Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1735 - 142: Vows by the Sea (Part 3)

"What happened?"

"Quickly find Your Majesty! Assess the casualties! We..."

Just as the guards closest to the beach wondered why they miraculously survived the shockwave, a shadow formed by sand emerged, and within it walked out the figure of someone holding the Golden Sword.

Suspense gave way to clarity. It was Elizabeth, panting.

"Your Majesty!!"

The guards exclaimed with excitement, unaware that Elizabeth had realized just before the explosion that the shockwave would kill everyone around the palace. So, with Pandora’s shadow, she redirected the force towards the ocean, causing the entire beach to collapse into the sea.

Fisher, who attempted to destroy the Prosthetic Eye linking her to the Death Trinity, also rode the shockwave skyward, disappearing to an unknown destination.

The guards, seeing the Empress unscathed, felt particularly relieved, and many maids began to kneel and pray to the Mother Goddess, thanking Her for not letting their Empress die.

"Your Majesty!! It’s such a relief you’re alright! What exactly... What exactly happened just now?"

From the crowd, Dianne, who had been busy in the palace, rushed frantically towards Elizabeth, worriedly questioning her.

Noticing Dianne’s lost and unstable demeanor at the moment, Elizabeth felt an overwhelming empathy, her own emotions nearly bringing her to tears. She covered her face with her hands, bowed her head, and whimpered,

"If anything happened to Your Majesty, I’d truly be... sobbing... sobbing..."

"Alright, stop it, I’m fine..."

For some reason, seeing Dianne crying in front of her only worsened Elizabeth’s already troubled mood.

Like an enraged lion without an outlet, she was filled with fury that she couldn’t express in front of these loving subjects.

Heaving a sigh, she looked at the distant sky from a certain direction and softly said,

"Leave the aftermath repairs to someone else. Dianne, arrange for my carriage back to Saint Nali. I need to return to the Golden Palace now."

"Sob, alright, Your Majesty... sobbing..."

...

...

At this moment, miles away from the beach, within the forest, the Cardinal of Destiny, bound in ropes, slowly retracted her hand, as if countless cords were being drawn back into her.

Before her was Alicia, subdued and transformed into flesh and blood. Her internal chaotic evolution, alerted to its source, fiercely clashed with the power left by Fisher, resulting in this escape-attempting form, yet quickly caught and subdued by the Cardinal.

As the Cardinal waited, imperceptible winds rustled behind the woods.

Without turning, she spoke with prescient calm,

"At the moment you parted from her, when you kissed that Dragon-man Species, you were destined to reach this end, regardless of your efforts. You thought your actions were inadequate; she believed that embracing new Order would restore the past—how naive."

"..."

The next moment, Fisher emerged from the woods behind, his expression complex as he walked toward her.

"I just..."

"Ha ha, you and she simply don’t believe in fate. You and she still harbor love, this love causes you to struggle and attempt in distortion, only turning back after hitting the wall... Save your strength. Instead of wasting energy on irretrievable matters, think of saving this world, think of finding Asuka."

"Hey, you old lady, have a point there. But what do you care about their matters, chatting away here? Have you ever been in love? No hands-on experience and yet you’re directing affairs here?"

Emhardt heard this and got upset, standing on Fisher’s shoulder, he began to fire off words, causing veins to bulge on the Cardinal of Destiny’s concealed forehead, her trembling arms ready to roll up her sleeves for a heated confrontation.

Fortunately, Fisher extended a hand, stopping Emhardt on his shoulder. Emhardt was highly aggressive today, seizing Fisher’s silent, heavy mood, taking on the role of his verbal rebuttal, berating both Elizabeth and the Cardinal.

But words wouldn’t change the nature of this matter, so he merely glanced at the Cardinal’s silhouette, then inhaled deeply, adjusted his condition, and approached the tangled flesh on the ground.

The mass resembled the twisted form of "Anna" created during the Saint Nali outbreak years ago,

"Big brother... pain... big brother..."

"..."

He crouched down, reached out to touch Alicia on the ground, confirming that the chaotic evolution within her continued struggling against the power he used to change Alicia’s Constitution without completely transforming her into a base, then let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunate for his prompt return, still in time to restore Alicia to an ordinary human being.

He reached out, letting his flesh alter Alicia’s Constitution, with his involvement the transformation process became remarkably smooth.

Alicia’s swelling flesh continually condensed, eventually forming into a human shape, the residual Chaos in her body began to retreat step by step. At last, within Fisher’s heart, came a sound akin to a resounding bell, reverberating in his soul,

"Fisher..."

The chaos evolution within him turned unusually active at this moment, as if the Authority power within was drawn by that distant, measureless sound.

Was this the voice of the Divine responsible for the chaos evolution?

He swallowed hard, lowered his head undeterred, continuing to alter Alicia’s Constitution, while the bell-like sound blurred like Mirror Flowers Water Moon.

"Do you think... you can escape... the Ocean...?"

Fisher’s pupils narrowed slightly, but his hands never paused. In the next moment, Alicia before him suddenly morphed into human form, and that sound completely vanished, as if an illusion.

"You did it, Fisher! The kid’s back!"

Emhardt flew excitedly to Fisher’s shoulder, having spoken to him joyously.

On the ground, Alicia, long unconscious, fluttered her eyes like butterfly wings. She groggily opened her eyes, looked at Fisher, and hazily spoke,

"Big brother... did we meet before?"

Alicia sat up groggily, Fisher patted her head while confirming her state. Ensuring she had lost the treasure-like attributes and reverted to an ordinary person, Fisher then asked her,

"... Why suddenly ask this?"

"It’s just... I seem to have had a Dream... Dreaming of how big brother and I made a promise to take a partner named ’Anna’s’ ashes back to the South Continent... Big brother, did you do it?"

Listening to the naive query of the young girl before him, Fisher finally couldn’t hold back, his expression cracked and crumbled, revealing the emotions beneath his restraint.

His eyes reddened, his body trembling uncontrollably, he slowly reached out his hand, tightly embracing the bewildered Alicia as if simultaneously holding another he never embraced.

He trembled, softly spoke to Alicia,

"I’m sorry... I’m sorry, Alicia... I’m sorry..."

Unaware of why big brother was so saddened, Alicia smiled slightly, emulating an adult, patted his back, and said childlike,

"It’s okay, big brother, do it next time...

"If you forget the promise, next time never forget it again, big brother."