The Author's POV

Passing through the membranes in front of the door, I entered the room and took a moment to look at my surroundings.

The room was quite big, measuring about 50 x 50 ft. As I walked in, my nostrils instantly picked up the smell of a mixture of two very distinct smells, old wood, and burning hair.

The room was lit by only the glow of a small, unshaded lamp found on a moderately sized oak writing desk in the middle of the room. Behind the desk stood a large window with bronze handles that led to the balcony outside where you could overlook the garden that was on the ground floor.

"...not bad"

Glancing at the room, my eyes instantly drifted towards the balcony of the room, behind the desk, where a large potted plant stood.

With its branches intersecting with one another, the sharp tips of the branches pointed towards the sky. The plant had no leaves, and hanging from a couple of branches were four pale green fruits that had a red hue pulsating from them.

'Xurin'

That was the name of the fruit that hung from the plant.

...and also the plant that could cure the mind breaker curse. In fact, not only the mind-breaker curse but most curses out there.

The fruit before me was had an extremely potent effect against curses, with the mind-breaker curse being one of the curses it could cure.

Therefore, although I came here primarily for curing the curse on my parents, I was also enticed by the fact that the fruit could prove useful for me in the future.

...it's worth was immense.

-Clank!

"Come here..."

Opening the balcony door, I quickly arrived before the potted plant. Touching one of the fruits with my hand, I softly muttered.

"This looks pretty tasty"

Admiring the fruits before me, I was almost tempted to just take one and eat it right off the bat, but I refrained from doing so.

...I wasn't that stupid.

After admiring the fruits for a couple of seconds, I immediately placed the whole plant into my dimensional space.

Staring at the now empty spot where the plant used to be, I softly muttered.

"If only I could grow these fruits"

Ideally, I would've loved to have grown the plant back on earth.

Unfortunately, I couldn't.

Unless I could replicate the demonic environment around here, any hopes in growing the plant were basically nonexistent. Moreover, it took a couple of years for the fruit to grow so the thought of mass-producing the fruit could only be scrapped.

'Oh well, it's not like there won't be a chance in the future

Even if I couldn't grow the plant now, that didn't mean I couldn't find a solution in the near future.

Nothing was set in stone, and knowing this, I decided to take the whole thing with me.

"What next..."

Done taking care of the plant, I looked around for a moment. Soon, a smile appeared on my face.

"I guess it's about time I start plundering no?"

Going back into the room, arriving before the desk, I quickly took anything that I thought was useful. From every nook and cranny of the room, I just took everything that seemed to contain any worth.

Having spent basically everything that I had just to come here, I was now dirt poor.

I also still owed Smallsnake money, so if there was anything that looked remotely valuable I just took it.

As I stole, I couldn't help but think to myself.

"...is this how thieves feel when they steal?"

I didn't hate this feeling

...it felt exhilarating

a split second just as I was about

should definitely not

come out of me

I said that I continued to

I took most of the items I also made sure to

I didn't take everything.

that it contained no thorns. There were definitely items that I couldn't take else the consequences could become

made sure to stay away from anything that looked like an artifact or emanated strong

was definitely a chance that Marquess Azeroth could trace the item, and if such a thing happened, I was in for a

was even if I returned

lot of materials to travel to earth as portals required the usage of expensive and rare ingredients, if Marquess Azeroth was hell-bent on taking revenge, which seemed likely

demon when you were only rank yourself wasn't something that I could

but no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

a couple

Xurin fruit, these items were what I

I

"This should be everything"

sure that I took everything that I could possibly take, I nodded

"Four hours?"

and seeing that I only had four hours

was about time I

I

recalling something, I placed a

a small present that I

quite a lot of stuff from them, it would've been impolite of me to

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

I comfortably left the room by once

membranes at the front of the building, a chuckle

react once he finds out

be able to tell as I would be long

about what had happened, if he was still alive by the

sure that no one was coming, smiling, I

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

hand. Not even a second

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

expression, smiling, I

devil fruit...a highly

and humans all shared one

They used mana.

the other hand utilized Aura, and demons

before, devil fruits were fruits that improved a

demons their strength was assessed

purity of their bloodline the

improved bloodline purity, and this was exactly why it was extremely coveted by the

to drastically improve their strength. Moreover, the

the fruit being one that I had taken from a Marquess ranked demon, there was no

rank with it shouldn't

last time at the room behind me, turning my attention back to Angelica who was looking at the fruit in her

end of the

her hand, Angelica closed her eyes slightly as a soft voice escaped from

"...thank you"

long-cherished dream of finally reaching the viscount rank was within an

to break through this rank to no avail

with the fruit in her hands, she could now be able to quickly break through to Viscount rank without a

longed for

seeing the time, my brows knit for a split second before I turned to Angelica and

let's go back, we don't

the fruit, Angelica nodded

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

as we were about to

we go down I have

Angelica's delicate brows

"A deal?"

confusion on Angelica's face, a large smile