"Alright! Stagnum you're in charge of telling people that we are handing out food. Get the word around."
"I sir!" Stagnum rushed off.
"We got a decent amount of food. Hopefully, we can feed everyone."
"How does all that food fit in that backpack?" Icarus asked.
"It's a special type of bag that we got from a Tomb. Almost died getting it but it was definitely worth it. That's also where we met Ishiga at."
"Hey! It's not nice to steal from Tombs you know."
"How is she so cute even when she's mad!" Luke thought to himself.
"It's ok, We didn't steal it. We got permission to take it from Ishiga. It was her Tomb."
"Wait so the new girl in your group was dead before this!?" Icarus looked terrified.
"No, no, no. She was there protecting the bag but then she said we can have it. Before this, she was a Demigod."
"A Demigod!"
"Oh yeah, she is a nun. And I just told her a Demigod is just casually walking around." Luke thought to himself.
"Even though she's a Demigod she's not like you would think she is. She talks a lot and sometimes that gets on our nerves but she's cool and she's family. Not by blood of course."
"I see..." Icarus took some deep breaths.
"Probably shouldn't tell her we were traveling with the king of hell and a Dragon Titan god." Luke thought to himself.
After talking and sitting there for a while He saw Stagnum along with the rest of the group leading some people of the slums to them.
"Yo, I got some people!" Stagnum ran and high fived Luke.
"Nice job, If it's not enough I'm gonna need you to go hunt something."
"I can do that." Stagnum smiled proudly.
It was all fine until...
"Luuuke. Were you here by yourself with this girl the whole time?" Ashly went back into her crazy mode and put a knife up to Luke's neck.
"H-hey. It's ok, she's a nun. I could never try something on her!" Luke sweat nervously.
"I'm sorry, did I offend you? I really didn't mean to. I'm sorry." Icarus saying sorry was something that could make puppies cry.
"What the hell is this girl some kind of angle!?" Ashly thought to herself as her jaw dropped.
"Um, no you're fine. No need to say sorry." Even Ashly was overwhelmed by Icarus's innocents.
"Oh really? Then that makes me happy." Icarus smiled at Ashly and she covered her eyes because she was too bright to look at.
"Now I understand why Tom beat the shit out of that guy for slapping her hand. This girl must be protected!" Ashly thought to herself. Ashly turned her back to Luke, she didn't even have to say anything he just nodded knowing that they all had to protect her.
After that, they started handing out food to the children first then the grown folks.
"Thank you, mister." A little girl said as she walked away with an orange.
"Your welcome," Stagnum said back. Something about this made them all feel warm inside.
After they were done passing out food everybody sat in that area and ate. Then a group of men came over to Luke.
"Hey!" The man yelled at Luke.
"What? You didn't get any food? I'm sorry let me go get you so-"
"It's not that jackass! What the hell do you think you're doing feeding my workers!?" Luke was starting to get pissed.
"You make money off of these starving people by making them sex workers, but if they don't need anything from you they will stop coming and you'll lose money. Is that what you're so mad about?" Luke looked calm but he wanted to hit the guy but he kept his cool.
"Good guess kid! That is exactly true. So I'm going to need you to stop feeding these people." The man was chubby and had 2 normal-looking bodyguards.
"What's going on Luke?" Icarus asked.
"Nothing to worry about." Luke smiled and tried to keep her spirits up.
"Oh, You're a cute little girl. How about you come work for me? I could show you the pleasures you've never felt before." The man gave the same smile that Ashly's dad gave all those years ago.
"Stagnum! Ashly!" Luke called them over there.
"What is it?" Stagnum asked.
"This guy is trying to rape Icarus. How should we handle him?" Luke cracked his knuckles.
"Anything we do we can't do it here. Let's take them somewhere private." Stagnum chopped a bodyguard in the back of his neck and Luke and Ashly did the same. They picked them up.
"Icarus we'll be back." Luke smiled at her then they left carrying them.
They take them to a small beach and tie them up, Then they splash some water on their faces.
"Hello there. It has come to our attention that you were trying to mess with our goddess." Ashly had a very scary smile.
"What the hell do you think you're doing! Do you know who I am!?"
"Man this guy is annoying how about we show them who the Heavenly demons are" They all smiled and put chills down the men's spines.
They grabbed each person and threw them into the water, and had their hands and legs tied up so all they could do is wiggle on their sides. They weren't that deep in the water but that was perfect. Because now they had had to struggle to keep their heads above water until they got tired and drowned in shallow water.
"Welp see you guys later! If you die too bad." Luke said walking away. Stagnum and Ashly followed.
They went back to the slums and chilled until the next day. Everybody woke up bright and early.
"Alright Me, Ishiga, and Stagnum will be on money this time. Icarus you don't need to help but-"
"I'll help." She had a look of determination.
"Alright then stay here and help Ashly and Musabi. Everybody let's get to work!"
"I sir!"
They ran to the bar.
"Alright, Ishiga go get set up to be a bounty hunter while me and Stagnum look at bounties."
"Alright, Luke."
"Hmm these all look easy but they all don't pay badly. Looks like we'll be able to buy clothes and food today." Luke looked happy.
"Hey! Where's Icarus!?" Scarlet pulled and Luke's shoulder, making him turn around.
"Chill out. She is in the slums helping people."
"That girl is too nice...What are you even doing helping the people of the slums anyway?" Scarlet asked.
"Because I want to. Do I need another reason?" Luke turned back around to the bounty board.
"That's your only reason? What a dumb reason." She cockily laughed.
"Well of course it would be to you because you have no goals and just drag yourself through life following Orion hoping that he will like yo ugly ass back someday. And I'm calling your personality ugly. Do you not see the trend with guys calling your personality shitty? Just get away from me before I hurt your feelings." Luke hated when people talked about the slums like they were better than it.
"Fine! Didn't want to talk to you anyway." Scarlet stormed off.
"I blew it..." Scarlet plops down on a seat next to Odwin.
"Wow, that was fast. What the hell happened?"
"I was trying to be friendly but then I called his goal stupid. Why am I so bad at talking to people."
"Cheer up. I'm sure he doesn't hate you so there is still a chance for you to become friends." Odwin patted her on the back.
"I guess..." Because of how Scarlet was raised she thinks she is better than everybody but she wants to change that after Toyomo made her cry on the boat.
After an hour of doing bounties, Luke walked back in and Scarlet went back up to try to talk to him again.
"Um, I'm sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to call your goal stupid."
"It's fine." Luke didn't really pay attention to her.
"I want to change. I don't like the fact that I look down on people because they struggle but it's been burnt into my brain. So I was thinking could I help you guys out in your goal?" Scarlet bowed deeply.
"Well...I guess the more help the better. If what they say is true then I will happily like to have your help. And don't bow to me anymore, it's weird." Luke grinned and turned back to the bounty board.
"Really? Thank you! So what can I do?"
"You can do an easy mission that pays a decent amount so at the end of the day we have enough to buy a lot of clothes and food. C rank shouldn't be a problem for you."
"I'll get to work right away! Even though I am above work." Scarlet was making progress.
After that day they made a good amount of money. Over 10,000$ Because of those C class missions.
Stagnum, Luke, and Scarlet went inside the clothes shop and bought 5,000 dollars worth of clothes and spent the rest on food.
"Nice we got a nice amount of stuff this time!" Stagnum jumped around happily.
"You can thank me for that." Scarlet's words had a smug feel to them.
"Thank you!" Stagnum didn't care though.
Suddenly the Ninja girl that was disguised as a dude came down from a roof with a bag.
"Shizuka? What are you doing here?" Scarlet asked.
Shizuka reached into her bag and pulled out a black apron and a spoon.
"You wanna cook for us?" Luke asked.
Shizuka nodded.
"Cool. I am thankful for your help."
"A hot meal sounds nice. Let's hurry up!" Stagnum started sprinting and grabbed Shizuka.
"Well guess we should hurry as well," Luke said chuckling a little.
"I don't want to run!" Scarlet pouted.
"Then you're getting left." Luke started jogging.
"Wait, I was kidding! hold on!" Scarlet started running after Luke.
when they got back to the slums they gathered everybody up as they did before and gave them all clothes. Some people just got pants but were very grateful. The word got out about them yesterday and more people showed up today.
Shizuka pulled out a pot and had some seasonings ready. Luke placed some of the food down next to her to do what she wanted with it. She ended up making a vegetable stew. Stagnum went and bought as many bowls as he could before the stores closed with the leftover money.
While that was happening Luke was reading the book The king left him. Then there was another note on one of the pages.
It said, "If you're wondering how you are going to get all the materials, I left them in a special place in the bag. To get to that special spot you have to say 'Different slot' and the bag will change color and go to another inventory. To go back just say 'Back to previous slot.' I also left a very special ring in that slot that lets you copy anything but it only lasts for a year. To use it you have to point at something then say 'Copy' Then you have to say 'Pasted.' It doesn't work on living things. It also can't copy thangs too big, So nothing like a big mansion. A regular-sized house probably works though. Sincerely the one and only Toyomo."
"That guy even now is helping us. Well, one book has info on what I need and the other one has info on how to build it. So I guess I got everything I need to get started. But first...I'm definitely about to copy and paste a shit ton of platinum coin!" Luke ran over to the Infinite bag.
"Hey, guys I'll be back by tomorrow!" Luke said jogging away.
Luke ran deep into the woods.
"Alright let's get started." Luke pulled out a platinum coin and pointed at it.
"Copy! Pasted!" And just like that, another coin popped up.
"Woah It really works! Oh, we about to be rich!" Luke loved money. And he loved to manage it. So this was like a dream come true. Luke stade there all night copying and pasting.
The next day when the sun was starting to rise.
"Ah! Looks like copying and pasting puts the user in extreme pain if they use it too much. Feels like I'm being stabbed repeatedly. Probably just need to give the ring a rest. I got enough money anyway." Luke grabbed the bag and sat against a tree and relaxed.
He had 177013 Platinum coins. (if you get it you get it.)
For people who don't get it and just want how much money that is, It's 88,506,500,000$ He also copied 209 gold coins and 519 Sliver (209519, If you're an anime fan you probably get what these numbers mean. Don't worry non-anime watchers. It has nothing to do with this story.) And also 168574 Bronze coins because those ones are most commonly used.
Which all comes out to...hold let me pull out a calculator...88,508,446,640$! It's definitely enough to build a school. And because he has the Infinite backpack it works out perfect. Luke became the second richest man in the world behind none-other than Toyomo. Toyomo did the same thing with the ring when he used it. But he did for a month straight sooo yeah.
Anyway after resting for a bit Luke went back to the slums.
"Hi, guys I'm back."
"Where did you head off to Luke?" Stagnum asked.
"I went and made a shit ton of money. We won't have to worry about money for a very long time." Luke smiled.
"How did you make it all?" Musabi asked.
"That's a secret for right now but let's just say, Tom, manages to help me even though he's gone."
"Of course it was somehow Toms doing. Always steps ahead of us." Ishiga crossed her arms and shook her head.
"Luke!" Ashly ran and jumped on Luke's back.
"Where were you!? I missed you so much!"
"Ouch! I was only gone for the night! And I was just getting some money@" Luke grabbed her legs so she didn't fall off his back. Even though he was still in pain.
"So how much money are we talking?" Musabi asked.
"...It's enough to buy this whole kingdom and still have enough to buy 8 more and still have more money leftover..."
"Holy shit!" Everybody beside Icarus and Shizuka yelled at the same time.
"My head hurts trying to think of that number." Stagnums ears started to steam like a busted robot.
"So what are we going to do with all this money?" Ashly asked.
"I guess we need to start building proper houses for these people getting them proper beds as well. Because sleeping on the floor sucks. I got a cheat for that using the ring Tom gave me."
"Is this ring how you got all the money?" Ishiga asked.
Luke explained the abilities of the ring.
"Oh, that's amazing!" Icarus said.
"Yeah but it seems I can't take it off. Not that I'd want to. It only lasts for a year so it's time to get to work!"
"I sir"
"I'm going into the city to copy some houses. I can only copy 2 things at a time though so I will be in and out! Wait for me by the entrance to the slums!" Luke ran out of the slums and into the city and found some houses and copied them, and ran back.
"Alright, everybody I got our first 2 houses!" Luke said running back into the Slums.
"Nice! Where should we put them?" Stagnum asked.
"I guess we'll start on the outside and make our way into the insides. So why not Ashly's old house."
"Makes sense, let's do it!"
"Um excuse me! could you come out of your house for a sec!?" Scarlet asked a man and a woman that were in the house next to Ashly's old house.
"Yeah sure." The man and the woman walked out.
"Pasted!" and just like that, a house spawned out of thin air.
"W-what!?" The man and the woman were in shock.
"Enjoy your new house." Luke smiled big.
"Hu? You're giving this to us?" The man said.
"Yeah, it's all yours. Were giving one to everybody after all."
Tears came to the couple's eyes.
"Thank you so much." The coupled bowed deeply.
"No need to bow. I'm doing it because I want to. Let's all see was it looks like on the inside." Luke walked into the house and saw a big pile of trash on the floor.
"Oh, I guess Your all houses were chopped down here. Well, all you have to do is clean it. We'll leave that to you guys. We got more houses to give." Luke was happy they had such an overpowered thing to help them, You could tell by his bright smile.
See you next time space cowboy...In the Promised Neverland