Chapter 24: Empire Business

3rd Person POV

When the competition ends, the demons who came to represent for Tehios and some of the humans as well reported everything and everyone who got recruited and adopted to the demon continents.

The recorded each and every name, stole every record, and then made their escape, the demon lord now know who to watch out for and how to prepare for their upcoming war, they're mobilizing, and plan to launch a small surprise attack when the heroes get summoned, and then slowly work his way to eliminate all the lesser beings...with some of the ones who work as their spies as exceptions of course.

"It's almost time to choose my successor." the demon lord then coughed up blood that was super red in color "It's almost time, I'll make sure to live till the we launch that surprise attack, we'll kill 3 of them at best, but it's better than nothing to help my successor."

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About 4/5 of the participants of the adoption ceremony went home/ new home/additional home happy, they either got recruited or adopted, the ceremony overall was a success, and their diplomatic relationship are stronger than ever.

Everyone got what they wanted, and they already know, for the next few years, a lot of the riches that they spent generations to save up, they will make it to good use.

They really plan on ending everything once and for all, peace isn't going to last forever, all the common minor conflict will eventually move up to a world war once again. They have no doubts in the thought that the demons managed to know they already started the summoning process and are waiting for the heroes to finally arrived.

Both sides are bidding their time, and one research in particular is gaining more and more attention than ever, the search for the last rose.

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Perseus POV

"You woke up early, did your dance, your training, shower and now ask me for money. Why?" Mom Rylee asked "Why are you gathering large containers and using your savings on buying lemons?"

They sat me down before they let me go off and do my usual thing, they're even late for work just so they can really question my intentions, damn it, why do I have such good parents, that's like 20 chapters that can easily be written up for me to really connect with them and have them redeem themselves, damn the stupid and plain author.

|Ayo, what the fuck? Why am I getting shot by the stray bullet?|

"Selling blue lemonade, no law forbid a child to create a stand, and with Ruka as my poster girl, free money, don't worry, I'll charge proper money for fair profits."

"No, it's because we can never tell what you're thinking, what's your goal in all this?" Mom Nyra chimed in

"I just want to be rich, I'm content with our life and grateful for everything you 2 have done for me, so I'm now repaying you by giving you both an early retirement."

"With lemonade, I thought you were smarter than that." mom Nyra continued to question "I know you've found loopholes to start a business, and as sweet as all that sounds, what are you really doing?"

"I'm not just in the lemonade business, I'm in the empire business."

Yes, I totally did not just referenced anything in particular.

"Come on, it's not like it's a cover up for a drug trade."

Yes, no reference in particular. *Wink wink*.

"Why are you winking at that direction? Who's there?" Mom Nyra asked

"Oh just some losers who has less than 20mins of interaction with the opposite gender as they read about our lives in their free time."

"We never said anything about drugs, and now that you've said it, we're concerned." Mom Rylee responded

"F-I mean, Fiddlesticks!"

"Were you about to curse again?"

"Fine, I'll say it...It's not really known, but if I summon petals and turn them in dust, mix them with some ingredients, I can make anti aging cream, you know, to make your skin moist, smooth and not as wrinkly?"

"I can confirm, it's possible." Ruka added "I hate to say this, but I'm the most childish amongst my siblings, so I came up with different methods to try and stand out."

"So you're saying, for the past month, you could have been doing that instead of having us use our regular cream?" mom Nyra pulled a time out sign with her hands

"Why would you need them? Look at yourselves, I mean look at your picture(in volume 0, character album, contains every important or semi important characters there), you 2 are beautiful, but I need loyal customers, so I'm starting with lemonade."

It took a lot of convincing but they allowed me too, I used the power of the roses to lift up boards of wood and create my own stand, and focus on making the cream thing based on Ruka's instructions.

Some of the children adopted by the nobles are for the sole purpose of arranged marriage, so it means a lot of investments in beauty products for those children. I asked around and most of beauty care products aren't that effective, there are services provided by some mages, but those magic treatments are too expensive for regular people.

I'm just tapping into the market and gaining certain monopolies, Ruka is actually going along without a fight since she said that preparing wealth in order to prepare for upcoming events.

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"Well we got the stand, and I went to get the license for us." Ruka said as we finished up "One of the ingredients is the poison sabretooth tiger that can be found in the forest, let's go, you need your first experience hunting and killing."

"In this body, yes, let's go."

"Wait, you've kill before?" she gave me a questioning look

"You weren't some serial murderer that I should scared of...right?"

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*In Perseus' original world*

The therapist went to register Perseus death certificate, and she brought along one file that was recorded when he reached the age of 20.

File: Project Loki

Name: Originally unknown due to deletion of records (Loki)

Age: 20

Family: Parents(only remaining members) eliminated during time of capture

Ethnicity: Southeast Asian descent

Threat level: Apocalypse(Started with orange)