Chapter 928: Advancing into Z-City Real Estate

"So, you don't plan to hold beauty pageants anymore?"

In Z-City, inside the Zeniru Group's Golden Daddy Building, the group's owner, Zenier, looked at Broly across from him with some astonishment.

"Mhm, a few days ago I had someone do a divination, confirming that beauty pageants no longer hold any meaning for me as I am now."

【Is it that they can no longer help you find the woman to your liking?】

Zenier thought to himself; the outside world widely rumored that the women who had intimate relationships with Flashy Flash all came from the beauty pageant champions of various cities.

The Mosquito Girl of Z-City, Vivian of J-City, Hell's Fubuki of B-City.

"Don't, there are still some cities where we haven't held beauty pageants; what if we missed the beauty you want to pursue?"

Zenier persuaded him; cooperating with Broly, the outside world's aesthetic judgment of his 'daddy' image had already changed significantly, and continuing would definitely yield even better results.

"No need, the fortune teller I found is still quite reliable; I have quite a lot of matters on hand right now, meaningless beauty pageants would only waste my personal time."

"But beauty pageants are very popular right now, and they were created by us; right now just the advertising revenue from a single beauty pageant averages over sixty million yen per event, and your House of Evolution Food Co., Ltd. also relies on the pageant's popularity to promote products; giving up just like that, isn't it a bit too much of a pity?"

"Mhm, what you say makes some sense; how about this, the beauty pageants will continue to be held, however, the lead will be transferred to your side."

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"Uh, then what about you?"

"I'll just lend my name, but I won't continue as a special judge; however, in the name of House of Evolution Food Co., Ltd., I will fund half of the organizational funds for each beauty pageant; as for the profits generated during the period, your side gets six, my side gets four, how about that?"

Seeing Broly's mind was made up, Zenier considered it in his heart for a moment, then nodded and accepted this outcome.

"Right, Zenier, your group here in Z-City, seems to be in real estate, right?"

While Zenier's butler went to prepare the new contract, Broly suddenly asked.

"Mhm, there is that line of business; what's up?"

"I plan to buy a house in Z-City; do you have any good houses?"

"Uh, you plan to invest in real estate in Z-City————"

Zenier was somewhat surprised, then sighed.

"Forget it, big bro won't lie to you; Z-City's housing prices have been falling for nearly five years, plus the giant meteor crisis a while back, the entire Z-City real estate industry is in a winter period; wanting to do real estate investment here is purely burning money because you have too much of it."

"Mistaken, giant meteor crisis, I remember at the time the whole meteor was blown to ashes, and no damage was caused; how did it become like this?"

"No way around it, Z-City is a disaster-prone place; ever since six years ago disasters have been continuous; the previous meteor crisis was solved by you, but the panic hasn't disappeared; last time you were there to avoid the city being destroyed, but next time? What if a city-destroying disaster occurs that Broly little brother, you can't solve in time————"

Speaking to this point, Zenier also started sighing; a large portion of his group's assets were in Z-City; others wanting to leave Z-City could just dump their fixed assets here cheaply and run, but him? Even if he wanted to dump Z-City's assets cheaply, no one could take them over.

On the contrary, if he made a move to flee Z-City, it would only create greater panic, causing Z-City's real economy to suffer an even heavier blow.

"I see, but it doesn't matter, because I'm not buying a house for investment; rather, I plan to settle down in Z-City."

"Oh, so it's to settle down in Z-City."

After Zenier said this, a moment passed before he belatedly reacted.

"No, you said you plan to settle down in Z-City?"

"Mhm, the fortune teller I hired said there's someone I want to meet here afterwards."

Of course, Shibabawa's original words were that he would meet the person he wanted to meet in Z-City, but the time was unknown; she only knew that unknown object was currently in Z-City; if he settled down and moved about in Z-City, the probability of meeting the other party early would be a bit higher.

"I see; right, Broly little brother, you say you want to buy a house, why buy? Big bro will just give you one directly."

In Z-City, my group's construction company should still have several tens of thousands of properties; in a bit I'll have someone bring the property information over; you take it back and slowly pick together with your wife and them; whichever one or ones you fancy, no need for many words, big bro will directly arrange the transfer to you."

"This, how embarrassing?"

"How is it embarrassing? You're willing to come settle in Z-City; that's Z-City's fortune; big bro won't hide it from you; just with your current hero fame, as long as the news of you wanting to settle in Z-City is announced publicly, Z-City's real estate and all other industries will rapidly warm up; speaking of which, being able to give you a house, that's still big bro taking advantage of you!"

Zenier said with a hearty laugh; he had already begun imagining in his head the scene of his group's stock rapidly doubling in the stock market.

"Since that's the case, then many thanks."

After hearing this, Broly didn't stand on ceremony either.

"Right, Broly little brother, don't know if you have any interest in making a big score together with big bro me?"

"I'm not really short on money right now, but I don't reject earning more either; as long as it won't waste too much of my personal time; mhm, Zenier, what money-making plan do you have?"

"My money-making plan is very simple: Z-City real estate redevelopment; you settling in Z-City will undoubtedly raise the outside world's evaluation of Z-City's livability and safety."

"Coincidentally, Z-City still has a piece of abandoned ghost district; land prices are cheap enough that even an ordinary white-collar worker could buy a whole street with ten years' savings; as long as before the news of you settling in gets publicized, we join hands to grab the land in that ghost district————"

Zenier rattled on about his ghost district development plan; to summarize roughly: taking advantage of the ghost district being unwanted, land prices cheap, buying land aggressively; after the news of Broly settling in Z-City spreads, externally financing development of the abandoned Z

City ghost district, using safety as the theme, building Z-City into a bustling city like A-City.

"Broly little brother, you don't need to invest a single cent; just lend your name; after the company gets going, shares, money earned, we split three-seven."

"Me three, you seven?"

"How could that be; it's me three, you seven."

"Is that appropriate?"

"How is it not appropriate? In this plan, I, Zenier, am not important; replace me, you can find others to cooperate with; but if you're missing, I can't find anyone else to cooperate with either; after all, among heroes who can give Z-City citizens a full sense of security, the Hero Association only has you alone."

Solving the giant meteor crisis without triggering secondary disasters gave Broly the reputation of a savior in Z-City; and efficiently handling disasters everywhere like Tatsumaki, Broly's public influence is likewise not low; one could say he is the Hero Association's current poster figure — this is from Zenier's perspective.

As for other perspectives, well, the matter of Shibabawa's resurrection and restoration of youth has made some informed people in the Hero Association already have a tendency to deify him; it's just that the news is still being suppressed, and the outside world doesn't know these things.

Otherwise, some religions would probably change their names to the Flash Cult on the spot, and even swap their divine statues for life-size statues of Broly.

Under Zenier's active initiative, Broly and this Z-City's richest man, who should also possess a lucky constitution, reached a new cooperation.

However, this cooperation brought some trouble to Saitama, who lives in Z-City's ghost district.

"Bad news, Sensei Saitama; you might become homeless."

"Hah, Genos, are you joking with me? My house is fine, isn't it?"

"Sensei, look————"

Genos opened a news replay; Saitama, who had just returned from patrolling the streets to uphold world justice, heard the news on TV about Z-City's richest man launching a ghost city reconstruction plan.

"I believe Z-City cannot continue like this; Z-City's various industrial economies must be reorganized————"

To restore Z-City citizens' confidence in the city, the Zeniru Group decided to launch the city reconstruction plan.

The primary target was to erase Z City Ghost City, rumored in the Outside World to harbor a great terror, from our city.

Our group will fund the purchase of land in the Ghost Town area —————」

Saitama did not listen to the news afterward, because his phone rang.

Answering it, it was the landlord of his current home, who told him a piece of news both good and bad.

The good news was that Saitama did not need to pay this month's rent.

The bad news was that the house would be sold to the Zeniru Group.

The landlord called the other party a Sucker, wanting to sell his own house before others who had long wanted to sell houses in the Ghost Town area.

"If I sell too late and the Zeniru Group goes bankrupt, that damn house will be stuck in my hands, so, sorry, Saitama, you'd better find another house and move out as soon as possible."

After saying that, the landlord hung up the phone on his end.

"Although I've earned some money now, honestly, I still have feelings for this home I've lived in for two years."

"Then, Teacher Saitama, shall we buy this house?"

Genos proposed.

"Uh, forget it, this place is quite far from the supermarket, every time I buy things I have to run very far to buy them."

Saitama decisively rejected it; he had only been used to living here before, so after having some money, he still had no plan to change houses, but now that he had a reason to move, he naturally wanted to move to a better place to live.

Low desire does not mean no desire; if there were conditions to let him live a bit better, Saitama was also very willing.

"Ding Lingling~"

At this moment, Saitama's phone rang again.

"Hello?"

"Saitama, are you and Genos free tonight?"

"What is it?"

"I moved into a new home, and plan to invite acquaintances over to my new home for a meal."

", you live well in B-City, where do you plan to move?"

"Z-City."

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Saitama and Genos brought gifts and went to attend Broly's new house housewarming banquet.

After an explanation, Saitama also learned who was the one who suddenly made him lose his rented room.

But compared to losing his rented room, he wanted to know more —————

"No, why is it that, both being S-Class Heroes, my ranking is now just one lower than yours, why can you living in Z-City boost the confidence of the entire city's citizens, and even make Z-City's richest entrepreneur have the idea of tearing down Ghost Town for reconstruction, while me, this hero who has long lived in the abandoned Ghost Town area, has no influence at all?"

Saitama said somewhat resentfully; originally he could accept the situation of having no influence or change on this society and world, but now seeing an acquaintance (Broly) having such great social influence, Saitama inevitably felt his mindset was somewhat unbalanced.

"Teacher Saitama, I think it's because when Mr. Broly destroyed the giant meteorite before, many people witnessed that scene, whereas when you defeated the cosmic enemy, there were not many spectators —————"

Even though Saitama defeated Boros, who after appearing knocked down multiple S-Class Heroes and used them as stepping stones, and when the Hero Association later confirmed Saitama's achievements, they also went to the wilderness where he fought Boros and saw the terrain changed by the aftermath of their battle —————

But these, without being widely publicized to the outside, Saitama's own public influence was completely inferior to Broly's, who held multiple beauty pageants, was quite handsome, destroyed a giant meteorite, and had titles like Savior and Hope's Light.

"Sorry for making you lose your current rented house; how about I introduce Zeniru to you, and have them give you a good house?"

"Ah, forget that, no merit, no reward."

"I think you can accept it, because afterward, the safety of Z-City here might still need you to be mainly responsible."

"Ah, I'm mainly responsible, then what about you?"

"I won't settle in Z-City forever; in half a year or so I will leave."

Broly's stay duration here had only six months left.

"Half a year, whether Ghost Town can be rebuilt there is uncertain; won't that Z-City richest man really be made a Sucker by you?"

Saitama somewhat doubted.

"Rest assured, I never screw people over; by the time I leave, I will definitely arrange everything properly."

Broly was not too worried; at worst, before leaving this world, he would create a group of White Shadow Ninjas with astonishing combat strength.

The monsters of this world indeed had decent strength, but as long as Saitama did not become this world's villain, his White Shadow Ninjas would be enough to deal with other enemies.

"By the way, Saitama, do you want to do a part-time job?"

"What part-time job?"

"Captain of Z-City's future city security team."

"Uh —————"

"Rest assured, there's money to earn; I will take a large portion of the shares of the construction company I partnered with Zeniru to distribute salaries."

Although White Shadow Ninjas were useful, after all they were just magic Tool Persons, how to use them still depended on the manipulator; even if handed over to his wives, Broly still worried his wives would work too hard.

Rather than that, it would be better to take some money from this world to hire strong guys from this world as security personnel, and Saitama was undoubtedly the strongest one.

"No need, Z-City is also my city; even without a salary, I will protect it."

After hearing that, Saitama spoke righteously, after all, he was a hero.

"By the way, Mr. Broly, how much is this salary?"

Charanko, who was also invited to come eat, curiously asked.

"According to Zeniru, after Ghost Town is developed, there will be a lot of money earned in the early stage; my seventy percent shares, calculated, should be at the level of over ten trillion; as for the specific amount, it still depends on the actual situation."

Hearing this, Charanko's mouth gaped wide open; even Saitama's serious and earnest expression could not help but waver after hearing the figure of over ten trillion.

On the contrary, Hell's Fubuki by the side had a smiling expression on her face; she had already decided in her heart to move the Fubuki Group from B-City to Z-City, and afterward Z-City's security work could be handed over to other members.

【Strange, why do I have a bad premonition?】

At the same time, deep underground in Z City Ghost District, Big Eye was somewhat restless.