Chapter 247 – Lua’s Life in Disgust (5)

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been on Mermaid Island.”

“I know.”

Early moning. Eve confirmed that Lucius was not by her side of her and looked at the cave. Selu was lying on the sandy beach at the beach without saying a word. The fisherman, who slept all night curled up on the deck, rubbed his temples and looked around as soon as morning came. A disturbing atmosphere was rising among the mermaids.

“Boss!”

“Captain!”

Sellu was looking at the horizon, not paying attention to the mermaids. Seeing that she was counting the sunlight on the shore with a nonchalant expression on her face, Eve suddenly felt anxious that Sellu might leave. Because Selu is a mermaid. Essentially, she was a mermaid better suited to the sea than to the pool. She sellu, she now, would n’t she want to stay on this island?

It was very unfortunate and frustrating for her, a mermaid, to be stuck in a swimming pool. Eve knew very well that she had no reason to say that if Sellu left, she would not go. Mermaids were gathering around the cave. Eve wondered what Lucius was up to in the cave, but she decided not to check. Since she said ‘she would solve it through conversation’, she would have solved it through dialogue. Eve spoke to Sellu.

“Mom. What are you thinking now?”

“I thought maybe I was drawing a line.”

Sellu’s voice remained still today. Sellu, who always had a bright voice and laughed like an idiot, had often lowered her voice to speak these days. It was not a good thing that she was often in serious trouble. Eve showed a look of uneasiness at her cellu’s words to her.

She said, “Aren’t you drawing the line? What are you talking about?”

“I thought I shouldn’t be in the mansion. Because it’s a mermaid. Mermaids live with mermaids, and I thought you should live in a mansion.”

“Was the mansion that uncomfortable? After all, isn’t the pool too small?”

Eve looked at her cellu her and she said so. Sellu grinned, as if her Eve’s words her sounded funny.

“The swimming pool is stuffy, but I thought I shouldn’t live in a mansion. Because I felt like a stumbling block. I thought it had to be for people to recognize you as a human being.”

“…So you were thinking of leaving?”

Eve hardened her face and asked Selu. Sellu nodded her head.

“I was thinking that way even before I went to Mermaid Island. It was my responsibility to appease the angry children and to leave them alone. It’s no different than leaving the other children alone in the name of taking care of you. I thought I should stay and take care of it.”

“I am the only mother and daughter.”

“That doesn’t mean the other mermaids become nothing. Eve. You know I can say that you are more precious, but if I have to choose between the two, I have no choice but to think.”

“When I see my mother sometimes, she is affectionate and cold. Why didn’t she tell me? Did she really just want to leave without saying anything?”

“I was going to.”

Eve looked at Sellu. Selou held her own fin and stared at her Eve her. Eve said, frowning at her.

“Then what am I to do? Uh? What will I do if my mom goes away like that? Who am I fooling around with? If she leaves like that because she has a groom or that it will be okay because she has other kids, what am I going to be?”

Sellu was looking at the mermaids. Some mermaids were swimming around the strait with their faces turned white, and other mermaids were patting the fallen fishmen with tears in their eyes. The fishmen with a hole between their foreheads were drooping with empty gazes toward the sky. Said Selu.

“But that wasn’t it. I thought mermaids only accepted mermaids, but it wasn’t. Unlike mermaids, people accept Eve because they have tolerance, but I thought that mermaids are a little closed and cannot accept outsiders. But I was thinking wrong. Eve, when I say I was going to leave, it’s to say I won’t leave you.”

When Eve said that she would not leave, her sadness quickly subsided. Wiping the tears from his face Her, Eve looked back at the beach. He was mad and he was a fool himself. Eve asked.

“So, what conclusion did Mom come to?”

“We didn’t reject outsiders, we just didn’t like humans hurting us. The kids here have accepted Lamia. Rather, you act as if you can’t do without Lamia. Because you protect yourself That’s it. Both mermaids and humans want an existence that embraces them. So are the mermaids here, so am I. So are you.”

Sellu looked at Anne. Ann, her face white, trembled and looked at Sellu and Eve. Said Selou, pointing at her hesitant way to reach her own her from her distance her.

“I was arrogant. From the moment I left Mermaid Island, I didn’t have the right to say anything to those children, but to come back and take care of me. You are so arrogant. And”

Sellu ran to Eve. Startled by her sudden shock her, Eve rolled on her floor. Said Selu, who hugged Eve tightly.

“If I leave you behind, who will a bad-tempered and ferocious mermaid like you complain to?”

“… You really aren’t leaving, are you?”

“Yes. I’m not going anywhere after leaving Eve.”

“Really, are you really not leaving?”

“Hehe, it reminds me of Eve when we were young.”

“Forget about that. Mom was too young back then.”

Sellu held Eve tight and recalled her past her. When she arrived at Mermaid Island in East Esta, Eve was the object of mermaids’ vigilance. It was because even mermaids had never seen a mixed race between a human and a mermaid. There was even talk of expelling Eve from Mermaid Island. She was the one who supported and cared for such Eve.

‘It’s all the same here. They all look at me like a fuck.’

‘Don’t go anyway. If I go here, will I really die? I’ll take care of you. Huh? Swim like a mermaid, how to play with mermaids. I can learn anything if I learn it.’

‘… Don’t talk like a mother. Fuck you.’

‘Are you going to call me mom?’

‘What a fucking year.’

‘Hehe.’

‘Don’t laugh like an idiot! ‘Cause I’m in a fucking bad mood.’

When I think of that time, I smile strangely. She has been like that since the first time we met. Even though she laughed like an idiot, she always had complicated thoughts in her head. Eve murmured, stroking her cellu’s head.

“Mom, don’t go anywhere. Yes?”

“I’m not going. I will live with my daughter for the rest of my life. When Eve becomes her grandmother her, she will make fun of her as a mermaid grandmother.”

Ann came closer to the two of them. Eve stopped stroking Sellu’s hair and lifted her head. Perhaps because she was caught in an unfamiliar scene, she reacted sharply.

“What?”

“I… Mr. Lucius… Uh, where…?”

“I went to talk to your captain? Should I ask the captain?”

Eve said bluntly. Anne shuddered at her with her contemplative face and she wept.

“That’s a lie… Even if you just want to go back… Uh, how are you? Huh? What do you want us to do?”

There was a commotion on the cave side. I could feel the atmosphere of the mermaids frozen. Eve was familiar with the presence she felt in the direction of the cave. Eve and Sellu got up. Anne also turned her head in the direction of her cave. Anne saw the two of them coming out of the cave and she screamed.

“Quaaaaagh!”

Simultaneously, the mermaids began to panic. It was because Lua was being dragged out by Lucius ‘hand her. She had her head down, her own purple hair covering her face her. Lucius said, stroking her lua near her buttocks her.

“Now, say goodbye while watching the mermaids.”

Le Ah waved her hand at the mermaids. The mermaids lay flat or screamed as if they were about to attack Lucius. But she let Le Ag beckon. The fishmen who stayed on the shore came to Ur and separated the mermaids from Lucius. Said Anne, weeping.

“No Le! Why? Uh, why? Why did you come out? We’ll protect you. Yes?”

“…Sorry. I’m going to go here you know that too that you can’t beat humans. Actually, I knew it from the beginning. That there is no hope… I promise I won’t touch you if you follow this person. Rather, they will help you live a safer life than you do now.”

“I hate that!”

Cried Anne crying. She shouted in a determined tone and tried to run through her fish-men. The fishmen could not attack Anne, her mermaid her, but only pushed her back. Le Ah turned her head away even as she wept. Said Anne.

“It was only Le! Not only did he say he wanted to protect us, but he also really protected us! But you want me to send it like this? Are you sacrificing? Do you think we would like that?”

The other mermaids also started pushing the fishmen. Fishmen cannot attack mermaids. Lua looked at the mermaids with a sad expression. Mermaids flocked from all sides and pushed in like a tidal wave. Leah shouted. Her voice was full of weeping.

“Idiots… Are you all going to die then? They’re all going to die! Everyone will be swept away and die. Are you really stupid? If only I die, it’s all over! You all can live happily, that’s all, that’s enough… Tell me if there is an alternative, can you beat the humans?”

No answer came back. They understood very well that even mermaids could not defeat humans. There were no mermaids who refuted Lua’s cry of her. Her solution was terrible, but there was no alternative. The mermaids could only shudder in front of the set tragedy.

“I just live like that… You did that Responding to humans is like trying to overcome a storm, you just, just met a storm. As always, the storm swept through… I was just swept away.”

The mermaids who tried to push them away stopped. They were all crying. Ann, who held out her hand in front of her, lowered her hand and wept. She looked at Lucius. She said.

“You are… It’s the worst. Really, really, how could this… That…”

“Let’s talk for a minute. Ann.”

Lucius removed her hand from Leah and reached out to Anne.