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

should definitely not get addicted to this

come out of me getting

I said that I continued to plunder

I also made sure to be careful when taking some of the

I didn't take everything.

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

anything that looked like an artifact or emanated strong demonic

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

I returned back on

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 given the fact that I was pretty much taking everything he owned, I could kiss my

blood feud with a Marquess ranked demon when you were only

no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

eyes were instantly drawn towards a couple of items. More specifically

from the Xurin fruit, these items were what I was

I

"This should be everything"

and making sure that I took

"Four hours?"

only had

was about time I reunited with

I just left without

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

small present that I wanted to give

it would've been impolite of me to just come and go

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

wanted, I comfortably left the room

front of the building, a chuckle involuntarily escaped

react once he finds out about how I raided

sadly for me, I wouldn't be able to tell

about what had happened, if he was

make sure that no one was coming, smiling, I

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

skeptically looked at the item in her hand. Not even a second

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

shocked expression, smiling, I nodded my head in

a devil fruit...a highly concentrated

humans all shared one

They used mana.

on the other hand utilized Aura, and demons

fruits were

for demons their strength was assessed

purity of their bloodline the stronger

fruit improved bloodline purity, and this was exactly

a catalyst that enabled demons to drastically improve their strength. Moreover, the better the quality

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

rank with it shouldn't

my attention back to Angelica who was looking at

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

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

"...thank you"

long-cherished dream of finally reaching the viscount

to break through this rank to

but now with the fruit in her hands, she could now be able to quickly break through

had longed for a

time, my brows knit for a split second before I turned to

let's go back, we don't have

off of the fruit, Angelica

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

we were about to leave,

we go down I have another deal

head, Angelica's delicate brows

"A deal?"

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