Chapter 954: Broly: I Want to Start a New Hero Organization, Anyone Want to Join?

"I'm somewhat disappointed with the current Hero Association, and I've been considering whether to retire from it."

Child Emperor spoke his mind, picked up the cola beside him, and downed it in one gulp; carbon dioxide exploded in his stomach, turning this genius elementary student's cheeks a bit red — anyone who didn't know better might think he was choking down hard liquor.

"Is it really that bad?"

The grilled meat Zombieman had picked up fell back onto the plate; he looked at Child Emperor beside him, frowning slightly.

"How is it not that bad? People whose opinions aren't valued, *hic*, not you, Zombieman, you bastard, *hic*, it's easy to talk when you're not the one hurting, *hic~*"

Child Emperor complained dissatisfiedly while hiccuping.

"Why don't you take a break first?"

Zombieman persuaded him with a sentence.

Regarding negative evaluations of the Hero Association, this was already the third time Broly had heard them in this period.

As the saying goes, things shouldn't happen more than three times; since it had passed three, he had to calculate/hold them accountable.

"After retiring from the Hero Association, have you thought about what you'd do next?"

"Probably, I would shift the focus of my life to academics and research, and no longer engage in hero activities."

Child Emperor sighed, looking a bit lost; his original intention for becoming a hero was to help more people in need.

And at his age, compared to the actual benefits gained from being a hero, he enjoyed the spiritual self-satisfaction and sense of achievement more.

The current situation was that both his sense of achievement and self-satisfaction had been struck, giving rise to the thought of giving up his identity as a hero; but since this was something he was pursuing in his youth, stopping halfway left him a bit melancholy and at a loss.

"Then have you ever thought about building a new hero organization yourself?"

", Mr. Broly, do you mean let me start from scratch / set up a new stove?"

"Exactly. Judging by your appearance, you don't want to give up your hero identity; it's just that the Hero Association's internal management situation has struck a blow to you. Since the Hero Association cannot satisfy your own appeals, why not jump out of the Hero Association and rebuild a new hero organization?"

Child Emperor's reform proposal was like trying to redraw on a sheet of paper already covered in paint — to draw the ideal effect, one would face countless difficulties and obstacles, such as obstruction from those painters who had already applied paint on this paper called the Hero Association; rather than that, it would be better to find a fresh sheet of white paper and paint on it oneself.

"Mr. Broly, do you know how much manpower and resources are needed to build a hero organization? Even a small private organization isn't something I, a single genius elementary student, can shoulder. I'm just a genius with some patents in hand that can make money; I'm not a wealthy tycoon who can casually throw out massive funds."

"The money and people issues, I can think of ways to solve; you just tell me, if given enough money and people, do you have the confidence to create a hero organization better than the current Hero Association?"

"This... if money and manpower are both sufficient, I have the confidence to establish a hero organization more efficient than the current Hero Association."

Child Emperor nodded; he actually dared to take on this statement.

"However, Mr. Broly, why are you asking like this? Could it be that you're also dissatisfied with the current Hero Association and want to break free from it?"

"Honestly, I don't have too much dissatisfaction with the current Hero Association, speaking from the actual Hero Association people and matters I've come into contact with so far."

"Then why————"

Broly raised his hand, interrupting Child Emperor's inquiry.

"But this time, when handling Tatsumaki's negative public opinion, I learned some shady dealings of the Hero Association from someone else's mouth————"

Broly immediately told Child Emperor and Zombieman the Hero Association black material he had heard from Fuji.

"Of course, I don't know if that black material is true, and I have no interest in verifying its authenticity either; it's just that hearing you voice dissatisfaction and complaints about the Hero Association again suddenly gave rise to the idea of building a new hero organization."

"Ah, so this is just a whim of yours, Mr. Broly?"

"Don't misunderstand. Although this is just a whim of mine, as long as you have the confidence to build a hero organization better than the Hero Association, the money and manpower I promised will truly be implemented. I'm serious."

Child Emperor realized Broly wasn't joking; his small eyebrows furrowed as he asked, "Then Mr. Broly, how do you plan to solve the money and manpower problems for building the new hero organization?"

"Money can be earned; manpower can be recruited."

"Specifically how to earn, and how to recruit?"

"I can invest the industries I currently control that produce funds: the New House of Evolution Food R&D Factory, the Crystal Palace Beauty Pageant Planning Talent Agency, and the Z-City New City Construction Co., Ltd. jointly operated by Flashy Flash and Zenier."

While listening, Child Emperor pulled out his phone to search the companies Broly mentioned, and discovered that these three factories and companies, all registered this year, were all the promising kind.

"Mr. Broly, I want to ask: what exactly is the relationship between you and the original House of Evolution?"

Upon hearing the name House of Evolution, Zombieman's face hardened directly; his hand reached inside his clothes to grip the gun handle inside and he asked.

【Could it be that Flashy Flash is the House of Evolution's latest research subject?】

Zombieman couldn't help but think this.

"Cooperative relationship."

Broly answered directly.

"What cooperation?"

Zombieman pursued the question.

【Human experimentation research?】

"No, I already told you it's a food R&D factory, and you still ask what cooperation?"

Broly's gaze toward Zombieman changed, suspecting this guy either had a broken brain or came looking for trouble.

This question was like asking a master currently installing an air conditioner, "What do you do?" — a typical case of knowingly asking.

"Food, what food?"

【Dangerous food that can alter human genes?】

"Here, the grilled Ancient Land Tyrant Dinosaur Meat you're eating right now is one of the foods developed by our company."

Broly pointed at the grilled meat still left on Zombieman's plate and answered his question.

"?!" *2

"This is dinosaur meat?"

"Where did it come from?"

"A few months ago, a T-Rex claiming to be Earth's former land tyrant broke out of the ice, leading a group of carnivorous dinosaurs preparing to conquer the world.

When I went to solve them, I incidentally brought their corpses back and had Dr. Jinos of the House of Evolution conduct research————

Now, our food factory's subordinate unit farms have seen meat production gradually increase, and half a month ago they landed on the Spaceship Restaurant, becoming a signature dish here."

Zombieman: "————"

"Mr. Broly, don't you know Dr. Jinos's real identity?"

"Dr. Jinos, isn't he just the general manager of the House of Evolution research institution?"

"Then you don't know he's been conducting human biological research, with the aim of subverting human society across the entire world?"

"Your intel seems a bit behind the times; that was already several months ago."

"What do you mean?"

Zombieman looked at him, confused.

"Forget it, I'll call Jinos over and let him explain it to you himself."

Broly spoke and stood up directly, walking over to Jinos's side, and called over the handsome doctor who was surrounded by female family members brought by Fubuki Group members to attend the banquet.

"Jinos, he suspects you have ill motives; you explain it to him."

After bringing the person over, Broly pointed at Zombieman and said directly to Jinos.

"You're the immortal Perfect Specimen No. 66————"

Dr. Jinos recognized Zombieman and asked directly.

"Is there something?"

"You, this evil biological gene research doctor, what scheme are you plotting behind the scenes now?"

Face to face, Zombieman didn't flinch, questioning directly.

"Scheme?"

Jinos was a bit dazed, and after a round of discussion, he understood Zombieman's meaning.

"No no no, I don't have any thoughts of subverting human society now."

"You think I'd believe your lies?"

"Don't believe me? You can ask Mr. Broly."

"Give me a reason."

"Simple. I originally felt today's humans are monkeys that haven't fully evolved, so I wanted to research methods to make humans actively achieve evolution, the so-called New Human Project.

However, a baldy who gets depressed over missing a supermarket sale broke into my House of Evolution and casually blew up the House of Evolution's strongest research specimen with a single punch, and I changed my original thinking.

Human potential itself is infinite; even if most are mediocrities, terrifying individuals beyond the ordinary can still mutate into existence.

It doesn't need artificial alteration, and no one has the qualification to alter it; life will naturally conduct its own genetic mutations."

As he spoke these words, Dr. Jinos held red wine in hand, the gaze behind his glasses somewhat melancholy, looking toward a certain baldy currently stuffing himself with grilled meat.

Zombieman followed his gaze and also saw Saitama eating: 【That's the headshot hero who blew up a blob of water with one punch.】

When dealing with the Monster Association, Broly directly took Seksu and Mimi and withdrew, but Evil Natural Water flowed before the remaining heroes.

When all heroes were helpless against it, Saitama appeared and one-punched that guy dead; he didn't do absolutely nothing the whole time either.

"Dr. Jinos, I'll go verify your words later."

"Suit yourself, but if you come to tour the New House of Evolution Food R&D Factory, you'd better not pull that infiltration stunt; if you accidentally destroy the imprisonment devices in the breeding area and let some of the guys inside run out, it'll be trouble."

"Wait, what do you mean by that? Imprisonment devices? You're still doing human research?"

"Not human research, but animal research, mainly researching how to optimize their genes to make the meat they produce more delicious and yield more meat.

Forget it, I'll just send you an invitation card; once you go tour it, you'll know what's what."

Zombieman's doubts were temporarily answered, but Child Emperor still had some questions.

"Mr. Broly, your company's money-making capability indeed doesn't look bad, but compared to the scale of funds the Hero Association needs, it's still somewhat insufficient; however, if it's just forming a small hero organization, that would be enough."

"Mm, the funding issue is settled, but how do you plan to solve the manpower issue? You know, although the Hero Association's management has all sorts of problems, in recruiting heroes and elite talent they're not vague at all, with strict assessments and generous treatment, and they still conduct them monthly.

It can be said that potential talents still existing on the market today are either people with no interest in joining a hero organization, or people the Hero Association picked over and left behind.

Frankly, the former are hard to recruit, and if the latter are recruited over, I'm afraid in the short term there's no way to go head-to-head with the Hero Association.

As for why we have to go head-to-head with the Hero Association, I think I don't need to say it; Mr. Broly, you should also be clear — colleagues are enemies, that saying."

Although the Hero Association counts as a justice organization, that group in the top management levels also wouldn't be willing to let another justice organization that could potentially develop to the same scale as the Hero Association appear, to come and snatch the business of maintaining world justice and peace.

To put it harshly, the greater the responsibility, the greater the authority; in a situation where responsibility equals authority, the Hero Association definitely won't turn a blind eye to another hero organization appearing.

This is also why Fuji and the others, before wanting to push out NeoHeroes, would do things like lead the Hero Association's rhythm.

Only by ruining the Hero Association's reputation and lowering its status in society would a new hero organization have room to develop.

"This is simple; we just go recruit the Hero Association's people, right?"

On this, Broly gave a simple and crude answer directly.

"Wrong, the recruitment you speak of is actually poaching people?!"

Child Emperor's eyes instantly widened.

"Right, the Hero Association, when it comes down to it, only has system issues, not that the people inside lack capability; since that's the case, we poach some capable people with sound mindsets from inside, reorganize a new hero organization, and that works, doesn't it?"

Broly said this as if it were only natural, but Child Emperor listened with a subtle expression.

"This, can it really work?"

"Should be able to, heard the Hero Association management's competitive pressure is pretty high; as long as they make a slight mistake they might be pulled down, so there's no non-compete agreement or anything."

"Uh, seems that's indeed the case, but what about heroes?"

"That's even simpler; I'm on good terms with quite a few heroes, and the Fubuki Group can even jump ship as a whole directly."

"No, personal relations being good is personal relations being good, but this is retiring from the current Hero Association to join a hero organization that hasn't built anything at all — is this really reliable?"

"That, I'll just ask and find out."

Broly directly stood up, clapped his hands, and attracted the attention of the heroes present.

"Everyone, I want to ask you one thing————"

"Ah, no, Mr. Broly, you're just going to ask directly like that?"

Child Emperor was somewhat stunned watching; shouldn't this kind of matter be done in secrecy?

"This isn't some shady dealings, the Hero Association itself doesn't restrict the personal freedom of heroes who join, so there's nothing wrong with me asking directly, right?"

Broly gave him a strange look.

"That's how you put it, but————"

What's the difference between this and jumping ship, then mounting your old employer's face to deal damage?

"Everyone, I want to establish a new hero organization, does anyone want to join?"

Broly didn't care what Child Emperor was thinking, directly asking the many heroes who came to attend the banquet.

Not to mention the Fubuki Group's low-level hero members for now, the S-Class Heroes who came to attend the banquet all had varying expressions.

However, none of them directly opposed it.

"I want to hear about the situation with the new hero organization."

"Anyway, it's still mainly about upholding justice and social stability, just optimizing some of the Hero Association's current management drawbacks, hmm, for the specifics, I'll have Child Emperor explain it to you."

Child Emperor was lifted onto the table by Broly, his scalp feeling somewhat numb.

【You take the lead charging in, but push me out to give the speech?】