After breakfast, Hiraku thahem and the humming: "Work, work~"
Seriously, who hums that…? e to think of it, never mind. I guess many do it to motivate themselves, even if most of the time they don't want to go to work…
"We'll help!" Ria said, and the elves nodded.
"Yes, let's help!"
"But before that," Ria said, "let's the table."
"Yes!"
Zaydas watched as they even took the pte from his hand. Seeing them head to the sink and use magic to , even though he hadn't yet installed plumbing, he stopped g.
That also reminded him that he o do that as well.
However, uher materials, the process of making pstic, especially for plumbing, would be better if he could get it pre-made.
He might as well take the opportunity to buy water tanks, and a pool would be oo.
Toug his , Zaydas made up his mind.
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Saying that he would be out for a few hours aurn ter, Zaydas left.
After flying several kilometers away, he mentally selected the DC AU mark and used Dimensional Jump.
...
3:18 PM.
Zaydas appeared on a rooftop.
Looking around, he noticed it was the same orphanage where he had first appeared and seen Ai Hoshino. It didn't take long for him to locate her.
Unlike before, she seemed a little happier while pying with two children around the same age as her.
[+219 AP]
When he saw that, he uood it must be reted to Ai not being far from him. Maybe his mark had been drawn to her, and these AP points he gained were her way of thanking him?
Of course, he k was just wishful thinking, but he liked to think that way.
Knowing that she was doier was enough to lift Zaydas's mood. Floating in the air, he began to distance himself.
...
"Ai-? Why did you stop and start looking at the sky?" one of the girls pying with her asked curiously.
"It's nothing, Mika-," Ai replied with a smile, turning her gaze back to her.
'The angel... Devil-sama came to see me again...'
She felt a subtle euphoria. And although he hadn't spoken to her and had left silently, Ai felt blessed just by being able to see his silhouette and sense his presence.
...
Zaydas rented a rge house with a garden for a year aed a moving truck for a day.
He didn't have a driver's lise in this dimensio alone for a truck, but with a little hypnosis, he mao rent it.
The first destination was a stru store.
With the moving truck, it was easy for him to buy various items, load them into the truck, then trahem to his ste dimension before heading to the stru supply store, repeating the process.
The destination was the city's rgest furniture and appliaore. There, he bought mattresses, pilloliances, etc.
...
Until almost nightfall, Zaydas kept buying and buying, using the moving truck as a disguise.
Just as a precautioered several recs from the pces he passed. It was an easy process—he just o hypnotize a petent hacker and send his route to have it done.
After all, he had bought so much that he had spent almost all of his money, leaving him with only 53 million.
But iurn, he purchased sor panels, a peor, bathtubs, a hot tub, etc.
He even bought various hygiene essentials at the market, such as undry detergent, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and other items.
'I've never filled my ste dimension this much...' There was so much stuff that he started to fear it might overload.
After returning the truck, he went to the house he had rented.
After restog some things aing up some furniture like a bed, Zaydas returo the INN Dimension.
...
Wheurned, he appeared right above the rge tree, and Zabuton came out just to see him.
"It's been a while, Zabuton," Zaydas greeted.
Lifting its front paw, Zabutoed him back.
After a simple exge, Zabutouro its den ihe tree.
Unnoticed by the others, Zaydas slipped away without being perceived.
He decided to wander a bit through the forest.
While wandering, he checked the cost of replig two of Zabuton's abilities.
[Iructible Threads (Rank B+)] – Replication cost: 4,000 AP with a 91% success rate.
[Silk Manipution (Rank B)] – Replication cost: 2,000 AP with a 95% success rate.
'The ces are high now, and the cost isn't expensive for such useful abilities...'
With that thought in mind, he began replig them.
...
Deep in the Forest of Death, two injured infernal wolves stood in front of six pups, proteg them while being attacked by a massive purple king cobra.
"Wooof!!"
Howling in despair, the male infernal wolf, shielding his mate and pups, was struck by the purple king cobra's tail, sent flying backward, crashing against a thick tree hard enough to crack it, threatening to break.
The female infernal wolf stood in front of her pups, growling and barieeth, her horn broken.
"Wooof!"
Opening her mouth, the infernal wolf spat bck fmes toward the purple king cobra, but a barrier formed around the snake, defending against the attack while terattag with the tip of its tail, which moved fast enough to create powerful gusts of wind.
The purple king cobra's tail pierced through the infernal wolf's defense, as the pups barked in distress.
The other adult infernal wolf, already covered in blood, let out an even more sorrowful howl, f its battered body forward, leaping in a desperate suicide attack, summoning all its power, unleashing bck fmes.
"Booom!"
The purple king cobra was struck squarely on the head, one of its eyes destroyed while the fmes tio burn. However, purple mucus oozed from its mouth, surrounding it ainguishing the fmes.
Then, in a fit e, the purple king cobra shed out with the same tail that had impaled the female infernal wolf, pierg through the male infernal wolf that had just attacked it.
"Howl..."
Letting out a sorrowful howl, the infernal wolf vomited bright red blood while looking toward the pups.
If he could speak, he would be saying something like, "Run, run as fast as you !"
The pups' mournful barking grew deeper and more sorrowful.
Seeing their parents die while proteg them broke their hearts.
The purple king cobra showed no mercy, throwing the wolves trapped in its tail into the air and opening its mouth wide with the i of swallowing them whole.
However, before the infernal wolves could fall into its mouth, silk threads appeared, suspending them in midair, while other threads ed around the purple king cobra's body, pulling it backward.
From the sky, Zaydas desded.
He looked at the infernal wolves caught in the silk threads and sighed.
The st remnants of life had vanished from them.
'I arrived too te…' It wasn't his duty to save the infernal wolves—after all, this forest followed the w of the ju if he had to choose between infernal wolves and a purple king cobra, he would choose to save the infernal wolves.
Seeing the purple king cobra preparing to spit venom at him, Zaydas extended his free hand, juring an ice spear and hurling it straight through its head from top to bottom.
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
A series of sounds echoed as the ice spear was unched, pierg the purple king cobra's head. The impastantly froze its head, while the force of the throw smmed the upper part of its body into the ground, causing a loud crash and raising a cloud of dust.
When the bodies of the infernal wolves nded he six infernal wolf pups, the pups surrouhem, whimpering, trying to get a response from their parents. But when they saw that her of them moved, the pups lifted their heads to the sky and howled sorrowfully.
At this se, Zaydas let out a soft sigh.
Even Rimuru's potions wouldn't work—after all, they couldn't bring the dead back to life.
He could turn them into Devils, but he wasn't kind enough to do something like that with his precious pieces.
'At the very least, I will take care of your pups for you,' Zaydas said in his mind.
Creating a magic circle beh the massive body of the purple king cobra, he stored it away.
Then, he approached the pups, saying, "I have avenged your parents. And if you wish, you may follow me—I will take care of you and make you strong so that you will never have to suffer such a loss again."
It might seem foolish to say something like that to infernal wolf pups, but it wasn't. Infernal wolves were highly intelligent, parable to humans, and since he was a Devil, even the pups could uand what he said.
Barking, almost howling, one by ohey approached him.
But then, they turoward their parents.
"Very well, I will take you with me and give your parents a proper funeral," Zaydas said.
Once again, the infernal wolf pups howled.
Zaydas made the infernal wolf couple float, then did the same with the pups.
Flying, he began his return.
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