The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 755: Your Screen Time

In the sky above, Renee's disappointing crying and shouting transmitted from afar, seemingly highlighting the ruthlessness of Asuka's actions before him from a side angle.

Fisher couldn't help but raise his eyes toward mid-air, yet he could only see the massive buildings suspended upside down in the sky over all of Tokyo, unable to see the whereabouts of Renee and Helaire at all.

"Teacher Fisher..."

At the same time, Asuka, with her head of black hair lowered before him, also slowly raised her head. The loose and archaic robes on her body could not conceal her slightly withered frame. At this moment, her movements were somewhat stiff, as uncoordinated as somewhat rusted machinery parts.

But even so, she still reached out her hand, approaching the Fisher before her step by step.

"The Ocean... intentionally brought the Moon here... She knew Teacher Fisher would save the Moon, so she bound herself together with her, forcing you to save the Ocean..."

Listening to Asuka's hoarse voice at this moment, Fisher froze slightly. He turned his head to look at the Asuka before him. Just as he was about to say something, Asuka's stiff body had already walked in front of Fisher.

He saw her gently raise a finger and point it at Fisher's heart, speaking as if she had prophetic foresight,

"'Put Renee down first, she has nothing to do with this'... Teacher Fisher wants to say this, right? But in reality, I'm afraid even the Ocean doesn't know that deep down inside, you're still a little worried about her, right?"

"Asuka, you..."The face hidden beneath Asuka's black hair only revealed her nose and the lips below curving into a chilling smile. Her scarlet eyes appeared so bright amidst the strands of black hair scattering like a prison cell. Immediately after, she said,

"During these ten thousand years, I've invented many magics that Teacher Fisher doesn't know about... But none of that matters. Do you know what I'm thinking right now, Teacher?

"Actually, I don't want to save any of them... I want Teacher Fisher, you alone, to stay here. As for all the other irrelevant people, I want them to perish... Dying in the dream means truly dying..."

"Rumble!!"

As soon as Asuka's voice fell, Fisher felt Asuka's palm pressed against his heart suddenly turn soft.

Looking down, he found that Asuka's right hand was like it was completely melting, seeping into his clothing bit by bit.

In an instant, a feeling of extreme, bone-piercing chill and terror surged into Fisher's heart.

But this reaction didn't last long, because in the very next second, Asuka's right hand acted as if it had touched something as boiling hot as the sun and retracted. Panting, she looked down, only to see the palm of her right hand turning into nothingness as if it had never existed at all...

And outside, those countless buildings suspended upside down also stagnated in mid-air due to this sudden incident. Clearly, this act of invading Fisher's body caused Asuka no small amount of damage.

"Agh!"

"Asuka..."

Just as the Asuka before him lowered her head and held her hand, Fisher somewhat worriedly wanted to step forward to check the situation. Unexpectedly, right beside him, from the mirror still standing against the wall ahead, Jasmine's shouts suddenly drilled out,

"Flee! Teacher Fisher!!"

Jasmine?

Fisher turned his head, only to see Jasmine lying inside the mirror surface looking extremely nervous. It seemed that mirror surface acted like an uncrossable chasm separating two worlds, preventing her from coming over. He could only hear her shouts.

"She is not, she is..."

"Crack, crack!"

As Jasmine spoke, the entire mirror surface suddenly shattered. Countless anxious faces of Jasmine were reflected within the cracked mirror pieces. She slapped the mirror surface even harder, but seemingly could no longer see anything, and even her more urgent calls were completely inaudible.

Fisher's pupils contracted as his head whipped back, only to see the right hand of Asuka before him miraculously covered by a scarlet mist again. When it dispersed, the palm was perfectly intact once more.

Not...

What is she not?

Is she not Asuka?

"Teacher Fisher, ten thousand years have already passed... I thought that our destinies would never again have a day where they intersect. That's why I entrusted my everything to the Moon, hoping She could replace me to protect humanity, to witness the moment Teacher Fisher arrived in this world on my behalf... But I am still unresigned, ah..."

The Asuka before him lowered her head, that head of black hair swaying slightly as her head drooped, trembling just like her tone,

"I'm truly so unresigned... Having clearly waited for so long, clearly having the possibility of seeing you very soon... yet having to abandon all previous efforts. Clearly I did so much for Teacher Fisher, whether it was teaching humanity magic, or sheltering humanity earlier than the Moon, teaching them magic, restraining the Transferred Persons... Yet everything I dedicated could only become a beautiful stepping stone for Teacher Fisher and others, as if I was born to be someone else's stepping stone."

"Could it be that my birth was merely an obstacle to my mother's pursuit of wealth? Could it be that my arrival was merely a mistake in my father's quest to seek Buddha and ask the Way? Could it be that my waiting was merely to provide nourishment for Teacher Fisher and others to grow robustly and beautifully?"

"Drip, drop..."

As her words flowed out like a booming bell, drops of scarlet liquid also streamed down her cheeks, until they pooled together heavily at her chin and fell to the ground.

"If the destiny of reality is too cruel, and I, being insignificant amidst the torrent, am unable to change it... then can my desires still not be realized even within a dream? Teacher Fisher, to me, reality is the true endless nightmare... Therefore, I must turn this place into my utopia where I realize everything."

Is she truly not Asuka?

That bitterness and despair of waiting for so long, that doubt generated toward the meaning of her own existence...

Perhaps it wasn't Fisher who let her down, because time played a joke on him. During the long decades since his birth, he had never known this girl's name, hadn't known an idiot had been waiting for his arrival since before he was born.

Human lifespans are but a short few decades, yet she had waited for god knows how many lifetimes.

Perhaps just as she said, destiny played a joke on her.

Clearly, she didn't need the best mother in the world, yet her mother was unwilling to even bestow a single smile upon her; clearly, she didn't need the strongest father in the world, yet her father would rather chant Buddhist scriptures than help her step out of her emotional knot...

It seemed she encountered every bad thing possible. Therefore, when she sought a return at this moment, the entire world was unable to repay her.

If the dreamscape wasn't dispelled, Helaire would seize the property within his body here, and the entire dreamscape would erode reality until the Barrier could no longer support it. The people outside would perish, and the entire world would meet its end.

Fisher had reasons compelling him to leave this dreamscape, possessing a goal opposing hers. Thus, he once again became the [Destiny] standing on the opposite side from her.

Clearly listening to her interrogations so miserable, Fisher intentionally wanted to say something to comfort her, yet his goal also prevented him from opening his mouth.

If she were someone whose despair could be soothed by words so she would no longer be stubborn, then she wouldn't have stubbornly waited for Fisher for a full ten thousand years without letting go.

"..."

Fisher's pupils trembled slightly, yet only silence remained in his mouth.

After a long while, he merely called out her name once more,

"Asuka..."

At the same time, all directions, or rather the entire world, began to grow restless, seemingly all locking onto this man before her to prevent him from escaping.

But alongside the tremors brought by the furiously surging storm, at this moment, Fisher strangely felt his Rank starting to elevate, or rather, fluctuating.

And this was the symbol of the entire dreamscape being unstable.

But the dreamscape had not dispersed, which meant this place was still closed off to Ramastia outside.

Helaire's plan... was going to succeed...

"Ahhhhh, Fisher save me!!!"

Right at this moment, a wriggling occurred at Fisher's chest. Following that, a panic-stricken book arched its way out. It widened its eyes, time seemingly still stuck in the moment right before being swallowed by the contamination.

"Fisher, so you were here! Wait, where am I..."

He looked at the Fisher before him, then glanced at the Asuka with her head lowered in front of him. Opening his mouth wide at once, he mumbled,

"Who is this again? Which new... waaahhh!"

"Teacher Fisher!!"

Before his words could finish, it was like the straw that broke the camel's back, or the handful of oil added before the flames exploded, thoroughly igniting the Asuka before them.

Asuka's scarlet eyes flashed fiercely. Fisher hurriedly reached out to grab Emhart in mid-air, while the entire building began to collapse according to Asuka's will.

Fisher barely relied on his elevating Rank to shuttle through the fragments of the building structure. With a cold face, he looked down at Emhart clutched in his embrace, grinding his teeth as he said,

"Emhart, if this wasn't our first meeting after you woke up, I'd really want to dig your tongue out from your book cover. Spouting nonsense all day, and I'm still the one who has to bear the consequences in the end..."

Emhart yelled out pitifully aggrieved,

"How was I supposed to know it was this kind of life-and-death struggle situation again! Hey, wait a minute, it seems like your situations with women are practically life-and-death struggles every time."

Fisher patted his spine. The howling wind beside his ears blew his robes frantically. He seemingly sensed danger. Turning his head again to look at Asuka in the distance, he found she was already floating in mid-air, staring dead-set at him, looking like she was ready to completely swallow Fisher whole and keep him here forever.

"Tch... Renee is still in her hands."

"That's not right. Your Rank is back, and I'm awake too. So how is that jinx Renee still in her hands?"

Fisher looked down at the advising Emhart, slightly taken aback. He then suddenly asked,

"What, did you suddenly get smarter after taking a nap?"

"Who said that?! The great Sir Book has always been this smart, hmph!"

If Renee was already awake, then his first priority should be placed on the Asuka before him, seeking to dispel the dreamscape one step ahead. This way, they could break away from the current predicament in one fell swoop.

But this dream was clearly already tottering on the brink of collapse, so why was it still holding out so firmly? Was there something constantly supporting this dreamscape?

This dream was just like the contamination of the Spirit World. No wonder the gods had no choice regarding this contamination, only able to watch helplessly as it ravaged the Spirit World for millennia.

Don't be anxious... Just now Jasmine probably wanted to tell me something. She is also a governor of this dreamscape. What she wanted to say must definitely be where the crux lies...

"Thud!"

Fisher successfully landed on the ground after a few back-and-forths. Raising his eyes toward the sky, looking at the black-haired, fluttering Asuka floating in mid-air, he saw her gently raise a hand, and layers upon layers of Magic Crests appeared out of thin air.

The speed at which the magic was engraved had already exceeded human imagination. It was to the degree that any contemporary Magician painstakingly hunched over a desk engraving magic would jump off a building on the spot upon seeing it.

Fisher scanned slightly; they were entirely archaic versions, starting fundamentally from fourteenth-tier Dual Circle Head Prime Magic and upwards.

"Teacher Fisher... it's fine. In the dream, you will never die. So, quiet down for a moment... especially that annoying book you're holding."

"..."

Hearing this, Emhart trembled even more all over as he drilled toward Fisher's embrace, speaking hurriedly in a panic,

"Fisher, save me!"

"..."

Meanwhile, Fisher was suddenly taken aback listening to Asuka's words in the sky, seemingly suddenly realizing an obvious contradiction.

Just now, when Asuka said she wanted to eliminate Renee and Helaire, she hadn't worded it like this.

And at this moment in mid-air, Renee, who was tightly restrained by the steel bar chains, almost cried her voice hoarse. Panic-stricken and pitifully, she looked at the ten-thousand-foot drop below, terrified that a lack of stability in the steel bars around her would throw her down.

With a tearful face, she looked at Helaire beside her, who was equally tightly restrained but still holding a paper bag in her hand, and hurriedly asked in a hoarse voice,

"Teacher Helaire, what should we do... I... I'm so scared... I'm really terrified of falling and dying..."

"Don't be scared, don't be scared, you won't die."

"R-really?"

"Mm, because I'm here."

"T-that's great, Helaire, you are truly too great, wuwuwu..."

At this moment, Renee was moved beyond words, completely unaware that her falling into such a plight at this moment was entirely bestowed by the woman before her... or rather, partly.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

"Waaahhh! Teacher Helaire, ah! It... it-it-it moved again. I-I-I won't fall down, right?"

During the time Fisher and Asuka were confronting and questioning each other below, the steel bars restraining the two of them above also swayed slightly, scaring Renee's face even paler. Although this brought her closer to Helaire as a result, the moment she got close, she hugged Helaire without the slightest bit of backbone, loudly sobbing.

The two of them were both bound at the waist by the steel bars, which was why they had the spare leeway to make hand gestures.

Helaire smiled slightly. She patted her head with the other hand not holding the paper bag, saying softly,

"Alright, alright, stop crying. If it wasn't because you were here, I'm afraid Fisher wouldn't communicate with her so painstakingly, nor would he give me so much preparation time to make this dreamscape totter closer to the brink of collapse..."

"Eh... Teacher Helaire, what... what are you talking about?"

Renee lifted her face from Helaire's embrace, snot and tears alike, only to see Helaire smilingly shake her head. Subsequently, acquiring a camera from god knows where, she raised it to the teary-eyed Renee at this moment and asked,

"Nothing. Look here, Renee... cheese..."

"Eh?"

"Click!"

"Three... two... one..."

As Helaire leisurely counted down and subsequently pressed the shutter in that instant, along with the entire dreamscape tottering closer to collapse below, the eyes of the teary Renee before her also became clear bit by bit. It was as abrupt and groggy as just being awoken from a dream by an alarm clock at six or seven o'clock in the morning.

But overall, she had woken up.

Moreover, she woke up bringing all the details from the dream.

Thus, after a brief one or two seconds of contemplation, Renee's tear-streaked face clearly demonstrated that she suddenly understood everything, recalling all the various things she had experienced in the dream during this period.

What completely being reduced to Jasmine's defeated opponent, a sore loser in romance, ah...

What being guided in romance experience by her romantic rival, resulting in being played like a small animal, even almost accepting her as a godmother, ah...

What Fisher and Jasmine eloping to Tokyo, while she could only kneel on the ground in impotent rage, shouting loudly "That kind of thing, no way!", and then turning around only to be bewitched by Helaire into coming to Tokyo to act as a meat shield...

Thinking of this, Renee's face instantly went red...

Not only did her face go red, but even her eyes went red, the kind of red that wanted to make someone pay.

She tremblingly raised her face. Looking at the Helaire before her leisurely pocketing the camera back into her robes and enthusiastically checking the photo taken within, that resentment soared even higher to the heavens.

Unexpectedly, the Helaire before her wasn't the least bit panicked. Instead, smiling at the Renee before her who was already on the verge of having her emotional defenses thoroughly broken down, she smiled and said,

"What do you think? Did you like your exclusive screen time these past two months? Class~mate~ Re~nee~"

Renee's lips trembled wildly, dragged by her grinding teeth, while the tears of her prior pitiful weeping still hung on her face...

She gritted her teeth, the moonlight on her body becoming increasingly bright,

"I'll make you pay! You jerk!"