Underworld, Lucifuge Territory II

Maybe that wouldn't be so bad at all, to have fish like this prepared by her often.

"I don't need to eat anymore, you know" I took another shrimp.

"But don't you enjoy eating something delicious?~"

"There is that too..." It was difficult for me to compare the delicacy of this small shrimp with the flesh of a powerful Dragoness.

Those are too difficult to compare.

As we spoke and got into our own world -attracting gazes, the mysterious screen that looked like a moving mirror began to flash, I was quite curious about how this thing worked.

"Why are you surprised master, you have a scary mirror in your treasury that scares people" Grayfia seemed to recall some particularly bad experienced and reproached me.

I had another shrimp and thought about my treasury, releasing a sigh. I would have trusted Destiny to protect my treasures… if I wasn't suspecting her, 'But there is Ether too, the problem is that she won't be able to protect it efficiently'.

I wanted to say that Ether wouldn't throw me in the gutter, but wasn't certain anymore, as she's also a suspect.

Grayfia saw me deep in thought and caressed my hand reassuringly.

"I don't know what mirror you're talking about. Evaneheim or the Bloody Rose?"

"S-So there are two of them… if they're not that valuable, can we throw them away, master?" Just recalling that face made her shiver.

"Are you insane Grayfia? It is said that if you ask the Evaneheim to show you the formation of the universe, it will… as for the bloody rose, if you show that to any of your enemies, she can plunder that person's body and destroy them from the inside, their quite valuable antique treasures!"

Grayfia sighed and decided to drop the matter.

There was a beautiful devil on the other side of the 'mirror' and upon asking one of the managers he said that it was called a 'TV' screen, a renowned invention of the humans that was adapted by Devil King Beelzebub to work with magic.

At some point, everyone in the restaurant and the streets were flashing glances at Grayfia.

'It is because of my silver hair, this is the Lucifuge Clan… but those devils can't recognise me' she clarified, not intending to reveal her identity just yet.

The woman on the TV spoke about several things.

Satans, territories, rating games... controversy with high-rank and middle-rank devils, all of the stuff that I didn't understand but Grayfia did and she explained me.

"Apparently, it has been 500 years ever since I disappeared, master... to be honest I don't know what to think... I was in your world for less than a year" she something quite interesting.

"That is reassuring".

"Why?".

"That means that time dilation between universes favours us... it is a common phenomenon even in Helius, suffices to saw Destiny's laws work differently than the rest... for a reason, she's one of the oldest primordials".

I missed Ether, but there is no doubt that I enjoyed the newfound silence in my mind without the bullshit chattery of primordials.

"That might not be the case Richter-sama... that entity told me that she would freeze time in this place until I accomplished my mission... if I did, she'd return me to the future of her promise, If I failed... she'd leave me in the same place where I was"

"I see... time control" I pondered, coming to a single conclusion.

"Does it give you a hint?"

"Time law isn't exactly Destiny's domain, but the laws of fate and the law of time are connected... that is why she wished for me to be the primordial of time".

My words produced a frown on Grayfia's brows upon hearing a story I had yet to introduce her to.

"Could it have been her all along?"

"I'm none the wiser... however, she's the primary suspect in my list".

When we finished our plate I made a big chunk of gold and placed it on the manager's hands. The man was sweating bullets and looked at me in disbelief.

"Keep the change".

Feeling my aura he nodded like a chicken and left us alone, in fact… everyone moved away from us as if thinking we were not to be messed with. And they're right. Maybe they thought our golden clothes were fake or something?

Grayfia giggled and took several mysterious fruits that popped out a magic seal. It was only brief, but the manager caught sight of Grayfia's magic seal.

He quickly approached and bowed but Grayfia stopped him.

"I don't want my identity to be known".

"I'm so sorry! I shall leave now, madam" the devil bowed and retreated.

We watched him leave and I smirked in her direction, "Why don't you want your identity to be known?"

"I'm going to leave with Richter-sama… what is the point of disclosing it? They should think I either died or disappeared, it should remain that way, I'll only greet my family and then leave… unless master wants to stay some more" she gave the matter no consideration and placed the fruits in front of me, there were three more than before, I have to say… they look quite exotic.

"I got three of them from the world I entered before, master… they're odd… I even killed a person in one of the moons and the fruit he had ended up turning into this. I have no idea what they're at all, but they seem to be called devil fruits. I also plundered quite a bit of gold~"

"As expected of my apostle," I took the blue one and examined it, "you said before the name of this fruit is Ice Ice? what a ridiculous name…. I'll call it Frosty Haze, that's better~"

"Yes, that is what the translation means... however, I never seen such a fruit in my life." The one Grayfia inspected was the one that looked like clustered lightning.

"Perhaps it is an inheritance?" I suggested.

"Back when I asked to be your maid, the reward for that was to become a Demon Goddess..."

"But you accomplished the trial yourself... it wasn't a reward, correct?" It wasn't making much sense, why did she get something as a reward that she then attained by herself?

"We did it together..." She fixed it with a blush.

"Hu huh~"

"What I mean is... that perhaps it is something that the system gave me to increase my strength, but we can't be sure anymore..." Grayfia scratched her own silky hair in confusion, we were in sort of a deadlock.

"Why don't you take a bite and see?" I told her, with the Heart Lineage and my Golden Scale, I doubt anything poisonous can actually kill her, and even if there is such a thing, I'm here... if that thing could make her stronger, why not? I could even take one myself, but as a primordial, nothing of a lower class than a Primal Spark can actually affect me, I have tried... it would be a shame if any of these things are wasted on me.

Grayfia nodded and decided to try, if anything the fruit looked tasty.

Everyone around them was looking at those fruits in awe, wondering what they were, I can't blame them... the shining one and the red one were particularly eye catchy.

She took a bite and I waited expectantly, monitoring her body and ready for any surprise only to see how her countenance morphed from healthy to pale as a paper sheet in a single second.

"Grayfia? are you oka-"

*PHREWWW!!*

The next thing I knew was that our table was full of puke and everyone was screaming around us.

'What a day'.

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