The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 451: No Such Person Found

"Little Wen, where did you find these three Transferred Persons?"

Marquis Bai only glanced at Fisher and the other two once, then turned her head to look at Gou Wen. Even her expression reverted to its previous shy appearance, leaving Asuka Karasawa, who saw her entire change in expression from start to finish, dumbfounded.

Gou Wen immediately bowed and said to Marquis Bai.

"I met them while practicing medicine on the Dragon Continent. They had nowhere to go, so they served as my assistants for a period of time. But I am a traveling doctor after all, and I frequently return to the ocean. It is inconvenient to bring them along, so I thought of finding a place for them. After thinking it over, the Tree Continent seemed more suitable. No one is in charge on the Dragon Continent; it's like a barbarous purgatory. It's difficult for them to survive there."

Marquis Bai tilted her head, scanning the Gou Wen before her once again, and asked in a questioning tone.

"How strange. Little Wen, you're clearly not someone who likes to meddle in other people's business. Could it be..."

The expression on Gou Wen's face remained completely unchanged. Behind him, Asuka Karasawa grew nervous again, deeply afraid Marquis Bai would become suspicious, causing all their efforts to fall short.

But the next second, Marquis Bai's expression instantly became radiant again. Almost instantaneously, she appeared beside Gou Wen, cupping his face in her hands and rubbing it vigorously.

"Could it be for my sake? Handing these Transferred Persons over to me, so I can report them to the King—this is a huge favor. Oh my, Little Wen misses me so much. What kind of reward do you want? Is it me, is it me, or is it me?"

"No, Bai, mhm, hum... We should mhm... hurry and enter the city?"Faced with the Eighteenth-Tier Marquis Bai, Gou Wen was completely powerless to resist. That pair of slender, fair hands acted like a prison, making it impossible for Gou Wen to break free no matter what.

It wasn't until Gou Wen could truly no longer hold on, his words becoming slurred, that Marquis Bai finally had enough of playing around. Knowing to stop while ahead, she withdrew her hands, tapped her chin, and looked toward the capital.

"Oh right, then let's set off right away. I previously reported inviting a famous traveling doctor to the King. He is incredibly joyous and has been waiting for you for a long time. But my other kin will still be offering tribute in the Royal City for the next two days. We have to wait until tomorrow to enter Jianmu Palace... Let's rest well at my residence tonight. I also need to write a memorial to the King concerning these Transferred Persons."

Marquis Bai stretched her body a bit, slightly extending her broad-bosomed, supple frame.

"Come, I'll take [bring] you all back to the Royal Capital."

"Take?"

Fisher chewed over the word "take" in her sentence with considerable confusion. But the expression on Gou Wen's face was growing increasingly pale; he was even breaking out in a cold sweat. It seemed he already had past experience with what she meant.

"Um, Bai..."

But before he could say anything, under Fisher's and Gou Wen's terrified gazes, Marquis Bai's body before them seemed to suddenly grow several inches taller. However, looking closer, it wasn't that she grew taller, but rather all the surrounding space was distorted, causing her body to appear warped and twisted.

Space acted like a huge slingshot. While everyone was caught off guard, it violently launched them in an instant right to the gates of the Royal Capital.

Truth be told, the plan went even smoother than imagined. Based on the relationship between Gou Wen and Marquis Bai, Marquis Bai didn't doubt Gou Wen's words at all. As long as he wasn't bringing in native species like Angels or Phoenixes, Marquis Bai wasn't likely to be suspicious.

After entering the Royal Capital, Marquis Bai even prepared a small palanquin for Gou Wen. Well, actually, that palanquin was quite spacious, capable of seating four or five people. It was originally prepared just for Gou Wen alone. Since he had also brought three Transferred Persons over, Fisher and the others were fortunate enough to take a seat.

Marquis Bai ordered the several winged demi-humans carrying the palanquin to take them back to Marquis Bai's residence on the tree first. She herself went to find the capital officials to hand over the memorial containing the matter of the Transferred Persons, planning to return to the tree later to shower affection on Gou Wen.

Don't doubt it, those were Marquis Bai's exact words.

Inside the swaying palanquin, Fisher, Asuka Karasawa, and Mikhail all looked at Gou Wen sitting in the middle. They watched as he agonizingly covered his face, sighing incessantly.

Asuka Karasawa looked at the luxurious interior of the palanquin around them; it even had fruits inside. However, because everything here was a shadow of destiny, Asuka Karasawa tried a piece and found it was exactly as Helaire said—completely tasteless. Ultimately, she could only give up. She turned her gaze to Gou Wen and asked.

"Mr. Gou Wen seems to have a very good relationship with Marquis Bai. How did you meet? Did you treat an illness for her before?"

"Hehe, if only she was really sick, then I could try seeing if I could give her a reincarnation treatment early, so I wouldn't have such a headache... Elves sometimes also go to the Dragon Continent. Most of the time, it's to convey messages on behalf of their World Tree Mother. After all, the World Tree cannot move an inch. Sometimes the Dragon God curses while flying over the Tree Continent, and several months later, the World Tree will send Elves to deliver a scroll cursing back."

"The Dragon God has a hot temper. Sometimes to vent his anger, he punishes the Elves who come to deliver letters, for example, striking them with lightning. This fellow Marquis Bai is an unlucky sap who got struck by lightning. I don't know if it was because of her foul mouth, but anyway, she was struck by the Dragon God's lightning. Then, I, who happened to be passing by, found her. Out of a doctor's morals, I lent her a helping hand. I never expected her to cling onto me! Knowing full well that I am already married, she still wants to give herself to me!"

Hearing this, Fisher beside him couldn't help but laugh. He turned his head to look at him with a serious face, then repeated a sentence Gou Wen had said to him in front of the tent previously.

"A doctor's morals... Gou Wen, you're already married. You must absolutely maintain your integrity, you know?"

"..."

Gou Wen gnashed his teeth as he raised his head to look at Fisher. He almost became possessed by Eimhart to spew profanities. But after hesitating for a moment, another sigh replaced the curse words about to leave his mouth.

"Stop it, this is different! Don't you see how much pain I'm already in? If it wasn't to uncover the truth from before, I wouldn't be willing to relive this even if you beat me to death. If my wife found out, I would definitely die on the spot!"

Both Mikhail and Fisher laughed. It was obvious that Marquis Bai's direct and passionate personality encountering a henpecked husband who was already taken was simply a catastrophe. Not to mention, it sounded like Gou Wen's wife didn't have a very good temper either. If the two clashed, it would simply be an intense and explosive encounter.

Fisher, who was smiling and taking pleasure in his misfortune beside him, probably thought of his own possible future situation as he laughed, and then he couldn't laugh anymore.

Instead, Asuka Karasawa tapped her chin and analyzed for Gou Wen.

"Why does it feel like Mr. Gou Wen is very popular with dominant women... Your wife is like that, not letting you interact with other people of the opposite sex. Marquis Bai is also like that; she knows you're married but still flirts with you like this. Moreover, Marquis Bai is a Mythical Species. You're probably very afraid your wife will find out, and then despite knowing she can't win, she'll come over to settle accounts with Marquis Bai, right?"

Hearing this, Gou Wen felt like crying but had no tears. Clearly, Asuka Karasawa's words had hit a sore spot. He shook his head and said.

"The key point is that my wife has that kind of stubborn temper where she has to clash with someone regardless of whether she can beat them or not. She doesn't care about tiers, factions, races, or anything. If someone pisses her off, she will seek revenge. It gives me such a headache. She never knows how to avoid things or compromise..."

"But maybe it's exactly this straightforward personality that Mr. Gou Wen likes. If there's a chance, I'd also like to meet her."

"Who told us to be childhood sweethearts? We've known each other since we were kids. Staying with her, I've gotten used to watching her tyrannize. She was like this when she was little, she's like this now, and she will definitely be like this in the future..."

Gou Wen smiled bitterly and shook his head. Then he looked out the window. Through the gap in the curtains, he could already see the neatly arranged Elf architecture clustered together on the trees. That was the unified residence for Elves coming to the Royal Capital.

"If there's a chance in the future, you will definitely meet her. Maybe I won't even need to introduce you. Who knows, one day when she runs out to play, you might run into her?"

Asuka Karasawa nodded with a smile. She looked at Fisher beside her and couldn't help but start fantisizing that after things here ended, perhaps she would always follow Teacher Fisher to study magic and stuff like that?

That way, one day in the future, perhaps she and Fisher could also go into the sea to find Mr. Gou Wen to play?

She just didn't know what method to use to enter the ocean. In the world she lived in, people could only use something like a submarine to enter the sea.

Asuka Karasawa secretly glanced at Fisher, only to see him also leaning by the window looking outside.

However, unlike Gou Wen, he was considering exactly where the Elf named 'Gui' he met earlier lived.

"It seems we've arrived."

Seeing the palanquin slowly being set down in front of a giant mansion by the winged demi-humans in flight, Mikhail reminded Fisher and the others. Hand in hand, he rubbed his eyes and muttered a sentence.

"The signal is much better now that we're closer to the robot. This way, we'll be able to finalize the list very quickly."

"Alright."

Gou Wen took a deep breath, stepping out of the palanquin with a bitter face. Fisher followed behind him.

Speaking of which, Gou Wen had said earlier that an accident happened at home, so he returned to the ocean first before landing on the Tree Continent to treat the Elf King. Following that, after finishing the treatment, he never went anywhere else, until half a year later when he climbed Sanctuary, was captured by Angels, and locked up with Fisher, thus linking their stories together.

Fisher wondered if the accident at home Gou Wen mentioned was the matter about their Whale-kin race moving. He asked Gou Wen an extra question. He froze slightly, then smiled and shook his head.

"No, it was my father and mother having an argument. They usually sleep on the ocean floor. Over the recent centuries, I don't know what got into my old man, but he said he's ready to have another Whale-person. You don't know, Whale-kin reproduction is very troublesome. Because for us Whale-kin, our sense of time on the ocean floor is different from on the surface. But time is time; the speed it passes is the same. This leads to us Whale-kin needing several hundred years to just give birth to one child, and that's not even counting the already minuscule probability of conception..."

"Your parents shouldn't be young anymore. Even for a Whale-person, geriatric pregnancy indeed requires careful consideration."

Fisher thought utilizing common logic, assuming Gou Wen's parents argued because of this. But that wasn't the case at all.

"No, Whale-kin are basically all very lazy, and their settlements are highly concentrated. So many couples are determined from a young age; whoever you play well with, you have a high probability of marrying. They fall in love very early, and generally, the parents of young Whale-kin are too lazy to interfere either. So my parents aren't considered that old, plus I am a doctor and can help them condition their bodies, so having a child is still a consideration..."

"The reason they argued was because before I was born, my parents had a stipulated rule: if they had a boy, the father would raise him, and if it was a girl, the mother would. I was raised by my father. Now they want another child. My mother proposed to continue their previous agreement, but my father feels that he has already raised one no matter what, so the next one, regardless of gender, should be raised by the mother. And then, they started arguing."

If it's this troublesome, then just don't have one, okay?

However, talking about young Whale-kin suddenly reminded Fisher of the innocent Jasmine.

She didn't seem to have many friends on the ocean floor, nor did she exhibit phenomena of early romance. He wondered if this was because of Xuan Shen. After all, according to the Ocean Emperor Xuan Shen's unique personality among the group of lazy Whale-kin ghosts, Jasmine would definitely be influenced within the young Whale-kin circle.

Hmm, no that's not right. It seems she was only a hundred and sixty years old when she came ashore. In Whale-kin years, she would only be two years old. So strictly speaking, it should also be considered an early romance?

Fisher's heart felt complicated for a moment. After all, he had met Xuan Shen, and audaciously kissed Jasmine in front of her. It was already a thank goodness she hadn't torn him apart...

Following that, Fisher suddenly realized a question worth considering.

Jasmine was only a hundred and sixty years old. This meant Jasmine's birth time was very recent.

But Xuan Shen had reached the Twentieth-Tier an incredibly long time ago. According to the law that Mythical Rank existences found it extremely difficult to reproduce, it should be impossible for her to have descendants.

It was possible Fisher hadn't asked. He seemingly had never heard Jasmine mention her father before either.

Then could it be that Jasmine was adopted? Meaning, she wasn't Xuan Shen's biological child?

The second possibility: she was Xuan Shen's biological child. Then exactly what kind of miraculous existence was Xuan Shen's husband, able to accomplish what drove Gabriel to helpless madness—making a Mythical Rank existence pregnant?

Godlin I?

Unlikely. He was just an ordinary human. Moreover, after learning about Xuan Shen's deeds, Fisher even began to doubt the deduction that they had once been in love.

The gap in their tiers was too massive. Judging from Xuan Shen's glorious battle record of fighting several Demigods until the sky went dark and the earth went dim, she was very unlikely to take a fancy to Godlin I, who just engaged in petty squabbles on the West Continent.

Looking at it now, the words Xuan Shen left at the bottom of Nari Lake were actually highly targeted. Fisher felt Xuan Shen specifically wrote them for Muxi, who might come ashore in the future; it was a forewarning warning Muxi.

But Muxi didn't heed Xuan Shen's admonition. She insisted on staying on land, ultimately leading to tragedy.

It was just a pity that Xuan Shen hadn't been born in this era yet. Otherwise, he could have unearthed more information about the legendary Whale-kin Xuan Shen. After all, the ocean floor was simply far too difficult for Fisher to reach. Naturally, it was impossible to go visit Jasmine's hometown.

While deep in thought, Fisher and the others had also arrived at Marquis Bai's residence.

This massive courtyard was incredibly empty. According to Gou Wen, the furnishings and servants here were all arranged strictly according to "Li", without a single transgression allowed.

Just as Asuka Karasawa looked around curiously and Fisher also planned to survey the surroundings, Mikhail behind them suddenly saw something. His face became serious, and then he gently patted Fisher's shoulder, pulling him to his side.

Fisher glanced at the quiet surroundings. Just to be cautious, he leaned closer to him and asked.

"What's wrong?"

"I've just used the robot to confirm the list and tribute-offering times of all the Elves who came to the Royal Capital this time..."

"That fast?"

"Yes, but that's not the main point..."

Just as Fisher was slightly stunned upon hearing this, Mikhail glanced around, leaned close to his ear, and spoke word by word.

"The main point is, I didn't find that Elf Marquis named 'Gui' you encountered earlier, and I've never heard anyone here mention her name."

"What... did you say?"

Fisher's pupils constricted slightly. He looked at Mikhail in disbelief, taking quite a while to recover his senses.