Toya walked over to Nyaruko, quickly snatched the camera, and expertly located the storage device.
Crunch!
The fragile memory card was instantly pulverized by his strength.
"Hold this." After confirming no embarrassing blackmail material remained, Toya tossed the camera to the stunned Nyaruko.
Nyaruko caught the camera, snickering internally. No use, Darling. Nyaruko never uses just one memory card! I had three recording simultaneously!
Toya, unaware of her contingency plan, looked seriously at the door that hid the giant dragon. "Dragon hiding behind the door, come out now!"
"Otherwise, I will use force."
"Master, welcome home!" The door opened, and a beautiful dragon girl with an excellent figure and horns protruding from her head stepped out, bowing slightly.
Seeing the dragon girl's familiar appearance, Toya was stunned. "Tohru?"
After he saved Tohru on the mountain previously, he hadn't seen the dragon girl return to his home as a maid the next day.
He had eventually given up on the idea of her arrival.
Tohru's fair, exquisite face wore a gentle smile. "Master, please allow me to introduce myself! I am the green dragon you saved on the mountain that day, Tohru!"
"I should have come to repay your kindness the day after, when I had mostly recovered."
"But my injuries had not completely healed, so I could not come until now."
As she spoke, Tohru's beautiful eyes transformed into majestic golden dragon eyes, and a wisp of flame flickered at the corner of her mouth. "Master, now is the time for Tohru the maid to repay her debt."
"If you give the word, Tohru can instantly burn the Evil God Minion beside you to ash."
"Stop, don't!" Toya immediately halted Tohru. "She's not a bad person!"
If he truly let Tohru attack, things would get complicated.
Tohru's rank as a Great Dragon was high, but she was nowhere near the power level of an Evil God.
If Tohru actually struck, she would likely face unimaginable misfortune.
"Is that so?" Tohru smiled gently. "If Master says so, Tohru will not act."
What a pity, Nyaruko thought internally. I really wanted to try out the Universal CQC fighting techniques I just learned!
The Universal CQC fighting techniques contained countless combat skills. Coincidentally, there was one technique specifically for fighting dragons. Its original master once used it against a dragon named Musou-ryu.
"Did you clean the agency?" Toya asked.
A place this clean and tidy, looking brand new, couldn't have been achieved by human effort alone.
Since Tohru had appeared, it could only be her.
Tohru smiled sweetly. "Because Sister Lucoa said that Master was completing the Evil God's Banquet and would be returning home."
"So Tohru came to the agency to clean."
"Well, it looks like I have a giant dragon living here now." Toya's expression was calm, completely hiding the joy in his heart.
He had always had a small childhood dream: to raise a dragon.
Today, it had finally come true.
After a brief exchange, Toya let Tohru and Nyaruko introduce themselves, while he took The Scripture of the Way to the second floor, heading for the room where he stored dangerous items.
The room was pristine, showing that Tohru had meticulously cleaned even this space.
Although the room was spotless, the items inside had not been touched.
She didn't open them?
That's good. Toya sighed in relief. Tohru was a Great Dragon who had lived for at least fifty thousand years.
If she possessed the power to see through illusions and realized the true nature of the exquisite gift boxes and black-and-white tailcoats, it would be problematic.
"The Scripture of the Way." Toya glanced at the tome, and without hesitation, placed it into a sealing box and sealed it away alongside the tailcoats.
Having finished this, Toya turned to leave.
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Meanwhile, in the vast, unseen Greater World...
This was a magnificent world, home to countless divine beings.
They were one of the mythological giants: The Gods of the East.
In the midst of the sky, a magnificent figure shrouded in chaos slowly opened its eyes and said indifferently:
"Esteemed One, the general trend has been established. Prepare yourselves!"
Beside this figure, two other figures simultaneously opened their eyes, piercing through endless worlds to land their gaze upon Toya.
The aura of supreme inaction seemed to waver slightly.
"Stop pretending to be so aloof!"
"Are you really not tired of that act?"
"We changed this habit countless cycles ago, yet you still put on this facade!"
"If it weren't for your obsession with style, how could those bald donkeys be the first ones to appear?" Suddenly, time reversed and space froze.
A figure covered in celestial light appeared out of nowhere and reprimanded: "Follow the initial agreement! Take turns! No ganging up!"
"No interference is allowed during the allotted time!"
"Listen up, we are Demon Lords! We must wait for the Hero's challenge!"
As this figure appeared, the atmosphere of supreme inaction vanished, replaced by the clamor of a marketplace.
A chorus of arguments erupted as they began to immediately carve up Toya's time.
This division continued for an unknown duration before finally ceasing.
The divine, brilliant figures once again resumed their air of aloof, supreme inaction, though occasional bursts of light proved their recent heated debate.
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Night, Trash Fox Detective Agency.
Kasumigaoka Utaha returned home from school with Kasugano Sora, who had also just finished her junior high classes.
When they saw the agency door standing open, their expressions changed. "Did we have another burglar break-in?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was about to call the police when she saw the open sign had been flipped to "Currently Operating."
"Ah, I see. Toya is back, then?"
A smile appeared on Kasumigaoka Utaha's beautiful face. "I thought this banquet was going to last a year and a half."
Initially, she thought the Evil God's Banquet would end after just one night.
After asking Hanazono Yurine, she learned it could take a long time—an estimated year or so. She hadn't expected him back so quickly.
"Brother is back?" Hearing this, Kasugano Sora's clear, large eyes filled with delight, and she ran inside the agency.
Kasumigaoka Utaha followed Sora into the agency.
The moment she stepped inside, her expression shifted.
"A maid!?"
A cute maid with a beautiful face was standing beside Toya, holding a teacup.
Toya saw Kasugano Sora and Kasumigaoka Utaha and greeted them: "Utaha, Sora, long time no see!"