Translator: Cheonsa
Editor: Rega
Chapter 21
“They will… know… you… are mine…”
Agares stared intently at me while grinning profoundly as if he had already seen through my weak point.
My nerves suddenly jumped, finally processing what he was trying to convey. I sat up, pushed him directly against the wall, and raised my fist to hit him, but my wrist was easily caught midair by his iron claws. His mouth slightly opened up and his red tongue darted out to lick my fingers. His mouth faintly hooked up into a grin, the pupils under his long eyelashes were dark and bottomless, resembling a murky swamp inhabitable by humanity.
What a sinister beast!
He had completely captured my vulnerable point. I was incapable of rejecting nor did I have the room to even reject.
I ground my teeth together, feeling my reasonings were at war with the shame coming from my heart, causing my nerves to tangle up into a heap of balls.
That’s right, if I were to refuse Agares, I would not only lose this opportunity to study him, but also what’s worse was that if I didn’t get the research results they expected, they would question what I’d been doing these past few days. Rhine would definitely go and investigate because of my call for help previously. With his stubborn nature, if I didn’t take out any research records to cover it up, this shameful secret would be known to him sooner or later.
I could never let them know… otherwise I’d never be able to show my face in front of anybody anymore.
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By the time I realized, there was already nowhere for me to escape.
I found the merman’s shrewdness hard to believe, such majestic creatures actually had a mind of a criminal with high IQ!
I pressed my fist against my mouth and took a shuddering deep breath. Right now, apart from agreeing with Agares’s proposal, there was no other choice but to continue with my research according to the original plan, but… Fuck, what’s the difference between this and selling my own ass for research results?
This thought made me flare up in anger. I forced myself to calm down because apart from resisting against Agares in a naked state, there was truly nothing I could do.
I could only pretend to obey him, making this a temporary measure just so he could relax his guard…
I glanced at the direction of the computer desk in thought. There should be an extra fluid-filled hypodermic needle stored in that desk drawer for the anesthesia gun. I still had a chance to fight back, plus Sakarol said that they would come to get him tomorrow. I’d be set free as long as I could endure until that time.
“I’ll accept this proposal,” I stared at Agares and said in English, so that he could understand what I said more clearly, and emphasized further, “I want to study you at my own pace, and in the process of my research, I forbid you to do anything else to me. “
I had to squeeze the last few words out of my teeth. My cheeks were burning with extreme embarrassment and in order to restrain myself from recalling last night’s events, I snatched the flashlight from Agares, and violently flashed it at him as I stared intently into his eyes. “Do you understand what I mean?”
“Y…es.”
Two lips, as thin as a sharp knife, spat out a clear syllable. The smile on his face seemed to deepen, in my eyes, it appeared to look more insidious and cunning, as if his long-planned objective had finally succeeded.
Go ahead and laugh, you beast. You wouldn’t be able to laugh for long.
“Then, lie down,” I commanded with no trace of politeness as I pointed to the glass floor, but my heart was feeling hesitation. I dared not be certain that this beast would keep his promise, after all, he was not a human being. He was completely free from any moral, law, and principle constraints. Even if he were to act like a hoodlum, there was nothing I could do.
But to my surprise, the merman actually obeyed my order and slid down from the bed to lay his back on the floor. The black and sturdy fishtail stretched out from the foot of the bed to under the table like a giant lizard resting on the ground.
He then, just like that, glanced up with one of his arms tucked behind his head as if he was sunbathing and stared at me with great interest.
I tried to resist my impulse to just kick him. I quickly wrapped myself with the bedding, stepped over his body, and rushed towards the pile of clothes I took off outside the bathroom. I couldn’t study him naked!
Agares didn’t stop me with his tail, but as soon as I pick up my clothes, I realized; there was nowhere I could change. I had no choice but to change in front of the watchful eyes of the merman. Even if I turned my back to him, I could still feel his heated gaze on my back. This made me feel extremely uneasy, and so I hid behind the desk and hurriedly put my legs into the pants that I was holding.
But just as one leg made it into the pants, I felt Agares’s fishtail shadowing behind me and came to stroke across my lower leg. This sudden touch scared me to the point where I couldn’t put on my pants, so I hastily buttoned on my lab coat instead and stood up immediately after.
“I… like… your… body…”
His Adam’s apple rolled in his throat as he stared at the hindering garment on me. The undisguised meaning behind his words made me forget the vulnerable situation I was forced to be in as I went to kick his wet long tail to the side without a second thought. I tightened the belt around my waist and took a step backward where half of my body was covered by the desk. Then I stealthily slid my hand into the drawer and pushed the anesthesia needle inside the cuff of my sleeves.
I dared not look into the eyes of the merman fearing that if I did, my heart might inexplicably let the cat out of the bag. I felt that the merman, like an experienced elder, possessed a unique ability to glimpse into the hearts and minds of people, and my cheap tricks might be easily exposed like a shallow child trying to keep a secret.
Heavens, please protect me. Don’t let my plan be exposed anytime soon!
Although I was praying nervously, I maintained a calm outward composure as I turned to walk across to the other side. I gathered some materials needed to record the physiological numerical value of the merman and brought them to his side before squatting beside him.
According to the procedure of measuring the condition of a biological body, the first thing I need to record is the blood pressure of the merman.
That’s what I told myself in my heart, I went to pick up the sphygmomanometer, but my hand just kept sweating. I tried my best to maintain an attitude of a scientist that was studying a common wildlife, but just by looking at his strong, male upper body I already felt myself suffocating.
This body just last night… just last night…
I clenched my teeth and forced myself not to recall those terrible scenes, but the image of the merman’s claws clasping on the back of my hand flashed in my brain. I felt my thighs trembling under the coat and a sense of mortification aroused from shame surging from the bottom up. I grabbed the merman’s wrist and quickly wrapped the blood pressure meter around the lower part of his arm, and turned on the switch.
I forced myself to focus on the flickering values on that small LCD screen. I saw it changing between 200-300mmhg before finally settling at 261.
Not bothering to lift my head, I quickly inputted this value into the tablet computer for recording, and forced myself to think and decide.
The systolic blood pressure of the merman was almost twice as high as that of a human being, even an emotional old man can’t reach that level unless by consuming an addictive amount of stimulating drugs.
—Estrus cycle.
These words flashed in my mind. At this moment, the merman was still at the peak of his cycle. My eyes were fixed on that number, but I couldn’t help sliding them over to look at the merman’s body with my back completely covered in cold sweat.
TBC
Thank you!
For reference, adult human blood pressure is considered standard at about 120 mmHg systolic and 80 mmHg diastolic, commonly read as 120/80. Rather than being half as high, the blood pressure is about twice as high as human standards.
Wrist cuffs aren’t considered very accurate, but you’ve got what you’ve got.
I think this poor MC just got blackmailed by a fish… Too bad. I suspect there are cameras monitoring these two everywhere, even if the MC wants to keep this a secret.
It’s nice to see Desharow always trying his best to escape from his less than favorable situations (tho it seems like everything he does is just amusing to Agares ^^;)
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Aaaaaaaah
I can’t wait to read more of this story.
Mermen must often die due to uncontrollable hypertension.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Thanks for translation!
Oh, than you most definitely will love what is coming soon! Thank you for enjoying!
I’m actually very curious about Agares since we keep finding out more and more about his species, I really wanna know what kind of life he lives and how smart he is and if more like him will appear, it’s very exciting.
Thanks for the chapter!
<3
I don’t doubt that Agares is really good at negotiating, or manipulating?! XD
I hope their relationship will get into more than physical.
Thank you for the chapter dear 🧡