novelraw Chapter 717: Ten Thousand Years
Chapter 717: Ten Thousand Years
Gou Wen stood up, smiling as he looked at Xuan Can behind Fisher. He finally brought a bit of a smile onto his melancholic expression since meeting Fisher again. Only then did he say to Fisher in annoyance,
"If not necessary, how could I let Jasmine come here to take risks... Her condition is already getting more and more serious. Continuing to stay in reality will only cause an even greater disaster. Ramastia is right, continuing to hide isn't a solution. Her soul isn't pure; the past her will definitely awaken."
Fisher nodded, finally turning his head to look behind. Only to see Jasmine staying in Xuan Can's embrace as if puffing her cheeks, her originally baby-fat face thus becoming even rounder, evidently angered not lightly.
Looking at the smiling Renee beside him again, Fisher had no other way but to walk to Renee's side and introduce to Jasmine,
"Jasmine, this is Renee..."
"I- I've seen her, at Saint-Nazareth University..."
Jasmine warily measured the Renee before her eyes from head to toe. Especially when seeing her illusory figure floating in mid-air, and the magic power faintly jumping out from her body, she knew the other party wasn't human.
And a demi-human simultaneously possessing an appearance close to a human and massive magic power only had one kind...
Witch.
Fisher looked at the offensively eager-to-try Renee beside him. Hurriedly rushing before her, he opened his mouth,"Ah, she is exactly the Renee who disguised herself as the Holy Maiden of Kadu to enter Saint-Nazareth University at that time. I met Renee in Schwari before heading to the Southern Continent. Her true identity is a deity existing in the Spirit World. It's just that for a long time she has been helping Ramastia resist the invasion of external deities, thus rarely showing her face. I haven't seen her for a long time, and finally reunited with her upon coming to the Spirit World this time..."
Subsequently Fisher also turned his head to look at Gou Wen, as well as Xuan Can holding Jasmine, saying,
"Not only that, the situation is urgent right now. Her avatar coming here is also to help us solve the difficult problems of Hamon Hamon and Dream Illusion. Jasmine, your situation right now is very complicated, and I need to explain it to you slowly, especially regarding... the matters of your past."
Fisher said these words comprehensively, directly revealing the gap in identity and Rank between Renee and the rest. The original intention wasn't just to confess about Renee to Jasmine. The crucial point actually didn't lie with Jasmine, but with Xuan Can, Gou Wen, and Renee.
The explanation towards Renee was actually very simple. Renee originally wasn't someone who would haggle over every ounce with Jasmine. Just like previously at the Pirate Harbor when she could even arrange Fisher and Alajina's reunion behind the scenes, although she made Fisher taste the scent of a scene of fierce conflict in the end due to jealousy acting up, just as she said, her original intention wasn't so.
The key lay in not making her feel displeased.
Especially now that Fisher was in the Spirit World, there was no guarantee Renee wouldn't feel, 'Originally you, Fisher, stayed in reality previously and I didn't interfere with you guys. Now he came to the Spirit World to accompany me and you want to butt in? Looks like you don't want to eat good fruit (asking for trouble).'
And once Renee felt this way, the pressure of that kind of full-firepower wasn't something Jasmine's soft personality could endure. Moreover, Xuan Can and Gou Wen were still present, and there was crucial business before their eyes. If the situation was made unfavorable, the one suffering in the end would still be Fisher.
Rather than that, it was better to directly hint to Renee to express an attitude. Expressing "haven't seen her for a long time" was actually explaining that the time in the Spirit World originally belonged to the other party.
And towards Gou Wen, it was said even simpler, actually just "business is urgent".
Renee is a deity helping Ramastia, and also has ties with Asuka in the past. It's already extremely urgent right now. There's no harm talking about these private matters after this is over.
Why say this solely to Gou Wen, didn't Fisher say these words to the Gou Wen and Xuan Can couple earlier?
Mhm...
Because Fisher discovered our esteemed God of Destruction still maintained an attitude sharing a common enemy with Jasmine, hating his scumbag behavior bitterly and sharing an irreconcilable enmity with it, completely not hearing the implied meaning of Fisher begging for mercy...
Aunt Xuan Can is especially obtuse in this aspect ah. But Fisher just opened his mouth, and the Gou Wen beside him already knew his meaning. Moreover, from the very beginning he thought the same as Fisher, not planning to let the conflict completely explode.
Otherwise he wouldn't have said "This is your bad news, not our bad news".
Gou Wen wished nothing more than for Fisher's romantic debts on his body to explode, letting him taste the sinister nature of greed. But the fact was, he knew clearer than anyone else that Jasmine, or rather Asuka, wouldn't let go. She had already waited for this for ten thousand years. Even if there was to be a settling of accounts, it should be done by herself.
Gou Wen shot an annoyed glance at Fisher, having no choice but to walk to Xuan Can's side, holding her hand that was still looking at Fisher expressionlessly, saying,
"Wife, you just arrived. The water here is very deep. The most crucial matter right now is regarding Jasmine's condition... She can't drag it out anymore."
Under Gou Wen's persuasion, Xuan Can finally agreed to withdraw her gaze. She lowered her head and glanced at Jasmine who was pursing her lips and still conflicted about Renee,
"..."
Jasmine's heart was very meticulous. Actually, when seeing the familiar-looking Renee she knew, Renee might be a female sharing a not-shallow relationship with Teacher Fisher who even Raphaela didn't know.
She could accept Raphaela calmly, but towards other females Jasmine wasn't that easy to talk to. But Jasmine's soft personality was known by all, crying out in a fit of pique was just being angry for a moment...
The key in this wasn't her personality either, but that she lacked confidence...
Just like Fisher and Raphaela's relationship, she knew the efforts Raphaela made for her goals. She fought desperately in the Southern Continent, even creating all kinds of strategies and laying out the future for the Dragon Court in order to make the demi-humans of the Southern Continent accept the human Fisher and bring him to see her mother...
That Miss Phoenix was probably the same as well. Otherwise she wouldn't have risked her life to cross several Demigods' battlefield with Raphaela to head to the Crevice to deliver medicine for Teacher Fisher.
Looking back at herself, when in Saint-Nazareth she didn't know anything. If it weren't for Teacher Fisher sheltering her, she would have already died in the conspiracy designed by Elizabeth and Blake; afterwards separating from Fisher and returning to the seabed to overcome her own curse, actually it was also relying on her mother's help to overcome the curse; after overcoming the curse she knew about the world-ending prophecy, and wanted to return to the shore to help Teacher Fisher, and even established the vow of entering the Mythic Rank with her mother. In the end, it was also largely relying on Raphaela, following her to learn bit by bit...
She seemingly worked very hard, but looking at the process she entirely relied on others. If casting aside bystanders, she could do nothing at all. Thus even if feeling unhappy and unwilling at the bottom of her heart, she also didn't have the confidence to speak words of dispute.
Just like when seeing Eliog's existence in the Demon Dynasty, she was very jealous and very unhappy, but she couldn't even state a proper reason for being jealous, and still had to borrow Raphaela's standpoint to attack...
Even "eating" Teacher Fisher also seemed like charity given to her by that demon.
This was exactly Jasmine's point of conflict and softness for a long time. It was also like that when in Saint-Nazareth. Obviously everyone was helping and working hard, and only she was like a bystander.
She couldn't enter the Mythic Rank, so she could only watch helplessly as her mother was besieged by people in the sky; she couldn't approach the Crevice, so she couldn't even participate in the matter of delivering medicine even if she couldn't help Fisher who fought alone to the end in the Crevice; and at the very end, even the right to judge Elizabeth was bestowed by Elizabeth's prosthetic eye.
That punch landing on Elizabeth's face surprisingly wasn't out of her own true intentions?
What a mocking thing this was.
All along Jasmine's optimism seemed like lying to herself. She lied to herself that she worked hard enough, so she could drink a mouthful of soup and eat a mouthful of meat following others...
Lying to herself. When could she do it so skillfully, when had it silently become a habit of hers?
And now, facing a "deity" level competitor, that feeling of "lacking confidence" hated by Jasmine surged into her heart again.
What virtue or ability did she have to defeat the other party?
Could it be she had to rely on her own mother again to pressure other females and Teacher Fisher just like in Saint-Nazareth?
"Jasmine..."
These thoughts exploded in Jasmine's brain like lightning. From the outside, she merely blinked her eyes.
Renee and Gou Wen ahead both received Fisher's signal. Thus Gou Wen came to Xuan Can's side, and Renee also hugged her arms maintaining a smile but no longer spoke. Breathing a sigh of relief, Fisher wanted to come to Jasmine's side to tell her something.
"..."
But Xuan Can behind them acutely noticed the azure blue tips of Jasmine's hair starting to transform towards ink color again. From Xuan Can's perspective, hand-written calligraphy Kanji also spread out from the back of her neck like earthworms.
Narrowing her eyes, Xuan Can hurriedly grabbed Jasmine's shoulder, looking seemingly unreasonable as she said to Fisher,
"Let's talk about other things later. I'll take Jasmine back to rest for a bit first. She just entered the Spirit World, and isn't too accustomed to it yet."
"..."
Fisher blinked. At this moment Jasmine also abruptly raised those already-turning-brownish-black eyes. Just as she wanted to say something, but before opening her mouth she was grabbed by the "cold-faced mother-in-law" reaching out a hand, walking towards the woods behind,
"Wuu..."
"Husband, where's the place you're resting, take me there."
"Ah? Oh..."
Gou Wen turned his head and shot a glance at Fisher who stopped where he was, hurriedly following. Very quickly he disappeared into the woods with Xuan Can and Jasmine.
And from Fisher's embrace, Emhart also squeezed out his square-shaped head. Looking outside, he asked doubtfully,
"Just this? This was solved by you just like that? Jasmine is no good either ah... Xuan Can and Gou Wen surprisingly didn't beat you up either?"
"..."
If it was like that, Fisher might even be a bit more relaxed. But looking at the appearance of Jasmine leaving just now, Fisher always had an ominous premonition.
It was just that the look Jasmine raised her head to look at him with earlier, Fisher felt very familiar, like he had seen it somewhere before...
His throat rolled, suddenly recalling something.
Ten thousand years ago, at the top of that stone tower in the center of the Ideal State, Fisher stared dumbfounded as Karasawa Asuka smashed Margaret's head to pieces using her hands as fists...
At that time, Margaret's splattered blood stained Karasawa Asuka's face all over. Panting, she clenched her fists. When she turned her head to look at him using those profound eyes that had just finished killing someone yet didn't feel it in the slightest, it was exactly that kind of look.
Why does it feel...
It seems it'd be better if the scene of fierce conflict directly exploded?
Now it instead made him have a feeling of possibly being knifed at any time...
Moreover he always had a premonition, Karasawa Asuka who had passed through ten thousand years is definitely a tiny bit different from the Karasawa Asuka in his memories from ten thousand years ago. Otherwise there wouldn't be the honorable title of "Magic Lord", nor would it be so exaggerated in Aris's description.
Fisher rubbed the center of his brows, pressing Emhart, who was watching the excitement endlessly, back into his own embrace. He didn't disturb the Xuan Can and Gou Wen family preparing to catch up and discuss. Turning his head, he looked at Renee hugging her arms and floating in mid-air behind him. He was surprised to discover Lady Bojiang was also standing not far away at some unknown time, bearing an appearance of eating melon (watching purely for entertainment).
"Just ran away like this? Really boring. Not as good as that Elizabeth, even worse than that Alajina..."
Who could compare to you ah...
Fisher helplessly shot a glance at Renee who currently had her nose up in the air, then glanced at Lady Bojiang behind her. Seeing her flick her glowing tentacles, she also bore an "helpless" appearance.
"Mr. Fisher, then when do we set off to head to where my Daddy and Mommy are?"
Fisher, who was still immersed in the matters just now, suddenly heard familiar electronic sounds. Only then did he remember there was also a similarly impatient David beside him.
He stroked his chin, turning his head to look at the "Alienated substance" grown on the ground, equally feeling curious towards Hamon Hamon's current situation.
An Outer God who produced some change, a banquet where the Stars gathered, Michael and Mikhail's Shelter closed for a thousand years long...
Even if not for that Cardinal Completion Handbook, Fisher felt it was necessary to go see the situation over there.
Right now the Gods haven't decided the strategy to deal with Dream Illusion yet. If the condition given by Hamon Hamon is related to its Authority, then there perhaps might be unexpected pleasant surprises after investigating.
"Wait for Gou Wen to come back. We'll do some more preparations and then set off..."
Gou Wen's basement.
Under Gou Wen's lead, Xuan Can walked into this decently spacious laboratory. Just upon coming down, Xuan Can frowned. Patting here and patting there, she seemed extremely dissatisfied with this messy living environment,
"Putting this and that randomly. It was like this when in the sea previously as well, making the experiment equipment float all over the room, and won't sort them out properly either. You can even sleep in such a mess..."
Xuan Can raised her fingers. That medium shoved the bedsheets and quilt full of wrinkles on the bed, making them flat. Even the scattered papers and materials spread all over the ground entirely floated up, becoming in perfect order to be placed on the tabletop.
Gou Wen scratched his head in embarrassment, yet still turned his head to first look at Jasmine who had a somewhat stupefied expression before his eyes.
"Jasmine, sit..."
"Mhm."
Jasmine nodded, sitting on the chair pulled out by Gou Wen. Her head lowered down, and even the slender whale tail behind her drooped down. Seeing this, Gou Wen helplessly reached out to rub her head, asking,
"What's wrong, is it because of that Renee?"
"Heh, can staying beside Fisher who has that lunatic's aura be happy? The inheritor of that lunatic will only become even more headache-inducing than her..."
Gou Wen glanced at his wife beside him. Of course he knew what kind of impression the Demi-Human Girl Con left on Xuan Can.
He could only say, having the Demi-Human Girl Con as a baseline, no matter how Fisher behaved it was inferior in Xuan Can's eyes. One could imagine how terrifying the Demi-Human Girl Con was.
But upon hearing Gou Wen's words, Jasmine pursed her lips, yet merely shook her head, saying,
"No, Daddy... I just, feel very powerless, very helpless."
"Powerless?"
"Mhm... I don't know why, why I can't enter the Mythic Rank like Mommy, why I'm so weak, even the curse is very hard to control, and there are so many taboos I can't do. Mommy brought me here without a word, and I also don't know why... I just occasionally can feel that I'm very strange. I also frequently feel like someone is talking to me, like Teacher Fisher, and terrifying women I don't know..."
Gou Wen and Xuan Can exchanged a glance, both having helplessness in their eyes.
In the end, it was still Gou Wen who opened his mouth. Contemplating for a moment, he slowly squatted before Jasmine's eyes. Looking at her pair of still brownish-black eyes, he softly said,
"Jasmine, actually you have very great potential. You contain incomprehensibly powerful strength within your body... But many times, it's not that becoming more and more powerful is better, it's not that possessing strength means you can do whatever you want. As your strength grows more powerful, you will only face even more difficult problems and pain that is harder to face. And Mommy and I don't hope for you to be like this. It's just that right now, that strength and problems already leave no room for us to hide them from you anymore...
"Jasmine, actually your soul isn't completely pure. Your soul was fished out by Ramastia before it was about to integrate into the Sea of Souls to be thoroughly washed away... And that soul belongs to a Transferred Person we got acquainted with ten thousand years ago. Mommy and I similarly treat her as our child, so that's why we let your soul enter Mommy's body to be reborn into this world again."
Jasmine's eyes widened, and the ink color in the brownish-black eyes in her eyes grew increasingly dense,
"Transferred... Person?"
"Mhm, Jasmine, do you still remember your nickname and your Attendant Sea Beast's name?"
"Xianghun..."
"Yes, your soul precisely originates from a Transferred Person named 'Karasawa Asuka'. She is revered as 'Magic Lord' by the Transferred Persons, and is also the existence containing the most powerful chaotic power among all Transferred Persons. A few thousand years ago, her physical body and soul separated. Her soul suffered severe damage and failed in the process of escaping this world. In the end, in order to not trigger an even greater disaster, she chose self-destruction to plummet into the Sea of Souls, thus being saved by Ramastia..."
Xuan Can behind him closed her eyes, while Gou Wen slowly stretched out two fingers, stopping exactly in front of Jasmine's pair of eyes,
"The most crucial point is, ten thousand years ago, you were also Fisher Benavides's student. And counting until now, you have waited a full ten thousand years for him."
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