The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 170: Muxi's Secret

On the table, there were quite a few things sent back by Muxi, but after Fisher looked them over, he found absolutely nothing that recorded clear information.

Fisher originally thought there would be at least a letter or two, but basically, everything was an item similar to that Healing House box, as if they were local specialties brought back for the family. Well, specialties carrying quite a bit of information.

Aside from the iron Healing House box he had already examined, Fisher also saw many other things.

There was a Holy Church Seal from Kadu, a type of souvenir given to honorable guests by the Kadu Holy Church.

Fisher turned the twisted black seal over. It had been soaked in water for a long time, and the faint layer of gold paint originally on the outside had completely fallen off, leaving only the phonetic word "Muxi" engraved on the side in Kadu characters.

Besides this, there was also a small wine bottle from the Sardin Woman's Country in the Northern Border, a Snake Head Lock from Schwari, and a Stone Amulet from the natives of the Southern Continent.

Fisher noticed that these items all came from all over the world. From the Sardin Woman's Country in the north to the items of the Southern Continent natives across two oceans in the south, they were all there. This perfectly matched Muxi's characteristic of loving to travel everywhere, except that Muxi's family members who received these things simply could not tell the difference between them.

In the eyes of the Whale-kin, these were all crafts made by humans.

Muxi did not write letters because they completely lacked the custom of writing letters in the sea. It was very difficult to have items in the ocean that could record and preserve written information. Only at very important moments would they carve words and murals on stones.

Jasmine said her aunt had been away from home for a year. To be able to run around all over the world in a year, it was impossible for her to have swum slowly by herself. The most likely scenario was that she had boarded a human steamship, so she must have also received Ramastia's blessing and transformed into a human form.Among them, the two items that most caught Fisher's attention included a dull gray, hollow cylindrical object.

The manufacturing process of this thing was extremely advanced, and its shape was very strange. Fisher had never seen such manufacturing characteristics in any civilization, and the thing looked very primitive, its age unknown.

Seeing Fisher examining the cylinder, Jasmine beside him quickly explained.

"This is a relic my aunt sent back. I know how to use this thing."

"A relic? What is its function?"

Jasmine took the dull gray cylinder and then reached out to rub the surface of the cylinder.

In Fisher's line of sight, a beam of light like an electric current suddenly shot out from the dull gray cylinder. The beam traveled across the surface of the relic, quickly washing its dusty surface clean, revealing its original appearance painted in strange colors underneath.

After Jasmine rubbed the item, an extremely distant yet deep sound of thunder faintly emerged from the cylinder, making the listener feel as if they were right there.

A second later, a lively female voice came from inside, speaking the language of the seabed. Jasmine simultaneously spoke to translate for Fisher.

"Big sister, I am currently in a place called the Stormsea. No life has ever reached here before; we are the very first! But I am ahead of you. Besides, there are relics everywhere here, though they are very hard to obtain. This little thing can leave a voice, so I'm using it to report to you that I'm safe. Hmm, but by the time you receive this, I should have already returned from the Stormsea. Also, please say hello to little Jasmine for me. That's all."

Unsurprisingly, the lively female voice belonged to Jasmine's biological aunt, Muxi. But after she finished speaking, the voice recording did not end.

In the background of the faint thunder and the roar of some uncanny creature, a male voice came from far away. The male voice was young and calm, and he spoke a language Fisher could understand: the Naris language.

Fisher's expression changed. He aimed his ear at the small cylinder, listening carefully to the voice.

"Muxi, we have to set off now. We cannot explore further inside."

"Alright, coming right away!"

Fisher had not heard that male voice before and felt it was very unfamiliar. After Muxi replied, the cylinder's voice recording came to an abrupt end, and the light on it slowly vanished, returning to its original primitive appearance.

Fisher frowned slightly after listening and turned to look at Jasmine beside him.

Although this passage of speech was very short, it contained a lot of information.

First of all, the Stormsea was a place humans had not discovered up until now. To navigators, this place was more like a legend or a story.

Legend had it that it was the ocean and the end of the world, surrounded by lightning and rainstorms at all times. In the center of the endless, universe-like deep darkness, an island like a holy land sat there, full of gold and relics. Ordinary people only needed to go there and retrieve a single relic to exchange it for a massive amount of wealth.

Originally, Fisher had thought that was just a story fabricated to stimulate sea voyages, but now it seemed that was not the case. The Stormsea truly existed. At least Muxi had been there and brought back a relic.

Another piece of information pertained to this relic.

Currently, the number of surviving relics was very small, and their effects were extremely potent. As far as Fisher knew, some relics were kept within the Gedrin Royal Family.

Among them, the most famous was the heirloom of the Gedrin Royal Family, Gothrin's Blade. It was a sword-shaped relic made entirely of gold with a bizarre design, crafted by an unknown person and passed down to Naris.

It was said that the sharp blade could ignite golden flames that even water could not extinguish. When Schwari attacked Saint-Nazareth previously, the ragged Gedrin V abandoned even his wife and children to run all over the map, yet he still carried Gothrin's Blade with him.

That was because it was the symbol of the Gedrin Royal Family's power, the weapon Gedrin I had once used to conquer the continent.

Anyway, most of the relics existing in the world today were potent and extremely useful items. However, the exact style of this cylinder in front of him was somewhat different. It seemed to have only the function of a phonograph, and it could not even record a second time, repeatedly broadcasting Muxi's voice over and over.

Listening to Muxi's words, there were very many relics in the Stormsea. It was unknown what the situation was like there, but it seemed absolutely dangerous, as they left in a hurry without exploring deeply.

However, this recording also confirmed Fisher's previous hypothesis: Muxi was not roaming the world alone; there was a human by her side.

Fisher obtained very much information from this relic. He put the item down and then observed another item that caught his attention very much.

That was a standard Naris Golden Iris Flower, carved from gold, roughly the size of an index finger. It was a small and exquisite traditional Naris handicraft.

Moreover, because it was gold, it still maintained its original appearance even after soaking in water for a long time, which was how Fisher recognized it.

This item appeared to be a slightly expensive Naris craft, but effectively it was not. There was a Naris cultural tradition behind this thing.

When Naris people got married, they liked to hold weddings and also liked to invite guests and relatives to participate in their weddings. But in ancient times, separated by high mountains and long rivers, many friends and relatives lived very far away and could not come to participate in the wedding, nor did they know your current situation. Thus, they could only notify them of their own marriage.

The method of notification was to send iris flower products to those not by their side, symbolizing the fact that they were already married.

This kind of iris flower was very small. Giving notice to ordinary people generally used an iris made of copper or iron, giving notice to close friends used a silver iris, while notifying family members required an iris crafted from gold.

And Muxi sending this item back to the ocean meant that she was married, and her marriage partner was a native Naris person.

Fisher had felt it was very bizarre the moment he saw this iris flower. Muxi had only left the ocean for a year, yet she had actually done so many things?

Not only had she wandered around the world, but she had also conveniently married a human along the way?

Fisher felt her story could even be published as a standalone book, provided that the female lead Muxi's status as a Whale-kin was kept hidden.

With a nautical fever theme, a female protagonist's perspective, plus strong elements of adventure and romance, Fisher felt this book would definitely be a bestseller if published in Saint-Nazareth.

Tossing these useless thoughts out of his head, Fisher shared this matter with Jasmine.

Jasmine looked at Fisher with an expression full of disbelief. She had only been in Naris for a few months, so naturally, she could not recognize the meaning represented by such a thing, let alone that group of Whale-kin lying around like corpses in the ocean trench every day.

"Fi-Fisher, Teacher, are you saying... you are saying that Auntie married a human?!"

Ignoring Jasmine's astonishment, Fisher rubbed the small golden iris flower. After confirming the object was not an imitation craft but genuine gold cast corresponding to strict wedding carving techniques, he nodded and said.

"Exactly. Your aunt is definitely settled in Naris and has married a Naris gentleman."

"B-but, don't humans generally dislike demi-humans? How could anyone marry Auntie? Could it be that Auntie did not remove Lord Ramastia's blessing?"

Fisher thought about it and felt it was quite unlikely. If that gentleman did not have any physiological obstacles, he should have consummated the marriage with Muxi. Could it be that even doing so could not break Ramastia's blessing?

Shouldn't that be considered a kind of injury?

Therefore, that gentleman ought to know Muxi's identity as a Whale-kin, yet still chose to marry Muxi in the end. It had to be said, at this very moment, Fisher actually wanted to meet the gentleman who married Muxi and see exactly who he was.

It was not really because of having similar goals and wanting to exchange experiences. The main reason was that finding that gentleman would carry a very high probability of finding Muxi's whereabouts.

"That human knows your aunt's identity, and he knew it before making the decision to marry her."

Hearing this, Jasmine pursed her lips. Looking at Fisher's side profile as he thought quietly, she suddenly opened her mouth and asked.

"There are humans who like demi-humans. Is it really possible for a human and a demi-human to be together?"

Fisher thought about the matter between himself and Raphaela, and nodded. In passing, he gave Jasmine a popular science explanation about the physiological relationship between demi-humans and humans, a subject rarely mentioned within the circles of Jasmine and human academia.

This included the fact that they could produce offspring, and the offspring would follow the maternal bloodline, although the probability would be very small.

According to Eliog's explanation, the reproductive probability of two races was determined by the Life Rank.

It was unknown whether the Whale-kin or the Demon-kin had a higher rank. However, his own reproductive capacity seemed to have been strengthened greatly by the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, and he had even obtained a good review from that demon girl, Eliog. It should far exceed that of a human.

After listening, Jasmine seemed to have opened the door to some new world. Her ears flicked twice, and who knew what images flashed through her mind, but her face gradually turned slightly red.

"Is that so..."

"Yes. Right now, the clues about your aunt are already very clear."

Fisher reached out to summarize.

"Your aunt should now be settled in Saint-Nazareth, and she is married to a human. As long as we find that human, we ought to be able to find your aunt."

But the problem lay in the fact that the clues and information regarding that gentleman were very few. Or rather, did Muxi send back some item possessing information about him that Fisher had failed to discover?

Thinking of this, Fisher questioned Jasmine.

"What is the chronological order of these items being sent back to the ocean?"

"Um, that..."

Jasmine looked at the items on the table, finding it somewhat difficult for a moment. It seemed she did not explicitly know which came first and which came later, only able to recall a rough outline.

"Those things from other human countries and that relic from the Stormsea were sent back relatively early. The small golden flower was sent back relatively late."

As she spoke, Jasmine seemed to recall something else and said.

"Oh right, Fisher, Teacher, after this small golden flower was sent back, Auntie also sent down some human clothes. Those clothes were so tiny that we simply could not wear them at all. Furthermore, they rotted away almost completely not long after being placed in the sea, so I did not bring them up."

Tiny clothes?

Could they be for a child to wear?

But that should be impossible. Muxi's aunt had only come ashore for a year. Now, the more he explored, the more outrageously compressed the timeline became.

Never mind how Muxi managed to travel around the countries of the world and the Stormsea within a year, now a child could still pop out?

Moreover, given the reproductive probability between a human and a Whale-kin, it was estimated that the gentleman could plow hard without interruption for five or six years and still not necessarily yield fruit.

Then what was the purpose of Muxi sending those things back?

Fisher did not have a definite guess because there were too many possibilities. They could have adopted a child, or perhaps Muxi simply wanted a child.

He just broadly conveyed his guesses to Jasmine. However, the information obtained up to this point was already exceedingly abundant. Based on Jasmine's complete ignorance of human society, it would have been absolutely impossible for her to analyze so much on her own. Now, with Fisher's help, the progress bar was soaring rapidly.

Jasmine cast a grateful glance at Fisher, her heartbeat accelerating faster and faster for some unknown reason.

She had to admit, after hearing that her aunt had married a human, the thought of knocking Fisher out with a stick and dragging him back to the sea grew ever stronger in her mind.

Although it was wrong to think like this...

But, but just thinking about it shouldn't cause any problems, right?

B-but Fisher, Teacher, cannot breathe underwater. What to do then?

How about discussing it later after finding a way for Fisher, Teacher, to breathe underwater? By then, Fisher, Teacher, should miss his hometown very much, so what if he lives one year in the sea and one year on land?

Ah, that timeframe seems a bit long...

Jasmine let her imagination run wild like this in her heart, while Fisher, who was analyzing the clues beside her, was completely unaware of what distant future developments the Jasmine beside him was contemplating.

In front of Fisher's eyes, there was still one clue pointing very clearly.

He looked at the small iron box branded with the Healing House logo that had first drawn his attention. The direction of this clue perfectly overlapped with his goal of exacting revenge on Black.

Then let's begin addressing the issue with the Healing House first.