Demi-human Girls Completion Manual
Chapter 454 - 20. Unknown Demi-human

Chapter 454: 20. Unknown Demi-human

"What... What?! You guys... Boss, boss! You can’t do this!"

By the next morning, seeing everyone around her with strange expressions, Philis couldn’t help but ask them what they were hiding from her, and then she learned from Heidlin’s lips that Valentina had decided to send her to the Nali people for research.

Thinking back to how Fisher had just fiercely punched her, she felt a chill; she saw Fisher as an exceptionally violent human man, and going there wouldn’t possibly be as simple as just "doing research," even if she thought about it with her toes.

Initially pretending to continue sleeping and not wanting to get up, Philis was called early by Valentina, which scared her into curling her lion tail around herself and tucking her head into her chest. She hid under the bedding, violently shaking her head, refusing to come out of her sleeping tent at any cost.

"Please, boss, you mustn’t take me to that human there; he’s definitely going to beat me up!"

Outside the tent, Valentina, seated in her wheelchair, sighed helplessly and said to Philis, who was inside and refused to get up,

"I’ll go with you, and I will supervise everything he does the whole time. He also promised not to do anything strange... it’s probably just research, after all, that’s the persona he’s created for himself."

"Persona?"

"Yes, a scholar interested in demi-humans."

"...Isn’t that even more terrifying?"

From Philis’s fluffy golden hair, her ears trembled in fear like pancakes. Humans interested in demi-humans were rarer than money falling from the sky, right?

If there were any, they’d certainly be perverts enthusiastic about buying and selling slaves!

"... If you go, I can give you a raise this month."

Seeing that Philis really didn’t dare go, Valentina could only resort to the power of money. She rubbed the ring on her hand and said.

Upon hearing these words, Philis, who was curled up inside the tent with her back toward Valentina, slowly sat up and turned her head to look at Valentina. After being silent for a few seconds, she said pitifully,

"How much?"

"..."

...

...

Last night, Valentina, who had finished reading the Ice Scroll, buried the scroll along with the golden box on the outer layer into the ground to prevent the curse from reactivating and causing damage.

Reluctantly, Philis pushed her boss’s wheelchair towards the direction of the beach, heading to where Fisher and the others had come from. Along the way, she still could see the sandpit she had dug out yesterday, where she had collected the treasures from, and she had sent those treasures back to Valentina’s flagship yesterday.

"That ship..."

Although Philis was moving slowly, being a Lion-man Species, her walking pace was already much faster than Helldor’s when pushing Valentina. So they soon arrived where Fisher and his crew had landed.

In the distance, the huge Sardinia Female Country warship stood not far offshore, breaking into their line of sight. The conspicuous mast had no flag hanging on it, but at the top sat the Grey Bird Species girl they had encountered previously.

"It’s the Iceberg Queen..."

"The Iceberg Queen? Boss, do you know that ship?"

"Hmm, it’s the pirate ship that the Sardinia Female Country has offered a large bounty for; its captain is Alagina, with a 4.3 million Northern Realm silver coins reward (about 7.5 million Narliou)... After she killed her own mother, she led her subordinates to defect from the Sardinia Female Country, and I didn’t expect to encounter her here."

"Wow, that’s terrifying? Wait, does that mean, that man is Alagina’s lover?"

Seated in the wheelchair, Valentina recalled the scene of her previous encounter with Fisher, then shook her head and said,

"It doesn’t seem like it; he doesn’t listen to Alagina’s orders and seems more like a business partner..."

Philis nodded as if she understood, but didn’t see the other people from the Iceberg Queen, only seeing the small boat they had used to land on the island. She looked around and then said,

"Where are they? Are they on that ironclad warship so that I don’t have to do any... research?"

Valentina shook her head and pointed at the sea.

Philis looked in the direction of her pointing and saw that on the surface of the sea was a book that was constantly turning its own pages, seemingly the relic that the Nali man usually carried on his shoulder that could talk, truly miraculous.

At that moment, the book was speaking to something below the surface of the sea, moving further away as it seemed to be following a figure in the water,

"... The Holy Descendants are certainly a race, as I have mentioned to you before, Paimon has a very good relationship with the Holy Descendants, some humans have even mistakenly thought her to be one. The Holy Descendants are incredibly great, but like the demons, they reside in the very distant sky, I still have a bit of an impression, but it’s not very clear."

"Believe me, that’s probably the most spectacular sight you’ll see in this world, where there are creations like works of art everywhere, so beautiful they defy description... The Holy Descendants have applied their ultimate standards of forging and aesthetics to every aspect of their lives, thus creating the most perfect city, the Holy Land."

As Emhardt was speaking, a humanoid shadow under the sea rapidly enlarged, and he tactfully moved aside. Then, Fisher, with his upper body bare, burst out from the water.

Underwater, he was still dragging a huge fishing net, which was filled with various sizes of sea fish jumping around.

Fisher wiped away the droplets of water that fell from his hair, and then turned to Emhardt and said,

"So you’re saying that the ’Angel Species’ didn’t live on the ground, but in a city that stood in the sky?"

"The Holy Descendants are the most special race, and of course, they are different from all the other races. They disdain low-level aesthetics and knowledge, so they rarely come down from the sky... Of course, there could be other reasons for this, but I’m not too clear."

Yes, in fact, what Emhardt referred to as Holy Descendants were the legendary Angel Species, that race capable of forging relics was also the Angel Species, but whether out of respect for the settings or out of genuine reverence for the creatures that had forged him, Emhardt would only refer to them as "the great Holy Descendants."

"But they should have vanished into the long river of history just like the Phoenix Species. I’ve never heard the true name of the Angel Species... The only time was from Elliog’s lips."

"No... no, the Holy Descendants must still be somewhere in this world. They are different from the Phoenix Species, they are beings of the Mythical Rank! Since Demons are still hiding in the Abyss, the Holy Descendants must also still be living in some corner of the sky..."

"Is that so..."

Fisher was dragging a large net of fish towards the shore. He had sent Alagina back to the ship to recuperate, and Ossie, as her guard, of course, followed back to the ship. But what Fisher didn’t expect was that Pahetz could repair steam engines. She could go back and have a chat with Old Jack or something, leaving only Fisher and a few crew members on the island to net fish.

"Eh, you’ve arrived? Quite early, this way I can study more. Wait a moment."

Valentina, who was sitting in a wheelchair, glanced over his sturdy upper body, her hands unconsciously crossed, but she just nodded.

Whereas Philis, who originally had been pushing her wheelchair, was now using it as a shield. She crouched quietly behind the wheelchair, revealing only a lion’s tail.

"Boss... are you serious? Are you really willing to let that man take me for research?"

"...I’m right here."

Fisher dumped the net of fish into the small boat; the boat already contained several nets of lively fish. Afterwards, he washed the fishy smell off his hands in the sea and idly pulled out paper and pen that he had borrowed from the Iceberg Queen, as well as opened up the binding page of the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual.

As an agile glint of gold light twinkled, a brand-new category appeared in the Completion Manual,

"Lion-man."

As the energy suddenly brightened, another line of illusory text appeared in front of Fisher,

"Please select the research subject, available subjects 0/1."

"Philis, adult female Lion-man Species."

Just as Fisher was about to confirm the binding, the golden light did not stop for a moment and a new interface emerged on the next page.

Another demi-human species?

His gaze shifted to the golden light, but strangely, the light seemed unable to recognize valid information, turning into a title resembling garbled text,

"[%￥1*&?]"

"Hmm? What’s going on?"

Staring at the odd characters, Fisher was a bit puzzled.

Since the Completion Manual had displayed it, it should mean that it had detected a demi-human species, but what exactly was it that it couldn’t identify for the first time?

Moreover, it didn’t pop up with any research subjects that could be bound...

Fisher’s expression turned odd, and he glanced back at the two behind him, namely Philis and... Valentina.

He excessively scanned Valentina, who was sitting in the wheelchair, wearing a black dress, revealing parts that were exactly the same as a Human, without any obvious non-human features...

So, could the newly detected demi-human individual by the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual be Valentina?

Perhaps Fisher’s gaze was too direct, as if he was not looking to study Philis but herself, making her feel a little uncomfortable as she touched the Turand Ring on her hand, and then she tentatively asked,

"...What’s wrong?"

Fisher gave her one last look, then shook his head and said,

"Nothing."

Meanwhile, his consciousness quickly touched the word "bind" on the illusory page, and with the familiar, intense pain coming through, Fisher silently closed his eyes and his body froze in place due to the pain.

"Research subject binding successful!"

"Lion-man Species."

"Southern Continent Species," "Beast Species," "Yin Yang Inversion," "Dragon Court Favoured."