Chapter 547: 63.Ilois

“Huh? Uh, I’d like to ask Mr. Fisher for a favor… would that be okay?”

According to Emhardt’s definition, the Moon Rabbit Species should be one of the relatively intelligent races among the Six Clans. Otherwise, the Phoenix King’s youngest daughter, the Moon Princess, wouldn’t be so fond of them. But why does this Moon Rabbit here seem not so clever?

Fisher, looking at Ilois who clearly didn’t grasp the underlying message of his words, truly couldn’t figure out how this not-so-bright little rabbit had managed to survive up until now without being deceived by others.

“Don’t worry, come over here and have some deer meat. We can talk about it slowly.”

“Oh… I see, thank you, Mr. Fisher, and thanks for the Mother Goddess’s blessing.”

She made a prayer gesture to the Mother Goddess, then obediently sat down in front of the fire Fisher had started, her eyes glistening as she stared at the sizzling, fatty deer meat on the fire. When Fisher handed her a hefty skewer of meat, she couldn’t resist and began to gobble it up.

Watching the silly nun gnaw on the meat, Fisher felt he could directly dive into the matter he wanted to study without much trouble, but when he glanced at the lonely church behind her, he abandoned the idea and instead asked,

“You mentioned you had a teacher?”

“Hot hot hot… Ah? Yes, my teacher was Sister Shalu, the original owner of this church, a nun who was very knowledgeable about the scriptures and doctrines. I became a nun under her tutelage… It’s just unfortunate that she was very old and passed away two winters ago.”

“Thud! Thud! Thud!”

The bell behind the church, the Alarm Bell that rang every hour, sounded again. It rang from seven in the morning to seven at night, and in the Creation Scripture, this time signifies the hours when the Mother Goddess’s children walk the earth, holding religious significance.

The rabbit nun’s face didn’t show much sadness, but she stopped chewing the deer meat momentarily. Fisher looked at her modest sitting position, which differed greatly from those of the females from the Sardinia Female Country, and suddenly asked,

“You’re not from Sardinia Female Country.”

“Hehe, you’ve figured it out… But I’ve actually been in Female Country for a long time. I come from the Nebalon Kingdom to the north of Sardinia Female Country, a mid-sized coastal nation.”

She tapped her chin. A contemplative expression flashed across the cute face beneath her nun’s headscarf, as if it were a very distant memory that was not so easy to recall now,

“I remember… uh, my family used to trade on the seas. I often sailed with my father to the Female Country for business, but one time at sea we encountered pirates. My family was killed, and I barely escaped with my life after my father put me on a small boat…”

Nebalon Kingdom, Fisher had heard of it, a religious nation that worships the Frost Phoenix, producing a very delicious sea fish that is a luxury item on the Western Continent. Fisher had tried it once at the Black Mamba Palace, and it was indeed tasty.

It was mentioned before that the nations that worship the Frost Phoenix place a great emphasis on equality and cooperation among all beings, so there the demi-human could work and live just like ordinary Humans. It seemed that Ilois’ family had been trading in cooperation with Humans, only to encounter an attack at sea.

When she was young, she drifted to the shore that Fisher had once reached in a small boat and was taken in by a kind-hearted old nun named Shalu. According to Ilois’ memory, Sister Shalu not only adopted her but also taught her many doctrines of the Mother Goddess Church, and for this reason, Ilois wanted to become a nun to carry on Shalu’s mantle.

Knowing this, Shalu did not refuse her request, even though it was against the original rules of the Church. After all, in the Creation Scripture, the children of the Mother Goddess were only Humans. Who knew if she would mind having another demi-human daughter?

As Fisher listened to her, he took the Creation Scripture from her hand and, upon close examination, realized that this scripture was missing many chapters. Some were due to damaged pages, and more often entire pages were just gone.

It seemed that he would have to write a new copy for her, but the problem was that she couldn’t read Nali Language at all, and Fisher could only manage everyday conversation in Northern Language; he couldn’t recognize the characters, let alone translate them completely.

“This Creation Scripture has many missing parts, and it’s very hard to fill them in. The only option is to write a new copy for you…”

“Huh? But… copying the whole thing would… be very troublesome for Mr. Fisher.”

Ilois’ rabbit ears drooped slightly, and since she was talking, she couldn’t eat the deer meat, so she continued to gesture towards Fisher with the motion of biting the meat.

“Uh-huh, it’s a bit troublesome, but no matter, it’s a good opportunity for me to practice writing in Northern Territory Language, and moreover, I owe a nun many copies of the Creation Scripture that I haven’t written yet… But after I help you copy the Creation Scripture, I have a little favor to ask of you…”

“Eh… a little favor? Is it… very troublesome? I… I don’t know many things, so I might not be of much help to you, Mr. Fisher…”

Fisher cupped his chin, his gaze falling on the pair of soft white rabbit ears bobbing on her head. He suddenly realized that the ears became especially adorable when listening to sounds.

When Humans need to concentrate on a certain sound, they turn their heads towards the direction of the sound, but Moon Rabbits don’t need to do so. Their ears can swivel within a 180-degree radius in the direction they face, which made the ears of the nun in front of him appear quite lively.