Even after fighting so hard, Jing's will was utterly crushed. He had come so far from where he originally was. However, just wishful thinking wouldn't allow him to surpass those above him. He needed to also gain the power which was necessary to do so. After all, it was real life and not some comic book in which the hero gets to beat the villain through the power of friendship. Each person had to work for what they wanted or either have unbelievably good luck which most people didn't have. As such the route of hard work would be the road which most people would eventually take to accomplish their hopes and dreams.

...

Back at the kingdom where Yuki was helping Marcell with the dishes, it was late evening and they had finished cleaning up shop and were ready to leave. For some reason, Yuki looked a lot more sweaty than he had the previous day. However, it wasn't because he worked for a few extra hours, it was actually because he was testing out what he could do with "Fallen angel of hell" the entire day and had ended up pushing past his limits. In doing so, Yuki drained a large majority of his stamina. To add on to that, Yuki didn't plan on using potions to assist himself when he was outside the dungeon as it would be a waste even though he had a near endless supply of potions.

"It's time to go," said Marcell as he greeted the tired Yuki, who laid his face on the cold counter top of the island table in the kitchen.

"Woah, what happened to you? Are you alright? Maybe this was a bit too hard for you," Marcell said as he looked concerned for Yuki's health.

"No, it's fine. Work was easy. I put a bit too much of my stamina towards finding the best style to fight with my blades and ended up tiring myself out. Believe me, washing plates is an easy task," said Yuki as he stood up and began to walk towards the door which led from the store to the kitchen. Right as he arrived there, Marcell took a hold of Yuki's arm and helped him walk the rest of the way to their house.

"Thank you for helping me. Sorry for being a burden, I'll be careful next time when I try to use my blade's special ability," said Yuki. There was no point in hiding the information about his special blade as multiple people had already seen it before so it really didn't make a difference whether Marcell knew or not. The problem would arise if Marcell or anyone else were to find out Yuki's other blades "Niflheim's holy treasure" or "The underworld's holy weapon". If people found out that Yuki had more than 1 of those special blades, they would grow suspicious or worse-envious.

Once Yuki and Marcell had arrived back at the house, they were once again greeted by the running stomps of Marcell's daughter, who hugged her father with open arms just as she did every other day. However, right after she finished hugging her father, she walked up to Yuki and looked up at his eyes.

"Umm... hello?" Yuki said in confusion.

Without saying a word, Marcell's daughter walked back inside the house and Marcell along with Yuki followed suit. Marcell had taken the liberty of closing the door from the inside since Yuki had opened the door for him that morning. As such, it was a gesture to show that he had repaid the favour.

"We're home," Marcell said as he called out to Elpis.

Hearing those words, Elpis came out of the home kitchen to greet Yuki and Marcell.

"How was work today? And what happened to you Jack? You looked exhausted," Elpis comments.

"It's a long story, I'll explain it to you later. As for work, work was wonderful. With Jack at my side, we managed to make more sales than ever before since I was able to focus on just serving the customers all day," replied Marcell.

"That's wonderful. Well, dinner will be ready soon. Jack, you go upstairs and take a shower. Your clothes from this morning have been washed. Once you've changed make sure to give me your dirty clothes so I can wash those for tomorrow," said Elpis.

"Thank you ma'am," said Yuki as he quickly walked up the stairs to take a shower. He couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in his sweaty clothes.

Yuki quickly went upstairs, climbed the ladder to the attic, took his towel and rushed to take a shower. Unlike in the morning, Yuki took a cold shower to help himself focus more.

"What was the deal with that kid? I'm not good with kids so I decided to avoid her. What did she even want from me?" Yuki asked himself.

Yuki quickly washed himself and stepped out of the bathroom before going up to the attic to get dressed in his hoodie and sweatpants which were the most comfortable thing on the planet to Yuki in that moment due to him being in a state of tension and tiredness for a large majority of the day.

Once Yuki got down stairs, he handed his clothes to Elpis which took them to the laundry room which was a small place which housed a washer and a dryer along with a laundry basket which Elpis placed Yuki's clothes in so she could wash them later.

"I didn't know you could buy a dishwasher in this world," said Yuki.

"You can't.. It's Elpis' ability. To make her day easier, she chose for it to be a laundry machine and drier. She could do everything else at home on her own with ease so she chose a cleaning type ability," Marcell informed Yuki.

"That's actually a really smart thing to do," Yuki commented before Elpis came back.

Once everyone was present, they had dinner and everyone went to do their own separate things. Marcell went to the bathroom to take a shower himself. As for Elpis, she went to put her daughter to bed. Lastly, Yuki went to his room and laid on his bed as he tried to go to sleep.

"Hey Yuki. Just in case you care, the 3 kingdoms which you killed most of the male population for are in danger," said Zero.