Chapter 654 - 102. Cotton candy_3
"Please?"
"As you wish, Miss Valentina."
Fisher noticed it was getting late and decided not to tease the young lady who had just come of age any longer. He walked behind her, and lightly grabbed her wheelchair, ready to push her back to rest. However, this address seemed to trigger something and startled Valentina.
Because, in Ice’s illusion, Fisher also addressed himself while biting his hair.
Her face flushed, she turned her head and pointed a finger at Fisher, sounding somewhat agitated,
"Don’t call me that."
"If not that, what should I call you?"
"Valentina is fine, Miss is fine, but don’t put them together!"
"No problem, Miss."
Valentina was pushed by Fisher into the elevator. Hearing him call her ’Miss’ sounded increasingly strange, so she turned to Fisher again and whispered,
"Just call me Valentina normally."
"You’re quite demanding."
Fisher sighed and said so, causing Valentina to angrily clench her skirt, close her eyes, and shout,
"Enough already, just do that!"
In the elevator, the Kexie Ning mother and daughter, who witnessed the whole scene, looked from Fisher to Valentina and blinked blankly.
Had Grandpa not mentioned in their conversation earlier that this Mixed Blood from Nali might have a slim chance of sparking something with Chu Feng?
A slim chance?
...
...
Some time was left until the Snow Fox Species from Mia would arrive. The next morning, Fisher immediately began preparations, first needing to research Kexie Ning. He roughly checked the progress in the Completion Manual and found that the real issue was the biological research progress.
[Slime Species Biological Research Progress: 4%]
[Slime Species Social Research Progress: 21%]
[You have unlocked the first stage reward for Slime Species Social Research Progress]
[Constitution +1, Observation +2]
After breakfast, Fisher was about to head to Kexie Ning’s room to complete the remaining biological research progress when he suddenly saw in the elevator that Heidlin was leading a tall figure cloaked in a cloak into a hotel room.
"Please come this way, the arrangement is just as I mentioned earlier... Ah, perfect, the scholar who wants to study you is right over there."
Heidlin smiled and pointed at Fisher, who was standing in the corridor in the distance, then turned her head to look at the tall figure clad in a cloak beside her, introducing him,
"Let me introduce you. This is a senior officer from Mia Police Station, Miss Frey of the Ice Owl Species. Be careful during your research."
Ice Owl Species?
Fisher turned his head towards the other party and saw the lady called "Frey" gently placing her hand on the cloak on her head. Her hands weren’t pale with five fingers like humans but had bird claws with black nails. As she slowly lifted her cloak, the first thing that caught his eye was a thick bunch of white fur, like a scarf, growing from her chest and wrapping around her neck.
It turned out she was a short-haired white-haired lady with a slightly round head shape, which added a touch of approachability to her otherwise sharp demeanor. Behind her were a pair of small, fluffy, fleshy wings with alternating blue and white feathers, adorned like ice crystals.
The softness of the fur made Fisher swallow his saliva, but only for a second before he quickly shifted his gaze away from the fur-covered body,
"It’s a pleasure to meet you, I am a scholar from Nali, Fisher Benavides."
"Officer Frey, it’s a pleasure to meet you."
Fisher shook her warm bird claw and then noticed that there were several long white feathers on her ears. Her pale yellow pupils continuously shifted focus, seemingly sizing up the scholar before her.
"Mr. Fisher, last night the young lady instructed me to find an Ice Owl Subhuman for your research first thing this morning, and she seemed quite angry when she went to bed last night... I want to ask, what exactly happened last night that led you two alone to the second floor where the Ice is stored?"
Fisher glanced guiltily at Heidlin, who wasn’t laughing, and couldn’t say it was Valentina’s own desire to see the Ice, as that would expose the Phoenix Bloodline activated within her. Yet, he wasn’t flustered and instead countered,
"Miss Heidlin, speaking of which, I suddenly recall something you once told me about Miss Valentina being disabled and hence the various issues it might cause, and how you hoped I would be more forgiving towards her little actions... Have you ever considered that it’s because you all have continually treated and pitied her as a disabled person, that she feels even more upset? Even if she was angry about what I said last night, her anger would have passed quickly; otherwise, she wouldn’t have instructed you to bring this Ice Owl lady to the hotel, right?"
Heidlin was slightly taken aback and looked at Fisher, who gently knocked on Kexie Ning’s door and spoke,
"Rest assured, Miss Valentina isn’t foolish, and I can’t deceive her with just a few words. We didn’t talk much last night... You’ve treated her like a disabled person for too long, and the overly detailed care for the disabled leaves her feeling overwhelmed. That might be why she did something a little over the line, like wanting to go see the Ice at night?"
Fisher multitasked, dealing with the troublesome Heidlin and simultaneously binding the newly brought Ice Owl, feeling the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual in his arms getting hotter, and lines of phantom text appeared before his eyes,
[Ice Owl Species]
[Bindable Research Count: 0/1]
[Frey, Adult Female of Ice Owl Species]
Bind!
As a familiar yet increasingly habitual searing pain originated from his chest, Fisher squinted his eyes, feeling a brilliant burst of colorful light emerge from the void, a light he had never seen before, much like experiencing the excitement of the person who had written the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual.
[Congratulations, you have collected a new Demi-human Species Label Series: Cotton Candy!]
[Contributor’s Commentary: Ahaha, please make sure to give their fur a good rub during your study. This is one of the rare treasures in this world. Oh, let me rank their fur’s softness privately... Hmm, ahaha, indeed, all of them are too soft to be ranked; well, no choice, you all tie for first place.]
[(ꈍ﹃ꈍ)]
Fisher’s face darkened instantly, staring at the row of strange symbols and text, unable to speak for a long time.