Chapter 197: Tragedy / Cups (Wordplay

"Eh, isn't this a teacup?"

Darkness circled to the side and took a look, then spoke, directly causing Houste's disguise to lose its effect.

"Listen to me, I just wanted to help you tidy up these cups, but I didn't expect them to be so brittle; they shattered with just a gentle pinch from me."

Houste wanted to explain something, but Xiaomi's mouth had already puckered up.

"Dad and Mom told Xiaomi to watch the house, but Xiaomi didn't watch the house well, and actually let the important cups in the house get broken..."

Xiaomi's eyes became a bit tearful.

"Aren't they just some cups?"

Houste didn't expect the girl's reaction to be this big, and subconsciously blurted out a sentence.

"Ah, there's a demon here making a small child cry!"

Aqua's other abilities are hard to say, but her ability to kick a demon while it's down is still quite powerful; she immediately started sneering from the side.

"Truly a demon is a demon, still saying 'Aren't they just some cups,' hehe, you don't even look at what this child's family situation is like?"

Under Aqua's verbal offensive, Houste couldn't quite hold his composure; more importantly, he actually absorbed some sad negative emotions from Xiaomi.

"Hey, little..."

Originally wanted to say 'gui' (ghost), but it ultimately turned into 'mi'.

"Don't cry, okay? At worst, I'll go outside right now and steal some cups back, guaranteed to be absolutely better than those broken cups of yours that are already smashed!"

Houste is a demon who doesn't know how to comfort people; his words made Xiaomi even more upset.

Xiaomi kicked his sturdy thigh, revealed her little tiger teeth, and shouted at him rather fiercely: "Xiaomi's cups aren't broken at all, they are the best cups!"

"Do you need me to help you purify this demon? Rest assured, I don't charge for purifying demons on my end."

Aqua hurriedly leaned over and recommended herself to Xiaomi.

"I feel that if you did something wrong, you should properly apologize."

Broly said to Houste from the side.

"I'm sorry, it was my fault."

Houste looked at the boy who easily defeated him, then looked at the tearful little girl on that side, and finally chose to apologize honestly.

However...

"That's not how you apologize; you should do dogeza. Eh, what is dogeza? Dogeza is..."

Broly generously passed on to Houste the apology technique he learned in the first world, and then this gray-blue demon performed a dogeza pose in front of Xiaomi and apologized seriously, and Xiaomi wiped her tears and quickly forgave him.

"You are Xiaomi's familiar; a familiar's mistake is Xiaomi's mistake; Xiaomi will properly apologize to Dad and Mom!"

This is a child brave enough to take responsibility; regarding this, Aqua was a bit disappointed because she couldn't take the opportunity to eliminate the demon on the side.

Houste was a bit surprised and a bit moved, pointed at the pottery shards on the ground, and said: "Then let me try again, see if I can make them into cups again."

"Hm?"

Broly leaned over and asked: "Can this be made into cups again?"

"I'm not sure, but I once passed by a human's house who made this kind of thing, and saw how the human who made this thing made it.

Those people mixed water and earth, spun and spun and spun on a plate; after spinning out the shape, they fired it with fire, and the cup was done."

While speaking, Houste also demonstrated; he crushed the pottery cup shards into powder with his fist, then poured water into the powder.

Then, he kneaded and kneaded with his big palm, like playing with mud; really, although he looks like a rough big demon on the surface, he is unexpectedly dexterous; Houste made some passable cups using just his hands.

"Fireball~"

After seeing magic flames used for cooking, Broly saw another unorthodox use of magic; this demon Houste used flames he summoned to directly roast the pottery cups on the ground.

And as expected, a cracking sound rang out, the finished pottery cups cracked open, turning back into the broken slag seen before.

"Don't know why, but every time it gets to this step, the cups always crack on their own; those humans who make cups definitely used some cup-making magic I don't know!"

Houste spoke these words with a look of absolute conviction.

Wiz and Darkness faced each other, a bit unsure what to say.

"Pfft, you stupid demon, firing pottery cups like that, of course the cups will crack." Aqua sneered.

"Eh, you, this High Priest, know how to make cups?"

The demon looked over.

"Of course."

Aqua is a treasure goddess; her body always hides some strange skills.

"Please teach me how to make cups!"

Houste requested.

"Hah, what a joke, let this dignified Goddess-sama teach a demon how to make cups?"

Aqua naturally refused, however...

"Aqua Master, I want to make cups too!"

Broly also requested.

On Planet Vampa there are no cups; previously they used the shells left over from eating Vampa Spiders as water storage tools to hold rainwater.

Thinking that after returning to Planet Vampa, he himself, who could already achieve water freedom, would definitely need better water containers.

Thus, Broly also developed a huge interest in making cups.

"Sigh, another day with no business."

Piao Sanlang sighed, and his head was slapped by the woman behind him.

"Who is to blame? Originally a customer had already taken a liking to our magic tool, but you just had to say the other party was an unknowledgeable guy, said you wouldn't sell magic tools to unknowledgeable people, and directly drove that customer away..."

Weiwei clenched her fist, really wanting to give her husband a punch on the head; she used to like the other party because he had a lot of personality.

But precisely because she is too full of personality, the various exquisite magic tools she produces nowadays have ended up in a situation where some are difficult to sell.

In her youth, enduring hard days felt like no big deal; she thought as long as there was love it would be fine, but after having two cute daughters, the family's difficulties made this mother lower her head a little to this world's cruel reality.

"Dear, I'm not opposing you choosing customers, but think about our family's situation where we can barely keep the pot boiling — if we don't earn money soon, our whole family will starve!"

"I'll definitely earn money, wife, but if I abandon my bottom line as a magic tool artisan just to make money, the magic tools I make afterwards definitely won't have souls anymore... What the hell?"

Halfway through his words, Piao Sanlang widened his eyes and let out a sentence-final particle.

What did he see?

A group of people playing with mud in front of their own front door? And a demon playing with fire on the side?

"The most important thing in making cups is the heat control; we must strictly guarantee even heating of the cups during the firing process!"

Aqua, like a serious and responsible cup instructor, walked with hands behind her back strictly teaching the cup-making students the situation of making cups.

"I made it!"

Finally, after most of half an hour, when Xiaomi's parents returned home stepping on shadows under the sunset, the first cup was successfully fired.

A group of people and a demon surrounded a clay cup that had been fired and shaped on the ground; the scene was quite bizarre, as if they were conducting some evil ritual.

"Xiaomi, what are you doing?"

Piao Sanlang, bringing his wife Weiwei, cautiously approached and only then suddenly asked the little daughter in the crowd.

Hearing the voice, turning her head and seeing it was her parents returning, Xiaomi was very happy, and not afraid that the just-cooled cup was still a bit hot to the touch, she directly picked up the cup, placed it on her head, and ran to Piao Sanlang and Weiwei's front.

"Dad, Mom, look, this is the new cup I just made; from now on our family won't lack cups!"

Hearing this, Piao Sanlang and Weiwei looked at each other in blank dismay.

At this moment, the man saw his old regular customer Wiz.

His eyes brightened, and he directly inquired about the situation from the Lich young lady.

(Chapter End)