Chapter 45 – Between Knee and Scales (3)
Sellu was very kind to me. He couldn’t believe that just a short while ago he had fought a life-or-death duel. The next morning, when I entered the bath to really wash myself, Sellu looked at me with expectant eyes.
“What’s wrong?”
“What is it? Didn’t you come here from morning? I thought, of course, that you came here from morning because you fell in love with mermaids.”
I frowned and shook my head. Sellu giggled as she leaned against the bathtub as if I was having fun doing it. I asked Selu while lying in the bath.
“Is there anything you want to eat? I can’t release it into the river, but I’ll try my best to be considerate.”
“Hehe, give Eve something delicious rather than me.”
“Because Eve is a sinner, she cannot be treated like that on her own until she goes through the reformation process. I am the lord.”
“You’re also a religious person who has sex with mermaids.”
“Even from a religious person’s point of view, reformation is a necessary process. Things aren’t going very well because Eve isn’t as friendly as you are.”
“You can satisfy yourself with that stuff.”
Sellu pointed at my dick and said. I looked at Selu and shook her head. Sellu looked at me and asked.
“What’s the matter?”
“Why are you so kind?”
“What?”
“I’ve got you both, and Eve’s not sure what’s going to happen to me now, so why are you so kind. What am I supposed to say now? Shouldn’t you rebel a little or show some hate to me? You Say you don’t like humans. No matter how much you saved your life thanks to me.” Even if you said you were saved, I’m human too. Why are you so friendly?”
Yesterday I fell for the mermaid pussy and didn’t think about it, but when I think about it, I did. If Eve or Sellu were human, they would have to be disrespectful, but Sellu was kind to me. It was a little strange to me that mermaids were not a submissive species, but that they behaved so obediently after losing once.
“I hate humans. But what can I say? I hate them, but I don’t want to take my anger out that much.”
“You are saying something strange.”
“So, to me, humans are like storms. Storms that meet while swimming in the sea. Have you ever encountered a disaster and lost friends or children? Little children and inexperienced mermaids die like that. Sometimes.”
I felt bad thinking about the corpse of a mermaid floating in the sea for no reason. I unknowingly crumpled my expression, then corrected it so as not to show it again. Sellu raised the corners of her mouth slightly, as if she read the disgust on my face.
“Humans are the same. If you live in the sea and meet a human, you die that way. Do you know how humans hunt us? If we’re swimming in the water, they shoot us with a harpoon or net gun at a spot where we might be If you ask me how it feels, a hook suddenly comes down from the sky and snatches you off one by one Do you know how many times you’ve experienced this? Then you hate it, and then you’re resigned at the end. You’ll do it. You’ll face reality.”
Selu ran her hand over my shoulder as she leaned back against her bathtub. Her skinny, white arms her were moving seductively.
“Even if you sink the ship and kill the crew, it won’t last long. Other hunters will come. Killing them one by one will build our notoriety. If you kill them, stronger ones will come endlessly. It’s a vicious cycle. That’s why humans are like a storm to me. I can’t stop it. As long as I have a limit, I can’t get rid of it. Hehe… Isn’t it fun?”
“Are you resigned?”
Sellu shook her head. She said, pointing to the door of her bath.
“So, if you really wanted to avoid it, you could have run away to the very far sea where humans can’t come. You can create a paradise only for mermaids and live there singing and swimming every day. It’s like finding an island where storms don’t come. But why did you ask me to be so nice to you?”
I nodded. The story that she had been spinning around was finally coming to a conclusion.
“I can live like that, but Eve can’t live like a mermaid.”
“Eve is also a half-mermaid. She’s a good swimmer.”
“But you’re not a mermaid.”
“You draw a line.”
“We have to draw the line. Eve can’t do anything that a mermaid can do.”
“But Eve is a mermaid, right? She gets stronger in the water, and her blood her is blue.”
“But she can’t lay eggs during her fertile period, she can’t mimic her voice or sing a mermaid’s song. She can’t speak underwater, and she can’t breathe underwater because she doesn’t have gills. Eve just swims far better than humans by our standards. It’s just that I’m good at it.”
“Eve will be sad to hear.”
“I can’t help it. It’s true. Eve gets angry every time I say this. She claims to be a mermaid over and over again. Maybe that’s why she caught and killed the hunters more viciously. “
“You don’t think Eve is your daughter?”
“No. Eve is my daughter no matter what she looks like. Even if she is Eve can’t swim, I think she deserves to be my daughter just because she inherited mermaid blood.”
“If you accept it, that’s enough. You’re probably the head of Mermaid Island.”
“If I accept, will Eve become a mermaid?”
Sellu tilted her head. It was like he didn’t understand what I was saying. I answered without thinking.
“Yes.”
“You’re a lord too. Then you know that whatever you accept won’t go your way.”
“But you’re the boss. In the mermaid ecology, the boss is a bit restricted in his authority, is n’t it?”
“Just because you’re the boss, you can’t tell the other kids that they’re not. It’s one thing for me to think of Eve as my daughter, and for the other kids to accept that Eve is a mermaid is another matter.”
“That’s strange. If she had Eve, she would be able to send all the decent hunters to the goal. Then would n’t it be better for the mermaids if she stayed with Eve?”
Selu started laughing again at those words. Sellu’s laughter echoed in her cramped bathroom. She asked Sellu, who laughed for a long time.
“If the cannon in your territory were to talk, would you treat him as a human? Even if you were injured, would the people of your territory treat him as a human?”
It was a problem I hadn’t considered. If a Daepo in my estate suddenly speaks like a human, should I treat it as a human? After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn’t open my mouth easily. If you think about it, there was a person in front of you who couldn’t be treated as a human being even though he was talking right away.
“Hehe…That’s right. Eve can live with a mermaid, but she can never become a mermaid. But she can become a human.”
“If you have a personality like Eve, you wouldn’t be able to get along with humans. You hate humans.
“Eve can do things humans can, and she’s a better swimmer than other humans.”
“It’s logical. But it lacks emotion. I don’t think Eve will be very happy with it.”
“But it’s human beings that Eve has to be tied to in the end. That’s the only option left for Eve now. Are you going to send Eve to the dew of her executioner?”
“No.”
She had sex with fish too, so there was nothing wrong with her being half fish. I was thinking of making Eve mine. Being such a pretty and useful kid was well worth it.
“That’s why I’m treating you kindly. Please be nice to our Eve. The only thing I can do for you is this body. Hehe…”
Selu stuck out her tongue and shook her head. She had been thinking about it before, but compared to her first impression, Sellu was a mermaid whose brains worked better than I thought. I immersed myself in her bath up to my neck and exhaled. Bubbles popped up. I spread out for a while and then got up.
“Do you want to soap?”
Sellu asked. I couldn’t help but ask.
“Where did you hear about soaping? Do you usually apply soap when you go into seawater?”
“When Eve first came to Mermaid Island, she told me that, and she said that she was frustrated because she couldn’t take a shower.
It seemed that he had a cleaner personality than I thought. When I finished my bath and left the door, Sellu said.
“Oh, give me some food too. I’m good at anything. Something delicious.”
“Yes, got it.”
“And take good care of Eve. Should I be good to you?”
Seluga grinned and asked again. I was going to be very nice to Eve as much as I was asked. It’s time for body-to-body education.
In order to focus on my housework from the morning, I ordered the attendant to feed Eve and Sellu each meal. The attendant asked me with a very confused expression if this was the first time I had fed a mermaid.
“Lord. What do mermaids eat?”
“I eat anything, so give me anything.”
“Ah, then the food waste here…”
“…You want to take food waste to my bath?”
“No. I’m sorry.”
Occasionally, these young attendants often do shitty things that I don’t talk about. I’ll have to catch up on this later and cover it all once, but right now I’m busy with Sellu and Eve. I looked at the two remaining vial bottles and thought. They say it doesn’t work on mermaids, but wouldn’t it work on half-mermaid Eve?
I finished the last paperwork and moved to the dungeon. It’s an exciting body talk time.
