The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 476: Third Person

When hearing what Margaret said, Fisher's first thought was: Again?

Perhaps because there was already a precedent with Marquis Zhong, Fisher always felt that this era frequently produced some indescribable and bizarre existences, making him subconsciously feel that there was a "Dragon Continent Branch Zhong" person here who would actually commit such foul deeds against passing Demi-human Races?

"Attacking Demi-human women?"

"Ah, exactly. But the strange thing is, those accompanying Demi-human women were not killed, nor were they insulted... According to them, they merely lost consciousness completely. By the time they woke up again, they were lying alone in the wilderness, having no idea what those bandits did to them."

"Is it possible they did nothing at all?"

Upon hearing this, Margaret shook her head and explained to Fisher,

"Unlikely, otherwise why would the other party go to such great lengths to abduct them and then return them? I heard that after the other party's settlement changed the delivering Demi-human Races to males, this kind of attack decreased. Those males also didn't experience losing consciousness, being abducted, and being returned... Mr. Fisher, right, are you interested in this matter?"

Hearing this, Fisher was just about to shake his head when Asuka Karasawa, who was still pouting a bit from being knocked on the head by him, immediately muttered in a low voice,

"That goes without saying, Teacher Fisher likes Demi-human Races the most, this kind of thing... Ouch."

She was lightly knocked on the head by Fisher again, interrupting her spellcasting.Margaret's pale blue eyes swept over the subtle relationship between this pair of teacher and student. Subsequently, she clapped her hands, stood up, and came to the side of the water pool Fisher had observed earlier.

"But regardless, this matter has a significant impact on us. The items delivered are salt and sugar for the residents. Although the amount stolen by the other party isn't much, their appearing and disappearing mysteriously has led the residents to believe they might be targeted by ghosts and deities of the wilderness. The transactions will ultimately become very troublesome. Asuka, come over, I will teach you how to help me control the loom, and incidentally demonstrate the loom's uses to you."

"Eh eh, okay!"

Asuka Karasawa hurriedly stood up, arrived beside Margaret, and carefully looked at the water abyss before her that was bottomless like an abyss.

For some unknown reason, standing before this Water Abyss, Asuka Karasawa's heart always felt an indescribable palpitation, as if she faintly sensed the existence of some unimaginable thing beneath the Water Abyss.

She swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took a step back somewhat nervously, and then looked at Margaret, signaling that she was ready.

"In that case, I will go out with them to understand the situation first and see if we can catch that gang of thieves."

Seeing them begin to act, Tsubaki behind them stood up and left the place with that group of Demi-human Races who had come complaining pitifully. Seeing him leave, Margaret smiled and spoke,

"Be careful on the road, Tsubaki."

Tsubaki turned his head to look at her, waited a second before nodding,

"Mm, okay."

Asuka Karasawa cast her gaze over, wanting to see Tsubaki's reaction at this moment, but was pulled back by Margaret's gentle voice, returning to that pitch-black water pool.

"Alright, focus, Asuka, let's start with the basics."

Following Margaret's gentle voice, Asuka Karasawa quickly discovered that the water pool below faintly revealed layers of golden light, as if something was slowly approaching the water surface.

Only when the golden light became more and more vibrant did Asuka Karasawa vaguely see that beneath the water pool, there seemed to be a squirming golden sphere ascending while being dragged by countless black silk threads. Attached beneath that golden sphere, which appeared to be alive, was a teardrop-shaped item Fisher was extremely familiar with—it was exactly their objective, the Tear of the World Tree.

But Asuka Karasawa quickly discovered that the golden sphere was firmly bound by the pure black silk threads below and couldn't leave the water surface no matter what, as if the water surface had transformed into a thick barrier blocking its path forward.

"Those black silk threads are the power of death. Precisely because the loom entangled them, it can influence the Death Rule. The fact that the loom cannot be extracted at this moment is also due to them. My power is not strong enough, which is why I need your power to help control the loom together... Then let's start the first step, establishing the connection between you and the loom. Asuka, reach out your hand."

After hearing this, Asuka Karasawa immediately complied, reaching out her hand towards the Water Abyss.

And as her hand reached towards the Water Abyss, the golden light beneath the water surface also became increasingly vigorous, as if an invisible power was slowly twining upwards.

The next moment, a speck of golden light suddenly burst from Asuka Karasawa's pupils. Immediately following, her Soul seemed to leave her body, continuously sinking downward.

"Ah ah ah ah!"

It was as if suddenly descending from an altitude of ten thousand meters, falling faster and faster with the effect of acceleration. Yet this kind of descent seemed to have no end. She wanted to scream loudly, but found that she seemed to have lost control of her body, leaving only her Soul shrilling silently.

In that seemingly infinite descent, she first heard piercing noises akin to fingernails scratching a rough wall, and then songs whispered by an unknown entity. But when she looked around, there was only a profound darkness.

Immediately after, she felt as if she had arrived at the edge of a deathly still coast, the sound of ocean waves before her concealed within the boundless darkness.

With some fear, she reached out her hand, only to find that the surrounding darkness seemed tangible, continuously dissipating. She hastily looked up, only to abruptly see Fisher's back. He stood in the darkness, and the dense, fear-inducing darkness surrounding him became increasingly buoyant against his back, until it slowly vanished, and the pitch-black peerless sea surface in the distance brightened bit by bit...

In that distant, primordial darkness, Asuka Karasawa saw a bright moon slowly rising before Fisher's back.

That moon was so bright, so perfectly round, more awe-inspiring than any moon Asuka Karasawa had seen in her life, especially when that bright moon rose slowly from the pitch-black darkness, the descent, and the noise.

Only at this moment, Asuka Karasawa suddenly felt that the moon shared the same root and origin with it, yet was so utterly distinct...

She merely watched that pale moon, and Fisher's back far, far away from her beneath that moon, until several seconds passed before she wanted to reach out and call for Teacher Fisher,

"Teacher Fisher... glug glug glug!"

But the moment she reached out, the scene before her abruptly changed. She seemed to instantly plunge into the deepest part of the ocean, the most inaccessible place known to man.

The surrounding water current was turbulent, so profound it could instantly frighten a patient with thalassophobia to fainting. She apprehensively sized up her surroundings, deeply afraid that some prehistoric marine behemoth nearby would swallow her whole.

But for some unknown reason, Asuka Karasawa always felt the surroundings were very warm and safe, just like being in amniotic fluid within a mother's belly, just like returning home. It made her unable to help but forget to return, reminding her of the maternity she could depend on...

"Karasawa? Karasawa!"

"!"

The calls from the other side instantly awakened the semiconscious Asuka Karasawa. Her pupils abruptly shrank, and the golden power deeply rooted within slowly receded bit by bit. She froze slightly, looked up at her surroundings, and only then discovered in astonishment that at some unknown point, she was already lying in Margaret's embrace, while the nearby Fisher was still looking at her with a serious expression.

"Teacher Fisher? What happened to me?"

"What exactly happened to her just now? Why did she suddenly lose consciousness?"

Fisher also looked up at Margaret. She smiled somewhat apologetically, then lowered her head to look at Asuka Karasawa, saying,

"Apologies, I didn't expect the loom's acceptance of you to be so good. Just now, its power was briefly unsealed under your induction, so it connected your consciousness into its power. It accepted you, which means we already possess the capability to compete with the World Tree for its ownership. How do you feel now? Do you feel unwell anywhere?"

Asuka Karasawa was just about to say something when her throat uncontrollably began to dry heave. But she quickly waved her hand and said,

"It's fine, I just saw some scenes with unknown meanings just now, and also saw Teacher Fisher in the scenes, so I'm a bit..."

Hearing this, Margaret froze slightly, her expression also appearing somewhat puzzled. She imperceptibly cast a glance in Fisher's direction and said,

"This is truly strange. Previously when my consciousness connected to it, I never saw anything. Could it be because your compatibility with it is better? You can try using the loom and see."

"Blegh, I think probably not."

Asuka Karasawa responded with a dry heave. The previous situation entirely didn't seem like the Loom of Fate welcoming her with open arms. At this moment, Asuka Karasawa also felt the connection with the entity in the water was extremely weak; she didn't even know if what she saw earlier was the power of the loom.

But anyway, since Margaret already said she succeeded, she should have succeeded.

Asuka Karasawa rubbed the space between her eyebrows, turning her head to look in the direction of Fisher who was quite worried about her. Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly discovered her gaze penetrated through the other party's clothing, seeing the sexy... oh no, the faintly glowing kidney area and the item flashing with specks of crystal-clear purple moonlight at his chest beneath his clothes.

Fisher helplessly watched his student looking at his lower body with a blank stare, causing his words of concern to instantly choke in his throat. This compelled him to darken his face and knock on her head, saying,

"Looks like you're fine now, right?"

Asuka Karasawa blinked. She consistently felt that the item at Fisher's chest and the power lodged in his kidney seemed to resonate with or enhance the interior of the Loom of Fate. But upon her blinking, the bright light on Fisher's body quickly vanished again, as if an illusion.

She rubbed her eyes, not knowing if it was a hallucination, making her even dizzier.

But just as she swayed and her head was about to tilt and fall to the ground, Margaret suddenly leaned closer, letting her head fall into her soft embrace. Along with that soft sensation, Asuka Karasawa quickly reacted and wanted to raise her head to apologize, but Margaret instead hugged her with a backhand, slowly supporting her up.

"It's alright, rest a bit first, don't force yourself. Let's just take it slowly... I can also use this time to look for the thief, and incidentally demonstrate the loom's usage to you."

"Mm-hmm, thank you, Madam Margaret."

"Just call me Margaret, Asuka."

Margaret slowly supported Asuka Karasawa to her own bed nearby. This place was Margaret's boudoir and office location; although it looked relatively crude, it had basically everything it should have, lacking nothing.

After placing the still somewhat reluctant to part Asuka Karasawa on the bed, Margaret finally raised her hand and looked at the Water Abyss slightly shimmering with golden light. At this moment, accompanying the appearance of that golden light was not just the frantically surging power of destiny, but also illusory golden branches.

While Fisher's and Asuka Karasawa's gazes both probed over, Margaret explained,

"This is the trace the World Tree left within the loom. Even True God items can have trace amounts of her power left behind, and precisely these powers obstructed others and me from utilizing it completely. Therefore, to date, its power is still incomplete; only a portion of its power can be used."

As she spoke, her fair hands raised slightly, and a golden power slowly permeated from the Water Abyss, covering the entirely hollowed top of the high tower around them, forming a cocoon-room-like golden space.

"The loom possesses the power of a True God, thus it's near omniscient and omnipotent, especially regarding the perception of destiny. Through its power, I can trace destiny like the Elves, seeking past truths and guidance regarding the future."

Following Margaret's gentle voice, that cocoon room slowly dispersed rule fluctuations invisible to outsiders. Probably only Mythical Species could sense the subtle differences within. But inside the cocoon room, under the influence of the loom, Fisher's perspective elevated bit by bit, seeming to transcend the mortal vision of humanity, seeing golden silk threads growing from tens of thousands of living beings around them.

Those golden silk threads were extremely complex yet not chaotic. Lines rich in harmonious beauty twisted and intertwined in mid-air, linking together all existences spanning the same time and space.

"Asuka, you come and try."

Just as the dizzy Asuka Karasawa stared astonished at the breathtaking spectacle in the sky visible only to the three of them, Margaret beside her seemingly noticed her curiosity. She smiled faintly, moved slightly closer, and said to her in such a manner.

"Eh eh eh, Madam Margaret, I... me?"

"Mm, try it."

Margaret slowly extended her hand toward her. A golden orb of light emerged on her hand, as if it had grown out from within her body.

Facing the other party's gentle and trust-filled gaze, Asuka Karasawa couldn't help but purse her lips. She glanced in Fisher's direction, then carefully accepted the orb of light from the other party's hands.

"Okay... I'll try, but I'll do my best!"

"It's alright, I'll teach you by your side... First is determining the time. The incident happened in the past. Imagine a time in your mind; do you feel that fluctuation?"

Asuka Karasawa slowly closed her eyes. And as her eyes closed, the thoughts in her mind twisted bit by bit. The time and scenario inside and outside the cocoon room also seemingly began to reverse slowly. The sun set from the east and rose from the west; the sky went from day to night, then instantly twisted back to daytime; creatures going out walked back into their homes backward, going from wide awake to slowly becoming sleepy-eyed...

The gears of destiny were continuously reversed, and the silk threads above finally began to twist into a small, unsmooth Rope Knot following Asuka Karasawa's thoughts and probes.

"Well done, we've found it, it's this day, the answer to our question is found. Do you see that [Rope Knot]? That's the crux of the problem... Although you see it very clearly now, in reality, this is achieved through the True God's loom. In practice, being able to perceive the existence of this Rope Knot basically requires being above the Mythical Species level, and to see them clearly, one must be above Demigod..."

"Eh eh, Demigod? Meaning, an existence like the World Tree?"

"Correct, quite miraculous, right?"

Margaret started to smile, but she again gently held the other party's hand, proceeding to gently encourage her,

"Next, we will now go find the answer and solution to the Rope Knot. Generally speaking, even the loom can only see the cause and direction of the Rope Knot's formation, and won't inform you how to resolve your problem. Therefore, we must make decisions independently, but you must know that any decision you make will act upon destiny; this might undo the Rope Knot, or make it even more complex...

"There's another thing to be cautious of, which is that sometimes destiny's field of vision is very narrow. When you harbor a question and perceive destiny, the Rope Knot you see might not be the only one. It could be part of another Rope Knot, or a false Rope Knot that only knots due to certain specific time periods, and will eliminate itself after a while."

Asuka Karasawa nodded, seemingly understanding yet not, appearing to have grasped some of the principles within.

Her comprehension ability was indeed fast, but she seemed not completely clear on how to master the loom yet.

In Fisher's peripheral observation, he discovered that at this moment, the loom was actually still manipulated by Margaret. She merely used language to guide Asuka Karasawa into participating in this process, otherwise they probably wouldn't have discovered that Rope Knot so quickly.

And returning to the topic, Fisher hadn't never heard of this Rope Knot phrasing before; the Moon Princess had adopted this term. But just as Margaret said, her perception of such a Rope Knot was only a very rough feeling.

"Mm, found it. There were a total of four Demi-human Races that attacked the merchant caravan: an Elephant-Man Species, a Lion-kin, a Wolfman Race, and a Brain Demon Race. They used to be slaves kept by the [Great Crocodile Species] that produces sea salt near the seaside; I don't know how they escaped. I will inform Tsubaki of this matter and ask him to handle it."

As the ins and outs of that Rope Knot were unraveled, Margaret also obtained the information she wanted. Time outside the cocoon room began to spin rapidly back to the present time. And it was at this moment, while looking at the scenery outside the high tower and incidentally leaning in to listen to the voices over there, as that time gradually approached the present, he suddenly saw from the corner of his eye a back figure with long black hair, walking completely all alone on the streets of the Ideal State...

His pupils shrank slightly, and he quickly stood straight and looked in that direction, because that back figure was so familiar that it was unforgettable for him.

Gui!

Why did she silently appear here again?

Fisher's gaze still wanted to track her, but that was after all a scene from a period in the past. As time outside the cocoon room gradually returned to normal, that back figure resembling Renee also quickly disappeared amidst the settlements of the Ideal State.

"...Madam Margaret, I'll head back for a trip. I'll temporarily entrust Asuka to you for this period, I'll be back shortly."

"Eh, Teacher Fisher?"

Gui was still in the Ideal State. He always felt the other party was connected to the matters inside this, and compared to guessing, obviously more information could be obtained from the person involved.

Margaret was somewhat puzzled, completely unaware of why Fisher wanted to leave. It seemed that even though she possessed the Loom of Fate, she hadn't discovered such a prominent Elf appearing within her Ideal State, just like how Helaire previously infiltrated effortlessly relying on the mask purportedly left by Gui.

"No problem. If possible, could you incidentally tell Tsubaki the information we just obtained; he should be right at the entrance of the barrier."

"Okay."

Fisher looked at the direction Gui had left just now, hurriedly turned around, ran down the spiral staircase, and dashed downwards.