Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1724 - 139: Honeymoon

"That tear-drop Holy Artifact on her carries a thick aura of death and chaos. It not only has its own consciousness—the crucial problem is that it also houses the full power of an Angel Leader, ready to be driven at will..."

Hearing Fisher’s speculation, the Cardinal of Destiny’s "eye" nodded slightly. The mouth that had been floating above her head finally returned from outside her body, flying back onto the face wrapped in ropes. The ropes around her face loosened a little, revealing her lips.

"Where did that Prosthetic Eye come from in the first place? Ten thousand years ago, when I was still by Asuka’s side, the World Tree’s teardrop vanished out of thin air in the Ideal Country. The two Angel Leaders Pandora and Remiel also died there for no apparent reason. And after that, this thing was born..."

"Fate cannot see clearly its origins. Whenever that happens, it means the power of Chaos has taken part in it. But the key point now is that we absolutely have to erase the ’Death Trinity’ gestating inside her. Those assassins all came voluntarily to help me. Nali took their homeland from them, and hatred has driven them to become cannon fodder for my operation this time..."

Fisher looked at the Cardinal of Destiny before him and spoke,

"Your original plan for Elizabeth was the same as for Alicia—to kill them, wasn’t it?"

"Strictly speaking, it was for this little girl. As for Elizabeth, I was never entirely confident. I don’t know to what extent the Chaos within her has developed, nor how much of the Angel Leader’s power she can bring to bear. So I could only rely on these people from the east side to draw her attention and try to strike from the shadows, killing her in one blow... But since you’re here, it seems the plan can’t be carried out as originally designed."

"..."

"Rumble!"

Fisher was silent for a moment. Then he gritted his teeth, thought for a second, and outside the room, the palace—which had become unusually busy due to the arrival of the Nali Empress—suddenly rang with an earth-shattering explosion. The whole floor, along with the structure above, trembled slightly, as if some kind of potent explosive or High Rank destructive Magic had just been detonated.

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The Cardinals, who had been on standby throughout the palace, quickly stirred up like a swarm of bees, clearly having detected the assassins’ Invasion.

But Fisher was not worried about what these assassins could do. As the Cardinal of Destiny had said, these assassins were merely the cover she had arranged when attempting to assassinate Elizabeth; these ordinary Humans could never truly threaten Elizabeth.

After that brief hesitation, Fisher had already decided. He moved quickly to Alicia’s side and reached out his hand toward her,

"I’ll first leave some flesh here that will alter Alicia’s Constitution, then I’ll go find her and tell her everything, try to let the death-chaos withdraw from her."

"..."

But the Cardinal of Destiny at his side only watched quietly as he bent down and placed his hand on Little Alicia’s forehead. Only after a moment did she sigh, then let out a somewhat mocking laugh,

"Fisher, in this world only feelings put a filter over one’s perspective. Asuka is like that, and so are you... It’s just a pity that your Elizabeth is not."

"What do you mean?"

Fisher turned his head to look at the Cardinal of Destiny beside him, but she merely smiled without answering, then said to him,

"It’s nothing... My original, fixed plan can no longer continue. You won’t let me kill Elizabeth, and now I don’t have time to prepare the methods to kill her either. Since that’s the case, we’ll do it your way. I’ll hide and follow behind you. That thing on you... the one that can conceal you—might just have some special effect on that Chaos. I won’t get close, unless something changes."

Fisher snapped off several of his own fingers and, imitating Agares’s use of flesh, turned the severed fingers into flesh meant to modify Alicia’s Constitution. Then he placed those fingers on Alicia’s forehead. They began gnawing at Alicia’s brow like worms and then stayed there, motionless.

He only needed to alter a small part; it wouldn’t harm the Little Guy’s body. She would still be a Human afterwards, but she would lose that precious "treasure" trait. This process would take quite a long time to complete—just enough for him to hurry to Elizabeth’s side.

"...Mm. Emhardt, let’s go."

After finishing everything, his broken fingers regrew out of thin air. Only then did he call out to Emhardt, who had been floating in midair beside him, preparing to leave,

"Hey hey, we’re finally together again. Staying with this little brat day after day was driving me mad."

Emhardt whistled and flew back onto Fisher’s shoulder. Fisher patted Emhardt’s cover, then glanced once more at the Cardinal of Destiny beside him, who was once again changing from a human form back into an eye and a mouth. He said nothing more, merely calmed the tentacles of Azan Ross on his body, slipped into a Hidden state, tapped his foot lightly, and dissolved into an afterimage that vanished from the room.

Only Alicia remained, alone, frowning at the spot, looking extremely uncomfortable.

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...

"Aaaahhh!"

"Run! Assassins!! There are assassins!"

"Your Majesty?! Protect Her Majesty!"

"Where is Her Majesty? Find Her Majesty!"

"Her Majesty is on the beach—quick, Guards, get to the beach! Assassins have already entered there!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!"