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

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

it is nice, I should definitely

come out of

though I said that I continued to plunder the

of the items I also made sure

I didn't take everything.

thorns. There were definitely items that I

sure to stay away from anything that looked like

item, and if such a thing happened, I

if I returned back on

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 sorry

Marquess ranked demon when you were only rank yourself wasn't

no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

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

these items were what I was

hesitation, I took

"This should be everything"

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

"Four hours?"

had four

was about time I reunited with

of me if I just left without

I placed a small black box on

present that I wanted to give

I did take quite a lot of stuff from them, it would've been impolite of me to just come and go

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

the room by once bypassing

translucent membranes at the front of

would react once he finds out

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

Marquess Azeroth did indeed find out about what had happened, if he was still alive by the

sure that no one was coming, smiling, I casually

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

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

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

I nodded

devil fruit...a highly concentrated one at

and humans all shared one thing

They used mana.

utilized Aura,

were fruits that improved a demon's

strength, for demons their strength was

their bloodline the stronger they

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

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

from a

Viscount rank with it shouldn't be

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

I've now held my end of

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

"...thank you"

the viscount rank was within

to break through this rank to no avail as she miserably

another five years before breaking through, but now with the fruit in her hands, she could now be able to

had longed for a

knit for a split second

back, we don't have much time

off of the fruit,

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

about to leave, recalling

I have another deal to propose

her head, Angelica's delicate brows knit

"A deal?"

on Angelica's face, a large smile appeared on