Desharow MermanCh7 - Panic in a Rainstorm

Translator: Cheonsa

Editor:  Rega and Annabelle tLSqmV

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I blinked incredulously, but the hand print soon disappeared, making me suspect that it was another one of my hallucinations. I approached the window carefully for closer examination. I rubbed the cold glass window and truthfully, there’s really nothing there other than interweaved rain marks.

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I’m probably just really tired.

I rubbed my forehead and watched as the wind and rain outside the window got worse and worse. It was clear that the best solution for this kind of weather was to stay indoors because not only would I not be able to help the sailors in any way, it would also increase the risk of me falling into the sea. Right now, my mind was still feeling groggy, still yet out of my dream state, and without any energy to think about anything else, I fell back into bed to sleep. TEQprm

I was asleep for a while in a dazed state, until I was woken up by a sudden burst of cold and wet wind. When I opened my eyes, I found that my cabin was unusually dark and the sky was looking gloomy, similar to those evenings in Moscow on the verge of an extremely cold night, a dark red color, as if soaked in blood. The window over the table was somehow opened with a bitingly cold sea breeze blowing into my room.

I let out a sneeze and got up quickly to close the window. Subconsciously, I looked up at the clock on the wall above my head.

Only half an hour passed, how did the weather become like this?

While thinking such strange thoughts, I went to turn on the desk lamp to reflect the light on the glass clock. I glanced at it carelessly, but my eyes were frozen in place as if they were glued there.

The glass clock reflected the view behind me. There was a dark silhouette with two faint looming lights hiding in the shadow of the door.

My adrenaline suddenly rushed up to its peak, making my hair stand up instantly.

That merman… was actually in my room.

My breath seemed to be lost, and my body was glued in place. I could only hear the murmur of the sound that was made by the merman’s throat getting closer and closer behind me. The desk lamp flickered a few times before going off with a hiss, causing my surrounding to sink back into darkness once again in an instant. Soon, a damp and musty scent could be smelled right behind me. AiL8ET

“De… sha… row…”

Each pronounced syllable was like a call to my very being. A wet webbed claw fell on my shoulder, making me shiver suddenly. My body seemed to act faster than my mind as I was already using the desk to jump up and with a speed I never knew I had, I opened the window and leaped onto the deck outside.

“Guys! Help! Someone come here!”

I hurriedly stumbled into the fog that was enough to blind me, but unfortunately I was not able to see any sailor, not even Rhine. The dim lights in the captain’s cabin suddenly disappeared, making everything seem eerily bizarre, as if I was on a ghost ship, alone on the big three-storey ship. BtXY8r

Of course, there was still that demon-like merman.

“De… sha… row…”

The merman’s low, magic-like voice penetrated through the rain and wind, pursuing vigorously into my ears like a shadow following the body. I’m very sure that it was my name he called. Oh my goodness, how did he know?

Although the merman did not show any intention of harming me before, I still could not help feeling fear and dread in this situation. Facing an anesthetized merman versus a mobile merman on land are two different things altogether! I had to get my hands on an anesthetic gun immediately to avoid being attacked by the merman, and more importantly, prevent him from going back into the sea. OCdk8E

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I tried to keep my pace on the rocking deck as I headed straight for the captain’s cabin. I climbed up the stairs leading to the second deck, but in all the panic, I slipped and fell down uncontrollably. But in the next moment, the anticipated pain did not come. All I felt was a wind rushing towards me from behind before my back was blocked by some sort of resistance with my waist unexpectedly wrapped around by something, leaving my body suspended in the air, but it was only for mere seconds before I was pressed fully down onto a long, thick, slippery, and scaly thing.

I immediately got up and tried to escape, but as soon as I turned over, I was blocked by the dark shadow over me with a cold wet hand tightening around my waist. I struggled to sit up and retreat from the stairs, but both legs and feet were firmly coiled up by his tail.

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The merman’s half-human body rose up inch by inch, soon his height surpassed mine. His long damp hair in the rainstorm looked like seaweed, crawling over my arms, neck, head, and soon over my eyes, covering my line of sight with nothing but shadowy darkness.

The heavy rain practically made it impossible for me to breathe. I blinked a couple times in an attempt to clear my eyesight, but I still felt a sense of disheveledness in front of me as before. WbAvus

Through my blurry vision, the outline of the merman’s pale face approached from under his hair and huddled beside my collarbone. Both his claws grabbed hold of my arms while his head wandered over my upper body, as if carefully sniffing in my scent. Suddenly his lips touched my covered chest. I felt my already wet and clingy lapel became taut, before a tearing sound was heard.

I shook my wet hair. Flustered, my knitted eyebrows twitched my eyelids dry of water, as I stared at the merman’s every movement with my heart beating violently.

Oh my god, what on earth does this merman want to do?!

Just now, the merman unexpectedly exposed his layers of sharp teeth and forcibly went to tear apart my top garments before staring at my now naked upper body as if he was carefully examining something. OPY9M

I supported myself with the stairs. My breathing was labored and my chest was fluctuating violently as I stared at him nervously, not knowing what was so unusual about myself that attracted the attention of the merman. However, the merman simply narrowed his eyes and glanced over my body as if he were just making sure that the upper body of his prey was still intact before moving his claw to the edge of my trousers to grab hold of my leather belt as if he was now interested in my lower body too.

“Wait!”

I let out a scream and went to hold onto the merman’s back hand firmly with my freed one. The merman then looked down, his eyes now focused on my hand as if there was something that had caught his attention. That was when I realized what it was.

—The wound on the back of my hand from hitting the bathroom wall hasn’t healed completely yet and because of the excessive amount of movement just now, the wound had cracked open wider with blood flowing out heavily. VgQGSi

The merman, like a shark, was actually searching for my wound as he had smelled the blood.

In that split second, I imagined myself meeting a great white shark in the sea, and thinking that I would die at the very next moment, but the remaining rationality left from my fear gave me a glimmer of hope due to the unusual behavior of the merman. He looked at me as if I were his food, so why wasn’t he directly attacking me?

Perhaps it’s because merfolks were used to tasting their prey first…. All the biological knowledge stored in my brain seemed to turn into useless waste of little value when facing this mysterious and unknown merman. There was only one voice shouting from the bottom of my heart, No! I don’t want to die so painfully!

I watched helplessly as the merman grabbed my injured hand. As soon as he brought it to his opened mouth I instantly curled up my fingers in desperation. I was frightened to the point where no sound could come out, thinking that I would be bitten off a few fingers in the very next moment. cNvitx

However, the merman just simply held the tip of my fingers gently with his sharp teeth and licked my wound with his tongue. Although his claws were firmly clinging onto my palm, the force of his licking was very soft. I could feel his sharp teeth carefully controlling the force as to not hurt me.

I looked at his face in astonishment. For a moment I thought I was making a fuss over nothing. My beating heart that was about to jump out of my throat, seemed to be caught and held high by his sharp claws near my throat.

I tried to persuade myself to calm down a bit. Maybe the merman was just expressing amicable intentions since I helped him heal his wound before and in return, he used his distinctive characteristic to treat my injuries, similar to the legend about merfolks repaying a kindness with gratitude.

But I still couldn’t convince myself at all. vHd1Se

The merman’s eyebrow was raised, his head hung low, however, his eyelids were clearly still open and staring at me intently.

Under his long and wet eyelashes, there was a sense of evil and aggression that could not be concealed. His vigorous licking became more and more greedy and wanton. The scarlet tip of his tongue, like an erotic snake, flicked gently between each of my fingers, as if deliberately playing obscenely with them, making me feel a strange sense of crawling numbness, like tiny insects drilling into the blood vessel of each finger……

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It seemed straight out of a dream, like an illusion materializing before my mind. His glistening torso, only inches away from my eyes, was proof of merfolk’s close similarities to humans. I had to keep myself calm at all costs— on the surface, anyway.

I put my foot on the stairs and tried to pull my hand away from his mouth as soon as possible, but my helpless wrist was grabbed with dominant force. Using my full strength was like torture to myself, despite the unloosening restriction on me, the merman tightened his jaw on my finger as if threatening me, and finally stopped his strange behavior. vSCjJt

When his lips moved slightly away, I noticed an incredible change in my wound: the reopened injury had disappeared without a trace, with only some blood stains remaining on the back of my hand.

The merman really had no malicious intention, not only did he treat my wound, he even healed it! The merman’s saliva must contain something that could regenerate damaged cells quickly. Oh my gosh, this was simply a miraculous biological discovery!

I had witnessed this with my own eyes, but I still felt incredible disbelief. With fear discarded to the back of my head, the feeling of excitement cause me to get carried away. I couldn’t help but reach out to touch his lips before mumbling to myself, “You’re truly a wonderful existence…”

The merman slightly opened his lips, and his throat let out a deep vibration seemly as if responding to me “A… ga… res…” U7lWBs

“A… ga… res…” I repeated subconsciously and eagerly, wanting to seize this rare opportunity of communicating with him: “You have a name don’t you? Agares? Is that your name?”

The merman did not deny nor admit it, only stared at me silently, however the corners of his mouth curved upwards, as if he was somewhat excited. I guess he didn’t understand what I was talking about, so I would just have to make my own conclusion. Plus naming your own research object is a must for every research studies.

“Aga….”

I tried to keep the conversation going, but I was stopped by his next action. Agares turned his head and pressed his lips onto my wrist. As if trying to absorb my smell, he sniffed up my forearm as if he was a hopeless addict. Frightened, my back pressed onto the stairs with his closely-fitted body pinning me there. His head soon hovered over my neck, letting out a deep, hoarse whisper “D… e… sha… row… Mai… raid…” R3iYsp

Now I am very sure that each syllable he let out was of my real name and my nickname, even the special accent in the middle was pronounced accurately without missing a letter.

The rainstorm suddenly became bigger as heavy rain poured down more violently. Apart from fear, I was even more shocked because I couldn’t understand what kind of creature the merman was. I believe that what I had once known was completely wrong.

While thinking this, my body suddenly felt lighter and to my surprise, I was suspended in midair by the merman’s embrace. He had grabbed my waist with one hand while using his other one to balance himself as he glided across the deck like a snake, moving swiftly towards the guardrail of the boat. My instinctive reaction was that he wanted to go back to the sea and take me there with him! It was too late to ponder about the merman’s main purpose for doing this as I began to instinctively struggle wildly, “No Agares, don’t do this!”

But it didn’t help at all. Just as he was close to reaching the guardrail, I heard a sudden gunshot rang in the distance. The bullet hit the guardrail beside the merman, creating a spark. After that, there was another bang and a splash on the flooded deck a few meters away. dkcPah

I was shocked when Agares instinctively stopped. His hands let go of me, but his tail was still coiled snugly around my lower leg. He twisted himself toward the direction of the sound, and his eyes suddenly became extremely cold and malicious.

As soon as I looked up, I saw Rhine leaping down from the three-storey high platform covered with blood, holding a sub machine gun[1] that I didn’t know where he even got it from. The sub machine gun was aiming straight at the merman’s head, as he approached us with pacing strides. His skill in holding the gun and positioning it was clearly professionally trained…

[1: Sub machine gun]

Rhine is… probably trying to kill the merman!

I recovered my senses from the sudden shock. Although I didn’t believe Rhine would do such a thing as he is a professor-leveled biologist, but the smell of the killing intent protruding from him at this moment made me absolutely sure of this idea. Not only that, from the badly mangled tear in his chest, he was most likely attacked by Agares, giving him every reason to do so.

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At that time, I would rather let Agares jump back into the sea at once. I would rather lose the opportunity to study merfolk than let this kind of thing happen.

I waved my hands vigorously as I roared out with both hoarseness and exhaustion, “Rhine, Rhine, calm down! You let the merman leave by himself. Go shoot at the sea to deter him with the sound of gunfire!” ePkxfd

Rhine remained motionless, the black hole on the muzzle remained unchanged, still aiming at the direction of the merman as he approached with slow steps.

Yet at that moment, Agares did not show any of the so-called biological instinct. His tail supported his body, helping him stand tall, with his back bent as he looked maliciously toward Rhine, like a giant lizard provoked by another male when mating. Agares used his body to form an unbreakable barrier in front of me.

His sharp claws stretched out side by side like two jagged machetes[2] as he positioned in a ready-for-attack posture, forming a devil-like long shadow on the deck in the darkness. I was sure that if he were to attack, it would be a devastating disaster.

[2: Jagged machetes] 8IJcKs

My body felt a series of cold-chills as if I was dropped into an ice cellar. I must not let Rhine and him cross swords!

With this firm idea in mind, I used all my strength to throw myself over Agares’s tail and opened my arms in front of him before shouting hoarsely, “Rhine, don’t shoot, go back, return back to your cabin!”

“Get out of the way.” Rhine put his finger on the trigger, his face looking grimmer than ever, “Desharow, this is a military operation.” w2 ei3

“What?” I even suspected that the storm was too heavy, making me have hearing problems. but my heart still sank to a low point, because when I looked at Rhine’s expression, even by guessing, I came to realize that something fishy was going on.

I faintly smelled a strong, hidden conspiracy. Rhine had been hiding something from me all along. But at that moment, I was not in the mood to think about that because I was sure that Rhine wouldn’t need to care about the merman’s life or death because he was looking for something else. He definitely wouldn’t withdraw his gun, so I had to make a quick, decisive decision immediately to stop what could possibly happen next.

“No, as a biologist, I will never let you shoot the merman.”

I hurled a few words before stepping back to grab hold of Agares’s body. Although I was only tall enough to reach his waist at the moment, it was enough to disrupt Rhine’s shooting. But because the boat was rocking so hard, I staggered along as I exerted all my strength to push Agares back into the sea. However just at this moment, the merman conveniently pulled me up by my waist and used his arm to clasp around my chest as his body bent backward, making an incredible arch. I felt my center of gravity falling into the sea with him and couldn’t help using my hand to cover my nose and mouth. 6Yn8IG

A thunderous bang came flashing and my thighs instantly burst into fervent heat as a stabbing pain came along after. The sensation caused me to jerk up my leg as if I was suffering from a terrible cramp with my whole leg feeling like it pulled a tendon. Agares’s body also shook from the force, the backward momentum came short caused his tail to coil downward. Then, another sound of bullet struck past my shoulder in a controlled manner and soon a jet of blue ink like liquid spurted out and the merman’s arm as it subsequently trembled. His claws clutched at my clothes as if trying to grab hold of me, but in the end, his trembling arm let go.

I instantly tumbled down onto the deck, and the pain in my thigh made me kneel halfway up. I helplessly watched as a sharp line tore open a curtain of rain curtain and hit Agares straight on his tail, making him curl up his body and crawl in front of me. The blue liquid running down from his wound was mixed with rain and merged with my blood to form a poison-like color.

No matter how strong a species is, they were still no match against weapons created by humankind. How they were powerful yet so ridiculous, so ignorant, and so merciless!

I grit my teeth and struggled to defend Agares with my body. I believed that my life still held at least some value for Rhine, I had no choice but to have hope in that idea. JRBNa4

Agares was lying in a pool of blue blood, his body was curled up with his slightly twitching tail pressing on my lower leg. His dark eyes, weak and half-closed, were staring deeply at me, motionless behind his silky long hair. That kind of look was strange and different, neither afraid of despair and free from the viciousness before, as if wanting to engrave this moment and every inch of my appearance into his memory, he then slowly closed his eyes.

I also felt a strong paralysis attack on my nerves. I felt myself on the verge of collapsing as darkness grew before my eyes.

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“It’s just anesthetic bullet. Sorry, if I don’t do this, the merman would have taken you down to the deep sea with him.”

The second before my consciousness disappeared, I heard Rhine’s voice approaching, and as soon as I became motionless, two arms picked me up from the ground. QedCG2