Demi-human Girls Completion Manual-Chapter 894: Mikhail (6k)_3

"Hiss... Mr. Fisher, this guy is missing more than just a hand or an eye. His breathing rate and metabolic frequency are off, and he has other organs replaced inside him, most likely his lungs. Not only that, his skeletal proportions are incorrect unless he was born deformed..."

Mikhail turned his head to look at Tangze Asuka, a flash of blue light passing through his single eye,

"I come from 2156, from New Russia, completely controlled by a weapons company called ’New Siberian Wind.’ In that era, people had no choice but to implant all sorts of cheap illegal prosthetics to secure precious job opportunities, including many underdeveloped minors. You can imagine how, when their bodies began to develop, the twisting agony of flesh and prosthetic entangled and rejected each other."

"And even if we disregard the rejection reactions between human bodies and prosthetics, the prosthetics implanted could corrode human nerves as deeply as a virus invading bone marrow. During every activation and use, its coldness would eventually penetrate a person’s mind until driving them completely insane..."

"Yet even so, the rewards that most people fought desperately for were barely enough to survive. Organ trafficking, drugs, gang wars played out daily in a world completely commercialized by corporations, taking away one batch of lives after another effortlessly, like cutting grass or pulling out screws. Compared to this, wouldn’t the Japanese society that just experienced the economic bubble burst seem like heaven?"

Tangze Asuka opened her mouth as if faced with something beyond the limits of her life experiences again, unable to speak. She just pressed her lips together and said, "Sorry," very earnestly. However, Mikhail shook his head and said,

"I don’t mean to blame you, and there’s no need for you to apologize, since talking about our original world is hardly meaningful now. I just didn’t expect to encounter other humans from Earth here... though you’re a bit too ancient."

Tangze Asuka never thought the word ’ancient’ could be used to describe her, but the gentleman in front of her is from a world a hundred years in the future... Oh, wait a minute.

"Wait, Mr. Mikhail... isn’t it possible that we’re not from the same world, but perhaps something like parallel worlds?"

"It’s possible, but there’s no need to explore it. I can understand what you’re saying, and you know what I meant by the economic bubble just now. Even if there might be other differences, I’m too lazy to investigate... besides, these two..."

Mikhail raised an eyebrow, glancing at Fisher and Mr. Gou Wen behind Tangze Asuka, almost visibly marking distrust on his face. Seeing this, Tangze Asuka promptly spoke up,

"These two are Mr. Fisher and Mr. Gou Wen, although they are people of this world, they were also caught by angels and stand together with us. Especially Mr. Fisher, who has some understanding of our world. They are good people."

"...I hope so."

Mikhail withdrew his gaze from examining Fisher, lowered his head, and continued fiddling with the parts in his hands. Tangze Asuka was at a loss for words, rubbing her fingers but unable to think of anything to say. Fortunately, Fisher first glanced at the strange machinery outside and asked Mikhail,

"Mr. Mikhail, those things outside shouldn’t be the work of angels, right?"

"Hmm, those are technologies from our world. I certainly don’t possess the exaggerated power of angels to forge objects using the sun... But the angel named Michael is obsessed with technology, any technology, which is why he has kept me to replicate some items for him, after which he promised to let me go. However, what you see outside aren’t finished products, but makeshift machines I’ve been building for half a year now. Michael hasn’t rushed me, he just comes by occasionally to check."

Upon hearing this, Tangze Asuka glanced at Fisher in surprise and said,

"It seems... that Michael Angel isn’t as bad as the other angels say, isn’t he?"

Mr. Gou Wen chuckled and shook his head without speaking, while Fisher looked at Tangze Asuka and explained,

"Good and bad don’t apply to angels. Even Sariel, who detests Michael, wouldn’t cite ’bad’ as a reason. As for why he’s so lenient towards Mikhail and us, it’s entirely because of his disregard. He doesn’t care about us at all; our lives and deaths are meaningless to them."

Mr. Gou Wen then continued along Fisher’s words, saying,

"Unlike the elves who worship ’Countless Destinies’ and the World Tree, angels revere a harmonization-like creation and the Heavenly Lock, which causes them to be indifferent to most other living creatures."

Hearing Mr. Gou Wen’s words, Fisher suddenly thought that the Heavenly Lock, World Tree, and Fermat Baha should all be the children of the small Water Snake of Ramasitia. So why do they each have characteristics inclined towards other deities?

Initially, the Phoenixes gained foresight from gazing upon the World Tree, whose roots have space-distorting abilities, proving the close relationship between the World Tree and Anibatos, the God of Fate; while angels’ love for forging suggests some link with the Divine Aoyun, who is legendary for creating matter.