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I pet the head of Shirone, who decided to make a nest on my lap. Currently, we are inside the train to go back to the Phenex Territory. Both Shirone and Kuroka decide to be polite and leave me to have time with the Gremorys.

However, when I go and meet them on my last day, I get tackled by Shirone.

I spend a few hours inside their house given by Zeoticus to them when he sees that Shirone becomes a close friend to Rias. The house is not too big but not small either. It was a one-floor house, but it can fit three medium-sized bedrooms, and there is a basement.

There is a library filled with books, but I know both Shirone and Kuroka will not read it unless there is a manga book in there for Shirone to read. I think the only thing this room is used for is a nap place for both of them.

"So, what will we do after this, nyaa?"

"Hmmm? I don't know. Continue my training, I think."

"Noooo. I don't want to train! Not yet, at least."

"So, what do you want to do?"

"Hmmm, I know! We should go to Japan!"

I look at her for a second before saying.

"Don't you say that the Nekomata tribe in there hate you guys? For being a traitor and all that?"

"Don't worry! They are staying in Hokkaido, and as long as we stay in southern and central Japan, we are going to be okay."

"Are you sure?"

"Yup. We can even ask Rias to come! I think she will be delighted to visit Akihabara!"

"Hmmm. That sounds good. We will go there in two days."

"Yay~"

Akihabara, huh? Akihabara is not only known as the heaven for Otaku and Japanophiles. A perfect place for Rias to explore as she is both of them. This place also has a rather hidden part. They are hidden from the mundane humans.

Akihabara is the marketplace for magicians around the world. This is the place where many magicians and onmyōji sell their work. Some Shrine Maiden even sold their service to purify evil spirits or seal an evil creature into a weapon to make a cursed weapon.

This is a perfect place for a magic enthusiast like us (My peerage and me) and a perfect place to search for something unique.

Not only that, but we also buy some familiar food from this place. We don't need to hunt them in the wilderness and then tame them. It makes the process easier. While it is a tradition to bring a young devil to the familiar forest to get their partner, they can use other methods to get their familiar.

Because not every devil can get their familiar using this method.

When they did not get familiar with this method, they decided to use another method. Familiar seller. They buy their familiar from the familiar seller.

My father said that it was not too different from forming a natural contract in the familiar forest. The only difference is that a naturally bonded familiar is more loyal than the one we buy. I am not saying that a bought familiar was not loyal, no.

They are still loyal, but if they are placed in a dangerous situation, the naturally bonded familiar is willing to trade their life for yours while the one you bought will think twice before taking action.

There is also a positive point of buying your familiar. You can buy a powerful familiar without needing to fight them first.

"Hmmm, should we ask Lady Phenex to come with us? I have a few places that I know she will like."

I snap from my thoughts when I hear Kuroka speak to me.

"I already plan to ask her. I also want to ask my father, but I know he will be busy when we arrive. With my engagement already sealed, he will meet many lords who want to talk to him."

"Bleh. Politics. I think I have an allergy to politics."

"Me too, my beloved queen, me too."

I smile a little when I see her blushing at me, calling her my queen. Heh. She is a master of flirting, but she also was not immune to one as well. I'm grateful that hormones have yet attacked me.

However, I'm terrified of my first hormone rush at the age of ten.

"Mou. Don't blame me if something happens when your puberty hits you."

"Oh, my? What do you want to do? Fuck you silly? Riding me all night long? Or do you want me on top?"

"Nyaa~"

After I said that, Kuroka released a soft nyaa while her face looked like a tomato.

"Attention! We will arrive in Carron City, Phenex Territory, in one minute! Attention!"

Oh, it looks like we will arrive. I shake Shirone a little bit, and when she continues to snore on my lap, I decide to pick her up.

~A few hours later~

"Hmmm. I really should talk to Lord Gremory, master."

"And like I said before, you will meet him but not now."

After I gave Medea the book I borrowed from the Gremory library, she insisted that she wanted to meet the writer of the book. As a fellow potion practitioner and poison enthusiast. Medea wants to exchange some notes with Zeoticus.

"He is busy, Medea."

"... Very well. However, I want you to promise to introduce me to him."

"And I already did that last month."

"Ah, you are right."

"Don't worry. I will ask him to let you study his poison plant collection and research."

"Thank you."

"You are welcome. Now, Do you want to come with me? I want to go back to the company hub and take the reward for the emergency quest."

"Sure. Also, can I buy something from the Company?"

"Hmmm? What is it?"

"A workshop. I see the list of Advantage Perks that we can buy for the pocket dimension, and one of them is a workshop. A workshop complete with items we need to do our research and experiment. Not only that, but it also gets refilled every three months."

"Sure."

After saying that, I take out my phone and open up the portal to the Company hub before walking through the portal.