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

thoughts paused there, my hand froze for a split second just as I was about

should definitely not

out of me getting

said that I

I took most of the items I also made sure to

I didn't take everything.

no thorns. There were definitely items

anything that looked like an

Azeroth could trace the item, and if such a thing happened, I was in for a whole world of

even if I returned back on

expensive and rare ingredients, if Marquess Azeroth was hell-bent on taking revenge, which seemed likely given the fact that I was pretty much taking everything he owned, I could kiss my sorry

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

but no thank

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

towards a couple of items. More specifically towards a grey metallic cube and a

these items were what I was looking

hesitation, I took

"This should be everything"

and cranny of the office, and making sure that I took everything that I could possibly take, I nodded my head

"Four hours?"

my watch and seeing that I only had

was about time I

me if I

before I left, recalling something, I placed a small black box on the

a small present that I wanted

them, it would've been impolite

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

the room by once bypassing the two membranes

at the front of the building, a

would react once he

me, I wouldn't be able to tell as I would be long

indeed find out about what had happened, if he was still alive by the time the war ended, I could already imagine the

surroundings to make sure that no one was coming, smiling,

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

the item in her hand. Not even a second after glancing at the time, opening her eyes wide,

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

expression, smiling, I nodded my head in

a devil fruit...a highly concentrated one

dwarves, and humans all shared one

They used mana.

other hand utilized Aura,

fruits were fruits that improved a demon's

what assessed someone's strength, for demons their strength was assessed from the purity of their

of their bloodline the stronger

improved bloodline purity, and this was exactly

demons to drastically improve their strength. Moreover, the better the quality of the fruit,

from a Marquess

Viscount rank with it shouldn't be

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

now held my end of the deal. See, I'm a

hand, Angelica closed her

"...thank you"

the viscount rank was within an

break through this rank

with the fruit

she had longed for a

at my watch and seeing the time, my brows knit for a split second

don't

her eyes off of the fruit,

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

to leave, recalling

down I have another

head, Angelica's delicate brows

"A deal?"

look of confusion on Angelica's face, a large smile