Desharow MermanChapter 72

Translator: Cheonsa

*unedited* S8qkQD

Chapter 72

　　Where is this?

Chrysanthemum Garden.

 I opened my eyes from my sleep and saw a wooden ceiling before my eyes. It was filled with cracks and furthermore, a ruptured dark hole could be seen on one side of the corner.  I habitually stared blankly at it for a good while, until my mind slowly cleared up, and only then did I realized that I was lying in my own cabin on the Poseidon. There was no doubt it was Agares that brought me back here.

  LrkCZb

　　This was bad.

　　I shot to sit up immediately, ruffled my disheveled hair before jumping up from the bed. As I was preparing to push the door open to go out, the corner of my eyes brushed past the things I used to disguise my outward appearances on the table. My footstep was brought to a halt. I must find Agares and catch up with him as soon as possible, but I shouldn’t just go out like this. It was too dangerous. I’m a fugitive, and plus, Rhine and his men are also in Venice. Unless it was my last resort, I must operate undercover as much as possible. 

　　Thinking this, I turned back to my desk and took out a scissor. Looking at my reflection on the window glass, I quickly cut my hair into a rather sharp and shrewd hairstyle, and then put on sunglasses, a fake beard, and had my face darkened.  Soon in the reflection, a middle-aged man who even I couldn’t recognize appeared. I observed my face from side to side, and carefully smeared the cosmetic skin cream evenly. Next, I rummaged around and found a gun, a binocular, and a flashlight in the drawer一I had them each wrapped inside waterproof plastic bags before stuffing them inside my newly changed jacket, this was to prevent them from getting damaged incase I need would need to operate in the water.   from going into the water to ensure that they are not damaged.

　　I pushed the door out, searched around the ship and found that no one was on the Poseidon. Such a huge ship, yet there was nothing but silent. However when I came to the captain’s room, I heard a pager going off with clamorous noises. I pressed it, called back a few times, and immediately heard the response from Rodia and several other Poseidon companions. From their mouth, I learned that Kolov was still involved with the mafia and the so-called German Company’s transaction. Not only that, as an intermediary representative, he was successfully invited to participate in their mysterious project, and that the Poseidon was going to Japan together with them. 

　Their voices sounded excited because they believed that this time they could profit a huge sum, however, my heart only dropped like a sinking anchor, and my heartstrings, like the rocking movements of the anchor’s chain, began to feel restless.   qvkhas

　　Why does Rhine and the others also want to go to Japan? Could it be that they already know the location of the atomic bomb wreckage was the key to opening the passageway? 

　　But this was also quite good, after all, it was much easier to take back the spores at sea than in a city controlled by human forces. This gave Agares an absolute advantage. Though, where was Agares now?  uc8V7

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

　　P uba boo atf Ubfrlvfc ktlif offilcu fzagfwfis cfgnber jcv gbvf bc j ubcvbij ab qgbmffv abkjgv atf ecvfgugbecv mjrlcb ktfgf Bbibn tjv ajxfc er atja vjs. Lbkfnfg,  pera jr P qjrrfv ys atf Dglvuf bo Vlutr P lwwfvljafis rqbaafv atja cba ojg jkjs,  jc bmfjc ilcfg atja kjr jcmtbgfv bc atf kfra rlvf bo atf qbga kjr ribkis jqqgbjmtlcu atf Ubrflvbc. Vbbc joafg mbccfmalcu atf vfmx klat lar yglvuf, j ugbeq bo oluegfr mbeiv yf rffc kjixlcu bea ogbw atf batfg rtlq. Ktfs kfgf ws mbwqjclbcr. 

In addition, apart from them, there were several other figures standing on the third deck of that suspicious ocean liner. At one glance, I saw a familiar figure wearing a military green coat. I instinctively squatted , squeezed myself in between the gondola's tent before GZfu3U

taking a quick and nimble jump ashore. From there, I observed that location from my place backed by a wall.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

　　That person was clearly Rhine. But then where was Sakarol? I looked vigilantly at other regions on the ship, but didn’t find the figure of that sinister and insidious woman. I couldn’t but breathe a temporary sigh of relief and prayed very much that she did not come or was already dead. It’s true that Rhine was a great threat, however he was not as difficult to deal with as Sakarol. 

  8pmKla

Although I couldn’t find Sakarol, I did discover another great threat—Shinichi. He was standing on the second deck, conversing with Kolov and the Camorra family’s godmother, Licciardi . Seeing her made me rise up with spirit, I hastily moved to a place with a better view and searched for Agares in all locations but I still didn’t see a single trace of him.

　　However I could vaguely feel that he was here since I could feel an invisible magnetic field attracting me, causing my nerves to jump. Maybe he was hiding on the Poseidon or somewhere on Rhine’s ship, it was most likely the latter.  

  f3aeMv

　　“You want to play hide-and-seek with me, is that right,  my lord chief?” I thought aloud as I squinted my eyes. I couldn’t help but thank Kolov for wading into the muddy water, which allowed me to successfully be with Agares on this journey forward. Kolov probably didn’t expect this at all. 

Seeing Rhine returning back inside the ship, I took the opportunity to sneak back to the Poseidon and hid in my cabin to spy at the situation on the opposite ship with a binocular. Through the lens, I saw Shinichi holding an electronic navigator while talking to Licciardi ; perhaps they are precisely talking about the location of the atomic bomb wreckage in Hiroshima. Behind him stood several bodyguards in black and among them, one was carrying a leather suit case which probability contains cash for the transaction. In the end, I didn’t find any suspicious containers in surrounding Shinichi that could possibly contain merfolk spores. I don’t know where they are being kept right now. .

  B Z298

　I continued to carefully observe all this. The binocular’s lens inadvertently passed the faces of those men behind Shinichi, but then, I suddenly felt a speeding palpitation in my heart. This made my eyes freeze through the lens and I couldn’t help but emotionally focus on a certain individual’s face. It was the person carrying the suitcase, a tall man wearing sunglasses with a head full of short brown hair. 

There was no resemblance between this man’s appearance and Agares’s except for the same pale white skin. He clearly looked to be a stranger, yet I just couldn’t move my eyes away. it was like my gaze was being drawn in. I swear that I didn’t have a change in affection nor a shift in love!

  HsluZb

If Agares was capable of imitating a human’s lower body by acquiring genes through sucking dry a person’s spinal cord , maybe he could do something similar like that to copy the facial appearance of someone else!? Perhaps he was pretending to be one of the three people he had killed? 

　　A bold assumption flashed my mind, however if it was talking about Agares, it might just be a reasonable hypothesis. I had to find a way to determine my conjecture, or I be anxious to the point of going insane as I do not know ether it was just my illusion or not. I need to find a way to get on that ship, but it’s a stupid thing to attempt while in broad daylight as there are two people on that ship who knows me. The two ships journeying together won’t be too far apart from each other, so I could just swim there in the water and climb abroad onto that other ship. 

  qTvDVd

　　After using the binocular to clearly examine the structure of the ship, I silently planned my night operation in my heart as I watched as the talking couple on the deck walked together into the holds of the ship. There seems to be a gambling banquet held inside, and the man that gave off a peculiar feeling to me followed inside as well and disappeared into the crowded circles. 

Please visit chrysanthemumgarden (dot) com

Gradually as the sky darken, the Poseidon and the other ship sailed out of the harbor one after the other.

  lGI3O1

　　Eight o’clock at night, Rodia, Nick and some other companion came to invite me to play poker. I didn’t refuse and I played until midnight, before finally using the excuse of going to the bathroom to slip out. In the moment when nobody was noticing, I sneakily jumped into the sea, and swam like a foraging shark to another ship that wasn’t too far ahead while taking advantage of the dark night and the high wind. The speed of the other ship was very fast, and the waves generated by the track are especially big. It would be impossible for ordinary people to catch up with it by swimming, but for a mutated body like mine, it wasn’t that difficult. 

　　After several attempts, I finally was able to fasten myself onto a lifeboat that was tied to the outside of the ship using a dagger. Grasping onto the hanging rope, I climbed up carefully and when I reached the edge, I raised my head to quietly peak around. All the people were in the dining hall of the ship and all were fully absorbed in the soon ending gambling banquet. An accordian band was singing German songs while a beautiful blonde hair female singer was half sitting on the stage, her beautiful white thighs seemingly attracting all the attention of the people there. This enabled no one to notice that a certain ‘ghost’, like me, had climbed up from the sea in the dark.

  mIWjxb

　　I quickly flipped into the ship and stuck myself onto a window of the ship’s large dining cabin in order to observed the inside. The billowing smoke was dusky and the lights were rather mottled and striking, making one feel dazzled. I didn’t get to find Agares yet, however from just one glance, I already saw Rhine sitting at a gambling table not far away with Kolov and the others. With one cigarette in his mouth and a lot of gambling chips in his hand, Rhine was behaving like a leader indulging in a life of luxury. I don’t even know what military rank he was now. Perhaps now, without Sakarol’s suppression, he was finally able to mix in his private self.

　　Swallowing my disgust that was flowing up, I crouched down and moved to the other side of the dining hall cabin, thinking that maybe Agares was on the second or third floor. Thus I sneaked up the stairs leading to the top floors. The entire second and third floors were dark, all the cabins in the corridor were also closed, and several armed men with guns were guarding the bow and stern of the ship. I don’t know if they will begin there patrolling soon. I will quietly hide myself in the dark, practically sliding against the wall without making any noises. As I approached the staircase leading to the third floor, I suddenly smelled a familiar scent, and my heart couldn’t help but start pounding wildly.

  Q0el7m

　　Agares was nearby, on the third floor, somewhere that was extremely close to me. 

　　I fumbled for the railing to climb up, nearly slipping because of my urgency of climbing, but fortunately I was quick to hold my foot on the steps. Upon leaning my head out of the cabin’s door,  a rear view of a black figure appeared before my sight in the dim light of night. That’s the man I saw in my binoculars during the day. He was looking outward at the sea, seemingly entranced, as if deeply thinking about something. He didn’t even detected my sudden presence at all. Although his lower body does not have a fishtail, and there were no long silver-gray hair on his head, and even his height was a little different, it didn’t stop me from being attracted by the scent in the night air that belonged specially to Agares  I walked over step by step.   

  XIZHPV

　　”Hey Agares.” 

　　I crept up behind him and his shoulder shook upon my quiet call. I supposed that he was startled by me. Before he could turn around, I raised my arm and envelope his waist from behind, while burying my nose into his suit, and deeply smelling the tempting scent coming out of it, “Don’t you even think of leaving me behind.” 

  magjAJ

　　A cold hand held my wrist, and his fingers rubbed my skin carefully. He slowly turned around, and when I looked up, what I saw was a pitch-black sunglasses, and behind them were two pairs of long narrow eyes emitting a faint radiance. I leaned closer to the bridge of his nose, thinking that I would get an eager kiss, but suddenly I felt a cold hard metal object pressing right against my forehead. In the next moment, before I could even react, my two arms were abruptly pressed behind my body, and my entire body was forcefully being shoved down the stairs to the second floor. The familiar and low voice beside my year calls out a short German phrase that I didn’t understand. In an instant, armed men surrounded me, and several black muzzles were aimed directly at me.  

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

　　What’s going on? My brain was buzzing soundly, not able to comprehend anything  momentarily and could only be foolishly stunned in place.

  JcUb5a

　　“What’s going on?” Another voice asked the same question I had in mind but it came from the bottom deck.  I peered down and saw Rhine standing right below looking up at me, this unexpected guest that was captured alive.

　　TBC

Sorry guys for the terribly late update. Hope you guys don’t hate me too much!!! y1T0MI

And I apologize about this chapter not being edited as well. One of my editor due to in real life things, had left the group. (but please do thank her for her hard work), and currently my other editor  had been busy with projects and finals. So please understand. If you guys could, please do point out ay errors. I will fix them. I know my grammar sucks (and phrasing as well), but please bear with it! Thank you!

And guys! do you think that person is actually Agares or not? If it’s Agares, what is he thinking!!! and uh oh! Rhine had found Desharow, you think after two years, he still in love with our MC?

  8VSWq5

—Cheonsa