Chapter 684

"Sorry, I didn't mean to discuss Miss Roli."

The red-haired Pallum hurriedly apologized; as an Information Broker God of the Hermes Familia, he naturally knew Liu Li Ang's real identity, but he hadn't expected that when he wanted to tell the benefactor in front of him, he would be caught by the Abundance Mistress's quest board girl Xier Jiejie, which made him somewhat embarrassed, but even more afraid that this cute human girl would go tell on him.

If it provoked hostility from others in this shop, especially Boss Lady Miya's hostility, he probably wouldn't be killed, but getting beaten was unavoidable.

"Well, secretly discussing a woman's private matters behind her back is an extremely impolite act, but Roli is so beautiful that being discussed is only natural; however, some secrets are best not widely announced. Mr. of the Hermes Familia, don't you agree?"

The gentle girl asked the red-haired Pallum with a smiling face.

"Ah, yes—"

Lorne hurriedly nodded, looking at the Saiyan boy opposite with an apologetic gaze.

"Mr. Broly, sorry, this involves the friendship between our regiment leader and that Miss Roli; please forgive me for not being able to tell you information about her."

"Then that's fine."

Broly saw the other's difficulty and did not insist.

"Is this gentleman a customer dining at our shop for the first time?"

The gray-haired, gray-eyed quest board girl shifted her attention to him.

"Mm."

Broly nodded and gave a sound of assent.

"If you're interested in Roli's matters, I can tell you, you know."

The cute girl with a charming demeanor leaned over and said in a small voice.

"Really?"

Broly looked at her.

"Of course, but this requires the customer to pay a little price."

Xier said.

"What price?"

"This is our small shop's menu; there are some dishes with good taste but slightly high prices."

"If you, customer, can help me complete some performance, allowing me to earn a small commission."

"I can quietly tell you some information about my friend Roli, just for one person."

Xier handed over the thick menu in her hand and said with a smiling face.

"Fine, then according to the menu, serve me one portion of everything."

Broly took the menu but didn't look at it, directly ordering one of everything on the menu.

"Ah~"

Hearing this, Xier hadn't spoken yet when Luo En Weike opposite exclaimed.

Broly looked over and saw the other with a bitter face.

"Mr. Broly, the money I have on me might not be enough to pay for ordering one of everything on the menu."

The food and wine at the Abundance Mistress's place here are not cheap, even more expensive than the restaurants on Babel Tower Fourth Floor.

"Don't worry, the money I brought should be enough to pay."

Broly took out his money bag, placed it on the table, and said.

"But tonight I'm treating you."

Lorne was somewhat embarrassed.

"You invited me to thank me for my kindness to you, but now, Mr. Lorne, I formally declare that after you brought me to this shop to eat, you have already repaid my kindness."

"?"

"Because you let me meet the people I wanted to encounter, and not just one."

Broly said seriously.

"Oh my, besides wanting to encounter Roli, this gentleman doesn't know who else he wants to encounter here?"

Xier asked curiously.

"If it's someone I know, judging by your posture of preparing to order one of everything on the menu, I feel that as this shop's quest board girl, I should help you, customer, no matter how you put it."

The girl said this.

"That's truly great."

Broly was very happy.

【Is it Ania, Keluoyi, or Lunona? It surely can't be Miya, right?!】

Xier thought as she saw the boy staring straight at her.

"The other person I want to encounter is no one else, but you."

"?!"

Xier's small mouth opened wide, as if she couldn't believe the words she heard; she subconsciously checked whether she had accidentally activated charm.

However, after discovering she hadn't activated charm, the gray-haired, gray-eyed girl tilted her head and asked: "Customer, may I ask why you want to encounter me?"

Just as Xier thought she would get a common answer like "because your cuteness attracted me," she saw Broly ponder for a moment and give her an answer that was somewhat unexpected.

"Miss Xier, I'll call you that for now, but do you believe in fated encounters?"

Broly asked, referring to the Crystal Palace recognizing capture targets.

"Fated encounters?"

Xier was stunned for a moment, repeating these words in a questioning tone.

"Yes, fated encounters; if not for this, I probably wouldn't say such presumptuous words to someone I just met."

Broly nodded in reply.

"Customer, are you sure you're not attracted by my cute appearance? Not that I'm boasting, I'm quite confident in my own looks."

The girl smiled and asked, seemingly not believing in the idea of fated encounters.

"You are indeed very beautiful, but I am quite certain that without a fated encounter (recognized by the Crystal Palace as a Capture Target), if we have no intersection and do not get to know each other deeply, I would never actively pursue you."

However, Broly gave a definite denial; Crystal Palace External Wife figurines basically appear when someone else has already established a relationship with him, or when they have a relationship with his other wives.

Like a mere stranger, Broly had never actively invited anyone to be his External Wife.

To put it bluntly, cute and pretty looks were worthless to him, because his wives were basically the same.

Without understanding or a relationship, a strange beautiful woman in his eyes was no different from one on the roadside.

Xier Fu Luowa:

"

People cannot lie before a Goddess; even though she is not currently appearing in the posture of a Goddess, this is not a problem at all.

In other words, everything the boy before her said came from his true heart; he truly regarded himself as her fated encounter target.

And for a Goddess who had always been thinking of encountering her fated partner, this was undoubtedly an extremely terrifying offensive.

"Mr. Broly, your love words are really a bit rustic; Miss Xier is the signboard girl of the Abundance Mistress."

She is extremely popular with male customers who come here, and even female customers, at a level that kills both men and women.

And the love words she hears every day are far more powerful than yours —"

Lorne's words were not finished when he suddenly saw the signboard girl beside him blush, seeming truly moved, which made him stare wide-eyed.

【Is this still that Miss Xier of the Abundance Mistress who handles customer teasing with ease and can even tease customers in return?】

"You want to pursue me, is that so?"

The girl spoke with a cloying question and then laughed lightly.

"But I don't know what information about me you want to understand, sir?"

The gray-eyed, gray-haired girl, her cute face slightly red, her slender fingers twirling the gray hair by her ear, swayed her body slightly in place as she asked.

"I don't know what I want to understand, but as long as it is information you are willing to tell me, I want to understand it."

Broly answered seriously, his gaze looking somewhat doubtfully at the Crystal Palace Panel, where the other party's Happiness Value had suddenly climbed.

He didn't quite understand how his words had caused an increase of more than ten points of Happiness Value for the other party; was the girl before him also looking forward to a fated encounter target?

"Since that's the case, then, Xier Fu Luowa, this is my full name, and my height is 162cm, my age is eternally 18 years old, my three measurements are —"

Xier's words were not finished when she was interrupted by a roar from the kitchen: "Xier, are you working or not? The shop is so busy, and you're actually slacking off outside?"

"Oh, Mistress Miya is angry; it seems my personal information can only be revealed to the customer up to here."

"Mm, lastly, confirm once more: Customer, are you really sure you want to order a whole menu's worth of dishes? Once our dishes are sold, we absolutely do not accept refunds."

"And if you want to eat a Tyranny Meal, you'll be beaten by Mistress Miya's Iron Fist and turn into a pig's head, you know."

The cute gray-haired girl reminded him.

"Of course."

Broly did not hesitate; solving a whole menu's worth of dishes was nothing to him.

"Then, I'll secretly gift the customer information about the Elf Miss you want to encounter; that child is called Liu Li Ang, an Elf girl with a strong sense of justice, height 165cm, age cannot be said, but her three measurements are —"

The gray-eyed, gray-haired girl leaned close to the boy's ear; the red-haired Pallum who pricked up his ears to listen only heard the first half, and heard nothing of the second half.

When the urging voice came from the kitchen again, Miss Xier was seen smiling and moving away from the boy, walking toward the back kitchen with light steps.

"Xier, what made you so happy?"

Riku had already served dishes to the customers outside twice; when he came back to serve dishes and saw his smiling friend, he asked somewhat strangely.

"I met a very interesting person."

The gray-haired girl answered thus, handing over the menu in her hand.

"These are the dishes ordered by the customers at that table over there."

"What?"

Riku was somewhat confused.

"Everything on one menu."

"Ah, this, can they afford the money? Surely they're not trying to eat a Tyranny Meal at our shop?"

Riku immediately became vigilant, his gaze somewhat cold, looking toward Broly.

Coincidentally, Broly was also looking this way, and their gazes met.

One was stern and vigilant, the other somewhat puzzled.

"Miss Elf, why are you glaring at me?"

"Miss Liu Ang is just cold, hence the title of Cold Beauty shop assistant at this store."

"Alright."

Broly looked at the Crystal Palace Panel where the other party maintained a zero Happiness Value, then retracted his gaze.

Judging by the current situation, Miss Xier is very likely to be Captured.

As for Miss Liu Ang, she belongs to the type that looks very difficult to Capture.

"Your stewed meat dishes are here."

After a while, Xier carried two trays and walked over quickly.

"If you need any service, remember to call me."

Putting down the stewed meat and leaving those words, the gray-haired girl returned to the kitchen side to continue helping.

"Sigh~"

The Little Giant Miya, who was stir-frying dishes, watched the girl hopping into the back kitchen as if possessed by Ania, and couldn't help but sigh.

"With that happy look of yours, could it be that you've fallen in love?"

"I do feel somewhat like that."

"Who is the target?"

"A customer who came to our shop to eat tonight."

"If it's an ordinary person, they shouldn't be the type you'd take a liking to."

"Yes, that child is very special; he told me I'm the one he's destined by fate to encounter."

The poster girl cradled her face in both hands, looking like a maiden fallen into romance, making the tall female dwarf who caught sight of this scene from the corner of her eye twitch her mouth corners twice.

"That sounds just like a lie a veteran of the love field would fabricate off the cuff — a cheesy line to deceive a pure girl."

"No, Mr. Broly doesn't lie."

"Tch, you're already speaking up for someone else————"

Miya was a bit speechless.

"Forget it, anyway you won't suffer a loss."

She used the military shovel in her hand to scoop the fried crab out of the wok and plate it.

"Alright, since you're Xier now, do the shop's work properly for me."

"No problem, Mommy Miya~"

Xier replied full of vigor, then carried the plate and walked out.

Only, the fried crab originally meant for another table's customers was taken by her to the Saiyan boy's table.

"This is a special cut-in-line serving service I secured for you, Customer~"

The gray-haired girl finished speaking in a low voice, her slender index finger pressed to her mouth, as if signaling not to let the other customers know about this.

"Mr. Broly, do you have some special charm Skill?"

After watching the poster girl come and go many times, Lorne Weike finally couldn't help but ask the boy opposite him.

"I don't have that kind of strange Skill."

Broly shook his head in denial.

"Then why is Miss Xier, whom you just met tonight, so enthusiastic toward you?"

Lorne found it hard to believe, and asked.

If there really was a special technique, maybe he could ask for pointers; he still hasn't forgotten the Boar Person girl he likes.

"I don't know about that."

Regarding this, Broly was also at a complete loss.

He could only attribute it to the situation where the girl named Xier finds him pleasing to the eye.

And just at this moment, the Hostess of Fertility's front door was pushed open again.

The Loki Familia's people finally arrived on the scene.

Turn back time————

"If you ask me, instead of bowing to that little dwarf, we should steal her Familia members. Anyway, she's only been in the Lower World for half a year; when we ran into her a while back, she didn't even have a single Familia child by her side yet, and the child you encountered now, Ais, definitely hasn't known her for long————"

On the road to the Hostess of Fertility tavern, the Red Three Little Clowns god thought up a method to avoid bowing to Hestia, and shared it with the Familia members beside him.

"Loki, poaching other Familia members into our Familia is something that would severely damage our Familia's reputation!"

Finn interjected; for the sake of reviving the Pallum, what he values most is reputation.

"Moreover, knowing each other for a short time proves the other party joined Hestia Familia very recently; don't forget, the Familia rule on this Orario side forbids members who've been in a Familia less than a year from arbitrarily breaking free and transferring to another Familia — Goddess Hestia can completely use this reason to refuse your plan to poach her Familia members————"

Riveria also interjected.

"At that time, if that Goddess files a complaint against us, we'll probably have to face the Guild's fine.

Gareth said.

"Ah, although I said 'steal,' I actually mean buy them off; we can give the Pallum boy Ais encountered ten times, a hundred times the treatment he gets at Hestia Familia.

And as long as the Familia member himself wants to transfer, based on my understanding of that little dwarf (Hestia), she definitely won't make things difficult.

At that time, I'll bring the boy who transferred to our Familia and parade him in front of her, making that little dwarf Goddess so proud she cries!

Heh heh heh————"

Hearing their home Goddess's villain-style evil laughter, the surrounding Loki Familia members all felt a bit speechless; clearly she's one of Orario's two top-tier faction Main Gods, yet right now she gives off the feeling of snatching a lollipop from someone else's home.

"Loki, I first acknowledge your intention to dig up excellent members, but all this is based on that Pallum being willing to accept being recruited by us; if he himself isn't willing to leave Hestia Familia, no matter how much you say now it's all in vain."

"Heh heh, people who come to Orario to be Adventurers, aren't their purposes just those few things? Wealth, status, reputation, strength, women — as long as we can satisfy the other party's desires, there's no fear they won't be moved————"

Loki said very confidently, arriving at the front of the Hostess of Fertility tavern, directly reaching out and pushing open the half-hanging door.

"Miya, I've come to patronize your business!"

Loki shouted, then led her Familia members into the shop.

"?"

Then, she heard the girl beside her let out a surprised sound.

"What's wrong, Ais?"

The Clown Goddess looked over in confusion.

"It's him."

"Who?"

"Broly, the Sword Waza master who defeated me."

"Huh?!"

Following the Sword Princess girl's gaze, Loki caught sight of the Saiyan boy who was also looking over toward the entrance.

"Red Three's, or Black Three's?"

She quietly asked.

"Black Three's."

After obtaining the answer, this cunning god slipped over.

"Young Man, I heard you properly guided our familia's Sword Princess in swordsmanship today, right?"

After approaching Broly, Loki leaned over, hooked her arm around the boy's shoulder with a familiar air, and struck up a conversation.

"May I ask, who are you?"

Broly looked at the female deity hooking his shoulder with puzzlement and asked.

"Ah, there's actually someone in Orario who doesn't recognize me~"

Loki covered her head, retreated a step, wearing an expression of being greatly shocked.

"This is the Loki Familia's Main God."

The Red Three Pallum across from them hurriedly gave a reminder.