Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 752 Digging Up Graves and Piecing Together a Corpse in the Dead of Night

The Sky Blue Pharmacy was rather deserted at night. The dog-woman sat behind the counter, supporting her cheek with her hand, seemingly waiting for a potential customer.

Since the Mih Family received a long-term order for the antidote to alcohol from the Soma Familia, their lives have become much easier.

With a stable income, the family's debts are being paid off little by little. Naza did a quick calculation and estimated that in about five or six years, her family should be able to get out of their current predicament.

Naza has made up her mind. Once her clan is out of its predicament, she will express her feelings to Lord Mih. If Lord Mih is willing to accept her, then she...

"Miss Nazha, Miss Nazha..."

The sudden sound interrupted the dog-woman's reverie.

"Who?"

She looked around in a bit of a panic.

"It's here."

The owner of the voice reminded her, and Nazha tiptoed out from behind the counter to see the Saiyan boy who had been hidden by the counter.

"Oh, it's Mr. Broly. Is there anything you need that's brought you here so late?"

Naza felt her face getting hot, but she tried to remain calm and asked the question.

"I want to buy some mana restoration potions with the best mana recovery effect."

Broly stated his demands.

"No problem, how many bottles do you need?"

"I need a lot, can I buy it by the case?"

"box?"

This is a niche term for expensive mana restoration potions.

Why do you need to buy so many mana restoration potions?

Naza asked, somewhat surprised.

"I'm pushing the limits of magic; it consumes a huge amount of mana, which is why I need so many potions."

“I see. However, our shop only has 35 bottles of mana restoration potions in stock right now, which is about one and a half boxes. I don’t know if that’s enough for you.”

This is a big order. Broly is also a major patron of Tianqing Pharmacy and a lucky star who brings stable business. Nazha's attitude is very enthusiastic.

"If it's not enough, you can place an order first, and Lord Mihe and I will make the potion for you overnight. We should be able to deliver a box of it by tomorrow afternoon."

"Approximately how much magic power can 35 bottles of potions restore?"

"You've requested the best potions. One bottle should be enough to fully restore all the magic power consumed by an adventurer with a level 5 magic feat."

Broly did a quick calculation and realized that this amount of recovery was roughly equivalent to restoring twelve or thirteen times his current magical power, so he nodded: "No need, this is enough for now."

"A top-tier mana restoration potion costs 120 million falies per bottle here, and 35 bottles would cost a total of 4200 million falies. However, Broly, you are a long-term customer of our shop, and Lord Mich and Lord Hestia are also friends. I'll round it down for you, and you only need to pay 4000 million falies."

Broly: "..."

Fortunately, I saved some money from the last gold-farming operation and didn't spend it all on the expansion of the family compound.

He paid the bill without hesitation and carried a box of top-grade mana restoration potions back to his clan.

However, Broly did not use resurrection magic that night. Instead, he waited until he had slept through the night and naturally recovered all the magic power he had consumed before attempting to resurrect the dead chicken that had not yet been thrown away and was now just bones.

Surrounded by the women, Broly continued to consume mana-restoring potions while maintaining his resurrection magic. When he had consumed thirty-one potions, which was roughly equivalent to ten times his current mana consumption, the mana drain gradually stopped.

The chicken, now reduced to bones, made its grand entrance in perfect condition before everyone's eyes, clucking softly.

The chicken is alive.

This scene made Liu, who was watching nervously, widen her eyes.

The miracle of resurrection truly exists!

The reason I couldn't be resurrected last night was simply because I didn't have enough magic power.

As long as you have enough magic power, you can directly create miracles with great force.

To have enough magic power, simply buy enough magic power restoration potions and have Broly drink them while casting resurrection magic...

Thinking of this, Ryu's thoughts suddenly stopped. Even though she hadn't been an adventurer for many years, she still knew the approximate price of top-tier mana restoration potions.

The tavern elf looked at the thirty-one empty bottles of top-tier mana restoration potions on the ground, then at the Resurrected Chicken, who was now being picked up and examined by Tiona.

A chicken like this, if it were alive, would probably be worth no more than 250 Faris, but now that it's been resurrected, its value is definitely over 2500 million Faris.

Even she knew that resurrecting a dead person was far more difficult than resurrecting a dead chicken, and the cost involved was probably unimaginable.

"What's wrong, Ryu? The resurrection magic succeeded, aren't you happy?"

Broly noticed that Ryu's expression was a little off, so he asked her.

No, I'm very happy.

Liu moved her lips slightly, then said these words with a firm look in her eyes.

No matter the cost, as long as there is hope for resurrection.

Then we must try our best to bring our former friends back to life.

Even if it's just Adi alone.

Her former companions, none of whom left behind bodies, only Adi had a body.

[I'm sorry to Seele, I'm sorry to Mia's mom...]

In order to earn enough money, Ryu was already thinking about quitting her job at the bar.

She wants to return to her old ways and become an adventurer again.

Only by becoming an adventurer can one earn that astronomical resurrection fee.

As for asking Broly to help cover the expenses, the idea only flashed through Ryu's mind.

The boy has already helped me so much, so how can I let him bear the costs that have nothing to do with me?

"So, the chicken has been successfully resurrected, when can we resurrect people?"

"Tiona asked."

"Well, there's another issue to consider."

"what?"

Broly took the resurrection chicken from the Amazon girl's hand and twisted its head off again.

"Oh, Broly, why did you kill the chicken again?"

"Ryu's friend Adi was killed by the fire stone, and his body is incomplete. I'm now going to check whether the resurrection magic can still work when the body is incomplete."

As Broly spoke, he tossed the chicken head aside, opened a new bottle of mana restoration potion, poured it into his mouth, and began his resurrection once again.

This attempt quickly yielded results: a headless dead chicken, once resurrected, would be a living headless chicken, but would soon die because it had no head.

After drinking all the remaining mana restoration potions and attempting to revive dead chickens that had lost different bone parts multiple times, Broly reached a very important conclusion:

The loss of bones does not affect the casting of resurrection magic, but if the lost bones are in vital parts, the kind that would kill a normal person, the resurrected creature will quickly fall back into death because it cannot sustain life.

“Ryu, there’s a problem now. I need to confirm whether your friend Adi had any of his important bones collected when he was buried.”

"Ah, this, I don't know..."

Liu was stunned. After regaining her senses, she shook her head in reply.

"Hey, weren't you the one who collected your friend's body?"

"No, it wasn't me. I was devastated by Adi's death at the time..."

As Ryu answered, she stole a glance at Ais beside her.

Later, because of my grief over losing my friend, I even went to find Miss Ais, who was only eight years old at the time, and got into a fight with her...

"Alright, before we revive your friend, we might need to check if their remains are intact."

"Hey, so we have to go..."

Tiona bent down and dug in the dirt.

“That’s right, we need to dig up a grave and open the coffin to examine the body first.”

Broly nodded, and with his quick thinking, he prepared to go out to buy tools to dig up the grave.

"Ah, although it's about resurrecting deceased children, the idea of ​​resurrection is simply too shocking and hard to believe for children in the mortal realm..."

Hestia quickly stopped Broly.

"If you don't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, it's best to do it at night when everyone is asleep."

Ryuichi thought so too. Although he could explain the situation to Adi's sister, who was now the leader of the Ganesha Familia, it would definitely take a lot of effort to convince her to let him dig up Adi's grave.

Therefore, rather than honestly explaining the situation, it's better to do things quietly. If things are done well, everyone will be happy. If things are not done well, doing them quietly means no one will know, right?

Broly took Hestia's advice and waited until late at night before going out with Ryu, dressed in black.

"Oh, why do we have to come too?"

"Of course, more people means faster grave digging!"

Hestia explained it this way when asked by the elven girl.

Although it's a bit strange that among the memories we created together, there were things like digging up graves in the dead of night.

However, Ais and Lefia were still pushed out of the Hearth Hall by Hestia and came to the graveyard to help.

"Heave-ho, heave-ho~"

As for Tiona, who was digging away at the gravesite after arriving, she came to help entirely voluntarily.

With the combined efforts of several people, Adi's grave was quickly dug up.

Broly and Diona then carried the coffin up from below.

"Click~"

The coffin, which had been buried for many years, was reopened in the cemetery under the moonlight, and a putrid smell immediately wafted out.

Lefia quickly covered her nose, and her face turned pale after seeing the situation inside the coffin. Although she was an adventurer and had seen some dead people over the years, it did not mean that she had seen a corpse that had been buried for many years and was now being dug up and its coffin opened.

The situation inside was indeed bad; it wasn't a complete corpse, but a pile of rotting flesh mixed with fragments of bones.

There wasn't even a complete skull fragment; one can only imagine what kind of horrific bomb attack the girl who died back then must have suffered.

"In this situation, how can we confirm whether the remains are intact?"

Tiona pinched her nose, leaned close to Broly, and asked.

"We can only take all the bones inside back and try to put them together."

"Hey, are we just going to pick out the bones from here?"

"I'll do it."

Liu took the initiative to step forward.

"Ah, Miss Ryu, are you alright?"

The Amazonian girl looked over in surprise.

She knew that elves were all germaphobes, it was just a matter of degree.

"This is a friend of mine from the past."

Ryu only answered one sentence, but at that moment, she, who had a stronger obsession with cleanliness than many of her kind, no longer had any such obsession.

She was prepared to search for bones in rotting flesh with her bare hands.

However, just as she was about to reach into the coffin, Broly stopped her.

"If we pick them out by hand, how long would that take?"

"Oh, what should we do then?"

"In a situation like this, of course we have to use magic, water generation..."

Broly poured water directly into the coffin. The rotting flesh was light while the bones were heavy, so the rotting flesh quickly floated to the surface and was washed away by the water.

Then, he used gravity magic to grab the bone fragments from the water, put them in the paper bag he had brought, buried the coffin back in the pit, filled the grave again, and covered it with a stone slab.

Finally, wind magic was used to dispel the stench, and the girl's grave was restored to its original state, even looking newer than before.

However, as long as no one disturbs the grave to check what's underneath, the fact that the remains inside have already been removed will never be revealed.

. . . .

Back at the clan's residence late at night, everyone took another bath.

"Let's piece together the remains again tomorrow."

"Ah, why can't we spell it now?"

Liu was somewhat puzzled; she seemed anxious and wanted to know the details of her friend's remains.

"Because if we put it together now, the taste of the bones will be a bit strong."

Brolida.

"Let's soak it in clean water overnight, until the smell is less, and then wash it clean before we try again tomorrow, so our noses won't suffer."

Upon hearing this, Liu felt that what the other person said seemed to make a lot of sense.

. . . .

The next day, Ryu took leave from the tavern and returned to the Hearth House, where she and Broly pieced together the fragmented remains of their friend's cadaver.

Well, some large, unbroken bones are manageable, but some bones broken into smaller pieces are really difficult to piece together.

If we could just use a bunch of broken bones, we could simply try to revive them.

As he worked on the puzzle, Broly couldn't help but think.

Resurrection, whether it's resurrection in this world or resurrection in the Konosuba world, requires getting the body back first.

Broly began to envy his master Aqua, whose fully automatic resurrection magic could directly restore the corpses of the dead.

In contrast, a large part of the resurrection magic he now possesses requires him to perform manual operations.

It looks like a clumsy imitation of divine resurrection magic, but perhaps that's why Broly couldn't learn his own goddess master's resurrection magic, but could easily master the resurrection magic created by humans in this world by reading a magic book.

Based on this, the idea of ​​manually piecing together corpses seems more acceptable.

"No, isn't this bone missing a bit too much?!"

After ten hours of arduous work on the 3D puzzle, as the shape of the cadaver gradually took shape, Broly discovered a problem.

The remains of a girl named Adi were missing a lot of her bones.

"Oh no, how could this happen?"

Looking at the cadaver, whose skeleton was still missing nearly a quarter of its original size, Ryu found it hard to accept.

In this situation, it's no longer a question of whether Broly's magic is enough to resurrect people.

The problem was that Adi's remains were too badly damaged to be resurrected even if Broly had magic.

"Adi, I'm sorry, if only I had been the one to collect your body back then..."

Liu knelt down and pounded his fists on the ground.

But in reality, who would have thought that resurrection could happen?
Back then, facing the threat of the dark faction launching another attack at any time, it was already difficult enough to collect and bury the bodies of those who had been blown to pieces; it was simply impossible to demand that all the remains be collected.

Broly was also a bit troubled by this; if the corpse didn't meet the prerequisites for being resurrected, there was nothing he could do.

The only result of forcibly using Dio's resurrection magic to revive the other party is that Ryu will have to watch her resurrected friend die again.

Of course, there are ways to deal with this situation, but as I said before, we need to ask Master Aqua for help. If Master Aqua were to help, even if only a skull remained of the girl Adi, with her goddess master's resurrection magic, she could probably repair the rest of her body tissues.

"Liu, don't be sad, there's still a way."

“Broly…”

The tavern elf looked up at the boy, her eyes slightly red.

"Is there any other way?"

She asked with a hint of hope.

"of course."

Broly gave an affirmative answer.

"Is there any way?"

The elf pressed for an answer, and the others looked at him as well.

"Since this world has resurrection magic, why can't there be magic to repair corpses?"

Since Aqua's master can't come over for the time being, Broly thought he could try to find a solution in this world first.

"Yes, if there's resurrection magic, why can't there be magic to repair corpses?"

Liu muttered to herself, but her eyes gradually brightened.

Compared to the miracle magic of resurrection, magic that merely repairs corpses is entirely possible.

"But where can I find this kind of magic? I've never heard of it before."

Rafia asked a question.

As mentioned earlier, the development of magic in this world has stagnated due to the appearance of divine grace and the rise of magic stone technology.

In this day and age, apart from a very small number of magicians, hardly anyone studies or innovates magic anymore.

(End of this chapter)