The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 175: Jasmine's Inner Heart

"Can you achieve balance?"

Listening to Fisher's words, the expression of the Whale-kin girl in front of him was somewhat solemn.

In front of her, Fisher had caught a basin of water. At this moment, Jasmine was looking at the flowing water in the basin, and the flowing water in her pupils also quietly circulated along with it. It was just that the black flowing water within was still vigorous, unable to be dissolved no matter what.

Fisher had just finished his phone call with Keken a moment ago. Since Keken was willing to help, the method to enter the Healing House was much simpler.

Even if Jasmine still had a Whale-kin appearance and couldn't accept Ramastia's blessing, it didn't matter. When the time came, Fisher could rent a carriage and then put Jasmine inside the carriage compartment to bring her in.

With Keken's connections, they wouldn't need to go through strict inspections; after all, he was the one handling this charity gala.

Speaking of which, back when he was in the Southern Continent previously, he already owed him a favor, and now that he was back in the West Continent, he had to trouble Keken again. He hadn't repaid these two favors yet.

Fisher planned to design a magic spell for him after this matter was finished, and then give him the patent rights for this magic spell to repay his favors.

But the problem Fisher currently faced was not how to enter the charity gala, but rather the problem of Jasmine's consistent inability to balance.

Once Jasmine entered that situation of fear and nervousness, she would become extremely violent. That hunting pressure of an ocean overlord would launch indiscriminate attacks regardless of friend or foe.If Jasmine still maintained this state, taking her to the Healing House when the time came would not only fail to help but easily drag him down.

However, Fisher also didn't feel relieved leaving her here. One had to know that Black's target was the Sea Child, Jasmine. It wouldn't be fun if his home was raided by him while he wasn't there, and moreover, Ms. Martha was still in the rental house; he simply didn't dare to gamble.

Therefore, as soon as he returned to the room, Fisher planned to start training Jasmine on how to balance the blessing and curse inside her body.

This method of gazing at flowing water was given to her by her mother. Jasmine first demonstrated it for Fisher. the rough method was to use external force to manipulate the water to move smoothly, and then slowly make the water flow inside her heart converge with the movement of the real water flow, eventually reaching the other side of balance.

Didn't it sound a bit like a riddler?

Fisher quickly discovered that the method Jasmine's mother used to teach Jasmine leaned a bit toward a stream of consciousness; whether one could learn it or not entirely depended on their own comprehension.

Additionally, the situation inside Jasmine's body was very different from other Whale-kin. The effectiveness of this method was extremely poor for Jasmine. Bitterly staring at that circulating water flow, Jasmine only grew increasingly irritable the longer she sat. She merely blamed herself slightly, feeling that it was because she was stupid that she couldn't learn to balance.

After waiting for quite a while, Jasmine pitifully looked at Fisher and shook her head.

"I-I can't..."

In her gaze, that black water flow was stirred increasingly muddy, completely showing no signs of dissolving. It was basically the black water flow suppressing and beating up the white water flow, let alone any sort of balance.

"I tried to suppress it, but it's completely useless... The curse is too terrifying. As soon as I get close, it becomes very manic. Previously when I was in the sea, every time the curse became manic, Xianghun would feel very uncomfortable..."

Xianghun was Jasmine's Companion Sea Beast, which helped her suppress her own curse.

Fisher rubbing his chin and gently moved the water basin in front of him away. Then he glanced at the sky outside and suddenly reached out to use his walking stick to light up a Reinforcement magic. Initially, the target of the reinforcement was the walking stick, but the scope of the reinforcement could also be expanded; it was just that by doing so, that magic would quickly disappear and require Fisher to engrave it again.

He extended the Reinforcement magic to the entire room, covering the furniture and walls with a faint film of light, while simultaneously, the crest on his walking stick instantly vanished.

After finishing all this, Fisher opened his mouth to speak to Jasmine.

"Jasmine, enter combat state."

"Eh, eh? But..."

Hearing Fisher's words, she pursed her lips and shot a glance at Fisher.

"I don't really dare... I'm afraid of hurting Fisher, Teacher..."

"It's fine, I've already reinforced the surroundings, and other people won't be able to hear either. As for my safety, there's even less need to worry. Come on, try touching your curse, that way I can help you."

Jasmine looked at Fisher in front of her, hesitated for quite a while, and finally nodded.

She silently chanted in her heart that she must control the power of the curse well and not hurt Fisher, Teacher. However, just as she touched that black curse, her pupils instantly turned pure black, the softness in front of her chest abruptly shrank, and her entire aura became dangerous.

She quietly looked at Fisher without putting up any offensive stance. Just as Jasmine had said previously, she was conscious in this state, but it was extremely difficult to manipulate. It was as if the emotions and senses inside her body were split into two, rushing in different directions.

However, her body was not calm. In Fisher's line of sight, her body was trembling slightly. The water flow in her pupils surged and inverted like a tsunami, flickering with a dangerous radiance like lightning about to pierce through the clouds.

"Fi..."

She struggled to spit out a single word. In Fisher's observing line of sight, she fiercely pounced towards Fisher.

Fisher's gaze focused, thinking she was about to attack him, so he prepared to reach out and restrict her movements.

The result he hadn't expected was that just as Fisher grabbed Jasmine, an eerie and excited smile appeared on her face, as if it played right into her hands.

Her face was rosy, and her massive tail fiercely wrapped upward, fiercely tackling Fisher down toward the bed.

Her strength was extremely massive, just like a colossal killer whale crushing towards you. Caught off guard for a moment, Fisher was pinned beneath her.

Looking up, under the illumination of that light, Jasmine's black pupils flickered with a dangerous yet alluring radiance.

"Jasmine?"

"...Say, Fisher, Teacher, go back to the sea with me. I'll take good care of you for a lifetime. Running away is useless. If you want to escape, I'll repeatedly knock you out and drag you back..."

Fisher was slightly stunned, shocked by the words Jasmine suddenly spat out. Before he could fully react, the dangerous expression on the girl's face stiffened, suddenly reverting back to her original appearance. The water flow in her eyes abruptly showed a faint blue color, and sitting on Fisher's body, her face also began to turn terrifyingly red.

Her entire lips were trembling. Her hands were still placed on Fisher's body, burning her so much that she hurriedly withdrew them. Flustered, she waved her hands and said.

"Just... just now, it wasn't... wasn't me... I absolutely did not want to knock Fisher, Teacher out and drag him back to the sea, absolutely not!"

Jasmine was so ashamed she was about to evaporate. Her entire face was like an apple, and even her words began to slur.

"Because Fisher, Teacher can't breathe in the water either, how could I... have such thoughts... I just..."

"...You get up first."

"Eek!"

Hearing Fisher's reminder, she finally realized where she was sitting on Fisher.

Frightened, she hurriedly jumped off Fisher's body. As a result, her head bumped hard against the hard corner of the sofa next to them. The pain made her clutch her head, and her tail also gently patted the floor, stirring up layers of the faint light of the Reinforcement magic on the floor.

"Are you alright?"

"I-I'm fine..."

Jasmine clutched her head, burying her small face in her knees. Only after hearing Fisher's words did she gently raise it up a little bit, revealing only a pair of watery eyes filled with tears to look at Fisher. Subsequently, Fisher could hear her soft voice transmitting over.

"Just now... just now, that wasn't me, Fisher, Teacher. Can you forget it? The thing just now..."

Good heavens, the more silly Jasmine emphasized that it wasn't her own thought just now, the more Fisher felt that this was exactly her true inner thought.

It seemed her mother wasn't wrong. Both the curse and the blessing were parts of her body; they were the materialization of her inner thoughts, not a second personality, much less newly generated thoughts. This was Jasmine's thought.

During combat, fear generated by terror made her want to repel those monsters, so the curse acted in Jasmine's place to completely beat them all to death.

Fisher finally understood where Jasmine's problem lay. Fortunately, he hadn't told Jasmine he could breathe in the water, otherwise, right now when she hadn't completely mastered the state of balance, what if while searching for clues in the Healing House, Jasmine entered a darkened state, sneak-attacked him from behind and knocked him out, and when he woke up he found himself already in an ocean trench; that wouldn't be fun at all.

Fisher reached out a finger toward Jasmine, his expression serious, while saying.

"Jasmine, I already know the reason why you can't achieve balance. For so many years, your method was wrong. You've always wanted to achieve balance by suppressing the curse to make it reach the same level as the blessing. But both the curse and the blessing are a part of you; how can they be suppressed?"

Jasmine's inner heart had always been related to the blessing and the curse. Her timid and delicate mind made her care for others very much while neglecting herself. That adorable sense of sensibility made her gentle and kind, but this didn't mean she didn't have her own desires.

When she wanted to eat something, she would consider whether it would cause trouble for others; when she wanted to resist those terrifying monsters, she worried whether it would expose her demi-human identity; when she wanted to knock Fisher out and drag him back to the sea, she would always carefully hide her true thoughts.

She couldn't do it herself, and the more she suppressed them, the stronger the power of the curse would become, because she needed the curse to bypass her own and her body's constraints to help her achieve her wishes.

From the beginning to the end, she had been mistaken. Actually, those weren't thoughts brought by the curse, but her own true inner thoughts.

"Continuously suppressing the massive curse is completely useless. You need to make the power of the blessing stronger, increasing the blessing to reach an equal scale as the curse. Whatever you ordinarily think of, you should put into practice yourself. You cannot hide away and toss the right to act to the curse, letting it replace you. You are yourself."

Jasmine wasn't actually stupid; Fisher merely gave a prompt or two and she could figure out the crux of it. She pursed her lips, and then struggled for quite a while. However, she suddenly closed her eyes, raised her head, and spoke somewhat loudly to Fisher.

"Then... then I don't want Fisher, Teacher to be my teacher anymore..."

Fisher raised an eyebrow, temporarily failing to understand where her thoughts had jumped to. Before he could speak to ask, Jasmine frantically popped out a large bunch of words again.

"N-Not saying that Fisher, Teacher's teaching is bad... I've learned a lot from Fisher, Teacher, whether it's magic, human matters, or your help to me; I am grateful to you for all of it. B-But I don't want you to take care of me like this because you see me as a student, as a child who hasn't grown up yet..."

"Bang!"

Her ears flapped back and forth, and the tail behind her curled up even more excitedly, subsequently slapping heavily against the floor, instantly almost sending the neighboring furniture flying.

This strike was even stronger than her combat ability when possessed by the curse. If Fisher hadn't attached the Reinforcement magic, Fisher suspected she could have directly slapped straight through the floorboards.

"I-I want Fisher to look at me with the gaze of looking at a woman... Like this, is this okay?"

Jasmine closed her eyes and finished saying all her words, then somewhat breathlessly clutched her own chest. Perhaps because of uneasiness and uncertainty, she had kept her eyes closed, but feeling that this might be a bit too timid, she still tentatively looked toward Fisher...

Of course, she didn't dare to look directly at Fisher; she merely quietly looked at Fisher's collar.

Fisher was slightly stunned, then smiled and said.

"I've already resigned from Saint-Nazareth University; I'm no longer the professor teaching you... Moreover, I've also learned a lot of things from you."

He had attained a lot of knowledge regarding the Whale-kin and the conditions of the sea bottom from Jasmine. Although sometimes she was still not very mature, and even the description given to her by the Demi-Human Completion Handbook was that of a juvenile Whale-kin, Fisher had never once viewed her as a child; she was the [Mysterious Sea Child] from the prophecy.

After Jasmine heard this, it was as if a massive stone had been lifted from her heart. The blue water flow in her eyes began to rise, jumping for joy and wrapping together with the black water flow.

"Then I... c-can I touch Fisher's hand... Just for the sake... of researching humans."

Jasmine carefully tested the waters, seemingly to hide her thoughts again, and added numerous restrictive conditions. Although it still felt a bit dodgy, at least she could now make requests herself; this should be beneficial to her balance.

"...You can."

Fisher gently extended his hand. Her ears were flapping so fast they were about to take off. After casting a rosy-cheeked glance at Fisher, she placed her small hand into Fisher's palm.

Strange to say, even though her stated reason just now was to research a human's hand, she now intertwined her fingers with Fisher's hand.

Her fair and tender small hand tightly gripped Fisher's hand, and quietly leaned a bit closer towards Fisher's direction, in order to look more carefully.

"Hehi..."

'Fisher, Teacher's hand is very big, and very warm. It's a huge difference from the temperature in the sea...'

She thought adorably like this, but Fisher was still thinking about the words she had just spoken through the curse's mouth.

Later on, he still shouldn't expose the matter that he could breathe in water. In case he truly got sneak-attacked and knocked out by her, that wouldn't be good. Although this little killer whale was timid, she had incredible strength.

Oh, and there was also that god Ramastia who played favorites helping out...

"Let's sleep."

"S-So fast? I... haven't prepared yet..."

Jasmine looked at Fisher with both panic and excitement. That appearance of pretending to refuse while welcoming was far too enticing, provoking Fisher into momentarily not knowing whether he should say what his true thought was.

After thinking for a moment, Fisher still reached out his other hand and knocked on her small head, knocking her to the point where she adorably covered her own head with both hands.

"What are you thinking? I'm saying it's time to rest; you still sleep on the sofa."

"Uuwu... I... I know, stop knocking my head, it hurts..."