Chapter 414

[32nd Round] What Is This Dark Energy?

Dads on Earth?

I still dont know if this is my father-in-laws work.

I searched my memories without affirming or denying my cowardly wifes judgment.

This wasnt the first time I had been here since I was kidnapped and taken to Fantasy.

There was a time when I stayed for a day here, like a teaser to my return.

No, it didnt even last a day.

You mean you could be the culprit behind this Dark Energy, hubby?

Yes.

For my retirement, I used Dark Energy on this planets ruling cla.s.s.

I didnt prepare for my retirement myself, but I ordered the corrupted earthlings to do it for me at the time.

Everything went perfectly up to that point.

Ah! Didnt you die and reincarnate as a cute baby without even being able to use your retirement funds?

Yes.

This was really awkward.

My clone at the time then became an actual demon. However, since he didnt receive any orders from me for over 20 Earth years, then my last command should still be in effect even at this moment.

If that were the case, then the rejuvenation pill could have originated from the last order I gave to my loyal subordinate.

Nonsense. Im the Second Demon! Theres no way I cant recognize Dark Energy!

Each pill only has a minuscule amount of it.

I didnt even notice it until I saw it up close despite already being its master.

That was precisely why I still couldnt be certain that this was my doing.

Its somehow different.

I understand now. This is extremely similar to the time Demon Archduke C reformed his Dark Energy to become independent of Demon Lord Pedonar. This one is much more complete, however.

That doesnt make sense either. The demon on Earth is more or less 20 years old. Its highly unlikely for him to be able to control a technique that sophisticated. On the other hand, my dads more than capable of handling its complexity.

My father-in-law

It was possible that he was hiding here.

What are you guys discussing in the middle of this emergency? Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt your brothers safety more important than the source of these pills right now?

My mothers voice sounded frustrated and irritated.

She was right.

I had to restore my familys peace first.

Mother.

What is it?

I really love you. Dad, too.

Whats gotten into you Huh?

I was the Demon Lord who inherited the family business from the First Demon.

The moment I learned that the cause of our current predicament was Dark Energy, providing a solution to it became extremely simple.

Srrrr

I suppressed my mothers unconscious desire to follow the demon who imbued it with her.

I hoped I could completely eliminate its side effects, but there was no such thing as a non-addictive drug, was there?

If my guess was correct

Son.

Yes.

Shoulder rub.

Sure.

How can you come back after twenty-five years and not even buy us a present? I want to hit your unrecognizable face with a tennis racket so bad, but Ill hold myself back since my cute grandson is right in front of us.

A wise decision, mother.

Heh, its nice to have a big son. You used to be small and frail, but you certainly have gotten stronger. Keep going. The muscles in my shoulders are starting to loosen

Ill do this more often.

This is strange. I feel as if my heads gotten a little clearer. Is it just me?

/p>

Its just you.

We spent a long time in silence.

Ssosia, not wanting to interrupt our moment as mother and child, helped my father wash the dishes instead.

Mollan.

Mollan~ Mollan~

She committed atrocities against Master Mollan, who was born with the n.o.blest lineage in the universe.

Cowardly demon!

Son.

Yes?

Im sorry.

What for?

Dont ask if you know.

Okay.

I shouldnt have made such a big deal about my second child running away from home. If hes truly my son, he will thrive no matter where he is. Isnt that right, eldest son?

Yes, mother!

This was the mom I knew.

She no longer held her tennis racket as before, but her mood and tone hadnt changed.

Oh, right. She said she was sad since I didnt prepare a gift.

I should never let her know that I actually didnt.

Her words had to be carefully a.n.a.lyzed and resolved like hidden easter eggs in RPG games.

In doing so, she would always love me.

Youre good at shoulder ma.s.sages even though your heart is numb, son.

Haha! Theres no way your first-cla.s.s filial son didnt prepare a gift, mother. Your mood was just so serious that I was embarra.s.sed to take it out

So Im at fault?

Not at all. I just wanted to wait before showing it to you.

Hmm.

Ill take it out now.

With Master Mollans teachings, my mind activated my divine power, significantly slowing time down.

Why?

I needed more time to think!

A grandchild was the greatest gift I could give her, but I couldnt claim my son as my gift since it wasnt me but my cowardly wife who struggled to give birth to Sidael.

What gift would she like?

Is that really important enough to freeze the entire solar systems time, husband? Ssosia asked. As an apostle, she was unaffected by my power.

Of course. Even if she said she didnt need a gift, I wouldve still prepared one right away.

Thats only because your mothers mood is so bad

I know. I just wanted to give you a hard time.

Thats mean!

Hmm

It was a bit suspicious.

Those addicted to Dark Energy would instinctively follow orders more faithfully.

Considering my mother tried to blindly protect my younger sibling

Are you suspecting your brother?

Yeah.

After being freed from her addiction, she said, I shouldnt have made such a big deal about my second child running away from home. If hes truly my son, he will thrive no matter where he is.

Now, for personal reasons, I decided to look for him.

Does that mean he put her unconscious under his control?

Thats what Fantasy demons would typically do.

When I met him, he was just an ordinary person

Your kind is known for being adept in hiding their true ident.i.ty.

/p>

Hey, husband. Have you forgotten that Im the Second Demon? No demon can hide their race from me.

You probably got too complacent.

Hmm

Ssosias expression, unable to deny my words, evidenced her anger.

What would be a good gift

I could give a Romantium alloy tennis racket, but I decided not to.

Id rather not get hit by such a weapon.

My troubles deepened.

How about a dragon?

A giant flying lizard?

Youre used to life in Fantasy, so youre not that aware of this, but Earthlings imagine that world to be in the Middle Ages but with dragons.

Hmm. So?

If you give your mother a decent dragon as a gift, youll be able to save face. Just take me as an example. Thanks to the s.p.a.ceray you gave me, I can now relax while traveling!

S-e-e-e-ex!

Thats true

Mother couldnt care less about flying cars in parking lots.

But what about dragons?

They werent for sale, and they could not be found on this planet.

What do you think?

I like it! Ill go with that idea.

There were more dragons that didnt belong to Fantasy than one might think.

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However, since their life and free will were also important, I couldnt just coerce them into becoming pets.

Hence, I chose a guy that could be ignored.

*****

Are you really going to be okay? I asked, not because I was anxious about leaving my ever so slowly growing son, Sidael, to my mother. Rather, what I was most anxious about was

Sleloli?

That name is a bit Anyway, Im worried because I think I gave my mother a very bad dragon as a gift.

Its okay. Sleloli is a little soft, but I will educate her and raise her well.

If you say so

My mother was busy looking at my present.

Thanks to it, I was able to leave, promising to be back before dinner.

250 years.

She initially acted strangely, but my mother, free from magic addiction, was now just as I remembered her.

Except she stopped swinging tennis rackets on the fly now!

Hence, my desire to be childish surged.

I still did my best to get out of the house, though.

Ill try to find him soon.

Id surely hunt down and crush the spine of that d.a.m.ned infidel who interfered with my parents psyche!

How?

We should start with the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the rejuvenation pill. Its not that far from here.

Does distance matter to us when we can cross galaxies?

Youre only sharp when its not needed, wife.

Give me a pure compliment, handsome husband! Be more like those people who keep glancing at us.

No thanks.

I ignored the earthlings that praised Ssosia, whose appearance was only slightly better than average in Fantasy.

Inner beauty was far more important anyway since external beauty was bound to follow good-looking spines.

Mr. Kang Han Soo!

In front of the pharmaceutical company, a woman greeted and waved her hand at me, seemingly familiar with my ident.i.ty.

Who are you?

/p>

Your first words after our reconciliation are just too hars.h.!.+ Have you forgotten me already?! Im the woman who could have become your wife!

There are several women who make that kind of mistake every year.

I dont remember you being this arrogant in the past.

Ill ask you again. Who are you?

Ssosia answered my question instead.

Nice to meet you, Victoria. We didnt even say we were coming, but you still managed to find us.

I heard from mother that Kang Han Soo was coming soon

As I listened to the story of the two women, I realized it.

Ah, Factoria! You shouldve said so right away.

Dont pretend to remember me when you just called me by my companys name! She even mentioned my name already!

I dont know Victoria, but I remember someone telling me shes a factory girl thats going to be my brothers wife.

Ah

So, who are you?

Im Factoria. hohoho

Ssosia was looking at me, possibly for being too mean, but if she was truly a potential wife of my younger brother, who didnt even like her, she should be prepared to be treated like this.

I have business with your pharmaceutical company.

I run many manufacturing plants, but the reason you specifically came here is probably because of the rejuvenation pills, right?

Yes.

If it were an ordinary drug, I wouldnt have cared so much.

But it contained magic.

That was the problem.

Where did she get a wizard for it?

In Fantasy, if one mixed materials A and B through process C, magic was created.

However, this method was possible because the materials were infused with magic from the beginning.

They were simply extracted, not made.

All magic in that world, after all, came from the Demon Lord. There was no exception to that rule.

But after scattering it on Earth in the past 20 or so years, I never supplied it again.

If so, then where did this pharmaceutical company get so much magic from?

Im sorry. I didnt know Dark Energy was part of this medicines ingredients. If I had known, I would have stopped taking it myself.

After hearing the gist of the situation from Ssosia, Factoria took a rejuvenation pill from her pocket to prove she was drinking it herself.

She said she also took care of her tight skin and strong spine from time to time

Wheres your supplier?

Looking at this pharmaceutical companys factory facilities, I couldnt help but laugh.

They only mixed vitamins with the diluted Dark Energy, but it went through a noisy process that reminded me of modern alchemy.

Well, they did have to make the drugs production method look believable for visiting investors.

Wait.

Factoria called the officials and confirmed the source of its core material.

However, they provided quite a sloppy answer.

Overhearing their conversation earlier, I asked, Are you uncertain?

Thats Yes. This is my company, yet I didnt even know this was going on in it

Her complexion grew pale.

I didnt know much about her business, but her career would be over if the public were to learn that the rejuvenation pill they released to the market was infused with Dark Energy.

One might think that magic wouldnt mean much here on Earth. However, the prejudice that it was an extremely harmful existence was deeply ingrained in humanity by the Fantasy graduates who defeated the Demon Lord.

Now that they had already sold the drug

Even if the public demanded to have her company completely dismantled, she would have no way to defend herself.

Keep up the good work, Factoria.

Huh? Will it be okay? Being dominated by Dark Energy is

Hey. Who do you think I am?

A Legendary Hero Oh.

/p>

Thats right. Im also the Demon Lord.

There was no Dark Energy in this world that did not obey me.

The time had come to play Hide and Seek, except there were about a hundred million seekers.