"She tried her best to remain calm. but she couldn't the feeling of guilt completely wash over her."
Chapter 82: Merfolk
Suzue stared at the woman laying silently at the bed.
she calmly rubs her hair and sat on the bed er sister is laying and stared at the interior of the room.
The wall are painted in blue and the furniture were plain white. they are inside of one of the inns in the nero.
They went back when their ship that was attacked by the kraken was damaged by its tentacles causing it to sink.
fortunately, a ship happens to be returning that day and they saw them starting to sink.
"Woman, someone is searching for you" suzue stared at the boy who's standing outside the room.
It's been a month since she met the kid and his height is still smaller than the average height of his age.
even though suzue doesn't say it but she's worried to the growth of the kid.
she can even pick him up without everyone's suspicion that he'd passed the age where he needed to be carried.
suzue picked him up and walk downstairs.
halfway on the stairs she saw a woman with beautiful shiny black hair that is tied neatly into a bun.
she seems to notice her gaze causing her to turn towards suzue.
"Rose" she greeted the woman who smiled at her in sadness.
"i talked to henry and he wouldn't disclose any information about my people"
"why are you so desperate to find your fellow mermaids?" suzue didn't want to be rude or anything.
She just asked out of her curiosity.
"so you haven't found it yet?"
suzue didn't react and just sat down opposite of her and said, "I am not a God nor a genius who can immediately figure out your identity"
Suzue asking her about it is already kind enough on her side. she hates helping people ad doesn't really like associating herself with them.
There's a reason why everyone called her arrogant cold beauty on her past life.
Rose purse her lips and sigh. she remembered the confuse face henry has when she was asking about the whereabouts of her people.
"I'm not just some half blood. you probably haven't heard about it so i'm sharing it. Before this mess begun. The merfolk and townsfolk aren't actually standing on the same ground.
The nero is still divided into two. The merfolk owns the oceans and sea and the humans owns the land.
The daughter of the king of merfolk accidentally fell in love with a human. she made an excuse of observing the land just to meet the man she saw.
The pure bloods cannot transform their tails into feet because they don't have the blood of a human so when she wet towards the land the man she loved saw her and got frightened.
She coax him and the man fell in love of her beauty. just like every men who fell in love using their visual.
then they got married. When the merfolk heard it they were hesitant at first. but when they saw how the human took care of their princess they didn't hesitate any further.
the princess and the human lived in the land together happily and had a baby after a few months.
A few years after that. the princess who decided to reside on the land started to drought because of the lack of water. the man wanted to revive her so her beauty would appear once again but unfortunately the mermaid didn't agreed thinking that the man would accept her for whatever appearance she had.
the she started deteriorating, the bones on her face and body started to show, her pale white skin turned gray and yellow. her skin started wrinkling. she started resembling a woman in her 80s.
The man was disgusted. all he wanted was to have a beauty in his arms. then behind the woman's back he mess around with different mermaids.
their beauty isn't comparable to the former appearance of his wife but they are much better than his wife now. so he didn't care.
the king knows about all his misdeeds but didn't said anything and remain silent. hiding in his castle.
because of his greed and lust he then decided to capture ever merfolk. the mermaids will be serving him and the brothel. the mermans will be auctioned and sell. to make them grovel he need to wake up the merfolk's nemesis. the kraken.
And he succeed."
Suzue is once again astonish. She doesn't know why they would immediately tell her a story when she just simply asked. this made her think like she's in a game and this people are NPC.
she laugh at that thought and shook her head mentally. she's starting to turn like hadley.
"the child of the mermaid... is me. i am the first half blood"
Suzue already expected this outcome so she didn't seem surprise. but what surprise her the most is that the story resembles little mermaid a bit.
but she didn't commented anything about this history that seems to be a more twisted dark fairy tale of hans christian's little mermaid.
suzue felt the depress aura around the woman. she didn't felt any sympathy and even have a feeling of making it worse... so she did.
"Henry really didn't know anything. he isn't part of the imprisonment of the merfolk"
She saw how rose flinch at her revelation. but stayed firm and stared at her in doubt.
"That's impossible. she's the most favored son of the lord. he must be hiding it really well that even you couldn't find any flaw in his lies"
suzue stared at the woman's desperate face. she sorted at her mind and just lazily smiled at her.
"Henry might be the most favored but among his siblings, he's the most hated. i am certain that the lord isn't the one behind the imprisonment of the mermaids. The lord is wise, he won't want the wrath of the Avaleon duke wouldn't he?"
Rose felt her heart beating rapidly when she remember how unhappy henry felt. her hand is sweating as she think of a reason to justified her heartless rejection towards the innocent young lad.
when she stared at the woman sitting in front of her she was petrified staring at the woman in front of her. she have a feeling that she's having fun at the expression she's making and the reaction she's openly showing at her.
She tried her best to remain calm. but she couldn't the feeling of guilt completely wash over her.