I am sitting in school right now… Some subjects are interesting, but at the moment, we have got MTP (Magic Theory and practice). The reason, why it is that boring? Well, I have got probably ALL AFFINITIES! ON MAX! Well, all that humanity should be able to have. As I asked about a week ago, the teacher gazed at me, as if I was a miracle. Albeit the conditions to have are known, the only human, who is known to have this affinity and alive is the leader of the court magicians, who is said to be over a hundred years old.

Right now, we are learning about another I-don’t-know-how-many tertiary affinities. It is pretty annoying, as I could learn that for myself, and I have them already.

After that…

(Lupin) “Haaa… Finally. That was kinda boring.”

(Claire) “Lupin! You should be more interested, as it is important for you as well!”

It is kinda cute, how her cheeks are blown up.

(Lupin) “You mean, like the fact, that there are also non-combat affinities? Like the combination of Wind, Space and Soul, the ? Or the , combined of Earth, Non-elemental and Movement? I know that non-combats can be used for combat too. Yeah, yeah, I might seem arrogant know, but I am just bored with theory.”

I said that with an annoyed face, and it certainly looked like I wanted to show-off, but that is what I wanted so that Claire stops talking for now…

(Claire) “Eh?”

(Kinzoku) “How come you know of these affinities? We haven’t learned about them in school.”

(Lupin) “Uhm…”

It backfired.

(Kinzoku) “Just admit it, you memorized them secretly at home to have an advantage and to show-off as an exemplary student!”

(Lupin) “Well..”

(Claire) “I didn’t think that you would study at home, Lupin. But still, that’s no reason to not pay attention at class!”

(Lupin) “Yes, yes, miss student representative.”

Since she was elected to be the representative, she got even more confident and open, and the result is, that she got a bit annoying. What was worse was Beary.

(Beary)

(Lupin)

Yep, she made him wear ribbons. Sometimes even a dress. Every time we saw him wearing a dress, the others thought of it as cute, while I have to refrain from laughing really hard. Nobody asked me, why I am making cramped faces, so I was able to keep it secret until now. Imagine it, a dragon cub who looks like a little teddy bear wears ribbons and a dress although the cub is male! You could make memes with a picture of that!

Does Claire even know, that Beary is male?

Well, it’s not important anyways. I’m happy, that the next one will be interesting. We learn more about weapons know. Originally, I was more interested in magic, but I got all affinities (except for one) now, so it’s pretty boring, but my knowledge of weapons is still diminutive, so it is worth listening.

Today, we learned more about the differences between weapons. While club-like weapons are better for people, who rely on brute force, swords and similar ones are mainly based techniques, and axes and halberds are something in between. Then, there is a fourth group, which are martial arts, which shouldn’t be underestimated. Even the weakest ones of the martial artists, who devote body and soul, day and night to their training can break a steel sword with a simple flick. But you’ll rarely meet one of those, as most martial artists are ‘fakes’.

Looks like this time, it was a revision, again.

After that, I went home, making plans for the weekend trip while hoping to figure out the right way to heal Victima. I still shouldn’t forget, that and can be unsealed for only a short amount of time per day by Ryuujin.

The last days flew by, and in the night before departure I succeeded… somehow.

There were various things I tried to verify or falsify, but some I didn’t even need to test. For example, if it would work out, if I tried to turn back time before that happened. With thinking a bit more, it turned out, that there are only two possibilities: whatever was transplanted would be turned back in its younger state, or the transplanted part would be replaced by the original part, but at the age of shortly before it was being transplanted. Which means, some parts would have the age of 17 years, while others of something like 2 to 7 years, regardless of the outcome.

There was one thing, which needed to be found out: Is it possible, to replace the non-human parts with the parts she would have at THIS point of growth?

I tried something like stem cell transplantation, but it failed. While doing this trial and error with time magic, I also found out, that I could at most travel back one day back in time. The use of magic power rises exponentially with the amount of time you want to travel back. Repetitious short-time back-traveling doesn’t work as well, if you thought about that.

To cut it short, with God Affinity, I was somehow able to produce a finger of her, which I replaced with the finger she currently had. The troublesome thing was, that I had to combined God Affinity with Dimensional Affinity to do this, which resulted in almost complete exhaustion after producing one finger. While I had more than 90 % of my MP. Luckily, there is this natural mechanism which increased MP recovery rate tremendously while sleeping, so I woke up with more than half of my magic power.

I really need much more MP.

So, after breakfast, I said goodbye to them, while my mother was worried, so Caelum told her that everything will be okay. I instructed Caelum to tell my mother about my status, if she gets to know of my destination.

A fun fact by the way: If you remember my Skill - it’s now level 5… I am probably one of the fluffiest things on the whole world. I could probably sell my hair now, and make a great fortune with it…

The trip to the demon country was a bit boring - until we passed the border flying. The border itself seems to be a barrier, which shields the surroundings of the demons aura, as it destroys or mutates the usual fauna and flora. Did the humans or the demons set it up?

Right after passing the barrier, we collided with some demonic beasts. These are monsters which have been corrupted by the demons aura. The battle was more difficult than I had thought, as some of them evaded my attacks, but nevertheless, it still was easy. I got my first demons cores from them, by the way.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

After that, I wanted to fly to the Capital, but I was stunned by a scene which was unfolded before my eyes after flying for some minutes.

What I saw, was a beautiful sea, with many old, gnarled trees, and some animals here and there. It didn’t even have a bit of demons aura, although it was pretty near the Capital. Is this some kind of reserve? If yes, then I’m impressed that the demons managed it to free it from their aura. But what other possibility would there be?

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin) .>

(Lupin)

It worked, after some tries. As I checked my HP, they were decreasing rapidly. A normal humanoid would’ve probably died, if he/she did that as long as I was inside the demon country. So I stopped it, and set up my barrier again.

After that, I landed near the sea. I wanted to find out, why there is such place here. So I studied it for an hour, and what I found out, was, that it gets corrupted too, but at a much slower rate. I could barely see it, even after I marked it at the beginning. But this means, that, whatever is here, is getting weaker, day by day, slowly but steadily. As I can’t sense any barrier, it seems, that a being uses it HP as fuel, but faster than it gets replenished.

It is as big as a medium sized park, so even if I hadn’t sealed my HP, I wouldn’t last longer than a day. Is another god on this world? Does god’s boss even permit, that many gods are in one world?

Whoever guards this place must have a reason for doing so, else he/she wouldn’t sacrifice their own life. Maybe, said person wants to find some sort of successor for something? Or just doesn’t want demons (or any other life form) to be at this place.

There should be one weakness with that plan though: While sacrificing these many HP, the user shouldn’t be able to move. So I should at least be able to walk in, if there are no lethal traps.

I should find the entrance first, though. If there is one, actually.

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

So I just have to search… This does make it far easier.

There are many presences here… mostly smaller animals and weaker monsters. But there is something with the shape of a dragon underground… I think? I can’t perceive it very clearly, as it is enormously deep.

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

After talking, as well as finding the entrance, I descended. On the way, I encountered some horrifying monsters. You remember the beasts, with which I collided just after entering the demons country? You could compare them to big, aggressive and sturdy eagles. What I have encountered here, were mostly something like invisible, extremely enhanced and unusually small wyverns. Normal Wyverns would be Rank A+ monsters, with the size of a small car. These would be Double-S at least, but not bigger than a kids bicycle. Sometimes, there even were flocks of them, lead by a dragon with the same characteristics. If I hadn’t got Sonar, I’d be doomed, and I even had to ask Ryuujin to double my stats.

Of course, there were many rare materials in the cave as well. For example, I found an insane amount of Aeternitum. Normally, what I got from the Landlord (3 kg) would already be called insane, but if that amount was normal for a commoner, this amount would still be crazy for a noble! Almost everything right behind the walls was Aeternitum, and I mined (‘mined’, I actually used magic to convert it into metal and put it into my Pouch inside some big radius) for a whole hour.

What I found as well was a metal called ‘Viragos’.

That was the one I appraised. If I use it as a simple, ring-formed cable, could I increase it endlessly? Could I even form it into a cable, or will it break? I found two or three handfuls, so I can experiment a bit. If I could make a sword, I already got a design… But I have to try first…

First things first, I should care more about the cave. I got many herbs as well, and some other metals, but after I got to the lowest level, where the dragon (?) should reside, we bumped into a barrier.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin) *shouts* “Hello? Somebody there?”

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Sleepy Voice) “Who’s there…?”

(Lupin) “I just came to visit? Could I please enter?”

(Sleepy Voice) “Sure, sure… *yawn* I’ll open the barrier for you…”

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

Then, I could walk through, and the barrier closed behind us again.

(Sleepy Voice) “So… *yawn* what brings you here… today… Kawaru… *falls asleep*”

Uhm… Okay?

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

‘Inspect’

Name: Anne Smith

Age: 34 years

Job: Villager/Guard

Level: 11

Species: Human

HP: 11 243/17 182 (Status: Exhaustion)

MP: 36 732 / 48 280

Stamina: 232 / 14 364

ATK: 9 237

DEF: 8 538

SPD: 5 211

MATK: 18 287

MDEF: 19 604

LUCK: 80

Skills:

Raised MP regeneration (LV. 15)

Raised HP recovery (LV. 12)

Ignore debuffs (LV. 25)

Passive others (unique)

Decreased MP usage (LV. 29)

Intimidation (LV. 8)

Target Anchor (LV. MAX)

Anti-target (LV. 10)

She is a tank…? Or something like that… What do ‘passive others’ or ‘Anti-target’ do?

‘Eolas, Passive others’

That’s pretty impressive in itself, but what do the other skills do?

‘Eolas, Anti-target’

That’s more than just a normal tank?!

Hm. Her age is 34 years? She doesn’t look like an adult.

Uhm. Wait a minute. What did she say?

[(Sleepy Voice) “So… *yawn* what brings you here… today… Kawaru… *falls asleep*”]

I didn’t see any sign of a Re-Souled in her status, though?

I haven’t thought about it as well, as it was pretty normal to hear my old name back then.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

While talking, I explored the cave further. There were some rooms, bedroom, kitchen, and so on, and it looked like a average house, except for the walls. As I tried to explore the room, where the dragon (?) is, I felt an intimidating aura. Sure, I mean, it should be intimidating, if there is a dragon or something similar, but, even though I have these dragongod skills, I had goose bumps.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

As I approached the origin of the aura, I even though of running away, but Ryuujin persuaded me to go further.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragons)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragons)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragons)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Ryuujin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

*falling sound* *something hits Lupin*

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

*crunch*

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

While we conversed telepathically, I continued to eat the scale, and the taste was pretty good. Something like baked potatoes.

And that is, what happened after two bites. Three more bites, and it will probably get to level 2.

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

(Lupin)

(Azure Dragon)

She totally talks like an onee-san now…

The cores of the ten Archdemons should be above SSS-Rank, so each should give me more than 50 million MP. The C-Ranks I got before would be at 80.000 per core, at most.

Is it annoying, that I write using many numbers? I just want you to have some good comparisons, to be able to understand it better… There probably won’t be anybody who reads this, though.

On the way out, I saw Anne (?) still sleeping.

After some minutes, when we left the cave…

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

After that, we entered the Demon Capital. Humanoids other than demons are allowed to enter, but they are checked very thoroughly at the entrance.

For example, I was about to be imprisoned, because I said, that I wanted to meet Diabolus. It probably wasn’t very intelligent to answer honestly, you say? They have got a lie detector, which can only distinguish between lie and truth. So, if I wanted to kill him, for example, I had to meet him first. Because of that they wanted to imprison me. They really were on guard.

I was only allowed to go, as I said, that I didn’t want to hurt him in any means, and the lie detector didn’t show any reaction.

While the message was delivered to him, I was allowed to stroll around (while being watched, of course). Although I wanted to start a conversation with the guards, they were more silent than rocks.

They had some delicacies in here. One of them was very similar to ramen, but it used fish or octopus instead of meat. Another one used the flesh of Ambrosia berries, and was especially expensive because of that inside of something similar to yoghurt, together with other fruits. It was something like a yoghurt fruit salad, I would say? But it didn’t taste like yoghurt at all, it probably was something made out of another fruit, because it tasted in itself like very sweet apples.

Oh, right, Thalassa wanted something sparkly.

(Lupin) “Do you have something fitting as a souvenir for children?”

(Demon Guard #1) “Good question… Hmm…”

I thought that the guard wouldn’t answer, but he actually did. Was this because I wanted to talk about forbidden topics?

(Demon Guard #1) “Does it have to be something specific?”

(Demon Guard #2) “Is it your child?”

(Lupin) “She said, she wanted something sparkly. She… well, somehow.”

(Demon Guard #1) “We got some small tiaras, pearl necklaces,… if you know her sizes, we got some clothes too, probably. In our repertoire are accessories for pets as well, if she has one.”

(Lupin) “How come you are so talkative now?”

(Demon Guard #1) “The topics you wanted to talk about, we are not allowed to tell you anything.”

(Demon Guard #2) “What I am more interested in, your answer before, she is adopted right?”

(Lupin) “Uh…somehow?”

Why are we suddenly something like buddies?

(Demon Guard #1) “Hm? …”

(Lupin) “What is it?”

(Demon Guard #1) “Looks like we should bring you to Diabolus now.”

(Lupin) “Finally!”

On the way, the second demon guard wanted to know, what these ‘somehows’ meant, but I didn’t tell him. Thankfully, we were at his place before I lost my composure.

(Demon Guard #3) “You are his majesties guest?”

(Lupin) “I am.”

(Demon Guard #3) “Very well, follow me then.”

The mansion Diabolus lives in is enormous. It reminded me of the pictures I saw of Versailles, with the only difference in the size of the parks. The parks of his mansion are even bigger!

The insides are outrageous as well.

(Demon Guard #3) “His majesty is awaits you at the third room at the right.”

Did he just leave me here? Just telling me the directions, then leaving? Or was this some kind of test?

I saw all kinds of ‘hidden’ magical doors along the way. The third one, was it?

I went to the third door, and what I saw was…

Nope, don’t worry, I’ll tell you.

What I saw was a very familiar face. You remember the part, where God explained me and my classmates what is going to happen now? I saw the one who asked, what they will be reborn as. At least, somebody whose looks are very similar to him.

Because he was a total freak, he was always looking like some character of an anime. He was behaving normally, but he changed his looks perfectly. He could even play the character perfectly, if he wanted to. An otaku would be ashamed of himself, if he tried to act the same.

The only problem was the shape of his face, but in this world, there surely are some solutions, so, right now, he looks like he came right out of an anime. It probably is him, but let’s find out for sure.

(Lupin) “So, you are Diabolus?”

(?) “No, but I am his twin brother.”

(Lupin) “He has a twin brother?”

(?) “It is not widely known. But… *changes voice* many people refer to me as ‘Maou-sama’. My name is Ha**to Ku-“

(Lupin) “Zane. Shut it.”

It definitely is him. Zane Kenki, an exchange student from the USA with a Japanese father, because of that, we didn’t even know that he was an exchange student. We all ridiculed him, because we thought, that he changed school. The shock was great, as we heard after three months that he was one. The teachers and the headmaster did that because he himself, as well as his parents wished for it. We still don’t know why.

(Zane) “Eh?”

(Lupin) “You still haven’t changed… Always playing some anime character, even if others try to make it impossible. Back then, we still were wondering if you came from an actor school. You probably won’t even recognize me. Go on, use the ‘Inspect’ command. You will probably see my name, age, race, and that’s it.”

(Zane) “…”

(Lupin) “…”

(Zane) “Sorry, but I can’t even see your name from back then.”

(Lupin) “Really? Oh. Wait for a moment please.”

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin) “Now you should be able to see more.”

(Zane) “Oh, it’s you, Kawaru! So, we are in another world now. What road are you walking on?”

(Lupin) “I am walking on two of them already… the road to overpoweredness and the Harem road. Although I am already very far at the first one.”

(Zane) “So you are probably something like the protagonist… And why couldn’t I even see your stats at the beginning? Even just now, I was hardly able to see them, with every stat being near 2 million. Just what did you do?”

(Lupin) “If I were the protagonist of a story, the story would be really bad, because every cliché would be there, and then, it would be totally boring. Well, maybe not every cliché. But what about you? Your stats are all near 100.000, which isn’t bad.”

(Zane) “’isn’t bad’. Only you could say something like that. Stats of these in my age, I was said to be a genius, but nothing in comparison to my twin brother. His stats are over 100 million, because he is a pure-blooded demon. All pure-blooded demons are members of the group called Archdemons, and he is the strongest one of them.”

(Lupin) “Right, I was here because of something concerning your brother. There is a rumour, that he fell in love with a human woman. Is that true?”

(Zane) “Yep. He was here, wanted to talk with me about her. He praised her in every aspect, said it was love at first sight. It was more schmaltzy than everything what I saw before. I was really embarrassed of him. And then, the part where he cried because he can’t get near her, I really thought he even amplified his tears unconsciously with magic, because the room really was flooded.”

(Lupin) “Isn’t there any possibility to suppress the demons aura?”

(Zane) “With utmost concentration, it is possible to partially suppress it. There are some items as well, but they are really rare.”

(Lupin) “What if his demon core was removed?”

(Zane) “You don’t really… It actually could work. But the core is a demons pride. Without it, demons are only as strong as normal humans.”

(Lupin) “Do you know, why demons hate other humanoids?”

(Zane) “My brother told me the story. In short, there was a war, because humans saw demons as a threat to the world balance. Before that, there were quite some trades, but demons weren’t allowed to leave a designated area, because of that, they envied humans of their freedom.”

(Lupin) “Seems like I just verified two very important parts. Do you have a problem, if I manage it to let the demons give me their demon cores freely?”

(Zane) “No, I haven’t got any problem. In fact, I want to see green grass and trees again as well. But, the removal of the demon core is very painful.”

(Lupin) “Where is it?”

(Zane) “In the neck, near the atlas vertebra. Because of that, if you make any mistake, it is very probable that the person dies.”

(Lupin) “It isn’t even a problem if the target dies, but I will be able to do it without any casualties.”

I only have to use spatial magic, targeting the demon core.

(Zane) “If you want to have no casualties, you would have to do it without opening the body, you know? Even the best doctors of the demon country don’t want to do something that risky. You have spatial magic, right?”

(Lupin) “Exactly.”

(Zane) “How did you even get it?”

(Lupin) “Oh, I just got the core scale of a dragon god. I even got god affinity, you know?”

(Zane) “Really… So, you are literally a god now?”

(Lupin) “A weak god, though. I met a far stronger god on the way here.”

(Zane) “And you said that, as if it literally was something completely normal.”

(Lupin) “By the way, want some Aeternitum?”

(Zane) “Did you really ask me if I WANT some? Aeternitum is a Rank-SS metal, almost everybody is getting crazy from seeing a nugget the size of a pebble. How much Aeternitum is in your possession, that you are able to ask me like that?”

(Lupin) “Uhmmm… probably some tons? The place where I met that other god, almost everything there was out of Aeternitum, and the walls thickness was close to 10 metres. But, if you want the Aeternitum, I want some Viragos. I don’t care if it is the ore or pure, nor do I care about the amount.”

(Zane) “I don’t even know if we have Viragos… That’s a Triple-S ranked resource. Maybe I can ask my brother after the meeting. With what ratio would you even trade them?”

(Lupin) “I have thought about 1:500. If that’s not enough, I am willing to go up to the quadruple amount.”

*knock, knock*

(?) “Hello? Brother, are you here?”

(Zane) “Looks like I don’t even have to call for him. Just between us two, he might be strong and clever, but when it is about other things than fighting, he is a real cry-baby. *towards door* Sure brother, come in!”

(Diabolus) “Okay!”

*door opens, then closes*

(Diabolus) “Zane, is this a friend of yours?”

(Zane) “Yep. Oh, by the way, do you know, where Aku is?”

No way… really…?

(Diabolus) “Sorry, I don’t. Since her leg got healed, she runs around everywhere.”

(Lupin) “You really have found a girl called Aku, whose leg was hurt? That’s like… straight out of that series, you know?”

(Zane) “I found a ninja girl called Akatsuki as well, you know?”

(Diabolus) “So… you seem to know, what Hakuma is talking about all day long. He never tells me what he is talking about. Could you tell me please? Please?”

(Zane) “Don’t tell him! He’d go crazy! He is not only a cry-baby, but also wants to explore/investigate everything, which is unknown to him.”

(Lupin) “What do you mean with ‘crazy’?”

(Zane) “For example, when he found a new dungeon in devil territory, he stayed there day and night, neglected everything, even eating and drinking! Because of that, there were several incidents of him collapsing, once he even was on the verge of dying!”

(Lupin) “But how should he explore that?”

(Zane) “He’d probably try to create a tool for traveling there and thus using up all the resources of the demon country? Probably without being successful?”

(Lupin) “oh… okay?”

So, in short, Diabolus is a cry-baby, except for two things, when it comes to battle or exploring? When does he behave like a cry-baby then?

…oh. When it’s about women, or other people in general, probably.

(Diabolus) “Where would I travel? Hey, what are you guys even talking about?”

And annoying as a three year old as well.

(Lupin) “Nobody would be able to travel there, probably. If I increase my power greatly, maybe, but even then, the probability is extremely low. But, I got another question. I went here to meet you Diabolus, but I was told, that I should enter the third door at the right. Why weren’t you here?”

(Diabolus) “I just had to listen to the complaints of some servants. I am the lord of this castle, you know? *mutters* It is pretty hard to cope with all these people, though…”

(Lupin) “Back then, our mates were pretty annoying as well, right?”

(Zane) “Please, don’t remind me.”

(Lupin) “Sure.”

(Diabolus) “So, why have you actually come here?”

(Lupin) “I heard, that you fell in love with a human girl?”

(Diabolus) “Uhm…”

(Lupin) “No need to hide, your brother has already told me. I came here to suggest a solution, which could not only cope with your personal problem, but with the problem of war as well.”

(Diabolus) “Really? REALLY?”

(Lupin) “The problem, you would have to sacrifice something which is extremely important to you.”

(Diabolus) “And what would that be?”

(Lupin) “You would have to give up your demon core. That would solve your personal problem. To solve the problem of war, every demon would have to give up his or her demon core.

As you surely know, the demon core is the origin of your demons aura. This aura destroys or mutates the usual fauna and flora of this world, even if you are unwilling to do so. Because of this, the other humanoids see you as a threat if you leave your country, and the humans church even wages war against you from time to time.

Your people already seem to have invented some techniques to suppress it partially, but this is still not enough. Of course, there are some artefacts, which are able to completely suppress your aura, but you can’t reproduce them.

Thus, the only realistic solution to end this would be to give up the demon core, but most of the demons are against doing so, either because it resembles their pride as a demon, or because undergoing this kind of surgery can be life-threatening. Also, the demon core will be automatically re-created by your body.

I am able to dispel the second argument, as I have found a way to remove the core without any life-threatening consequences. The first problem can be overcome by pushing through some kind of law, thus the third one is the greatest problem now.

Either there is a way to stop re-creation, or I have to come again every two to three years.

But for removing the demon cores, I would need your approval, as you, together with the nine other Archdemons, are the most important figures in the demon country.”

(Zane) “You really have thought that much about that?”

(Diabolus) “And where would there be your own advantage?”

(Lupin) “You see, there is somebody important to me. This person has some great… injuries, but although I have found a method to heal her, I need a ridiculous amount of magical power. So I would refine those cores to increase my magical power, thus being able to heal her faster.”

(Diabolus) “If you just need a high amount of MP, there surely are some other means?”

(Lupin) “The amount is stupidly high. Your brother has seen my status, but that only resembles about 1/500 of my real power. *Zane’s face gets pale* And to heal one finger, I used up more than 90 % of my maximum, because I have to use at least two top-level affinities at the same time.”

(Zane) “Really… that was only 1/500 ? You are kidding… You must be in the billions, then.”

(Lupin) “Oh, right, you wanted to talk to your brother because of the Viragos, right?”

(Zane) “There was something like that… Brother, my friend has an enormous amount of Aeternitum and wants to exchange some of it against Viragos. Do we have some?”

Successfully avoided talking about my stats!

(Diabolus) “We even have some kg of Viragos, but only as ore, and it is not very pure. At most 30%. What was his suggested exchange rate?”

(Zane) “1:500”

(Diabolus) “That is quite a good one. Wait for me, I’ll get it!”

*leaves the room*

(Zane) “He could ask the butler.”

(Lupin) “…Wouldn’t it usually be the other way round?”

(Zane) “What do you mean?”

(Lupin) “Well, usually, the one who got reincarnated into a wealthy family would want to do everything by himself, while being questioned or ridiculed by the servants and his family, and his sibling would rely on the servants for everything. You two are the opposite.”

(Zane) “That’s just because nobody was ever able to stop him from anything.”

*door opens*

(Diabolus) “There I am again! *throws a small magic bag onto the table* In there is the Viragos ore. There should be about 5 kg of it, if you extract it. According to the trading ratio you proposed, if you take it all, I should receive 2.5 tons Aeternitum.”

(Lupin) “Sure thing. Although, how did you even get that much Viragos?”

(Diabolus) “We found a small vein, but don’t worry, these 5 kg are not even half!”

He is careless as well… Is he really the leader of the demons?

(Lupin) “Okay *checks contents* *throws a bigger magic bag towards Diabolus* In there should be the requested amount. Don’t worry, these 2.5 tons are not even half – to say it with the words of somebody else.”

(Diabolus) “2.5 tons, that’s really worth it! It’s your loss, you know?”

(Lupin) “Oh, don’t worry, I could get that amount easily again in an hour. But, to talk about some more important matters, you have to discuss the topic of the demon cores with the other nine, right?”

(Diabolus) “Ah, yeah, that will be one annoying conference. You have to attend as well, you know?”

(Lupin) “I understand…”

(Diabolus) “First, I have to call them all, to inform them about the discussion, as well as an explanation of the topic, after that, they have the rest of the day to think about it. After that, tomorrow, will be the conference where we have to weigh the pros and cons. You will only have to be there for the first day, after that, we will confer with each other. The duration will be up to a week. Maybe even longer. But, no matter what the others say, I am voting for you!”

(Lupin) “Okay, thanks!”

After that, I went to the city again, and while looking around for a souvenir, I ran into some weird guys.

(Weird Guy #1) “You there.”

(Lupin) “Me?”

(Weird Guy #2) “Yeah, you. Could you follow us, please?”

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

“Sure.”

After walking for a minute or so…

(Lupin) “So, where are we going?”

(Weird Guy #1) “You’ll see, don’t worry.”

(Weird Guy #3) “Isn’t it actually pretty obvious?”

(Lupin) “We are steadily getting near the wall. Are we going outside? If so, what do you want to show me?”

(Weird Guy #2) “Just stay quiet ‘till we’re there, okay?”

That keeps getting more ominous.

We went outside of the Capital, and as the law outside of cities seems to be different, they now were allowed to attack me. Or so it seems, because they tried.

At least, I got some money of the demon country now! Else, it would have been difficult to buy some souvenirs, as some shops only take the demons currency.

But, what would Thalassa like… Haaa… that’s difficult. Even though she said ‘something sparkly’. As she is a dragon cub, maybe I should go with the category ‘Accessories for pets’?

What colour would fit to blue? She is a girl, but I don’t think that she is the type who would like pink, even though she is very childish. Then, maybe red? I am not so sure, if red fits her… maybe gold or silver? Does she look like a show-off then? What about white? Or green… WHY MUST IT BE SO DIFFICULT!!!!

Her scales look similar to a deep ocean or lapis lazuli, right? Maybe I should add something like ‘sunrise’, to name it metaphorically. What colours would a sunrise have? Orange, yellow, maybe gold and silver, because of the sunbeams and reflections, blue because of the sky, and that would it be.

Now, what object would somehow ‘represent’ a sunrise? A sunrise is pretty, induces hope and is the beginning of something, but only very short-lived as well. A butterfly? A bloom? A bloom or a blossom would fit perfectly, I think. Although it may not fit to an ocean.

Hmmm… Instead of buying something, that might fit these criteria, shouldn’t I make it myself? That way, I only have to buy the materials.

…

…

…

Am I an idiot?

I don’t even have to buy ANYTHING! I got everything I need probably from that grave! If not, I can easily use Creation Affinity! Yep, I am DEFINITELY an idiot. A good example to prove my idiocy would be, that I told that maid from the landlord’s mansion about my ability.

I can only hope that she keeps quiet.

After about an hour…

Phew… made it. I can only hope, that she will like it. Oh, I should probably depict it. It is a blossom with 4 petals, each petal is formed like… uhm… you could say it looks like a two-dimensional tulip, like, a wine glass with a v stuck in between the top part. Two of them represent the morning sky with their colours, the other two the ocean, and the area in the middle represents the rising sun. I made a very thin frame out of Aeternitum, to ‘keep it in shape’.

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

By the way, whenever I am outside the city, I gat randomly attacked, either by demons or demonic beasts.

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

(Ryuujin)

(Lupin)

After that, I went to an inn. I thought about something Lenius once said.

[And, there are also some species which can take a job and evolve. They have are intelligent, humanoid, but the majority of their ancestors have to be monsters. The most well-known example are Half-Demis.]

Does that mean, I am able to evolve? How is a possible evolution indicated in the status window? Or do I just evolve automatically, if it is possible? Maybe, I evolve at my seventeenth birthday…

Well, whatever there will be happening, I will know when the time comes.

Then, tomorrow, after I was called to the conference…

(Diabolus) “So, this is Lupin. He is the one who came up with the idea. Lupin, these are the other nine archdemons.”

So, these are the people I have to convince of my idea?

That won't be very easy... What a hassle. I have to think of a good plan, else they think that I am greedy.