Translator: Cheonsa
Editor: notthepineapple
Chapter 67
Agares was indeed very familiar with Venice’s underground waterway.
With me carried on his back, Agares walked freely through the maze-like dark world without hesitating in the face of every turn and fork on the pathway. He was as skillful as a blind fish born in the underground waterway. Therefore, it could be imagined that he often comes and goes here, making this his secret passageway to hide his unstable form after mutation.
As we trailed forward half-submerged in the water, my eyes were fixed attentively on Agares’s gradually reshaping ears. The old “Desharow’s” habitual tendency to be theoretical jumped out from “Derte’s” disguise. I was unable to resist thinking about how Agares was able to change his own physical characteristics: Was it through spontaneous modification of oneself’s genetic composition from the inside out? Or was it from the unexpected discovery of chemical reagents obtained from the Nazi’s shipwreck that led him to use them to accomplish mutation? Both the first and second theory were bound to be unbelievable in today’s modern biology. However, for an extraterrestrial creature like Agares, it seemed that the impossible will always be possible and that there was nothing he was unable to accomplish.
I tried to make a reasonable analysis from my two previous theories but I couldn’t come to a plausible conclusion. My thoughts then returned to the current problems at hand, and I pondered over it.
Regarding what Agares experienced in the past two years, it was more reasonable to guess that after he learned that the spores had been taken from the Nazi’s ship wreckage by Kolov and then traded off to the Italian Mafia, he had been staying dormant here in Italy the entire time.
With his high IQ and the inherent destructive powers of a merman, it wasn’t difficult to gain people’s recognition in this troubled territory controlled by Mafia gangs. Using “Roy the Killer” as his identity, he easily integrated himself into the Mafia group and worked under them to acquire their trust, so that later on, he could destroy the Mafia’s so-called ‘German’ transaction from within, and take back all of the merfolk’s stolen spores.
As for the so-called lover hearsay, when connecting the fact that Agares’s lower body situation could not be revealed, one could determine that this rumor was complete bullshit. It was most likely gossip made up by journalists who enjoyed adding some romantic setting to the mafia world.
Oh, who didn’t like to hear the story about the young and beautiful godmother and her handsome killer knight?
Fuck, go to hell. In any case, I’m not interested. It’s boring out-and-out.
I secretly slandered those hearsay under my breath. In my head, I couldn’t help but think back to the way Licciardi had looked at Agares and rolled my eyes. Unconsciously, I tightly embraced the long, powerful neck just below Agares’s thick hair and laid on his broad back like a cat. This big piece of sashimi slightly lifted my body so that I could rest more comfortably.
I used his back as a pillow, still deep in thought. This would be a good explanation for why he didn’t come to find me. To prioritize getting the merfolk spores back, Agares had been refinishing implements to his plan. So it was obvious that he was fully occupied in the last two years to even bother considering my whereabouts, which had led me to practically think that he had completely disappeared.
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I sniffed a couple times, taking in that particular scent that was emitting from his back deep into my brain. The stifling and oppressive emotions that have been buried in my heart for so long swelled up in my chest. My entire being turned sour like I had drank a bottle of spoiled blueberry paste. Silently, the corner of my mouth twitched, forcing out a bitter smile as I thought about my situation. To tell the truth, if I were to think more carefully, my importance to Agares only amounted to just being another scattered spore to him. He protected me, looked for me… it ultimately may just be because I have his DNA in me, essentially making me his descendant. (And without a doubt, by linking together all the actual circumstances, one could see that I might just be the most troublesome out of all and be the one that caught him by surprise all the time)
Desharow, you shouldn’t have any reason to feel dissatisfied, right?
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”You.” I subconsciously blurted out what was in my mind, nearly choking on the groundwater due to my absentmindedness. “What I’m saying is that, I’m a little surprised by your transformation… and experiences.”
”You… will have the chance to understand.” He turned his head back, and showed a light meaningful smile. His voice echoed far in the distance of the dark, paved corridor.
To be honest, I really wasn’t used to listening to the Merfolk’s language. Their pronunciation was even rougher than the Russian language, every word sounding like a chant for some mysterious curse. Additionally, Agares’s low voice was full of authoritative power that can make anyone cower(Imagine the effect Ghiaurov brings to you when he was singing through the microphone into your ear), and always made me feel stunned on the spot.
I gave a nod before Agares grabbed my arm and put it around his waist. Next thing I knew, we began to quickly speed up in the water as he pulled me along just like when he was in his original merman form. The underground waterway suddenly opened up, and the surrounding stone wall became spacious. We all at once, dived into a deeper waterway.
Mottled warm-colored lights sprinkled down from above our head, and the water was vague and hazy, harboring a sunset glow. The pillars of bridges in our surrounding were like a dense aquatic forest on the sea coast as we swam past them. Overhead, shadows of passing boats resembled floating clouds that had been disturbed and scattered by the falling raindrops. It was as though we were in a dream. No one could see us and it seemed that the water surface was a whole different world, while below the surface was another entirely different space, making it a secret fantasy that only belonged to me and Agares.
I couldn’t help tightening my arms around Agares’s waist.
As I was held in his arms, we began to swim upward till we arrived among the straight pillars of a building, finally approaching an upper boarded roof above us. Next, Agares extended his arm and pushed, and just like that, a piece of board swung open like a hatch door. This entire process was very routine to Agares, it seemed like this was his residential place in Venice. It looked to be a huge mansion. The iron gate facing the canal was shackled by a huge iron lock. If we didn’t pass through the hidden entrance under the water, we wouldn’t have been able to get in. However, it was obvious that this was not a residence Agares bought himself. Pieces of glass lay ragged and broken around the building, there was a seal placed across the top of the inner door, and an old wooden signboard hung lifelessly over a window—Venice’s Aquatic Bio Research Institute. This place looked like it has been abandoned for a long time.
Despite knowing that the Aquatic Research Institute had the right conditions for Agares to adapt and inhabit in, my jaw still ended up nearly dropping. I gestured,“The Aquatic… Bio Research Institute? You, being such a big and long…merman… a leader at that, was actually hiding so unhesitatingly and unbridled in the Aquatic Bio Research Institute!? Why didn’t you just simply go to the market place where the fish products are sold and traded? I didn’t even know that you have such a good sense of humor.
”Sashimi” squinted at me, trying to determine whether the words “fish products” actually referred to him. I shrugged my shoulders playfully to express that I meant exactly that, then I curled my finger into a hook and compared the action of a fish biting onto it. This must have offended his dignity as a leader, but I just couldn’t help myself in doing it, even though I knew I would face imminent disaster.
My premonition was verified the very next moment. He suddenly grabbed me by the waist and pressed me against the upturned door panel, then lowered his head, pressing his lips threateningly against the bridge of my nose, “Desharow…you make me…..” He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his long and narrow eyes faintly ignited with bewildering flames, and his throat rolled out a hoarse whisper, “You make me really…..”
His webbed claws hidden inside his leather gloves caressed my back, sliding along my spine down to my tail bone. His palms snugly cupped my buttocks, and his waist and crotch were tightly pressed against my legs. Even though the thick coat blocked the way, I still felt that his amazing size was swollen hard and was pointed right on my lower abdomen.
My heart was racing in my chest and my breathing became somewhat hurried, but I still tried to keep a straight face with great effort. “I want to know… What exactly do I mean to you, Agares? A descendant of your blood? A gene carrier?”
My heart throbbed in pain as I spoke those words aloud. Like I was literally ripping myself apart to ask about this cruel truth. Agares held back a smile and looked thoughtfully into my eyes, as if thinking carefully about the questions I asked.
Perhaps, as the king of the entire Merfolk population, Agares’s life and age resembles a feather sinking into the deep, bottomless Mariana Trench. He may have experienced many rough waves, countless attacks, disasters and close-hand battles in just half of his lifetime, but he has yet to ever face such a simple but nevertheless difficult riddle. Were love and feelings something merfolk and humans have in common?”
I really couldn’t use my biological knowledge to make any judgments, and my EQ was indeed not high. I had no experience with love and had spent all my energy on learning and studying for the past 10 years. So I was basically a nerdy fool from head to toe.
I didn’t know whether Agares’s feelings for me were instinctive or not. If that’s so, even if I was not Desharow, anyone could do.
Ah, Agares, being the merfolk’s leader, had to face such an emotional issue involving a human youth who grew up as his gene carrier…. This revelation problem was probably more of a surprise for him than it was for me.
He was probably more confused than I was, or perhaps, he didn’t feel the need to answer the questions of a mere living spore. I didn’t want his response to be the latter. I felt deeply uneasy—as if walking on a tightrope, very scared and on edge—regarding that outcome.
The cold rain dripped onto my annoyingly long eyelashes, making them nearly stick to my lower eyelids, and so I could only force my watery and heavy eyelids open to look up at him. Not moving even an inch, my breathing was labored as I waited for his reply.
I saw my face reflected in Agares’s eyes. I looked a little pathetic and miserable, just like an abandoned cat. Damn it, this wasn’t an appearance I wanted to show at all. So I scratched my messy bangs and pretended to be indifferent, awkwardly laughing it off, “It’s okay, it was just a joke, I’m just casually asking, that’s all. You can pretend you didn’t hear anything.”
With that said, I moved backwards to sit out of the water. The next thing I knew, my waist was once again restrained by Agares, and was dragged back to where I was before. I slipped onto the door board as a webbed claw held down my shoulder, feeling the texture of leather gloves moving across my neck to stroke my chin.
His fingertips traced the lines of my lips, the contours of my nose, and had extended them to my forehead, combing back my bangs. He restrained my head just enough to stop me from turning my head away. Then he lowered his head, imprinting his lips onto my neck, kissing down very hard. The cold droplets from his hair dripped onto my chest, however it made me feel like I was burning up like lava. I felt so hot that I thought even my soul was burning up while my entire body shook.
My trembling lips moved slightly, wanting to ask something, but ended up not saying anything.
“I don’t know…Desharow……” Agares raised his head and looked at me from above. I saw in his eyes the undercurrent hidden behind the fire of lust, and it was something I came to understand a little bit myself, but I didn’t dare to be certain of it.
“I don’t know when it first started. Indeed, I only regarded you as my descendant during your childhood years. I nurtured you, defended you, and made you feel deeply dependent on me. However, when your grandfather got into that accident for you, you were taken away from my side too abruptly.”
His moist breath clung to my nose, and his lips and tongue tormented my earlobes. He continued in a low whisper, “At that time, Norway was too cold. I had to let you go. Afterwards, I began to look for you in every corner of the sea. I searched for an entire 15 years, but I could never catch sight of your presence in reality, except only in the dream channel. As you grew older and older, you began to yearn for me in your dreams. Yet your waking consciousness of me had already faded. At the time, I was feeling so frantic to the point of wanting to change my genes and try to mix myself in the human race, but it had been impossible for me then. However, I didn’t fall into complete despair because I knew that your here will lead you back to me.”
I took a deep breath as Agares’s fingers fell upon my forehead, his eyes descending down to meet mine as the rain fell, as if leading me into his memory.
“Suddenly one day, I sensed you again. I impatiently rushed to come to you, because I was eager to get a glimpse on how much that little guy that belonged to me had grown. But all I saw was you being inseparable from this man named Rhine. The gaze you looked at him with seemed…. filled with admiration, and some dependence, just like how you looked at me when you were young, but you don’t remember me at all. Ever since I deliberately let you guys catch me that time, I just knew it. Your eyes were filled with unfamiliarity whenever you looked at me. I was so jealous and envious, Desharow. So much so that I completely lost control. I just wanted to take you for myself. I was in estrus at that time, and you, a little guy unaware of anything, suddenly approached me on your own accord in the middle of the night. With your alluring appearance, how could I have endured it? If I didn’t eat you whole…… I spent all night planning how to possess you. I was hungry and thirsty, acting just like those yet to mature species, and did my utmost best to coerce your curiosity….. ”
Agares wickedly curled up his lips and licked the side of his mouth with his extended tongue as though immensely proud of his crafty scheme from the past.
“You bastard……” I pinched his ears, but he grabbed my wrists and pinned them to each side of my head. Then, his tongue licked up my jaw to give me a hard kiss on the cheek before pressing his lips against my mouth, “When you had become mine, that’s when I truly was not able to let you go. Your scent, the way you speak, your actions, your expressions, and your body… they all captivated me. Your obvious fear of me made me aware that I did something wrong, but I still couldn’t help myself from taking possession of you again and again…. I don’t know what you humans are like, but in our ethnicity, once we reach adulthood, we enter a stabilized period and would only experience this sort of attraction to one designated partner….. Generally speaking, for me in particular, the most ancient black-scaled merfolk didn’t have spouses, and only through the divergence of their ‘Yiola’ could they continue their lineage.”
Agares lowered his eyelashes, glancing down below our body, and rubbed the roots of my legs with that hard thing, making my ears burn hot. I timidly raised my head, swallowing my saliva.
He leaned against my ear and whispered lowly, “The Yiola that I dispersed out did not only survive on you, yet I have never….treated any other carriers the same way as I do to you.”
My heart was beating violently and my brain was buzzing. I watched his webbed claws reach down and take something out of his pocket. In the next moment, my eyes widened in amazement and I became flabbergasted at the thing he took out.
It was what I had thrown off of Kolov’s ship, it was my journal that contained my long written journey looking for him all this year.
”If this was the answer you want to hear, Desharow, then yes, I love you.”
TBC
Guys!!! This translator is BACK! You guys would not believe how mentally and physically tired I had been! Having tennis matches four days a week for the entirety of October (and half of Sept) and then going to work right after those matches have taken a toll on me greatly. That’s why updates had been hella wonky so thank you guys for having patients with us!
Anyway…. This chapter got to be my favorite! Agares finally confessed his true feelings!!! What do you guys think of Agares talking so much now!? And what about those ‘other’ spores other than Desharow! You think they will cause any rift between our MC and ML’s relationship?
(Also want to thank pigeon for helping me with some editing as well!)
—Cheonsa
Thanks for the chapter
Honestly idk how to feel abt this confession 😭😭
Ty for the chapter! Remember to take care 🙇
Woah, that’s a lot of tennis matches! And that confession was 😆
Definitely one of my favorite chapters in this book too
Now Im questioning on when merfolk produce those spores and how many they can make in their entire lifetime and if created merfolk are capable of making them.
Then the question of the “females” and how they play in the entire spore thing goes.
Also the ending spoiled by the author’s note kind of doesn’t make sense as if merfolk can produce more than one- implied by arges- how could the ending come to be. I honestly don’t think (im trying to type this without spoiling anything) that the ending after the story’s ending will be like that.
Man my brain hurts.
I had the same thoughts about the mermaids a few weeks ago. 😃
Other spores can’t compare. Agares only has eyes for one Russian cutie. Heh.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Finally Argares confessed and explained his side of the story! The end part was so sweet I really loved this chapter!
It’s pretty great having him talk more I feel like we’ll have way less misunderstandings now.
Plus welcome back chenosa! Sounds like you we’re doing a lot while you were translating this, how were you so productive? You need to tell me your secret?
Thanks for all your hard work for us!!! I so look forward to reading this every week. I wouldn’t want to see Agares become human. The magic of it all is him being this ancient merman who actually loves his Desharow. I love all the twists in the story. 🤣
I wanna see Desharow fully becoming a merman doe 😭🐠😭 It was so close before too!!! I mean what the check happened with his already transformed ears and glowing eyes… Bet Desharow merman form would be breathtaking (especially if the fishtail had some stunning exotic colors or black for blackscale genes)
I loved the last part… actually the whole chapter ♥️ Idk it just hits differently with the action of Agares confirming it even though the line is commonly used by many others.
I don’t seem to get those chills when Agares always comes in picture. He seems more familiar but still the old handsome pervert that he is. xD Thank you so much for working so hard ! I hope you take your time and rest well and gain strength for more speedy updates in future !
Loved this chapter so much! 💖 They are finally together again + this silly desharow fish product joke + CONFESSION + is that the same darn diary omg thats emberrasing! Cant wait for what comes next 😏 Thanks for the update! 🐉
Aww I love this chapter! But how come he couldn’t talk earlier? Does the mutation affect his speech?
And wow that’s a lot of work! How you can get enough rest too 😄
Agares could talk, just not good in Russian or English. But since Desharow had undergone some Mermaid mutation, Desharow now understand and can speak Merfolk Language, which was what Agares was using.
And what a chapter to come back with 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for your hard work Cheonsa
Thank you so much✨💖. Definitely my fav ch! Wonder how things will progress😍💞❤❤❤😂
I have been reading this novel on and off for a while. I never commented because either Agares infuriated me or I was cussing Desharow for being stupid lol. I almost dropped it countless times grrrr
Yet here I am, all caught up. I really did enjoy this chapter.
Thank you so much for all your hard work! <3
Thank you for reading, and I totally understand your frustrations. As a translator, you would not believe how many times I would get mad at certain points, however there were also many incredible good points that I loved and enjoyed which allows me to appreciate the novel a lot. Sadly to say, frustrating moments won’t just stop here, so I hope you can continue to support Desharow!
I cant believe Agares has confesed to our little desharow🙈🙈
When I finish reading this chapter I feel sooooooooooo happy that I even thought that someone has confessed to me about there feeling.😅😅😅
I even start listning to love song for time being.😉😅😇😊
I was so happy that I even smiled foolishly for whole day my sister was asking me why am I like this.😅
This novel is realy so good and dear translator I am really thankful for your thanslation. Thank you so much
I have a faver If its ok for you thought
If you have some time can you plz consider translating another novel it is “never marry a man with two tintins”
Again thank you.😊
Thank you for your comment! It had really cheered me up. I am really glad you are enjoying Desharow Merman so far and please do continue to support this novel, the author, and our translation group.
I know of the novel you mentioned, but sadly I am a 1CP lover and can’t bare to read any harems or more than one ml. That’s just my preference. I did heard a lot of good things about this novel, so I’ll see if I could help you find some other good translator! Thank you!
Thank you for your reply I thought you would not reply to my comment because you have released this chapter for 5 month.🤔
As for the novel that I mention if you are not comfortable to translate then its ok. I understand, everyone have there preference. And I am very glad that you are willing to look for a good translator that are comfortable with this novel. I really appreciate that thank you so much.
You are such a good person.
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I want a fish
Here With Me is their song😩
Idk where to start… If I was Desharow I would be so scared to hear that I was just an experiment… idek if that’s love tbvh but let’s see
I am so happy now 🤧🥺
<3
This chapter is precious ♡♡♡
Agares is finally declare his feeling for Desharow, I hope that would ease his unsecurity.
Thank you so much editor and translator for the chapter 💓
Hmmm still not satisfied 🤨
Where’s the apology for abandoning him this whole time??
waaaahhh im smiling ear to ear. Im so happy yet sad idk maybe theyre not in their actual place, like not in Atlantis or so. But im happy at least Agares confessed ❤️😩😩