Dante followed behind Beatrice with a look of curiosity. Beatrice had hyped this person up for a good long while, ever since he first gained the idea to start a faction. Now that it was finally time to meet them, you could be sure that Dante was wondering whether they lived up to the hype.

Beatrice led him into the guest residences within their estate, where important people who could enter their living space but were not necessarily part of the nuclear family could stay for different periods of time.

Within the guest residence, Dante was made to meet a very strange duo. When they entered the house, Beatrice and Dante saw a young couple who were near a full body mirror, the female grooming the male skillfully.

The woman was quite tall, being just below Portia’s level and slightly above Beatrice. She had a head of short and curly purple hair that gleamed brightly in the light. Her lips were painted red, and her eyes shone with a deep blue light, displaying sheer focus in them at the task she was working on. She wore a sundress with open shoulders and a very elegant design, which fit her slender body.

The fellow who was seated with a calm smile was quite handsome, with pale skin, a neatly trimmed mustache, and a short goatee. In fact, he looked quite similar to Augeus but seemed to be younger and less weathered than the head of the Portinari Clan.

His neat black hair was being trimmed and washed by his partner, who was diligently grooming her partner. Seeing the atmosphere, Dante opted to wait patiently with Beatrice by the side.

Beatrice looked at the woman grooming her partner and then at Dante, and her eyes seemed to gleam with an idea. Meanwhile, Dante naturally knew what his wife was thinking and did not dare to think of what she might do to his lovely hair.

Soon, the couple were done with what Dante would later find to be their daily ‘ritual.’

“Sorry to keep you waiting. We had already begun our usual routine while waiting for you since my beloved wife doesn’t take long at all.” The man spoke as he washed his face and wiped it down with a face towel that was 3D printed on the spot.

His wife smiled and curtsied gracefully to the duo before seating herself on the couch. Beatrice rolled her eyes and walked up to the woman and pulled her up from the couch before hugging her lovingly.

The woman chuckled and hugged Beatrice back with a clear look of fondness. As for Dante and the husband, they both shook hands firmly with appreciative smiles and introduced each other.

“Greetings, Dante. My name is Connor Baines, currently titled The Analyst.”

Dante was surprised. “You’re the famous Analyst? The one who had raised every company that hired you into the top 200 universes wide?”

Connor smiled a bit proudly. After all, it was a big deal for the current number 1 in the universe – in the eyes of the majority – to be aware of his reputation and successes.

“And this is Elizabeth Baines, or you can call her Lily. She’s my direct cousin,” Beatrice said while mushing her cheeks against Lily’s.

Looking at the two lovely women who had the same pale skin, red lips, and purple hair, Dante was speechless. He was a fool for not seeing their resemblance right away since only one clan had females who propagated this genetic trait in their main line so strongly.

“Please have a seat,” Connor was amused and guided Dante to sit down.

Lily and Beatrice also sat down, each of them beside their respective partners. Connor gestured for an android butler to come in and take their orders for refreshments. Since Beatrice was on a strict prenatal care plan, she couldn’t take anything, but Dante ordered a smoothie.

“Right, so, it’s good to finally meet you, Dante. As far back as a few months ago, Beatrice had already reached out to me through Lily with the intention of helping your company grow to the top, on the account that you could provide special goods no one has seen before but everyone would crave.” 𝘪𝘳.𝒸𝑜𝑚

Connor rubbed his hair with a sheepish smile. “Personally, I found it hard to believe such a thing. However, it was a request from family, so I’ve canceled all my jobs for the next year to focus solely on your business and do my best to make it grow.”

Hm?

“Wait, you canceled for a whole year? From your past exploits, you never needed that long. Sometimes, you only had to give a company founders some pointers and they would skyrocket,” Dante was alarmed.

Connor made a gesture of ‘can’t be helped.’ “As I said, this one is a matter of family. The level of importance beats strangers I don’t know.”

“Also, I made it a year because prior to a few minutes ago, I had no idea when you would be free to start working on your enterprise,” Connor explained with a smile.

Ah…

Dante felt extremely embarrassed. In other words, this fellow had been sitting at home without any work because he was patiently waiting for Dante to stop running up and down doing this or that and finally get to establishing the corp.

No matter how rich or powerful you were, one thing you must always respect is another person’s time. If you waste the time of others freely without any shame or remorse, you should not be surprised when they prioritize you less in their lives.

Knowing that he had unknowingly wasted more than 6 months of this fellow’s time did not feel too good. However, Connor laughed it off.

“It was actually a mini-vacation for me. I’ve spent far too much time working for others and neglecting myself and especially Elizabeth. It was only when I had time for myself that I realized how much I’ve let her down all this time,” he said as he wrapped his arm around his wife’s shoulder gently.

Lily seemed deeply moved as her eyes moistened slightly. Beatrice also seemed touched and held Dante’s arm softly, making him feel guilty because he was always running around trying to gain power and not spending enough time with his own partner.

“So before we begin the process, we need to talk for a bit. I need to find out exactly what scope you want your business to achieve, how widespread and what exactly it is you can provide because Beatrice has been very vague about that,” Connor moved onto the main issue smoothly.

Dante nodded. “In terms of scope, I am basically planning to run a half-auction, half-barter type of business because what I offer cannot be valued in any native currency our universe circulates.”

This surprised the duo, and they couldn’t help but anticipate what Dante would reveal that made him so confident. “My superpower grants me the ability to retrieve items from quantum worlds, which offers me the ability to acquire a vast array of useful goods that would not otherwise exist in reality.”

“They include resurrection items like Elixir of Soul Reawakening, Resurrection Stone, Starlight Resonance Crystal, etc. There are items like Manta Style from DOTA and Galeforce from LoL, The Leviathan’s Breath from Destiny, and the Chug Jug from Fortnite.”

While Dante was mentioning these things, he took them out from his quantum space one by one. Everyone’s breaths hitched when they felt the uniqueness of the resurrection items and the sheer power emanating from the?various game world items.

“Of course, these are just my basic supply of goods. What I will be headlining and only trading sparingly are these, Mutation Cores from the Apocalypse World.” Dante took out 1 F Mutation Core of each rank up to A because that was the highest he would sell to.

When Dante placed the Mutation cores down, the pupils of Connor and Lily constricted to the max as their bodies trembled. Dante glanced at them and smiled.

“I heard that you are both superpowered people. The Analyst possesses the rare superpower of Supreme Data Analysis, which allows you to calculate even better than some of the greatest quantum AIs, while Miss Elizabeth is known to possess the superpower of Artificial Intelligence, which allows you to control certain functional AIs.”

“The two of you should know what these items are since you were graduates of the Unique Batch of the Eternal Academy. I don’t know the current ranking of your superpowers, but you can freely test the validity of these items by ranking up once.”

Dante made this offer to tie them to his boat and also to thank them for waiting patiently for so long. It was trivial for him to raise their superpowers by one rank, but for them, it was a life-changing favor.

After all, the difficulty of raising one superpower rank outside of being a student in school had already been harped on about. Just as these two felt extreme shock and desire, so too would every superpowered being in the universe, and they would offer up their best items to Dante in exchange for them.

Huh? What was that?

How would Dante identify good items from bad?

Well, why do you think he chose Levi out of all the awesome choices he had? A Truth Beast has no fighting capability and can only snitch on others’ secrets, very few people would choose such a thing.

However, Levi could freely identify items using his ability and even their hidden functions, so nothing good would escape Dante’s hands. He was planning to do a clean sweep of the universe before heading to the First Gate.

“Are you… sure?” Connor asked with bloodshot eyes, remaining calm in his seat despite gripping the armrest tightly.

“Hahaha, look at you, didn’t you say something about family earlier? Why are you behaving like this now?” Dante laughed away the tension, so as not to make things awkward later on.

Connor was moved and his eyes regained their color as he calmed himself down. “You’re right, I was being too formal. My Data Analysis is at the B Rank.”

Lily smiled and nodded at Dante. “My Artificial Intelligence is at the B Rank as well.”

Dante almost put his hands on his hips in order to size the two up. My gosh, people who reached the B Rank in any superpower were rare in the universe, being fewer than a hundred in number among countless beings, but he seemed to be meeting all of them nowadays.

And what was it about the Portinari clan that made them so lucky… ah. Daughter of heaven… right.

Dante gave them 10 B-Rank Mutation Cores which they easily absorbed in order to reach the A-Rank. Reaching the peak of the superpower ranking just below the ‘godly’ levels which were S rank and above, the two showed a remarkable shine in their eyes.

You could just tell that their abilities had been boosted strongly.

“I have a list of items I can sell which I shall forward to your chips. It includes them, their abilities, and their quantities I can procure in a certain amount of time,” Dante stated as he forwarded a 3.21GB file full of words.

Connor and Lily quickly went through and were left speechless by the end. Not a single item on this list was simple and was enough to turn any single person into a powerhouse. Not to mention those that could heal any disease and also resurrect the freaking dead!

Forget selling this stuff, who was even qualified to buy them? What could the people of this universe possibly have that could match the value of what Dante was selling?

Previously they had felt his words were arrogant, but seeing this list and tasting the sweetness for themselves, Connor and Lily fully believed that trading any of these items for Etrans would be madness.

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