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

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

nice, I should definitely not get

would come out of me getting addicted to

I said that I continued to plunder the area

I also made sure to be careful when taking some of

I didn't take everything.

it didn't mean that it contained no thorns. There were definitely items that I

away from anything that looked like an artifact or emanated

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

even if I returned back on

usage of 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

feud with a Marquess ranked demon when you were only rank yourself wasn't something

no thank

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

instantly drawn towards a couple of

the Xurin fruit, these items were what I was looking

I took

"This should be everything"

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

"Four hours?"

I only had four hours left, I

time I

if I just left

recalling something, I placed a small black box on the

I wanted to give to

would've been impolite of me to just come and go without leaving anything

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

left the room by once

the translucent membranes at the front of the building, a

Marquess Azeroth would react once he finds out about how

be able to tell as I

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

warily glancing towards her surroundings to make sure that no

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

in her hand. Not even a second after glancing at the

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

expression, smiling, I

devil fruit...a

and humans all shared

They used mana.

on the other hand utilized

devil fruits were

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

the purity of their bloodline the stronger

purity, and this was exactly why it was extremely coveted

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

had taken from a Marquess

with it shouldn't

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

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

hand, Angelica closed her eyes slightly as a soft

"...thank you"

reaching the

rank to no avail as she miserably failed each

take another five years before breaking through, but now with the fruit in her hands, she could now be able to quickly break through to Viscount rank without

had longed

time, my brows knit for

go back, we don't have much time

her eyes off of the fruit, Angelica nodded her

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

were about to leave,

I have

head, Angelica's delicate brows knit

"A deal?"

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