Chapter 668: 146. Cow
“…Alagina?”
Fisher was really flustered, even leading to some stuttering in his speech.
He had known before arriving at Parasol Tree that he might have to face both Valentina and Alagina at the same time; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so shameless when talking to Fate Lord back then.
But he really didn’t know why, every time the moment to intervene was so intense; as soon as he embraced, bam, someone appeared; it was the same at Dragon Court, he hadn’t explained a single sentence, and bam, Raphael saw Jasmine plunging into his arms; in Demon Dynasty, he had just been pinned down by Eil, and bam, he was seen by Jasmine.
Valentina didn’t expect Alagina to come over so quickly; after all, she worked on the mechanism in the lowest level of Parasol Tree. Parasol Tree was so large, and she didn’t have wings, yet she arrived so fast?
She felt utterly embarrassed; Valentina was not the type to show affection to her husband in front of others. Suddenly seen by Alagina, her face flushed, and she instinctively hid in Fisher’s embrace, causing the huge phoenix wings behind her to flap uncontrollably, drawing even more attention.
Fisher turned to look at the long-lost Alagina, opened his mouth to say something, but saw Alagina’s confident face suddenly become pale in her panic.
She took a breath but immediately panicked and took a step back, covering her heart.
“Alagi—”
“I—”
Fisher gently let go of Valentina in his arms and turned to her direction, but before he could take a step, Alagina panicked even more, covering her heart and turning to run.
Her hasty escape left Fisher feeling empty inside, but in the blink of an eye, Alagina’s figure disappeared at the door. He was about to raise his leg to chase after her when he remembered Valentina behind him.
So he quickly turned to look at Valentina and said, “Valentina, I need to get Alagina back.”
“Huh? You, you, you, first it was Elizabeth, now it’s Alagina, you—!”
Fisher didn’t want to explain; he pressed down Valentina’s raised hand. He knew that if he continued to find Alagina like this, it would be equivalent to abandoning her twice. No matter how she wasn’t Elizabeth, she would still be furious.
Fisher directly interrupted her spell-casting action, and as she froze a bit under Fisher’s kiss, he didn’t deepen it, but instead took a step back, holding her chin, and said, “I’ve returned to Parasol Tree. Whether it’s about previously with Elizabeth or regarding Alagina, I should be honest with you. But before that, I need to find her. It would be best if you came with me, this way…”
Fisher’s face came close, especially after just kissing her, now about to respond, which made her brain a mess.
So, in a moment of desperation, she could only activate the external brain, Duke of Peach.
Seeing Valentina mesmerized and unable to speak because of Fisher, she sighed internally, quickly reminding her, “You’re the leader of Parasol Tree now. Going on like this is just asking for trouble, right? Although these issues between you aren’t much different, I’ve emphasized to you countless times that even if there’s contention, it’s best to close the door and let him handle the mixed-breed woman and confront you himself, you just wait here.”
“Is it really that serious for a confrontation? It sounds like something severe is about to happen between Fisher and…”
“Haha, it’s not like he has a bunch of women he can’t count on his fingers behind your back. Even if he keeps bringing home new sisters every day, it’s just the pain of losing a husband, look at our mediocre Valentina.”
“Ah, I get it!”
After the Duke of Peach’s reminder, Valentina’s love-struck brain finally calmed down. She wasn’t the young lady sitting in a wheelchair anymore; she was now a standing phoenix.
However, during the kiss earlier, she hadn’t felt her legs, so she had no idea kissing could make her legs weak, which was truly magical.
Cough, cough.
Valentina’s face turned slightly red and she awkwardly pushed Fisher’s cheek. She pouted, turned her head, trying to present herself as colder and more resolute, but the long ears and neck hidden beneath her green fluff were already tinged with cherry blossom color.
She cleared her throat and brought up the matter of Fisher leaving her to be with Elizabeth and the issue regarding Alagina, gently saying, “Then you go find Alagina. I can’t walk around freely outside; otherwise, the whole Parasol Tree will see this. I’ll wait for you here; you two hurry back.”
“Okay, I’ll go now.”
“Wait a minute!”
Fisher had just about to leave when he paused, turned back to look at Valentina, who was pouting.
“What’s wrong?”
Valentina glanced at the ground, then quickly looked at him, finally unable to help but speak, “Don’t forget, I’m your wife.”
“I’ve always remembered, Valentina.”
Fisher almost instantly read her thoughts and nodded in agreement.
From an objective perspective, an interesting point is that the women in close relationships with Fisher differ in race, character, and age, so Fisher feels entirely different emotions when facing each of them.
Valentina, at her real age, could be considered the youngest among the ladies he knew, making her heart and mind relatively naive and straightforward, not much different from Jasmine and the earlier Tang Zeming Asuka, being on the same level.
Thus, when dealing with Valentina and the others, Fisher could easily understand their thoughts and needs, making conflict resolution more manageable. Most of the time, their subjective burdens were lighter, and their demands simpler, making them easy to satisfy.
Then there are Raphael and Alagina, who are a level above.
They are older, and their real-world experiences are more complex. Fisher can mostly see through their thoughts and communicate more easily, though occasionally, they also give him headaches. Overall, however, handling them is more than sufficient.
Moving up from there are Eil, Renee, and Elizabeth.
Fisher usually can’t understand their thoughts, or he can only catch glimpses of them. Sometimes he can’t comprehend what they want at all, and often he relies on them to voice certain feelings for him to fully understand their logic and take measures to resolve conflicts.
Lastly, there is Hela, who is the most formidable.
Fisher utterly cannot grasp her logic, what she wants, or the thoughts in her heart. She is like a mystery; everything she says and does seems entirely illogical, or the underlying logic is hard to discern. Although she rarely has direct conflicts with other women, the price of not having petty wars is that she embodies the entire vastness.
So at this moment, having discerned Valentina’s thoughts, Fisher could finally breathe a sigh of relief. At least he had seized an opportunity to talk face to face with her, providing him with a chance to ease tensions.
Therefore, he could quickly leave this hall and rush to find the long-lost Ice Mountain Queen.
Alagina didn’t remember how fast she had run; all that echoed in her mind was the image she saw when she pushed open the door, a scene that was a tangible nightmare for her as a citizen of Sardinia.
Watching her man embrace another woman, could they just be huddling for warmth?
No, how could that be?!
Though she previously understood that Fisher was close to other women, she had never seen him being intimate with someone else.
Renee was like this, Elizabeth was also like this, and even the original Valentina was the same.
In a way, people are like ostriches; they only want to believe the facts they see, even if they know the truth exists out of sight, they prefer to deceive themselves that there’s nothing in front of them.
Alagina was this kind of person, and when she witnessed it firsthand, a flame of anger rooted in her instinct as a Sardinian began to burn.
Yes, she was actually about to explode with anger just now.
However, her genuine feelings for Fisher made her subconsciously want to avoid doing such a thing in front of him. Because she acted like that on Pat Sulshen Island before, though she regained her honor on the bed after being subdued by Fisher, she still felt guilty about her loss of composure at that time.
She simply thought she wasn’t woman enough to treat her treasured Fisher this way.
Moreover, aside from this factor, she and her current sisters were still at the mercy of others. Even though she could produce decent mechanisms, stronger than Nali’s, if she truly confronted Nali to bring her and her sisters down the mountain, could she withstand Nali, who was actively pursuing her and Elise?
Thus, facing such a scene just now, she had actually retreated weakly.
Just like the most despised behavior in Sardinian culture, she actually… ran away.
She ran like mad and quickly arrived at the bottom level of Parasol Tree. She was gasping for breath, her vision started to blacken, but still, she escaped back to her lab like a tortoise.
At this moment, the level assigned for her and her sisters had no other people, only the subhumans of the six clans of Parasol Tree watched her run by. When Fisher was absent, Paz took her class and went out to experiment with the newly created mechanisms, even Old Jack had gone.
This conveniently provided the weak Sardinian woman with a quiet “shell” to dodge.
“Hahaha.”
The white ponytail she had tied on her forehead swayed gently behind her as she pushed open the door to her lab and closed it. Then she painfully half-kneeled on the ground, gritting her teeth to catch her breath, trying to shake off the image she had just witnessed.
However, this wish only made the scene in her mind clearer and even richer than what she saw.
Now, the image in her mind had started to warped, tinted with the colors of a Sardinian.
Alagina seemed to see Valentina proudly holding Fisher in her arms, looking back at her at the door, and tightening Fisher with her wings. Meanwhile, Fisher looked coldly at her from Valentina’s embrace, even with a hint of disdain, as if mocking her for having no backbone.
“…”
“Zizizi… Welcome back, Alagina. What’s wrong? You look unwell. According to the readings, your heart rate has reached 180 beats per minute; are you…?”
At this moment, a round metal ball floated in from the interior of the lab, emitting an emotional electronic voice.
“David, what should I do?”
“Sorry, David doesn’t understand; what should you do?”
Alagina held her heart, looked at the ground in a somewhat dejected manner, yet her eyes still carried unwillingness.
“I’ve clearly been able to create so many powerful mechanisms under your guidance. I’ve clearly become even better compared to before. But why, why do I feel so powerless in front of Fisher? Facing those women competing with me, no matter how I refuse to back down, it seems like I can’t defeat them. Young Valentina is like this, and that Renee is too; what am I…?”
“Didi…”
David tilted its head in mid-air, pausing for a moment before saying, “Perhaps Alagina is just looking too far ahead, only seeing what hasn’t been achieved, while forgetting what you have already obtained. During this time, you have firmly established your footing at Parasol Tree with your mechanism technology, and your understanding of mechanisms has nearly caught up to some Holy Spawn engineers; these are significant achievements.”
“But it’s still not enough.”
“Didi… For David to speak bluntly, Alagina, from the prolonged listening to your confessions, a conclusion has been reached. It seems you have always regarded Mr. Fisher Benavides as a man from your hometown, but in reality, he is also an aggressor in emotions just like you. Alagina, you have always thought you are competing against other women, but unknowingly, it’s not those women who are your competitors, but rather Mr. Fisher Benavides himself.”
“What do you mean?”
Alagina looked up in confusion, as if it was the first time she realized this concept.
“Didi… What I mean is, is it possible that for a long time, the real competitor between you and those women hasn’t been the women themselves, but Mr. Fisher Benavides?”
“…I… I won’t allow you to say that about him.”
“Didi, David is just being factual.”
Although Alagina once again expressed her classic phrase, this time it appeared even weaker than any previous occasions.
After being silent for a moment, Alagina hesitated and opened her mouth again, “Does that mean if I have a child, everything will be fine?”
“The Sardinian mentality is inappropriate, Alagina. Sardinians tying children to Nali men is like how Nali men tie children to other Nali men. Moreover, even so, using children to threaten Sardinian men seems contemptible?”
“…”
There was nothing to be done.
Alagina went silent again, her Sardinian mindset had become a sort of shackles, leaving her unsure of what to do.
Did that mean she had to force Fisher somehow? Deep down, she wasn’t willing to do that, and it seemed she had never been his match anyway?
“Didi… Actually, in David’s view, Alagina, you’ve always lacked a sense of security, which stems from your perception of being Mr. Fisher Benavides’s primary and destined partner. But based on the information you provided, it seems you’ve been the third party interfering in his affairs with others.”
“I…”
“Didi, don’t rush, Alagina. David has no ethical or moral condemnation; rest assured. What I mean is, as a third party interfering in someone else’s relationship, you must have enough aggressive awareness. Yet beforehand, you despised this approach due to your perspective. Your ‘struggle’ has merely been to regard Fisher as your primary partner, preventing others from snatching him away.
“And as a third party interfering in someone else’s relationship, your aggression needs to be more proactive and strategic, unconsciously drawing Fisher away from the other women possessing him. Make him think more about you and dismiss the other women. In Sardinia, a third party only targets males and never females as competition; this is your limitation, Alagina.”
Alagina opened her mouth, seeming as if she had unlocked a new world through David’s words.
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(End of Chapter)
