Chapter 924

The two-day, one-night hot spring trip ended, and while waiting for the Hero Association bus to come pick them up, Tatsumaki actively sought out Broly.

"Sister Tatsumaki, is something the matter?"

Broly was taken by her to a secluded corner and curiously asked her.

"Nothing much, I just want to ask you, do you still have that wine you gave me last night?"

Tatsumaki got straight to the point.

"I still have some stock on my end; you want more?"

"Mm, that wine tastes good, I want some."

The divine wine made Tatsumaki hug her younger sister to sleep, yet she still wanted to ask for some more.

"But I won't take your wine for nothing; I can pay you."

"No need to pay, Sister Tatsumaki, if you want it, I'll just give it to you.

Still, I want to remind you, Sister Tatsumaki: a little drink lifts the mood, too much harms the body."

Although divine wine wasn't rare on his end—as long as Soma remained in the Lower World of the Reverse World, he could continuously order new divine wine through Liliruca—Broly felt that one wine-loving wife in the Crystal Palace was enough, namely Master Aqua.

"I'm not a drunkard."

Tatsumaki was telling the truth; she just wanted to invite her younger sister to have a drink together when they were alone.

"Mm, since you won't take money, then let's say I owe you a favor. One small bottle of last night's wine counts as one favor. If you come to me for help in the future, as long as it doesn't violate my principles, I will absolutely not refuse. What do you think?"

", Sister Tatsumaki, you're serious."

"Of course."

As Tatsumaki finished speaking, a large wooden crate suddenly appeared before her.

"I have 15 bottles of divine wine, I'll give them all to you, Sister Tatsumaki, please put it on my tab."

"Oh, mm, I owe you 15 favors—"

Tatsumaki blinked, then nodded in acknowledgment.

"Then, I'm calling in these favors now."

Broly said decisively.

"Uh, what do you want me to do?"

Tatsumaki suddenly thought of the conversation in the hot spring pool yesterday, thought of some possibilities, and quickly added.

"Remind you, even if I owe you a favor, if you make some difficult requests, I will still decisively refuse you."

"It's nothing too difficult. First, my first request is, I want to ask Sister Tatsumaki to be friends with me."

As for a wife, one should start from being friends.

"Hah?"

Hearing this, Tatsumaki's small mouth slightly opened.

"Uh, Sister Tatsumaki, is this a very difficult request?"

"That's not it—"

Tatsumaki's expression was somewhat subtle, simply because she had never made a friend.

"I just want to remind you, I'm not someone suitable to be friends with. I've never had the experience of making friends with others before, and I completely don't know how to treat you with the attitude one uses for friends. You can change your request now and it's still not too late."

"It's okay, Sister Tatsumaki, it's your first time, but it's not mine. I will treat you with the attitude one uses for friends. Sister Tatsumaki, you just need to respond to me according to your inner thoughts."

"Since you say so, then from now on, the two of us are friends. I now only owe you 14 favors."

Tatsumaki nodded, starting to clear off one favor from the tab.

"Tatsumaki."

", you kid are getting full of yourself, actually daring to call my name directly, and without 'Sister'?"

"But we're friends now. I feel that since we're friends, we should start by changing how we address each other."

"Uh—"

"Tatsumaki."

Tatsumaki, being called by name again, this time lightly hummed in response.

"Can you say my name once too?"

"Bro—Broly."

For some reason, this act of seriously calling someone's name gave Tatsumaki a strange feeling.

It wasn't that directly calling someone's name was strange, but rather calling someone's name just for the sake of calling their name.

This kind of thing is somewhat strange.

"Mm, now, Tatsumaki, I want to make the second and third requests."

"Go on."

"I hope you can also be good friends with Vivian and Mosquito Girl."

Broly pointed to the two women observing this side over there, and said to Tatsumaki.

"I can, but your remaining favors afterward, surely you don't want them all to be about making me make friends with others, right?"

Tatsumaki nodded and agreed, though her expression was somewhat strange.

"That's not it. It's just that I haven't thought yet what I want you to help me do with those remaining favors."

Proposing to make her a wife, with Tatsumaki's happiness value barely exceeding double digits, felt really risky.

"Fine, I still owe you 12 favors. When you've thought about what you need my help with later, come tell me anytime."

Tatsumaki left carrying a crate of divine wine, but when boarding the bus, she discovered her younger sister hadn't gotten on the bus.

"No, Fubuki, the bus is about to depart, what are you still doing outside?"

Tatsumaki poked her head out from the bus.

"Sister, I don't plan on going back for now."

"?"

"Broly is preparing to buy a house with a hot spring pool here, and I plan to act as his staff officer."

Although soaking in a mandarin duck bath in the large bathtub of the Lake View Villa isn't bad, compared to a real hot spring pool, it ultimately lacks a bit of charm. After Broly, Vivian, and the others discussed it, they decided to buy a house with a private hot spring in this place with natural hot springs.

【He's buying a house, what does that have to do with you?】

Tatsumaki really wanted to ask that, but by the time the words reached her lips, they became: "Do you need me to keep you company?"

"Ah, no need, Sister, you go back first."

Fubuki hurriedly waved her hands to refuse. Joke—the other two who came on the hot spring trip were already in the hot spring enjoying otherworldly husbands; if Sister stayed too, how would she get anything done?

"When I have free time later, I'll visit Sister again."

Hell's Blizzard suddenly noticed her older sister's complexion looked bad, and hurriedly added another sentence.

"Alright, it's settled then."

Hearing this, the expression on Tatsumaki's small face immediately turned from cloudy to sunny.

After the Hero Association's large bus left, Broly brought people to buy a house with a private hot spring.

This house was supposedly a place a certain tycoon was preparing to keep a mistress, but just as the house was finished and before anyone moved in, that tycoon's company's capital chain broke, he directly declared bankruptcy, and this place became one of the assets for liquidation.

Those who had ideas for this place had no money, and those with money had no ideas for this place; Broly could be said to have snapped up this house cheaply.

Bought it that day, moved in that day, directly experiencing some interesting small designs in the details of this hot spring house—for example, beside the private hot spring pool, there were quite a few handrails to grab onto to steady oneself.

On this hot spring trip, Broly's side delayed leaving by a full three days, and when leaving, the three girls by his side were each more spirited than the last, each more moist than the last—obviously nourished inside and out, body and mind, which was why they looked so radiant.

Back in B-City, the Spaceship Amusement Park project was thriving. Looking at the financial report from the first week of opening, it seemed it wouldn't be long before the debts were paid off and they entered a profitable state.

"Boss Lady, I thought you weren't coming."

"It's just that there have been some things lately, not that I didn't mean to come. Alright, Geryuganshoop, how should I assist you?"

"No, it's I who should assist you, Boss Lady. You only need to—"

After Hell's Blizzard returned to B-City, she took over the position of Boss Lady of the Spaceship Amusement Park. With Geryuganshoop's help, she used psychic powers to deploy a psychic network, learned to use psychic telepathy, and at the same time went about dispatching and commanding a large group of alien employees to work.

At first, Hell's Blizzard was flustered, but gradually, she got better and better at it, and her psychic powers were being systematically developed through work.

Although there was still a big gap compared to her older sister Tatsumaki's psychic powers, after the hot spring trip, Fubuki's heart had reduced a lot of hostility toward Tatsumaki.

Days passed one by one, and the prophecy that Earth would end seemed to be verified. The chaos in this world was gradually increasing, and the monsters appearing in various cities recently seemed to be getting more and more numerous.

Of course, this didn't have much impact on Broly. His life in this world continued as usual: being a hero during the day, fighting monsters and solving disasters, and returning home at night to accompany his wife.

The only thing that could be said to have changed was probably that Broly added a daily schedule of delivering three meals a day to Tatsumaki.

Well, although the tactic of delivering meals was cliché, it was quite effective. Especially for someone like Tatsumaki, who always had her guard up against outsiders, was hard to get along with, and rejected associating with outsiders—Broly's behavior of delivering hot meals on time brought her a strange feeling of care from family.

"Today's chicken wings were made by Fubuki, the spare ribs by Vivian, and Mosquito Girl helped pan-fry the takoyaki—"

"Don't just feed me, you eat too!"

"Friends should help each other."

"Honestly, I'll feed you too."

"I don't want you to use psychic powers; I want you to use your hands too."

Tatsumaki was a bit speechless, but still put on an expression of 【really can't do anything about you】, picked up a chicken wing middle with her hand, and held it out to Broly.

After Broly finished eating the chicken wing middle, he grabbed her small hand and sucked the juice clean from her slender fingertips. As for this, Tatsumaki, whose Happiness Value had already exceeded 40 points, just had her cheeks turn slightly red, with a hint of reproach on her face, but didn't make too intense a reaction.

After a month of contact and getting along, Tatsumaki had gradually gone from a Haki Meow who might huff at you at any time and place, to becoming a house cat.

"Bastard, what are you doing, you guy?"

Of course, if while feeding her, fingers were inserted into her small mouth and deliberately touched her small tongue, there was still a high probability that this Psychic Young Lady would bristle up.

"I've sucked your fingers clean for you; shouldn't you suck the sauce from my fingertips clean too?"

Broly retorted with an innocent look.

"I suspect this guy of taking advantage of me, but I have no evidence—"

Tatsumaki gritted her teeth a bit, but still used actual action to lick the Cola Chicken Wing Sauce clean from Broly's fingertips.

And her Happiness Value actually went up a bit.

Well, this Psychic Young Lady had a proud side, but also a coquettish side.

It's just that her pride was the same toward everyone.

But her coquettish side could only be seen by a very few people.

Fortunately, with Fubuki as an intermediary, and Divine Wine to obtain the other's favor as a bridge, Broly could now be considered someone who could see Tatsumaki unintentionally reveal her coquettish side.

Of course, wanting to be lovey-dovey with Tatsumaki and do some affectionate things was currently not possible, let alone exposing the true relationship with Fubuki.

Since becoming friends and getting along with Tatsumaki until now, Broly had no doubt that if he exposed his true relationship with her younger sister Fubuki, the other's Happiness Value could drop to single digits in an instant. Wanting the blessings of two women, the road was still long and arduous, and it was absolutely out of the question in a short time.

"Broly, do you know about the Association re-examining S-Class Heroes' abilities?"

"Mm, I know. It seemed to have been set three weeks ago, it's just that the Association staff responsible for the re-examination haven't come to my side."

"Of course they couldn't come, because our efficiency in handling disasters is top-notch in the Hero Association; no one can question the two of us's strength."

"I see."

Broly showed a look of sudden realization, giving Tatsumaki full emotional value for telling him this matter.

"However, this kind of work re-examining S-Class Heroes' abilities has also been suspended recently."

"Hm?"

"

"Recently, the frequency of monsters appearing in various places has been getting higher and higher, and the Association has been driven to distraction due to insufficient manpower."

"This doesn't seem to have much to do with the work of re-examining S-Class Heroes' abilities, right?"

"Some at the Association believe that this kind of re-evaluation, which distrusts S-Class Heroes' capabilities, could cause unstable morale among Below S-Class Heroes, so it was discontinued."

"Re-evaluating S-Class Heroes could lead to re-evaluating A-Class and B-Class Heroes, and with monsters appearing more frequently and the Association short on manpower everywhere, conducting such a re-evaluation indeed cannot continue, and King, who almost got re-evaluated, already breathed a huge sigh of relief—"

"I heard that guy say the Association is preparing to recruit some capable criminals with probation and immunity as conditions, Broly, do you think this is ridiculous or not, heroes actually teaming up with criminals?!"

"Yeah, it is indeed somewhat ridiculous."

Broly nodded, although he did not find the Hero Association's operation hard to accept, it did not stop him from agreeing with Tatsumaki's opinion.

"Right, those criminals, if they are released and continue to cause sabotage, isn't that just adding to our two workloads for no reason?"

"So, Tatsumaki, what do you mean by telling me this, wanting me to go with you to protest to the Association Headquarters and demand they not do this kind of thing?"

"No, I mean, if we encounter those sabotaging bastards later, just don't show mercy and take them down, kill one to warn others for the other guys."

"Uh—"

"Do you find it strange that I don't oppose this matter?"

"Yeah."

"Actually the reason is simple, disaster incidents caused by monsters have been increasing recently, I don't want to run around everywhere as a firefighter for some trivial little disasters."

"If there are some capable guys among the criminals, letting them help handle some small disasters is also a not bad choice."

"And what we have to do is to be the Sword of Damocles hanging over those people's heads, ensuring they won't cause us unnecessary trouble."

"Sister Tatsumaki, you're so smart!"

Broly praised in one sentence.

The Wife Group of Akame ga Kill World also uses similar methods.

"Of course."

After hearing the praise, Tatsumaki immediately proudly puffed out her small but shapely chest, looking just like a smug little cat.

Broly pulled out a wet wipe and wiped the sauce corner of Tatsumaki's mouth, her Happiness Value, unsurprisingly, rose a bit again.

It is a fact that tsundere capture targets are hard to capture, but if one can find such a capture target's charm point and treat them seriously, their potential to increase Happiness Value is also very strong.