Chapter 234 – West Coast Chronicles (2)
“Does this make sense?”
Eve’s voice her was full of displeasure. Next to Eve was Selu. I was sitting in the carriage with Sellu in my arms. Sellu hummed in my arms and glanced at Eve.
“Why. Would you like to change seats?”
“No thanks? Or rather, I wear shoes to hide my feet, but what is Mama thinking? What if I get hurt by people on the West Coast?”
“Hehe, Eve who cares about Mom. She is also a filial daughter.”
Sellu tried to drown her Eve’s words her with her laughter. But Eve did not go over easily. She questioned and listened for practical reasons.
“Don’t turn around. What are you going to do? Huh? Mom, did you get seriously hurt? Mom doesn’t like being criticized by other people either. Humans wouldn’t like Mama going to the West Coast like this. Why are you trying to do things we don’t like each other?”
“Why? Either way, I’m sure I’m the most helpful right now, right? All the mermaids there are the ones who followed me.”
“That is a thing of the past. My mom said she would kill with me, she sent them all to the West Coast.”
Selu laughed at those words and said.
“Hehe. Surely it was. I knew then and there that you would die.”
“What do you mean?”
Eve reacted a little sharply to her cellu’s words. Said Selou, pouring Eve’s anger out of her.
“It is literally. You die, and I die too. I had many dreams like that back then. One day, a girl who infiltrated as a sailor ripped off all my fins. When I opened my eyes, you were already captured and brutally tortured, and then it was my turn. And die just like that Until I met Lucius, that was how I thought our future would be.”
Eve closed her mouth at her words and looked at Sellu. I didn’t have the time to intervene in this mother-daughter conversation. Selu, who was the leader of the mermaids, did not seem to have a deep grudge against humans, but I understood a little why she was following Eve in her murder and rape her.
“What the fuck are you talking about? When you say that, it seems like you did it to die with me.”
Eve shook her head and said, uneasy about Sellu’s words to her. Selou said calmly without changing her expression her.
“Then no? It is the natural nature of living things for a mother to live for her daughter. It doesn’t matter the means or the end. To be honest, I enjoyed the middle part as well. I thought it wouldn’t be bad to die. Because I raised you I am also responsible for your death.”
“I was never raised by my mother. Didn’t my childhood be with my real mother who was sashimi in the slave market?”
“Hehe, you still hate humans. Right?”
Eve clearly did not want to continue this conversation. He looked at me and winked at me as if telling me to cover Sellu’s mouth her. But I just shrugged my shoulders and didn’t engage in the conversation. Eve clicked her tongue and said to Selu.
“Any. Let me say I hate you a little. To be honest, mermaids have suffered a lot from humans, so I don’t know why they have to put up with it. Trying to deal with things in this way just because they ‘re fighting back now is also damn good. Groom. Even the groom knows. Resentment is like a scar. Every time I look in the mirror, I think of it and drive people crazy.”
“Right.”
I briefly affirmed. Eve continued her words, pressing her own eyes, which had become her only child her.
“Fuck, I don’t even know how to persuade you. I’m a kid who took revenge the way mermaids do now, so am I qualified? Mom is. Mom did too. Am I qualified to convince my mother of the mermaids that live on the west coast?”
I hugged Sellu tightly. Sellu was squeezed like a doll in my arms. She said while touching my cheek.
“Persuasion requires more ‘something’ to understand than qualifications. Humans are malicious, always killing us. It’s just the opposite this time. This time, humans met a typhoon. How to convince the mermaids who once realized they could kill humans? Wouldn’t the mermaids stop killing if they gave them something plausible?
Those kids aren’t homicidal maniacs. It’s just scary Because they are afraid of the humans who have always killed them like a huge storm. I just started killing them first. I know you won’t come if you scare me.”
From those words, I was able to get a hint to resolve the dispute with the mermaids. What Selu implicitly demanded was a peace treaty between mermaids and humans. A peace treaty banning mermaid trading and mermaid hunting, at least on the West Coast. It was a story about using this as bait to convince the mermaids. I asked.
“Can a peace treaty stop the fighting?”
“I don’t know. To be honest, since the kids weren’t such violent kids, there must have been something that changed, but I can’t figure out what.”
Selu said with a frown on her face. Eve frowned and looked at the scenery outside her window. I continued running down the street comparing the scenery outside the window with the map. The wagon we rode in was scheduled to stop at a dungeon before reaching the west coast city. It was because it was my opinion that it was better to strengthen my strength in the dungeon and go because I didn’t know what might happen. The carriage that carried us like that moved forward, leaving complicated thoughts behind.
The place where the wagon arrived was a stem of a huge mountain range facing the sea. I found an ugly old tree in the trunk. There was an old forest behind the old tree, and the map said there was a cave somewhere in the forest. Eve hugged Selou, and I grabbed the mace. Said Selu.
“I can crawl.”
“It’s okay. If a suspicious person comes out, he will use her mother her as a weapon.”
“Hehe.”
Eve’s joking comment made Selou contemplative and reached out her hand to me. I pretended not to know such a cellu and slowly opened my distance. Eve giggled at the sight, and Sellu said.
“Too bad. Both are bad. Infidels.”
“Sometimes you say you don’t want to hear your mother-in-law.”
As I muttered, Selou shook her head and said,
“It’s different from that and this.”
I walked a little forward and looked behind me. The driver hid the wagon well in the woods and gave her thumbs up. There didn’t seem to be any people around, so it didn’t seem like a big problem to visit for a while. I started moving forward again following the map.
“Groom. By the way, where is the cave?”
Eve was cutting here and there with a curved blade to find the cave I was looking for. However, at best, they only cut off the head of a snake or a giant wasp, and there was no noticeable income. I too was moving forward, tearing off vines with my mace, but finding the cave was not unusually difficult.
“Ah, why is it so hard to find? The explanation is too vague. Do you think this point is correct?”
“Where, where.”
Eve looked at the map with me. On the map, there was a cave icon above the forest mark, and an explanation was written, “A cave in a deep forest, starting from an old tree.” Eve looked back and forth between me and the map, then got annoyed.
“I drew a fucking map. Did the dragon draw it?”
“But you shouldn’t curse at my mother.”
“Damn it, since when did a dragon become a mother?”
“If you breastfeed, you are a mother.”
“…Sometimes I don’t understand what my husband thinks. Is that why you’re lucky?”
“You still love me?”
“…I know. Seeing that I still love you, I must be crazy too.”
“Hehe.”
By the way, although Erina has breast milk, she lacks the power to become a mother, so she was just a cow. We stopped chatting and started exploring the cave again. How long did you walk through the wide forest? The place we passed was devastated as if a huge wild boar had passed by. It was thanks to cutting down all the trees and vines that were obstructing the view. Eve said, looking back at the spot she had passed.
“Groom. It hurts just because you cut down a tree, doesn’t it?”
“It’s okay. What about the cave?”
“Could this be here?”
There was a cave in front of us. It was a cave I found after cutting down trees for about 1km. I looked around and cautiously lit the cave with divine power. Eve and Seluga looked inside the cave and frowned. There was nothing in the cave but a lake. Inside the huge cave, there was only a lake and a wall.
A deep hole was visible beyond the illuminated surface of the water, but it was impossible to determine how deep it was with the naked eye. Eve said.
“Can you throw some light on it?”
“Where…”
I threw the ball of light into the water. The white light flickered and quickly sawed into the cave below. At the same time, I created another light to brighten the area around the cave.
“Oh, I see.”
The falling light allowed us to see more detail inside the cave. The cave was shaped like a huge pot. The part we were standing at was the entrance to the jar, and when we looked down and looked inside, the artificial round interior was filled with water.
“It’s fucking big.”
Like Eve’s murmur, the scale was so great that we felt very small. Even though the sphere shines in the water with a very bright light, there are parts that are dimly lit, and the part that we can see is only a part due to the presence of the entrance.
And the moment the light hits the floor. Darkness came suddenly.
“What the fuck.”
Startled, I lit the light again and threw it into the water. Again, the light slowly descended, illuminating the interior of the cave. There was nothing left where the light had been. Me, Eve, and Seludo, I lowered my head even more to see what had turned off the light and brought my body closer. At the same time, I increased the brightness of the light to its maximum.
The cave was so high that the debt that looked like a small fingernail looked like the size of my fist, so I poured divine power into it, and the scene inside the cave came in clearly.
And we saw
“Fuck!”
“Oh, what the fuck!”
“Hey!!”
We were horrified and had no choice but to withdraw from the entrance. At the same time, huge tentacles sprouted. Something pitch-black rose toward the entrance of the cave, then disappeared.
“Saw?”
I turned to Eve, not wanting to believe what I saw. Eve nodded her head, her face white. Selu also nodded with a drawn expression.
The moment the light turned on, we faced huge eyes. Eyes as big as Ahildern’s castle. Its huge eyes stared intently at us.
“… Do you want to wake up later?”
Eve silently nodded her head.
