The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 394: The Difference in Level

Looking at the Iceberg Queen Alagina, who was continuously approaching with a cold face in the distance, Eimhart instantly fell silent as if Frightened Out of One's Wits. Hovering quietly behind Renee, he transparently distanced himself bit by bit from this increasingly terrifying atmosphere, acting as if this place were a battlefield where malevolent ghosts fought in hell, rendering it simply unbearable to stay.

However, after retreating about two or three meters, Eimhart suddenly Realizing After the Fact realized that both of them were here for Fisher. Even if Fisher begged him for help, it didn't mean he and Fisher were in the same group! He had already fulfilled his duties to both sides. During his time staying by Fisher's side, hadn't he morally condemned Fisher's actions?

Alas, it was Of No Avail. So the terror happening right now was mostly unrelated to the great Eimhart. If necessary, he could even act as a witness and spit out the list he had treasured in his stomach, testifying about Fisher's evil deeds one by one for Lady Renee.

May the Mother Goddess bless us, the sinful Fisher will carefully reflect on his mistakes under a bloody punishment...

Thinking this, the golden-glowing Eimhart finally calmed down a little. But perhaps the scene before him was just too terrifying; he still didn't dare to watch, nor did he dare to imagine exactly what would happen next.

Right before his eyes, upon seeing the messenger clutched in the hand of the beautiful black-haired lady she had met once before, the entirely expressionless Alagina's face dropped several degrees colder. Her slightly furrowed brows, carrying the chilling aura of the Ice Prince from the Northlands, caused her emotions to affect the surrounding environment. Yet the black-haired lady before her seemed entirely unaffected.

She scanned the tall captain of the Sardin Woman's Country up and down, then shot a somewhat mocking glance at the paper airplane pinched in her hand and spoke,

"There isn't a kindergarten for educating young children in the Pirate Harbor, is there? I thought this was a toy belonging to one of the three cute children Fisher just introduced me to that had flown out... Long time no see, Captain Iceberg Queen, or should I say, Miss Alagina? Allow me to introduce myself. I am Renee."

Renee's opening remarks were just two simple sentences, yet they contained the following three pieces of information:

First: I came here together with Fisher, and he took the initiative to introduce me to Old Jack. The meaning behind this was to let Alagina know that since Old Jack hadn't told her that Fisher and Renee had visited despite her just coming out from his place, it obviously implied that Fisher and Renee's relationship was far from simple. Furthermore, Fisher tacitly approved of this matter; it was self-evident who he valued more.Second: Comparing the "My Queen" messenger Fisher wrote for Alagina to the toys that children like Karma liked to play with was meant to mock Alagina for being childish, treating a promise casually given by Fisher like a treasure to carry around for a long time.

Third: The two changes in the way she addressed Alagina. Transitioning from "Captain Iceberg Queen," which suited Alagina's identity as a native of the matriarchal country, to seemingly "unintentionally" using the soft, feminine form of address men used for women in other non-matriarchal countries. Renee clearly understood what method would sting the women of the Sardin Woman's Country more.

These highly aggressive words serving as an opening remark left almost absolutely no room for mitigation. This also revealed Renee's true purpose for going along with Fisher's lie earlier.

Just as Eimhart had Realizing After the Fact, Renee knew everything regarding Fisher like the back of her hand. But what puzzled Eimhart was, since Renee knew perfectly well about every single bad thing Fisher had done outside, why didn't she question Fisher, but instead went along with his act almost entirely voluntarily?

The answer to this question made Eimhart, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, ponder bitterly without finding a solution. But after hearing Renee's words, the aggressive Alagina before them tilted her head as if she hadn't received the signal at all. Following that, she still looked coldly at the messenger in Renee's hand and asked,

"Why... is the messenger with you? Where did Fisher go?"

Eimhart curled his lips speechlessly. It seemed this woman from the Sardin Woman's Country simply couldn't comprehend the roundabout ways women from other countries spoke. Regarding Renee's highly aggressive words, she actually hadn't understood a single hidden meaning. She even thought the other party was greeting her, only seeming a bit impolite because of the change in address at the end.

Renee's punch landed on empty air, but she wasn't annoyed in the slightest. She raised the messenger in her hand and merely said,

"The messenger flew to me definitely because of Fisher. As for Fisher, he's helping me prepare supplies for our departure soon. The two of us will leave the Pirate Harbor together in a moment... Oh? Old Jack didn't tell you these things? I'm sorry, I thought you would know, seeing as we just came out from visiting Old Jack."

After learning of Alagina's straightforward personality, Renee might as well make her aggressive words far more blunt. As long as Alagina wasn't an idiot, she would definitely be able to hear it... Especially that last sentence, it basically turned the aggressiveness all the way up.

The chill surrounding Alagina instantly intensified by an unknown magnitude. Her hands slowly clenched, and a feeling of being betrayed surged into her heart. But inwardly, Fisher's gentleness towards her from before was still vivid in her mind. He had promised her that being with her wasn't a deception...

Alagina didn't believe Fisher was the kind of person who would abandon her so treacherously. Therefore, the only possibility was that this woman before her was lying to her! Even if she were to leave with Fisher later, there definitely had to be another reason; she hadn't just come to show off her power. This woman wanted to snatch Fisher away from her hands!

The frost beneath her feet spread bit by bit. Her gaze became exceptionally severe as she stared intently at the Renee before her, uttering word by word,

"Fisher is my... man... Leave."

Yet Renee felt no threat at all. She merely sat down on a chair by the side of the road and waved at Eimhart. Eimhart immediately flew diligently into her hand. Only then did she say disdainfully,

"Yours? Heavens, could it be you two are already married? A marriage certificate issued by a Vassal State of the Sardin Woman's Country? ...Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you are still being hunted by your own homeland. They wouldn't issue anything for you other than a wanted poster. Or is it that you're relying on this line of text on the messenger as proof? Using this to prove that he belongs to you? That's very childish, Captain Alagina..."

Seeing that book-like Relic that Fisher always kept close at hand obediently flying into her hand, and seeing her flaunting her power in front of her like a proper mistress of the house, Alagina felt a piercing pain in her heart. The frost beneath her feet spread out a bit further as she continued,

"He and I have had intimate fleshly relations. This is already enough to prove that we belong to each other..."

Renee still carried a smile, but an extremely dangerous, icy aura instantly erupted from her purple eyes. Simultaneously, Eimhart, who was in her hand, immediately felt the force of her grip constantly increasing, feeling as if she were going to pierce right through his sturdy book body, sending a bone-deep pain through him.

In Renee's grasp, Eimhart was in so much pain that even his book cover became distorted, yet he remained silent, not daring to draw the fire of the battle between these two women. He only silently cursed that damnable culprit, Fisher.

Fisher! If you don't come back soon, the great Eimhart is going to die a hero's death! You will regret losing me!!

"But Fisher isn't a native of the matriarchal country. Are you going to use your matriarchal concepts to bind him? Furthermore, how do you know that he hasn't had intimate fleshly relations with anyone else before you?"

As Renee spoke, the force in her hand continuously increased, especially when she mentioned the words "anyone else".

Not a single trace of Renee's intense emotional fluctuations was revealed on her perfect, aggressively smiling face, nor in her words. The only one feeling this unacceptable, extreme pain was the book she grasped in one hand—Eimhart.

It hurt! It hurt so much!

Eimhart, who was in so much pain he was about to faint, thought this at the moment.

"I..."

Alagina's heart was once again blocked by a single sentence from the Renee before her. She suddenly recalled the first time she and Fisher met; they were in a room, and he had even lied to conceal her, claiming the lady in the room was his wife... If their relationship was really so simple, would Fisher make jokes like that?

Restricted by the pure romantic ideals of the matriarchy, Alagina momentarily failed to wrap her head around this. She almost instantly concluded that the person who had relations with Fisher before her was the Renee right in front of her. Which meant, the woman before her had arrived much earlier, and she, who swooped in later to obtain Fisher's body, was the latecomer?

"Intimate fleshly relations" didn't seem to cause any damage to Renee whatsoever, nor could it make this troublesome rival retreat. But the solid ice on the ground still hadn't receded, and their struggle and confrontation only intensified to a fever pitch.

The surrounding merchants who were still taking afternoon naps had long since left, Completely Clean. Upon seeing the aggressive Iceberg Queen approaching earlier, they immediately sensed a major disaster and decisively gave up their afternoon business, returning home to sleep. Now, in this corner of the street, it was only the two of them.

"Are you bringing up the past? But... when Fisher left Naris, where were you? When he had to bring his family with him and had nowhere to put them, where were you? I was the one who brought him from Naris to the Patroshen Islands, taking him away from the Nari Empress's pursuit. I was the one who took care of Old Jack and Isabel... You went to Naris with him, yet you didn't stay by his side to protect him! Given that, even if it is fair competition, you have absolutely no right to bring up the past with me!"

Eimhart blinked, giving approval to Alagina's counterattack this time. He had experienced a lot with Fisher along the way, risking his life multiple times, yet he had only heard the great name of this "Renee" from Fisher's mouth. Moreover, listening to Fisher's words previously, this Renee hadn't stayed by Fisher's side the whole time at all. She frequently disappeared, and contacting her relied entirely on her own whims...

Hearing this, Miss Renee wasn't flustered in the slightest. In fact, the mocking expression on her face grew thicker. Pointing at the Alagina before her, she suddenly spoke,

"What 'taking care of him,' what 'helping him in his hour of need'... It's fine if you act like that in front of Fisher, but do you think that'll work on me, Captain Alagina? When Fisher left Naris with his reputation ruined, you were actually very happy in your heart, weren't you?"

Alagina's pupils shrank slightly, and the chill beneath her grew even heavier, as if Renee had poked right at her pain point.

"You know it yourself clearly. A female pirate fleeing overseas with her sisters... To put it nicely, you are one of the Four Great Pirates. To put it bluntly, you are a desperado... At that time, Fisher was a scholar, a professor, and a Magician renowned in Nari society. Even the Empress of the nation had a deep relationship with him! Unless he lost his mind, he would never choose to marry an outlaw runaway like you. What exactly do you have that's worth him doing that for?"

"Beauty, wealth, strength... you know he doesn't care about any of these. You know even if you emptied out everything you had, you might still not be able to obtain him!"

Yet Renee was unyielding. Facing Alagina's earlier counterattack, she effortlessly thrust words sharp as a Knife deep into Alagina's heart.

"From the moment you entered Naris and understood Fisher, you felt a constant sense of inferiority in front of him! It is precisely this feeling that made you—despite how much you might deny it—secretly rejoice when you learned his reputation was ruined and he was chased by the whole country, right?"

"Because now he is a desperado just like you! Now he can never return to his homeland, and now there is no longer an insurmountable gap like a heavenly chasm between you two! ...Only then did you have the opportunity to swoop in, and only then could you legitimately obtain him! Isn't that what you were thinking?!"

"The promise you demanded from him and your intimate fleshly encounters with him were all just you validating things over and over because hundreds or thousands of times wouldn't feel like enough; they were your desperate attempts to compensate for your own inferiority! You were just taking advantage of the fact that Fisher doesn't understand the mindsets of you women from the matriarchy, Captain Alagina... And you're using true feelings of sharing trials and tribulations to attack me? Aren't you being a little too Wildly Imaginative? Or do you think that those little schemes you thought you buried so well wouldn't be discovered by others?"

"Furthermore, what do you think would happen if I told Fisher all of this?"

Eimhart blankly watched the at ease Renee sitting on the chair. He didn't even dare to take a deep breath. It was only now that he gradually realized just what kind of terrifying character this Witch Renee, whom Fisher thought of day and night, truly was.

Let alone Alagina, whose rank was too far apart from hers... Eimhart privately believed that even if all the ladies he had met before were grouped together, they couldn't possibly be a match for the person before him! This could only be described as terrifyingly powerful!

He didn't dare to look at Renee, who was initiating a massacre, anymore. He merely shrank his square body and continued to play dead in the palm of her hand.

"I-I didn't... think that..."

The solid ice beneath Alagina slowly retreated, just like her momentum. She absolutely couldn't understand why the purple eyes of the beautiful lady before her were so perceptive into the human heart, as if aiming to completely see through and comprehend her.

"I am serious about Fisher... I swore to take responsibility for him for his entire life... I never wanted to use despicable means to be with him..."

She indeed had thought like that, because Fisher's brilliance and status were simply too dazzling. She even felt that even if she hadn't fled the Vassal State and had become its Ruler, she would still be hard-pressed to match him. She indeed felt inferior because of this.

She was clumsy with words, and was even a Sardin Woman's Country native with Yin and Yang Reversal. She didn't understand much about romance, would get nervous in front of him, and they didn't even have many topics they could talk about. Magic, Demi-human studies, ethics... she didn't know anything about the things he loved to research. She couldn't help him with anything and would even become a burden to him...

Yes, even she had to admit that Renee was right. She did feel inferior in front of Fisher. In quiet moments, she would even somewhat guiltily think that him being forced to leave his homeland was a good thing, because only then could she be with him...

But she absolutely never wanted to force Fisher. She just wanted a chance; she just didn't want to give up on Fisher again. Because she had experienced his goodness, and loved everything about him to the point she couldn't extricate herself.

If she were told to give up on Fisher right now, she absolutely would not. There was no turning back for her. She was determined to walk this path into darkness, even if she had to fight to the death with the woman before her.

The solid ice beneath her feet spread bit by bit. The coldness in her eyes showed signs of getting serious. Yet the Renee before her merely cradled her chin and yawned. Dealing with Alagina was simply too easy; she didn't even need to get serious to completely rout her.

"Alalala, how scary, how scary... You can't beat me in an argument so you're going to strike me?"

"Sorry... I... could never give up on Fisher."

Renee didn't reply to her at all. Instead, her expression suddenly changed, turning into a look of fear and being At A Loss. Looking pitiful, she raised Eimhart in her hand towards Alagina's back and waved him, then shouted loudly,

"Ah, ah! Lord Pirate, don't scare me! I just came onto the island with my husband to visit relatives! Please spare me... Uwaah... Fisher, save me!"

Alagina's chilling aura instantly vanished. A bit flustered and a bit Unable to Wait, she turned her head, wanting to seek out the man she loved mentioned from Renee's mouth.

Reflected in her blue eyes—which contained traces of eagerness, longing, affection, blame, and confusion—was the extremely familiar and heart-racing figure of that handsome gentleman rushing over from the direction of Old Jack's shop in the distance.

"Fisher..."

Alagina subconsciously called out to the gentleman in the distance. The distant Fisher also saw exactly what the situation was not far away in a single glance.

On the empty street where the signs of impending battle remained thick and un-dissipated, Renee sat pitifully on the curb by the street holding Eimhart—who looked like he had been dead for ages. The confusion, fear, and panic on her face were clearly faked. What truly caught Fisher's attention was that pair of intriguing purple eyes; just seeing those eyes made Fisher feel disaster was imminent.

And in front of her stood the Iceberg Queen Alagina, who had turned her head. The Ice Prince tattoo on her back was glowing slightly. Her expression seemed slightly panicked, and her distance from Renee was extremely close, looking ready to battle. Yet for some reason, Fisher subconsciously felt Alagina was definitely not Renee's match.

After all, even Elizabeth wasn't a match for Renee in a single round. He had witnessed with his own eyes how Renee dealt a blow to Elizabeth that sent her fleeing with her tail between her legs.

"Alagina..."

Seeing the clearly slender Alagina currently exhibiting an expression of suppressed grievance on her face, Fisher subconsciously greeted her. This served as an opening remark, while his mind simultaneously operated at maximum speed.

Yet upon hearing this sentence, Renee acted as if she had only just reacted. Waving the Eimhart in her hand in Unbelievable shock, she spoke to Fisher,

"Fisher, you didn't go buy things... so you wanted to go look for her just now?"

Fisher cast a headache-inducing glance at the Renee before him, whose hand rested over her red lips feigning surprise. He sighed inwardly; although it was a little late, he roughly knew what the current situation was.

And Renee saying this meant this beautiful lady with an incredibly high level in this game was aiming her blade at him this time.