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There walked a human almost by the gate. That human was giving a piggyback a child around her height who seemed sleeping peacefully.

Yes, this isn't human, but behind that disguise, was an Oni. Behind her back, was well... ordinary human who doesn't have an special talent or something. Just a normal human, if we throw aside the '3 souls' inside him.

The Oni, Nakiri Ayame thought of something while she was giving piggyback to Kuro while also walking back toward the orphanage.

Why did she decided to chase him?

She knew Kuro's helplessness at that situation, and his mind going chaotic.

Still, was she the person to chase someone? Isn't she more of an person that would stay on the spot and wait for the other sides to apologise to her?

Come to think of it, what was Kuro to her?

Friend? No, more than that, he looked like her son. but at the same time, she can't somewhat treat him as that.

Did she... got scared of losing relationship with Kuro?

... Tis' don't know!

Whatever. It doesn't matter.

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a day has passed since the Kurockening (Blackening)

During that time, the white lion was already back in the Reign Empire.

"mybooze...mybooze...mybooze..."

She saw, in the same spot, from yesterday, at the same place, without a trace of her moving, there laid an winter elf that sat in the spectator sits of colosseum.

She was muttering the same words a countless time. Since half-a-day later she left the colosseum, she have became the urban ghost of colosseum. As the rumour says, she is the Sake Ghost who couldn't ascend to heaven because of her desire for booze.

Or so, or so.

"Lamy, I am sorry for yesterday."

"Shishiron~ ⊙︿⊙ I don't have booze in my spatial storage anymore. and my money... I've used it all up yesterday. ಥ╭╮ಥ"

She seemed like she would start crying anytime.

but all of that stopped when Botan inserted inside her spatial storage and took a certain bottle.

"What is it..."

Looking at the name written in jar, her body shook a single times before she lets out an surprised call.

"Mine Vix!? Shishiron, how did you attain this booze, I thought it disappeared in Years 3,500..."

"I have more booze in my cavern spatial so, don't cry?"

"Thank you, Shishiron! I love you!" <- I don't think she's the type of person to say that. I'll delete it if someone have a complaint.

Now that her magnificent perfect ultra grand plan was ruined by herself, she had to think another plan. Yes, the perfecter plan.

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So here it is. Botan tried to offer something to Leon, but he rejected it because he doesn't a time to play with her. Instead of him, he brought along Akuna, saying it would be a good opportunity to directly face the 'truly strong ones.'

"Are you the Ms. White Lion King?"

"Botan is fine. Anyway, I have this thing here. Wouldn't you buy it from me? I desperately need money."

The White Lion King got straight to the point, strangely giving a pressure to the city's manager. Maybe because of how strong she is, and how much aura she's unconsciously emitting, despite her lazy voices, it sounded intimidated to Akuna.

"Thi, this is Aquatic Dragon's Orb!? The reasons behind the disappearances of Ocean Dragon were because she died!?"

to the magnificent item Botan brought up in the table, Akuna who was said the best at keeping calm, couldn't keep his this time around. he even unconsciously muttered to show how nervous he was

He had no choice but to lose his calm. This was the an Dragon's Orb! Dragon's Orb can only be obtained through the corpse of dragon. so, unless dragon was killed, this item was impossible to get. Besides, the dragon had an similar life force to demon king, making this item more rare.

The dragon being talked here is as strong as the dragons in the fantasy. They were basically a legendary being whose power can match against the gods. as for if it can beat Treiner, it's unknown because he never had the interest in fighting with dragons!

First of all, the mana an Dragon's Orb can hold was unlimited. Which means as long as you have the mana pool, you can expands it effect to the entire universe, or enchant the effect to destroy the entire universe.

as for the Orb's effects, it will differs depending on elements, but Aquatic Dragon's Orb can bring an 'water' in that land. Water can be different depending on the user's wills. It can be poisonous, it can healthy. If one had the mana, one can even create the 'droplets of immortality' capable of extending one's lifespans.

but Akuna had no interest in that. What he's really interested was, using this Orb as the means to solve their farms problem. as this country have many powerful individuals, it also requires much more food compared to others.

Leon was one of the example. Just a single Makdonald meal cost more than 100 peoples food.

Besides, not can the water accelerate the growth of plants, it can also make the plants more tasty. Meaning he can make an excuse even if he raised the prices vegetables.

but, the problem was... how should he buy it. It would've been more easy if the White Lion King said the conditions, even if the conditions was unreasonable. but right now, she hasn't spouted a single word. It meant, she was testing him!

"Come to think of it, I've heard that Kuro wanted paper, plastic, normal ink, mana ink, mana stone, as many as you can. I also want storage space for him to make it more convenient for him."

The White Lion King finally said something to him.

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'Huh? That's it? No, there's no way that Aquatic Dragon's Orb would be this cheap. This must be some trap. Come, my mind think of it. These words must be some hints."

'Paper... paper... paper... I see! That's it! She wanted that materials! That wood has gone extinct but this country still has some of it. as many as she wants meant, 90% of our countries, Ancient Demon Wood.'

He calculated everything and made to an conclusion, and then, he took a memo from his spatial backpack.

Materials:

90% Ancient Demon Wood.

Xeroxing Anti Kinetics Plastic.

Abyssal Kraken's Limitless Ink.

Gabriel's Limitless Mana Ink.

King-Grade, Cryptical Mana Stone.

Void Lord's 4th Dimension

'... Is it really okay for the Aquatic Dragon's Orb to be this cheap?'

Akuna couldn't help but become nervous aa he shows the memo to Botan.

as usual, Botan paid not much attention to it and just nodded with what's written.

"I-if that's so, please give me a day, as I requires the permission from the king. Please keep the Aquatic Dragon's Orb..."

"Sure."