Chapter 236 – West Coast Chronicles (4)
Fortunately, Lord Alu was not an idiot. As soon as he saw me, he was silent. It was clear that he was comparing my appearance with the candidate pool of people he could dispatch from the kingdom right now in his head. He sent an expert to solve the mermaid problem in the kingdom, and that’s the half-elf. And in this kingdom, the only famous half-elf is the ‘Copper of Mating’. Therefore, I, who is now in front of the lord, is the mating priest.
“…Excuse me.”
Even though he was drunk, Yeong-ju wisely banged his head on his desk and apologized. Judging by his appearance his, he seemed quite drunk, so I decided to forgive him just once. The public sentiment in this neighborhood was too vicious to even break the lord’s head.
“It’s a small person’s thing to take seriously what you say while drunk. What are you worrying about, lord, since you’ve been drinking since daytime? If you’re worried about Yeongji’s work, you can rest assured that the perfect solver is here.”
The lord’s gaze was on Sellu. He then looked at Eve’s scaly feet of hers. He was wearing shoes, but his scaly ankles were clearly visible. Even while drunk, Yeongju stuttered open his mouth to ask.
“They…”
“This is my wife.”
“Ah yes…”
Silence ensues again. The servant quietly closed the door and left. I felt like I had to move on with the story. I asked.
“I heard that the damage caused by the mermaid attack is serious.”
“Yes. That’s right. Every village is attacked by mermaids and monsters.”
“Mermaids and monsters, that’s a serious problem. By the way, a monster?”
I couldn’t help but tilt my head at the word monster. After the death of the demon king, monsters disappeared from the continent. But there are monsters left? The lord nodded as if he had noticed my doubt.
“Yes. It’s a monster. Mermaids and monsters crawled out of the sea and attacked us. Monsters, they were very, very terrifying. Eyeballs protruding and strong limbs. If I attached limbs to a fish, would it become that kind of people? They had no means of fighting other than the knights of our land. The soldiers were slaughtered and taken to the sea again.”
I looked at Sellu. Selou shook her head and said.
“I don’t know. It’s a monster I don’t have anything to do with people like that. They even eat mermaids.”
“So when the demon king was resurrected, I killed all the people I met.”
Eve helped. A sea monster. What is it? There were so many things to say that I couldn’t even get a feel for it. However, since both Eve and Sellu were said to have kept their distance from the monsters, I couldn’t get a sense of it. After thinking that it would be nice if it was a female monster with a pussy, the lord said.
“It was absolutely terrifying.”
“Is there anything unusual about it?”
At my question, the lord frowned. Her face her, flushed red from the alcohol, swelled up like it was going to explode, then shrunk a bit again. Eve looked at the lord with a reluctant face. Yeongju thought for a while, then opened the drawer and took out a thick stack of papers. I averted my gaze and secretly peeked at the contents of the document.
[Attack Damage to Mermaids and Monsters]
It was a damage report. It seemed that he was trying to refer to the victim testimony. I asked another question while the lord rummaged.
“It was known to the world as a mermaid attack, but isn’t it more shocking to see the reappearance of monsters that disappeared after the demon king disappeared? I wonder why only mermaid attacks are known.”
“Because monsters have recently appeared. Besides, there was an obvious superior/lower relationship between the monsters and the mermaids…”
“A hierarchical relationship?”
“It is said that monsters carry mermaids when moving on the sea.”
“Why?”
“What are you going to do?”
Eve and Sellu asked at the same time. Yeongju looked at the two and was startedled, then cleared his mind again and opened his mouth.
“I do not know.”
At the words of the lord, Eve shook her head and asked.
“No, what are you doing that for? You can just swim and go.”
“Is it comfortable? You were on a boat too. Same with Sellu.”
“Is it?”
“It was comfortable to take a boat.”
Sellu nodded her head at those words. Eve also nodded her head with a serious expression. Said Selu.
“But I don’t understand why they ride monsters to raid. If you just submerge and go, you won’t be able to sneak in without anyone noticing. But why are you going that way? Besides, what is it like riding a monster? What are you riding on? A big seahorse?”
“That’s why they look like humans…”
Yeongju picked up a pen and started drawing on the white area of the paper. We concentrated and looked at the painting drawn by the lord.
“Wow, I can’t draw dirty. What the hell is this what monster are you doing? Are you a monster? Aren’t they dragging people who can swim?”
At Eve’s words, Sellu nodded her head. I was also at a loss because I couldn’t infer the identity of the monster just by looking at this picture. There was a mysterious picture of humans made of sticks carrying a stiff mermaid made of sticks. It was like a bier or a palanquin. Yeongju pointed to the picture and started explaining again.
“In this way, the monsters floated the mermaid above the water and attacked us. After rushing in like that, the monsters first throw the mermaid to the land, then the monsters take out their weapons and scatter.”
“Throwing?”
Eve looked at Sellu. She must have remembered the mermaid throw she said as a habit. Sellu sticks out her tongue and frowns at Eve’s gaze. The lord nodded at Eve’s question.
“Throw it ashore, then draw your weapon right away.”
“Why are you throwing it? Are you the owner?”
Eve wondered. I was troubled. Why throw throw the owner? Are you not loyal enough to throw your master?
“How did you get back?”
“When returning, the mermaids headed for the mountains and the monsters swam to the sea. So our knights and guards checked the mountain side for mermaid habitats, but there were none. I don’t think they ran away to the valley or the lake, but it’s unknown why they didn’t go with the monsters and scattered separately.”
“What is that. It’s so weird Going to the mountain without going into the water is too strange.”
Eve grumbled. She was just as weird as she said. Why didn’t you go into the water? When returning, they dared to go separately, the monsters dared to throw the mermaids, and the mermaids dared to ride the monsters. Why? What is the benefit of that? Why don’t mermaids swim? Are mermaids right in the first place?
“Mermaid, are you sure?”
“There is a record of capturing our merchant ships at sea, and some survivors of the merchant ships testified that mermaids attacked them and took them away. No one knows how to tell mermaids apart like sailors. A mermaid for sure.”
“Then why do you not want to touch the water?”
I couldn’t understand even thinking about cancer. Why do you hate being touched by water? They swam perfectly on the sea, captured ships, and kidnapped sailors, but when they came to land, they came up in a way that did not touch the water as much as possible?
“Can I see the scene of the damage?”
“Yes, I can see, but… Could you please wait a moment?”
The lord, probably still awake, put his head on his head and frowned. He staggered across his room, opened the shutters in the corner of the room, and pulled out a wheelchair. Then he opened it and pointed at Eve.
“Burn it and cover the fins. The perception of mermaids in the field is the worst, so there is nothing I can do about it.”
I glanced at Sellu. Selou shrugged her shoulders and she said.
“It can’t be helped.”
Said the lord.
“Then I’ll bring you a dress you can wear.”
Lord Alu was a surprisingly good guy.
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Selou in a dress looked like a doll. Porcelain figurines made for ornamental purposes. Wouldn’t a doll on display at a Western antique store look like this if you put it in a wheelchair? The fins slightly sticking out at the end of the skirt fluttered. Eve seemed to be happy to see her mother’s new look her, so she redid her dress and tidied it up. Sellu seemed very uncomfortable being our ornamental doll. She said scratching her clothes on her.
“Let’s finish this quickly. This is inconvenient.”
“Why don’t you just wear it? It’s very cute.”
“Right. Cute. Sellu. It’s the cutest thing in the world.”
“Hehe, that’s nice, but mermaids don’t wear clothes.”
“It wouldn’t hurt to be the first mermaid to wear clothes.”
“I’ll think about it.”
We stepped out The lord was stretched out in her carriage. The snoring sound came all the way from here. The attendant bowed her head and said,
“Sorry. Lately, the owner has been in a lot of trouble with the case of Master Alou Ted… I will guide you instead.”
The lord remained unnoticed while we followed her attendants to the field. It looked like he was drunk, so I decided not to make it an issue. On the way Eve dragged Sellu’s wheelchair. Like an older sister taking care of her sickly younger sister, I spontaneously put on a hearty smile. Eve said to Sellu.
“Mom. Shall I rub her shoulders?”
“Hold me down.”
Selu leaned her back against her back and closed her eyes. Eve began to massage her shoulders as she pushed her wheelchair with her body. In the meantime, a desolate and bloody atmosphere hung over the villages we passed. The farmer wielding a scythe in the dry land glanced at us, then moved his gaze back to the field.
Carts containing corpses passed by us. The smell of rotating corpses and flies brushed past us. The more I walked, the stronger the corpse smell. The smell of blood, corpses that could not be cleaned, women who went mad while weeping, and a deserted pier caught my eye. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the place was hell. When I turned my eyes, there was a corpse, and even if I blocked my nose, I could smell the rotating corpse. Said the attendant.
“This is where the most recent raid took place. It used to be a decent fishing village, but due to the attack of the monsters, this shape has been ruined.”
“It is terrible.”
I shook my head and said. The damage was more serious than I thought.
“Kheuk.”
“What?”
Started by the sudden scream, I turned my head. Eve and Sellu, the servants who guided us, looked around with bewildered faces. On one side of the pier someone was trying to climb up. We held our breath and watched it. An apparently human hand grabbed the pier and pulled the body up.
“Kehheuk!”
However, the hand that raised it was not a person.
“What the fuck!”
It was a monster An unknown monster.
“It’s a mermaid’s underling!”
The attendant shouted. I also shouted.
“I wasn’t expecting a monster like this!”
“Kehheuk!”
