This goes back to before Masaru returned back to the manor when he would receive orders to head towards the northern town.
Angelica who already were tasked to visit a town that was literately on the borders the Belial family shared with the Adramelech Family in their east. Unlike the other towns that had farms surrounding it, this town was simply a merchant market town with only shops trading products between the two territories.
There was a time Adramelech Family tired to suppress the market here but was quite brutally scammed under the cause of Compensation so they never tried it again, that is just how powerful this ability is... Belial Unique Style: Scam.
The people were moving quite actively and from the looks of her surroundings, Angelica could more or less already guess there was nothing going on in this town, the people were simply here to buy or sell then leave.
"Oh my what a lovely girl" a Nearby cart merchant spoke out towards Angelica, she was a middle-aged lady who appears to have aged but her eyes were sharp like a veteran.
"You are not from here are you?" hearing this question Angelica came over, since she needed someone who could provide her question it was quite a well timing.
"Yes, I am Angelica, I am Masaru Belial's pawn" This was one of the things Dominic told her to openly say when she arrives in this town, the reason was the sharp-eyed woman instantly became all flattering.
"Can you prove this y-young lady?" The merchant spoke while Angelica pulled out a ring with the Belial sigil on it, this was enough to make the merchant quite cooperative with her so she managed to get the information quite easily.
It appears there are no such instances from this town where people felt disappointed at the Belial Family to the point they wanted to rebel, in fact, they were quite happy at how things are currently in their lives.
Since her job was complete she decided to journey through the town because she loved travelling, "Ma'm can I get this skewer"
The lady who was in charge of barbeque the skewers looked at Angelica feeling shocked that such a well-dressed girl would try out commoner food, but since Angelica was quite friendly the lady complied and made skewers for her, "This is our Belial's speciality, we call it Dragon P. Pork Skewers"
Angelica who was bout to take a bite stopped, "Dragon P Pork?"
The lady nodded proudly, "It's made by using Dragon Pork meat, it is so delicious that you will want to have more... Like an addictive poison"
Angelica was still a bit bothered as it was called poison but she still took a small bite from it, the soft texture and the fat juice which gush out into her mouth with each bite began to spread that lightly toned addictive properties.
Angelica could not even savour the taste entirely before it was all gone "Huh?"
The lady nodded with a nostalgia gaze, she saw this so many times that she too remember the day she tried this herself, "That is why it's called poison, it's so good you finish it before you realized it"
"Such a dangerously delicious meat, I will write it in my note" Since Angelica had a strong resistance to poison she was not affected to have another serving that badly, she started to visit each store trying out their food and drinks. It could be said she was living in her dream.
'I should bring Lord Masaru with me here someday' She made a heart sign next to this place's name to remind herself.
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Yui Asaka was currently supporting Elizabeth who has been quite busy lately ever since Masaru introduced the new fertilizer creation recipe. She and her team were already researching several variant types of these fertilizers for each location with a different climate, soil type, etc. They wanted to create a variety of this fertilizer that could work depending on where it is used and what soil it was suited for.
Not to mention, it was also recently when Masaru sent this purple pig which shocked Yui as this pig looked like any ordinary pigs found in the Human world.
Thanks to the period of time this laboratory had, it expanded and even began to research things to help Ajuka's research facility.
The only problem could be the fact that Elizabeth, Masaru's elder sister or sort of sister became quite addicted to creating prank devices which she was currently making, From the looks of it, it appears to be a flat circular glass with nothing special to it.
"Elizabeth-sama, what are you making today?" Hearing Yui's question Elizabeth stopped for a short break.
"Remember at school Masaru was dealing with those boys who keep trying to peep on you girls?"
Yui nodded, the Kuoh Academy that recently became a Co-Ed school because Masaru was coming was filled with perverted boys because the number of girls was the majority.
"This little device is to cause a good amount of trauma on the peepers since Masaru got tired of fixing walls he asked me to make something that can function like a bug spray which will kill the idea of peepers instantly, so I made this baby" Elizabeth explained,
Yui nodded thinking her master truly was the best, trying to destroy the perverts but what she did not realize was the real reason was Elizabeth and Masaru were using the perverts as their specimens to test the pranks on since Perverts were known for their strong resistance for the sake of tits. Truly remarkable specimens they are.
"What does this device do?"
Hearing Yui's question Elizabeth smiled mysteriously, "That my dear little sweet sister is a secret... Look forward to school this coming term"
Yui never took it seriously, but the amount of bloodshed the perverts suffered because of this device will be doing its work until the last member of Masaru's peerage graduates from the Academy.
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"Everest you rarely come visit your aunt" Tiamat was currently faking her tears although she did feel a bit lonely without having her little angel near her, Everest who heard this blushed feeling ashamed that she was indeed was busy ever since she met with Masaru she was quite in a wild ride which she enjoyed and never will regret.
She gently rubbed Tiamat's back "Sorry Aunt"
Tiamat, however, said something outrageous, "I almost thought you had many babies and could not face us"
Tannin who was currently talking to his son while taking a sip of his tea, when he heard what Tiamat said he spit it out like a spray gun over his son's face turning to look at Tiamat, even his son was shocked even forgetting his own father spit tea all over his face.
"EH!? What stupid things are you saying, aunt! It's too soon!!! WAY TOO SOON!" Tiamat clicked her tongue feeling that her once pure little girl had grew up, however, she still felt this was amusing so she decided to tease her little girl some more.
"What a spineless brat, not daring to eat the dragon meat in front of him? I was waiting for several hundred dragon eggs by now"
"Aunt you idiot!" Everest could not contain her embarrassment as she ran off to her room.
Tiamat smiled while Tannin sighed before apologizing to his son who simply shook his head.
"Well, I will give it to that brat he really managed to change her" Tiamat spoke feeling relieved, Everest's change was truly something she wanted and it was realized.
"Well, that is for the best" Tannin leaned on his chair completely forgotten what he spoke with his son about since this short exchange was simply too shocking... Because of the fact... Everest never denied she did want Masaru's babies
"Aunt Tiamat looks brighter... I feel honoured to have a brother-in-law who could change her this way" Bova spoke happily while Tiamat felt a bit complicated but she at least completely acknowledges this boy.
"Tannin, I will be taking Everest with me to train her since they have vacation time," Tiamat said with a nonchalant attitude, but Tannin knew she was serious so he said nothing and nodded, he who is the father could never seriously train Everest which is why Tiamat normally does it.
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Akeno was currently playing magical battleship that moves troops around the map magically while actually launching attacks on the enemies, instead of pins they call out the attacks and if correct the ship is sinking.
Her opponent was Diana which was extremely difficult because she could not read Diana's intentions nor predict her movements, she kept losing horribly against her but each time she began to improve as she kept experimenting new strategies against Diana.
Ichika and Ingvild were playing an open strategy game, it had a massive board that projected virtual figures where soldiers move around the terrains acting out a real battle, the catch was the fact even if Ingvild and Ichika were next to each other they could not hear or see each other's faces so they could issue real-time commands during this gaming period.
Currently, this was an hour break time that was also counted as training since they normally do the paperwork for the Travel & Security Agency which is normally Diana's and her subordinates tasks.
Diana was training these three girls in their judgement skills, reaction skills, commanding skills and adaptability skills like she had been doing before since training these skills is not something that can come overnight but has to be experienced many times in different ways so they will experience to react to change in battles in the middle of a battle.
This was the girls' vacation time in the underworld while Masaru was still moving around and about.
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The rest of the vacation was quite uneventful ever since the first wave of attacks in Belial was curbed and Ulrika who moved faster than Masaru expected managed to grab hold of most criminals in the Belial Territory making them loyal men to his cause.
With the criminals taken care of, the security of the Belial Lands increased explosively to the point that Damian and Diehauser went to personally investigate. The sight of Criminals volunteering to do labour work truly made them shocked, luckily Masaru explained to them that he handled this himself so they simply let it slide as another miracle by the Wonder Child.
The construction of his base has also started, however, from the reports given to him they slowed down the process a bit to first set up an illusion barrier that will only be slightly higher than the trees to mask their base before they continue to speed up the constructions.
As for the girls, Angelica enjoyed her town visiting a few more towns but strangely she could only find the Poison pork meat at the borders of the town where they were dealing with neighbouring territories.
Dominic allowed this movement since it was contained at the borders while Elizabeth was researching the meat. They could already start building up a client base before they move to expand some branch stores in other territories.
Ulrika was quite fast instated as the Mayor of the Belial territory Capital City which increased her workload, thanks to the command seal she could get loyal subordinates to help with her paperwork and she also did not have to be actively giving orders to the Assassin leaders. Since the orders according to the plan she and Masaru created was being dealt with by them.
Yui who finished assisting Elizabeth was moving together with Masaru and Sakura who visited a few nearby villages near the Belial Manor to experience a bit of farmer life, however, Yui would at times look at Masaru wanting to ask about the device he had Elizabeth make for him.
She could not ask since it might be something she would be better off not knowing. Diana was in a cheerful mood since the girls who "trained" with her managed to complete all the paperwork which she left behind for a few months.
Days went by and the time to return to the Human world finally came, Masaru made sure to isolate the room before he started to talk to his girls.
"Now that no one can hear, what I am about to share with you girls is something that can't be told to anyone in the family even my mother can't know of this since it's highly important for me." The girls who heard Masaru had a serious expression but they still nodded as they believed Masaru would not bring harm to innocents and family.
"Ulrika is my hidden pawn, I kept quiet about this because I intend to have her start building my power within my territory and collect information for me," Masaru said something that was contradicting what he told Sakura.
"You told--" Sakura said with a disbelief expression, Masaru gently patted her head.
"I could not expose her identity to you yet, when I made her my pawn I was still considering what she had to do for me" Masaru explained to her feeling a bit sad.
"Why would you hide her" Masaru smiled at Akeno who asked this, she wondered why he would hide a peerage member this time around.
"Because even if I love my family I need to ensure someone can watch over them from the shadows for me when I am not around or while I am in the human world. The other reason is that we are living in the world where controlling minds are quite simple so I need eyes who can detect these things especially if anyone does such things to the family so I can resolve it quickly" Masaru answered while adding some more.
"Sometimes to trick the enemies you have to trick your allies, so Ulrika will be a hidden pawn that I will not introduce for a year or two depending on the situation" The girls understood the role Ulrika was playing here and none of them could take this role so they conceded on this,
"And also, before I even become the head of the family I want to at least already know everything that is happening in my territory so I will not be stuck, I am not sure of other heirs how they plan their future as heads of the family but I will work in a path by planning ahead" Masaru explained to them while keeping his other plan hidden.
Since it was only to at the beginning phase where they are building the secret base while training his personal hidden force in his name. Not to mention it requires a decent information centre where he will be able to get the information of variety factions whether their good or bad as he desires.
He still have to consider how he will approach the mythology races that has God Class warriors, he will have to test if they will be able to deal with the command seal on high-class warriors. If they can't then he can go forward without care. But like he said, in this world, many things are possible so he will have to make several plans in case it fails.
"For now, I want you girls to focus on getting stronger. Unlike Ulrika who I want to start working immediately, she also has to train but it will be on her own. When we all graduate, the times we can have free will become less." Masaru said as he smiled at his women, he loved them dearly and will do whatever it takes to safeguard them.
"yes!"
"Masaru! Dinner is ready!" Diana called out, hearing this call everyone rushed out of the room for dinner with the whole family.