Chapter 36: Transmission Trouble

“Whoa! Genius!”

Arya patted her forehead.

“That sounds way better than my Steel Rectangle 2000!”

“Hey, hey! Didn’t you just call it something else earlier…?”

Joey frowned helplessly.

“Did you even remember the name of your own invention?”

“That’s not the point! Joey! This is a major breakthrough!”

Arya’s eyes sparkled.

“Have you ever thought about how future transportation could change because of this Transmission Device?”

“No carriages! No powered cars or motorcycles! If you want to go somewhere, just stand on this Transmission Device and you’re there!”

“And it’s extremely convenient and fast—you arrive in basically an instant!”

“Plus, I use Magic Stones for power, so the energy consumption is very low and it doesn’t cause large-scale pollution.”

“I’ve read so many cases in the Magic Society of people dying tragically from carriages and steam vehicles!”

Joey thought for a moment.

“Now that you mention it, I do remember someone who died from a transport device…”

Joey recalled a historical figure from his previous life.

“Torn apart by five horses, too.”

He just accidentally told a regional joke…

“But your device is not much different. At least yours can reassemble after dismemberment, but that guy probably couldn’t be put back together.”

Crap…

He was getting more and more carried away…

Come to think of it, the first creator with this invention idea must have been Shang…

“But thinking about it, isn’t your invention a little too dangerous…?”

Joey stared at the Transmission Device before him.

“The process is someone pressing a button, disassembling, and then reassembling a person.”

“But what if the device breaks during the disassembly process…?”

“Wouldn’t that person just die?”

“…”

Arya hesitated at this point.

“What Joey said makes sense, the risk seems a bit high…”

Aiki frowned beside them.

“If you just disassemble without reassembling, couldn’t it be used as a weapon?”

Arya’s expression gradually turned cold.

“Think about it…”

Aiki looked at Joey.

“Young Master, if you could disassemble a living being instantly, it would eliminate a lot of trouble, and you wouldn’t even need to use magic power.”

“Don’t…”

Arya glared darkly at Aiki.

“My invention… wasn’t made for something so dangerous…”

“But the research already exists…”

Aiki stared coldly at Arya.

“Even if we don’t use it as a weapon, if someone invents it before us in the future, wouldn’t it be even more dangerous?”

Arya replied coldly.

“If the end of creation is destruction… then I’ll destroy my invention…”

“Joey… what about your thoughts…?”

Arya turned to Joey and asked.

“…”

Joey examined the device, then looked at Arya.

“I just have one question…”

“Have you ever tested it on a real animal?”

“Huh? No.”

Arya shook her head.

“…”

Everyone was speechless.

Then Joey rubbed his head.

“Then why are you so confident about teleporting living things…?”

“Wouldn’t it be fine to just transport some dead things?”

“Eh? What do you mean?”

Arya was completely confused by the sudden question.

“It means Delivery!”

The shota replied, a bit annoyed.

“If it’s fresh fruit, or building materials needed somewhere, you could just use it to replace transportation, right…?”

“Oh, so that’s how it works!”

Arya made a fist with her right hand and smacked her left palm.

“Joey, you’re a genius!!!”

Arya hugged the shota tightly.

“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t use this as an excuse to grope me…”

Joey glared at Arya, displeased.

“Also, do you need to remind me that I’m a genius?”

“Ahaha… sorry, Joey.”

Arya blushed and released the shota.

Joey’s body really is so soft and smells nice…

She thought to herself, but then met Aiki’s cold gaze from behind Joey.

Miss Aiki is still so scary…

Even though she didn’t know why the Vampire Queen disliked her so much, she still politely returned a smile.

“But, Arya.”

Joey touched the rectangular Transmission Device.

“I’m still a bit worried…”

“What if the button is accidentally pressed with a living creature on it?”

“Ah… this…”

Arya scratched her head.

“Since I haven’t done any biological experiments, it’s kind of…”

“You don’t have to worry about that, I have a way to help you with experiments, and it won’t put any lives in danger.”

“Eh? Is that possible?”

Arya frowned.

Ten minutes later, Zixuan walked in.

“Young Master! You finally came back… Zixuan waited so long…”

Zixuan looked at Joey with a resentful gaze, her tone a blend of charm and gentleness.

“Huh? So how much did you miss me?”

Joey looked at Zixuan playfully.

Eh?

Young Master isn’t resisting my flirting today…

Young Master…

Have you finally come to understand my feelings???

“Young Master!!”

Zixuan hugged Joey tightly.

“Zixuan really missed you…”

“I want to smell Young Master’s scent every moment, to breathe your air…”

“Even every drop of sweat you shed is precious to me…”

“Okay, okay…”

Joey pushed Zixuan away.

“That’s going too far…”

“What I want to ask is…”

“Are you willing to die for me?”

There was a glint of mischief in the shota’s eyes.

“Eh… eh?”

Zixuan didn’t understand what Joey meant…

Then…

Joey kicked Zixuan into the Transmission Device.

“Why… Young Master!”

The shota placed his foot on Zixuan’s head.

“You bastard… and you still have the nerve to ask why…”

“If I hadn’t looked at the Crystal Ball earlier, I wouldn’t have known you tortured Seia…”

“You punished her privately…”

“Is this what I asked you to do when I said to take care of her?”

When Arya mentioned earlier that Zixuan enjoyed Dismemberment and Regeneration, Joey had felt something was off, so he activated the Crystal Ball and saw the real footage of Seia and Zixuan together two days prior.

Actually, Joey was already heated…

His original plotline was…

Seia was rescued by a mysterious member of the Demon Race, leaving her with the mystery of why a Demon would save a Hero…

Then Joey appears, fights Seia, and she discovers Joey’s true identity… he’s actually the Demon King!!!

Finally, Seia, torn between emotion and reason, chooses to become Joey’s subordinate.

Perfect…

Joey could relax and enjoy it…

However…

This Zixuan…

Had actually tormented Seia, completely driving the already Berserker Hero to full darkness…

And added an irreversible Resurrection Spell…

It seemed like she wanted to pit Joey and Seia against each other, letting Zixuan reap the rewards…

If that’s the case…

Whatever… Seia can’t beat me anyway, so at most she’d get a few scratches…

But this Zixuan…

I clearly gave her the ability to walk the earth, so why would she plot against me…

Just as I thought before…

Everyone really likes being the Demon King…

Joey thought so…

“Eh? Wasn’t ‘take care of her’ supposed to mean this?”

Zixuan looked at Joey.

“She’s a Hero…”

“The Young Master’s arch-enemy. If you asked me to take care of her, isn’t that the same as torture?”

“Stop playing dumb, Zixuan…”

Joey’s expression was icy.

She glared at Zixuan.

“Why did you add an irreversible Resurrection Spell for her?”

“I…”

Zixuan looked away, trying to explain something…

Joey lifted his foot from Zixuan’s head and squatted down in front of her, still grinning.

“Zixuan, you used to be my most trusted officer…”

“I saved you from a vegetative state and gave you new life…”

“Whenever there was a suitable task, I’d have you do it, because I knew you could represent me…”

“Who’d have thought you’d be the first of my officers to reveal ambition… so ironic…”

Joey glanced sideways to see Aiki’s reaction.

Aiki remained expressionless.

The shota grabbed Zixuan’s hair.

“You like Dismemberment and Regeneration, don’t you?”

“Fine then…”

Joey looked over at Arya.

“Go ahead…”

“We’ll begin the biological experiment…”

“From now on, whenever we need live testing for an invention, we’ll use her…”

As Joey spoke, he cast Magic on Zixuan’s body.

“If she doesn’t behave, I’ll have ways to punish her…”