Broly, of course, could not take anyone back to Planet Vampa, but Taiga Fujimura could bring Sakura back to the Fujimura household, with Rin Tohsaka coming along as well.
Their mother, Aoi Zenjou, did not go with them. She loved her husband more. With Tokiomi badly beaten by Broly and Kirei Kotomine's arm broken, she and Kirei took Tokiomi to the Fuyuki Church for treatment.
Halfway there, they ran into Kiritsugu Emiya and Saber. The magus killer had already arrived and was lying in wait. Only after Broly and Gilgamesh finished their battle did he step out and point a gun at the three of them.
Under Kiritsugu's pressure, Kirei used a Command Seal to order his Servant to end his own life, sending the student out of the war along with the teacher.
Kiritsugu did not pull the trigger. Perhaps because Broly had taken the Tohsaka sisters away, he chose to spare the three of them.
Back at the Fujimura house, as Broly ate, he told Sakura and Rin that he was about to be sent home.
"Eh? Big Brother Broly, can't you take me home with you?"
Broly shook his head, and Sakura's expression turned into that of an abandoned puppy.
"If you really have nowhere to go, Sakura, big sister can take you in."
Taiga cut in, and light returned to Sakura's eyes.
"It's almost time. Before I go, there's something I want to tell you."
Once Broly had eaten his fill, only three minutes remained.
"What is it?"
Sakura and Rin looked over.
"I want to invite you to become members of my Crystal Palace. Would you be willing?"
He asked directly, and the Crystal Palace prompts appeared before the two girls.
"I'm willing."
Sakura did not hesitate. She did not know what "crystal" meant, but she was ready to agree to anything Broly asked. The moment she accepted, his Happiness Points shot up to thirty thousand.
Saved from despair by a boy who flew in carrying a car, Sakura's happiness in that moment had been worth more than 150 Happiness Value.
Add that to her previous twenty‑something points, and she had reached over 180, which translated into more than eighteen thousand Happiness Points.
Broly had hit the jackpot.
"What's the Crystal Palace?"
Rin, though the same age, still asked. She also could not grasp what "Crystal Palace" meant.
"It means really becoming my wife."
Broly repeated what the Crystal Palace had told him.
"Uh…"
Rin flustered.
Was "wife" really something kids their age should be talking about?
"You don't want to?"
Broly was even more nervous than she was. After his violent persuasion of that old bastard, Rin's Happiness Value had climbed back to over seventy points. If she refused to join the Crystal Palace, he would take a major loss.
"It's not that, but… can't we wait until we grow up to talk about that?"
Rin asked, face flushing.
She liked the boy who had descended from the sky and solved her and Sakura's problem.
Even though Broly had beaten her father up in front of her.
"No. You have to say yes now."
Broly was anxious.
"Uh… o‑okay then."
Rin agreed with some reluctance, and Broly's Happiness Points rose by another seven thousand plus.
"Right, what's with the—"
Rin had just opened her mouth to ask about the chibi avatar floating in front of her when Broly's return time ran out. Just as he had arrived, in the blink of an eye, he vanished without a trace.
Only the happiness indicator on his chibi avatar, and the steadily ticking Happiness Points counter in the top right, remained to prove he had truly been in this world.
"Let me explain. The panel you're seeing is a sub‑module of the Crystal Palace. Only official members can access it. That 4/5 means the current number of official members."
"But there are only three of us here."
"There's another one—Emiya's daughter next door, though he's never met her."
"Wait, you can have that many wives?"
"It's too early for kids to be talking about this. Let's talk about the exchange shop on the side. It records the things Broly's eaten or used.
"You can spend the Happiness Points he generates to redeem them, but I don't recommend trying the food from his home world. It's awful…"
Taiga explained how to use the Crystal Palace's sub‑module. It was still simple at this stage, and she was done in a few sentences.
Then she went on to describe Broly's plain‑but‑brutal hunting and training life on Planet Vampa, and to discuss what the two girls wanted to do from here on—whether they would both live with the Fujimuras, or only Sakura would stay.
…
Gilgamesh's early exit triggered massive changes in the Fourth Holy Grail War. In the days that followed, the war went white‑hot.
Kiritsugu and Saber went after Sola, who had sunk into obsession with Lancer's good looks. Diarmuid finally got a fair knightly duel but, outmatched, fell to Artoria and returned to the Throne of Heroes to the sound of a woman's weeping.
The strategically retreating King of Conquerors came before a fully recovered Artoria two days later to challenge her to a final battle.
During this, Kiritsugu tried to assassinate Waver, only for Iskandar to catch him in the act.
"If you want to decide matters by killing Masters, that's fine by me. I have an army. Want to keep fighting this war where you skip the Servants and go straight for the Masters?"
Under that threat, Kiritsugu gave up on targeting Masters and placed his hopes on Saber.
But two fists could not beat four hands. Even burning all four Command Seals, the Sword of Promised Victory could not cut through the King of Conquerors' mighty host.
Artoria fell beneath their blades. The Grail's winner seemed decided: Waver Velvet, the lackluster pupil of Lord Kayneth.
Then things went off the rails. While Artoria was drawn into Iskandar's Reality Marble, the now Masterless Kirei Kotomine snuck into the Emiya house and carried off Irisviel, the Lesser Grail.
His goal was to lure Kiritsugu out to meet him. Like a thread of fate drawing tight, the two clashed at the Fuyuki Civic Center—and before they could finish, the black mud fell from the sky.
In the Grail's question‑and‑answer, Kiritsugu learned that the miracle he wanted did not exist—or rather, that a miracle did exist, but only in a way he could understand: slaughter. Only by killing all of humanity could the world have eternal peace.
After the torment of killing the phantom versions of his wife and daughter inside the Grail, Kiritsugu tore himself free of the mud's corruption, only to learn of Saber's defeat. He wanted to destroy the Grail tainted by All the World's Evils, but no longer had the power.
Iskandar, however, was a heroic king, and his Master still carried the naive justice of youth.
Faced with a Grail that could still grant a path to the Root despite its corruption, they chose something few magi would: to destroy it.
The Grail was shattered, but a portion of All the World's Evils still flowed into reality through its link. Fuyuki suffered a sudden "earthquake," and many died.
A few days later, Kiritsugu adopted a boy who had lost all memories and identity and named him Shirou Emiya.
Not long after the Grail ritual ended, Waver returned to the Clock Tower with a massive man bearing the curse of All the World's Evils, installing him as his attendant.
For the sake of researching a way to lift that curse, Waver practically lived in the library until Kayneth sent people to summon him.
A genius of magecraft had fallen in the Grail War, but his student rose. As the war's victor, Waver Velvet appeared before the world and inherited the El‑Melloi lordship at the Clock Tower.
Kayneth and his former student struck a bargain: Waver would gain the El‑Melloi title and the access to high magecraft that came with it, in exchange for the cursed King of Conquerors's protection.
As for Kariya Matou?
Sadly, during the war, when he ordered his Servant to kill Zouken, the dying old magus detonated the crest worms in his body and dragged Kariya with him.
Once his injuries healed, Tokiomi did at least fulfill some of his duties as a father, teaching magic to his elder daughter and finding a new lineage for his younger one. Unfortunately, only Rin forgave him. Sakura remained at the Fujimura home.
The elegant man was helpless. All he could do was pass along a hard‑won Void‑attribute lineage to his younger daughter through Taiga.
Through that, Taiga came into contact with magecraft. She had no great talent, but still managed to learn a trick or two from Tokiomi and became a third‑rate magus without any family crest.
A month after the war, Kiritsugu went to Germany to see his real daughter, but the Einzberns shut him out. Because he had failed to bring back the Grail, no explanation sufficed; an outright assault on the homunculus family was out of the question.
Afterward, Kiritsugu began searching for his convenient son‑in‑law, Broly, only to learn from the neighbors that the boy had returned to his own world. With no choice, he accepted his separation from Illya.
Kirei was badly injured but survived, permanently maimed. Risei, elderly and worn, resigned his post as priest of Fuyuki Church to his son.
Through the Tohsakas' connections, he brought his granddaughter from the convent to Fuyuki to serve as an apprentice nun and caretaker for Kirei.
Fuyuki grew calm again—but also not. The battle between Gilgamesh and Broly had revealed the Grail to the world, along with the might of Heroic Spirits.
The Grail had been smashed, but human desire endured. As long as desire existed, a wish‑granting machine would draw people.
Spies from every direction flooded into Fuyuki—some from mundane nations, some from the world of magecraft. With the old worm gone, the new Matou head, Byakuya Matou, cheerfully sold his family's magecraft and what knowledge they had of the Grail's Command Seal system.
The Matou finances were transformed. Shinji became a rich second‑generation heir and, along with his father, left Japan to settle in a small European country.
…
Traveling between worlds was quick. In the blink of an eye, Broly was back on Planet Vampa.
Looking at the familiar cave, he felt as if a lifetime had passed.
The spider eggs from before he left were gone—likely eaten by his father.
Thinking of the old bastard he had not seen in days, the boy who had just finished beating up other worlds' old bastards actually found he missed his own.
He stepped out of the cave and flew over an empty plain, then began raising his ki. A storm whipped up around him.
It had not been long when Paragus, scouter on his face, flew in from the distant sky. Seeing the boy in the storm, he sped up.
"Broly, where have you been these past days?"
Paragus asked, excited.
On Vampa, father and son were the strongest predators, but being the strongest did not mean they could not be injured or killed in a hunt.
Just as humans might be able to fight many beasts bare‑handed but could not guarantee they would never be hurt, so it was with them.
With Broly vanishing so suddenly, Paragus had been frantic, scouring the planet for him.
"I went to another world."
Seeing his father's excitement and feeling the faint concern behind it, Broly felt a strange warmth and answered honestly.
"If you don't want to say, you don't have to. Just tell me next time you go somewhere."
Paragus sighed. His son was back alive—that was enough. He did not want to pry too hard.
"I'm not lying."
Broly frowned and protested.
"If you say so."
Paragus did not want to argue.
"I really didn't lie."
Broly said again.
"I believe you."
Broly got annoyed and swung a punch at him.
"Knew that was coming."
Paragus blocked his son's fist, sighed, and countered with a punch to the boy's cheek.
On Planet Vampa, the Saiyan father and son had barely exchanged ten sentences before they started trading blows.
Their fight shattered the sound barrier and carved dozens of furrows into the ground, ending only when Broly stomped Paragus into the dirt.
"I said, I didn't lie."
"And I said, I believe you."
"Mm."
With his father pinned under his foot, Broly finally accepted his words.
The clothes that had been torn by the lightning in the Nasuverse were completely shredded in the scuffle.
"Father, this is a pork cutlet rice bowl I earned in the other world. Try it."
Broly redeemed a katsudon from the Crystal Palace and handed it to the man climbing out of the ground.
"Eh?!"
The smell hit Paragus and his eyes went wide.
He had not even seen where Broly had pulled the fragrant food from.
"Son… what you said just now… was it true?"
Broly: ?!
As might have been expected, once he finished eating, Paragus got another beating from his own son.
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