Chapter 805: Miss Adi Wants to Repay Kindness, the Heretic Child's Acknowledgement

"Xier, I'm sorry."

Early the next morning, Ryu went to the Hostess of Fertility, found the quest board girl sweeping the front door, and confessed to her that she, too, had fallen for the boy.

"Ryu, I trusted you so much, and this is how you repay my trust in you?"

"I'm in the wrong, Xier. Scold me or hit me as you wish. I promise I won't talk back if scolded, won't fight back if hit. Even if you want my life, I'll have absolutely no complaints. After all, this life of mine was originally saved by you back then."

Ryu bowed deeply to Xier and even offered up her wooden sword, giving off quite the feeling of presenting a sword to beg punishment. She had previously wondered which women Broly would go provoke, but the result was that she herself crashed headlong into it and fell for the Saiyan boy.

Although Adi gave her advice last night, upon actually seeing Xier, Ryu subconsciously chose a course of action more in line with her own clear-cut personality of repaying kindness and avenging grudges.

"Since it's like that, then……"

Ryu felt the wooden sword in her hand being taken away, and she sighed in her heart. As expected, having the person you like stolen by someone you trust is absolutely impossible to forgive.

Just as Ryu truly intended to follow through on her words and make the resolve to repay a life, Xier, having taken the wooden sword, used its back to lightly tap the back of the elf's head in front of her.

It hurt a little, but there was no substantial harm. Ryu turned her head in puzzlement and looked at Xier before her.

"This strike is punishment for you never treating your own life as something that matters."

Xier took the wooden sword back onto her shoulder, put her other hand on her hip, and said.

"Ah, Xier, you don't blame me?"

"Blame you for what?"

"But I fell for the person you like. I was clearly entrusted by you to help spy on him, and the result is that I stole the watch myself. I'm really a lousy guy."

"Ryu, what you say isn't wrong, but the premise is that I actually wanted you to go help spy on him."

"Huh, what do you mean?"

"Is there a possibility that I actually knew Broly wanted to encounter you, so I deliberately used the reason of needing to spy on him to ask you to go spy on him?"

"Eh?!"

Ryu straightened up in shock, looking at the quest board girl's expression that seemed like a smile yet not a smile. Her small mouth couldn't help but gape open, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"From the start I felt you would fall, I just didn't expect that after falling you'd come confess to me and even do the presenting-sword-to-beg-punishment thing.

My my, Ryu, looks like you really like Broly a lot, to even offer up your own life."

"I, you, ah……"

In the back alley of the Hostess of Fertility, Ryu's whole person collapsed onto the ground, her face red like a thoroughly cooked large shrimp. She had been thrown for a loop by Xier's words, her brain somewhat crashed, her language system momentarily glitching.

"Stop with the 'I, you, ah.' Come, take your wooden sword properly."

Xier returned the wooden sword in her hand to Ryu and pulled the elf on the ground up.

"Congratulations, Ryu. You've discovered the person you like in this life, found the happiness that belongs to you."

While Ryu was flustered with embarrassment, a smile appeared on Xier's face, and she sincerely congratulated her.

"Then, Xier, you'll also gain happiness together with me from now on, right?"

Having calmed down after taking two deep breaths, Ryu, though still a bit embarrassed, no longer had to worry about the difficulty of persuading her good friend to accept serving one husband together. She asked in a small voice.

"Mm, should be."

Xier smiled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes; a trace of melancholy lay in the depths of her gaze.

As she interacted and associated with Broly at close distance in her goddess posture, the more they associated, the more Freya felt that an intangible sense of estrangement existed between the Saiyan boy and her goddess self.

This sense of estrangement manifested in concrete behavior as a difference in treatment between her goddess self and her girl self.

For example, the same feeding: holding a small piece of cake to feed the boy. When her girl self fed him, after eating the cake he would still gently lick and suck her fingers. But when her goddess self fed him, it became a situation of eating and that being the end of it.

Another example: her girl self actively getting close to him would absolutely not be refused by the boy. Whether asking for a kiss or asking to be petted, Broly would satisfy her. But switched to her goddess self, it became a situation where distance would be pulled before things even started.

Under these circumstances, Freya's current mood was very complex. Even Haize was recalled by her, choosing to temporarily not respond to the Hestia Familia's proposal for cooperation regarding resurrection magic, thereby also not letting Broly go to the Battle Wilderness.

For a recent period, Freya wanted to be alone quietly, to figure out what she truly thought of her feelings for the boy.

【If only I weren't a goddess……】

Xier looked at the elf who was shy yet happy, and this thought suddenly surfaced in her heart.

But she quickly shook her head, discarding this absurd notion.

She is a god. From the moment consciousness was born at birth, she has been one. This cannot be changed, nor denied.

"Alright, Ryu. The shop still needs tending. If you have no other business, I'll go back to work."

"Ah, sorry, Xier. Today I agreed with Adi to accompany her back to the Ganesha Familia for a trip, so I can't stay and help at the shop."

"It's fine. If you have something, go do it."

Xier saw Ryu off.

At the main gate, Adi was waiting.

Seeing Ryu and Xier walk out of the back alley together, chatting and laughing, she instead breathed a sigh of relief for her friend.

"How did it go?"

"Everything went smoothly. Turns out, Xier she……"

On the road, Adi asked about the apology, and Ryu told her the truth about the spying.

The more Adi listened, the worse she felt.

From her perspective, what happened to her friend.

Was just like being sold out, yet having to happily help the buyer count the money.

Even the one who sold Ryu was Ryu's benefactor.

However, Adi wanted to say something, but then thought of what the Pallum girl said to her last night.

The one who truly made Ryu devote herself body and heart to another was the resurrected her.

"Ryu……"

The girl's footsteps slowed, finally stopping. She called out to the elf ahead.

"What is it, Adi?"

The smiling Roli turned back, glancing strangely behind him, as if making some decision, his determined friend showing a firm expression.

"I heard that to resurrect me, you took on a lot of debt."

"You're talking about that, it's fine, Adi, this was all voluntary on my part."

"I don't think that's good; at least let me help shoulder some of the debt."

"But your resurrection debt, I've already paid off most of it."

"What about the debt of love?"

"Huh?"

"Since you can no longer turn back, and have uncontrollably fallen for someone else, then I will accompany you, help you attract the gaze of the one you like, on you."

"Uh, Adi, what do you mean by that?"

"Mr. Broly is philandering and likes to encounter other women, so I will devote myself to him, using my reasonably pretty appearance to curry favor with him, help you tie down the other's heart, and try not to let him continue philandering with other women."

Roli: "......"

"Don't worry, Roli, I will definitely try my best to seduce Mr. Broly, make him stop philandering with other women, and not let you feel wronged!"

Roli was already stunned, her shoulders grabbed by both hands of the friend before her; she could feel Adi meant well, but this kindness made the friend before her resolve to use her own beauty to seduce a Saiyan youth—how should she respond?

"Adi, you actually don't need to..."

"No, if you can repay your kindness, then I must also repay mine; you are my benefactor."

"I..."

"No need to say more, and don't try to dissuade me; I've already made up my mind."

After a struggle that could not change her friend's bizarre resolution, Roli also felt somewhat tired.

"Since it's like this, then so be it; it's just that Broly might not agree to your throwing yourself at him."

"Huh, I'm not bad-looking, am I?"

"Not bad, but it's not a matter of whether one is good-looking or not, but whether feelings are accepted or not."

"At least, the Broly I know values loyalty more than just looking at whether someone's appearance is pretty..."

To increase the persuasiveness of her words, Roli specifically cited the example of the Kali Familia from before.

"A group of decent-looking Amazons wanted to climb into bed and pursue him in reverse, but failed; he refused them and even threw them out."

"Huh?"

Adi's small mouth opened slightly; this had happened before her resurrection, so she didn't know about it at all, and thought the Saiyan youth of Hearth Manor would want any pretty woman.

"However, it's fine; I'll talk to him, and he should be willing to accept you."

Adi: "......"

Is this situation a bit off?

"Broly is a good person; you wanting to devote yourself to him is no problem, and coincidentally, among his future encounter targets, we'll have someone to look out for us."

Unable to change her friend's desire to repay kindness, Roli thought more positively after shifting her perspective; she actually felt it wasn't bad to have an acquaintance join Broly's Crystal Palace.

At least, in the future, if they had to do some embarrassing things with the other party, they could stand shoulder to shoulder with friends, so they wouldn't be too shy.

Broly didn't know what was happening on Roli's side; after Fels contacted the Heretics' side, he took Fels and Vini together to the Dungeon.

The Heretics in the Dungeon questioned the proposal put forward by their side, which was to obtain the Magic Stones of deceased Heretics to attempt resurrection.

"Fels, it's not that we're unwilling to believe you, who has always helped us, but those Magic Stones were once our companions."

"To us, it's like the corpses left behind by deceased relatives and friends of the surface world people; you're asking us to hand over the corpses of our past companions."

"At the very least, let us see up close the people who will accept these Magic Stones?"

Regarding the Heretics wanting to meet him in person and confirm whether he was worthy of entrusting their former companions' Magic Stones, Broly did not refuse.

"And besides you, we also hope you can bring our companion; let that Dragon Girl you took away tell us how you've treated her since you took her."

The Heretics were very vigilant toward Adventurers; compared to Fels, who often helped them but never showed his true face before them and was somewhat mysterious, they seemed more willing to believe a fellow Heretic companion who was intelligent, rational, and had only been born not long ago.

"That depends on Vini's wishes; if she's willing to meet you, I'll bring her to the Dungeon side to meet with you."

"Hah, I said it; a guy who can say he'll ask our companions' opinions has no problem."

Both sides successfully met on Floor Nineteen Labyrinth of the Dungeon; hearing from Little Dragon Girl Vini's mouth about her days of eating well, drinking well, sleeping well in the surface world, and even being taken out to shop and play after disguising herself, Lizardman Reid laughed and said to Stone Dragon Guroth beside him.

But these two had previously held completely opposite views regarding Broly's reply that he would see Vini's wishes.

Heretic Leader Lizardman Reid felt equality from Broly's words, while Deputy Leader Stone Dragon Guroth had a different opinion.

"If the reply given by that person later is that our companion doesn't want to come meet us, then we can't rule out that our companion who was taken away has already been killed."

"Huh, the opposite side agreed; what do you say?"

"Maybe they've been enslaved."

Stone Dragon Guroth couldn't say much about other things, but his mouth was definitely harder; this guy only had to admit, after truly seeing Vini and seeing Little Dragon Girl raised to be very spirited and full, that the Saiyan youth holding Vini's small hand to come to the Dungeon was a good person who didn't antagonize them Heretics.

"Even if he's fine, what about other Adventurers? I'm being careful; before the meeting, let everyone prepare for possible battle—so what..."

"Sorry, Mr. Broly, Guroth is just that kind of guy."

"It's fine; I've heard about the situation of you Heretics; being cautious is no problem."

Broly didn't care about this vigilance of the Heretics.

He looked toward Vini's direction; Little Dragon Girl was happily playing with the monsters among the Heretics.

Speaking of the surface, Vini was also happy, but she always felt not as free as now.

And probably, this was because she had companions who were also monsters but rational by her side.

"This time, we will take the Magic Stones left by your deceased companions back to the surface to attempt to resurrect them..."

Broly said.

"The reason we're not attempting resurrection in front of you in the Dungeon is because we don't know how the Dungeon would react if resurrection magic were used and the Gate of the Underworld opened inside it, and even if there were no reaction at all, the Gate of the Underworld appearing in the Dungeon would simply be too conspicuous……"

Fels added an explanation from the side.

"If the resurrection is successful, and your companion still retains their rationality after being resurrected, then our side will quickly begin pushing forward with the plan to have the people of the surface accept your existence as Heretics."

"Ah, how is that done?"

Reed asked in surprise.

"Specifically how to do it depends on whether rationality is retained after resurrection; if it is, then having the people of the surface accept your existence as Heretics will be relatively simple."

"But if not, it will be a bit more difficult, though, don't worry, no matter whether rationality can be retained or not, my side has corresponding plans."

Broly had once changed that world's public opinion toward the Cursed Children in the Original Gut World, so actually making the people of this world accept Heretics isn't that difficult.

If they can retain rationality after resurrection, then Heretics can naturally become this world's Cursed Children, but if they can't, then we'll put on a play of acting like rational magic beasts, actively rescuing Adventurers who almost met with disaster in the Dungeon.

Actor Broly had even prepared everything; Moduo on the Rivira side had previously said he was at my disposal, so this can come in handy just right.

Of course, specifically, we'll have to wait until we return to the surface, try resurrecting the Heretic Magic Stone we have in hand, and then decide based on the situation.

"Lei, Feier, Laniya, bye-bye, I'll come down to see you again later; after everyone on the surface stops rejecting us, I imagine you can also leave the Dungeon and go to the surface."

"By then, we can sunbathe together, feel the warm sensation of sunlight shining on our bodies, we can also fly freely and soar in the blue sky, roll around on the grass, and catch pretty big butterflies together……"

Before leaving, Vini said this to the Heretics' playmates.

Little Dragon Girl's lively words made a group of Heretics fantasize about such a beautiful future, and looks of admiration involuntarily appeared on their faces.

"Okay, although I don't know what a butterfly is, we'll catch them together by then."

The Heretics and other magic beasts waved in place, seeing off Broly as he took Vini's hand, and Fels, wearing a Black Robe but with his true face beneath the Black Robe now actively revealed, leaving.

"What, Miss Adi, you want to become my External Wife?"

(Chapter End)