The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 681: Brain in a Vat

"You are saying, I and identically like you guys, are all existences born from the Sea of Souls, and I was created by the owner of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, she disguised me into a human, placing me within the world..."

"Chaos-kin is nothing more than reality's term for us, every single one of us is an independent individual, loving to gaze at everything happening in civilization for a long time, and not a race in a true sense. We are a collective, an aggregation mutually helping each other, gathering together because we all originated from the Sea of Souls. And you, are the existence possessing the most precious property among us, the soul because of you possessed a shape, the Sea of Souls because of you possessed a shape, the Authorities because of you stopped mutually repulsing each other, revealing their True Names..."

Pisces slightly nodded, towards this, his answer seemingly was extremely sincere.

"The Sea of Souls originates from the world-creation masterpiece of the great deities, is a treasure all deities are unable to imagine and understand, the deities yet stole it away, storing it into the pouch, hiding it into the Barrier, destruction thereby spawned. They committed crimes, a Transferred Person in order to stop the destruction produced due to paying for the crimes, thus created you, forging into a human, instilling their values, letting you originally stolen by the deities be reduced into a tool resisting the reckoning, and that Transferred Person herself yet escaped far away... what a lamentable matter this is, Fisher."

The Lord of Fate's complexion slightly changed, right before her body, Fisher already stiffened, a trace of an ominous premonition flashed past within her heart, so hurriedly opened the mouth calling the name of the gentleman before her eyes to act as a reminder.

"Fisher!"

"..."

Fisher returned to his senses, raising his eyes once again exchanging gazes with the Pisces amidst the mist.

"Pisces, your consciousnesses should have been born after the Sea of Souls was brought inside the Barrier by the deities right?"

"Indeed it is so.""If this is so, then everything you guys know should all have been told to you by other existences, anyway, you guys should completely not have confronted the deities this point, correct?"

"..."

Pisces was silent for a moment, but still said.

"But we witnessed with our own eyes that woman coming to the Sea of Souls fabricating you. You possess hesitation, within the inner heart I'm afraid also already doubted the mission you bear was fixed by others, fearing everything you experienced was entirely arranged by people... As for confronting the deities, They annihilated the Mother Goddess, connived the Spirit World Contamination to erupt, letting us fall into this state, for thousands of hundreds of years day after day paying for Their mistakes for Them, this originally precisely is Their habitually used trick...

"The newly-born consciousnesses of Authorities were deceived, tamed by Them, tied onto the warship unable to escape, naturally in order to so-called 'consider the big picture' abandoning us disregarding us... And you, They instilled into you that you are the key to saving destruction, driving you to suffer hardships, face choices, hardly realizing you precisely are the source of destruction, using the crimes causing destruction to resist destruction, using the treasure of the loser to resist the loser, how despicable..."

The magic dissipating amidst the Stars Magic scattered mist, smudging the Fisher standing within blurringly unclear. The Lord of Fate couldn't see his expression clearly, only could use the ears to capture his silence. She again couldn't help but walk forward several steps wanting to pull Fisher.

"Fisher, don't you forget you came in order to save Valentiina and them, you..."

"Dong!"

But Pisces yet because of her actions suddenly violently arose. Yet saw that Pisces amidst the mist fiercely raised a tentacle viciously smashing upon the magic before the eyes. That terrifying as such power then instantly transmitted over along Dagon's body bordering the outside of the Crevice.

"Ka ka ka!"

The Dream Magic of the surroundings became tottering and crumbling. Exactly like a violent earthquake making the Lord of Fate experience a burst of dizziness. At the critical moment. Still Fisher extended a hand steadying the Lord of Fate's figure.

At this moment being close. The Lord of Fate only then saw clearly the calm expression upon Fisher's face. He confirmed the Lord of Fate didn't have any matters. Lastly only then again raised his head looking into the magic.

"I am unable to judge whether what you said is true or false. Or indeed possesses the possibility of being true ba. But since nowadays the Outer Gods told you guys these secrets. This also means you guys are cooperating with Elizabeth. Wanting to help her achieve the Trinity of Death, right?"

"...Indeed it is so."

"So. Just treat me as the core of the World-Ending Prophecy. Just treat the deities naturally committed true crimes ba. But if this is so. Then if the World-Ending Prophecy ultimately achieves. I also should become a part the deities must return to pay for the crimes... But Elizabeth yet completely doesn't know this point, she is foolish enough to believe, as long as destruction descends, the deities' Rules collapse thereby achieving new Rules, I then will return to the previous appearance continuing to stay by her side..."

Fisher's words were calm, seemingly unable to hear any other emotions, making the Lord of Fate beside rather surprised.

"If the Outer Gods in order to achieve the goal concealed this point from Elizabeth, then how do you guys guarantee, the Outer Gods in order to obtain your assistances didn't conceal anything from you guys, entirely speaking all is the truth ne? Perhaps in the eyes of those deities, you guys and a human also identically don't possess any difference ba?"

"..."

Fisher's response was brief, yet made Pisces and the crowd of Chaos-kin fall into silence.

But matters unable to prove true also unable to prove false after all exactly exist, the matter of the Sea of Souls being stolen I'm afraid is true, but the deities' objectives then belong to the former's category.

The Chaos-kin I'm afraid all along repeatedly never viewed themselves as a part of this world, since their birth, from the moment they began gazing at this world in the long term it then was so, their origins were stolen, their existences also should originate from outside the world, and not this place.

"The reckoning towards the deities will lead to the collapse of the Rules, I don't believe Elizabeth can rely on the powers of the Outer Gods to reconstruct all this, even if she can preserve Naris, but everything existing outside of that entirely will all die..."

"Does this possess any relation ma... according to our long-term observations. The accumulated quantity of living creatures within the world dying by each other's hands is far more than at this moment... The Mythical Species' bullying towards other living creatures, the wars between Mythical Species then to humanity's bullying towards demi-humans, towards each other nothing more than is a cycle that's all."

"What you said is right."

Fisher smiled bitterly a bit, but still said.

"But within these about to die living creatures, possesses souls I care about, I cannot helplessly watch all this happen."

"...Then, wishing you good luck... Fisher..."

Pisces' originally high-spirited voice again started becoming intermittent, identical to the weak and feeble appearance at the very beginning, seemingly the time when they normally speak precisely is like this? Or simply the signal of the Stars Magic suddenly wasn't good again.

The next second, the surrounding Stars Magic gradually dispersed, following Pisces' silhouette vanishing, above the heavenly dome, that terrifying aura again subsequently transmitted over.

That frightening demigod full-powered impacting sound didn't again successfully transmit over, seemingly attacking the Crevice is also an extremely consuming behavior, requiring briefly recuperating to continue.

The Lord of Fate once again looked towards Fisher's back view, obviously, although his appearance when refuting Pisces just now truly was extremely resolute, stances tit for tat, but regarding the other party's words in his heart how many portions he believed yet exactly was entirely unknown already.

She slowly walked to Fisher's side, raising her eyes looking towards him, yet saw his expression just as before was calm, not knowing what he was exactly perfectly flawlessly completely thinking about.

The Lord of Fate was silent for a moment, looking at the Crevice scenery bordering on shattering outside his office desk's window, opening the mouth asking.

"That Completion Handbook of yours, can I take a look ma?"

Fisher swept a glance at her, subsequently extended a hand into the embrace, taking out that Completion Handbook possessing a quaint and unsophisticated cover, displaying it to the Lord of Fate. But because the ownership of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook just as before belongs to Fisher, so the Lord of Fate entirely is unable to completely read the contents within it, only can size up a bit its cover no different from the other Completion Handbooks.

"What is written inside?"

"...A bit of my research reports, actually completely lacks any contents, if stubbornly wanting to say it, it's more like a wishing machine capable of exchanging for rewards, the prerequisite is researching enough Demi-human Races."

"Rewards? So, you like Demi-human Races this much precisely is because of these rewards?"

Fisher looking at the Demi-Human Completion Handbook grasped in the Lord of Fate's hands, suddenly possessed somewhat blanking, from the inner heart produced a kind of feeling of emptiness, identical to exactly seamlessly cleanly the time when seeing Teresa's statue in Demi-Human Girl Con's residence.

The Lord of Fate looking at his pause sighed a breath of air, returning the Demi-Human Completion Handbook in hand along the original path, alternately opening another topic.

"Previously, when Asuka still was by my side, Mr. Mikhail also still contacted us, he once mentioned an extremely interesting question."

While speaking while speaking, she then extended two fingers, gesturing a cylinder the size of a human head, prompting a question towards Fisher.

"Assuming one night, during the time you fall heavily asleep, a person conducted an experiment upon you, he administered anesthesia to you, when you are completely unconscious taking the opportunity to extract your brain out, with completely flawless technology placing your brain perfectly into a Petri dish maintaining the original activity, simultaneously using extremely advanced Cardinal instruments linking your brain, manipulating them to output signals exactly completely identical to what you normally receive to your brain, making him produce hallucinations exactly the same as normally..."

While speaking, the Lord of Fate also while placing the hand upon exactly the illusory tabletop before the eyes, identically from there identically transmitted a tactile sensation.

"From your perspective, you will even welcome the next day's morning, staying perfectly with the women exactly you securely know, conversing with them, but actually all this entirely is exactly simulated out by the signals your brain perceives, is not real... then if it is like this, how should you prove presently you perfectly seeing me, interacting with me, going to resolve the identically World-Ending Prophecy exactly is not this kind of a paradox ne? Perhaps all this is perfectly entirely identically completely nothing more than a fleeting illusion, is a forged meaninglessness?"

Fisher was forced to use his brain, considering the methods of proof. For example within the constructed world entirely engraving precisely magic, identically supplying Mana Circuit? However according to the assumption, that scientist definitely must be perfect, capable of absolutely copying all seamlessly signals then completely correctly...

If it is identical like this, how should he prove it ne?

Proving everything he sees is real, and not forged blindly by someone...

Death ne, death identically perhaps is possible, but identically the perfectly scientist can entirely also synchronously simulate the feeling of death, stopping the supply to the brain...

The Lord of Fate smiled up, not anxiously letting Fisher give an answer, but turned the head looking towards the Crevice outside. Over there passing through the blazing burning of the soul flames at this moment already became increasingly fragile. So she then invited Fisher saying.

"No matter, while thinking we also while going inside the Crevice taking a look ba, checking a bit how much time we still possess."

"Okay."

He withdrew the Demi-Human Completion Handbook into his embrace. The Lord of Fate then raised a finger. Utilizing the power of Destiny shortening the Space outside. Bringing them both outside.

Inside the Crevice the Scarlet Mist permeates everywhere, exactly contrary to the scene seen raising the head looking up at the Crevice within reality, at this moment looking down, one then can faintly see from within the Scarlet Mist the mountains and settlements they rapidly sweep past.

Sema Mountains downwards is the Northern Border various nations, subsequently is the Sardin Woman's Country, subsequently is an ocean, following that then is Schwari...

"He he..."

Slowly looking below. The Lord of Fate clasping the hands behind the back. Suddenly softly smiled. Making the Fisher still thinking turn his head over looking towards her.

"Smiling at what?"

"I suddenly remembered the time thousands of years ago when I just interacted with Asuka... She was exactly like the teacher of every Transferred Person like that, not only taking charge of teaching us to control the continuously proliferating Chaos power within our bodies, the most important. Is to help us [Complete] the gaps existing within our inner hearts. And this is also the reason why the Handbooks we possess have this kind of name."

"When did you guys know each other?"

"Very early very early. As early as reaching before the Stars invaded the Northern Border, approximately seven thousand years from now."

"Truly difficult to imagine, living for this long what kind of feeling the inner heart will have."

"Entirely lacks any feelings, because I frequently will slice off the brain. Besides some necessary memories, the rest I will completely discard. So, ideologically I probably will forever be young, and this also is the secret of my longevity..."

"The question you previously said question seemingly is solved, even slicing off the brain, seemingly is even more terrifying than placing it within a vat ba?"

"Haha..." The Lord of Fate was amused by Fisher's serious analysis. She pointed at her own head, subsequently saying. "How could it be this terrifying, I am after all not a possessor of the Usurping Life Chaos, I merely am precisely restoring a portion of the brain. Time reversal... This way the accumulated Chaos and madness also will identical together cleanly vanish. So... I then could live properly for exactly this long."

"Is this also Asuka taught you ma?"

"No, is myself groping it out. Towards the contents concerning the aspect of Chaos actually she is fundamentally powerless, more of what she taught us were contents upon the level of the inner heart. Besides some who truly couldn't be helped, for example like Caleb Uz, she only then would utilize magic to seal their memories, letting them immerse in a perpetually static memory, at least within several tens of years could consistently stabilize down..."

The Lord of Fate rather nostalgically lowered her head, looking towards the hazy Scarlet Mist below, within which the ocean could be seen.

"Actually when I transmigrated over I was merely nine years old..."

"Nine years old? How did you survive down..."

"Very miraculous ba, but actually back then my psychological age already was seventeen years old, because since childhood I seemingly possessed a very strong connection with the power of Chaos... I frequently could see things happening in the future, moreover it's a string of things happening, even as long as making me unable to clearly distinguish exactly how old I am, which side is real."

The Lord of Fate gave an analogy, making her situation more tangible.

"You know what it's like ma? Exactly like suddenly one day, on that afternoon when you participated in the cheerleading squad in high school, you instantly returned back to when you were nine years old, then the familiar friends beside you instantly became your elementary school classmates? Then stayed at nine years old for a year or several months, then you suddenly returned to three years old, after eating breast milk for several years then instantly reached seventeen years old... In this kind of process, my cognition began to collapse, I frequently didn't know which side was real, which side was illusory..."

"Brain in a vat, correct?"

"Right, when I was seventeen, I instantly could know the things that happened at three years old, but when you return to three years old carrying this kind of fuzzy memory, that kind of memory makes you become exactly a character upon a script, you are unclear what exactly will happen the next second, yet are extremely familiar with everything you see, like having rehearsed countless times like that, everything is exactly like being arranged..."

The Lord of Fate gestured the shape of a pistol pointing towards her own brain. Exactly like from an old hag who lived for thousands of years instantly turning into a seventeen years old delinquent girl currently experiencing this kind of maddening process.

"So I began feeling lost, began doubting the reality of everything. This led to endless self-indulgence... I drank heavily in my seventeen-year-old memory, smoked, took my parents' pocket money to buy marijuana rolls, in short, any bad things you could think of I have done... I even would forget the matters of myself possessing several segments of different lives, becoming an... exactly like a lunatic-like foul-mouthed girl. But all this entirely changed after encountering Asuka, she exactly like my traveling companion like that, setting out on a journey together with me, helping me search for reality, exploring answers together."

Fisher looked at her, discovering the corners of her mouth unconsciously carrying a smile, then asked.

"Looks like, you right now found reality, correct?"

"Mm, but this is the method of me and Asuka, absolutely cannot be considered the standard answer to the brain in a vat... or it is said, everyone's answer is different, we all inherently defend the answer within our inner hearts."

"Indeed."

"I'm saying, Fisher..."

The smile upon the Lord of Fate's face gradually faded. The expression yet became extremely serious. She turned her head over looking towards Fisher. Extremely seriously looking at his eyes. Pleading towards him.

"Encountering Asuka is the milestone of my life, is the starting point of my new life. I am very grateful to her. So after she disappeared I exhausted all effort attempting to inherit her wishes, wanting to find her... Although right now looking at it I just as before am not qualified enough to be called her successor. But I hope to be able to see her again... At least must know her whereabouts, and not entirely utterly ignorant like right now...

"Very quickly I will die, I will hand the [Destiny Completion Handbook] I perfectly nicely wrote well very early on to you. In my stead searching for her, just treat it as for for these ten thousand years, these ten thousand years she called out to you unknown numbers of times, waited for you."

Fisher straightly looked at her. But remaining silent for a moment, she yet suddenly withdrew her line of sight again. That serious expression also silently and without a trace smiled. Turning into a trace of helpless ridicule.

"Of course. When seeing each other again also don't know how she would be seeing your side having this many extra females... I'm afraid would wish to slash you into a thousand pieces and ten thousand cuts ba. Then this isn't my business anymore. I also can't see it again... Mm. Currently looking at it the Crevice still can support. Although already reached the brink of shattering. But yet no matter what is unable to shatter, even if outside possesses twelve demigods attacking with full power, but as long as Dagon hasn't perished the Crevice then will continue to exist, truly worthy of being a deity..."

Sensing the Lord of Fate's genuine feelings revealing at this moment. Fisher's inner heart was slightly touched. It's just at that instant. That fleeting inspiration he felt before Lord Tao just now suddenly again shot up the forehead.

However this time. Was surprisingly caught by him.

He suddenly figured out some matters. Not only Lord Tao's. The Lord of Fate beside's. The World-Ending Prophecy's. The most critical. Actually precisely was exactly the matters Pisces mentioned just now.

He previously perhaps felt contradictory.

Supposing everything of his was fabricated by Demi-Human Girl Con and the deities. He because of staying by Teresa's side then possessing the current worldview. Thereby standing at the opposite side of the Outer Gods.

Listening to it it's exactly like a pseudo-proposition simulating a brain in a vat like that. Under this environment. His thoughts seemingly then turned into hypocritical. Artificially endowed things. He also from a living person turned into that tool existing within the vat being inputted with various signals...

But exactly at this moment. During practically experiencing the inner heart being touched. Experiencing a certain kind of thought named "emotion" rushing into the brain bringing inspiration and pondering... He seemingly again figured it out.

He looking at the Crevice all around. Eyes glowing saying.

"Right ah... Right... As long as Dagon isn't dead. As long as He won't die. The Crevice then won't dissolve. No matter how Chaos-kin attacks the outside it entirely doesn't matter..."

"Mm, looking at it it truly is like this... Unworthy of being a deity me... Even if losing consciousness also is this formidable."

Fisher looking around. Seemingly wanting to withdraw the gaze from this side of heaven and earth. An exquisite plan seemingly turned into a nascent form within his inner heart. Making his heartbeat unstoppably speed up.

Perhaps it's tension. Perhaps it's sorrow. Perhaps it's joy...

But summing it up. He possessed a plan already.

"Senior Aris. I seemingly possess an answer of my own..."

"This fast?"

Aris somewhat surprisedly turned her head over, didn't expect him to possess the corresponding answer this fast.

And at this moment, them rapidly shuttling amidst the Crevice also passed through the broad West Continent, arriving above Naris at its westernmost edge, the scene before their eyes yet made Aris exceptionally shocked.

Only to see the originally boundless Scarlet Mist seemingly had a cessation here, surprisingly completely dispersing in midair, forming a gigantic blank circle approximately possessing the massive size of Saint-Nazareth, looking like here is exactly the place the Chaos-kin impacted, reducing Dagon's state to the lowest simultaneously, incidentally also dispelling the Scarlet Mist above, in order to ensure Elizabeth can witness the "Death of Gods".

Looking down from here surveying, still can see the flourishing Saint-Nazareth urban district at this moment. All citizens seemingly all possessed their own respective work under the leadership of the Golden Palace. Don't know what decree Elizabeth issued in order for the upcoming decisive battle.

This place. Under the circumstances of the Scarlet Mist above the sky entirely avoiding it. Already became the center of the world. Also exactly is about to be the center where destruction descends.

Fisher and the Lord of Fate stood solitarily high in the sky. The sparkling golden. Extremely noisy Saint-Nazareth below then exactly like a golden hollow pupil coldly staring at them. Highlighting the size of the two of them like ants.

At this moment. Upon the ground possesses Elizabeth. Spirit World possesses Chaos-kin. Crevice inside possesses the Base transformed by Chaos. A game of chess already reached checkmate.

"Hu hu hu..."

The wind howling in the sky blew past. Fisher stood towering for a very long while. Emitting no other words. Merely giving out the answer within his own inner heart.

"I think therefore I am."

Hearing this the Lord of Fate slightly blanked. Again smiled up.

"Truly a smart answer, not bad. You thinking like this. I also can be rel..."

"Senior Aris. Next I still need you and Lord Tao to help me. I possess a plan. Unclear whether it can be realized. But reaching this moment. Also have no alternative but to do like this."

"..."

Aris again blanked. Seemingly before Fisher. The times she felt it was totally unexpected was even more than any time in the past.

"You... you said what?"

"Some contents Pisces said just now made me very mindful. If it's exactly like what he said. My body upon possesses some precious properties. Then this plan then can be implemented... However. Compared to a plan. This content is more like a conjecture..."

"Specifically ne?"

"Specifically?"

Fisher looked at the Saint-Nazareth below. Involuntarily focusing towards the Golden Palace.

"If luck is good. We all can live."

"If luck is not good ne?"

"I die. You guys live."

(End of this chapter)