Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 575 Paid Spirit Assistance Fails spectacularly; Summoning the Shadow Ninja

Could the White Shadow Ninja answer? Of course not. As a magical life form modeled after the standard unit template of the Shadow Legion, it only looked like a person. In reality, it didn't even have a vocal organ. Therefore, Broly didn't care about the silence of his own ninja.

Is some step missing?

He carefully recalled the process of hanging the evil spirit in the contract, and then raised his little fist.

"Does this mean we need to beat up these evil spirits first before they'll obediently reveal their last wishes?"

With that in mind, Broly made his move.

The next moment, the old man's head exploded like a watermelon, and his headless body quickly turned to ashes under the spiritual power of the Soul-Suppressing Fist.

"Huh, how did it get its head blown off?"

Upon hearing Broly's words, the white-clad ninja shifted his gaze to the boy's fist and remained silent.

"Wait, I used about the same force as in the haunted villa, so I shouldn't have gotten a headshot. Wait, could this be the type D spirit Sister Huang Quan was talking about?!"

Broly realized that this must be the case. The hanging evil spirit he had previously contracted was a type C spirit, and based on this conclusion, the evil spirit whose head he had accidentally smashed should be a type D spirit. And D is weaker than C, which makes perfect sense!

"I'm sorry, it's my fault. I should have used less force."

Broly crouched down and apologized to the ashes of the evil spirit on the ground, but felt that the spirit could no longer hear him.

"Hey~"

The Saiyan boy sighed. Now that things had come to this, there was no way to make up for the evil spirits he had scattered. He could only look at the other human evil spirits in the cemetery who had also become bachelors.

"Your sacrifice was not in vain; at least your comrades will be treated well by me."

When the White Shadow Ninja brought over a new human evil spirit, Broly said to him with great sincerity, "As a token of my apology, I will help you fulfill your last wish after death free of charge!"

With that, Broly raised his fist again, this time lowering the spiritual energy output from his fist, and punched the evil spirit in front of him in the abdomen.

"Uh-huh~"

Even lower-level spirits, devoid of rationality and intelligence, reacted with a pain similar to that of a living person, as if struck in the abdomen.

"Speak, tell me your last wishes after you die."

Broly, as if practicing Wing Chun, unleashed a flurry of blows on the evil spirit's abdomen, all the while asking questions, causing the lone evil spirit, held by the white-clad ninja, to groan and moan.

"Say something! Stop 'uh-huh'ing, I really don't understand what you mean!"

But after fighting for a while, Broly had almost scattered the evil spirit, and the other party did not make any sound other than "uh-uh". When he stopped for a while, the evil spirit even opened its mouth again, trying to bite him.

"Let's try something else."

Broly, fearing he might destroy the enemy, had the White Shadow Ninja replace it with a human evil spirit.

Half an hour later, Broly looked at his fist and fell silent.

These cemetery spirits, when subjected to his punches, can only groan and scream.

Unlike the previous hanging evil spirit, it didn't reveal its last wish after being beaten up.

"Where exactly did things go wrong?"

Broly asked in confusion, but neither the evil spirits whose spirits were unstable after being attacked nor the white shadow ninja could answer his question.

The difference between Type A and Type C evil spirits is quite significant, but this only applies to exorcists in this world.

As for Broly, the difference between an A-class evil spirit and a C-class evil spirit is probably that one is more durable, while the other will be reduced to ashes with just a little force.

"Wait, could it be that D-level evil spirits are inhuman and don't deserve to leave a last wish? I need to find some higher-level evil spirits, like the hanging evil spirit I contracted?"

Standing alone in the desolate cemetery, Broly felt that his idea was correct. It must be that the evil spirits he had found were not high enough, which was why they could not sense his sincere desire to help them.

"But where can we find such evil spirits?"

Broly was in a dilemma. With his aura being of little use in spirit detection, it was difficult to find some powerful evil spirits.

"Perhaps, I can draw on the expertise of the world's professionals, the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau."

As Broly was thinking this, just as he was about to leave the cemetery, his trouser leg was grabbed.

Looking down, I saw a severed arm of an evil spirit.

He was now surrounded by the severed limbs and remains of even more evil spirits.

"You don't need to keep me here, do you?"

Broly tried to persuade the masters of the arms beside him, but it was clear that these evil spirits could not speak or understand human language.

"You saw it all; it wasn't me who wanted to do it, it was them."

Broly said something to the White Shadow Ninja before using his Plunder Aura.

Of course, in this world, it should be called plundering spiritual energy fields.

The evil spirits on the ground and their limbs were rolled up, swirling and squeezing in mid-air, forming a sphere of spirits squeezed one another.

“I didn’t mean to steal it, I just wanted to make a fair deal with you, but the deal fell through and you don’t want me to leave, so that’s your fault.”

Broly spoke to one of the evil spirits inside the orb in front of him, then raised his palm and compressed the orb.

The sphere of evil spirits, formed by thirty or forty evil spirits, began to shrink from a diameter of over four meters. As it shrank, the evil spirits inside were gradually crushed and compressed, eventually forming a dark mass of evil spirit energy that was only the size of a basketball when it floated in Broly's hand.

As Broly further compressed this energy, some crystals began to appear. When the energy was completely crystallized, a black crystal the size of a fingernail appeared in Broly's hand.

This is the method Wiz told him about for collecting soul energy. In the world of Subarashiki, the lich's signature skill, Absorbing Touch, also works on undead ghost creatures.

However, from the perspective of the living, this practice is no different from a living person sacrificing another living person's blood. Broly did not intend to use such a brutal method to obtain soul energy, but unfortunately, the evil spirits in this cemetery were too hospitable and wanted to keep him.

"This thing shouldn't be used by humans, but we could try feeding it to Sister Huangquan's spirit beast, Luan Honglian, and see if it suits her taste."

Broly thought this to himself and tried to summon a new White Shadow Ninja, but he failed. The White Shadow Ninja, a magical creature made of light and positive emotions, did not want this crystal block full of impurities and resentment.

However, you can't summon the white ones, but you can summon the black ones.

Broly left the cemetery with a black chain on his hand.

In the sky, two ninjas, one black and one white, floated behind him like ninja kites.

"I am the source of the Shadow Ninjas in this world, so there shouldn't be any problems, right? Xiaoyu's mind was affected because of the existence of dark energy in that world, but this world shouldn't have any righteous or dark energy. Even if there is something similar, it shouldn't affect me, right?"

Broly had only tried summoning the Shadow Ninja, and to his surprise, he actually succeeded. He was just unsure whether the Shadow Ninja would have the same problem of influencing the summoner's mind as the original world it came from. But thinking about his own experience of summoning the Shadow Ninja in the Adventure World, Broly felt it wasn't a big deal.

"It's too late. Sister Huangquan told me to go home early. I'll look for more powerful evil spirits tomorrow."

Of course, the main thing is that he went to the countermeasures bureau headquarters late at night and said he wanted to find a more powerful evil spirit. It seemed a bit abnormal and not something an ordinary child would do.

Carrying the black and white ninjas back to the Isayama residence, Broly stopped at the door. He suddenly thought that perhaps the task of finding the evil spirit could be entrusted to the two ninjas.

"Can the two of you find the evil spirits in the city?"

Broly snapped out of his daze, turned to look at the black and white ninjas following behind him, and asked them a question.

Upon hearing this, both ninjas nodded simultaneously.

Bai descended into the ground, transforming into a two-dimensional humanoid representation of the victim at the murder scene, and then flew away, scaling walls and rooftops.

He spread his arms wide, wrapped himself in a ninja outfit that resembled bat wings, and disappeared into the shadows.

In the darkness, Broly couldn't figure out how his shadow ninja had moved.

So well hidden, so incredibly well hidden, a ninja in spirit form...

The next morning, Broly got up very early. While brushing his teeth and washing up in the bathroom, a black shadow suddenly darted in through the window and emerged from the ground behind him.

"Have you found the evil spirit?"

After gargling and spitting out water, Broly asked a question. The shadow ninja didn't answer, but took out a black crystal, knelt down on one knee, and offered it with both hands.

"Eh?"

Broly's eyes widened, and he pointed at the black crystal in the shadowy ninja's hand, asking, "Where did this come from?"

When questioned by its master, the shadowy ninja made a gesture of slaying the spirit, then absorbed the black crystal into its body and expelled it.

"You mean, after you killed the evil spirits, you absorbed them into your body, and then they compressed into crystals?"

Broly looked at the shadow ninja's body language and asked a question, which was then confirmed with a nod of approval.

"But why?"

Broly was puzzled; his orders were to find the evil spirit, not to kill it.

The shadowy ninja remained silent, only offering up the black crystal in his hand once more.

"Wait, like the shadow ninja in Xiaoyu's world, you can also sense some of my thoughts?"

Broly had some guesses, while the Shadow Ninja nodded.

"However, they are somewhat different from the shadow ninjas in Xiaoyu's world. They don't do anything unnecessary when given clear orders, but you are influenced by the evil spirit crystals of this world and have greater autonomy, right?"

When Broly asked the question, the shadow ninja remained silent and lowered his head, like a child who had made a mistake and was being criticized.

"Alright, I don't mean to blame you, but rather than this kind of impure evil spirit crystal, I would much rather obtain a soul crystal filled with sincere gratitude."

"Okay, from now on, when you're looking for evil spirits, don't attack them unless they attack you first, understand?"

Broly lectured the Shadow Ninja and then asked him a question. The Shadow Ninja nodded to indicate that he remembered, but what exactly he remembered remained a mystery.

Just as the White Shadow Ninja was affected by the Soul Crystal, the Black Shadow Ninja was also affected by the Evil Spirit Crystal, so there are definitely some differences between it and the original version of the Ninja Soldier.

"As for this thing..."

Broly put away the evil spirit crystal, deciding to feed it to the girl's spirit beast after Isayama Yomi returned home.

While having breakfast, the white ninja also returned. Unlike the black ninja, after finding the location where the spirits were present last night, it did not take the initiative to attack the spirits it discovered. Instead, it obediently returned to report the situation.

"Okay, I'll go check out the place you found later, and then go to the Countermeasures Bureau to gather information..."

Broly made his decision, ate breakfast, and went out.

The place he went to was the rooftop of a school.

As I landed, the first thing I noticed was a somewhat bloated spirit crouching on the edge of the rooftop, muttering, "Why do I have to suffer like this?"

Behind me, the door to the rooftop was closed, and several locks were placed behind it.

I heard that this emergency response was taken by the school after a student jumped off the rooftop and died.

To prevent students from jumping off the school rooftop, the rooftop was sealed off.

"How can I help you?"

Broly didn't know anything about the other party, but the fact that the spirit could speak proved that he should be able to communicate with it, which made him very happy. He went closer and asked.

However, Broly's question was ignored by the bloated spirit.

The other person didn't react at all, but just kept repeating why they had to suffer like this, looking somewhat bitter and resentful.

"Hello, hello..."

Seeing this, Broly jumped to the edge of the rooftop and waved in front of the other party before the bloated spirit noticed his presence.

"Can you see me?"

They didn't attack any living people they saw. The evil spirits nearby, or rather, the ghosts that hadn't been corrupted and still retained their intelligence, only asked questions with curiosity. This was much more polite than the evil spirits in the cemetery last night.

"of course."

Broly nodded and began to introduce himself.

"I am a novice exorcist, and I am doing paid exorcism work. If you have any unfulfilled wishes, you can tell me and I can help you fulfill them. Just pay me the soul power you don't want before you become a Buddha."

"What wish can you grant for me?"

The bloated spirit asked.

"It depends on the situation. If it's a wish that even I can't fulfill, then there's nothing I can do."

Broly didn't make any promises, in case the spirit in front of him made a last wish that it couldn't fulfill, then it would be pointless to say anything.

"Is the desire for revenge acceptable?"

Do you have some kind of enemy?

"I was bullied to death."

Upon hearing this, Broly's mind immediately conjured up the information from the "classic," as if his subconscious was not surprised by the situation.

The school, the rooftop—the spirits of the deceased complain about their encounters. The causes of their deaths are always the same: academic pressure or the pressure of school life…

“No problem. My desire for revenge is relatively simple. As long as the person who killed you is still alive, it can be fulfilled.”

"Then please help me get revenge. Whatever you want from me, I'll give you!"

"Alright, tell me who your enemy is!"

Broly was in a good mood. The White Shadow Ninja had very reliably found him a spirit that he could communicate with and was even willing to make deals with.

The bloated spirit listened and quickly began to recount its grievances: "The one who bullied me to death was my classmate. That guy thought he was the class monitor and teamed up with others to bully me..."

"I may be a bit overweight, not very good-looking, and have poor grades, but is that wrong?"

Broly nodded, agreeing with what the other person said.

"I only secretly placed cameras in the changing room and the girls' restroom, and I only sold the photos and videos taken outside the school to earn pocket money."

After that guy found out, he and others subjected me to inhumane bullying. They also told my parents and school teachers about my behavior, ruining my reputation and forcing me to commit suicide by jumping off a building.

"Ugh, why do I have to go through all this? Why does that bitch have to hold onto this? Why can't she just pretend nothing happened?"

Broly: "???"

"And everyone else was her accomplice, the murderer who killed me..."

"Hey, you'll help me get revenge and kill them, right?"

The bloated spirit stared at Broly with dead eyes, as if it would turn into an evil spirit and devour him on the spot if Broly didn't agree.

Broly: "..."

With a wave of his hand, he caused the spirit on the verge of becoming evil to vanish into nothingness, thus completing his first serious exorcism in this world.

You know, even those evil spirits in the cemetery last night, Broly probably wouldn't have done anything to them if they hadn't grabbed his trouser leg and wouldn't let him leave.

(End of this chapter)