Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 780 Questioning Apollo's Understanding of Apollo and Becoming Apollo

Just as Broly and the others were meeting with Haruhime, a guest also arrived at the top floor of the Ishtar Familia.

Hermes, the chief god of the Soma Familia who had previously provided Broly with some information about the Soma Familia, was being entertained as a guest by the god Ishtar.

This womanizing intelligence whiz delivered a special item to the Night Queen of the Pleasure District, but was asking Ishtar what he planned to do with the item called "Killing Stone," which he had helped transport.

"Have you seen what's inside?"

"I just happened to glance at it. Don't look so scary. I promise I won't tell anyone."

"Alright, soon I'll show you something interesting that will make that self-proclaimed queen kneel before me in submission."

"A goddess's jealousy is truly terrifying~"

The intelligence expert on the sofa sighed and said something.

"Hermes, don't you have any information that might interest me, like that woman's weakness or something?"

"If I knew, I would have told you long ago. I wouldn't dare lie in front of the Goddess of Beauty."

"So how much do you know about that child from the Hestia family?"

"Uh, which one did you mean?"

The topic shifted so quickly that Hermes was caught off guard.

"The one who participated in the war game a few days ago."

"Uh, the other party has asked my child to do some things before. I know that person a little. I just don't know why you suddenly brought him up. Do you also have an interest in that child, like Apollo?"

Hermes was somewhat puzzled, his eyes revealing an ambiguous look, and he tentatively asked the question.

"I've only heard that the Freya Familia has been taking good care of that child from the Hestia Familia lately, so I've become a little interested. Hermes, tell me honestly, has Freya become interested in that child?"

Ishtar approached, pressing the male god on the sofa for answers. Just as the saying goes, "Those who understand you are always your enemies." Ishtar, who regarded Freya as a great enemy, had obviously discovered some clues from the actions of Freya's Familia.

"I'm not really sure about this..."

The swaying goddess-like peaks before him made Hermes swallow hard.

"However, given Freya's personality, this possibility cannot be ruled out. If you need, I can help you investigate."

"That would be the best thing."

"Wait, what are you going to do?"

Hermes exclaimed as the silk scarf fell.

"Of course, this is an advance payment as a token of my gratitude."

Ishtar said matter-of-factly.

"No, no need to be so polite. If possible, I'd like you to pay with fari..."

Hermes' resistance was futile, and the lights on the top floor quickly dimmed, from which came the somewhat unusable voice of the god.

Queen Ishtar of the Night, a goddess who controls sexual desire, can truly drain a person dry. Even some charming male gods find it hard to resist her allure.

. . . .

"However, if you really want me to tell you the truth, then it's not impossible."

Inside the room, Aisha abruptly changed the subject.

"But you have to answer me first: to what extent are you willing to do this for your friend, Chunji?"

she says.

"What do you mean?"

Broly was somewhat puzzled by her change in attitude.

"So, are you just willing to spend money to help your friend, or are you willing to wage a full-scale war against our Ishtar Familia for your friend's sake?"

Aisha didn't beat around the bush and asked directly and clearly, knowing that Haruhime was being used by her own god as a trump card against Freya's Familia.

Given the chance, the main god will decisively sacrifice this fox-girl, turning her into multiple one-time items for temporary level-ups.

To be honest, Aisha couldn't bear to see her little fox-woman sister, whom she had taken care of since childhood, sacrificed and turned into a cold tool, but she was powerless to stop it from happening.

Once, she tried to stop it by pretending to accidentally break the "Killing Stone," a key sacrificial item prepared by Lord Ishtar. As a result, she was severely tortured by that guy Frini and then dragged to bed by Lord Ishtar to be seduced. She was almost completely ruined.

Now, Haruhime's former friends have come looking for her. Of course, if it were just Yamato and Hitachi Chigusa who came looking for her, Aisha would never have had this conversation. But behind these two is Broly.

The Saiyan boy's strength displayed in the War Games, while not revealing his exact limits due to the relatively weak opponents, is definitely at least Level 5. Furthermore, the boy is rumored to have a good relationship with the Sword Maiden of the Loki Familia, and Loki himself even teamed up with Hestia during the Apollo Familia incident, winning a big hand at the Golden Casino…

The boy's strength, combined with his connections to a top-tier clan, gave Aisha the idea that he could save Haruhime. However, she still needed to consider just how far the boy was willing to go for his friend.

If the other party is not prepared to go to war with their Ishtar Familia, then there's no need to talk about Haruhime.

After all, giving hope to the desperate only plunges them back into despair, which only brings them greater suffering. It is better to accept one's fate from the beginning and be sacrificed.

"All-out war? Miss Aisha, do you mean that if I want to redeem this Haruhime, I have to fight against your Ishtar Familia?"

Broly asked curiously.

"There may not be a war, but you have to be prepared for it, because it's very difficult to redeem Chunji through peaceful means other than war."

Aisha corrected her.

"Then, Miss Chunji, would you be willing to let me redeem you from your servitude?"

Broly asked the fox-girl.

"Ah, this..."

Upon hearing this, the fox-girl hesitated for a moment. She first looked at Aisha beside her, then at Ming and Chigusa opposite her, and finally at Broly.

"Sir, this is our first meeting. May I ask why you are willing to redeem a stranger like me?"
"Well, if you only want to redeem me out of loyalty to your friends, then I must refuse your kindness in the same spirit."

Haruhime, who also knew what fate awaited her, did not want to involve her childhood friend's friend in her affairs, even if the friend wanted to redeem her and save her from the tragic fate of being sacrificed.

Sanjou Haruhime is not a selfish fox-girl; if others consider her, she will consider others in return.

"Uh, redeeming you wasn't entirely out of loyalty to my friends, Haruhime. I wonder if you believe in fateful encounters in this world?" "Eh?!"

"The moment I saw you, I knew you were one of the people I wanted to meet in this world. Part of my reason for redeeming you was to save their lives, but another part was because of my own desire to meet you."

Broly was telling the truth.

Upon hearing this, the women in the room looked at him with some surprise.

The innocent fox-girl's face turned completely red, like an apple.

As a child, I read heroic tales and, knowing that I would be sacrificed in the future, I always hoped that a hero would descend from the sky to save me. I never expected that it would actually happen in reality.

"Of course, redemption is redemption, and an encounter is an encounter. Even if you don't want to have an encounter with me, I don't mind helping you redeem yourself."

The fox-girl's tail swayed from side to side, and neither her face nor the Crystal Palace panel showed any sign that she didn't want to encounter this.

Indeed, after Broly asked the girl again if she was willing to be redeemed by him, Haruhime immediately knelt down.

“I am already a withered flower, but if you do not mind, sir, I am willing to be redeemed by you and serve you as your servant, to make your bed and warm your quilt, and to be your personal maid.”

The fox-girl made her stance clear, her attitude of never forgetting kindness was evident in her words.

“Miss Aisha…”

Broly looked at the Amazonian woman beside her.

"Since you are prepared to wage a full-scale war against our clan, then..."

Aisha took a deep breath and explained in detail how her main god wanted to sacrifice the fox-woman girl.

Haruhime Sanjou possesses a magical spell called "Treasure Hammer," which temporarily boosts the level of the person granted the spell, significantly enhancing their overall abilities. However, given Haruhime's abilities, this spell can only be used on one person at a time.

In order to enable this magic to comprehensively and temporarily enhance the strength of the entire clan, Ishtar found a very special item—the Killing Stone.

Similar to the Killing Stone in the Ga-Rei world, it is related to the soul. However, the Killing Stone in this world is used to seal Haruhime's soul after sacrificing her with a weapon made from it on the night of the full moon, in order to extract the magic of the Magic Hammer.

Then, by shattering the Sessho-seki (Killing Stone), this magic, which could only be cast on a single target, was transformed into a magic that could be used on a group. The price was the loss of Haruhime's life, including her soul.

【Hey, there's something else going on with me... wait, that bitch Ishtar, she actually dared to plot against me behind my back!】

Through the amulet, another goddess secretly watched the Saiyan boy from her soft bed late at night, raising her beautiful eyebrows.

Yamato no Mikoto and Hitachi Chigusa were shocked and furious: "What exactly does God Ishtar think of people, especially Lady Haruhime's life?!"

"A consumable tool for pleasing oneself and achieving one's own purpose—this is how most overly self-centered gods view their children."

Aisha chuckled softly and revealed the rather cruel truth: the gods who were once high above in the heavens could empathize with mortal children on earth. She did not deny that such gods existed, but clearly, her Lord Ishtar was not among them. Sometimes, he would even steal the men that their children found to provide for his own amusement.

"Miss Aisha, you are a member of the Ishtar Familia, aren't you? Aren't you afraid of being punished by your family's chief god for telling us these things?"

"I'm scared, of course I'm scared, but your answer just now makes me choose to tell you the truth, because you are the chance for Chunji to be saved."

Aisha replied.

"Rest assured, we will absolutely not reveal this matter."

Yamato immediately made a guarantee.

"It's no use. Whether you reveal it or not, once you take Chun Ji away, Lord Ishtar will find out sooner or later that I brought you here to find Chun Ji."

"Oh, then I'll leave. What will you do, Sister Aisha?"

Chunji looked at Aisha with some concern.

"Don't worry, after you leave with them, I'll pack my things and run away too. I won't be so stupid as to stay here and get punished by Lord Ishtar."

Aisha rubbed the fox-girl's head. She had helped this little sister once, almost dying in the process. The chief god Ishtar had also said that if there was a next time, she would definitely be doomed. But she had legs, so she could run away.

Although I don't know where to go, the world is so big, surely there must be a place for me.
"Uh, so, Miss Aisha, you mean we should sneak away with Haruhime?"

"Yes, it's impossible to go through the path of redemption. Only if you secretly take Chun Ji away, hide her in your Familia's territory, and then contact the Loki Familia and ask them for help, even my chief god will be wary of your strength and connections as long as there is no concrete evidence."

With war imminent with the Freya Familia, they probably wouldn't dare involve the Loki Familia as well. By the way, we attacked the Loki Familia at the harbor last time; you can take that to them.

"Well, actually, the Loki Familia knew about it a long time ago, they just didn't capture you back then."

"Ha, you're right. With that fat guy, Frini, it would be strange if she didn't expose herself."

Aisha laughed.

Just as Chunji was worried about her situation and refused to run away with others alone.

Broly raised his hand: "By the way, why did you sneak around and take Haruhime away?"

Was I not clear enough just now?

Aisha looked over with some confusion.

"No, you've made it very clear. What I mean is, since there's no way to redeem Haruhime through normal means, why don't I just declare war on your Ishtar Familia? Just like the Apollo Familia wanted to take away my Belial, I'll have a war game with your Familia and just take Haruhime directly, won't that solve the problem?"

"Well, first of all, war games require the consent of both parties."

Aisha reminded her.

"I know."

Broly nodded.

"But I know even better how the Apollo Familia tried to take advantage of our Hestia Familia."

"Hey, Broly, what do you mean?"

"Tomorrow, I'll have my Bell come over here as a customer to do business with Miss Haruhime. After that, Miss Haruhime, you can beat my Bell up again. Then, I'll use the excuse that my Bell was seriously injured to come to your Ishtar Familia and demand an explanation..."

Broly revealed his perfect redemption plan, and after listening, Aisha, Yamato, and Hitachi Chigusa had only one thought in their minds: This really works?
Broly, on the other hand, is a unique rider on the path of questioning Apollo, understanding Apollo, and becoming Apollo.

He's a Saiyan who silently learns his opponent's skills and then transforms them into his own. Although it's a trick to cheat, it just so happens to come in handy now.

Whether the methods are dirty or not depends mainly on the person using them and the purpose they want to achieve, not on the methods themselves.

(End of this chapter)