Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 33 Blisters and Shoes

What is happiness and how do we find it?

The kids don't know, and Broly isn't very clear either.

But it doesn’t matter, the direction is already there, just follow it.

Led by Broly, everyone headed in the direction the Imperial Intelligence Agency personnel left.

On the way, they encountered many dangerous species, but the dangerous species were not dangerous because there were Saiyans in their team who were more dangerous than the dangerous species.

All the dangerous species that came to attack were turned into food for a new day by Broly. Compared with the dangers brought by dangerous species, the biggest dangers came from the snakes and insects that were hidden under the fallen leaves and between the vines and were more difficult to guard against.

Fortunately, there are children in the team who have lived in a forest environment before. Although the poisons in the Jifunola Sea Tree Forest are different, the methods of detoxification and prevention are partially similar.

After finding some slightly toxic grass plants, lighting them, and tying them with branches to smoke the road ahead, many snakes and insects were driven away in advance.

"Does it have to be this way?"

Broly asked as he started coughing from the smoke.

"We can't help it. We are not like you, big brother, who is not afraid of snake bites."

Said Rivarina, who is said to be a Western alien race living in a tribe in the mangroves of the water.

This method of driving away snakes, rats, mosquitoes and insects was discovered by her by tasting plants in the forest.

She has experience surviving in the forest, but unfortunately most of the species here are dangerous.

If Broly hadn't rescued her yesterday, she might have been eaten by the dangerous creature.

"I have a better way."

Broly thought for a moment and said.

"any solution?"

The children looked at him curiously.

Broly asked Rivarina to extinguish the poisonous smoke, raised his hand and aimed at the forest in front, and as a green energy beam was emitted and bombarded the forest in front, a smooth road appeared in front of everyone.

“This is how I do it.”

Broly clapped his hands as if he had done something trivial.

children:"……"

This was a road they had never thought of. The dense forest in front of them, which was originally filled with numerous giant trees, was now completely destroyed.

Not to mention snakes and insects, even those dangerous species that originally existed would probably have turned into ashes by now.

The atmosphere became quiet. Nahashu, being an older kid with a lot of experience, realized that the atmosphere was not right, so he quickly led the applause.

"Big brother is so powerful, big brother is so great, everyone, let's applaud and cheer for big brother, thank you for opening such a road in the forest for us."

Strong power inspires awe, but too much power may make people feel fear, which is a normal human nature that is difficult to control.

However, with Nahashu's timely intervention and guidance, the children's instinctive fear gradually turned into greater respect.

"Brother Broly, you are so awesome. How did you do that? Swoosh, the forest is gone?"

Led by Akame, Tsukushi, Bonnie and other girls with more nervousness, this team composed mostly of innocent children quickly became lively again. Only a few older children with more experience looked at Broly with complicated eyes.

"monster."

Maybe they didn't say it out loud, but this was definitely what they meant when they looked at Broly.

There was fear, but they held it in.

Although he's not perfect, Broly is not a careful person.

I gradually lost myself as the children around me called me "Big Brother".

Of course, it can also be said that he experienced the fun of being the center of attention for kids of similar age, and enjoyed it somewhat.

"Just hold the air in your hands, then, whoosh, bang~"

Broly demonstrated again and blew up a tree.

Throwing energy bombs is something he can share besides his skills in the game of catapult.

"Hmm... still no."

A group of children imitated his movements, trying hard to imagine what the air-breathing was, and tried it out on the big trees around them.

The result was that no one learned it, but this was understandable, as the energy in these children's bodies was not yet sufficient for them to take it out and transform it into energy bombs.

However, this world has dangerous species, as well as various strange secret techniques and biological transformation technologies, so it is probably possible to make people go crazy.

After staying there for a while, the people who had failed to launch the attack set off again. This time they had a smooth road to walk on, so they were much faster.

The only troublesome thing was that Broly's sudden noise scared the creatures in the Gifnora Sea Forest.

The forest, which was originally full of various noises, seemed particularly quiet in the area near the Tandu Avenue.

On the rest of the journey, the group encountered no more dangerous species, nor were they disturbed by snakes or insects, but on the other hand, there were no more prey that came to their door automatically.

. . . .

As night fell, the children prepared for camping in the wild by the stream in the forest.

"It's better to go through the forest."

Broly sighed that after he blasted a path through it, his prey no longer came to find him.

"I don't think so. It's much easier to walk on flat ground."

Akahime retorted and lifted her little feet to show the boy.

"At least I didn't get more blisters on my feet after taking a long walk today."

As Akagi said this, he took a thin wooden thorn and helped his sister treat the blisters on her feet.

Broly looked down at his feet. He had never grown these.

But seeing that everyone seemed to be doing the blister-popping thing, he felt a little envious.

"So how can I get a blister?"

he asks.

"Ah, what do you want this thing for?"

"Because you all have them."

Chi Tong was speechless.

"This isn't a good thing." "Yeah, it grows on your feet, and it hurts when you step on it."

Hei Tong also said something.

"If I could, I wouldn't want to have this thing."

The other children echoed.

"Hey, is there any way to make it shorter?"

Hearing that it was not a good thing, Broly changed his mind and asked again.

"Blisters are not a big deal. Just pop them and take a short rest."

Cornelia said.

"I think if I had a pair of soft shoes, I wouldn't get blisters on my feet."

said a blonde girl named Natara.

"The shoes the slave traders gave us were too hard."

"You still have shoes. The slave trader who sold me here didn't even give me shoes."

These kids are talking to each other.

"I didn't have any shoes on, but I didn't have any blisters on my feet."

"Hey, you have such thick soles?!"

Broly listened nearby and came to the conclusion that most people needed a pair of soft shoes.

But how to get such shoes? Broly thought of his old father on the planet Vampa, who was proficient in handicrafts.

He once made shoes for himself, but he thought the shoes were stuffy so he never wore them. But they are really soft, after all, they are made of baya hair.

When Broly thought of this, he had an idea. Just before he blew up the road today, he hunted a group of soft creatures with long hair.

Broly walked to the corpse of a long-haired deer, pulled some hair from it, and began to braid it.

But after someone processed the meat of the shaggy deer, he did not braid the soft hair into the shape of a foot.

"What are you doing?"

Akame came over and asked.

“Making shoes.”

Broly replied.

"Can you make shoes out of wool alone?"

Akagi didn't quite understand.

"My father made shoes out of wool."

"Really?"

"I've never worn them before, otherwise I'd let you see how soft those shoes are!"

Even though he had only worn shoes a few times on Planet Wampa, Broly could say these words to the girl with such confidence.

"Using the same fur as the clothes you are wearing?"

"Correct."

Akahime reached out and touched Broly's fur coat, and it was indeed very soft.

But it is more like some kind of plant fiber than hair.

"Who among you knows how to knit shoes?"

Chi Tong thought about it and asked the other children.

"I can."

One child raised his hand.

"My father was a shoemaker, but he got addicted to gambling and lost a lot of money, so I was sold. This kind of handicraft is nothing to me."

"Can you braid this hair in?"

"it should be OK."

The child who could weave shoes thought about it and nodded. His hands were much more dexterous than Broly's.

He first found some vines, scraped off the bark with a knife, and then cut off the thorns, and it became a simple material for weaving shoes.

After curling and twisting, and piling up, the vine bark soon became the shape of slippers in his hands.

"I used to weave with hay, which is more durable and softer. I haven't tried using rattan, but if I add hair, it should be softer."

As he spoke, he quickly knitted the shoes.

Just as the barbecue was about to be cooked, a pair of crudely made vine fur shoes were made by the boy.

Akahime tried them on and felt they were pretty good, except that they were a little too big. These shoes were much better than the wooden shoes she was wearing.

"We need more vines and animal hair to weave more shoes."

Broly said so.

“I can’t make shoes for everyone by myself.”

The shoe-weaving boy shook his head and said, there are more than seventy people here.

"Then let's do it together. You just need to teach us how to weave shoes."

Tsukushi and some other children who were more dexterous with their hands said at this time.

A group of children gradually gathered together to discuss shoe weaving.

Before that, it’s better to eat first.

The main course for tonight is shaggy deer and some long giant bugs. The shaggy deer tastes a bit pungent after being roasted, but the giant bugs have a fruity aroma after being roasted. They taste like rubber bands and are a bit hard to chew, but the more you chew, the more fragrant they become.

On the redemption page of the Crystal Palace, this thing is called Heisen Big Worm BBQ, and the redemption price is about the same as a pork chop rice bowl.

The soup was fish soup, made from small fish that someone had caught in the forest stream and cooked in yesterday’s swamp crab shells.

The little fish has no name, but after it is cooked, the soup is full of flavor even without adding salt.

While the soup was cooking, Bonnie suggested adding some mushrooms to add some color to the soup, but everyone unanimously rejected the idea.

(End of this chapter)