Chapter 899: The Wide-Net Beauty Pageant Finally Caught a Fish That Swam Right Into the Net!

"I did it, Teacher! Look, I successfully defeated a monster!"

Inside the abandoned factory, Vivian collapsed on the ground, somewhat exhausted, but her face was full of joy. In front of her was a screw monster covered in nuts and bolts. In the Hero Association's disaster rating, the opponent was a Wolf-level monster, a thief and murderer.

Of course, right now, it was just a training partner that had its head chopped off by Broly's newly accepted disciple. Broly looked at Vivian's state and found that she did not show fear because of the blood and corpse, and instead nodded slightly.

Although she was an ordinary girl, her mindset was better than that of ordinary people.

"Good job, but during the battle, you got a bit too excited and weren't calm enough. Otherwise, you could have dealt with this opponent more easily. You didn't have to fight until you were nearly exhausted, even to the point of almost getting injured."

Broly went on and on reviewing some of Vivian's mistakes in the battle just now. The idol girl's joy from defeating a monster with her own hands for the first time gradually dissipated during the review.

It was like a simple test paper where a perfect score was one hundred. She was complacent about getting ninety-five on her first try, only for the teacher to say right off the bat that this paper could actually have lost not a single point, as long as she had been a bit more careful, a bit calmer during the battle.

Vivian stood to the side, nodding her head continuously, like a quail, experiencing the other problem of having a famous teacher guide her — that her own famous teacher was also a strict teacher.

"Of course, this is your first time facing an opponent with some strength. The mistakes you made aren't major ones. More training will suffice.

Hmm, for tomorrow's evasion training, you'll add an extra hour. When your body can keenly detect which attacks will hit you and require evasion, and which attacks won't hit you and require no evasion, you won't end up in a situation where you panic and make useless evasive movements just because of some messy attacks that wouldn't have hit you anyway."

"Yes, Teacher Broly."

The next day, a group of shadow ninjas surrounded Vivian and threw pebbles for an extra hour, battering her until she was covered in wounds, before they fell to the ground like ink and disappeared into the shadows.

And compared to the evasion training from before, today's evasion training actually let Vivian reap quite a harvest.

Rubbing the sore spots on her body, Vivian had to admit that the mistakes she made in yesterday's actual combat were indeed avoidable.

"Teacher Broly, you were right. I'm still too green. I wasn't calm enough during actual combat, and I wasn't mature enough either."

"No need to belittle yourself. Think of it the other way — you still have a lot of room for improvement."

A poor student has great room for improvement. Broly's teaching method, though often involving setbacks, still primarily encourages the student when they truly realize their mistakes shouldn't have happened.

Hmm, this situation is related to the fact that the students he taught before were mostly his wives. And now it seems that using this teaching method to teach others has also achieved good teaching results.

At the very least, Vivian, who had been trained for half a month, was already qualified to be called a Water God Style Swordsman.

"Teacher Broly, I wonder what my combat strength is now?"

After her injuries were healed, Vivian couldn't help but ask curiously.

She knew she should have become stronger, but by how much, she had no concrete concept. She wanted to inquire about the situation from her teacher, Broly.

"Before, you were below ten points of combat strength. Now, counting your already proficient Water God Style Swordsmanship and Partial Explosive Ki technique, you should be able to display a combat strength level above fifteen points, below twenty points."

Broly actually couldn't judge accurately either. After all, this combat strength level was really too low. He just saw his female disciple's hopeful eyes wanting to know her score, and estimated a roughly appropriate score for her.

Hearing this, Vivian was very happy, but then she raised another question: "Teacher Broly, recently, I feel like my Qi has hit a bottleneck. No matter how I train, the upper limit of my Qi doesn't seem to increase at all."

"Normal. This is the physical upper limit of you as an ordinary individual. Qi Refining Fist can only help you raise your Qi to the upper limit. But breaking through the upper limit depends on yourself."

"Ah, then what should I do?"

"Regarding this, I'm also relatively unfamiliar, but it should require you to break through your own physical limits."

"Uh, how do I break through?"

"Engaging in life-and-death struggles to break limits, or doing the most basic physical training to improve physical quality, should also work. Hmm, I know a person. You can go ask about his training method."

Broly's own upper limit was extremely high. He could only analyze the situation of ordinary people who had previously practiced his Qi Refining Fist, and give his opinion from that.

"Physical training?"

Z-City. Saitama, at home, received a call from Broly.

"Telling you is no problem, but the training method that works for me might not necessarily work for you."

"Hmm, doesn't matter. I'm just inquiring about your training method for my disciple, just as a slight reference."

Saitama nodded and went on and on explaining his past training method.

From this day on, Vivian's daily training added a weighted physical training. Broly released gravity magic on her, and she did the same training as Saitama.

How should I put it? This is the most basic physical training, but because of the added gravity magic, the training effect became even better.

Days passed one by one. Broly's beauty pageant was still ongoing. Vivian followed along, running ten kilometers in different cities.

Occasionally she would take tests, going to solo monsters below Tiger Level and such. Her strength was growing stronger day by day.

This day, after finishing a hard day's training and her strength rising another notch, Vivian looked at Mosquito Girl leisurely eating a parfait across from her. Sensing the other's similarly growing Qi, she asked curiously: "Sister-disciple, have you been secretly training behind the scenes too?"

"Training? What training?"

Mosquito Girl looked at Vivian somewhat strangely.

"Physical training, just like mine."

Vivian pointed at her own nose and said.

"Muscle-building training? No, I haven't."

Mosquito Girl looked at this popular idol girl whose physique had become robust, and directly shook her head.

"No? But I feel like your Qi seems to be growing every day, Sister-disciple, and even faster than me training hard. Is it my imagination?"

Vivian had great talent in Qi sensing. She couldn't sense Broly's suppressed Qi, but Mosquito Girl's unsuppressed Qi, at close range, could be clearly felt changing by her.

"My Qi is indeed continuously growing. That's true. It's not your imagination."

"Sister-disciple, you who don't train — how do you do it? Is it extraordinary talent?"

"It's not that I have extraordinary talent. It's just that I'm using another method to cultivate Qi."

During this time, Mosquito Girl and Vivian, this girl who called her Sister-disciple at every turn, got along quite well. She didn't hide from her the fact that she was cultivating Qi.

【So she really has been secretly cultivating Qi behind the scenes. Judging by the situation, the effect seems even better than Qi Refining Fist's Qi cultivation, and seemingly without the restriction of physical quality itself. Teacher Broly held back a hand...】

A sour feeling emerged in Vivian's heart, but she quickly adjusted her mindset.

【Mosquito Girl is Teacher Broly's woman. I'm just Teacher Broly's paying disciple. Which side is closer to Teacher Broly goes without saying. Keeping the good things for the closer person — this is completely human nature. Teacher Broly can't be blamed at all.

These days, under Teacher Broly's guidance, my strength growth is completely beyond what I previously dared to imagine. Teacher Broly has completely lived up to me...】

However, even thinking this, Vivian still couldn't help but ask: "Sister-disciple, can you share your Qi cultivation method?"

Hearing this, Mosquito Girl narrowed her eyes, her gaze slightly scrutinizing as she looked at Vivian. Although these days of weighted training had made this idol girl's physique somewhat robust, she was originally the slender type. So this current degree of robustness was just right, possessing a kind of gymnast's beauty.

"Ah, if it's inconvenient for Sister-disciple to tell me, just pretend I didn't ask."

Vivian, who was being scrutinized by Mosquito Girl, also reacted quickly; realizing her rudeness, she hurriedly added that one sentence.

"Whether it's convenient or not, that depends on asking your teacher; I'll help you ask tonight, and if he says there's no problem, then I don't mind telling you either.

However, you'd best be mentally prepared, because my Qi cultivation method requires paying a price to cultivate."

Mosquito Girl's tone was serious, her words even carrying a hint of intimidation, as if wanting to make the other party back down from the difficulty.

"Please rest assured, Master's Wife; since I've stepped onto the path of becoming stronger, I've already prepared myself to pay any miserable price."

However, Vivian seemed to have prepared herself to face the difficulty head-on.

"Miserable it won't be; slightly painful, that's true."

Mosquito Girl pursed her lips; speaking of personal feelings, she wanted to monopolize Broly.

But after joining the Crystal Palace, the densely packed ID avatars in the temporarily unusable group chat room made her clearly realize this was simply impossible.

Even, if it weren't for Broly needing to obtain Happiness Points, she might not have been able to join the Crystal Palace at all.

Rather than waiting until over two hundred days later, when Broly's stay duration in this world ends, and she alone has to face N

many competitors from other worlds, it's better to increase the personnel count on her side.

That night, while being held by Mosquito Girl for their daily dual cultivation, she suddenly wrapped her arms around Broly's neck, leaned close to the Saiyan youth's ear, and spoke of the Idol Girl's intention to try a new Qi cultivation method.

"—Really? Vivian wants to become a Reverse Disciple?!"

Broly, upon learning this news, was somewhat surprised.

Of course, he didn't oppose the master-disciple relationship progressing further.

After all, he himself is the Rider Ancestor-Extinguishing Disciple.

But this female disciple Vivian, usually quite respectful toward him, showed no sign of such thoughts at all; he suspected Mosquito Girl might have gotten it wrong.

"Mm, I didn't reveal my Qi cultivation method to her; it was the situation where you directly brought me to practice; but judging by her attitude, even if she knew the truth of this cultivation method, she would likely join without hesitation because this method yields better results and lets her become stronger faster."

Mosquito Girl spoke these words with absolute conviction; after all, arduous training and cultivation — where is there something this comfortable, cultivating while enjoying pleasure, and moreover the latter's cultivation efficiency even surpasses the former's.

"Broly, what do you think?"

Mosquito Girl asked, panting.

"She's not a capture target; I mainly look at your opinion."

Following the External Wife joining rules previously established by the Crystal Palace, Broly kicked the problem's ball back to Mosquito Girl, currently the only External Wife in this world.

"I have no objection."

"Fine, then explain the situation to Vivian, and ask if she's willing to accept joining.

—Broly finished speaking, and prepared to withdraw and leave.

"—Where are you going?"

However, Mosquito Girl clung to him, not letting him go.

"Naturally to go explain the situation to Vivian."

"No rush; tonight you're still mine alone; wait until tomorrow, I'll go tell her."

This night was destined to be a sleepless night.

Only, Vivian's insomnia was because she didn't know if her own teacher would be willing to pass on the Qi cultivation technique he held back to her.

And Mosquito Girl's insomnia was from thinking that Broly might no longer belong to her alone tomorrow, cherishing a bit the last night the youth belonged solely to her.

The result was that the next day, both Mosquito Girl and Vivian met wearing dark circles, and yawning.

"B-City, finally welcomes the Beauty Pageant sponsored by Flashy Flash~"

At the beauty pageant venue teeming with crowds, a group of heroes in black suits instead cleared a path through the throng.

Hell's Blizzard, holding the registration form in hand, under the watchful eyes of her subordinates, entered the participant venue together with Sansetsukon Lily.

"Rest assured, Lady Fubuki; with your unparalleled beauty, this B-City Beauty Pageant Champion is destined to be yours for the taking!"

Class B Rank 74, Sansetsukon Lily, who joined the Blizzard Group out of worship for Fubuki, said to her boss beside her with great confidence.

"On this point, I have no doubt."

Hell's Blizzard was very confident in her own beauty, just like she believed she would eventually surpass her real sister and reach the pinnacle.

"Then Lady Fubuki, what are you still worried about?"

Sansetsukon Lily was somewhat confused; as Fubuki's confidante, she could sense that ever since entering the venue, her boss had a feeling of unease.

"I'm just not used to wearing overly revealing clothing and exposing myself in public."

Hell's Blizzard glanced at the bag her subordinate was helping carry; inside was the seaweed swimsuit uniform required by the competition, a normal bikini style, but just thinking about having to wear that on stage to be looked at by others gave her an uneasy feeling.

Hmm, being uneasy about some exposure is one thing; wearing such cheap clothing is another; strictly speaking, the latter displeased her even more than the former.

What she pursues are brand-name goods; low-grade clothes made of kelp simply aren't worthy of her; if it weren't for winning the prize money to buy courses and pull connections with Flashy Flash, she would never have come to participate in this kind of beauty pageant with clothing requirements.

Of course, if it weren't for her consumption concept pursuing luxury and face, as B-Class Rank 1, she actually isn't short of money.

"Ah, then how about this, Lady Fubuki, I'll lend you my seaweed swimsuit uniform?"

"Yours?"

"Right, mine is a school swimsuit style, not a bikini; wearing it isn't that revealing; although the size might not fit quite right, altering the seams should make it wearable."

"If I wear yours, what will you wear?"

"I'm just here to foil Lady Fubuki, so even if I withdraw it doesn't matter."

"No need; I have telekinesis, and there are many kelp products for advertising here; I'll just use telekinesis to control these kelp to construct my outer clothing.

As for withdrawing, Lily you're also very cute; you might even get runner-up; withdrawing like that would be too much of a pity, wasting a chance to pick up money for nothing."

Hell's Blizzard rejected her confidante's idea of withdrawing; in the few minutes before the beauty pageant started, she began constructing a three-dimensional image of a gorgeous dress in her mind.

After staff came to say the first round catwalk was about to begin, she controlled some kelp on her body to start shaping into a set of gorgeous ceremonial dress clothing.

And this approach, while the majority of other participants chose swimsuits, this kind of simple kelp clothing that highlights beauty, instead achieved a dimensionality reduction strike.

Walking out backstage, feeling the gazes projected by countless people in the venue, Fubuki's discomfort with the cheap clothing on her body quickly disappeared.

That's right, the formal wear shaped by her own psychic power, in terms of value, absolutely would not lose to some brand-name goods; what she wore was a brand name, her own brand name.

So————

This psychic big sister's runway steps, however, grew increasingly confident.

【So that's the S-Class Rank 3 Flashy Flash, his eyes are truly bright and shiny; the gaze he uses to look at me is just like a big grey wolf seeing a little white rabbit————】

Walking to the front of the stage, making eye contact with Broly on the special judges' seats, Hell's Blizzard's face revealed a business-like confident smile.

Completely failing to notice Broly's bright and shiny gaze, which was completely directed at her alone, and that indeed was the look of a big grey wolf seeing a little white rabbit.

【Discovered capture target, Hell's Blizzard, current Happiness Value 2, rising continuously】

Sitting on the judges' seats, Broly, upon seeing Hell's Blizzard, had his calm heart suddenly become excited.

Casting a wide net and holding a beauty pageant for so many days, finally, finally on this day there was a harvest; he found a capture target acknowledged by the Crystal Palace.