"What? You want to destroy this?" Soya smiled faintly, removed the Scouter, and placed it in front of the Bat Monster.
The Bat Monster shuddered in fright, swallowed hard, and hurriedly shook his head.
If I destroyed this thing now, he'd really beat me to death.
All I had to do was go back and practice that sentence!
I'd practice it, then!
The Bat Monster understood and decided to go back and practice properly.
"Go on, go on." Soya waved him away.
The Bat Monster flapped his wings and quickly fled.
"Keep it up! I believe in you!" Soya shouted after him.
"Negative Emotion Points +999 from Zhamusitelangkute Qilala Wankukete!"
Keep it up, my ass!
Could you stop setting me up like this?
Soya was delighted.
This was a bona fide Negative Emotion Points grinder.
Weren't these all combat power?
This was just too satisfying!
Soya swept the area with the Scouter and found no monsters within a hundred kilometers.
It would be great if I could learn the ability to sense energy that they had on Earth.
I wonder if the system comes with that ability.
I can't keep using this Scouter forever, can I?
There was no time to worry about that now.
An hour had passed.
Let's see what Raditz's side effect is.
Soya quickly landed beside Raditz.
"Soya... what's going on? Why do I feel like my body's been drained dry..." Raditz looked at Soya listlessly and staggered to his feet.
Soya checked Raditz's combat power on the Scouter.
His combat power was down to 175!
Could Battle God Water's side effect be that it lowered your combat power after you used it?
How was 175 connected to his previous 700?
175 times four was 700.
700 times four was 2,800.
Could it be... his combat power had just increased fourfold, and after an hour, the side effect was that it dropped fourfold?
If that was really how it worked... it seemed reasonable.
But if I could increase my combat power a hundredfold, then it would drop a hundredfold afterward...
This damn thing...
Would my combat power become zero?
Soya paled and shuddered.
He still didn't know whether the side effect was permanent or if it would wear off after a certain amount of time.
If it didn't wear off, that would be a disaster.
Soya couldn't help looking at Raditz with sympathy.
"W-wait... why is my combat power 175 now?" Raditz suddenly came to his senses and immediately checked his combat power on the Scouter.
When he saw that his combat power had dropped to 175, Raditz felt like dying.
"Why did this happen?" Raditz sniffled, tears nearly falling from his eyes.
"Maybe this stuff has side effects," Soya mused.
"Maybe?" Raditz's face stiffened. He hurriedly asked, "Haven't you tried it?"
"I haven't," Soya said, shaking his head.
Raditz: "..."
"Negative Emotion Points +555 from Raditz!"
"Wait... you haven't tried it, but you gave it to me?" Raditz nearly burst into tears.
You can't set me up like this!
"Think about it. Your combat power increased fourfold just now, right? Now it's dropped fourfold. Doesn't that make sense?" Soya asked with a smile. "You win some, you lose some. If it goes up, it has to come down. That's perfectly normal!"
Raditz: "..."
"Negative Emotion Points +666 from Raditz!"
What he said made so much sense.
"So my combat power will stay four times lower for an hour, too?" Raditz asked.
"I'm not sure. You're the first one to drink it, so we'll have to find out from you. Just don't die! Stick close to me! Don't fall behind!" Soya decided to protect Raditz properly. "If the drop in combat power has no time limit... then that really would be a disaster."
Raditz paled and nearly fainted.
Ten thousand mud horses galloped through Raditz's mind.
"Negative Emotion Points +999 from Raditz!"
"Don't worry. I'll protect you and make sure you leave this planet safe and sound." Soya patted Raditz on the shoulder.
Raditz's face darkened like a lump of coal.
What a menace.
What if my combat power never goes back up?
I worked so hard to raise it to 700.
That huge bucket of water you gave me felt great, sure...
But this drop in combat power is a bit ridiculous, isn't it?
Time passed little by little.
Under Soya's protection, Raditz remained safe and sound.
But whenever he felt how weak he was, Raditz kept providing Soya with Negative Emotion Points.
He was so furious that his teeth ground together. If he weren't afraid he couldn't beat Soya, he would've tried to sneak up on him.
This was infuriating.
More than three hours passed.
By now, Vegeta and the others had wiped out almost every monster on the planet with a high combat power.
Soya had earned 900,000 Negative Emotion Points.
He'd soon have enough for a hundred-pull!
Soya silently did the math.
Going by the average...
Each draw could give him an average of 50 points of combat power.
That meant he'd get at least 5,000 combat power, right?
So my combat power would rise to 8,000?
Fantastic!
I should save up until I have a million Negative Emotion Points, then do a hundred-pull.
At least this planet was safe now.
Before Soya rejoined Vegeta and the others, he ran into the Bat Monster again.
Ten thousand mud horses galloped through the Bat Monster's mind.
Why was I so unlucky?
How did I run into him here?
"Come on, say it once!" Soya said with a grin at the Bat Monster.
"Black fertilizer can evaporate; gray fertilizer can't evaporate!" the Bat Monster recited word by word.
Raditz's jaw nearly hit the ground when he heard the Bat Monster speak.
Soya really was a demon.
He'd actually made a monster talk!
I thought these monsters couldn't talk.
"Good, good." Soya nodded in satisfaction and praised him enthusiastically, even giving the Bat Monster a thumbs-up.
The Bat Monster grinned. Being praised felt wonderful.
"Keep going, keep going. Listen carefully: Gray fertilizer evaporates and turns black; black fertilizer evaporates, turns gray, and scatters flowers; gray fertilizer that turns gray as it evaporates flies like flowers." Soya nearly bit his tongue while saying it.
Who came up with this tongue twister?
It was downright murderous!
Good thing I'd practiced it a little in my previous life.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to say it so clearly.
"Your turn." Soya chuckled.
The Bat Monster: "It evaporates and flowers..."
Ten thousand mud horses galloped through the Bat Monster's mind.
You're trying to kill me here.
"Pfft..."
Raditz burst out laughing.
"What an idiot! You can't even say something like that? Watch me!" Raditz said with deep disdain, then tried to recite the tongue twister after Soya. "It evaporates and... f-f-f... flowers... Ow... I bit my tongue!"
"Negative Emotion Points +999 from Raditz!"
Is that even something people say?
The Bat Monster: "..."
I remember that long-haired kid!
He beat me up so badly!
But are you an idiot?
Why would you even try to say that?
You're not any better than me.
Before you continue