Vladstin immediately grabbed the child that suddenly turned into a killer shark before it could gobble up poor Prince Leron!
"Ofelia, Ofelia! Calm down, dear, your tail is hitting me!" Vladstin chuckled, handling her like how fishermen handle fish. "This is not not-friend. This is our friend, so your friend too."
"Sword! I can smell it! He spilled so much blood with a sword!" Ofelia continued thrashing to attack him.
Sangfroid translated it, then spoke. "No, he hasn't. He must have used a sword that spilled blood before, but he means no harm. Keep calm, Ofelia."
Leron's eyes were wide with fear from the appearance of the mermaid. "T-That's not a mermaid..... That's a siren....."
He had read about them in the library where he spent a lot of his time back in the Palace of Crescentia, secretly writing letters and sending them using the carrier dove, Poel.
Sirens are known to despise swordsmen because of their myth with the Sea Slasher.
