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The girl looked no older then sixteen years old and was wearing a beautiful pink dress. She preferred cute things so it had been specifically chosen for her. What was also very nice was that it matched the color of her exotic strawberry-pink hair.

Not even the eye-patch covering her left eye could diminish her beauty in the slightest.

CZ2128 Delta, also known as Shizu, one of the Pleiades maids of Nazarick and direct servant of the Supreme Being Ainz Ooal Gown. She stopped at a large house in one of the streets not too far from the city's commercial district and softly knocked on the door.

After a short pause the door slowly opened, there didn't appear to be anyone on the other side of the door however.

Not in the least bit surprised Shizu simply walked into the house and proceeded up the stairs onto the second floor.

The second floor of the house was not one of many rooms but instead the entire floor was one giant room big enough for twenty people to be able to move freely around inside of it. It was equipped with three beds two large wooden closets a large dining table and a writing desk.

By the window which overlooked the street there sat another gorgeous women with her hair in a bun who was wearing an elegant but plain blue dress. She had rectangular glasses and a blue choker around her neck. She seemed to have noticed Shizu and moved her gaze from the book she was reading towards the girl.

"Oh you've returned Shizu, how did it go, did you get the supplies?"

"Hmm. No Problem Yuri-nee. Task, easy."

Shizu's face remained motionless as always as she withdrew a large bag seemingly from nowhere, from which she took out a bunch of food supplies. The fragrant smell of the food she had brought with her caused another figure in the room who thus far had been lying down to raise the upper half of his body to a vertical position.

"Hoooh, that smells good! So my supper has finally arrived huh."

On the other side of the room stood three large luxurious wooden beds, though compared to the beds on the ninth floor of Nazarick they were little more than an embarrassment, a human would find them very comfortable and soft. On one of these beds laid a young muscular man who appeared to be no older than 25 with dark red hair which was rough, uncombed. He had brown dark skin and wore a pair of dark brown pants with a dark black leather vest and a white silk shirt beneath. He had a pair of bright yellow eyes and a set of pearly white teeth which he was currently displaying due to him broadly grinning.

Lycan Thropius, a Level 85 NPC of Nazarick that resided on the third floor. He like Lupus Regina Beta, was a werewolf with the difference being he was skewed to have most of his levels put into his racial traits unlike Lupus Regina who also doubled as a cleric. Unlike her he didn't have to wear a cap to hide his ears which while he was in his human form looked no different from any others. However for reasons only known to the supreme beings he was made without area or function in Nazarick. He didn't report to any floor guardian and just roamed his floor, this combined with his rough personality had earned him the nickname 'Nazarick's punk'.

"Oi, Yuri hurry up and get dinner ready will ya?"

Yuri closed her book while sighing deeply as she swallowed the words she wanted to say from her heart and responded in her usual composed manner.

"Dinner will be prepared around the same time as usual, I implore you not to make unreasonable requests from me."

Yuri and Shizu needed no food as they were not technically living beings but Lycan was different, unlike the rest of Nazarick's active servants he had no ring of sustenance thus he required regular meals to be prepared for him.

As one of the few people in Nazarick that could cook Yuri was thus forced to prepare his meals for him at least twice a day. Even if all she could make was sandwiches and bento.

"Lycan. Mean."

Yuri couldn't help but smile wryly to Shizu's words which as usual summed up the essence of what needed to be said quite nicely, this caused great dissatisfaction to become visible on Lycan's face. Fortunately he decided not to act upon it as he knew it wouldn't yield any results and put the topic to rest.

"Ah by the way how's that little puppy doing in your little tea-party? Still playing with her food?"

The one he was of course referring to was Lupus Regina, his and her creators had some relationship with each other in Nazarick together, so it was only natural that the two of them did as well. Especially since they were both of the same race and could easily be confused as brother and sister.

"If u are referring to Lupus Regina she is doing quite well, she is currently on a mission in a human village under the instructions of Ainz-sama."

Yuri answered with a sincere smile hoping to lay the topic to rest here and now.

"Hey tell me does she still think of humans as 'toys'?"

She hesitated in answering as Lycan had hit the nail right on the head. Lupu had on many occasions referred to the humans she was charged with guarding as playthings or toys. Lycan took that short pause as confirmation.

"Ha-ha I knew it, that puppy is still way too wet behind the ears, still paying around with her food, honestly! Sometimes I worry that if you'd throw a ball she'd go and fetch it, wouldn't that be a laugh hahaha. She doesn't realize that humans are a food source not a toy. We only kill them out of hunger not pleasure."

Yuri directed a fierce glare towards Lycan now standing directly next to her. Her hand twitched to reach for the cane in her pocket space to smack it on the table and give Lycan a good lecture but she restrained herself as she knew full well how much Lycan hated to be lectured. Instead she responded with a soft comment criticizing Lycan.

"Lycan-san, belittling one of the 41 supreme beings' creations is not allowed. You of all people ought to know that."

Lycan clicked his tongue as that display of politeness of Yuri just now was nothing more than a mocking gesture towards him. Yet at the same time he could note rebuke her words as he knew full well that she was right.

By right a servant of Nazarick without a purpose would be frowned upon heavily in Nazarick. Even the assistant butler Éclair who openly declared that he'd take over Nazarick one day had one. Lycan was in reality an empty existence, hollow and meaningless and should have been heavily ostracized from the rest of the tomb, however seeing as he was a personal creation of the 41 supreme beings he was merely not treated with the respect that the other creations received.

Lycan could not possibly deny those words and so chose not to speak about the topic any further.

"So back to the topic of grub, what kinda meat is on tonight?"

"Poultry."

"Haah you know I don't like chicken. My kind being fond of chickens is just folklore you know."

"Meat expensive. Saving money important."

Shizu responded to Lycan's complaints with her usual poker face. All the while she was taking out her groceries and putting them on the large wooden table in the middle of the room which was big enough to host a dinner party for eight people. After she was finished she sat herself down behind the large wooden desk on the other side of her room as she began writing the regular reports that she and Shizu had to send to Nazarick.

"Shizu's right Lycan, we were given money from Ainz-sama and told to set up a base of operations in the Theocracy's capital. The money is not meant to be spent on your gluttony."

Yuri corrected her glasses as she continued to try and read the book that she was immersed in until Shizu arrived, seeing as the conversation with Lycan was going nowhere good as usual.