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

hand froze for a split second just as I was about to pick up

it is nice, I should definitely not get

out of me getting

I said that I continued to plunder the

most of the items I also made sure to be

I didn't take everything.

because something looked valuable, it didn't mean that it contained no thorns. There were definitely items that I couldn't take else the consequences

from anything that looked

the item, and if such a thing happened, I

was even if I

travel to earth as portals required the usage of expensive and rare ingredients, if Marquess Azeroth was hell-bent

when you were

no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

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

the Xurin fruit, these items were what I was looking

hesitation, I took

"This should be everything"

everything gathered, checking every nook and cranny of the office, and making sure that I took everything that I could possibly

"Four hours?"

my watch and seeing that I only had four hours

about time I reunited

be nice of me if I just left without

I left, recalling something, I placed a small black

that I

I did take quite a lot of stuff from them, it would've been impolite of me to just come and go without leaving

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

comfortably left the room by once bypassing the two

the front of the building, a chuckle

react once he finds out

for me, I wouldn't be able to

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

that no

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

looked at the item in her hand. Not even a second after glancing at the time, opening her eyes wide, Angelica's voice

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

Angelica's shocked expression, smiling, I nodded my

a devil fruit...a highly concentrated one at

and humans all shared one thing in

They used mana.

on the other hand utilized Aura, and

devil fruits were

demons their strength was assessed from the

the purity of their

improved bloodline purity, and this was exactly why it was

improve their strength. Moreover, the better the quality of the fruit, the greater the

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

rank with it

at the room behind me, turning my attention back to Angelica who was looking

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

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

"...thank you"

of finally reaching the viscount

to break through this rank to no

would still take another five years before breaking through, but now with the

had longed for

time, my brows knit for a

don't

the fruit,

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

as we were about to leave,

before we go down I have another deal

head, Angelica's

"A deal?"

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