Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

"Oh, young man." As expected, Stolas stepped in front of his daughter, offering a distant but polite smile.

"My dear Vera and I are here today to enjoy quality time with our family and don't want to discuss business matters."

"It's not official business, Your Highness," Tsugumi said cheerfully.

"I'm actually here to discuss a business deal with Your Highness. I've heard that you have a very close relationship with Lord Asmodeus?"

“Oz and I…have a decent relationship,” Stolas replied hesitantly.

"I have a small item here, a specialty product that I personally developed from the Pride Ring..."

Tsugumi took out a small bottle containing a clear, star-like blue powder.

He handed the bottle to Stolas and chuckled.

"I call these products Soul Dust; they're made from the specialties of the Pride Ring. Don't worry, they're not addictive drugs."

Before Stolas could frown, he made it clear that this thing wasn't unique—although high-ranking demons themselves wouldn't become addicted to any drug.

"It is a medicine, a cure for all mental illnesses. Consider this a gift and a trial, Your Highness. I hope we can reach a deeper deal in the future."

Having said that, he bowed slightly, then gently swept a ray of starlight away with his right hand, and disappeared into it.

This skillful use of Goetia magic undoubtedly further confirmed Tsurugi's identity—but Stolas was somewhat puzzled as to why the other party's Goetia magic was somewhat similar to his own.

"Hey, Billies, where did you meet him?" Stolas asked curiously.

"...In the broken ring of arrogance, it is indeed a terrible fate."

Restricted from speaking the truth, Billy could only sigh and say...

……

Why do the biggest problems faced by the Hell Nobles are midlife crisis and family discord?

Our Hell isn't like that. As a demon god and a noble of Goetia, you should be scheming against each other, cruel and bloodthirsty, testing each other in your struggles before driving your legions into large-scale wars...

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"Damn it, even if I go to hell, do I still have to do the work of a psychologist?"

After casting the Barbatos Mark on himself, Tsurugi secretly followed the family, sighing all the way.

Although bloodlust, cruelty, and fighting sounded terrible and evil, Tsugumi would rather have a clean and decisive fight with these high-ranking demons than watch a father clumsily trying to express his love for his teenage daughter...

Your mother's kiss, so humane, what kind of demon god are you?! If someone had told me before I came to this world that the biggest problem of a demon god pillar family wasn't fighting angels and other hellish nobles, but dealing with a cheating husband, a violent wife who wanted to kill her husband, and a daughter going through puberty, Tsugumi would have thought he was crazy...

Never mind, I'll just record it.

Although Tsurugi didn't know Stolas of Hell, that didn't stop him from recording these embarrassing moments of the Demon Pillars, so he could use them to extort money from Hell someday.

Stolas and Viya entered a circus tent, and the prince pointed to it and happily told his daughter that she always shed tears of joy when watching performances—but judging from Viya's reaction, it was a look of being frightened and having childhood trauma.

Then Stolas led Viya inside, ignoring the dozens of imps that randomly appeared along the way, trying to assassinate the Getia nobles. They entered the tent, where a clown demon robot was performing on stage.

"Lulu's Paradise~ Lulu's Paradise~" "Let's all sing Lulu's Paradise~" "Every boy, every girl" "We absolutely have no copyright disputes!"

Dongjiang enjoyed the performance quite a bit; the songs were pretty good, but the performance itself was rather eerie—but since this is hell, the eerie aspect is actually normal.

But poor little Octavia curled up in fear, while Stolas, standing nearby, was quite pleased and completely oblivious to his daughter's distress.

Just as Viya was about to reach her breaking point and was preparing to leave!

"You can try it, that tiny speck of dust."

This voice suddenly reached Viya's ears.

"It can calm you down, bring you back to your happiest moment, and... allow you and your father to open up to each other."

Viya paused for a moment, looking around but not seeing Dongjiang. Then she hesitated for a moment. Perhaps it was because her father's open and unrestrained flirting with Billies was too much for Viya to bear. She took a deep breath and picked up the Soul Dust that her father had casually placed beside her.

She opened the bottle and took a gentle sniff.

For a moment, Viya was stunned. She felt as if she had returned to her childhood, to that night when she couldn't sleep because she was afraid.

Stolas, her father gently comforted her sleepless childhood self, brought her a dazzling starry sky, took her to a planet on the verge of destruction, and sang her a beautiful lullaby.

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She once had a home, a home that made her happy, but... her mother's endless arguments with her father, her father's infidelity, all of that was eventually destroyed.

Viya's tears fell in a steady stream, and only then did Stolas notice his daughter's condition, and he was immediately at a loss for what to do.

"Viya, baby, what's wrong..."

Viya could no longer bear it and burst into tears in Stolas' arms.

"Dad, I don't want to be here, I want to go home!"

“Oh, home? Okay, we’ll go back right away…” Stolas said, flustered.

“No, you don’t understand what I mean.” Viya looked up at her father, sniffed, and said in a hoarse voice.

“My home is warm and harmonious. My mother doesn’t constantly threaten to kill my father. And my father doesn’t neglect his family and flirt with some red-skinned idiot!”

"I'm sorry, Viya, I'm so sorry for what happened recently, but a lot has happened..." Stolas said with difficulty.

Viya took a deep breath, picked up the Soul Dust, and placed it under Stolas's nose.

"Dad, please use this. If you really have a problem, let's connect on a deeper level."

Stolas hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath.

"You primal demons are so boring. Those sinners are more like demons than you."

Tsugumi appeared before Billy, who had just shot and killed several assassin imps, and said with a bored expression...

"I actually have to help a demon nobleman solve his marriage and family problems? I never thought this day would come in my life."

"What kind of demon do you think you're talking about!" Billitz put away his gun, blew out a puff of gunpowder smoke, and said with a displeased expression.

"Are you just killing all the time? We have our own lives too."

"Well, what you're saying isn't wrong either." Tsurugi tilted her head, looking at the prince who was currently immersed in soul overclocking, and said with a playful tone.

"But in any case, the medicine I gave him was quite effective. It seems I'll be able to see Asmodeus soon through him and start the war as quickly as possible!"

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"What exactly is that thing? Can I have some?"

Billy seemed completely unconcerned about Tsurugi's plans for a world war, and was instead curious about getting himself some exciting new drugs.

Tsurugi smiled at Billies and casually handed him a small bottle of this stuff.

What is this thing? In essence, it is merely a further processed version of a soul stone.

In any world, souls are the most beloved thing of demons. But in this circus-like hell, these demons clearly lack the ability of normal demons to manipulate souls. They rarely obtain human souls, and even when they do, they devour them whole.

After all, sinners become sinful demons seamlessly after going to hell, and have nowhere to test their skills. What Tsuruga brought was a soul-processing technology personally taught to him by Asmodeus, the Demon King of Desire in his world.

The soul of a sinner possesses a different kind of experience that the devil cannot refuse compared to the pure soul. The complex life experiences and desires existing within the soul create pleasure that reaches the root of all desires.

That's a deeper experience that demons can't resist, even more so than the so-called temptation of Slaanesh, and it doesn't contain any elements that can be called addiction. Of course... indulging in this absolute beauty of the soul is another matter entirely.

These soulstone powders give demons an uplifting, blissful experience, making them the only means for the lesser noble demons of the Hydra's royal court to experience unfulfilled desires. They are an irresistible temptation and... well, they are a very marketable product.

"How could this be? How could our family be just a... mere formality?"

Viya looked at Stolas in disbelief, trembling as she spoke.

“That’s the truth, Viya.” Stolas, awakened from his spiritual communion with his daughter, embraced Viya and sobbed as he spoke.

"But don't worry, I love you. You've always been my favorite, my little owl."

There's really not much to say about this Prince of Hell.

His betrothed, Stella, was also a member of the Goetia family, but she was an arrogant, rude, and tyrannical female demon who began to bully Stolas from the first moment she saw him.

She was very dissatisfied with her husband's weak personality, so after their marriage she began to verbally abuse and discriminate against him without any limits.

Stolas would never have gone back to his terrible marriage if it weren't for Viya's birth. But because of his daughter's birth, Stolas, now with a new purpose, eventually reunited with Billies.

Well—if we disregard gender, this is essentially a story about reuniting with one's "white moonlight" (ideal love interest).

Billy was once a little devil who worked as a clown in a circus. He was a very good friend of Stolas when they were children. Later, he was sold to the prince by Stolas' father, Paimon, and the two spent a very sweet time together...

Um, let's skip this part of the story.

Although Tsugumi understands the issues of gender relations among these demons, as a staunchly straight man, he still finds it difficult to accept them.

In short, thanks to Tsurugi's small act of help, Stolas and Viya almost immediately reconciled.

"I'm sorry, Dad," Viya whispered, resting her head against Stolas's chest.

“I never imagined he was so important to you, and I never imagined Mom could have been so mean before…”

"It's alright, my little owl. Your well-being is more important than anything else," Stolas said softly, hugging his daughter with emotion.

~smack~smack~~~~

"Very good, it seems to be a happy ending with hamburgers."

Tsugumi walked out from behind the scenes, clapping and laughing, looking every bit the part of a convincing villain.

"I wonder what His Highness thinks of my new product?"

Stolas glanced down at Soul Dust. Apart from resolving their communication issues during their heart-to-heart talk, Stolas had to admit that...

This stuff is amazing!

The moment he inhaled it, Stolas felt a tremor and comfort in his soul, and even his long-standing depression improved significantly.

Moreover, as a proper Goetia nobleman, Stolas knew that this thing did not contain any addictive ingredients or any part of black magic.

To be honest, Stolas couldn't tell what material this thing was made of, since he wasn't a very strong Goetia demon, and his domain was in the cosmos.

“Fantastic, absolutely fantastic, I must say, this is truly something I’ve never seen before,” Stolas said, full of praise.

"Your Highness, I simply wish you to act as a bridge, to contact Lord Asmodeus on my behalf, to discuss a new business collaboration," Tsuruga said with a smile, raising a finger to Stolas.

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"Lord Mephisto, thank you." Stora bowed slightly to Tsurugi and said softly.

“You will be a friend of the Goetia family forever. As for your request, I will contact Oz for you immediately.”

In short, this story of the gay demon nobleman and the little devil's midlife crisis is pretty much over here. There are no plot twists, and nothing worth exploring further.