Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 773 The Informer

"At that time, Kashima and I were having dinner at the Fengniao Restaurant when we ran into members of the Apollo Familia. Kashima simply said that I might be able to level up to Lv.3 soon, and I don't know what offended those people, but they said some strange things about us bragging."

Of course, they said it was okay for me, but they still mentioned Broly, mocking you as a gigolo who lives off women, saying that you were only able to get into the Deep Zone because of your connection with Miss Ais, and that you were only able to follow in the footsteps of the Loki Familia.

Kashima and I were furious, so we argued with those people, and it eventually escalated into a fight in that restaurant/bar.

"Never fought before?"

"The two of us defeated four of them, but we were defeated by the Lv.3 leader of the Apollo Familia. I'm sorry, Broly, I've disgraced you."

Bell, with a bandage on his right cheek, lowered his head, feeling ashamed that he had failed to defeat his opponent who was of a higher level.

“Bell, you don’t need to do that. Two against four, being able to beat four opponents of the same level is already a remarkable achievement. Not everyone can be like Broly, defeating opponents of a higher level as easily as eating and drinking.”

Hestia comforted the white-haired boy who had apologized.

"Lily, do you know where the Apollo Familia is located?"

Broly then asked the dwarf girl for her question.

"Ah, I know, but what are you planning to do, Brother Broly?"

"Is that even a question? Since the opposing captain attacked Bell for the sake of his own clan members, I, as a fellow captain, naturally have to fight back for Bell."

Broly stated matter-of-factly that even if the fight had been started by the Apollo Familia, he would still side with his own people regardless of the truth.

"Do you need me to come help beat them up?"

Tiona raised her hand and asked.

Of course, she didn't think Broly needed her help to beat someone up.

Rather, Bell knew many heroic tales and had often shared them with her, so he was considered her good friend.

If a good friend gets beaten up, of course you'll help them get revenge; that's the heartfelt sentiment.

"Okay, let's go over there together and beat those bastards up."

Just as Broly returned to Orario and was preparing to lead his men to the Apollo Familia's base to give the group that had attacked Bell a good beating,

"Ding dong~"

The magic stone doorbell of the Hearth Hall was rung.

The door opened, and there stood two girls, one with red hair and the other with blue hair.

Judging from the sun pattern on their uniforms, they are clearly members of the Apollo clan.

"Two members of the Apollo Familia, what brings you here?"

Lily Luca, who came out to open the door, looked at the two people outside with a somewhat unfriendly gaze.

"We are here on behalf of Lord Apollo to send an invitation to Lord Hestia's banquet."

Daphne offered to explain.

Her plan to delay her own god and scheme against the other children of her clan did not succeed.

The reason is quite simple...

"If the leader of the Hestia Familia were truly capable, then at the last Council of Gods, it wouldn't have been just that adorable child Bell who received the title."

The Council of Gods only grants titles to children who have reached Lv.2. Broly is a special case, currently at Lv.1, so he cannot have a title. And those without titles are naturally not taken seriously.

Furthermore, after Broly and the Loki Familia returned from their expedition, the Hestia Familia adopted a secretive approach of quietly amassing wealth, which directly led to his reputation being tarnished as a freeloader.

"However, since you two are so worried, I might as well send you to spy on the Hestia Familia."

Apollo then left the task of inviting Hestia to his family's banquet to Daphne and Cassandra.

"An invitation? Is it to apologize for the fight?"

Hestia took the gold-embossed invitation, frowned, and asked.

"Lord Apollo did send out invitations for a fight, but he didn't explain the specifics to us."

Daphne glanced at Broly's tail wrapped around his waist, but didn't say anything more about what she already knew.

"Although Apollo is an annoying guy, what if they're actually trying to apologize to us?"

Hestia brought up this possibility, and the sudden invitation from the Apollo Familia interrupted Broly's original plan to directly lead his men to beat them up.

. . . .

"Cassandra, the leader of the Hestia Familia, is she the green ape in your precognitive dream?"

After leaving the Hearth House, Daphne immediately asked the blue-haired girl beside her.

"I don't know, but there is definitely a dangerous feeling about him."

"Hey, I don't feel anything?"

"This is a premonition that the dream gave me, a feeling that I might die if I met him."

Cassandra answered.

"Ah, I knew it. The fate that has been foretold cannot be changed. We will all perish sooner or later."

Apollo's attitude instilled pessimism in the young girl, and she was now shrouded in a low mood.

"Even if we run into a tough opponent, only Lord Apollo will suffer. What does it have to do with us?"

As a member forced to join the Apollo Familia, Daphne had no loyalty to her own family.

Of course, since the treatment in Apollo's Familia was better than in her previous Familia, the chief god Apollo gave her enough money to buy all kinds of high-level equipment, which made her have some complicated feelings towards Apollo, the chief god.

However, hatred certainly outweighs gratitude.

After all, forced relationships are never sweet.

She would actually be happy to see Apollo's family suffer misfortune.

"Daphne, it's not that simple. In my precognitive dream, not only the sun is going to be in trouble, but we are too."

When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. We are members of the Apollo clan, so we will definitely suffer together.

All I want right now is to get as much sleep as possible before things go wrong, or even I die.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't have the chance again...

Daphne was speechless at her friend's pessimistic attitude.

"Cassandra, are you sure we'll all suffer together if this continues?"

“My precognitive dreams are never unfounded. Sometimes they just happen because I interpret them incorrectly. But this time, I don’t think I’ve misinterpreted them. If this continues, I’m definitely going to be in trouble.”

"Since that's the case..."

Daphne grabbed Cassandra's hand and, under her friend's questioning gaze, pulled her back towards the Hestia Familia's encampment.

"Why don't we go and inform on them? Let the Hestia Familia know Lord Apollo's true purpose, and tell them that we are not with Lord Apollo. When they make things difficult for Lord Apollo, they shouldn't take it out on us."

“Ah, Daphne, you believe my prophecy?” Cassandra stared at her, her eyes wide.

"No, that's not it. I just don't want to become Lord Apollo's accomplice."

. . . . .

"Why are you back again?"

The magic stone doorbell rang again, and this time Broly opened the door. He looked at the two girls from the Apollo Familia who had returned and couldn't help but ask them a question.

"We want to tell you the purpose of Lord Apollo's invitation to Lord Hestia, and the reason why he caused a conflict between people and the Bel boy from your Familia."

Daphne got straight to the point.

"Hey, isn't this just a fight that's just looking for trouble?"

Broly looked at Daphne with a puzzled expression.

"Obviously not. Aren't you going to invite us in to talk?"

Daphne asked.

"Uh, please."

Broly stepped aside.

Daphne pulled Cassandra into the Hearth, and after seeing Fiora, Great Slash, and Thousand Spirits inside, she unconsciously tightened her grip on Cassandra's hand behind her.

Originally, Daphne simply didn't want to become Lord Apollo's accomplice, but now that she saw the Loki Familia actually being guests here, she suddenly felt more confident.

Facing the scrutinizing gazes of the crowd, Daphne immediately began to explain how her deity would use various means to force her to take a child and join her family.

Bell initially thought his fight with the Apollo Familia was a sudden and unexpected event, but after hearing Daphne's account, he was shocked and realized that he had been targeted by a male god with unusual sexual orientation.

“Bell is indeed a very pure-hearted child. If it were Apollo, he could very well have done something like this.”

Hestia wasn't too surprised after hearing this.

"At tomorrow's banquet, Lord Apollo will invite many gods. He will then call out our injured people and demand an explanation from you, Lord Hestia."

"But if we don't give it up, we'll force your clan, Lady Hestia, to engage in a 'War Game' with our clan, and through that 'War Game,' they'll try to seize the child that rightfully belongs to you, Lady Hestia."

"Um, may I ask, what is a 'war game'?"

Concerned about his own chastity, Bell quickly raised his hand to ask.

"This is a method used to resolve conflicts when they occur among the Orario clans."

Establish rules and hold a competition to abide by those rules.

It is only because most of the competitions involve physical combat that they are called wars.

The winner receives the wager agreed upon by the losers before the war game even began.

It's a form of controllable warfare, which is why the game is called that later.

Rafia helped explain.

"However, this kind of war game can only be played if both sides agree, right? What if one side doesn't agree?"

"The elven girl asked."

"I don't know about others, but Lord Apollo would have people use underhanded tactics, such as constantly harassing the children he has his eye on, or the small clans to which they originally belonged."

Until the harassed minor clans could no longer endure it and either initiated a war game, or directly surrendered and handed over the child favored by Lord Apollo, or the favored child was willing to sacrifice themselves for their original clan.

"May I ask, as members of the Apollo Familia, why are you telling us these things?"

"Because we were also forced to join the Apollo Familia in the same way, we do not want to become accomplices in Lord Apollo's coercion of others to join."

Daphne answered decisively, without mentioning Cassandra's prophetic dream at all.

Of course, the prophetic dream was merely the trigger that led her to betray him.

The fact that Ais and the others appeared in the Hearth Hall was what made her so determined to say those words.

As the saying goes, a wise man knows when to yield; instead of figuring out the truth, he should quickly surrender and become a collaborator.

Are you suggesting that you should live and die with the clan that used underhanded means to force you to join them?

“Very well, I will help you get rid of this. Now lead the way for me, and I will help you deal with the god who is persecuting you.”

Broly was already annoyed by being harassed by the Amazons of the Kali Familia, but he didn't expect that after returning to Orario, someone would still deliberately point a gun at him.

"Calm down, Broly. If you just go and smash the Apollo Familia, it will damage the reputation of other Familias. I have a better solution than to start a fight directly."

Hestia persuaded the Saiyan boy to stop.

"any solution?"

"That Apollo guy wants to play war games with us, so let's play with him."

Hestia straightened her chest, revealing a confident demeanor.

War games are essentially gambling games; only weak clans, lacking sufficient resources, fear war games.

But for powerful clans, the only consideration is how to get their opponents to agree to a bet and bet more chips.

Clearly, Apollo's understanding of her family's strength might be somewhat inaccurate, as he placed himself in the position of a powerful family.

In this situation, instead of letting Broly go and cause trouble, it would be better to lure that fool Apollo into it and let that narcissistic guy lose everything.

Daphne's betrayal of Cassandra gave Hestia time to prepare. Just as Hestia and her group were finalizing a plan to turn the tables on the Apollo Familia, the Freya Familia...

"Hey, Helen, what do you think of me wearing this dress to the banquet hosted by Apollo tomorrow?"

The goddess Freya, however, was in her enormous goddess wardrobe, choosing a dress for the banquet she would attend the next day.

"Lady Freya, your beauty is undeniable; you are charming no matter what you wear."

Helen was already holding two dresses in her hands, but she gave her answer seriously.

"I know that, of course, but different clothes give different first impressions. What kind of clothes do you think Broly would like me to wear?"

A scholar will die for one who understands him, and a woman will adorn herself for one who appreciates her. Helen sighed as she watched her goddess suffer from the indecisiveness of a young girl facing her first date, unsure of what to wear.

"If it's about first impressions, I think a dress in a solid color would be better."

Helen, who also plays Seele and interacts with Saiyans, offered her advice.

"A solid color is a good suggestion, so let's go with this pure white dress."

Freya, who knew what had happened at the Hearth House through the amulet, had her personal maid change her into a white evening gown.

Standing before the full-length mirror, she was filled with anticipation for tomorrow's Apollo Family banquet: "Helen, do you think Broly will look infatuated when he sees me like this?"

"Lady Freya, any man, uh, any normal man, will definitely be drawn to you when he sees you."

(End of this chapter)