Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 567 Matching you with a novice exorcist of similar skill.
Nikaido Kirito immediately called, but all he heard on the other end was a message saying, "The number you dialed is not in service or is switched off. Please try again later."

"No, President, we can't get through to Ms. Yomi and Sakuraba by phone. They must have gone into the haunted villa together, which is the center of the spiritual energy field. The communications must have been jammed."

"There's no other way, everyone get out there as soon as possible, hopefully we can make it in time!"

With a somber expression, Jinguji Ayame gave instructions to the other members of the exorcism task force.

"Yes, Headmaster Jinguji!"

Koji Iwabata stood up and quickly went downstairs, with the Nabu brothers and Noriyuki Iitsuna following behind.

Soon, a modified Hummer drove out of the underground parking lot of the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters.

On the road, they sped towards Arakawa Ward.

. . . .

"Miss Huang Quan, don't you feel that the temperature around here is getting lower and lower? I have a bad feeling."

Sakuraba Ichiki crossed his arms and rubbed his hands together. Despite his mediocre spiritual power, he was already affected by the spiritual energy field here.

"We need to be more vigilant."

Isayama Yomi nodded; she too sensed something was wrong.

He was still holding Broly's hand with his left hand, but his right hand was already resting on the hilt of his sword at his waist.

"How about we back out first?"

"My body is getting colder and colder," Sakuraba Kazuki suggested.

He had barely finished speaking when he felt something cold and tangible wrap around his neck.

Sakuraba Kazuki looked down, and the next moment...

With a whoosh, he was hoisted to the ceiling.

The talismans pasted on the wall quickly turned to ashes.

Isayama Yomi drew his sword and slashed it, cutting the rope noose that had unknowingly approached him and Broly.

"Help, help..."

Sakuraba Kazuki was suspended in mid-air with his legs dangling, and his weapon briefcase had fallen to the floor. However, if his hands, imbued with spiritual power, had not grabbed the noose around his neck in time, he would have had his neck snapped the moment he was hoisted up.

Seeing this, Isayama Yomi released Broly's hand, jumped up and cut the noose connecting Broly's head and the spiritual rope emerging from the ceiling, causing Broly to fall down.

"Ah, thank you, I almost died..."

Sakuraba Kazuki pulled off the lasso in his hand and thanked him with lingering fear.

"Debt collectors...die..."

A hoarse voice rang out, and a pitch-black evil spirit suddenly appeared in the center of the living room. Its body, hanging from the ceiling, swayed from side to side, while its malevolent, blood-red eyes looked at the three living people who had invaded the house.

"It can... it can talk, this..."

Sakuraba Kazuki's eyes widened, while Isayama Yomi's expression was extremely grave.

Spirits that can maintain consciousness are not weak.

Generally, only higher-level spirits of type A will exhibit this behavior.

The situation here has clearly exceeded their expectations. The spirits that were originally thought to be of type C or type D have now directly become a superior spirit that is suspected to be type A. The difference between them is not just a little bit, but the difference between life and death for an ordinary exorcist.

“Broly…”

Even at this critical moment, Isayama Yomi still maintained the composure expected of a descendant of an exorcising demon family. The girl remained calm and prepared to lead the boy away.

But before that, Broly had her hand released from hers because she was about to jump up and cut the noose to save her colleague.

Broly failed to distinguish between Type C and the suspected Type A spirit, and simply regarded the hanging evil spirit in front of him as the spirit that Isayama Yomi had mentioned, which he could deal with with his current strength.

So, after the evil spirit appeared, he immediately ran up to it, jumped onto the coffee table in the living room, and punched the hanging evil spirit in the abdomen.

Perhaps Broly's childlike appearance was deceptive, causing the hanging evil spirit to lower its guard. The spirit merely stared at the charging boy with its malevolent crimson eyes, without making any attempt to dodge.

But the next moment, when Broly's fist touched its abdomen, the evil spirit experienced a feeling of 'surprise'.

His eyes widened suddenly, as if they were about to jump out of their sockets, and the rope around his neck snapped, causing his body to crash straight onto the dusty floor.

After knocking the evil spirit down, Broly jumped off the coffee table, plopped down on it, and began using his Soul-Suppressing Technique, punching the evil spirit's face with both fists.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. After hearing the girl call his name, Broly asked without turning his head, "Sister Huang Quan, is there something you need?"

"Uh, it's nothing. I was just trying to warn you to be careful, that this evil spirit might be a little more powerful than expected, but I must have misunderstood..."

Watching the boy beat up the evil spirit, Yomi Isayama said something that was somewhat insincere.

Beside him, Sakuraba Kazuki's lips twitched as he glanced over, his complicated gaze seemingly saying: "Miss Yomi, you really can lie through your teeth. Is it just a little stronger than expected?"

However, looking at the evil spirit being pinned to the ground by the boy and being beaten without any power to fight back, it seemed that it was indeed not a threat to the boy.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is a soul-suppressing technique commonly used by your exorcising family, right?"

Sakuraba Kazuki asked in a low voice.

"Ah."

Isayama Yomi nodded.

"Is the Soul-Suppressing Technique really that powerful?"

The subtext is asking how someone could subdue a being who appears to be a higher-level spirit without any resistance.

"Is it possible that it's not the Soul-Suppressing Technique that's powerful, but rather that my younger brother is exceptionally talented?!"

Izayama Yomi glared at him.

The current situation clearly shows that Broly's spiritual power completely suppressed the evil spirit under his butt, allowing him to pin it to the ground and beat it up.

The hanging evil spirit was stunned by the blow, and its spirit body gradually began to disintegrate. Broly looked at its condition and thought about the steps of spirit contracting that the girl had taught him today, so he changed the soul-suppressing spell to the spirit-summoning spell.

In addition to awakening sleeping spirits, the Summoning Spell can also awaken the human side of spirits formed from the souls of deceased humans.

Well, if any humanity remains.

Of course, the prerequisite for summoning a spirit is to first knock the other party unconscious.

Now is the time to gently knock on the evil spirit's forehead and call upon its humanity!
"Mikiko, Sana..."

The fist imbued with the spirit-summoning spell slammed into the face of the hanging evil spirit. The evil spirit, which was on the verge of being shattered and in a weakened state, had its humanity brought out. The evil spirit uttered two names, probably the people who maintained the other's obsession and were the people it cared about most in life.

"Yes, humanity has been awakened. Next is the Spirit Contract!"

Broly switched to Spirit Bonds again, placing his fingertips, imbued with spiritual power, on the forehead of the evil spirit that was now displaying a glimmer of humanity.

The next moment, a memory belonging to the hanging evil spirit entered his consciousness. The other party once had a happy family. Mikiko was his wife, and Sana was his daughter.

Choosing to commit suicide after bankruptcy stemmed from his weakness in the face of his family, but the deceased's soul lingered in the mortal world because of his longing for his wife and daughter.

Meanwhile, after witnessing his family being confronted by loan sharks demanding repayment of debts, and being threatened by tattooed gangsters who said they would kidnap his wife and daughters to sell them into prostitution to pay off the debts, the ghostly figure underwent a strange transformation.

Next, there were images of debt collectors being hanged in their homes, until an exorcist came to talk to them.

“You are protecting your family now, but if you continue, there’s no telling what might happen. You could potentially hurt your wife and daughter.”

"Well, your debts will be handled by our countermeasures bureau. We promise you we won't let the debt collectors bother your wife and daughter anymore, but in return, you need to stay in this house for isolation and exorcism. How about that?" The evil spirit agreed and stayed in the room covered with talismans. It was supposed to gradually disappear, but it went bankrupt because years ago, a homeless man who was also facing a terrible life suddenly broke into the haunted villa and hanged himself in this house.

The evil spirit has been resurrected and occasionally lures those who have failed in life into the haunted villa, causing them to commit suicide or hang themselves.

This made it stronger and stronger, but it still clung to the belief that going out might hurt its family, so it never went out.

No one noticed its existence until the girl, he, and his driver barged in, waking the half-asleep evil spirit.

I really want to see Mikiko and Sana again, and see what their situation is like now...

This is the wish that surfaced in Broly's consciousness after the hanged evil spirit was awakened to humanity by the spirit summoning spell.

Okay, I promise you, I'll take you to see your wife and daughters and find out how they are doing!

Broly conveyed this message.

The next moment, his mental energy was imprinted into the evil spirit's forehead without any delay.

The evil spirit's chilling aura spread from his fingertips, trying to imprint itself into his soul and form a contract.

But Broly's power was too weak; even the Sheep Charm couldn't easily shake his soul. How could a weak ghost (a superior spirit) in this world possibly shake it? The power of the evil spirit quickly dissipated.

"Huh? You've already successfully formed a spirit bond so quickly?"

After Broly completed the contract with the suspected Type A (Superior Spirit), Sakuraba Kazuki behind him exclaimed in surprise.

"Broly, you wouldn't agree to some unreasonable demands from this evil spirit, would you?"

Isayama Yomi hurriedly asked, "If the boy agrees to the evil spirit's excessive demands, things will get really bad."

Failure to fulfill the contract will result in a backlash... um, a backlash?
[Can this thing really backfire and beat Broly to a pulp?]

Izayama Yomi paused for a moment as she looked at the hanging evil spirit floating obediently behind the boy.

The cost of a Spirit Contract sometimes depends on the strength of the Spirit.

If the exorcist is weak, they will naturally need to pay a price in order to control the contracted spirit.

But if the exorcist is strong...

"You want me to pay the price? Is it because you've lost all attachment to this world and want to go to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss to be reborn there sooner?"

It's possible for situations like this, where someone intends to get something for free without paying any price, to occur.

Of course, most exorcists wouldn't do that even if their spiritual power could overpower their contracted spirit.

After all, it's much easier to get the contracted spirit to work than to expend more spiritual energy to force it to work unwillingly. Paying a price that's not difficult to accomplish makes the task much easier for oneself.

"Is it an excessive request for the other party to want to see his wife and daughter again and to check on their current situation?"

Broly asked, puzzled, though he felt that this shouldn't be considered excessive.

"Uh, not too much..."

Compared to contracting a superior spirit, this requirement is not only excessive, but also far too easy.

It should be noted that some higher-level spirits will require their contractors to kill living people and extract their souls to feed them.

If the conditions are not met, it will devour its own contractor.

In comparison, simply going to see the deceased's wife and daughters is like having a divine contract with a divine partner.

The expressions on Sakuraba Kazuki's and Isayama Yomi's faces were quite subtle at this moment.

But he also knew that this was probably a very favorable contract condition that Broly could only obtain after he had defeated the opponent with a powerful brick.

After all, they've been beaten to a pulp. Even a wise superior spirit can sometimes assess the situation and act accordingly.

. . . .

As the three left the haunted villa, Koji Iwabata and his group, who were speeding, arrived just as they were getting off.

"Are you guys okay?"

The group of people who got off the bus looked at the three people who came out of the haunted villa. Koji Iwabata, who was walking in front, asked Yomi Isayama a question.

"Haha, how could anything happen to us? We're just a mere Type C spirit, and Broly has already successfully contracted with us!"

Seeing the growing confusion on the boy's face, Izayama Yomi immediately went up to him and loudly addressed the group of people approaching.

Before Koji Iwabata could say anything, he saw the girl winking at him and immediately realized what she meant.

"Ahem, we were just passing through on a mission and stopped by to check if you had any problems. Since everything is going well, let's go back together."

"Oh, right, Iizuna, didn't you say you had plans with someone else? It's not on our way back, so why don't we get off here?"

"what……"

Iizuka Noriyuki was taken aback at first, but quickly realized what was happening.

"That's right, I have some things to do, so I'll log off here."

He accepted the mohawk-wearing man's words, and only after everyone had gotten into the car and left did he summon the spirit beasts he had been caring for.

"Guns, inspect that house!"

A group of foxes nodded and ran towards the haunted villa. The little creatures quickly checked out the situation inside the haunted villa.

There was indeed a strong residual spiritual energy field inside that haunted villa, and the owner who emitted the spiritual energy field should not have been exorcised yet.

"Head of Jinguji..."

Upon learning of the situation, Noriyuki Iitsuna took out his phone and dialed the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters.

"How's the situation over there, Izuna?"

"Everything is resolved."

"Did Xiao Huangquan handle it?"

"No, judging from what the other party said, it was that boy named Broly who successfully gave the spirit a suspected Type A evil spirit."

"Wow, how did you do that?"

Jinguji Ayame was quite surprised and asked.

"I don't know about that. We're all trying to keep that boy from knowing that his talent is too great."

After a pause, Izuna Noriyuki said in a somewhat complicated voice, "Perhaps, this is what a true genius is."

Their starting point is an end point that we mortals can never hope to reach in our entire lives.

"ok, I get it."

On the other end of the line, Jinguji Ayame was silent for a moment before replying and hanging up.

"Nikaido, do you think talent or hard work is more important for an exorcist?"

"It must be talent that matters. For example, compared to ordinary people, there is the difference between those who can see spirits and those who cannot."

"That's true. Hmm, let's find an opportunity to bring that kid Broly into our countermeasures department!"

"Eh?"

(End of this chapter)