Demi-human Girls Completion Manual
Chapter 403 - 159. The Last Lesson (Three-in-One, Alliance Leader Bonus Chapter)_5

Chapter 403: 159. The Last Lesson (Three-in-One, Alliance Leader Bonus Chapter)_5

"Fisher, human society is too complex for me... Once, I could choose the same path as my aunt without hesitation; once, I also praised my aunt’s firm courage. But now, I can’t guarantee that anymore..."

"Because humans cherish time and their own purposes, they always want to ruthlessly take everything they want in such a short time. This makes it very difficult for me to trust humans again, the more I want to believe, the heavier the curse within my body becomes..."

"Sometimes I can’t help but think, even though Isabella and I are friends now, years or decades later, might she coldly use me as some sort of bargaining chip... even you, Fisher, though I love you now, sometimes I still can’t help but doubt whether you would easily change hearts and abandon me when you meet other women..."

"I don’t even understand the concept of love, I don’t even know what you like to do, what you like to eat, nothing about your past, your world, merely because my heart races when I see you, just because I feel annoyed when I see other women approaching you, just because you care about me, I say I like you..."

"If such simple reasons can give rise to liking, even insufficient to compare to my aunt and Blake, how can I hope that our ending will be any better than theirs?"

"...Sorry, I... I’m just too scared, scared to the point of not knowing what to do, how to handle things... and no elder from the Whale-man Species ever told me what to do... so... sob..."

Fisher glanced sideways, only to see in her cascading black hair, at some point, crystal clear tears had begun steadily forming and falling. Despite the many tears, they never took away the confusion and unease in her eyes.

Indeed, Moli was still an immature Whale-man Species, which was why Fisher had always subconsciously taken care of her.

Fisher saw her as a student, a child not yet mature. If it were a normal lady, she would have been easily deceived and completely taken advantage of by Fisher, but he could not do that with Moli.

But children do not need to solve riddles, whereas the current Moli did.

Fisher didn’t continue on this topic. Instead, as if suddenly reminded of something, he reached into his pocket and pulled out an ancient sheepskin scroll from the "Demi-human Girls Completion Manual", the 20% reward he received from his research on Moli,

"Lake Fairy Poem,"

written in sloppy Nali Language,

"Set forth from here, celebrate victory here, be crowned here, await your return here."

Under the moonlight, Fisher examined the sheepskin scroll in his hand and suddenly began telling a seemingly irrelevant story,

"Moli, Gedelin I, the founder of the Nali Dynasty, was undoubtedly a very outstanding heroic figure whose story you once saw in the library. At 25, he led his troops to rebel by Nali Lake, marching east from the most barren West Coast of the Western Continent, delivering the deadliest blow to the then tottering Central Empire."

"He loved people from different places, his outstanding personal charm conquered a succession of heroes, even Schwali and Kado generously left behind numerous poems celebrating his achievements, commemorating his splendid deeds. Yet, this very luminous figure butchered Central Empire officials mercilessly along the way, and the Royal Family of the Central Empire perished under his blade, including innocent women and children."

"He burned many scriptures left by the Central Empire, slaughtered the original Church clerics, had the Pope kiss his palms while crawling before him, the fresh blood on his hands was countless, and the wronged souls who died because of him could queue from Saint Nali all the way to Kado. Yet, even someone like that, he waited until his death for your mother to return..."

"Eh?"

Upon hearing this, Moli’s pupils widened slightly, seemingly startled into disbelief.

But Fisher merely smiled slightly, then continued,

"You’ve always wanted to know to whom your mother lent her treasure sword, haven’t you? Now I can tell you the answer. Your mother, the Ocean Emperor, the Destructive God of the Ocean, personally lent her treasure sword to Gedelin I, the first Emperor of Nali. Considering the lifespan of the Whale-man Species, where one year equals eighty human years, your mother lent the treasure sword to the then 25-year-old impoverished Gedelin I, 720 years before this year’s Gedelin Festival."

"It was your mother who left the inscriptions under the Nali Lake waterway. She knew at the time she lent out the sword that, considering the human lifespan, the sword would not be returned until after Gedelin I’s death. But why did she still lend the sword to Gedelin I?"

Reading the Lake Fairy Poem in his hand, Fisher might have already known the answer,

"The reason is that your mother fell in love with Gedelin I. However, in the end, unlike Mu Xi, who stayed on land, she chose to separate from him. The real promise between your mother and Gedelin I was that when he turned 35 and had pacified the world, he would return her treasure sword and marry her."

"The blindfolded Gedelin achieved his dream at 33, leading his army to defeat the enormous empire that had reigned over the continent for thousands of years. He did not establish his nation in the former capital of the Central Empire but traveled day and night to return to his birthplace, Saint Nali."

"At 34, he founded his nation in Saint Nali, waiting for your mother to return and honor the promise; at 35, the ten-year promise period ended, and he built luxurious royal courtyards by the lake for your mother, but your mother never returned..."

"Official history records that Gedelin I married at the age of 37, a very risky age for an emperor of an empire, and perhaps only such a formidable Gedelin I would dare to make such a decision against public opinion."

"And did your mother not know that Gedelin I had long been dead? Then why did she insist on sending a Whale-man to shore every eighty years to deliver a letter? Why did she still send the somewhat childish nickname ’Son of the Sea’ written in the letter to the descendants of Gedelin I?"

Moli watched Fisher stunned, but suddenly, she thought of the magical oath her mother and that human had made,

"Blood... magic?"

"Uh... your mother knew through the blood magic of the oath that he had offspring, and she decided to leave the treasure sword on shore to continue to protect his descendants; and Gedelin I, who had long been dead, had never left Saint Nali until he died at 87 beside Nali Lake, even having his Imperial Mausoleum adjacent to Nali Lake."

"Moli, Gedelin I waited for your mother until he died."

Fisher handed the Lake Fairy Poem to Moli; in fact, he had known about it when he was with Moli in the waterway under Nali Lake, but due to the tense situation at the time, he never had the chance to tell Moli.

"Of course, when I tell you this, it isn’t to imply that there are also good people among humans, not all are bad... What I really want to say is that a person’s merits and demerits are so vague as to be indistinguishable, and there are still many people who died because of Gedelin I who resent him to this day, yet there are also people like you who are moved by his love story with the Ocean Emperor..."

"Moli, the world is like this, it does not change the established facts because of anyone’s feelings, no matter how painful or difficult it is inside, no matter how unwilling, it has no effect... However, the insights and progress you gain after going through these things are real; the thoughts you form and the actions you take to strive for them are real..."

"Grudges will forever pass down, but we must grow from them."

A hint of azure light flickered in Moli’s pitch-black pupils as she looked at Fisher, staring at him for several seconds, memorizing his features, before she turned her head to look at the calm sea below the boat.

The night wind blew, Fisher’s words ceased, but Moli then spoke,

"Fisher, I... need to return to the ocean."

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