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Breakfast before the Underworld Meeting
🕑 Added 2022-12-17 21:05:38 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 115 ---
Dragon Nest Compound, Huo Yuhao's Dining Room.
"I'm here, NYAA~!!"
Kuroka jumped out of her magic circle, landing in the room with an excited expression on her cute cat-like face. Her sudden appearance made Grayfia frown slightly in the kitchen.
"Yuhao, Darling~! I arrived on time." She added, which left everyone in the room speechless.
Scathach lazily sat on the chair as she waited for Grayfia's cooking. Yet, when hearing Kuroka's bold greeting, she immediately released her cultivation pressure and made the cat tremble.
"Know your place..." The warrior queen smiled at Kuroka.
Kuroka lowered her head and returned, "N-Nyaa! Sorry..."
The black cat couldn't help but feel nervous around Scathach and not to mention other powerful beings like Grayfia in the kitchen. She also noticed Ophis sitting on the table with a bowl of candy.
'Eh? What's Ophis-sama doing here??' The nekoshou thought to herself, realizing that Ophis had been gone for a week without notice. Does that mean she stayed in the Dragon Nest Compound all this time?
Kuroka felt jealous inside, but she couldn't do anything about it. After all, her strength is weaker than all these ladies, so comparing herself with them is like comparing mud and sky.
Scathach sighed and said, "Cat, Sit. Yuhao will be here in a moment."
"Thank you, Ma'am." Kuroka's nervous expression loosened slightly.
She sat on the nearest chair and looked around the room, not finding Huo Yuhao for some reason. Kuroka was disappointed inside as she thought he would be here, deciding to circulate her energy throughout her body.
"You're doing it wrong. Huo Yuhao doesn't teach you properly about energy circulation, huh?" Scathach commented while observing Kuroka's energy pathway.
"When you circulate energy within your body, you need to breathe and expel the used energy. Storing it back into your body would create backlash because the newly generated one and old energy clashed with each other."
"Like Ophis, you copied Huo Yuhao's movement and instructed but didn't realize the bigger picture. What a shame." She added casually.
"Hmm?" Ophis frowned at Scathach. "Training with Yuhao is much faster than you, bully."
"He also gives me more candies..."
"Is that so?" Scathach sneered indifferently.
Kuroka lifted her hand and asked, "Then what should I do?"
"From what Huo Yuhao taught, Nature Energy flowed directly into one's body."
Scathach laughed and said, "That dumbass is a genius, and his physique was "simply." gifted from heaven. Don't copy him because it would be a pointless attempt."
Kuroka was surprised and commented, "I don't think dumbass and genius stayed in the same sentence..."
"Do you have a problem with my comment?" Scathach narrowed her eyes at the black cat.
Kuroka's tails straightened instinctively and replied, "N-No."
"Whatever, follow my instructions." Scathach grabbed a protein bar from her spatial tool and began to tutor Kuroka. She wondered how people in this world live so cluelessly.
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Huo Yuhao walked out of the shower, wearing new pants and placing the towel around his neck. He opened his bedroom door and felt the awkward atmosphere in the dining room.
He rubbed his hair with the towel and watched Scathach scowling at Kuroka beside her. "Oh, you've come?" He said with an amused expression.
"Sooner than I expected."
"Yuhao... Am I a Genius too?" Kuroka moved her gaze to Huo Yuhao with a proud look.
"Huh?" Huo Yuhao was confused by her question.
Scathach flicked Kuroka's forehead and commented, "She has mastered 1st part of the Universal Breathing Technique. However, she still has a long way to reach the first layer and even manifest spirit mark because she hasn't awakened her Spirit Circuits."
"It's commendable for people of this world, but Dragon Nest Academy's elementary students reach this level before even entering the school."
Kuroka clutched her forehead and mumbled, "No way~!"
"Eh, then why did you look so proud before?"
Scathach coughed and replied, "Well, I was thinking, for a pet, you're not that bad."
"Is that a compliment or an insult, Nyaa?!" Kuroka pouted at Scathach.
Scathach smirked and replied, "Well, who knows."
"Uugh, how cruel..." The black cat couldn't believe this demoness at all, Scathach's actions have always been obscure to her, and none of them are predictable.
Huo Yuhao shook his head at these two and sat beside Ophis, patting her adorable head. "Grayfia, what are you cooking there?" He curiously asked.
Grayfia sipped a small plate to test the soup's consistency and taste. She nodded her head in the confidence of her cooking. When she heard Huo Yuhao's question, she smiled and answered, "Miso soup and some light side dishes, Yuhao-sama."
"Sounds good enough." Huo Yuhao smiled back. Even though Miso Soup itself is a simple dish, there is nothing wrong with it because he would rather eat something simple than extravagant things.
He could have eaten a protein bar made of precious herbs and ingredients to fill his stomach like Scathach, but Grayfia's cooking is to die for after a week of eating.
Of course, Grayfia's cooking skill is minuscule compared to Huo Yun'er because something is always unique and endearing about a mother's home cooking.
Thinking about Huo Yun'er makes Huo Yuhao feel complicated because she hasn't contacted him for a few weeks. She should be fine, considering no one in this world could fight her, including the Great Red that protects the dimensional gap and Trihexa.
Divine Fox isn't simply a race. It's a status that Huo Yun'er inherited from her legacy master, and Huo Yuhao upgraded it once with an upgrading ticket in the past, allowing her to manipulate more than bad luck and great luck.
"Eat well, Yuhao-sama~!" Grayfia suddenly placed all dishes she had cooked for Huo Yuhao on the dining table and said with a gentle voice.
Only stupid and clueless people wouldn't realize such a blatant act of advancement toward Huo Yuhao.
Kuroka stared at Grayfia Lucifuge with a confused expression because this woman was the infamous cold devil woman known as the silver guardian in the underworld. However, she somehow becomes Huo Yuhao's maid.
"Then, let's have breakfast." Huo Yuhao clapped his hands and began to eat Grayfia's cooking. And once again, he was surprised by the development of her skill. It's the peak mastery of a chef.
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After the hearty breakfast, Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "Thanks for the food."
He watched Scathach and others eating Grayfia's cooking, drinking a glass of water to clean his throat. He looked at Kuroka and pondered about the Nekoshou Incident. And Even though the black cat and her sister had told him about the Naberius Clan's wrongdoing, he still had to clean her criminal record.
Well, he has Grayfia and four devil kings to settle this matter, so it should be easy. It's not like Naberius Clan has enough force to fight him because they are weaklings before his eyes.
"Fuwaa~! So delicious, Nyaa~!" Kuroka carefully finished her last bite and beamed cheerfully.
Scathach only tasted the miso soup because the protein bar served her stomach already. "Not bad." She commented haughtily.
"This is not candy..." Ophis stared at the steamed green beans on her plate and frowned because this didn't look appetizing.
"I hate veggies."
"You wouldn't grow if you don't eat one, stop being picky." Scathach placed the small bowl on the table.
"I can just transform..." Ophis countered, which left Scathach speechless because she seemed to forget the child-like being in front of her was a legit dragon.
Ophis's body glowed with purple light, and everyone watched her grow significantly in the blink of an eye. The formerly small young children-like Ophis is now a barely adult lady with a charming appearance, despite the flat expression.
Also, unlike her formerly gothic loli dress, Ophis wore a white buttoned shirt with long sleeves and black pants that mimic Huo Yuhao's casual outfits.
"See?" Ophis tilted her head while pointing at herself.
"..." Scathach.
"..." Kuroka.
"..." Grayfia.
"Cute. No, you're more beautiful than before." Huo Yuhao smiled at Ophis beside him. Ophis's cheeks reddened slightly, but no one seemed to notice because the blush was faint.
"Really?" The ouroboros dragon asked while staring at him.
"Yeah." He smiled gently, making a happy feeling spread within Ophis's heart. The ouroboros dragon might be confused about this warm feeling, but she likes it a lot for some reason.
Scathach leaned on the dining table and pulled Ophis's cheeks to check something. "Hmm, since you were originally a dragon and still one, does this transformation false?" She couldn't help but be curious about this.
"No, It's true. Even though my outer appearance is changing, everything is basically the same. My essence, such as "Infinity." and life force, never changed and stayed that forever." Ophis answered calmly.
"Do you like this or my previous appearance, Yuhao?"
Everyone immediately focused their gazes on Huo Yuhao, even the contracted souls in his spiritual sea. Being the only male in the room is sure to be full of pressure.
Huo Yuhao chuckled and played it cool, "You're charming no matter what, Ophis. Your charm isn't something that only appearance could describe because personality-wise, You're adorable."
'Tch, fucking smooth. He got away so easily.' Tian Meng clicked her tongue in annoyance because she wanted to see a spicy drama here.
Scathach giggled on the side because her beloved disciple possessed such a flowery mouth. She released Ophis's cheek and said, "Then, I'll take a nap and train after it."
"Hope you return before noon."
Huo Yuhao shook his head wryly and replied, "I hope so, Shishou."
"Kuroka, you're going to follow me to the underworld."
"Eh, why? I'm a wanted criminal there, you know?" Kuroka was shocked.
"Don't worry. I'll solve that problem for you, but first. Do you want to join the Dragon Nest?" Huo Yuhao returned to her.
Kuroka disappeared and hugged Huo Yuhao from behind. "Hehe, of course, Nyaa~!"
