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

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

nice, I should definitely not

of

though I said that I continued to plunder the area

took most of the items I also made sure to be careful

I didn't take everything.

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

to stay away from anything that looked like an artifact or emanated strong demonic

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

I returned

was hell-bent on taking revenge, which seemed likely given the fact that I was pretty much taking everything he owned, I

when you were only rank

no

-Plack!

"Bingo!"

drawn towards a couple of items. More specifically towards a

these items were

I

"This should be everything"

and making sure that I took everything that

"Four hours?"

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

time I

wouldn't be nice of me if I just left without leaving behind

before I left, recalling something, I placed a

small present that I wanted to give to the

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

"Hopefully it'll be appreciated"

I comfortably left the room by once bypassing the two membranes at the

at the front of the building, a chuckle involuntarily escaped from

wonder how Marquess Azeroth would react once he finds out about how I raided

be able

was still alive by the time the war ended, I could already imagine the scenery

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

"Here, catch"

-Plack!

her hand. Not even a second after glancing at the time, opening

"Hm, what's this? wait!"

Angelica's shocked expression, smiling, I

a devil fruit...a highly concentrated

dwarves, and humans all

They used mana.

utilized

I've mentioned before, devil fruits were

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

of their

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

improve their strength. Moreover, the better the quality of

from a Marquess ranked demon, there was no question about

with it shouldn't be

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

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

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

"...thank you"

of finally reaching the viscount rank was within an

to break through this rank to no avail as she

breaking through, but now with the fruit in her hands, she could now be

longed for a very long

seeing the time, my brows knit for a split second before I turned to Angelica and

we don't have much time

her eyes off of the fruit,

"Okay"

"Ah, almost forgot"

we were about to leave, recalling something, my footsteps

have another deal to

her head, Angelica's delicate brows knit

"A deal?"

on Angelica's face, a large smile appeared