Great Great Asset Chapter 45 (Patreon)

I refused to have the sanctity of my mind fucked with in some demonic pact in return for these Grimoires in the end. 

A major part was my utter refusal to have my soul and mind even remotely touched for one thing. But also, I literally just met these shipgirls just today even if we had spent a few hours together at this point.

Getting hot and heavy with them was very different from my Sekirei who reacted to my very own soul's wavelength and decided that I was the perfect mate for them.

"I will just take this one Grimoire then." I said with finality, with Forgiven Obscenity all but snarling as she took the credit chits. 

"You are lucky, I am bound by pact to not change my deals and offerings boy... I do hope you do not need the help of another devil in the future, as my prices just went up for you." She said with a twisted smile.

Giving Forgiven Obscenity an even darker look I retorted with a bland smile. "Then it's a good thing there are so many other devils to choose from. I am sure Venelana Gremory, and other DXD devils won't try to eat my memories either." 

With that I ignored Forgiven Obscenity's slight snort of fury as I made my way back with Dido and Sirius following as we entered a magically shielded side room for private deals. Which made sense with how this entire floor was run specifically with devils in mind.

"Master... Why didn't you agree with the devil? Is Sirius and Dido not good enough?" Sirius asked quietly with Dido looking at me in turn with almost misty eyes.

I coughed helplessly and said. "You both... You are both extremely beautiful and I will never deny that. But I refuse to have my memories tampered with even with a magically binding agreement stating that devil woudn't fuck around with my mind."

That and also now that I thought about it. My default skill 'Gamer's Mind' also protected me from mind control as well. So there was also the possiblity she woudn't be able to get my memories anyway.

And thus the fault in breaking a devil's contract would be on my ass. Just another reason to just cut my losses at this point. I still got one Grimoire at least.

"Did you-" Dido drew off before taking a deep breath while not meeting my gaze. "Did Master not want the affection of us two?"

My lips twitched at the very expected extreme dependence and attachment that Dido as a shipgirl, was born with. But I still said helplessly. "Dido, Sirius, I literally just met you both today. While Belfast did appoint me as your master basically, you are not obligated to do such things."

Before either of the big titty ship girl maids could overthink, I patted both of their heads, making them freeze up at the affectionate action.

"Now... How about we go and find some low-quality magical metal and other bits." I said to get these two moving again. I still needed to mass-produce daggers and other things to level up my smithing skill.

The two nodded with Dido saying. "At the base level, there is some raw material sellers. We can probably get what you need there."

And with that we left the devil floor of this building and headed back down to the ground level with thankfully no other event. I would have thrown my hands up in the air a flying Lala Deviluke got thrown into my arm's and I got engaged with her by accidentally grabbing her tits.

It COULD happen! The chances of a flying 'devil' woman slamming into me was after all not at all at zero with so many of them on this floor.

Once we got down to the ground level. Dido and Sirius pulled me over to a large stand that was being run by someone I also recongized actually. 'Tsubaki Collanbrande huh? Makes sense I guess, but she isn't the one who made this grimoire for sure.' I thought as I took in the Danmachi waifu who had an eye covered.

"So whatcha want? Did that Tabane have another order of specially refined metal or something?" Tsubaki asked with a scratch to her chin as she took in the two maids besides me.

Which made me wonder if the shipgirls had all decided to just congregate around Tabane and Belfast in particular? Which was actually fairly likely with how all the shipgirls I saw were all from the Royal Navy of Azur Lane.

Still I refocused and said firmly. "I am the one who is looking to buy some magical metal and ore actually."

Tsubaki gave me an up-and-down look with her especially focusing on my hands before she said dryly. "You got soft hands; what are you going to even do with such metal anyway? It sounds like a boring waste, honestly."

Dido 'heroically' came to my defense as she said. "Master is buying the metal for his own business Lady Collenbrande. Or do you only sell metal directly to blacksmiths now?"

To which Tsubaki tsked loudly and said with a drawl of annoyance. "Alright alright! I was just wondering if he was like Tabane and relied on machines to do his work. Or a real blacksmith."

Then Tsubaki cleared her throat and started introducing a bunch of metal samples, what their special magical properties were, their prices, and other relevant information.

After being introduced to the metals, I picked up some Celestial Bronze from the Percy Jackson Universe that got here... Somehow, I had no fucking clue. And besides that, I got a good hundred pounds of several other types of special metals like raw Stellar Copper, Vibranium, and standard fantasy Mythril, which was a potent magical conduit.

"Alrighty, let's get back to Tabane's workshop. We can start prepping for making the dinner after we rest for a bit." I said with a helpless smile as Sirius leaned against me again as we got onto the tram that would take us back.