Devil's Business

Savor the Meat

 The royal woman’s abundant eagerness towards Juno’s sword brought his own thoughts to the game itself. Lafath has never told him about his ancestors or any of his predecessors, by which the demon had referred to as the source of his current ability. Twin swords that he got from the seemingly-mischievous shopkeeper has no real information introduced beforehand, only a pushover from the demon clerk and its petty scheme of business.

Nonetheless, all of Jonah’s reaction towards him has turning upside down. Her shrieking tone and twitching horns are all he could perceive as honesty and geek side of herself. Yet something has bugged him ever since.

“All of that exhilaration and you haven’t tell me about yourself, Jonah.” Asked Juno to the lady. She bent her heads a little to display her pure thoughts of the man’s request.”Do I have to? I am Jonah, and a wife of that man over there.” She explained in short with no further interest whatsoever to Juno’s figure.

Before Juno has his own thoughts exchanged to her ineptitude, the demon scientist interrupted their conversation immediately,”Sorry, my man. Jonah is usually being aggressive if she got interested over something else. I can’t tell you how-“

“What’s that, you say? Aggressive?”

“Yep” Ruso confirmed with a single thumbs up to the conclusion,”Have you ever talk to me before my recent invention, huh? I am your first husband, and all you have are those attention to the Beneno’s adolesc-“

“Oh, yeah? You want to drag this into ‘that’ sort of conversation, old man? You can’t give me a child, a royal one.” She retorted his protest in high-pitched tone, almost screaming to Ruso as her showcase of emotion. To the abrupt commotion, Juno acted as calm as he tried to ponder on what they have stated.

“So, you are the first husband, Ruso? Now that’s interesting. I’ve never-“

The royal woman slanted her eyes to Juno,”Never what, young human? That’s the culture for our demon class. We can marry with more than one man if-“

“Don’t give him misinformation of your clan. You’re just horny, not being a horn-enthusiast yourself.” The demon scientist halted her statement mid way in modest fashion. With the implication, the royal lady has herself fuming by the upcoming issue, but rather docile afterwards by no further words to say.

“See? She can’t reply that one, can she?” Ruso jiggled his heads in victory of the debate,”Yes, Juno. From the rule of this country, a royal woman could marry another demon if the first husband can’t give her a firstborn royal, but even with one she decided to marry that thief of the filthy county without my permission.”

“I’m not-“

“Alright, that’s enough. We have to rest for the night.” Concluded Juno before the heat goes awry between the two as they arrived to the northwestern entrance of the city.

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It is the ultimate day of Juno’s second weeks of his month at the demonic realm. He gained a bunch of level-ups subsequent to the demon scientist’s request by vanquishing groups of Kudelumas nearby the city gate. The protection bubble helps him so much to the extent of no need for enhancement to his own ability hereafter. In spite of it’s longer duration to kill one of the beast, they are all incapacitated instantly when He slice their throat in a flash when they were standing off-guard.

Without further ado, the pre-scheduled whirlpool of red void are summoned to his room while he was sitting on the couch adjacent to the bedroom. He started to remember the agenda of his departure back to earth, which settled in every afternoon of his last day of the two weeks mandatory life inside hell.

“Ciao, Mooma City!”

The teleportation gate transferred him instantly to his mansion. Much to the previous session, Juno’s nausea is letting themselves in and punching his stomach in advance. His collection of figure are only sitting in place and being cold to their owner’s woe. As much as Corporal Jatra, the rattan-shield hero with full-size resemblance to the actual actor, which forgot to do his duty as a savior of the realm. The chinese jugs can not agree more with the rigidity of their cold-ice immobile act, as it is standing chiefly beside the transparent showcase.

“Betty! Water!” Juno shouted to his personal assistant, with which agreed to wait for his arrival when the arrival is due in front of the master bedroom. Much to his concern over his maid’s buffoon act, she is actually never shown up to the station and reporting for duty.

“Ugh, do I have to activate the ‘intercom’ protocol again? She is way too slow-“

(Drrrt!)

An abrupt quakes are shaking the door in an instant and halting his barrage of pout towards the sluggish fashion of his maid. Juno realizing that something devious was hiding behind the door for some time and silently approaching the door to find out.

“A-Ha! Here you are, using the rod of pleasure against the door-“

Juno catches his maid is standing adjacent to the white door of his room, using the rod of pleasure to caress her sensitive spot. Her boss’ sudden announcement made her astonished and trembled in response.

“B-boss! H-hel-lo! Uh, that’s fantastic!” Greeted Betty to the bewildered Juno, stuttering against the aggravating order of the man. By the unbearable truth of his maid, Juno sighed,”I know how much you love those buzzing beats, but can you please do that with the other maid down there? You know how I treated you as their chief, so give them a nice example of attitude, ya?”

To the objection of his master, Betty could only nested his head down and agreeing his proposal without any following reply to the issue.

(Uhuk!)

Because of the tumultuous situation happened against his will, the forthcoming wave of second nausea is hitting him for the second time,”Water, please, if you may!” Asked Juno for the last attempt to the maid before laying his puke to the floor.

“Thank you for the humility, boss Juno. I’ll- uh, my arms are twitching so hard..”

“Damn it, Betty! Be quick and shove me a glass of water!”

“Yes sir!” She responded afterwards, while awkwardly descending down the stairs to the pantry as requested.

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The half-time whistle of his real life adventure are beckoned ahead of his active challenge on the line. He knew of the fact that precedes his entire adventure, of which might be involving his own bravery along the way as he has to spend all of his half billion in two weeks in accordance to the challenge. For the first one in mind, he browse over the term ‘most expensive gourmet’ of the world, and he found several that are interesting to his own demanding appetite while scrolling down the list of food bloggers’ experience in online platforms.

”Um, saffrion-kubo beef combination would be nice!” Clamored Juno while seeing the marbled piece of meat from Kubo, a geographical indication for the most price attained to a single food and the rare seasonings made of flowers from south Amarca.

Two nights later, another open house party is held in Juno’s mansion. Kubo’s authentic meat are coated with grams of saffrion as the most priceless mixture to date. Nobody questioned his decision to mark the entry of his arrival with one of the most succulent gourmet due to their business with the delicacy itself. Lots of individuals are mesmerized by the breeze of savory taste that raided their tongue with its rich flavors. The party then followed by Je-llo’s special poetry performance to entertain the hungry crowd of strangers in Juno’s mansion to accompany their time of dinner with his recent production.

On the second floor of his mansion, the owner and party-maker has himself occupied with talks against some of his colleagues. Before him, Warron Dinner is leaning towards the handrail of the second floor’s corridor as he overseeing Je-llo’s performance down below. Juno’s massive inquisitiveness regarding the historical avenue of Lafath made him invited the old collector to attend his open house party, especially due to the direct announcement of Warron’s acknowledgement to the beast itself.

“So, how’s the party for you, sir Dinner? Something to complain about?” Asked Juno to the old man while having a toast with him. The old man himself seemed enjoying the savory of Kubo’s meat and saffrion’s combination, all because of his second plate order to Juno’s personal maid,”There’s no issue with this, son. I am only a bit bewildered by how convenient you are to empty the demon’s purse right away.”

“Speaking of the demon.” Followed Juno with the cue implied by the old man,”You must be having another client at your disposal with demonic bond to Lafath.”

Warron Dinner are not objecting or assessing his confirmation to the truth, only smirking to Juno’s curiosity as he smothered a slice of meat to his mouth.

“You can’t tell me about that, huh?”

“Not that way, amigo.” Warron Dinner answered,”That beast surely has tremendous power. I don’t want to involve with its business by giving you confidential information such as these.”

The concept of ‘tremendous power’ tingling his nerves immediately. Its own inquisitiveness and capacity to look into his own thoughts are surely intimidating. He should have not agreed to any business with the ancient demon from the start, because this whole trouble has started to breach his ego even more.

All of sudden, a massive echo entered his thoughts.

“Hello there, Juno. Nearly depleted your cash, I see.” Said the voice to him in bold and brash tone.

“So, you’re appeared inside my heart for now, master demon? With all due respect, your appearance is stunning me a little.” Answered Juno to the darkness ahead.

“To cut it short, I want to give you the challenge ahead of its expiration. I don’t want to lose my combatants, not without a glimpse of my power, so you’ll never get out from this challenge until you have entered my lair.” Announced the demon to Juno. He himself gotten a small time astonishment, but not really much unbound because of his own prediction to the beast’s intention.

“I’ll still disclose the third one before the first day of your third month, but you’ll have to know this: I hate cheaters, and there’s punishment in every misdeeds you took.”