Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 242: Plan revision, strong man training, picking up discarded parts

Thanks to Broly's sudden arrival, Hubie survived Jibril's clutches, but the battle situation changed too quickly, and the two major alliances of Dwarfs and Elves arrived at the confrontation area earlier than expected.

Of the 32 access control devices, only 24 are now functioning normally. It is impossible to install new access control devices in the center of the battlefield.

That area is now being watched by the Dwarves and the Elves, and both sides will not allow the Ex-Machinas to set up anything like a trap there.

[Therefore, Riku's plan to trigger a three-way war and divert the energy of the three powerful attacks [Void Zero Technique], [Marrow Bomb], and [Air Strike] to the ground through the [Access Control] device, and then penetrate the stars to realize the Star Grail's plan, has now failed.]

After calculations, the commander of all Ex-Machinas came to this conclusion.

【uc207pr4f57t9, request the command body to make corrections to the plan.】

While Broly was drinking soup and eating meat with little Jibril, Hubie, in the Ex-Machina's connected thought network, made his own request to the Ex-Machina's all-connected commander [Einzig]

After sharing the Heart's Information, this request was easily approved by Einzii as the entire Ex-Machina had fallen in love with Riku, a human.

[The plan has been revised. It is no longer possible to guide the energy to the ground and penetrate the stars due to physical reasons, but the energy can still be guided to the southwest direction of the battlefield.

All we need to do is deploy a sufficient number of analyzers in the southwest direction of the battlefield and let them take on the deflected attacks, and we can design a weapon that is equivalent to the energy of the collision of the three attacks of [Void Zeroth Technique], [Marrow Bomb], and [Sky Strike], with a power of 77%-88%.

After simulating and calculating the power data of [Void Zeroth Technique], [Marrow Bomb], and [Air Strike], it was confirmed that the combined attack power of the three, even if it could only simulate a minimum of 77% of the effect, was enough to penetrate this star.

[True Code. Star Killer] The weapon design success rate is as high as 79%. The plan has been revised. The information has been sent back. Please uc207... No, Hubie, go back to Rick and inform him about the revised plan. 】

After receiving the data sent back by the all-connected command body, Hubie was silent for a while. After a while, she asked a question in the connection network: [Can the analysis body that analyzes the attack withstand an attack of that power? ]

[99.9% chance of them being wiped out, but don't worry, we Ex-Machinas are just machines and tools, and we won't break the rule set by Riku himself that no sacrifices will occur.]

【Thank you, Einzig. 】

[Go ahead, Shubi. We Ex-Machinas are the whole and the individual is the whole. The happiness of the individual is the happiness of the whole.]

The network connection was disconnected, Hubie stood up and prepared to leave.

"Where are you going?"

Broly asked when he saw what the mechanical girl did.

"Go back to the people who matter."

"To your spouse?"

"Ah."

Hubie did not deny it.

"be careful."

Broly had no intention of following. Since it was certain that Hubie would not become his wife, he would not cling to her.

The Saiyan chose to stay at the Ex-Machina base, but asked Jibril, who was well fed and well-drinking, what could make her happy.

"Something that makes you happy? Fighting against a strong person, chopping off his head and bringing it back as a collection, does that count?"

In this cruel world, the Flügel under the command of the God of War are happy, because they, like their creators, are a group of warmongers.

"I can't give you my head, but I can still fight you."

Broly cannot meet the latter requirement, but can meet the former requirement.

A fist hit Jibril's right eye directly.

"It hurts, what are you doing?"

Jibril covered her right eye which had turned into a panda eye, unable to understand why she, a prisoner, was suddenly beaten.

"I want to fight you and make you happy. Um, are you happy now?"

Broly asked, and punched Jibril in the left eye again, making the panda eyes become symmetrical.

Jibril with a pair of panda eyes: "???"

What's the point?
"I'll fight you!"

After Broly's punch hit her nose, Jibril got angry and rushed over with her fist raised.

But perhaps because she had rarely experienced this kind of battle without any spirit power, Jibril's fist was dodged immediately.

On the contrary, she received three well-controlled jabs from the Saiyan boy on both cheeks. The force was not great, but the insult was very strong.

"Woo..."

The knocked-down Jibril wiped the blood from her nose, stood up without giving up, and rushed over again, swinging her fists.

Unlike the other Flügel who were created as perfect individuals, Jibril is an imperfect individual. However, it is precisely because of her imperfections that she has the ability to learn that other Flügel do not have.

After only fighting for a while, Jibril got used to the way of fighting without using spirit power, and went from randomly punching to imitating Broly's fighting stance and launching her own free fighting attack on Broly.

However, Jibril's little fist always maintained a delicate distance from Broly, and no matter how she attacked, she would only hit Broly by a hair's breadth.

And every punch of Broly could hit her accurately, and he would hook her with a kick from time to time, and Jibril would be tripped and fall to the ground.

After a while, Jibril, who had just been washed before being put into the pot, became dirty.

"You couldn't hit me even once. You must be torturing me on purpose. Anyway, I've already lost. Now I'm your collection. Do with me as you like!"

Finally, after being knocked down once again, Jibril gave up the fight.

"Didn't you say that you wanted to fight against a strong person? Isn't my control of the battle rhythm and my complete superiority in combat skills exactly what a strong person should do?"

Seeing Jibril's happiness value decreasing instead of increasing, Broly felt that it was unreasonable. In order to make Jibril happy, he used all his micro-control skills. In the "battle" just now, he let Jibril experience the feeling of being dominated by a strong man like him.

"But the battle with the strong one I'm looking forward to shouldn't be like this."

Jibril felt a little aggrieved. All the battles she had experienced in the past that seemed impossible to win, no matter how brutal they were, had never made her feel as helpless as she did now.

Broly thought about it and felt that Jibril and Darkness might be different. They couldn't enjoy this kind of fight where they were bullied. They should be like Esdeath, who liked to punch each other, so he pulled her up from the ground.

"Let's fight again. I promise I can make you happy this time."

Jibril: “???”

Facts have proved that no one can stand a battle that does not give people any combat experience, except for a true masochist like Darkness.

Things like accompanying others in battle are meant to make those participating in the battle feel involved, and as Broly acted as if he was hurt by Jibril's fist, the happiness value of this Flügel girl increased.

Now it is certain that the Flügel like to fight, but they like fights that are back and forth, rather than fights where they are crushed by absolute strength or skills and have no hope of winning.

Of course, the back and forth now was just Broly's deliberate display. In fact, Broly was just playing the game of strong battle with Jibril.

Jibril knew this too, but she was happy because she could finally hit the boy, even if the price was a few more punches from him.

"Excuse me, what is the meaning of your behavior?"

The Ex-Machina who had been observing for a long time finally came over to ask Broly this question after both of them lay down.

"Meaning? Making her happy is the meaning."

Broly replied.

"So, this is actually a game that makes the Flügel happy?" asked the Ex-Machina.

"I'm not happy. What's the fun of this kind of playful fighting?"

Jibril immediately retorted.

"No, you are happy, you can't deceive me about that."

While Broly and Jibril were arguing, Hubie also returned to a hidden cave.

Rick, lying on the stone bed, was still unconscious. His left sleeve was empty and his left eye was wrapped in a bandage.

In order to realize the Ghost Project, this man's body was severely corroded by the elves' corpses, his left hand was cut off, and his left eye was gouged out. He didn't have much time left to live.

When Hubie came in, she saw that he had his right eye closed and his brows furrowed, as if he was suffering from some pain. She reached out to touch the young man on the stone bed, and the next moment the young man was awakened, with fine beads of sweat on his pale face.

"Rick, are you okay?"

Hubie asked, and the young man gave a somewhat forced smile when he saw her beside him.

"It's okay, I just seemed to have a nightmare about you leaving me."

Hubie: “…”

She was indeed almost destroyed and left Rick's side forever.

"I have connected to the link. According to the link's calculations, our plan will fail..."

Hubie did not mention that he would install the [Access Control] device on his own, but simply explained the current situation of Rick's plan in a concise manner.

"But don't worry. At my request, the All-Link Command has revised our plan. I will tell you the revised plan now."

“Hubby…”

"Ok?"

"Are you really still Hubie?"

"Of course I'm Hubie. Look, this is the wedding ring you gave me, and my number is still uc207..."

Before Hubie could finish his words, Rick hugged him and said, "I'm so glad you're okay."

Rick is smart and observant enough to realize that Hubie may have gone out alone during the time he was unconscious.

"I'm sorry, I'm the one dragging you down."

As a human being, he is very weak. Now he just feels that he is useless. He couldn't bear the fatigue and passed out. This led to Hubie acting alone and doing some risky things.

"Rick, you didn't hold me back. I shouldn't have acted on my own."

The two hugged each other for a while, and after they calmed down, Hubie told Rick what happened to him after he fell into a coma.

After hearing about how Hubie encountered the Flügel and was nearly killed, the worry and nervousness on the young man's face were obvious.

He breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that the girl was rescued, but when he heard that the person who rescued Hubie fell in love with Hubie and wanted her to be his wife, Rick became nervous again.

"So, Hubie, did you agree?"

"Is Rick jealous?"

"I just don't want to be abandoned, but if you think it would be better that way, I will choose to accept it and divorce you."

"How could it be better? Hubie has already rejected the other party."

Hearing this, Rick hugged the mechanical girl and cried for a while out of emotion.

As he cried, the man fainted again.

When I woke up, twelve hours had passed.

After listening to the revised plan, Rick was silent for a while, then said to Hubie, "Hubie, can you bring the person who rescued you and the captured Flügel over here?"

"Okay, but why?"

"First, I want to express my gratitude to the person who saved you. Second, I want to test whether the Flügel know about our plan."

Rick answered Hubie's question.

And Hubie quickly contacted the link commander, but through the link commander he saw a Saiyan boy who seemed to be looking for something in the abandoned parts room in the Ex-Machina self-proliferation factory.

"Excuse me, what are you doing?"

A loli voice came from the mechanical device above his head. Broly recognized it as Shuvi's voice and answered her question: "Jibril wants to keep your head. Other Ex-Machinas said that your head was seriously damaged and replaced. So I am here with her to find the head you don't want."

Hubie: “…”

"Found it~"

Then a voice was heard, and Jibril was seen crawling out from the pile of discarded parts that were to be recycled, holding the mechanical head that she had replaced yesterday.

"So, at that time, all I had to do was give you my head, and you would let me go, right?"

She asked Jibril, who looked pleased, from a distance.

"Is the stinky iron still looking over here?"

"My name is Hubie. I've already told you."

"You can call me anything you want. If you're willing to give me your head without resistance, I'm not interested in destroying your body."

Jibril is just a head-obsessed person, she just likes to collect all kinds of heads. As for killing the weak, she is not interested in it.

Hubie: “…”

The core of the Ex-Machina, including the device that stores information, is located in the chest area, and the head is an insignificant limb.

If I had known it would be so easy to get rid of Jibril, I should have chopped off her head right away... Oh no, that's not right. She had already lost contact with the connection body at that time.

There is a visual device on her head. If she loses her head, she will not be able to tell the directions. If it is not repaired in time, she may get lost in the wild.

"Sir Broly, my husband wants you to come over and see him. Are you free now?"

Hubie started asking about business.

Broly: “???”

I don't know what's the point of meeting each other's husband.

"We'll prepare something to eat for you."

Thanks to the information gathered by the Ex-Machina following the boy, Hubie got information about the Saiyan boy's preferences, but he spoke in a way that suited his taste.

"I'm free, where are you and your husband?"

Hearing about food, Broly perked up and asked.

"Wait, other Ex-Machinas will bring you to our side, but please also bring your captive, the Flügel named Jibril."

(End of this chapter)