Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 670 The Scheme of Divine Wine: Broly Targeted by the Villainous Drunkard
The next day, while a group of drunkards were sprawled out on the floor of the hall or slumped over the table in the Soma clan's settlement, the little girl who had already gotten up quietly left.

Once outside, she quickened her pace and hurried toward the central square.

When she arrived, there were already two people waiting for her.

"Brother Broly, Bell..."

The little girl waved from afar and jogged over.

"Miss Lily, good morning. Have you eaten yet? Would you like some fries and a sandwich?"

When Broly waited until the little girl ran over and approached, he handed her the things he had prepared for her and asked her questions.

"Eh?"

Lily Luca was somewhat surprised, not expecting that not only could she get dinner for free, but she could also get breakfast for free.

"Thank you, Brother Broly!"

She thanked him and accepted what the boy offered.

"You're welcome. You're my supporter, so naturally I want you to have a good meal and drink."

"We go down in the morning, fight monsters until noon, come up to Babel Tower for a meal, have about an hour of rest and meals, and then go back down into the dungeon to work until dusk. That's our daily routine."

Bell added his comments from the side.

"Oh, we'll have lunch?"

Lily Luca asked in surprise.

"Of course, how can you have the strength to work if you don't eat?"

The boy looked at her strangely, as if she had asked a rather odd question.

"The cost of the meal..."

Lily Luca hadn't forgotten that yesterday, the boy paid with a bag of fari, and that bag contained quite a lot of fari.

"Brother Broly booked it."

Lily Luca: "..."

Why had she never received such treatment before?

The three of them followed the crowd down into the underground city. Once inside, the little girl, who was behind the other two, secretly threw away the half breadstick that the raccoon-man bastard had given her the day before.

Originally, it was meant to be lunch, but now that she knows her adventurer brother hired her to provide meals, she's not going to eat the leftovers that bastard ate.

Bell, who was walking ahead, did not notice the little girl's little movements behind him, but Broly saw through the Crystal Palace panel that Lily Luca's happiness value was rising.

That half breadstick was food, but it also represented past suffering. Discarding it made the little girl feel relieved.

It's still the seventh floor of the maze, still the cave from yesterday. The terrain here is so good that Broly considers it a prime spot for monster hunting.

"Brother Broly, are we going down to the eighth level of the maze today?"

When Broly found two killer ants, crippled them, and started setting up bait to lure the ant swarm, Bell behind him asked a question.

"Don't go."

Broly responded without hesitation.

"Hey, Broly, didn't you say you were going to the eighth floor the day before yesterday?"

"The day before yesterday was the day before yesterday, and today is today. Now that Miss Lily has joined our team, we should take care of her a bit."

"Uh, that's right."

Bell nodded and didn't say anything more. She and Lily Luca sat in the back and watched the boy start another day of the assembly line of monster killing.

"Hey, Broly gets this many loot drops from monsters?"

I didn't think about it in detail yesterday, but today, looking at how the magic stones and dropped items were piled up, Lily Luca discovered the problem.

Unlike ordinary adventurers who fight more than ten monsters without getting any extra drops, Broly gets an extra drop from almost every two or three monsters he fights.

"Well, I guess this is a special ability. I heard Lady Hestia mention that Broly seems to have the ability to increase the number of extra drops."

Bell, without any suspicion, treated the little girl as a companion and recounted what he had heard from the gods.

"Huh, there's actually such an ability?"

Lily Luca was a little surprised, but considering that her transformation magic was also quite special, it didn't seem strange that others had the ability to increase the amount of items dropped.

"Well, it's actually luck. My own luck comes from my skills, and Bell also has a certain amount of luck. When the two of us come together, it becomes like this."

Broly didn't mind explaining the situation to the little girl behind him, and the luck he gained during his newbie protection period alone wouldn't have yielded so many drops.

Based on Hephaestus's deduction, the two goddesses agreed that Bell must also possess a similar "luck" trait, which explains why they get more loot when they team up with someone.

"The 'Dungeon Lucky Koi' duo, huh?"

Lily Luca made a complaint, but then cheered up, feeling that her luck had finally turned around.

On this day, the little girl went up and down the underground city maze eight times.

Even though she went back to rest for lunch, the little girl was still almost exhausted.

But compared to the physical exhaustion, the money bag she received at dusk, which was more than twice as full as yesterday, provided her with immense spiritual comfort.

"Bell, here you go."

After receiving her share of the day's earnings, Lily Luca decisively took out 60,000 Fali and pushed it in front of the white-haired boy.

"Hey, this is it?"

"The money I spent on stamina recovery potions was 4 bottles yesterday and 8 bottles today."

"Ah, that's for you to use, you don't need to return it."

Even close brothers keep clear accounts, let alone us, who are partners. It wouldn't be right for me to keep taking advantage of you.

Before today, Lily Luca would never have thought she could say something like that.

But now she can, because her wallet is fuller, and she won't forget the well-digger when she drinks the water.

"But it shouldn't cost that much."

Bell knew immediately that the other party had given too much money when he saw the money being pushed towards him.

"The extra ones are actually for me to ask you to bring me eight more stamina recovery potions tomorrow."

The little girl put her hands together and said.

Given her condition, it's not advisable for her to carry too many expensive medications with her.

If those drunkards and scoundrels in the clan find out, that would be troublesome.

Lilyluka was more inclined to believe the white-haired boy in front of her than her fellow members of the same clan.

"Brother Broly..."

Bell looked at Broly.

“I’ll help you carry them. The god Mihe at the Azure Pharmacy is a friend of my god Hestia. I get a friend’s discount when I get my goods there. If you have the 12 bottles of stamina recovery potion that you’ve already used, plus the 8 more you need tomorrow, then these Fali will be enough.”

Broly pushed the Fali on the table back with ten thousand.

"Huh, is that so?!"

Lily Luca was somewhat surprised, but still happy to pull the money Broly had pushed back into her own purse.

At dusk, Broly still hosted a dinner party on the fourth floor of the Tower of Babel. For him, it was just a quick bite to fill his stomach, as he would have dinner with Lady Hestia later. But for the white-haired boy (Bell) and the little girl (Lilyluka), it was a real treat to fill their stomachs.

"Hiccup~"

After letting out a burp as she descended from the Tower of Babel, Lilyluka bid farewell to the two people behind her, just as she had done yesterday. She then repeated yesterday's routine: first, she transformed to buy gems, stored them in the Earth Spirit's Vault, then transformed back to her original form before returning to the Soma Familia.

The girl remained low-key, maintaining her inconspicuous presence, and quietly returned to her room. Only after closing the door did she exhale.

Compared to the relaxed atmosphere she felt during her time with Broly and Bell during the day, returning to the Soma Familia's base required her to be constantly on edge. Thankfully, she still felt rather unremarkable today…

Lying in bed, Lily Luca touched her slightly protruding belly, which was a result of eating too much.

Suddenly remembering something, he put on the gray robe, opened the door again, and went out.

"Mr. Kanu, could you give me something to eat?"

She walked to the table, her face filled with sorrow, and begged the raccoon man for food.

"Erdene, I paid for my own food, but if you have money, I can sell you some."

"Oh, but I don't have any money right now."

"Well, there's nothing I can do then. But, out of consideration for our shared clan, I'll let you taste the bones I left over."

Upon hearing this, a burst of gloating laughter erupted from the drunkards in the main hall of the Soma clan's residence.

Lily Luca pursed her lips, then silently took an empty plate and, under the mocking gazes of the others, received a plate of leftovers.

However, after the girl took the leftovers back to her room and closed the door again, the miserable expression on her face was replaced by a look of disdain.

As the saying goes, life is like a play, and it all depends on acting skills. The environment of the Soma Familia, where she was deceived and cheated, taught her to show weakness to the outside world and preserve herself. Although she can make a lot of money now, she can't let those bastards in her own family see through this.

Of course, she won't eat these things; she'll take them outside and throw them away tomorrow.

. . . .

Time flies by relentlessly, and two more days have passed in the blink of an eye. Lily Luca has fully adapted to life as Broly's supporter.

These past few days, the little girl's smiles have been more frequent and genuine than ever before, and she has also developed new ideas about her life after leaving her clan.

In the little girl's original plan, after leaving her clan, she would stay far away from the dangerous dungeons and those crude and barbaric adventurers.

But now, she feels that continuing as a supporter, adventuring in the dungeon with her companions, seems like a good option as well.

Lily Luca had to admit that her previous impression of adventurers was too biased. She assumed that all adventurers were bad simply because the ones she had met before were bad. But there were also good people like Broly.

After leaving my clan, perhaps I too can enjoy adventures in dungeons and become a supporter of the heroic adventurers Bell spoke of...

That evening, Lily Luca returned with light steps. As usual, after approaching the Soma Familia, she transformed back into an inconspicuous little human struggling to survive.

However, just as she was about to quietly return to her room, the tanuki-man Envankov Kanu called out to her, "Erd, I heard you've been having a good time lately."

The little girl stopped in her tracks, looking uneasy, and turned to ask in confusion, "Ah, Mr. Kanu, what do you mean?"

"Stop pretending, Erd. Nova saw you there, carrying bulging supporter packs with others, coming out of the dungeon labyrinth. You must have amassed quite a haul, right?"

Did other members of my clan see me carrying the items out?

The girl was a little nervous, but she put on an angry expression: "Mr. Kanu, I did have some gains, but the employer is a stingy guy. I carried the heavy spoils out of the dungeon, but he only gave me a little reward. He's a complete miser."

"Hahaha, Erd, what are you saying..."

The raccoon man laughed, but his expression changed the next moment, and he slammed his hand on the table in front of him with a loud thud.

"They're really treating us like fools. If the other party is really a stingy employer, how could they let you carry things so enthusiastically every day?"
The expensive food in the restaurant on the fourth floor of the Tower of Babel could make you look so healthy?
"Now that you've made it big, Erd, are you planning to forget about us, your fellow clansmen who always looked after you?"

The raccoon's roar turned the little girl's face pale; the other party knew more than she had thought.

Clearly, this information could only be obtained by having someone keep an eye on him.

After realizing this, Lily Luca immediately backed down: "I'm sorry, Mr. Kanu, please don't hit me. I'm willing to give you all the money I've earned these past few days."

Like a cunning rabbit with three burrows, before Lilyluka even considered leaving her clan and starting to save money, she already knew that her clanmates might discover her hidden money.

So, she actually had two hiding places for her money. One was the real hiding place, the earth elf's treasury. The other was a fake hiding place that she made, thinking that if those drunkards ever discovered her hiding place, she could use this as a cover.

The little girl entered her storage room, but right in front of Envankov Kanu behind her, she knocked open a hidden compartment in the wall and took out the items inside.

More than 30,000 fali—this was the money she had set up specifically to hide it in case it was exposed. This amount of money is not much to her now, but it was money she had saved up in the past.

"Heh, Erd, you're quite clever, actually managing to hide money in a secret compartment. No wonder sometimes when I search your room, there's nothing there."

The tanuki-man accepted the money without hesitation, while Lily Luca looked disappointed.

"Alright, your sensibility will spare you a beating. However, there is something I need you to do."

"Ah, Mr. Kanu, what do you need me to do?"

[That bastard, he's already taken the money, what else does he want me to do?]

"It's nothing major, I just want you to help expand our clan's beverage business."

Envankov Kanu went outside and took out a small bottle, placing it on the table.

"Your employer is very capable, making a lot of money every day. There aren't many high-quality clients like that."

The glass bottle on the table shone with an unusual brilliance, and Lily Luca, who had drunk it as a child, knew exactly what it contained: divine wine brewed by the gods of the Soma clan. Just a small sip was enough to intoxicate one, to make one sink into the pleasure brought by the divine wine, and then to go mad in order to drink it again.

In an instant, Lily Luca knew what the tanuki-man in front of her was up to. His real target might not be her, but Broly. He wanted to get Broly addicted to Dionysus, control him through the addiction, and make money off him.

“Mr. Kanu, my current employer doesn’t drink alcohol at all. Even when he’s entertaining guests, he only drinks juice. He doesn’t drink any alcohol.”

Lily Luca said cautiously.

"Heh, that's why we need you to make him drink it. It would be such a waste if such a money-making guy didn't become a customer of our Soma clan. And making someone who doesn't like alcohol fall in love with drinking is also the preaching we, the followers of Dionysus, should do."

Those who become obsessed with Soma sake are often exploited by members of the Soma Familia, who drain their families of their money. In order to buy another cup of this divine sake, some even sell their wives and daughters. Lily Luca has seen this quite often during her years with the Soma Familia.

Even now, outside the Soma clan's territory, there are pitiful, hateful, and pathetic fellows lingering and begging for divine wine.

"I……"

"What, Erd, can't you even do something as simple as this?"

The raccoon-man squinted.

"No, Mr. Kanu, it's just a divine wine brewed by Lord Soma. Even we ourselves rarely get to drink it. Why should we give it to outsiders? And even if we wanted to sell it, there are plenty of other gods who want other fine wines, aren't there?"

Lily Luca pretended to also crave the divine wine and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Well said, but we can only make a little money from normal sales. We need to attract rich guys who are obsessed with the divine wine to come to us, and then raise the price so that we can make a fortune from drinking it."

However, this tactic is not suitable for dealing with other gods, and the Ganesha Familia and the Guild will not allow Lord Soma's divine wine to disrupt the order of Orario. Therefore, we have to do things like this secretly.

"Here's what we'll do, Erd. If you manage to convert your generous employer into a follower of the divine wine, then I'll share some of the money I make off that guy with you, so you can occasionally buy Lord Soma's divine wine and have a drink. How about that?"

. . . .

"Miss Erd, Miss Erd..."

"Oh, what's wrong, Bell?"

"It's not that I'm the problem, but what's wrong with you? You seem a bit restless today."

Lily Luca: "..."

The small bottle containing the divine wine was on her, and that was why she was so unsettled.

She knew all too well the terror of the divine wine, but she dared not refuse that bastard Kanu, the raccoon man.

"I'm just a little tired."

The little girl gave a forced smile as she answered the boy's question.

"Ah, if you're tired, why don't you rest up there for a while after you get up here?"

Bell made the proposal.

"No need, I have stamina recovery potions to tide me over."

At noon, Broly came up to eat with them. The little girl repeatedly touched her pocket, but never took out the divine wine.

As dusk approached, when Broly was treating everyone to dinner as usual, Lily Luca suddenly said to the boy, "Brother Broly, there's something I want to tell you."

“Lily, just tell me what's wrong. You are my supporter, my friend, and an important partner. If you encounter any difficulties, just tell me, and I will do my best to help you.”

(End of this chapter)