Chapter 697

Ais only touched him for a short while before withdrawing her hand.

"Don't you want to touch a bit longer?"

But after pulling back, the boy who saw her Happiness Value rising asked her.

"Do you like being touched like this?"

Ais froze for a moment, then blinked at him and asked.

"Don't you like touching?"

Broly also blinked at the Sword Princess girl.

"But won't this delay your work?"

Ais looked at the customers walking over to buy Fried Potato Balls.

"Broly-san, I'll handle things here."

Before the boy could speak, Bell stepped up first to help entertain the customers.

"Thanks, Bell."

Broly thanked the white-haired boy and walked to the side of the Fried Potato Ball Shop.

"This way, it won't be a delay."

He said to the girl.

"Mm."

Ais nodded and placed her hand back on him.

"Eh, Ais, is Broly-san's head really that nice to touch? Let me try the feel too, hmm, Broly-san, is that okay?"

As Lefiya looked at the Saiyan boy with some envy, the Amazon flat-chested girl Tiona curiously leaned over and asked the Saiyan boy if he agreed.

"Okay."

Broly didn't refuse either, just looked at the elf girl there and asked.

"Miss Lefiya, do you want to come touch too?"

"Ah, this..."

Lefiya wanted to be the one getting head pats from the Sword Princess girl; she originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that doing the same thing was also a good thing, she changed her mind.

"Then, okay, excuse me."

The elf girl also reached out and started touching the Saiyan's head beside her.

The feeling of touching it was somewhat like a big dog's fur.

But that's not the important part; the important part is that during the head patting process, she could inadvertently make contact with Miss Ais's palm.

【Lefiya Viridis, Happiness Value Rising...】

Broly: "!!!"

"Lili, do you want to come touch too?"

He looked directly at the Pallum girl and also sent out an invitation.

Liliruca was stunned, but immediately nodded hurriedly.

Soon, four girls surrounded Broly, touching his head.

It looked, somewhat, like a street performance art vibe.

And Ais soon touched enough; she divided the Fried Potato Balls she bought among her companions, ate a strawberry-flavored Fried Potato Ball herself, and asked the Saiyan boy beside her: "Broly-san, later, could you come with me to that back alley over there?"

"Okay."

Broly looked in the direction the Sword Princess's finger pointed; although he didn't know what business she had inviting him to the back alley facing away from the main street, he still nodded in agreement.

"Then, we, ah mm, let's go, fuu fuu..."

The freshly made Fried Potato Balls were somewhat hot; the Sword Princess girl ate too fast and had to blow on it, looking very cute.

"Miss Ais, what are we going to do?"

Lefiya had been paying attention to the girl she admired, somewhat confused about the purpose of the Sword Princess girl calling the Saiyan boy to the back alley.

"Ais seems to be giving Broly-san a thank-you gift or something."

Tiona said.

"I just heard her conversation with the clerk in the clothing store earlier, saying she wanted a Gift Ribbon."

"Eh, but Miss Ais, it didn't seem like she bought anything just now, right?"

Lefiya was somewhat confused; they had walked the streets all morning, and while others had bought quite a bit, the Sword Princess girl hadn't bought anything.

"Ais seemed to want to buy herself pretty clothes, but you said to thank her for always taking care of you, you'd pay for her."

Tione added from the side.

"Perhaps, when we weren't paying attention, she already bought something else."

Lefiya nodded, counting as agreeing with Tione's words.

"Speaking of, should we also give Broly-san a thank-you gift? Feels like we've been quite taken care of by him these past few days?"

Tiona brought it up; she was referring to the Combat Rhythm training experience.

"Makes sense, but what to give?"

Tione felt her younger sister's words made sense, just didn't know what gift to give.

"Miss Lili, do you know what Broly-san likes?"

Lefiya also felt it was reasonable and directly asked the Pallum girl beside her.

【Broly-san wants to encounter you; why don't you send yourself over?】

Liliruca retorted in her heart, but on her face she smiled and said: "For Broly-san, I feel whatever you give him, he'll like."

"That's as good as not saying anything; forget it, let's go look at that shop over there together."

Tiona pointed at some shops not far away and said.

Just as the group was walking together to some shops, preparing to buy a thank-you gift that could represent their sincerity.

The Sword Princess girl who had led the Saiyan boy into the back alley suddenly asked a strange question.

"Mr. Broly, do you think the clothes I'm wearing today are pretty?"

"Huh?!"

Broly was stunned for a moment, then carefully observed the other party's attire.

Unlike her usual tight training suit, today the Sword Princess wore a white off-the-shoulder blouse with ruffle decorations, paired with white long sleeves that fitted her wrists, and both the collar and cuffs had exquisite pleated designs.

Below was a purple short pleated skirt, its length reaching only mid-thigh, and together with the white over-the-knee socks below it formed an absolute territory.

And on her head she wore a purple butterfly bow hair ornament, at her waist a brown thin belt connected to a small bag of the same color tone, and on her feet a pair of purple-toned shoes with straps.

Overall it was a pure-style attire; Lefiya's aesthetic as an elf had no issues, the clothes and matching attire she purchased for the Sword Princess girl all highlighted the girl's own charm.

"Miss Ais, the clothes you're wearing today are very pretty."

Broly nodded, praising the Sword Princess girl's outfit today.

"That's good."

Ais relaxed, taking out a gift ribbon from her small bag.

"Mr. Broly, please help me hold this."

She handed one end of the gift ribbon to the Saiyan boy.

"What are you preparing to do?"

Broly held one end of the gift ribbon and asked with some confusion.

"I want to give you a thank-you gift..."

Ais pulled the other end of the ribbon, then began to turn her body, wrapping the gift ribbon around herself.

"These days, thank you for your guidance."

After wrapping around to in front of Broly, the Sword Princess girl took the ribbon from the boy's hand and tied a beautiful butterfly bow at her front, saying.

"You're welcome, so, what is the gift Miss Ais spoke of?"

Broly looked at the Sword Princess girl with the gift ribbon wrapped around her once and asked.

"It's myself, Riveria said you should like this gift."

The somewhat naturally airheaded girl answered quite honestly.

"Uh, Mr. Broly, you don't like it?"

Seeing the boy's expression was a bit strange, she couldn't help but ask.

"No, I like it very much, it's just that accepting you as a gift like this feels a bit too early right now."

Broly also answered honestly; the capture target would accumulate more happiness value the later they became a wife after confirming they could agree to become a wife in the future.

"Okay, I understand."

Ais nodded, removed the ribbon from her body, folded it neatly, and handed it over.

"Mr. Broly, if you have anything you need my help with in the future, please just say so; this gift ribbon is the proof. Whether you want me to help you kill people or help you fight monsters, I will definitely do my utmost."

There was a certain deviation between the "giving herself" Riveria spoke of and the "giving herself" Ais understood; obviously, the somewhat naturally airheaded Sword Princess girl took this giving of herself as a kind of promise to the Saiyan boy that she would surely repay his help.

"Uh, I don't need you to help me kill people, nor do I need you to help me fight monsters; I only need you to promise me a request I will make in the future."

"Mhm, that works too; no matter what you require me to do, as long as it's not making me harm my friends, I will agree to it."

Ais promised solemnly.

And on the rooftop, a certain cat person youth who was eavesdropping twitched his mouth corner; owing a favor debt could even produce a posture of throwing oneself into one's arms.

It almost made him think the Sword Princess of the Loki Familia was really going to launch an offensive against the guy the Goddess had taken a fancy to; he was hesitating whether to intervene and interrupt.

Ais completed the gift-giving with a relaxed expression; Broly obtained a gift ribbon entrusted with the other's promise. After leaving the back alley and returning to the main street, he soon received gifts from the others as well.

"Your hair is fluffy and soft; I think you might need a hairband."

"Sister thinks a hairband is good, but I think a hair tie is good."

The Amazoness sisters, one gave a hairband, one gave a hair tie for tying hair.

"This is a brooch; I think it suits you very well."

Lefiya gave him an exquisite purple butterfly brooch, which happened to be similar in style to the purple butterfly hair ornament on Ais's hair strands; one could only say, as expected of something picked out by the same person.

"Thank you all, Tiona, Tione, Miss Lefiya."

Broly accepted these gifts and thanked the girls who gave him gifts.

"Then, we'll take our leave first."

The girls of the Loki Familia, without disturbing Broly's group of three further, left after delivering the thank-you gifts.

"Broly-san, is there anything you like?"

Rather, the Pallum girl, after the group left, tentatively asked the boy.

"Delicious food."

Broly responded without the slightest hesitation.

"Besides food."

Liliruca hurriedly added a restricting condition.

"I like you, Lili."

Broly gave a new answer.

"Eh, I said a thing, not a person!"

The Pallum girl shouted with a red face.

"Then, things given to me by someone I like, I like them all."

Bell was serving customers who came to buy fried potato balls at the fried potato ball shop, while silently taking notes in his mind.

Just then, an elf wearing pale green waiter's clothes walked from the street to the southwest — it was Liu, who had come to deliver food to Hestia.

Upon seeing the Pallum girl clinging to the boy's arm, behaving a bit too intimately with him, she slightly furrowed her pretty brows.

After walking over, the female elf didn't interrogate the Saiyan boy; after all, even her good friend Xier hadn't confirmed a relationship with him. She merely asked in a somewhat cool voice: "Mr. Broly, why are you here? Where is Lady Hestia?"

"Miss Liu, good noon. Our business was finished this morning, so we came here. As for Lady Hestia, she went to find Divine Friend Lord Takemikazuchi. You can give her bento to us; we'll pass it to her later."

Liu nodded and handed the bento box in her hand to the boy. After doing this, she didn't leave directly, but looked at Broly and asked: "Mr. Broly, I wonder what relationship you have with Miss Liliruca? You two look very intimate."

"Lili is my..."

Broly's words weren't finished when the Pallum girl interrupted, taking over the conversation.

"Best friends. Broly-san takes very good care of me, helps me a lot, I'm extremely grateful to him. He's a great good person."

Broly turned his head, looking at Liliruca with some puzzlement. The Pallum girl signaled him with her eyes, telling him to cooperate with her words.

"Mhm, that's exactly how it is, no mistake."

Seeing this, Broly also nodded and answered the elf's question.

Lili is one of my future wives; calling her my best friend for now is also not wrong.

"Is that so..."

Liu's furrowed brows relaxed. Her good friend's romance hadn't died in the womb before it could bloom — this counted as a good thing.

"The tavern side will still be busy at noon. Then, Mr. Broly, I'll head back first."

"Mhm, Miss Liu, please go ahead."

"Right, Mr. Broly, I know your swordsmanship is very powerful, and I also know a bit of swordsmanship. I wonder if I could request you to also give me some pointers on swordsmanship?"

Liu, who had walked a couple steps on the return road, suddenly thought of something, stopped her footsteps, turned her head back and asked.

And she of course wasn't truly asking the boy to instruct her swordsmanship; she was merely borrowing the pretext of needing swordsmanship instruction to create an intersection with him. Otherwise, how could she help her good friend Xier probe his bottom?

However, while Liu thought this in her heart, her behavior in others' eyes was a completely different situation.

【Lady Xier truly makes friends carelessly. The elf girl from the former Justice Familia has actually fallen to such a state? She actually covets the opposite sex her friend likes...】

The cat-man youth Allen, observing secretly, thought silently in his heart.

"Of course."

Broly agreed in one breath.

"Then I wonder when Mr. Broly you have time?"

Liu inquired.

"I'm free in the afternoon. You can come find me at the Hestia Familia headquarters."

The female elf blinked, not expecting to hit the day by chance rather than choosing a day, and nodded.

"Good, afternoon. I'll go to your familia headquarters to find you."

Finished speaking, the waitress female elf also went back.

Not long after, Hestia returned.

Returning together with her were the god Takemikazuchi, and his familia children.

Kashima Sakura, Hitachi Chigusa, Yamato Mikoto — the three, through Hestia's introduction, exchanged greetings one by one with the Saiyan boy.

"Mr. Broly, please guide us!"

The three's attitudes were very respectful. After all, he was someone who could instruct the Loki Familia's Sword Princess. The situation of him being willing to come instruct them — if not for their own Lord God and the god Hestia being Divine Friends — would probably not have been obtained so smoothly. As three people who don't mix well in Orario and whose familia is relatively poor, they naturally cherished such an opportunity.

"Have you eaten? Being instructed in training is a rather stamina-consuming matter."

Broly asked the three.

"Not yet."

Hitachi Chigusa answered in a somewhat small voice, looking like a girl with a rather introverted personality.

"Then wait until after eating, then head over to our familia headquarters."

At the noon main meal time, relatively few people come to buy snacks like fried potato balls.

Broly, Hestia, three people one god, prepared to eat the delicious bento made by the Abundance Mistress's signboard girl and part-time cook girl. As for Takemikazuchi Familia and the others, what they prepared to eat were the fried potato ball shop's fried potato balls.

Though they're snacks, they can also fill the stomach. And with the god Takemikazuchi as a fried potato ball shop employee giving an internal employee price, it can be called an economical and affordable meal.

"Lady Hestia, please give me one portion of fried potato balls too."

"Eh, Broly, you want to eat too?"

"Not me eating, but giving it to another person to eat."

"Hm?"

Hestia was somewhat confused, but still packed one portion of fried potato balls.

The cat-man youth Allen Fromel was originally secretly staking out on the rooftop of the adjacent building.

"Hey..."

But the sudden sound from beside him directly made his tail's fur explode out, just like a startled Hakimi, continuously jumping sideways to pull distance.

"Uh, your reaction doesn't need to be this big, right?!"

Seeing this person's reaction so huge, Broly was somewhat speechless.

Cat-man youth: "..."

He, an Lv. 6, the Freya Familia's Vice Captain, yet was silently touched up to by the stalking target — not reacting big would be the real wonder.

"When did you discover me?"

The Hakimi asked in a hoarse voice.

"When? Discovered after the morning meeting with you all finished. After all, you didn't hide your presence either."

Broly answered, then paused: "Uh, wait. From the meaning of your words, could it be you thought you hid very well and I didn't discover you?"

Allen Flom's eye twitched twice, his face flushing red; his supposedly concealed presence had been discovered ages ago — damn, how embarrassing.

"Uh, how about I just go down now, and you pretend you never discovered me?"

Broly proposed.

"Discovered is discovered; what did you come looking for — to warn me to stop spying on you?"

The cat person youth asked with a somewhat ugly expression.

"No, I was just worried you hadn't brought any food, so I brought you some fried potato balls up here."

Broly placed the paper bag containing the fried potato balls on the rooftop.

"As for spying, that's your job; after all, you have to be responsible for your Main God, right?"

Finishing his words, Broly waved his hand at the Hachimi youth, then nimbly slipped down from the rooftop.

【This guy, he knows of Lady Freya's existence?!】

Allen was somewhat shocked, but quickly reacted to the other party's words just now: 【After meeting with you all, I discovered.】

【Wrong, is he treating me as a member of the Hermes Familia?!】

After realizing this point, Allen didn't know what to say.

He himself had been discovered, yet it seemed like he hadn't been discovered.

Looking at the paper bag containing fried potato balls left on the rooftop by the Saiyan boy, he thought for a moment, then walked over and started eating.

Things having come to this, might as well eat first; only the fried potato balls count as sweets, and Allen doesn't really like sweet food — his younger sister Anya might like this stuff though.

After eating lunch, Broly brought the three Takemikazuchi Familia members back to their own Familia residence, then said to the three: "I'm not too familiar with the three of your combat skill levels, so I'll have to ask you to demonstrate for me first."

(Chapter End)