Demi-human Girls Completion Manual-Chapter 996 - 57: Taoyuan (Part 3)

Helair was indeed exceptionally beautiful, but her eating habits were far from graceful, or perhaps she could be graceful but was simply too lazy to bother. Her cheeks puffed slightly, and as she spoke, she spat out a peach pit that flew into the distant soil. Her barely coherent words followed.

"The Elf Duke is a Nineteenth Rank being, and Master Tao is even more outstanding among them, even comparable to the Elf King. Even if you’re worried now, there’s nothing you can do about it. If we’re discovered, we’ll just have to wait for death; there’s no way to escape anyway~ Are you really not going to eat this peach? It’s really delicious."

"..."

Looking at the plump peach Helair handily offered him with a smile, Fisher wasn’t particularly concerned that she would poison him or anything.

As Helair said, if beings at the pinnacle of the Nineteenth Rank truly discovered that they came from the Holy Land, they wouldn’t need such methods to turn them all into peach tree planters.

Fisher took a bite of the peach, and in an instant, his mouth was filled completely by its refreshing sweetness, a flavor so delicious it seemed unreal. Next to him, Tangze Asuka was tasting the peach and covered her cheek with a blissful expression, exclaiming,

"Mmm! Delicious!"

"Elves love to use the bodies of intelligent living creatures to cultivate plants, and then use the fruits produced as food. This is a custom among the elves... When they reincarnate, leave a corpse to plant a tree; after defeating an enemy, bury them and plant a tree; on holidays, kill a slave to plant a tree and eat fruit... different plants have different effects, like tasting good, enhancing physical strength, or prolonging life... "

At this moment, feeling satisfied after eating two peaches, Helair lay down on the ground, seemingly reminiscing about something while speaking.

Nearby, Fisher stiffened slightly while Tangze Asuka turned pale, struggling to hold her peach steady.

"No... It can’t be, Helair Angel... you’re saying..."

"Ah, no, these are normal peaches, I was just educating you about elvish cultural customs~"

"Don’t be educating us with frightening knowledge at a time like this!!"

Unable to bear it any longer, Tangze Asuka bristled and wished she could draw a circle and curse the joking Helair on the spot, but she knew well enough that the high school thug methods of intimidating companions were ineffective on this angel.

Fisher continued to eat his peach speechlessly, while the Hooked kiss ate one and ceased. He seemed to know, long before, that Helair was only teasing them; whereas Mikhail had no appetite, simply sitting with eyes closed, seemingly still caught in a post-mental illness haze.

Having her fill with one peach, Tangze Asuka saw everyone quiet down, even the mischievous Helair Angel had lain down for a nap. Understanding this, she kept silent, quietly leaning against a nearby peach tree to practice the magic technique taught by Mr. Fischer.

In her past life, she was quite bad at studying, but showed a keen interest in this brand-new theory. It seemed every time she held the carving knife, the sensation was akin to practicing calligraphy, feeling remarkably familiar...

But did she often practice calligraphy before?

Don’t be ridiculous, every time her father asked her to copy Buddhist scriptures, she’d always be lazy...

As her magic circuit illuminated again, she gradually entered a state of focus on engraving magic, as if the whole world shrank down to just her own breath.

"Thump... Thump... Thump..."

Yet the next moment, in such focus, she suddenly felt something strange behind her, but when she turned her head, all she saw was a quiet peach tree.

On the tree, were the very plump peaches they’d been eating, suggesting that all the peach trees in this woods were in their fruiting period.

Staring at the tranquil peach tree before her, Tangze Asuka squinted, then seemed to sense something, gently touching the tree.

With her light touch, the branches slightly swayed, and a peach hanging precariously tilted off its stem, silently rolling down towards her.

"Bang..."

The peach nearly hit her head, but after it fell, Tangze Asuka was surprised to discover another identical peach had instantly grown in its place.

Time... rewound?

Dumbfounded, Tangze Asuka stared at the newly grown peach, suddenly curious about the connection between the fallen peach and the one still on the tree.

She lowered her head, intending to pick up the fallen peach for comparison, only to realize it had rolled down a slope right in front of her.

Oh no.

She quickly stood and ran towards the rolling peach, thinking she’d only taken two or three steps, yet she easily picked it up with a glance back only to realize she was somewhere entirely unfamiliar. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Frightened, she clutched the peach, yet stronger feelings of regret and self-blame washed over her...

Did she just make trouble for everyone else again?

Not daring to make a sound, she hoped this might delay Mr. Fischer and the others from discovering her disappearance, giving her some time to catch her breath.

Tangze Asuka pouted, crouched on the ground, punched herself firmly in the face, muttering,

"Picking peaches... darn peach... boo hoo..."

"Hey, why’s there a whining trivial fish here?"

"Hey?"

As she crouched, crying and berating herself for letting that momentary notion lead her to comparison with a darn peach, a nearby voice suddenly, extremely childlike, echoed out.

Dazed, Tangze Asuka suddenly noticed she was by a clear stream, flanked by pink peach trees, with cascading peach blossoms creating a spectacular scene.

The peach blossoms fell gently in the stream, the damp soil on the banks, and the protruding stones in the stream.

At the stream’s end, there stood a peach tree even taller than the others.

Unbeknownst to her, atop the tree sat a young girl like carved jade.

Clad in a light pink blouse and skirt, with bare, rosy feet that swung with her perch, her black hair fashioned into two elegant Flying Immortal Buns, with a peach flower at their center—whether an actual or decorative flower was unclear.

This girl’s appearance was both cute and youthful, her attire refined and luxurious, yet her expression was a blend of mockery, disdain, and playful mischief.

In her hand, she held a small, pink folding fan, and one hand gently waved it while her other hand covered a laughing mouth, though the superior gaze was captured clearly by Tangze Asuka.

"Ha? What did you say?!"

"Ah, couldn’t hear me, trivial fish?"

The little girl tilted her head in puzzlement, her expression questioning whether Tangze Asuka had any brains at all. But the repeated "trivial fish" fueled Tangze Asuka’s anger even more.

Fuming, she rolled up her sleeves, pointed at the girl, and shouted angrily,

"You-you-you... you impudent little brat!"

The little girl laughed even more heartily at the sight of the teary-eyed, furious high school girl below, opened her small fan further, obscuring her childish face but not her grinning mouth,

"Oh, now you’re angry, trivial fish~"