Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 326: Recruiting the Puppet Master

"Illya and I were just learning boxing from Broly. Illya learned it first and threw it out, and that's how it turned out."

Sakura explained while holding the puppet's fist.

Emiya Kiritsugu: “…”

It was hard to imagine what kind of advanced boxing skills could make his daughter become like this, but in the current situation, he didn't have time to think about it.

"Illya's body was made by a top puppeteer in Guanbuzi City. Now there is a quality problem. I have to take Illya there to have her deal with it."

Kiritsugu Emiya took action, ran directly to the warehouse and drove out his old car.

"We'll go too."

Sakura said quickly, and Toosaka Rin had already opened the back seat and let the boy put Illya in.

"Driving is too slow, I'd better fly you there."

After putting Illya down, Broly came out, walked straight to the front and lifted the car up.

In response, Emiya Kiritsugu did not refuse, but just stuck his head out of the car window and told the boy: "You can take us over, but try to avoid people.

The puppeteer was designated by the Magic Association as a target for sealing. If we approached him too high-profile, he might reveal his whereabouts.

If that guy runs away, it will be difficult to find him again."

"Ok."

Broly responded and lifted the car up quickly.

An energy shield formed by Qi wrapped around the entire car, and it flew towards Guanbuzi City at an acceleration that a normal person could adapt to.

But he didn't know the way to the Galan Hall, so when he arrived near Guanbuzi City, he parked his old car in a deserted place.

Then, Broly entered the car through the open window and sat on Toosaka Rin's lap.

The rest of the way would have to be driven by Emiya Kiritsugu.

The man didn't say anything and started the car.

Not long after, the car arrived near the unfinished building where the Galan Hall was located.

With a beautiful drift, the car stopped in front of the unfinished building.

Jialan Hall welcomes the fastest customers who need after-sales service.

"How on earth is this done?"

Aozaki Touko happened to be in the office.

The puppeteer was also shocked when Kiritsugu Emiya rushed in holding his daughter and checked Illya's physical condition.

Theoretically, the lifelike dolls she made could function for no less than ten years, as long as they ate and rested like normal people.

But now she saw what was happening. In less than three days, the magic core in the girl's lifelike doll had almost used up most of its magic power.

"You didn't force magic circuits into your daughter's doll body, did you?"

Aozaki Touko couldn't help but doubt it.

Perhaps the man in front of him was too good at pretending to be a father. He said that he didn't care that his daughter had no talent for magic, but in fact he did something like loading magic circuits into the doll.

"I have never done this. This is obviously your simulated doll body. There are quality issues."

Emiya Kiritsugu retorted with a dark face that Aozaki Touko had told him about the risks before making a replacement lifelike doll body for his daughter.

For a puppet body that does not require magic circuits to be loaded, the success rate of consciousness transfer is 100%. However, for a puppet body that requires magic circuits (not the Lesser Holy Grail), there is a certain possibility that consciousness transfer will fail.

For Illya's safety, Emiya Kiritsugu would rather his daughter be an ordinary person in the future and choose a lifelike doll with a 100% success rate of consciousness transfer, but now he seems to have been misunderstood by this puppeteer.

"There is something wrong with the quality of my dolls. How dare you say that!"

Feeling that her expertise was being challenged, Aozaki Touko took off her glasses and became a little rude.

"This broken arm was obviously blown off by the huge internal magic power. How could this happen to a simulated puppet body without magic circuits?"

"They said it was boxing practice."

The corner of Emiya Kiritsugu's mouth twitched, but he still told the truth.

"Ha, what kind of fist can..."

Before he could finish his words, a terrifying wind pressure came and whistled past from the side.

"Boom~"

The wall behind him shattered instantly, revealing twisted steel bars and concrete.

"It's like a punch like this."

Broly slowly retracted his fist and spoke seriously to the master of Galan Hall.

Aozaki Touko tilted her head at a 45-degree angle, looking back at the large hole behind her through which she could see the scenery outside, and felt the fact that the multiple protective barriers originally set up on the unfinished building were shattered in an instant.

The puppeteer quietly took out a lady's cigarette from his pocket, lit one and took a puff before calming down, admitting his mistake and saying, "I'm sorry, I'm short-sighted and a little surprised."

"But I still don't think it's the quality of my doll that's the problem. The problem is probably the way you use the doll's body roughly."

she said again.

"Of course, I will take responsibility for solving the after-sales problems this time, but I hope you won't let the puppet body I made bear a force that it can't bear."

Emiya Kiritsugu had no objection to what Aozaki Touko said. After seeing his cheap son-in-law's punch, he no longer thought it was the puppeteer's fault.

"Move her in. I have a backup doll body for her."

Illya was moved into the next room, and after a while, the girl came out in good health.

"Illya, are you okay?"

Broly leaned over to ask.

"I'm fine now, sorry for making you worry."

"She's fine now, but you guys are. Come on, let's talk about compensation for destroying my office space."

Aozaki Touko pointed to the big hole behind her. Fortunately, there were not many people living near the unfinished building, and there were some construction sites nearby. There would be some banging sounds during the day, otherwise, with the noise just now, passers-by might have called the police.

"Hey, do I have to pay for this?"

Broly looked over in surprise.

"Otherwise, you've ruined my office like this."

"I'm just showing you how."

"You have to pay for that, but if you can't afford it, let me study your body, and that can be used to pay off the debt."

Aozaki Touko's map of Yan State was a bit short, and the real purpose was revealed in an instant. She did not notice the fluctuation of magic power in Broly's punch just now.

But it is impossible for normal humans to have such terrifying physical strength. Therefore, as a puppeteer who is proficient in the human body, Aozaki Touko is very curious about the body structure of the boy in front of her.

"No need, it's just compensation, I'll pay for it for him."

But in response, Toosaka Rin directly took out the credit card she carried with her.

"This is a black card. You can use it to compensate for the damage to your office. But if you dare to use this opportunity to blackmail us, the Tohsaka family will not be fooled."

"So you are the eldest daughter of the Tohsaka family. Please rest assured that my Galanzhitangzhu runs a business with integrity."

Aozaki Touko put on her glasses again and put on a business-like smile on her face. Currently, although she was the only one in Galan Hall, she had not yet become an unscrupulous boss who withheld employees' wages or even borrowed money from employees to survive.

"I contracted this building for 300 million yen. Now only the wall of the third floor is damaged, but considering the possible impact on the safety of the building, is it okay for me to ask for 120 million yen?"

Toosaka Rin nodded. 120 million yen. The gems she used to practice magic every month were worth more than that in total. It was just a small amount of money.

"I renovated this building. Most of the defensive magic barriers I set up on it have been destroyed by that punch just now. I will calculate the cost price for you..."

Aozaki Touko then listed the types of magic barriers she had set up in the Garan Hall, and then concluded, "It cost me 20 million yen, not counting my own labor costs. The total compensation I want from you is 10 million yen, which is not expensive, right?"

"Well, it's not expensive. It's about the cost of my six months of magic training."

Toosaka Rin nodded in approval of the price.

Her words made Emiya Kiritsugu look at him sideways.

The fee he paid to Aozaki Touko to create a body for his daughter was only this much.

Are young people nowadays so rich?
"As expected of the Tousaka family, a famous family in the magic world, so heroic."

Aozaki Touko was also a little jealous. Although her ability to make money was not bad, compared with Toosaka Rin, it seemed that her savings were not as good as other people's pocket money.

"Miss Toosaka, if you need a lifelike doll in the future, please consider my Garan Hall."

When Aozaki Touko returned the black card, she also presented her own agency business card, then turned to look at Broly.

"Also, I wonder if you are interested in studying the punch you just threw..."

"What do you want to do?"

Facing Toosaka Rin's vigilant gaze like an old hen, she explained, "Illya is practicing the punch just now, right? I just want to study the secret of that punch and see if I can make a realistic doll body that can deliver that kind of punch."

"Oh, I see. That's fine."

Broly nodded in agreement.

"In that case, without further ado, follow me into the room. I want to examine your body thoroughly."

Aozaki Touko licked her lips, greeted the boy, and went into the next room first.

However, Toosaka Rin and the others also followed in.

"Why did you guys follow in?"

Aozaki Touko asked with a frown.

"This is our boy. We must be careful of outsiders, especially a magician like you."

Toosaka Rin spoke bluntly, Sakura and Illya nodded beside her, and Emiya Kiritsugu remained silent.

"Don't you mind your body secrets being known by outsiders?" Aozaki Touko asked the boy.

"I don't mind. Besides, my body has secrets. How come I don't know about them?"

Broly was confused.

"OK then."

Aozaki Touko pointed to the puppet-making table in the room and asked the boy to lie down on it.

"Just lie down on it, take off your clothes, and don't resist."

"Do you still want to take off your clothes?"

Toosaka Rin frowned.

“This will make the detection more accurate.”

Aozaki Touko explained.

"Then, give that punch you just made gently, but don't punch through the ceiling."

At Aozaki Touko's instruction, Broly demonstrated again, and this time he used much less force, which only caused a gust of wind to blow in the room.

"Sure enough, it's not magic power, but a kind of energy similar to magic power that is also produced from the human body, just like..."

"The breathing qigong technique of an oriental martial artist."

Emiya Kiritsugu took over and said that there is also the concept of Qi in the Type-Moon world, but in the Clock Tower it is considered a special living magic circuit, a special circuit formed by the martial artist's breathing, which achieves a kind of strengthening magic to strengthen the body.

Kotomine Kirei is the best example. He once used the breathing qigong of Bajiquan to strengthen his body strength and knocked over a huge tree.

"I see. Is that the breathing Qigong of oriental martial artists? The traditional magic system knowledge taught in the Clock Tower has somewhat restricted my thinking..."

Aozaki Touko is an intelligent magician. After the limitations of her thinking caused by the obstruction of knowledge and perception were revealed, her puppetry skills made some progress.

"If we use more ductile materials to make puppets, can we create puppets that can use breathing qigong? If we use the breathing qigong technique on puppets that already have magic circuits, can we make the living magic circuits of oriental martial artists echo with the magic circuits engraved into the puppets, and then form an effect where one plus one is far greater than two..."

Many bold ideas emerged in Aozaki Touko's mind, and she couldn't wait to make some dolls to verify them.

However, verifying an idea requires money. Even though she has just received a considerable amount of compensation, the money may be gone in a flash like water when it is actually spent.

For example, now she needs a book on breathing qigong, but this thing is rarely available in the market, and even if it is really sold, it will cost a lot of money to buy it.

However, in terms of saving money, Aozaki Touko still found ways to do it. She looked at Broly who was sitting up on the stage and said with a smile: "In order to better develop a new simulated doll body for Illya, this..."

"My name is Broly, you can just call me by my name."

"So, Broly, are you willing to contribute your breathing skills?"

Aozaki Touko asked.

"what is that?"

"It is a technique that allows your body to temporarily generate living magic circuits."

"You mean Qi? But this thing has existed since I can remember."

"You haven't had any exercise?"

“I have been trained.”

"How do you exercise?"

"Fighting with my dad, he beats me, and I beat him."

Aozaki Orange: "..."

The expressions of the others also became subtle.

"No special way of breathing?"

"No."

Aozaki Touko turned her gaze towards Emiya Kiritsugu.

"Don't look at me. I don't know the child's condition."

In the end, it was Illya who said that eating the legs of a Vampa spider gave her a similar feeling to the one Broly transmitted into her body, which led to a breakthrough.

“If you want to study it, I can provide you with some spider legs, but this thing is very expensive, so I can only give you a few.

If you want more, you'll have to pay for it yourself. Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You're also a magician, so don't you just want to find a sucker to provide you with funding, so that you can do the research you want at public expense?"

While teaching his daughter magic, Toshiomi Toosaka also taught Rin Toosaka how to manage the personal connections between the Clock Tower and the Cathedral Church.

In the Clock Tower, the Tohsaka family has always been providing financial sponsors for other magicians' experimental projects.

Otherwise, where does the reputation of the magic family come from?
How was the Fourth Holy Grail War directly exposed?

And now that two of the three Holy Grail families have collapsed, the Tōsaka family is still standing and can still make money by selling magic technology that charges the Holy Grail?

As long as Tōsaka Tokiomi is still alive and his connections are still intact, the Tōsaka family is the epitome of a wealthy and powerful family. The idea of ​​a declining family is completely irrelevant.

Compared to Aozaki Touko, a poor magician who failed in the competition with her magician sister for the position of head of the family and was designated to be sealed by the Magic Association, Toosaka Rin is the daughter of a wealthy family.

"Since you've figured it out, I can only give up..."

"Tell me, how much do you want?"

"Eh?!"

"Illya calls me sister anyway, so I am willing to spend money on her. Anyway, my family has more money than can be spent."

Aozaki Touko pushed up her glasses, crossed her arms, and asked tentatively, "Would you like 50 million in funding first?"

"No problem, but my Tohsaka family will take 30% of the profits from your research."

“Sure, but I’m talking about dollars.”

Aozaki Orange said.

"Shameful. I gave you pounds."

Toosaka Rin's words made Aozaki Touko silent.

"No strings attached?"

"Yes, but only one. You must use the name of the Tohsaka family when you are in public."

It is hard to say whether Aozaki Touko's research project is worth investing 50 million pounds.

But she is definitely worth it.

Toosaka Rin had heard rumors about this genius from her father.

But I didn't expect that the other person was Illya's attending physician.

Oh no, that's not right. It should be the puppeteer who helped Illya replace her with a healthy and lifelike puppet body.

"Name?"

Aozaki Touko hesitated for a moment and agreed.

"As long as you, the Tousaka family, are not afraid of trouble."

In this way, she has been marked by the Toosaka family. The Toosaka family may not let her do anything, and she will not do anything for the Toosaka family other than funding research projects.

But if an enemy of the Tohsaka family comes to her and wants to do business with her in the future, she will have to refuse the other party based on the current funding of the Tohsaka family.

Although most magicians in the Type-Moon world do not have morals based on common sense, they still recognize some generally accepted rules.

For example, keeping secrets, or not being ungrateful and stabbing in the back the famous family that has funded you.

Of course, this does not apply to situations where people forget about you and fail to hand over your connections well.

"Well, Ms. Aozaki, you are welcome to join our Tosaka faction in the magic world."

"Just call me Orange, but Miss Toosaka, from now on, should I be indebted to you or to the current head of the Toosaka family?"

"Of course you are indebted to me. I made the decision to invest in you on the spur of the moment. Of course, I will make it happen.

As for my father, he won't object, and I'm the future heir of the Tohsaka family, so there's no reason for you to beg my father for anything."

"Ms. Toosaka, you have a really good relationship with your father."

"How did you figure this out?"

"For something like this, where you make an investment on behalf of the family and so much money is involved, it's not something that the head of an ordinary magician's family would agree to."

"Then you guessed wrong. The relationship between me and my father is not very good right now."

"You are the only child in the Tousaka family?"

"No, there's also my sister, but her last name isn't Toosaka anymore."

Toosaka Rin pulled Sakura over and introduced her.

"You have a good relationship?"

"Of course, that's great."

Aozaki Orange: "..."

Although they are sisters, the gap between them seems a bit big.

She had a bad relationship with Aoko and was kicked out of Misaki City.

Her sister cursed her, saying that if she dared to return to Misaki City within ten years, she would be turned into a giant frog.

After leaving the Galan Hall, I thought that since I was already in Guanbuzi City, I might as well go and see the Fujimura River.

However, when I arrived at Guanshang Academy, the other party was still busy with teaching work.

"Using hypnotic magic to make students listen carefully is something that Fujimura-san can do."

By confusing ordinary people's cognition and successfully sneaking into the school, she watched Fujimura Taiga use hypnosis magic to enhance the teaching effect, and Toosaka Rin started to complain directly.

(End of this chapter)