Demi-human Girls Completion Manual-Chapter 73 - 3
73: 3.
Her despicable conduct (seeking followers)
73: 3.
Her despicable conduct (seeking followers)
The moment the Emblem was completed, Fisher’s entire body suddenly felt light, and his vision was enveloped by a dense darkness.
However, faintly discernable, he could see numerous substances slowly flowing around him as if he had entered a deep-water zone, where all sounds gradually receded.
The sensation was extremely uncomfortable and odd, like a baby observing the world for the first time with its eyes—everything was so unfamiliar and panic-inducing.
Fisher’s breath began to quicken unconsciously as he lowered his head to look at his body, only to discover that his body had completely vanished.
In its place was a torso radiating milky white luminescence like branches of a tree—his Magic Circuit. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
At this moment, his Magic Circuit had temporarily freed itself from the constraints of the flesh and became independent.
However, the light would rapidly dissipate once it drifted a little away from the body, which then emitted a strong suction force.
He had entered the perspective of the soul!
No sooner had this information popped into Fisher’s brain than he suddenly felt something nearby staring at him—something that made not only his body but also his soul bristle with the sensation of danger.
Just as he tried to shift his gaze to see what it was, he found his soul being pulled by something.
The dark world around him instantly surged with vivid colors, and all his senses and breath subsequently returned to awareness, back to normal vision.
But Fisher felt a chill in his body, deeply unaccustomed to the perspective he had just experienced, or perhaps it was that presence somewhere that was watching him.
Beside him, Renie’s worried purple eyes were looking at him, her palms cradling his chill cheek.
It was she who had interrupted Fisher’s soul perspective with her touch,
“Are you okay?
Your complexion suddenly turned much paler just now?”
Fisher took a deep breath to relieve the pressure from the magic he had just experienced.
Indeed, he had sensed that within the soul perspective, something seemed to be staring at him.
Now, upon reflection, the impulse to turn and look at that thing while in a soul state was foolish and could lead to unexpected events.
Luckily, Renie had interrupted him from the outside.
Otherwise, Fisher couldn’t be sure what the consequences would have been if he had directly faced that perilously unsettling thing in his soul state.
“It’s okay.
This proves the method is effective…”
Renie pouted and, seeing he was alright, floated up again.
Fisher breathed a sigh of relief.
The success of this magic could now prove the existence of the soul to those human scholars, as the Universal Magic Emblem he had drawn on the paper was intended to ensure the correct orientation of the Magic Ring Head for novices during the engraving and easily display the effects of a certain magic’s Reverberation.
Now, what really needed consideration was what that thing staring at him in the soul state actually was.
For some reason, he was reminded of that big-eyed creature he had encountered on the South Continent…
“Woo~”
A huge cruise ship belched slender black smoke from its top, and as the harsh whistle sounded, Fisher felt himself slowly leaving the shore.
He turned his head toward the window outside, looking at Krit Port, or to be precise, the South Continent behind Krit Port.
It was time for him to bid farewell to this place for now.
…
…
“I’m so bored, so bored, so incredibly bored, Fisher.
I’m terribly bored.”
Renie, this girl, had said she would accompany him on the boat back to the Western Continent.
However, she hadn’t even reached the Third Day before she started drifting around the room, murmuring about being “bored.”
“You had the option to go back directly, but you chose to spend over thirty days with me on this boat.
If you made that choice, don’t complain now.”
“That’s not it!
I imagined these thirty days to be filled with us cooing and wooing in the cabin, not watching you write articles all day long.”
Renie was on the brink of boredom, having flipped through the room-delivered newspapers two or three times already.
Even floating in the air couldn’t contain her restlessness.
Fisher was starting to worry that any moment now she would burst out of the cabin to play pranks on the other passengers.
Outside, the sea was calm with a gentle breeze.
Fisher, looking at the sea, felt agitated—not out of boredom like Renie, but because of her.
“Do you really think I could be all lovey-dovey with you?”
“Fisher, look at me.”
“…What for?”
Renie’s teasing tone suddenly turned serious, which made Fisher think she had gotten angry, so he turned to look, only to see her pulling on her black dress to emphasize her figure, and then she seriously asked,
“Does it look good?”
Fisher turned his head away, too lazy to bother with her, and continued reading his thesis.
His indifferent demeanor caused her to puff up her cheeks and, quite angry, she ran over to punch him on the head.
“Never mind…” Fisher caught her not-so-forceful fist, feeling quite exhausted himself after writing for so long, and he put down the quill, “Earlier, when you sent Hart to send a message, I didn’t ask in detail, did you not find your previous family in Kado?”
“Eh?” Renie hadn’t expected Fisher to suddenly ask that and said with some distress, “I was too young when I left, I only have a vague memory of where I lived.
Even if I passed by that place, it might have changed by now, so it’s understandable that I couldn’t find it.”
Fisher had found Renie on the border between Schwali and Kado.
At that time, Fisher had just discovered the miracles of the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual not long ago and had never heard of “Son of the Sea” and “Sky God.” Since the Dragon-man Species was unique to the South Continent, he had no choice but to start with Witches, which were only found on the Western Continent.
The most notable trait of an Undead Witch is probably the so-called “Undying.” Any kind of undying should count, the simplest being that the witch’s trait is immortality, or the ability to reincarnate or something.
But Renie didn’t fit the bill in any way.
Her traits were rubbish, she had plenty of Magic Power but couldn’t engrave magic, not to mention she was particularly bad at learning.
Other than delivering messages, the Hart Bird was nothing more than an ornament, which made Fisher completely give up the idea.
After learning that Fisher was looking for the “Undead Witch,” she tricked him by saying she knew information about the Undead Witch, promising to tell him after they crossed the Schwali border.
At the time, Schwali and Kado were diplomatically hostile with a strong air of tension.
Fisher took a risk by taking her across the border and in the midst of a fight, she ran away quickly.
Eventually, after getting shot and nearly dying, crying and injured, she told him in Kado that the witch had already left Kado.
Even a fool would know she was lying.
Only under Fisher’s pressing did she pitifully admit that her original intention was to have Fisher take her back to Kado to find the family she had left as a child.
Of course, they didn’t find them.
Fisher ended up being stuck with Renie, who claimed she didn’t know magic and promised to engrave Magic Emblems every day without fail for him as soon as she learned magic, to repay Fisher for saving her life.
After engraving the Handcane with magic, she was too tired and shamelessly told Fisher she wanted to “repay him with her body.”
And then, an angry Fisher chased her away.
Fisher was too young back then and didn’t realize the dangers of the world, which is why Renie was able to trick him so many times.
So after that, Renie earned the reputation in Fisher’s mind of being a really nasty witch, a quintessential example of the worst among witches, single-handedly lowering the image of witches in Fisher’s perspective and making him more convinced of the reliability of the Doomsday Prophecy.
“I think you might still find something if you look in the small countries to the south of Kado.
Those places haven’t been caught up in the tide of development yet; the local customs are still authentic.”
“That makes sense…
wait a minute, you just want to get rid of me, don’t you?”
Renie perceived the intent, a glint of intelligence flashing in her eyes, an “I’ve caught you” expression on her face.
As soon as the topic of leaving came up, her back pain and leg fatigue vanished, and she wasn’t annoyed anymore, hugging her arms midair and refusing to move a muscle.
“Tch.”
Fisher let out an exasperated noise to express his dissatisfaction, reaching into his pocket for a cigarette only to find, at some point, he had run out.
He stood up reluctantly, sidestepping the unmoving Renie, and made his way to the door.
“Hey, you’re not planning on jumping into the sea, are you?”
“…”
Fisher waved his hand dismissively, not wanting to acknowledge her at all.
