Chapter 804: Want to Accuse? First Pay Back Your Own Debt Before Speaking!

"So, Liu, you actually came to stay at Hearth Manor in the first place to help your best friend keep an eye on Mr. Broly, to stop him from attracting even more girls?"

Miss Adi asked with some surprise; during the time living under the same roof, she had actually already noticed that Liu's boyfriend had an overly intimate way of getting along with the many women here at Hearth Manor.

It was only tonight, when Liu came to her to discuss the worries in her heart and fabricated a friend to explain the emotional problem she herself had encountered, that Miss Adi finally realized her best friend's boyfriend was an outright Harem King.

"Ah, no, what I said was my friend, not me……"

Hearing Miss Adi's question, Liu hurriedly denied it outright.

The elf sitting on the bed, wearing a white dress nightgown, subconsciously curled her knees up and buried her face in them, her pointed ears red enough to almost drip blood, her voice growing quieter and quieter.

【With that performance, she dares to fabricate a friend?】

Miss Adi complained in her heart, but understanding her best friend, she didn't actually force Liu to admit that the friend in her mouth was her own business.

"Alright, then your friend, from the start, went to the boy's side to help her best friend watch over the boy she likes?"

"Mm."

Liu replied lightly.

"And now, in the process of helping keep an eye on the boy her best friend likes, your friend discovered that she herself is feeling jealous over the fact that the boy she's watching still wants to attract bees and butterflies and encounter other girls?"

Miss Adi asked.

"Ah, she's not jealous, just feels a bit off in her heart!"

Liu hurriedly lifted her head, refuting the matter of jealousy.

"But that is jealousy. Although I've never been in love, I've seen many couples in the Familia before, and someone who minds their partner paying attention to the opposite sex is a sign of caring deeply about the partner. Although there are other possibilities, your friend's situation as you describe it is definitely caring."

"So, Miss Adi, you mean, I…… um, my friend, has fallen for the boy her best friend likes?"

"If that boy is very outstanding, selflessly helped your friend a lot, causing your friend to be very moved, then it's eight or nine out of ten.

Because, if I were the friend in your mouth, I probably also wouldn't be able to help falling for the other party."

Miss Adi comforted her best friend.

"But falling for the opposite sex her best friend likes like this, isn't my friend very wrong?"

"Where is it wrong?"

"She betrayed her best friend's trust."

Liu's emotions seemed somewhat agitated.

"If I say it's wrong, would your friend be willing to give up liking the boy her best friend likes?"

"This……"

Liu opened her mouth, her emotions dropping visibly.

"I think, she probably would, after all, her best friend has a very great kindness to her. If not for her best friend, my friend might have already died in a small alley two years ago."

These words were spoken somewhat dryly and with difficulty, a bitter taste even rising in her mouth, her nose a bit sour, her tear glands seeming to want to activate.

"Then what if I say, liking a person, your friend isn't wrong at all?"

Miss Adi asked.

"Ah, how do you explain that?"

Liu's low spirits instantly perked up, she lifted her head to look at the girl beside her and pursued the question, looking just like a drowning person who suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Liking is a very private emotion; it is often not under our control. And although your friend's best friend has shown kindness to your friend, she also cannot dictate your friend's emotion of falling for someone else. Even if the one she falls for is the opposite sex her best friend likes, it's the same.

In my opinion, the reason your friend feels this tangled situation is still because her best friend wasn't decisive enough to make a move on, confess to, and claim sovereignty over the person she likes.

Under those circumstances, your friend liking the boy who treats her well is also an unavoidable thing; it is uncontrollable."

Miss Adi didn't know Xier, but she hoped her best friend Liu could have a beautiful romance, rather than putting on a heartbroken appearance herself.

"But, even if liking someone is uncontrollable, can my friend just rely on that to feel at ease liking the boy her best friend, who has shown her great kindness, likes?"

【Having too high a moral sense isn't a good thing either!】

Miss Adi sighed inwardly.

【Good thing, the one Liu likes is an outright Harem King!】

"That's not necessarily so. I actually have a way to solve your friend's distress."

"Eh, what is it?"

"The person your friend and your friend's best friend like isn't an outright guy running a harem? Since that's the case, if your friend can persuade her best friend to be willing to serve one husband together with other women, wouldn't the two of them also achieve a relatively good perfect ending?"

"Ah!?"

"When it comes down to it, this isn't a problem of two fighting over one, but whether they can both accept sharing the person they like with others. If they can accept it, then everything has no problem."

"But……"

"Liu, do you still have a better solution?"

Miss Adi interrupted the elf who still wanted to say but, and asked her just like that.

"Wuu, I don't……"

Liu fell silent.

"So, let your friend and her best friend properly apologize, and then try their best to persuade the other party to accept this result that hurts the two of them together the least."

"I, I understand, Miss Adi, thank you for your advice."

"You're welcome. Just hope your friend can obtain a good result."

"I, I actually said that friend, she doesn't exist."

"An obvious thing, does it still need more saying?"

Liu finally couldn't hold on, hugging her knees and falling back onto the bed.

"You rest well tonight. Tomorrow go confront your best friend. If you don't have the courage, I can go with you, help you request the other party's forgiveness together."

Miss Adi helped cover the temporarily permanently disabled best friend on the bed, the elf curled into a ball, with the blanket, closed the room's light, and then walked out.

Outside, Broly was in the kitchen making food. Seeing the blue-haired girl with shoulder-length short hair pass by, he asked: "Miss Adi, do you want a late-night snack?"

"No need, I've already eaten my fill tonight."

"Has Liu gone to sleep? Does she want to eat?"

"She just fell asleep, please don't go disturb her."

"Alright, but she seemed somewhat absent-minded this afternoon. I wonder if she said anything to you about it?"

【Said a lot...】

"Mr. Broly."

"Hm?"

"Your philandering isn't really my place to manage, but Liu is a very good friend of mine, and you're her boyfriend. I hope that when you provoke other women around you, wanting to encounter them, you'll give more consideration to Liu's feelings."

When Adi said this, she was looking at Broly with a serious gaze.

"Uh, I'm very sorry. I'll try my best to consider Liu's feelings from now on. If I encounter someone I want to meet, I'll tell Liu in advance."

"Ah, just telling her in advance — that's the answer you came up with after considering Liu's feelings?"

"Then what answer do you want me to give?"

"Shouldn't it be a guarantee that from now on, you won't lust after other women at first sight, wanting to encounter others?"

"Sorry, I haven't lusted after anyone at first sight. Wanting to encounter others has other reasons, and on that one point alone, I cannot guarantee it."

"Other reasons — what reasons?"

"Wanting others to obtain happiness, which is also letting myself obtain happiness."

"Ah, Mr. Broly, that way of putting it is really shameless. In the end, only you yourself obtain happiness, okay?"

Although he was the benefactor who revived her, Adi still felt somewhat indignant on Liu's behalf. Why would that noble elf friend fall for someone like this?

"Hey, this is really getting hard to listen to. Miss Farma, you're an outsider temporarily residing in Hearth Manor, not some encounter target. What qualifications do you have to point fingers at Broly-san?"

Just then, someone inserted themselves into the conversation.

"You're Miss Liliruca, right? You're also one of Mr. Broly's girlfriends. Don't you feel upset about Mr. Broly constantly provoking other women?"

"Well, if I said it doesn't upset me, that would absolutely be a lie. I'm also a bit jealous, but encountering Broly-san — that is still what I consider the luckiest thing in my life to this day.

My past life wasn't good — every day was spent under dark clouds. But after meeting Broly-san, my life gained sunlight; he directly dispersed the dark clouds.

So, as long as it makes Broly-san happy, what's a little grievance on my part?"

Adi: "..."

When the Pallum girl said this, her gaze watching the Saiyan boy was full of tender affection. It was completely clear she wasn't lying.

"But Liu isn't you..."

"Hah, you're not Miss Liu either. Do you know Miss Liu's past after you died? Do you know what kind of mental state she was in before meeting Broly-san?

Always the look of a cold, noble elf with no will to live. Only after learning she could revive you did she become like a living person again.

And it was for her that Broly-san went searching for magic that could revive the dead. But your remains were too defective — there was simply no way to directly revive you.

Do you know how much money Broly-san spent, how much effort he exhausted, to help Miss Liu revive you, this guy?

He could have accompanied us when not going into the Dungeon, but to cooperate with researching a method to repair your defective remains, he had to hole up in the Magic Laboratory with that Skeleton Sage girl..."

Adi was blocked into speechlessness.

"Wanting to spew big words at Broly-san — you, this guy, should first settle the revival fees that still haven't been paid off, the ones Miss Liu has been helping you repay, before you speak!"

Broly being accused made Liliruca's aggressiveness become extremely strong, and her words let the naive girl of the Ganesha Familia who had been revived know just what price her good friend Liu had paid to revive her — a situation of falling headfirst into a net of affection woven from gratitude.

"Lili, don't say it like that. I see Miss Adi is just concerned about Liu."

"Okay, Broly-san. If you tell me not to say it, I won't. I'll listen to you in everything."

The Pallum girl assumed a meek, dependent posture.

"Miss Adi, you don't need to take Lili's words to heart either. What you owe Liu, you don't owe me."

Broly served a bowl of ramen for the Pallum girl, then carried the other ramen to other rooms.

After delivering ramen to all his girls who wanted a late-night snack, he finally walked into the still-lit Magic Laboratory.

"Miss Amide, how is it? Using a prosthetic body made entirely of Magic Stones to perform resurrection on a soul without remains — is there any possibility?"

"Difficult, but not impossible.

Strictly speaking, monsters are bodies extended from Magic Stones, manipulated by the monster's soul.

Also, those strange people existing in the Dungeon with Magic Stones embedded in their bodies — the ones you and Miss Fels mentioned.

Hmm, since strange people exist, theoretically it should also be possible to realize this kind of resurrection relying solely on Magic Stones for the souls of the dead. It's just that there are still many technical difficulties involved.

Perhaps, Mr. Broly, if you could catch a strange person and bring them back to assist my research, or perhaps..."

Amide paused.

"Have Miss Vini or other rational Xenos assist with the research."

The matter of cooperating on resurrection magic research had made this Battlefield Saintess interact closely with the Hestia Familia. And to push Xenos onto the stage to be accepted by the world, at Fels's proposal, Broly's side had also revealed Vini's existence to her.

Judging from Miss Amide's current attitude toward the Little Dragon Girl, the Deiankete Familia should be able to be won over.

"Alright, I'll keep an eye out for news of Dungeon strange people. Now, Miss Amide, you should rest too — come have some late-night snack."

Broly brought the ramen before the Saintess, directly ignoring the matter of having Vini come help with the research.

Although if he told Vini about this, that child would probably not refuse, but assisting with pure Magic Stone resurrection research — Broly knew this might require that child to experience death, so he completely excluded this option without any consideration.

The obviously hostile Dungeon strange people became the targets he locked onto, prioritized to assist with the pure Magic Stone resurrection experiment.

"However, if strange people really can't be found, we could also find other rational Xenos besides Vini to help..."

At this moment, Fels walked over and said a line.

"Eh?!"

Broly and Amide both looked over simultaneously, seemingly confused why the Fool who protects Xenos would say to use Xenos as research assistants.

"Xenos also suffer casualties from time to time. They also have a need for resurrection, it's just that there was no opportunity for resurrection before."

Fels hurriedly explained that he did not want to use living heretics as test subjects, but rather to attempt it on dead heretics.

"If they can be resurrected, and the resurrected heretics can still retain the rationality of heretics, then..."

Fels paused, then looked at Broly.

"For letting the world accept the existence of heretics, distinguishing them from other irrational magic beasts would be of great help."

(Chapter End)