"Didn't you say his house was here?" A young girl in her teens asked a guy on her right.
"I… yes, it should be here. I already scouted the area and the man several times." The guy said while looking at the crater in disbelief.
"Well, I don't see a house. The only thing is a big… When was the last time you scouted the house?"
"Two days back ago after which I gave you the picture. I have no idea what happened."
The girl who didn't look older than 15 only glanced at him and observed the crater. "The house doesn't seem to have blown up. This crater is too spherical… Let's go back for now."
The owner of this house was a high standing politician. They were somewhat aware that he had some skeletons in his closet. What they suspected was that he had a hand in human trafficking.
Caulifla had seen a picture of a new girl that was being dragged into his house and immediately wanted to beat that motherfucker up and take everything he owned. Although she was a punk, she still had a bottom line and would mostly target people that deserved it in her eyes.
Now not only did the politician but his house disappeared with him. Although there didn't seem to be any clues, she could guess that someone had gotten ahead of them.
She couldn't find the girls ki signature, so she decided to drop this for now.
*****
"Sob…sob" The girl, Broly had rescued, was sobbing heavily. From time to time she glanced at Broly who was sticking a stick with meat on it into the ground and the end over the open flame.
Broly had of course noticed the girl's glances but he had no intention of mothering her. He had already guessed that this girl should be Kale. The second person he targeted, but surprisingly he didn't find her near Caulifla but in a stranger's home.
Maybe they didn't have met yet?
He also went out several times, searching for some water or other edibles. The first time he went away, he saw her panicking.
Of course, there wouldn't be any dangers as he had enveloped the whole place with his senses. They were near the lake behind which he wanted to train them, so finding water to drink from wasn't difficult.
He reappeared as fast as he left which quickly calmed Kale down. After several times of doing this, she only watched into the flames as if she wanted to find her meaning in life in it.
Broly carried a tree on his shoulder and threw it to the side. The tree was bearing several apple-like fruits. He tasted them and directly fell for its sour and sweet taste. He held his hand over the tree and as if it was sweating, the tree lost a lot of water, making it perfect wood to burn.
Broly broke some twigs off and threw them into the fire.
"What's your name?" Broly said as he turned the sticks of meat, so the other side was being roasted as well.
Kale blanked for a second as this was the first time he spoke. She was shocked at the rough deep voice that seemed to try but miserable fail to hide the monster behind it. Still, somehow it didn't bother her at all instead it gave her a sense of security.
"K…Kale" She uttered hurriedly after realizing that she didn't say anything for some time.
"I am Broly, Kekale. Here is an apple." Broly took the fruit and threw it towards Kale, who didn't react in time and the fruit landed right in her face before falling into her lap.
"My… my name is Kale, not Kekale." She said quietly as she rubbed her face.
"What did you say?" Broly asked as he turned his attention to the meat again. Seeing him attend to something else made her somehow angry.
"I said… My name is Kale!" She yelled. After the echo died and Broly turned his gaze towards her, she realized with what a force her voice came out. In fact, Broly had noticed that the ground had cracked slightly from the shockwave, created by her shout.
"Good. Speak up if you want something. Now eat your apple and go to sleep, you will undergo some harsh training tomorrow."
"Training?" She was puzzled. She held up the fruit in her lap and then heard her stomach grumble.
"Yes. From the day onwards you do as I say, or do you have a problem with that?!" Broly said with a forceful and authoritarian voice. She was shocked.
'What does he want to do to me??' Her heart was beating fast as she got more anxious. She could feel something pump through her body like the time when she killed that man. She wanted to forget this feeling and everything that happened and never look back.
She closed her eyes as she tried to suppress the feeling welling up inside. Only after several minutes did she calmed down again.
Broly was well aware of what she was going through and he also knew what he could do and say to break a weak-willed person like her, especially with his natural demeanor, it would take no effort on his side. However, he wasn't trying to break her, he wanted her to resist.
This was something he had realized when Alea said that she wanted to go for missions and train herself. A protective surrounding can only help one in a limited way.
If one wanted to develop further, one needed to do it by themselves. He wanted her to flourish and if she couldn't let her savage Saiyan nature out and only follow his side, she would never reach her full potential.
Obviously, she was able to let out a lot of power in order to 'protect' Caulifla from others in the series, but he knew what triggered her then. It was intense jealousy, a real ugly emotion and destructive in the long run. He didn't want to see her develop it to that extend.
He needed her to be strong and an independent force, an unswayable ruler and a fighter. How would she be able to become all that if she couldn't speak up for herself.
To everything was a negative side. If he developed her this way, in the future she might turn against him, but he wasn't afraid of her. He would have time to temper her personality, so that her goals would align with his.
Kale didn't know what to say to the scary man that looked like he didn't care about her at all. Her stomach grumbled again. She looked down at the fruit in her hands and quickly devoured it.
"What's an apple? This is a..." Her stomach grumbled again. She looked meekly at the giant meat sticks around the fire. She could smell the roasted meat. Salvia accumulated in her mouth.
"Can I… have some meat?" If Broly had the hearing of a normal person, he would never be able to hear what she was saying.
He pretended that he didn't hear her and continued to eat the apples.
"Can I have some meat?" This time she spoke out a little bit louder, gaining his attention for as long as a second. He didn't seem to have any intention of sharing his food with her.
She wanted to speak up again after remembering what he said about speaking up, but she was afraid of him. She didn't want to find out what he would do if he was dissatisfied with her or what she would do if she lost control again.
'Forget, forget, forget…' With this word in her mind she curled up in a ball and tried to sleep with an empty stomach.
"A hundred pushups." Broly said flatly. She slowly turned around to look at him puzzled by what he said.
"Do a hundred pushups and you can have some meat." With that he stood up and grabbed a meat stick and bit inside.
Kale gulped as she saw him eat the juicy meat.
She knew that pleading wouldn't help her get some food without doing pushups. This was already a compromise on his part. Maybe next time she had to hunt food for herself!
She glanced at Broly who was savoring his meat before she positioned herself to do some pushups.
****
Broly threw another piece of wood into the fire. He looked over at the spot where Kale slept. He only shook his head as he knew that it would take some time to develop her.
She was like a scared mouse, which was understandable as she probably killed another Saiyan for the first time, but there was something ferocious hidden inside, something he attributed to her being a mutation like him, but he also knew that her power was different to his as well.