After Broly left, the headless corpse in the insect warehouse of the Matou family gathered some insects at the head position again, forming a new old man's head.
"What a dangerous kid, this kind of power cannot be possessed by normal humans, but I can't sense the magic aura on the other party. That guy should be a heroic spirit."
This is the only explanation, and Matou Zunyan just pretended to be dead after his head was blown off because he understood the gap between himself and the heroic spirit. After all, his real body is in this insect warehouse, and he is really afraid that his real body will be affected in the fight.
"It's no secret that the Matou family participated in this Holy Grail War, but who is the guy behind the attacker? Why did they take Sakura from the Matou family? Did they think that they could use the child to threaten the Matou family, or were they going to use the other party to threaten the Tosaka family?"
Matou Zunyan muttered to himself, walked out of the basement, walked in the corridor outside, and stopped abruptly at a window near the corner.
"Perhaps, this could also be the attacker sent by Toshiomi Toosaka, and the reason is that Toshiomi Toosaka discovered that the magic of the Matou family has changed from water attribute to insect attribute. Because he did not want to break the covenant with the Matou family, he used this trick to take his daughter back from the Matou family."
The old man's ghoul-like appearance was reflected on the glass window, and his sharp eyes narrowed as he talked to himself.
"No, with the character of Toshiomi Toosaka, who is obsessed with the rigid family motto of the Toshiomi family, he is not someone who would secretly betray the covenant. And with the other party's absolutely calm and competent magician style, the so-called family affection may not be enough to make that person do something that violates the principles, but this is also a matter of course. Humans are more complex emotional creatures. What if Toshiomi Toosaka..."
Speaking of this, Matou Zouken stopped.
"I am also a little confused now. I have to test this kind of thing. Why do I have to guess here when I can find out the answer by testing?"
Matou Zouken shook his head and continued to walk forward.
"Hey, Grandpa, you are at home?!"
As soon as he turned the corner,
He ran into his so-called grandson. "Ah, no, this is not the time to talk about this, Grandpa, Sakura has been kidnapped by a dangerous guy, please go and save her."
[This stupid grandson has no talent as a magician, but has the innocence and kindness of a child. I don't know what this innocence will be twisted into when he grows up and realizes that he is a waste without talent. I am looking forward to it...
huh?
I, the elder of the Matou family, actually look forward to the distortion and pain of my descendants. It seems that my soul is also a little broken. The Holy Grail, the Holy Grail, must be obtained quickly before I completely forget my existence as a magician. But before that...]
"Shinji, have you finished your homework during the holiday?"
"Uh, not yet, Grandpa, now is not the time to talk about this!"
The young Second Master was a little anxious, but he still answered his grandfather's question.
"You haven't finished your homework yet, so what nonsense are you talking to me here?"
The creepy smile on Matou Zouken's face disappeared, and he directly scolded the young Second Master.
"Go back to your room and do your holiday homework."
"But Sakura..."
"That's just your sister in law, don't bother with her affairs."
The young Second Master was aggrieved, but he didn't dare to disobey his grandfather's will, so he could only go back to his room.
. . . . .
In Fuyuki City, where the Fourth Holy Grail War has already begun, a conflict is taking place in a restaurant specializing in rice bowls.
The thing is, Broly was enjoying his pork chop rice bowl, but the rice bowl restaurant suddenly stopped serving him food.
"Why didn't you serve him food?"
"I would like to serve you food, but you two kids ordered so much food, do you really have the money to pay?"
The restaurant owner crossed his arms and questioned. The current social economy is not very good. Some time ago, someone came to his restaurant to eat and ran away. Today,
Two little kids who were not even as tall as his thighs came into the restaurant and acted arrogantly. When asked about adults, they said that adults would be here soon.
As a result, half of the food was served, and the adults mentioned by the two little kids were not seen. The restaurant owner couldn't help but suspect that they were the guys who came to his restaurant to eat for free again. Most of the remaining food was not served yet, so he came out to ask about the situation.
"Money?"
Broly was stunned, and then the interpretation of money emerged in his mind. It was a common transaction item for buying food.
Broly understood immediately. That should be the Baya blood of this world, but he didn't have such a thing, so he looked at the young Sakura.
"Excuse me, how much do we order?"
The girl asked politely.
"Including the rice bowls that haven't been served yet, you have to pay a total of..."
The restaurant owner said a number. The young Sakura took out the pocket money given by Matou Shinji and counted it carefully, and found that the coins in her hand were only enough to pay a small change.
The restaurant owner also saw the girl's embarrassment, so he added: "If you only count the things you have eaten, you only need to give me another 2,000 yen."
Young Sakura: "..."
This is the disadvantage of not going to elementary school yet. You can't even do the simplest addition and subtraction. The meal cost is obviously over budget.
Young Sakura looked at Broly, as if she wanted to seek help from this slightly older boy, but Broly looked at her innocently.
If young Sakura is still a child in a civilized society, then Broly is a pure little savage on a barren planet in the Dragon Ball world.
His father Paragas only taught him the knowledge of fighting, but not arithmetic, and he also didn't teach him the information that popped up in his mind from time to time.
Therefore, Broly is also a glutton who only orders food and eats, without calculating.
At this moment, he doesn't have the Baya blood (money) of this world, so he can't help the girl in front of him.
The intersection of their eyes and Broly's innocent eyes made the young Sakura realize one thing, that is, the little brother with a tail who saved her from the insect warehouse seemed to be a poor guy who couldn't even afford a normal meal. She could only look at the restaurant owner: "I don't have more money."
"If you are short of money, you can ask an adult to pay the bill."
The restaurant owner said.
The young Sakura was a little silent. When she left the Matou family, she thought that she could finally go back to her real home.
It was not until she followed Broly into this restaurant to eat that she suddenly remembered what her father said to her when he sent her out.
"Sakura, from today on, your last name will be changed to Matou, you will no longer be a child of the Tosaka family, and neither I nor your mother will have anything to do with you.
In the future, if you face Rin again, don't treat her as your sister. You will be fellow travelers on the path of magic, and also opponents.
If one day, you sisters have to face each other and fight, please don't feel sad, on the contrary, you should feel happy that your own magic talent has not been wasted..."
The father who has already said that he will sever ties with her, does the current family really have a place for her?
Young Sakura didn't know, but she knew that if she was found by the restaurant owner to her biological father, Tosaka Tokiomi, because she had no money to pay for the meal, it would definitely make the elegant and gentleman-like father feel ashamed and embarrassed.
"I have no home, my parents don't want me anymore."
Young Sakura said with great disappointment.
Restaurant owner: "???"
"So, you want to eat a free meal?"
His face was a little unhappy, and his tone became unfriendly.
"I can help with things to pay off the debt."
Young Sakura said quickly. Her talent for magic allowed her to receive more education, including magician's covenants and transactions.
This was also the reason why she was ignorant but did not make a fuss when she was sent to the Matou family. Generally speaking, she was a sensible child.
Her sensibility also made her want to use labor to pay for the shortfall in the meal fee, but she ignored the fact that she was too young.
"Are you kidding me? What can you do as a little kid?"
The restaurant owner obviously did not accept this proposal. He saw that the two children were not dressed like children from poor families or wandering children. He just thought that they were children who had a temper with their families, and he said that the girl should call home to ask her parents to come over.
"Reminder, Matou Sakura's happiness value is decreasing. Please pay attention to her situation."
In his mind, the reminder of the Crystal Palace emerged again, and Broly realized the girl's reluctance.
"Hey, don't embarrass her."
He said directly.
Hearing this, the restaurant owner looked over and asked, "Do you have the money to pay?"
"I don't."
Broly shook his head decisively. If he had the Baya blood of this world, he would have given it long ago.
"Then can you call home and ask your parents for money?"
the restaurant owner asked again.
"I don't know who my mother is, but my father is not in this world."
Broly shook his head again and replied.
"You have no money and can't call home to ask for money, so are you kidding me?"
It looked more and more like a free meal, which made the restaurant owner even angrier.
"Do you believe that I will call the police to arrest you two bad kids who ate without paying?"
The restaurant owner threatened, not noticing that the eyes of the children next to him were gradually becoming dangerous.
Broly did not have the Baya blood of this world, but in the past he had no concept of using Baya blood to exchange for food.
When he was younger, the way he and his father Paragas obtained food on the planet Wampa was to hunt the Wampa spiders themselves in the most primitive way.
In other words, hunting down the restaurant owner who owns the food in front of him is the simplest way for Broly to solve the problem of not having enough Baya blood to trade for food.
However, the act of obtaining food without trading may cause the ecological balance to be damaged, but before entering the restaurant with the smell, Broly saw many creatures without tails on the road.
According to the previous situation that there was no trading with Baya blood, but only relying on directly hunting Wampa spiders to obtain food, the ecological balance of Wampa Star was not destroyed. So, it should be no problem to just kill such a creature without a tail.
Besides...
Broly looked at the back kitchen with a curtain. The smell of food kept coming from that place. It seemed that as long as the food owner next to him was dealt with, the food inside would also belong to him.
The more Broly thought about it, the more excited he became. Just when he clenched his fist and was about to hunt down the restaurant owner.
"Bang~"
On the next table, there was a sound of smashing the table one step ahead.
"It's really unbearable to listen to this, boss. You are an adult after all. How can you have the nerve to embarrass two little kids?"
"No, who are you? What does this have to do with you?"
"I am Fujimura Taiga. This really has nothing to do with me, but I can't stand you, an adult, bullying two little kids like this."
The one who stood up and spoke was a girl with orange hair tied in a ponytail. She slapped the table with one hand and pointed at the restaurant owner with the other, and said this with a righteous look.
"How can this be bullying? Is asking for money also considered bullying? They don't have enough money to pay for the meal!"
The restaurant owner argued.
"Yes, these two children don't have enough money to pay for the meal, but don't they have their own difficulties? Didn't you hear it just now?"
One didn't know that his mother and father had passed away, and the other had no home. He should have been abandoned by his biological parents.
"Who knows? Children love to lie. What if this is a lie they spread and they want to default on the debt?"
The restaurant owner's face was a little unnatural.
"I didn't lie."
Broly and young Sakura immediately retorted, and the two said this almost in unison.
Fujimura Taiga nodded, she was willing to believe the two children.
"What if they didn't lie?"
She asked the restaurant owner.
"I run a restaurant, not a welfare institution. Do I deserve to lose money?"
The restaurant owner asked back. Orphans should go to the welfare institution to beg for food. What's wrong with eating for free in his restaurant?
"You shouldn't lose money, but your behavior is annoying. Isn't it okay to say it in a gentle voice? Facing children of this age, you actually said that you want the police to come and take them away."
"Didn't I want to scare them?"
The restaurant owner said a little aggrieved. In this era, it is almost impossible to put two obviously young children in jail for such a small matter as eating a free meal.
At most, the police will come and take the two children away for a lecture, and then call their parents to come and pick them up, if the two children really have parents.
"Bullet me?"
Fujimura Taiga raised his voice, stomped his shoes hard, and walked over, pointing at the restaurant owner's nose and began to lecture him.
"Do you know how much psychological harm such intimidation will bring to children? What if they become afraid of the police and no longer willing to trust the police? Can you afford such a social responsibility accident? Children are like beautiful flowers, but in this society, there are always some bad adults who want to destroy them..."
As it was approaching dinner time, people came into the restaurant from time to time. After seeing the quarrel inside, they found that this didn't seem to be a place to eat, but it seemed okay to eat melons.
As long as the guests who came into the restaurant were not in a hurry, they were all looking at the restaurant door and watching the good show happening inside.
"Alright, alright, I'm wrong, isn't that enough? I'll apologize to them, don't say anything more."
The restaurant owner saw the guests crowded at the door to watch the show. If he continued to be dragged by this extremely combative girl, his bad reputation of bullying lonely children would probably spread, and he would also be accused of having no sense of social responsibility and being a person without the demeanor of an adult. He simply admitted his defeat.
"Humph, this is your fault in the first place, you know what's best for you." Fujimura Taiga let out a long breath from his nose, like a victorious general. The restaurant owner apologized to the two children next to him for threatening them, and chose to swallow his anger and accept the meal fee that had not been served yet, with only the change in the girl's hand. "Pah~"
However, Fujimura Taiga came over and slapped two thousand yen bills in front of him.
"I'm not a bully, I'll make up for the meal fee these two children are missing."
She said so. "Okay, customer, you are so kind."
The restaurant owner changed his face from being unlucky and counting his own bad luck to being enthusiastic about the customer.
"By the way, if you had told me directly that you were willing to pay for the meal for the two children, I wouldn't have argued with you."
"Ha, don't. I feel much better now after quarreling with you."
Fujimura Taiga was recently upset because of a disagreement with his parents over hair dyeing.
He was able to express his feelings well after this quarrel.
Restaurant owner: "..."
So, you stood up to quarrel, right?
But since the other party paid the bill and didn't let me bear the loss, I won't charge for this extra emotional value.
"Welcome to visit next time!"
(End of this chapter)