dmims Chapter 507 Taking in Shizuka : A Solution to Transferring the Disaster
Chapter 507 Taking in Shizuka : A Solution to Transferring the Disaster
Chapter 507 Taking in Shizuka Nanahoshi: A Solution to Transferring the Disaster
"A majestic armor of earth surrounds me, Earth Fortress!"
As the incantation ended, and Lokishi's staff struck the ground, four earthen walls rose up from the earth.
"Although the house is made of mud, it can still provide shelter from the wind and rain. As long as there are no continuous days of heavy rain that soften the soil, there is no problem with its safety."
Some refugees who had been relocated not too far away and have now been found, but who had nowhere to stay, were placed in the earthen fort.
There are many houses like this, and in addition to Loki helping with the construction, Sylphie and Rudeus are also helping.
The territory of Fituia is recovering, and although Broly will be rewinding time in a dozen days, it will not stop the people who are still alive in this loop from starting to rebuild their homes.
"Brother Broly..."
That day, Rudius came looking for him.
"What's wrong?"
Broly, who had just purchased some grain from unaffected areas and transported it to the territory of Fituia, looked at the boy who had come looking for him and asked.
"It's about that time-traveling girl."
Rudius said.
"What happened to that person?"
"She's not really in a bad mood, she's just a little unsure how to arrange things for the other person."
"Just give them a makeshift house made of earth magic, like refugees, and that'll be fine, right?"
Broly looked at Rudius with some surprise.
"But the other party doesn't understand the language or the local writing system, so she can't understand what others are saying at all."
"You can communicate normally with the other person, so you just need to take care of them."
Broly said matter-of-factly.
"I'd be happy to, but..."
Rudeus couldn't very well say that he had fantasized about the wonderful future that might exist between him and that beautiful girl, who was also a transmigrator, and that he had made some lewd expressions that were seen by the girl from another world, which was why she was now so wary of him.
"I also have things to do, such as providing clean water to the refugee camp every day and helping Teacher Luo Qixi build earthen castles."
More importantly, I live with my family and am still young. I can't very well tell my parents that this is someone from my hometown in a past life, and now that she has nowhere to go, I'm going to take care of her.
"so what?"
"So I thought, why don't you ask Brother Broly to help take in my fellow countrywoman? Anyway, she can understand what you're saying, and you also have Miss Lilia and the others at home. I think it shouldn't be a problem to help take care of a girl from another world who is unfamiliar with her place."
"Rudius".
"Brother Broly, please speak."
"First of all, my house is not a nursery. When you were in your twentieth or so playthrough, you entrusted Miss Lilia, who was pregnant, to my house, and that was that.
After all, Loki and I both quite like Aisha, but why do we need to entrust another person from our past life to her now?
"Ah, yes, I'm sorry..."
Rudeus, realizing what had happened, quickly apologized, but Broly was just too reliable. So reliable that whenever he encountered a problem he couldn't solve, he could easily get a solution by asking Broly for help.
Therefore, when faced with a difficult problem, Rudeus instinctively thought of Broly, the Saiyan elder brother he had known since birth and who knew the secret of his reincarnation.
Broly's words made Rudius suddenly realize that the kindness others showed him was not something to be taken for granted.
"Then, I'll think of another way."
The boy then prepared to leave.
"This is the last time. If there are any more troublesome things like taking care of people in the future, please do it yourself."
"Brother Broly~"
Rudius was touched and turned around to rush over and hug his older brother, but Broly raised his foot and pressed it against his chest.
"Stop talking nonsense to me and go help Loki and Shilufi with their work."
"Okay, received."
Rudius stood at attention, saluted, and walked toward the camp before turning back.
"Then I'll bring the person over tonight and hand them over to you?"
"It's up to you."
That evening, Rudeus was followed by a girl with long, straight black hair. The bandage on her head had been removed, and she had changed from her previous hospital gown into women's clothing that was more common in this world.
"Hey, Seven Stars, this is Broly, the older brother who's willing to take you in."
Hearing the boy's words, the girl looked at Broly with some wariness.
"Don't worry, unlike me, this slightly awful guy, Broly is already married, so he definitely won't have any bad intentions towards you."
The girl with long, straight black hair remained silent for a while before thanking Rudeus.
"Well then, Brother Broly, she's in your care."
"Um."
Broly nodded.
"Seven Stars, I'll come visit you when I have time later."
Rudius left after he finished speaking.
"My name is Broly. Did Rudius tell you that?"
"He said that, and he also said that you are a Saiyan from the Dragon Ball world."
The girl nodded.
"What's your name?"
"Shizuka Nanahoshi".
The girl with long, straight black hair said her name.
"Because of Rudius's request, I will take care of you for a while. I will have someone arrange a single room for you and provide you with three meals a day. All you have to do is adapt. Well, whatever, live however you want. Anyway, it won't be long before time in this world will go back to normal."
"Excuse me, what does this mean?"
"You don't need to know that, Miss Lilia. Prepare a room for her."
Broly's house was built on the same day. Compared to the mud houses built with earthen castle magic, his house also had a magic spell to turn mud into stone, and beds and furniture were purchased from other places. It was much better than the temporary shelters for refugees.
Shizuka Nanahoshi had many questions, but at least she had changed from sleeping on haystacks to sleeping on a wooden plank bed, and it was a wooden plank bed with bedding.
"Is there anything you need me to do?"
The next day, when Shizuka Nanahoshi was woken up for breakfast, she asked the Saiyan boy across from her directly.
Four days have passed since she arrived in this world. She has made up her mind that, putting everything else aside, the most important thing now is to survive in this strange new world.
"What can you do?"
Upon hearing this, Broly countered with a question.
"I did well in home economics class. I can do things like washing vegetables, cooking, cleaning, and doing housework."
Shizuka Nanahoshi answered.
Of course, she also knew some other things, but she didn't know if they were useful, so she didn't mention them.
"That's fine. You can work alongside Miss Lilia and learn the language and writing of this world while you're at it."
Two more weeks passed, and just as Shizuka Nanahoshi was already able to speak simple otherworldly language, Broly began his 40th time travel.
The events before 416 of the Ankylion calendar in the 41st playthrough don't need much elaboration; let's mainly talk about some things that changed.
First, Broly found Rigel and told him about the curse of the magic spear that he hadn't mentioned in the previous playthrough. Next, he met Chishilica, the Demon Emperor who had given him the Demon Eye in the previous playthrough, so he naturally kept his promise and took care of her meals.
Shortly after the Demon Emperor was resurrected, Broly found him and took him home. Although Chihirika did not understand Broly's explanation of time reversal, she was very pleased that there was a loyal subject like Broly waiting for her resurrection in this world. Overjoyed, she gave Broly the promise of further rewards.
In response, Broly once again chose the Eye of Foresight, but not for himself, but for Sauros. He then summoned the gods and humans, allowing Ellis's grandfather, the de facto ruler of the territory of Fituia, to see the transfer of the disaster.
Unsurprisingly, in July 417, the Fituia Territory began a strategy of completely relocating its population out of the territory, citing an impending magical calamity that could engulf the entire territory.
Many people had reservations about this, but due to Lord Sauros's insistence, the people of the territory temporarily evacuated to the surrounding territories for refuge.
"Boom!"
The day after Rudeus's birthday, the Fitoa Territory was once again hit by a disaster in the 41st cycle. This time, thanks to timely evacuation, almost no one in the Fitoa Territory was affected.
At the very center of the disaster, the otherworldly plant-dwelling girl, Shizuka Nanahoshi, arrives again, and Broly takes her in once more.
Just when Broly thought this cycle would pass uneventfully, bad news from elsewhere reached them.
While the disaster transfer did not cause significant damage to the Fituia territory, widespread destruction occurred in other areas caused by the suddenly transferred monsters.
The source of this news was that Hilfi heard it from Princess Ariel. The little girl remembered that Ariel had been in danger last week, and on the day the disaster occurred, she asked Broly to go to Ars.
After rescuing the other party, they were warmly invited to be guests in the palace.
But half a month later, he learned from the second princess that the disaster had spread throughout the Kingdom of Asura.
In response, the nobles whose territories suffered losses united to prepare to cause trouble for the Bereas family. After all, the Bereas family had not suffered much loss due to the early relocation of their population, but some others had suffered significant losses because of the disaster.
Broly was speechless when he heard the news. While Sauros Boreas and the other nobles were arguing, he performed his 41st time rewind.
In the 42nd playthrough, in September of Ankylion Year 417, after Broly relocated people to the territory of Fituia for refuge, he took special action to kill or drive away the monsters existing in the territory of Fituia.
Just when he thought there would be no problem this time, the monster invasion of towns caused by the disaster in the 41st playthrough did not occur, but a lot of rocks and trees fell from the sky in towns and cities. A large number of houses were destroyed and many people were killed by the falling rocks and trees. After investigation, it was found that these rocks and trees were moved from the territory of Fituia.
Why is this happening?
Broly was completely baffled, so he gathered a group of people to discuss the possibility of relocating the disaster victims.
Then, a speculative conclusion was reached.
The way the six-sided world balances its internal situation is that transferring disasters is merely a symptom.
However, causing casualties during the disaster relocation might be the outcome that the Six-Faced World itself desires.
Rudius used computers and data as an analogy, talking about things like transmitting new data and deleting old data, and how the data from the Fituia territory was lost, so the Six-Sided World had to find the missing data from another place.
To verify the correctness of this speculative conclusion, Broly spent two more cycles, controlling variables in the two Ankylion calendar year 417 to examine the results of the two disasters.
And the result was that Rudeus's speculation in the 42nd cycle was correct. The purpose of the disaster was not to transfer it, but to create more deaths. By killing a large number of people, the space was cleared to accommodate the fate of the girl from another world in this world.
Once the problem is discovered, the most important thing is how to solve it. In the 45th playthrough, Broly plans to rely on his powerful strength and the ability to transfer disasters, or rather, to challenge the balance rules of the six worlds.
After the people of the Fituia Territory were relocated to seek refuge there, he did not drive away the monsters that existed in the Fituia Territory. Instead, after another monster relocation disaster occurred, he spread his aura perception and patrolled the entire six-sided world at his terrifying speed. Most of the monsters that were transferred into the towns were punished by an energy beam that fell from the sky and had their heads smashed before they could even begin to destroy the towns.
"As expected of Broly, he easily accomplished what normal people can't!"
Three days later, after learning that Broly had transformed into a human cruiser and single-handedly killed most of the monsters that had moved into the town, Rudeus began to fawn over him.
However, Rudius took the picture a little too early. Just half a month later, after the original population of the Fetoa Territory had migrated back, a new migration disaster occurred without warning over the Fetoa Territory.
After three more playthroughs, Broly tried three more methods to avoid the disastrous consequences of transferring the disaster, only to find that no matter what, many people would die.
"The destiny that Shizuka Nanahoshi gained upon entering the Six-Sided World is the same as the destiny of intelligent life. Therefore, it is not possible to use monsters to replace the lives that need to be sacrificed for this disaster transfer. Only humans or other intelligent life of other races can do it."
The transfer of disaster is a sacrifice to maintain the balance within the six-sided world. The condition for this sacrifice to be completed is that someone must die. Even Broly cannot reverse the basic logic of the world's operation without destroying the world itself.
The good news is that the six-sided world has no subjective consciousness; it simply operates according to the basic logical rules established after the world was created.
The world only needs to meet the number of lives sacrificed to transfer disasters; it doesn't care which intelligent life forms are sacrificed.
In other words, Broly could actively choose some sacrifices to cause some people to die in the transfer disaster that occurred in Ankylion year 417, thereby reducing the impact of the transfer disaster on others.
As for who to choose, there really are some: those guys who should have been taken care of by Alsterd before the new playthrough started.
"Gentlemen, your day of death has come. You should have been killed in the past, but I have allowed you to live until now. Now, it is time for you to realize the value of your lives..."
Of the 3,224 people who should have been killed, more than 200 died while they were imprisoned for many years. The remaining 3,000 or so people were fortunate enough to become sacrifices in this disaster, and the luckiest ones even lived for more than ten years.
Thieves, slave traders, and cruel nobles—people of all kinds—looked at the boy floating in the air speaking these words. Some cursed him angrily, while others had empty eyes filled with despair. But none of this affected the transfer of the disaster.
These people were moved away, some fell from the sky and were smashed into pieces, some fell into a pile of monsters and became monster food, some fell into volcanoes and were directly cremated, and some fell into the water, but because their hands and feet were tied with ropes, they desperately experienced the feeling of drowning.
Of course, there were also some lucky ones, such as Darius, who fell into the town and was rescued by passersby and survived.
"You lowly commoner, hand over all your money."
Just as this filthy, fat man grabbed the neck of the passerby who had helped him, intending to repay kindness with enmity and rob him of some money to pay for his journey back to the Kingdom of Asura from the Kingdom of Wanglong, a streak of light descended from the sky and instantly vaporized him on the spot.
To prevent similar incidents of monster transfer disasters from occurring, after the offerings of more than 3,000 people were transferred, Broly made a special trip to kill the lucky survivors, thus avoiding the possibility of a transfer disaster involving evil people.
"Since the scale of the disaster has decreased, we should increase the number of offerings."
In the 49th playthrough, an effective method to reduce the disaster of relocation was identified, but unfortunately, there weren't enough people to serve as relocation sacrifices.
However, it's okay. Three-legged toads may be hard to find in this world, but there are quite a few two-legged villains.
. . . .
On the 50th playthrough, Broly takes the enthusiastic Alice to become a chivalrous swordsman. While doing chivalrous deeds, he also takes the guys who should have been killed back to the large prison in Roya City and imprisons them. Before the transfer event in the 417th year of the Ankylion Calendar in this playthrough, he has gathered a total of 5,000 people.
After more than 5,000 people were sacrificed, the disaster that occurred in the 417th year of the Kakuryō calendar had no further problems.
. . . .
[March 7, 418. It's been almost half a year since I came to this other world. I've adapted to life here and learned some of its writing and language, but I still miss my family from my old world...]
On April 2, 418, I asked Miss Loki if there was a way for me to return to my original world, and I received a possible answer, which made me very happy.
But after I pressed for details, I was told that anti-summoning magic like this requires research, and she didn't know the nature of the magic that transported me here, so she couldn't help me with it.
On April 3rd, I asked Miss Loki to take me as her apprentice and teach me magic, only to be told that as someone from another world, I had no magical talent. This was a huge blow to me.
[April 10th. This whole week I've been thinking about how to ask Miss Lokishi for help in researching magic that would allow me to travel back in time. But that's unreasonable. Miss Lokishi's family and I are not related. They only took me in because I'm also a time traveler, but a reincarnated one. Asking for more seems a bit excessive...]
On April 11th, I went to see that fellow countryman who was the reincarnation of Rudeus, hoping he could help me with the journey back in time, since we came from the same world. But he gave me a lewd smile, and I ran away in fright.
On April 12th, the other party came to apologize to me and pointed me in the right direction...
"I don't know about others, but Brother Broly might be able to give you magic power, thus granting you the ability to research anti-summoning magic on your own."
[Broly, I know him, a very easy-going Saiyan, but I haven't had much interaction with him. I only know that Miss Lokishi, Alice, and Sylphie are all his wives...]
(End of this chapter)