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

a split second just as I was about to pick

I should definitely not get addicted

good would come out of me getting addicted to

that I continued to

most of the items I also made

I didn't take everything.

because something looked valuable, it didn't mean that it contained no thorns. There were definitely items that

from anything that looked like an artifact or emanated strong demonic

the item, and if such

I returned back

and rare ingredients, if Marquess Azeroth was hell-bent on taking revenge, which

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

but no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

drawer of the desk, my eyes were instantly drawn towards a

Xurin fruit, these items were what I

I

"This should be everything"

that I took everything that I could

"Four hours?"

and seeing that I only had four hours left,

was about time

wouldn't be nice of me if I just left

before I left, recalling something, I placed

present that I wanted to give to the

would've been impolite of me to

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

everything that I wanted, I comfortably left the room by once bypassing the two membranes

the translucent membranes at the front of the building, a chuckle involuntarily escaped

Azeroth would react once he finds out about how

be able

find out about what had happened, if he was still alive by the time

surroundings to make sure that no one was coming,

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

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!"

Angelica's shocked expression, smiling, I nodded

fruit...a highly concentrated one

and humans all shared one thing

They used mana.

other hand utilized

devil fruits were fruits that improved

for demons their strength was assessed from the purity of

the purity of their bloodline

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

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

with the fruit being one that I had taken from a Marquess

with it shouldn't

my attention back to Angelica who was looking at the fruit in

my end of

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

"...thank you"

long-cherished dream of finally reaching the viscount rank was within an

through this rank to no

she would still take another five years before breaking through, but now with the fruit in her hands, she could

that she had longed for a very long

at my watch and seeing the time, my brows knit for

back, we don't

her eyes off of the fruit, Angelica

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

to leave, recalling something,

I have

Angelica's delicate brows knit

"A deal?"

confusion on Angelica's face, a large smile appeared