Demi-human Girls Completion Manual
Chapter 365 - 149. The Puppet Master_2

Chapter 365: 149. The Puppet Master_2

Many wounds riddled Xiayat’s horse, and some were very deep. Concerned about her condition, Fisher asked,

"Can you still walk?"

"I can still... hiss."

As Xiayat was about to prove she could continue on, she raised her hooves. The sudden movement caused her intense pain, instantly halting her action.

Elliog had only forced her consciousness awake and had not helped to heal her wounds. Moving those areas caused severe pain. With one eye shut, she took a sharp breath, was about to say something but her expression changed, and she pointed outside, shouting,

"... Wait, Fisher, it looks like someone is coming over there!"

"Someone?"

Fisher turned his head through the vast cracks of the library and clearly saw a group of soldiers clad in gold armor moving toward them; they were from the Nali Army.

It was Elizabeth.

"It’s Elizabeth, we’ll go out and find her to treat your wounds, and also handle the matters within the Saint Nali District..."

"Mm."

Xiayat nodded, gasping for breath and walking toward the outside. Fisher also prepared to leave the library, carrying Moli, but before leaving, he looked up as if sensing something and glanced upward.

Above on the ceiling, the line of words on the glass, designed by Blake and labeled "Mu Xi," still stood out clearly.

That line made Fisher slightly furrow his brow. He paused for several seconds before following Xiayat out of the library.

Following the walkway outside the library, Fisher had just left when he saw Elizabeth, dressed in a fitted, pale gold gown, running anxiously toward them. Behind her followed two rows of fully armed soldiers.

"Fisher!"

Her usually gentle face now seemed devoid of decorum. At first glance, she saw Fisher, half-naked with wounds all over his body. Her breath nearly stopped, and she carelessly flung her high heels aside, running directly in white socks toward Fisher.

"How could this be, how could this happen... how could you be so badly hurt?"

She looked at Fisher’s wounds in panic, unable to bring herself to touch his body, just breathing rapidly while looking at his injuries.

"... I’m fine, but Xiayat needs treatment for her wounds; she was bitten by a monster kept by Blake."

"Doctors! Come quickly! Take them back for treatment..."

Two doctors in white robes quickly emerged from the neatly standing soldiers, rapidly put together a stretcher, fixed Xiayat onto it, briefly treated her bleeding wounds, and then left with her stretcher.

Watching Xiayat being taken away, Fisher finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Elizabeth in front of him and said,

"Anna I mentioned before was subject to excessive plant meat surgery by Blake, the relic wasn’t the Life and Death Bell, but what stabilized the plant meat in her. She’s now completely out of control and is almost entering the Saint Nali District; we must stop her."

Elizabeth, however, continued to stare painfully at Fisher’s wounds, and after a long time, finally snapped back to reality. Only then did Fisher notice her skirt was stained with dirt.

"What’s wrong with your dress..."

Elizabeth hesitated and then looked up at Fisher, saying,

"Lunxis has gone mad, daring to assassinate the king in the Golden Palace. Dexter, who went to stop him, was also severely injured. I was too late when I got to the Golden Palace, and Dexter is still being resuscitated... Fisher, since there is evidence in the vault, I will send someone to collect it later. Right now, the most important thing is to stop the chaos in the Saint Nali District; we must return to the Golden Palace first."

"Mm, but Moli, she..."

"It’s alright, first take her back to the Golden Palace, she will need to testify in court later."

"Mm."

Elizabeth took Fisher’s hand, and two more army medics in white robes stepped aside from the soldiers. They quickly assembled another stretcher and placed the poisoned unconscious Moli on it. Fisher followed Elizabeth, taking a few steps away from there.

But he kept glaring at the tranquil Nali Lake, with the huge "Mu Xi" characters in the library and the matter regarding Erwin unseasonably surging into his mind; it was as if everything, all the results he had obtained had some glaring holes and issues...

Suddenly, in the silence, Fisher had time to revisit the choking events that had occurred one after another in these last few months. Inexplicably, he had always felt a sense of powerlessness, as if punching cotton.

At this moment, a logical loophole suddenly appeared before Fisher’s eyes.

There was one question: when did Erwin know that he was the one who had killed Philone?

Reviewing his entire journey back from the South Continent, his first encounter with Erwin should have been in the Space Magic attack in Schwali.

Before that, he shouldn’t have exposed his identity. According to Erwin, back in Philone City on the South Continent, owing to Philone’s contingencies, they didn’t discover him...

Then, with this as a hypothesis, what if Erwin first discovered him in that magical space?

He didn’t even know of Fisher’s existence beforehand, until he saw him for the first time and felt the connection with the Completion Manual...

Then, what was he doing inside the magic?

His excellent memory reminded Fisher that he was there for his own safety.

For his safety?

It was the same in the Healing Room, and even after killing Blake, he had said something similar...

Elliog had once told him that Erwin had always been in hiding, and the reason he appeared in Saint Nali this time was because he made a deal with someone there. When he first heard it, subconsciously, he thought he was collaborating with Blake because he provided Blake with the plant meat technology to extend his lifespan...

But what if he wasn’t collaborating with Blake?

At this thought, Fisher’s scalp felt electrified instantly.

Following this line of thought, why did Mu Xi, just before dying, still protect Blake, still bless him without regrets?

Fisher had once experienced Mu Xi’s perspective; she was a brave and intelligent Whale-man. If her lover had changed his heart, would she really foolishly protect Blake at all costs?

Now, Fisher recalled again the password for the treasury that Blake inscribed, that line named after "Mu Xi"...

What if Mu Xi believed that Blake hadn’t changed his heart?

As clue after clue connected, at this moment, Fisher’s steps abruptly stiffened, and he stopped dead in his tracks.

If these assumptions held, then the results they pointed to were terrifying.

He suddenly understood where the source of the powerless and suffocating feeling he had always had when dealing with Blake lay.

What if his real enemy wasn’t Blake, or what if Blake and Mu Xi were merely pawns?

"No..."

Fisher’s stiff steps and his sudden exclamation made Elizabeth, who was leading him, turn back in confusion, even thinking he might be hurt. So, she scanned his body with concern,

"Are you feeling unwell?"

But Fisher didn’t respond to her. He just gently pulled away from Elizabeth’s fingers and stared straight ahead at this beautiful and gentle lady as if he was seeing her for the first time.

"Is it you?"

Elizabeth’s expression turned slightly shocked as she continued looking at Fisher, the man she deeply loved,

But just at this moment,

His pale gold eyes seemed so hollow.