Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1729 - 140: Love Must Begin Before Dusk (Part 3)

"You think I’ve changed, and it’s only now that you’ve realized it? Look at your expression, it’s all saying, ’Give me back the Elizabeth from more than ten years ago, the one now isn’t her.’ How unbelievable, how surprising, how heartbreaking... And what about me?! Have you noticed my heartbreak, my surprise, my disbelief?"

"Fisher Benavides, every promise, every commitment I’ve made to you, I have fulfilled them all. On the Griffin Race, I promised you a request, no matter how crucial the moment, no matter how much I didn’t want to let you go, I kept my promise and agreed to your demand. When you sent a letter back, I waited for you arduously for four and a half years. During this time, did I do anything excessive? Don’t think I don’t know about those women you know..."

"Fisher Benavides, every promise, every commitment I’ve made to you, I have fulfilled them all. On the Griffin Race, I promised you a request, no matter how crucial the moment, no matter how much I didn’t want to let you go, I kept my promise and agreed to your demand. When you sent a letter back, I waited for you arduously for four and a half years. During this time, did I do anything excessive? Don’t think I don’t know about those women you know..."

"The Dragon Queen of Dragon Court, that damned Whale-man species, the Phoenix of the Northern Realm, that Renie who’s probably dead somewhere, and even Alagina whom you’ve probably forgotten... You sent a letter, and I endured for a full four years; I wanted nothing except for you to come back alive, to come back and see me. Even when Alagina took my sister away, I reproached the Black Chief who autonomously attacked her ship, and even though Dragon Court of the South Continent could have been defeated by Barbatos and others, I held back the order for full clearance for a full four years..."

Elizabeth’s eyes were bloodshot, and even the prosthetic eye seemed unable to withstand her extreme emotions, emitting the ’crack’ sound akin to shattering glass, yet Elizabeth continued to look directly at Fisher with a hysterical tone, interrogating his actions,

"And what about you?! Fisher Benavides, now you’re questioning where the Elizabeth from so many years ago has gone. Do you still remember how many years ago you promised to marry me, grow old with me, that we’d only have each other?! Fine, you forgot this promise, annulled it, didn’t keep it. Then what about what you said four years ago in your letter, that you would come see me?"

"Four and a half years!! You left without a word, while I’ve worried about your safety day and night. You, when you returned, whom did you prioritize seeing first as you said in your letter that you had to see me again? But no, you went to the South Continent and stayed for months, happy with the Dragon Queen, right? Upon returning, you were still with that Phoenix. If I hadn’t discovered you, were you planning to hide indefinitely, or after seeing everyone else would you finally remember, as if granting a favor, that there’s still an Elizabeth?"

"And yet I still forgave you, even though you’ve disappointed me so many times, even though you’ve betrayed our oath so many times, I still said nothing. Even when you doubted that I was controlled by the prosthetic eye and accused me of endorsing chaos, I was willing to explain to you... But, but!! You clearly just promised me, to spend this honeymoon with me... even such a simple, small promise you couldn’t keep!!"

Elizabeth collapsed, grabbing Fisher’s collar fiercely, staring at him intently, letting him see clearly how the prosthetic eye, which he vilified as the ’culprit,’ struggled and endured within her emotions,

"Why don’t you ask yourself at this moment?! Where has the gentlemanly, promise-keeping Fisher Benavides from so many years ago gone?! If all these words and matters are just my wishful thinking, then what do those oaths we made together which you’ve unilaterally abandoned count for? They’re trash! They’re waste! They’re the paper you use to wipe your body after bedding one woman after another! Only I, the fool, still regard them as treasures, holding them dearly!"

"Yes, I am a fool. Even when I’ve long seen you’ve changed, I still believed in you, yet today you look at me with this unbelievable expression, thinking I’ve changed?!"

Only after Elizabeth spoke these words did he recall, and only then did he realize those familiar feelings had somehow become so distant.

Suddenly, Fisher remembered, the gold in Elizabeth’s eyes was the color of the Sun in his memories, a place he often gazed upon when he was young.

He often saw his own reflection in those bright eyes, saw the love she held for him among her smiling eyebrows...

Unfortunately, after many years, at this very moment, the sky over the Ocean had already been set ablaze by the scarlet sunset, overshadowing the golden color of her eyes at noon, leaving only a desolate emptiness...

"Splash~ splash~ splash~"

The waves, along with her roar, engulfed everything on the shore, finally echoing a shriveled sound like tinnitus, as if withdrawing tides gradually bore their years-long tangled past into the depths of the Ocean...

So you see, love must occur before dusk.