No, it didn't matter if this person was related to the Tide Empire or not.
The reason that the Merman King brought out this person must mean that he was planning on using this person to negotiate something with them.
The Tide Emperor had no idea what he would want to negotiate, but he knew that it wouldn't be a good thing.
It would never be a good thing if someone was pulled out like this.
But why?
Why did the Merman King suddenly do something that would clearly hurt the relationship between them?
Did something happen that the Merman Empire didn't hesitate to break their relationship like this?
The Tide Emperor was deeply bothered by this since the link to the Merman Empire was the greatest thing that the Tide Empire was relying on. While they wouldn't lose everything that they had if they lost that connection to the Merman Empire, it would still hurt them very much to lose that connection.
