pertwk Chapter 11 The Truth of Barbecue Education
Chapter 11 The Truth of Barbecue Education
Chapter 11 The Truth of Barbecue Education
At the barbecue restaurant, Broly was brought there by Fujimura Taiga for lunch. While quickly devouring the meat that the girl had grilled and placed on his plate, he was also looking at a jewelry store across the street through the glass window.
"Why are you staring at the jewelry store? Are you regretting returning the sapphire that someone gave you as a thank you gift?"
Seeing the boy's gaze and noticing the jewelry store across the street, Fujimura Taiga couldn't help but ask.
"The sapphire that Sakura's father gave her is of excellent quality. If it were converted into money, it could probably afford many meals of this kind of barbecue."
No, I don't regret it.
Upon hearing this, Broly shook his head.
"I gave her that stone so that she could be happy."
"Then why are you staring at the jewelry store the whole time?"
Fujimura Taiga asked curiously.
"I gave her something, but I didn't give you anything. But I don't have any of those stones anymore, so I want to go to a place where those stones are found and get some to give to you."
Broly answered the question very seriously, which is why he kept looking at the jewelry store after discovering it.
"So, you're planning to buy me jewelry?"
Fujimura Taiga then placed another piece of grilled pork belly on the boy's plate.
"Huh, do I need money to get that kind of stone?"
While eating the pork belly, Broly frowned and asked.
"Generally speaking, yes, it is necessary."
Taiga Fujimura replied.
"Unless you find an unclaimed gem mine and start mining it yourself, that would be an exception."
She added another sentence.
"Where are the gem mines?"
Broly pressed for more details.
"I don't know about that."
Fujimura Taiga shook his head, then took out the sapphire to look at it again; the ocean blue color was truly captivating.
"Could I get these stones by stealing them from over there?"
Suddenly, Broly pointed to the jewelry store across the street, clenched his little fist, and asked.
"It's wrong to steal."
Upon hearing this, Fujimura Taiga began to lecture him.
"Besides, stolen goods are no one's going to want as a gift, at least I don't."
"Hey, you don't want it?"
Broly was stunned, looking at the girl who seemed to have a particular fondness for the sapphire, and for a moment he couldn't quite tell if what she said was true.
"Of course, I'm an honest person."
The eldest daughter of the Fujimura family, who has a pure yakuza background and whose grandfather had just made an arms deal with someone yesterday, said such a thing.
"I'm telling you, you're still young, but you can't go astray and become a bad kid."
Fujimura Taiga could tell that Broly was just a simple child.
Although there are some issues with their understanding, I don't want to see the other person go astray because of their naivety.
"What is a bad kid?"
"Bad kids are..."
Fujimura Taiga stopped abruptly as she spoke, because she noticed the "I'm very curious" expression on the boy's face.
"In short, just remember, you can't steal or rob things, otherwise, I won't be your wife anymore, and I won't grill meat for you anymore."
The orange-haired girl said with a straight face, and the values she instilled in Broly—not to steal or rob, and to be an upright and good child—were different from the Saiyan values that Paragus had instilled in Broly since childhood.
In the mindset instilled by Paragas, anything can be stolen, as long as you have the power to do so, including the king of your own race, and the throne beneath his buttocks.
The difference in opinion confused Broly, but with the help of the barbecue, he quickly sided with Fujimura Taiga.
To sum it up in one sentence, every word that Fujimura Taiga says while his wife is grilling meat for him is absolutely right, and Broly will unconditionally nod and agree with it.
As for the traditional Saiyan concepts that Old Deng's father, Paragus, instilled in him, in the current situation, there is absolutely no need to consider them.
At this moment, Broly's mind belonged to the Grilled Meat Sage. Fujimura Taiga's words were like truth, leaving some traces in his mind along with the delicious grilled meat he ate.
The meal cost nearly 30,000 yen, with Broly eating 90% of the meat by himself.
When it came time to pay the bill, the barbecue restaurant owner was only glad that he hadn't opened his shop as a buffet, but he was still sweating profusely.
Back at the Fujimura house, Broly, now with nothing to do, suddenly didn't know what to do. When he saw the big tree in the backyard of the Fujimura mansion, its lush green leaves gave him a sense of familiarity, so he climbed up it using both his hands and feet.
"It's not soft at all."
But after lying down in the tree canopy, Broly realized that this thing, which looked to be the same color as Baya's body, was not comfortable to lie on at all.
"Going home?"
The joy that young Sakura showed upon her successful return home still had some impact on young Broly.
With nothing to do, Broly began to reminisce about what he used to do in his spare time on Planet Wampa.
He would probably be lying on Baya's body, looking up at the sky of Wanpa Star, which is mostly blue and cloudless. Although the sky above him was also blue now, there were some white clouds, which was a very rare sight on Wanpa Star, where there is very little water vapor.
That cloud... it looks like it just had... ice cream?!
Broly licked his lips, seemingly savoring the dessert he was enjoying while eating the grilled meat.
Fortunately, he had just eaten and wasn't too hungry.
That cloud...
Time passed as Broly observed what the clouds were like, and he gradually fell asleep in the treetop.
I was awakened by the aroma of food in the late afternoon.
He jumped from the treetop, and no one noticed his actions.
Following the aroma, Broly arrived at the kitchen. Looking at the busy chefs inside, he thought of Fujimura Taiga, who had come to call him for breakfast that morning, and ran back out of the kitchen.
He arrived at the room that Fujimura Taiga had told him about the night before, the room where he could come to her if he needed anything, and barged in.
There was a low square table in the tatami bedroom. When Broly came in, the orange-haired girl was bent over the table, writing furiously.
"What are you doing?"
When Broly approached from behind and asked a question out of curiosity, Fujimura Taiga was startled, and his ballpoint pen slid right out of the square in his exercise book.
"Don't sneak up behind me and speak suddenly, it'll scare you to death!"
Fujimura Taiga complained and took out correction fluid to erase the marks left by the ballpoint pen.
"So, what exactly are you doing?"
"Do your homework, I'm a student after all."
"What is a student?"
"Here you go again. Kids, don't ask so many questions, okay?"
As she spoke, she pulled Broly into her arms and began to ruffle the boy's hair.
However, considering the other party's situation, Fujimura Taiga patiently answered the question.
"A student is someone who learns knowledge."
In order to survive in this society, people must learn some knowledge.
"Hmm, Broly, do you want to learn?"
Can you eat knowledge?
"Knowledge isn't something you can eat, but if you study well, you can go to a good school. Graduating from a good school makes it easier to find a good job. With a good job, you can earn more money. With more money, you can buy all sorts of food that you like to eat. So, it's not wrong to say that you can eat it."
Fujimura Dahe is kind and gentle.
"That……"
Broly looked thoughtful, then suddenly broke free from Fujimura Taiga's embrace and collapsed to his knees next to the girl.
"Honey, I want to learn!"
With his small hands supporting him on the ground and his head bowed in a look of disappointment, Broly uttered these words.
"Huh?!"
Fujimura Taiga stared at him, completely bewildered as to what the child was suddenly doing. He said he was asking someone for a favor, but it didn't seem like a dogeza (a traditional Chinese form of prostration).
"You don't need to do that. If you want to go to school, I'll ask Grandpa for help."
As soon as Fujimura Taiga finished speaking, Broly responded with an "Oh," and then quickly stood up.
The information in his mind was not deceiving him; it gave him a practical way to ask for what he wanted.
Clearly, the otaku's fragmented memories are at play again.
Famous scenes from Slam Dunk are recreated in the Type-Moon universe in this way.
Unfortunately, probably no one in the world will get this joke.
"By the way, did you come into my room to see me because you needed something?"
Taiga Fujimura asked.
"I'm here to invite you to dinner."
Broly was telling the truth.
"What, are you afraid to eat alone?"
Fujimura Taiga thought the boy was a little scared of having dinner with the group of yakuza members from the Fujimura Group who didn't seem like good people at the Fujimura mansion.
"No, you came to call me for breakfast this morning, so I thought I should come and call you for breakfast too."
Broly shook his head and revealed his true thoughts.
"Huh?!"
Fujimura Taiga was stunned, and after a while, he hugged the boy.
"Broly, you're really going too far, kid!"
The girl rubbed her face against the boy's face.
This kind of well-behaved and adorable younger brother character is exactly what she, as an only child, wanted in a younger brother.
Although asking questions can be scary and annoying, this child will come to my room in the evening to call me to eat while I'm studying because I woke him up for breakfast in the morning.
This might sound ordinary, but that's for people who have younger brothers and are used to being called out to meals by them.
As for her, even if someone comes to inquire about her meals, it's usually a burly gangster, like that scarred man who comes to call her.
But now, look at this little guy who's getting kisses, hugs, and cheek rubs—can that guy with the scarred face even compare?
Fujimura Taiga's happiness index continued to rise as he rubbed his face against others, until it reached 55 points before hitting its daily limit.
"Can we go eat now?"
Broly only asked the question at this point, and he didn't quite understand why the other person was so excited and happy because of his words.
"Excuse me, I'll go eat with you now."
Fujimura Taiga replied with a smile that although they had only known each other for a little over a day, being with this child who had no sense of boundaries felt like having an obedient younger brother by his side.
Just as the two were having lunch in the dining room of the Fujimura mansion, Kiritsugu Emiya, the magician assassin, was feeling rather depressed at the Fujimura mansion next door, which had only been sold the day before.
"It seems that being too cautious isn't a good thing either."
Yesterday, at the Fujimura mansion, he encountered the little girl from the Tohsaka family who had been adopted by the Matou family, which led Kiritsugu Emiya to make many connections.
He even went to investigate the matter today, but before he could find out the truth, the little girl who had been adopted by the Tohsaka family and given to the Matou family was sent back to the Tohsaka family.
After realizing what was happening, Kiritsugu Emiya realized that the encounter might have been a coincidence, and that he had not been discovered or that some conspiracy was brewing against him.
However, because of this overly cautious mindset, I wasted a whole day's rest time. I was already sleep-deprived, and now the situation is even worse.
"How about we cancel tonight's operation and you go get some sleep?"
Kuon Mai tried to persuade him from the side.
"No, the Holy Grail War is a race against time. Something must have happened between the Tohsaka and Matou families. I need to take advantage of this situation to quickly deal with the Lord of the Clock Tower..."
Kiritsugu Emiya rejected Maiya Kudo's proposal.
When he first came to Fuyuki City, he devised a fishing plan, having his wife Irisviel play the role of Saber's Master in order to lure out the enemy and eliminate them.
The good news was that some enemies actually took the bait, while the bad news was that almost all the enemies who could come showed up, and one of them even nonchalantly revealed his true identity.
Of course, none of that matters. What matters is the first enemy to take the bait, Lancer, who is a skilled spearman.
His martial arts skills were astonishing; he even managed to injure Saber, the legendary King Arthur, causing her Servant's hand to be injured. Furthermore, because the spear of the opponent's Noble Phantasm was afflicted with a high-level curse, it could not be healed.
Starting a fishing attempt fails, and instead your servant is weakened by the enemy servant's curse debuff, which is extremely frustrating.
Therefore, Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald, a man of considerable strength and considered a tough nut to crack in this Holy Grail War, and the ruler of the Clock Tower Minerals Department, became a high priority for Kiritsugu Emiya to deal with.
Of course, more importantly, the monarch, who was highly skilled in magic, seemed to look down on the methods used by ordinary people.
Upon arriving in Fuyuki City, they made a high-profile choice by selecting a large hotel and booking the two top floors, transforming it into a formidable magic workshop fortress.
It would be very difficult to break through using the methods of a normal magician, but what if it were done using the methods of an ordinary person?
Among the supplies that Kiritsugu Emiya purchased were a large number of detonators and explosives. He wanted to let the Clock Tower monarch experience what the deep love of Mother Earth—gravity—is like!
(End of this chapter)