Sister Huangquan was under pressure from some relatives over the Isayama Family's future Heir, and as long as Sister Huangquan's strength rose, naturally no one would gossip anymore, so I created the White Shadow Ninja..."

As Broly narrated his reason for creating the White Shadow Ninja, everyone's gazes toward Iinaga Noriyuki turned somewhat hostile, as if he were the source of evil, guiding a peerless genius onto a crooked path.

Iinaga Noriyuki's scalp tingled, feeling he'd been dumped with a black pot, and hurriedly explained to everyone.

"It was Isayama who said she'd shield Broly from wind and rain and block the pressure; I felt Sister had sacrificed so much for her younger brother and shouldn't go unrecognized, so I just encouraged Broly to work hard at the time — I never knew he'd turn around and produce the idea of wanting to raise Isayama's strength..."

Isayama Huangquan: "..."

"Then why did you attack the Tsuchimiya Family's Spirit Vein Land and seize Madam Tsuchimiya's remains?"

Shen Gongji Shobu cut off the uproar on that side and directly questioned Broly.

Tsuchimiya Kagura looked over; she didn't think Broly was evil, but she also wanted to know the boy's reason for seizing her mother's remains.

"This... I'll still show you, Aqua Master."

Broly turned his head and called out to Aqua.

"Now, please welcome Madam Tsuchimiya."

Aqua cooperated and opened the door, and the living Madam Tsuchimiya and Wiz walked in under everyone's gaze.

"You said you'd think of how to explain it to everyone, and it turns out you're using our traditional art — directly performing dogeza to apologize!"

Mrs. Tsuchimiya felt she somewhat couldn't hold her facial expression.

Fortunately, her daughter Tsuchimiya Kagura burst into tears upon seeing her, as if she couldn't believe seeing her alive like that.

She sent out a questioning plea as if seeking confirmation: "Mother, are you really my mother?"