A Saiyan's Journey

Gabriel and Megumi Kato arrived almost simultaneously, even bumping into each other at the entrance of the mansion.

When they first saw each other at the gate, both froze for a moment, wondering if they had come to the wrong place.

On one hand, Shin's new house was just too big. Such a massive estate clearly belonged to someone wealthy and influential, not a place a high school student like Shin could afford.

On the other hand, both of them noticed that the other was also heading toward this house—since Gabriel and Megumi Kato didn't know each other, they subconsciously assumed the other might actually be the owner of the house.

However, they were quickly proven wrong when someone came out from inside to greet them.

"Welcome. You must be Miss Gabriel and Miss Megumi Kato, right?"

Tohru, dressed in a maid outfit, looked at Gabriel and Megumi Kato with a forced smile—there was no doubt she thought these were just two more "homewrecking cats" coming to steal Shin from her.

"I'm Tohru, the head maid of the Shin household."

She still had dragon horns on her head and a thick dragon tail behind her, retaining certain dragon-like features to make it clear she was a dragon maid.

Of course, she had used cognitive confusion magic, so normal people couldn't see her dragon horns and tail—they would just think she was an ordinary maid, albeit one with a more ample chest than most.

Megumi Kato looked at Tohru in surprise. Part of it was because she hadn't expected Shin to have a maid, and such a beautiful one at that.

The other part was her shock that Tohru had even noticed her—for some reason, ever since she started interacting with Shin, more and more people seemed to be noticing her.

Including Gabriel, whom she had just met at the door—Gabriel had clearly noticed her too.

Gabriel's reaction, however, was quite unique. She sized Tohru up from head to toe, then nodded seriously:

"Oh, oh, dragon horns and a dragon tail, very non-human-like. So Shin's into this kind of thing?"

Gabriel easily accepted the idea of a beautiful girl like Tohru living in Shin's house—after all, with Shin's good qualities, if he didn't have some girls around him, she'd start to suspect he might be gay.

"Eh?"

"Huh?"

Tohru and Megumi Kato's voices rang out simultaneously as they both looked at Gabriel, their expressions differing.

Tohru's expression was full of seriousness and suspicion—she had clearly used cognitive confusion magic, which should have made it impossible for ordinary people to see her dragon horns and tail, so how could Gabriel see them?

Megumi Kato, on the other hand, looked puzzled. Dragon horns and a dragon tail? She hadn't seen anything like that at all.

While Gabriel was off at Shin's house, Vignette had gone to Gabriel's workplace.

Angel Café—from the name of the shop alone, it seemed like the perfect part-time job for someone like Gabriel. Vignette couldn't help but wonder if Gabriel had chosen this place because of the name.

However, considering Gabriel only started working after becoming a complete MMO addict, Vignette figured it was probably just a coincidence.

Because Gabriel had sold the Apocalyptic Horn—a potentially world-ending artifact—to Shin for the price of a set of in-game equipment, Vignette now had to figure out a way to make enough money to buy it back from him.

Even though Vignette was a demon from Hell, her personality was much more suited to being an angel, so of course, she didn't want something that dangerous falling into anyone's hands.

Even though Shin didn't seem like a bad person, and humans couldn't even blow the Apocalyptic Horn, Vignette still needed to retrieve it.

But since the culprit in this situation was the MMO-addicted Gabriel, it should be Gabriel who took responsibility for earning the money.

Vignette had thought that after giving Gabriel a serious lecture, she'd at least temporarily reign in her gaming addiction and focus on working to make some money.

But when she arrived at Angel Café and asked the kind-hearted store manager, she was told, "Gabriel hasn't come in to work."

"GABRIEL—!!!"

Vignette angrily flung open the door to Gabriel's apartment and stormed inside.

She had a key to Gabriel's place—partly to help tidy up for her, but mostly to keep an eye on her when necessary.

Like now. Gabriel had sold such an important item, and yet she wasn't making any effort to earn money to buy it back. This made Vignette furious.

But after opening the door, Vignette froze—Gabriel wasn't even in her room.

It was Sunday, and there was no school. Gabriel usually holed up at home gaming, but today she wasn't working or gaming at home...

"Strange, where did Gabriel go?"

Vignette's first thought was, Could Gabriel have found a new part-time job?

But then she reconsidered—knowing how lazy Gabriel was, the chance of her finding new work seemed pretty slim.

However, Vignette soon found a clue—Gabriel's laptop was still on in her room.

The laptop screen was clearly displaying a game.

Even though Gabriel had left home, her in-game character was still online—after all, Shin had splurged on a set of powerful equipment for her. Wouldn't it be a waste not to leave it online for others to admire?

Gabriel's logic made perfect sense to MMO players, but because the game was still running, Vignette could see the private messages on the screen.

It turned out Gabriel had gone to Shin's house.

"GABRIEL… YOU!"

Vignette's face turned bright red with anger. Here she was, working so hard to scrape together money, while Gabriel wasn't even working—she had gone to play at Shin's house instead.

And judging by the chat timestamps, Gabriel had been there for half a day—it was already afternoon, and Gabriel had gone over in the morning.

Thinking about this, Vignette wanted to rush over to Shin's house and drag Gabriel out.

But then Vignette realized she didn't even know where Shin lived—he had sent the address to Gabriel's phone, and there was no specific address mentioned in the in-game chat.

With no other option, Vignette pulled out her phone and found Shin's contact information.

To be honest, this was the first time Vignette had ever messaged a boy, so she was a little nervous typing it out. But soon enough, she hit send:

"Shin, where do you live? Can I come to your house?"

In Vignette's mind, she was obviously sending this message to track down Gabriel.

But if you looked at the message out of context... it sounded just a little bit ambiguous.

To be continued…

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