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

froze for a split second just as

is nice, I should definitely not get addicted to this

good would come out of me getting addicted

that I continued to plunder the

made sure to be careful when taking

I didn't take everything.

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

that looked like an artifact

item, and if such a thing happened, I was in for a whole world

I returned back

Azeroth was hell-bent on taking revenge, which seemed likely given the fact that I

a Marquess ranked demon when you

no thank

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

desk, my eyes were instantly drawn towards a couple of items. More specifically towards a grey metallic cube and a

fruit, these items were what I was looking

I took

"This should be everything"

office, and making sure that I took

"Four hours?"

my watch and seeing that I only had four hours left, I decided

about time I reunited

if I just left without leaving behind

I placed a small black box on the wooden

small present that I wanted to give to the

them, it would've been impolite of me to

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

left the room by once bypassing the two membranes at the

the translucent membranes at the front of the

once he finds out about

me, I wouldn't be able to

if he was still alive by the time the war ended, I could already

to make sure that no one was coming, smiling, I casually threw an item

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

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

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

shocked expression, smiling, I nodded

it's a devil fruit...a highly concentrated one

and humans all shared one thing

They used mana.

other hand utilized Aura, and demons utilized demonic

devil fruits were fruits that improved

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

their bloodline the

bloodline purity, and this was exactly why it

strength.

from a Marquess ranked demon, there was no question about

rank with it

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

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

closed her eyes slightly as

"...thank you"

long-cherished dream of finally reaching the

countless times to break through this rank to no avail as she

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

that she had longed for

knit for a split second before I

back, we don't have much time

off of the

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

as we were about to leave, recalling

before we go down I have another deal to propose

her head, Angelica's

"A deal?"

large smile appeared on my face