090: Since Ancient Times, 090 Has Been a Love Battlefield! Nine Tails Returns

Rimuru returned to New York at last, thoroughly satisfied.

He did not use ultra-long-distance teleportation to go straight back. Instead, he first made a trip to Germany and paid a cordial, friendly visit to the Hidden Alliance's partners—and part-time competitors—the Dark Council and Comrade Edward.

Then, with a grand wave of his hand, he presented them with a batch of high-tech devices and low-to-mid-tier equipment from the Extraordinary Space, worth roughly over a hundred thousand Extraordinary Points.

Edward was utterly bewildered by this completely different attitude from when Rimuru had first arrived, but he did not think too much of it. After all, as Rimuru had said while giving the gifts, he really had helped this Blood Moon's Claw member a little, even if all he had done was tell him where the Bookeria Family was.

Mm... he had even thought that giving so many things in return for such a tiny favor was...

Ah, how considerate!

It was not until half a month later, when he suddenly heard that Blood Earl Olyric and Blood Princess Lucy had completely severed ties with the Third Elder of Bookeria, who had raised them with his own hands, and abandoned the Bookeria surname, that he finally realized something was wrong.

Although he had long known that Bookeria would sooner or later have to cut off its own tail to survive, the problem was that... shouldn't Olyric have discussed this with him first?!

So when he hurriedly tried to visit the Bookeria Family, he was turned away. Olyric... had gone to New York.

As a result, a minor shock swept through Europe's dark circles.

Olyric had brought along the younger members of the family, abandoned the Hunter surname Bookeria, and joined the dark side. That had been inevitable and should not have caused much