Desharow MermanChapter 109

Translator:- Max

Editor:- s0ymilk. bN65Vk

Warning:- More anguish ahh, my heart hurts

I hesitated for a moment, as if I was bewitched by this unfamiliar yet familiar tenderness, I moved my lips, “Father…”

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Before I finished speaking, there was a splash, and Agares surged towards us. However, Levjet seemed to have no intention of avoiding him, allowing his tail to be caught by Agares’ webbed claws, which yanked him away from my side. Everything happened so suddenly and swiftly that when I came back to my senses, I witnessed Agares gripping Levjet’s neck with the fierceness of a fisherman capturing a fish. He hoisted Levjet’s upper body out of the water, as if he intended to tear him apart into pieces.

“Wait!” I turned pale with fright and lunged towards Agares, but his tail effortlessly swept me aside and then tightly wound around my calf. I saw the blond boy lying on Agares’ back awaken due to the commotion. He reached out to stop Agares, but his arm was swatted away. I struggled desperately within his grip, but the more I struggled, the tighter Agares’ hold became. Sweat started to bead all over my body. “Agares, don’t kill him! You promised you wouldn’t kill him!” zn1F 5

“You should know who you are, za-sa-ti!” Agares paid no attention to me, his gaze fixed on Levjet with a fierce glare, emitting a chilling killing intent in his eyes.

“I understand, my king…” Levjet tilted his head back against Agares’ grip on his throat, forcefully pulled the corners of his mouth, and then turned his gaze towards me. “That’s why I’m not qualified to have my own descendant, only to let him be taken by you. I won’t delude myself into thinking I can snatch him back from you, but he truly should have been mine…”

My breathing suddenly tightened.

“He belongs to me, he never belonged to you.” Agares’ webbed claws tightened even more, and hissed. “You know the consequences of betraying me again. I’ll kill you once again.”

“Then you’ll become my patricidal enemy, Agares.” I took a deep breath, picking up where Levjet left off, my words resolute and sharp, aimed at Agares’ cold profile, “I understand that merfolk may not have the concept of family and father, but it matters to me. It’s incredibly important. You can’t replace everything in my life, just as I’m not your only one!”

Agares clenched his teeth and looked at me, “Desharow…”

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In the crimson glow of the sunset reflecting off the water, his deep pupils seemed to burn, as if they could consume me entirely. My heart throbbed painfully, as if it was being seared, and suddenly I found myself struggling for breath, almost suffocating.

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“You have no right to question my decisions!” Agares erupted in anger, his fishtail wrapping around me even tighter. “I have never controlled Desharow, he was assimilated by me willingly.”

“Really? You didn’t lure him to get close to you, you didn’t hypnotise him, you didn’t forcibly violate him? I’ve seen all of this through the memories of that invader from the future. And you explain this as love?”

Levjet coldly questioned Agares, and every word he uttered was like a sharp jolt to my nerves.

I clenched my fist against my lips, and my breath quickened. Certain doubts that had been sealed deep within me for a long time crawled up like tiny venomous insects, nibbling away at an unshakable part of me, causing me to tremble all over. L6yfVT

“Enough! You’ve lived in the human world for too long, almost forgetting our rules and ways. It’s not your place to question me and Desharow!” Agares roared like thunder, and I saw his webbed fingers suddenly clench together, his nails stabbing into Levjet’s fishtail like sharp blades, slicing down as if dissecting him. This action caused Levjet to convulse in pain and emit a miserable scream. Memories of enduring the same agony erupted from the depths of my brain, making me painfully aware of how deadly such an attack could be. I couldn’t help but cry out, “No——”

However, in the next moment, a blue halo burst forth from the incision in Levjet’s split fishtail. Agares, seemingly anticipating this, quickly retracted his webbed fingers and instead grabbed the end of Levjet’s tail, violently flinging him several metres away. Then, as if summoning something on the sea’s surface, he let out a long, resonating cry.

Following that, dozens of blue-tailed figures leapt out of the water’s surface. They formed a circle around Levjet, they lifted him out of the water, struggling to support him. I saw that Levjet’s once beautiful, mercury-like fishtail had a horrifying gash on it. Even though it was gradually healing within the blue light, it was clear that the pain for Levjet remained intense. He gasped for breath, his slender body contorted like a bowstring, and the tail end that hung into the water spasmed continuously, resembling a dying shark thrashing with a hook caught in its throat.

“I won’t violate the contract, but I can strip you of your status as my kin. Since you’re so attached to human thinking, then from now on, stay with the captives.” e4VvRm

I stood there, dumbfounded, as I heard Agares speak. The blue-tails nodded in agreement and took hold of Levjet, escorting him towards the direction where the sun was sinking below the horizon in the sea.

“Agares…” I clenched my fist, my nails digging deeply into my palm. But his tail swiftly moved, pulling me closer to him. He leaned down, his webbed fingers lifting me out of the water and into his embrace. He began to stroke my hair as he usually did, but I could still sense the lingering metallic scent of blood on his hands. Just moments ago, his brutal actions were still vivid in my mind. My boiling blood rushed to my head. Just like an angry rhinoceros, I swung my arm and punched him, “This is for Levjet!” I followed it up with a kick, “And this is for Davis!”

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“Stop hitting my Sea God, you little brat!”

The shouting of the Golden Retriever nearby only added fuel to my anger, as if pouring oil on a fire. It intensified my frustration—Agares wouldn’t allow any other presence to share my emotions, yet he tolerated this Golden Retriever openly provoking me. What kind of darn double standard was this! fu3Q8F

I hit even harder, yet Agares just kept staring down at me, unmoving, allowing me to vent my frustrations as if I were a petulant child. It was as if he considered me the one acting irrationally, but I knew all too well that it wasn’t me who was wrong. This realisation fueled my anger even more. My punches and kicks were like striking a stone statue, completely ineffective, as if I were using a sponge to wipe him down. Continuing this futile display would only make me lose my dignity further.

As I became aware of this, I collapsed from lack of strength, my pent-up emotions flooding my throat. I held my breath and spoke slowly, one word at a time, “Hey, just let me go, Agares. Let me return to the human world. I don’t want to be by your side, watching you continue your ambitious conquests. Levjet was right, I’m a human, completely in terms of my thoughts. There will always be a barrier between us. You already have another descendant who loves you, there’s no need to keep me, this disobedient guy, around, right?”

I finished speaking in one breath like a cannonball, raised my eyelids, and looked at Agares pretending to be indifferent, but the blood in my chest was surging like a stormy sea.

“Do you think you are just a descendant to me, Desharow?” nUBc9g

Agares’ pupils glowed intensely, and he seemed to be trying his best to keep calm, but the violent heaving of his chest revealed that he was about to explode. His nose pressed against my forehead, and his breath rushed over my face like a brisk sea breeze, disrupting my breath and unsettling my heartbeat, causing it to grow increasingly erratic. My mind was flooded with Levjet’s accusations and his anguished posture, Davis’ blood-curdling screams, and most of all, the hostility emanating from the gaze that was from behind Agares, entangling my nerves into a chaotic mess.

Amidst the overwhelming chaos, I involuntarily parted my lips, managed a bitter smile, and blurted out, “No, in fact, I don’t even qualify as your descendant. Perhaps ‘captive’ is a more fitting term. A captive you haven’t managed to conquer yet, so you haven’t lost interest in me yet .”

“Captive?” Agares’ eyes glinted intensely, his webbed fingers tightened around my back, and I instinctively recoiled, feeling the pressure of his arm. He stared into my eyes. “Do you believe what Levjet said?”

“Is what he said not true? Or are you afraid to let him continue speaking, so you cruelly harmed him? You’ve taken away my friend, and now you’re not sparing my father either? Your love makes me feel terrible, Agares!” voA0Xd

I stared at him coldly, gritted my teeth and said bluntly.

He took a deep breath, his webbed fingers gripping the back of my neck forcefully. My head was pressed against his neck, feeling the sharp points of his fangs grazing my earlobe, as if he intended to bite me right then and there. His breath and hissing poured into my ear like boiling water, “I love you, Desharow. Even if you think of yourself as a captive, you can never escape from my side.”

My anger reached its peak in an instant, yet I couldn’t manage to utter a single curse. Instead, I opened my mouth wide and bit down fiercely on his neck, wishing I could tear a chunk of flesh from this damned bastard. But my biting on his thick and tough merfolk skin seemed more like a feeble attempt. Astonishingly, Agares seemed to misunderstand for a moment and started licking my neck in a way that felt invasive. His webbed fingers trailed down to my buttocks, seemingly unbothered about disciplining me right in front of another descendant. But I swear, at this moment, all I wanted was to be as far away from him as possible!

“Damn it, get your claws off my ass!” uInL2N

I cursed and, without mercy, drove my knee into his thing, aiming to deflate his spirited thing. But he immediately captured my legs, pressing me down onto his raised fishtail, ensnaring me between his arms. His features were mottled in the shimmering water, only his eyes reflecting the rosy hues of the surface, as if harbouring flames that could sear through my body. Damp strands of hair clung to my line of sight and breath like water plants, while my feelings could only be described as “caught between the deep water and scorching fire“.

“That’s all you know… Levjet is right, you don’t know me at all.”

I tried to utter a word, but before the sound could escape, my lips were sealed shut by him. I tried to push against his chest, but my mind seemed to be squeezed out of my skull in an instant as his tongue invaded my mouth. With his skillful kiss, I felt as though every ounce of resistance was being drawn out of me, leaving me weak and breathless. I couldn’t resist Agares, neither mentally nor physically. I was addicted to him, like being under the influence of a potent drug, even though his love was starting to overwhelm me.

Just then, a loud noise suddenly drifted over with the sea breeze. Agares and I turned our heads at the same time, and in the distance, I saw a large group of blue-tailed mermaids swimming toward us through the strait. Behind them, several fighter jets appeared in the sky, clearly in pursuit. I couldn’t help but recall the earthquake-like tremors from earlier. Those were caused by the fighter jets dropping bombs, and conducting precision strikes. To deal with the merfolk, even the air force had been dispatched, indicating that humanity was prepared for a large-scale counterattack. A sense of unease washed over me. uSUR7V

Agares, upon seeing this, let out a commanding high-pitched cry, and in an instant, all the merfolk disappeared into the water, leaving no trace behind. The blond boy, clearly frightened, hurriedly moved closer and grabbed onto Agares’ arm as if afraid of being left behind. However, he paid him no attention. He held me and leaned forward, plunging into the water. As we descended, a frightened shout echoed from behind, making me realise that this annoying blond boy was nothing more than an underage kid. Before my body was fully submerged, I firmly grabbed onto that trembling wrist. Despite being quite bothered by him fawning over Agares, as a man in his twenties, I saw no reason to engage with a child during a life-and-death situation.

As I persuaded myself like this, I couldn’t help but be thankful that my possessiveness wasn’t as extreme as Agares’.

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As night fell, we successfully managed to shake off the pursuit of the fighter jets and arrived at another unfamiliar strait. K7BMWk

As the merfolk group swam inside, I noticed that it was narrower than the English Channel, with towering rock walls on both sides, as if they had been cleaved by knives and axes, slicing the night sky overhead into a narrow strip. A warmer breeze than outside the strait swept over me, making me speculate that this was likely Agares’ next target point—the Strait of Gibraltar. It’s a fortress passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, a vital trade route for Western Europe. Spain and the UK have been fighting over for its ownership, making it a strategic location.

If Agares wanted to use this place as a base to conquer the Mediterranean Sea region, it would be an extremely challenging battle.

I nervously looked at the top of the strait, afraid that entering like this, we would be noticed by the stationed troops here. However, the surroundings seemed devoid of people, perhaps because we hadn’t yet approached the ports near the strait, but were rather in a more treacherous stretch of it.

Guided by the merperson who was acting as scouts ahead, we entered a crevice in the cliffs. It looked as if it had formed due to the sinking of the Earth’s crust. The further we went inside, the larger the space became, winding and twisting in all directions. It was a perfect hidden spot. I couldn’t fathom how the merfolk had discovered this place. They seemed to have an innate talent for exploring dark caves and abysses, much like all creatures living in such dark environments. WxO6Td

After finding a suitable place to stay, Agares was probably going to perform some of his duties as a leader, while I was “left” in his new makeshift lair – the widest crevice. Describing it this way eased my feelings a bit, as a group of green-tailed merfolk was also “left” near the lair. To be more straightforward, I was being kept under surveillance.

Translator’s note:- Sorry again guys, I’m trying my best to post on time but these angsty chapters are really taking more toll on me then when I read them roughly before, maybe cause while translating I gotta re-read it like 5 or so times so I get pretty sad as angst isn’t usually my thing especially while translating. But I have thought of stopping my other novel for a week to complete DM as after this my Aunt’s gonna come so no personal space and she might even see or ask about it soooo as you know DM is more NSFW then others so I’ll try to finish it in the upcoming week hopefully. Hope you understand guys and may I say it’s gonna be decorated hehehe.