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Starting early in the morning I went to my bakery, or what will be my bakery, and set up all the appliances in the back that I had made for convenience. it took a few hours to get the kitchen the way I wanted it but it will operate now and I also brought in a few of the girls I hired and showed them how to make the different items on the menu. a variety of different pieces of bread but the big hitter is the array of sweets. different styles of cake with almost nine flavors, I am missing something like vanilla and a real cocoa plant but there are some alternatives and they work enough for the purpose.

I even set up some defenses all around the bakery so the works are fine and an emergency teleport circle to leave in a hurry in case someone comes causing trouble. there is also a ' panic button ' of sorts that will alert me of trouble and where it is at, I will be setting these up in all my businesses and after cracking the skulls of a few would-be thieves I imagine people will get the message to screw off. I trained four girls and they will bring helpers to help them spread out the work but for the most part, they will be the only ones knowing the recipes and also signed a contract to not make them or sell them elsewhere except maybe private birthday parties or such. got to leave a little wiggle room or people will get depressed feeling like they're locked in and can't do anything but slave away.

After it was all set up and the girls were competent enough to run the place they nominated one of them to be the leader so to speak of the bakery to do schedules and also do the paperwork such as profits and reports on employees' behavior and such. Naliyi will be the main head leader but she needs some vice leaders for each main business to help her run it so she isn't overwhelmed and still has private time for her plans and such. the girls were practicing setting up displays and planning out an outfit since I said it would look more professional if they had mandatory attire with the bakery's name and such. I worked on some plans for the next project to get knocked out and it just happens to be next door, a restaurant for more dinner-orientated foods. I plan on having quite a few of the food-related businesses all next to each other. a few reasons behind that decision but the main one is to have something for everyone to attract a lot of attention in one spot.

I have a few ideas for the later-night store which will also serve the alcohol that I make. it will have an American southern style, and not just mashed potatoes and gravy but also gumbo and fried steak. I am going for a saloon vibe but not so gritty and dirty, with low lights and wooden stalls for sitting with circle tables and also an open kitchen that lets you smell the food cooking. going to need some horns to mount on the wall and also some red curtains for the windows. should be able to have it all delivered today and only need an hour or two to forge the flat top grill and some refrigerators might need some freezers for some soft serve to end the meal off maybe on top of an apple pie.

After sending for the materials to be bought and delivered I was asked about materials to make outfits and remembered Kia is a good fashion designer and can make clothes. I teleport home and find no one there and head out to find Kia. I arrive at the princess retail store and find Alice slouched on her couch in the side room and Kia reading a book.

"Hey, Kia you busy? well other than babysitting Alice here." Alice looks indignant and begins to rant about not being a baby.

"I am free for the most part, what do you need Nova?" she closes her book and sets it down.

"I need help drawing up an outfit for my bakery and restaurant and was wondering if you could help." Kia looks a bit excited and even Alice looks a bit interested.

"Do you have any ideas so far?"

"Wait let's just head over there and see! I will put up the closed sign lets go over there." Alice runs out of the room and Kia just shakes her head and heads to stand by my side. after Alice returned I teleported us to the bakery and showed them the workers so they could talk to Kia about what they decided. I also give over some black crystal coins to buy the material enough they can make multiple sets.

"Nova! can I try the food that is on display?" Alice sits on the Stoll by the register I made and spins in place.

"Sure we were just getting an idea of what the display will look like you can eat all you want." stars shine in her eyes as she jumps up and stumbles a bit from being dizzy and grabs the display as she steadies herself. seeing Alice digging into the berry cupcakes I look at Kia and shrug. "if she passes out from a sugar rush just send for me at the forge down the road I need to get back to work."

"Ok, we will head that way when we are done here." Kia waves and I head to the forge.

I need to make a full kitchen for the country restaurant and also a few other appliances for the living quarters for the girls.

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Setting the last panel in place on the back of the freezer I seal it up with a quick weld and smooth it out with the grinder I have thrown together. the grinder rocks back and forth at stupidly fast speeds and after making it to sand down the front of the appliances to make them look better I realized how versatile I can get with the different magics I have. like just from this tool I could make a plethora of raunchy ' toys ' add in some other modern knowledge and an entire enterprise can be built. I would assume it's the devil showing with everything I do I think of different ways to make a profit off of it. speaking of the devil one just walked in on me, turning around I wave at her.

"Hey Athena, what's up?" she walks over and gives me a hug which I reciprocate.

"Nothing, I was just bored and came to find you." she nuzzles back and forth across my chest and I look over at my workbench at the dagger I am working on and steer her away from it. can't have her spoiling one of her birthday gifts.

"Did you see Kia and Alice? they should have been in the new bakery if they didn't walk back on their own." she looks up keeping her chin on my chest.

"Yea I saw them but I wanted to come to see you so I left after a while. you put up a lot of defenses around those buildings."

"Yea well not everyone can defend themselves yet and I can't have them dying on me." she nods and finally lets go and walks over to look at the items I have finished. while she isn't looking I store the unfinished dagger.

"Where are these going?" she opens the freezer I just got finished with and gets blasted with a frost breath. closing it and turning to me with an unamused look I walk behind the freezer and lower the output since I forgot earlier. Athena starts to light her fire form up before she stops and pauses for a bit.

"What's wrong Athena?" she smiles and wraps her frozen arms around my neck and then jumps with her legs wrapped around my back and presses her frost-covered body against me sending a chill through me. "hey let go-" she stops my complaint when she presses her searing hot lips against my own and I feel her fire melt off the ice and soak both our fronts before it steams off. after a few moments she pulls back and sets her forehead against mine and I notice she is in her demon form. her small curved horns on the side of her head above her ears are framing the side of her face as she doesn't break eye contact. I admire her beautiful reddened skin for a bit too long and she pulls back and looks down but doesn't let go.

"Do you not like it when I look like this? I can avoid going in this form other than combat if it bothers yo-oww!" giving her a quick smack on the ass and she stops talking and looks even redder if that was possible.

"I like it, it looks good and I definitely won't be complaining at all." she takes a few moments for it to set in and then launches her face at me and kisses me again headbutting me hard enough to momentarily stun me. coming back to my senses we begin a battle with our tongues and she moans out in my mouth squeezing with her legs.

I am paying more attention to my surroundings at the moment and notice the building being approached by two people and break the kiss-off. Athena whines a bit and I pry her off and set her on my workstation.

"We got company about to walk in so let's chill out, that and your birthday is not that far away anyway, and would suck to ruin your chance for a quick promotion." she seemingly just remembered her bloodline ability and quickly agrees.

"Your right that would be stupid to do when I have waited all this time for it." she looks to the door and not seeing anyone walk in yet looks back at me and changes back to her base form but doesn't lose the blush. " was it alright? I have never done that before so I don't know if it was good or not." she turns her face and waits for my answer. this chick can be so cute when she wants to.

"Hmm maybe we will have to try it a bit more later to know for sure." she looks back and deadpans but before she can cause a ruckus the door opens and Alice marches in with Kia behind her. Athena quickly acts like nothing is wrong and approaches her friends, I throw all the appliances in my inventory and walk over to join them.

"You like all the baked goods, Alice?" I ask as I walk up to join them. she quickly nods and begins to count off her hand.

"The first one was good but the third was the best I also enjoyed the chewy cookies." she smiles and I ruffle her hair a bit to her annoyance. "They didn't run you too hard did they, Kia?" I turn to the succubus who is looking oddly between me and Athena, she snaps out of it hearing her name.

"No Nova they gave their suggestions and I got a few drawings done and will work on the prototype later tonight." she looks around the room looking for something but seemingly can't find it.

"Something wrong Kia?" Alice asks.

"No princess I was just curious about what it was I was smelling but I can't find it." Kia gives me a pointed look and I realize she probably got some succubus sense letting her know we were recently getting hot in here and I quickly move the conversation on.

"Well Alice I need to set my appliances at the store and check if the delivery came through yet but after that, I will drop you off where ever you want." she agrees and I warp us out but notice Kia shifting closer to Athena and looking her over and at this point, Athena also realized and is trying not to give anything away. I sigh and prepare for all the teasing the made will cook up once Alice is no longer around.