Desharow MermanChapter 81

Translator: Cheonsa

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Chapter 81

“What is that thing?” Rhine immediately stood up with caution, approached the window side, drew his handgun and peered outside. I also cast my gaze out the window with the same nervousness. The sea unknowingly became overcasted with thick fog again. I could vaguely make out the undulating outline of the steep cliff not far away and the full moon looked as though it was shrouded with layers of spider web, appearing dim and sullied.

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Everything was eerily quiet, as if the scene we saw just now was merely our hallucination. But I knew it was definitely not. That ghastly face, or perhaps, many of those gruesome faces are just hidden amid this damp smog,  secretly peeping at us, the humans behind this window. They are not limited by time and space, they are four-dimensional creatures, they are…..everywhere. 08B7N

An indescribable coldness crawled up my back and I grasped the bedsheet as I smelled an uncertain odor.

Perhaps because he saw nothing, Rhine  hesitatingly lowered his handgun, “I’ll go out and take a look. Behave yourself and stay here, don’t go running around.”

My gaze was absorbed heavily on the darkness outside of the window and momentarily did not answer him. Rhine grabbed my chin in dissatisfaction, compelling me to turn toward him, and it was at this time that I noticed an extra ‘hand’ placed on Rhine’s shoulder. To be more precise, it was a bony and black webbed claw. Then, the ghost face of a rotting head slowly emerged from the shadow of Rhine’s back. Under the seaweed like damp hair, the black holes of the empty and lifeless eyes were silently ‘looking’ at me.

“Behind you………” My scalp exploded and I called out with fright. In a split second, the lightbulb above my head flickered a couple times before my surroundings turned pitch dark. However a faint fluorescent color of green emerged in my retina and this only made things even more terrifying. In the dark, I saw Rhine’s neck being gripped onto without a warning by the claw and was easily being lefted off the floor and dragged backward. But behind him was no longer a door, rather it was a split crevice that was opening wider.  There were countless deformed ghost faces inside the crack, all wearing a nasty evil grin as they let loose their long fishy tongue, which like poisonous snakes curled all around Rhine’s limb, dragging him inward. 9Tb6 2

”Save me…Desharow!”

Rhine’s entire face contorted with fear. I quickly sat up, seized hold of  the hand gun in his hand, and shot into the black hole with loud bangs, but who knew that the sounds of bullets would explode on the plank walls of the cabin right behind me! kZiO6w

Damn it!

Alarmed, I leapt out of the bed and my buttock tumbled onto the hard floor. On the side, that fissure actually split open wider and like the devil一living in the depth of hell一opening its bloody mouth to feast on its prey, the crack directly extended to my feet. Black lumps of threads gushed out from within. Similar to squirmy maggots attached to bones, they tightly coiled around my body, and rapidly spread upward. In split seconds, my entire body felt being bundled into an ice-cold swamp with disgusting fishy stench as a very powerful strange force, like a whirlpool, was pulling me downward. YlVpPT

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“Session……” a faint voice remained in the air. aSkFlW

I was stunned stupid to my spot. I lifted up my hand, and the ring made of the merfolk spore was shining brightly on my middle finger. By the time I realized what had driven those monsters away, Rhine had already pounced onto me, pressing me under his body, and detaining my hand.

Maybe it was because the psychological quality of Nazi soldiers was different from that of ordinary people, I hardly found any emotional impact caused by the terrible experience just now on his face. The speed of his recovery was incredible. In the moment where I am still in a shocked state, he was simply staring at my ring. He then grabbed onto it, intending to take it off my finger. pL2fOh

However, I immediately tightened my hold on the handgun and pressed it directly on Rhine’s chin. I threatened coldly, “Take me to where Yukimura is right now! You should now understand the seriousness of this matter right, Rhine! Those things will reappear again at any time. If you don’t want to screw up your action plans, do as I say.”  I looked behind him, “ I saved you not because I don’t have the heart to let you die, but because we are on the same ship now, so we need to cooperate. Don’t treat me as a hostage or else this mistake will cost you.”

Rhine’s pupils contracted and nodded his head, an unusual color gleamed faintly in his eyes. He finally put away his usual frivolity and playfulness that he had on whenever he looked at me. “You’ve changed, Desharow.” 4X0QiT

I laughed disdainfully, “ Ah, yes.  Both you and Sakarol have contributed a lot in the making of me. How should I thank you guys?”

“However this will not change how I like you.” iNYrvy

He raised his hand, trying to stroke my face, however, I ruthlessly  hit him on the forehead with the butt of the gun, before kicking him to stand up so that I could turn over my body. My lower body was still in unbearable pain, which slowed my actions down. Though I knew I must find Yukimura quickly, otherwise, this ship would be swallowed by the sea tonight.

Upon arriving onto the ship’s deck, I found that the electrical power installed on the whole ship had stopped working and all the upper and lower cabin floors had become dark. Except for Rhine and I, everybody else seemed to be in a deep sleep. There was no sound around us, it was like we are on a ghost ship that was left to drift in the vast sea. Everything was trapped in the dead silence below a grave. Even the sound of seabirds and the slapping sound of the waves had strangely disappeared. It appears that we had entered another illusionary space, a world that was full of nightmares. jgkycC

We walked cautiously close to the cabins to avoid the imperceptible danger hidden in the vast night fog on the sea, but in fact, no one was safe, and this kind of feeling makes one suffocate. Led by Rhine, we crossed the deck, entered the bottom compartment, and came to a particularly hidden and isolated room. Through the window, I caught a glimpse of Yukimura’s figure in a glass pool enclosure inside. He was soaked in some kind of light red water, and the inside of the cabin was also extremely dark, just like the darkroom used for taking photos.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

”Why need to lock him up like this? “ I couldn’t help feeling puzzled. 5Tb6Bc

“This was Mr.Shinichi’s order.” Rhine’s hand moved, and out of  vigilance, I pushed him against the door, but only saw that he was just reaching into his pocket to get something. I stopped him with one hand, and put my other one in to search,  and immediately felt a rack of keys. He turned his head, nervousness escaping from his eyes.“He’s dangerous. Over the past year, his body has been emitting some kind of radioactive substances, and the people that ever approached him, their mentality became dysfunctional and unstable to varying degrees. Mr. Shinichi did this to isolate him. You sure you want to go in?”

“No wonder….this was the reason why that monstrous creature can’t find Yukimura….” dsCrfh

My mental state jumped in nervousness as I grabbed the key and inserted it into the keyhole, then twisting it forcefully. Next,  I grabbed Rhine and threw him aside before walking inside alone, locking the door behind me—so as to avoid Rhine in case he does anything bad. I approached quietly to the tank pool that was more than one man’s height and climbed up the step ladder that was placed outside the pool. Yukimura was floating near the surface, allowing the red water to carry his slender body up and down, and his noticeable streamlined blue tail was like a wisp of nebula streaking across the horizon of the night sky.

Yukimura’s eyes were silently closed. The beautiful facial of this eastern youth was like it was carved out of crystal glass. In my memories, I recalled his fierce expression in that fire, and this made me not want to destroy his peaceful sleep right now.  But unfortunately, I have no choice but to do so. XU Aqu

“Hey, you need to wake up…..Yukimura.” I lightly tapped on the glass, my breath tightening when I noticed the same black spots on his body.

Startled by my presence, Yukimura immediately opened his eyes. He was apparently taken aback by me as he had shrank back to hide in one of the pool’s corner with his bright black eyes staring at me in panic. I changed my position and got somewhat closer so that he could see my face clearly. “I’m….. someone you met before.” XGFdNo

His eyes concentrated on my face, and in an instant, his expression became relaxed. He swam up to me with his tail swaying gently behind him. He then lowered his head, gasping out. ” My future chief, what has brought your presence to me? “

The future chief? I was shocked by this strange calling and wanted to ask more about it, but I remembered we have an urgent situation at hand right now, we should be cutting to the chase.  I was a bit incoherent in organizing my Japanese as I spoked, “I think….the merman you met in the past is looking for you. He has a purple fishtail.”  I gestured, “I also don’t know what’s going on. I somehow strangely saw your past with him and I right away guessed that perhaps he was transmitting to me the message of him wanting to see you.” 8Tmy6d

“It’s him. It’s really him who has been looking for me.” Yukimura murmured in deep thoughts, his gaze fell on the gleaming reflection of small swirling lights beneath the water, and like he was stuck in an unfathomable abyssal, a sorrowful smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth. “In fact I already sensed it long ago. I ought to return the life given to me back to him…..please let me out, it’s time for me to accept my karma.”

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After he said that, he climbed up the edge of the glass pool, and his body slid out and down the pool’s wall. Seeing this, I rushed to catch him from falling and supported him up. “What karma? Isn’t fate what you, yourself control? ” Then the  corner of my lip twitched reluctantly, “Though I don’t have the right to say that myself. However, I hope that you won’t mind telling me,  this stranger,  your story before you leave? Because….I don’t think we will meet again. But if you feel offended…..” sQE850

“No, it’s okay. To be able to say these things out loud right before my life comes to an end is very fortunate of me.” Yukimura lifted his eyelids, and looking through those two pairs of youthful eyes, I could touch the great changes that precipitated deeply within. It was then that I realized that Yukimura  had already spent nearly half a century in the sea. He was no longer the young man in kimono back in those days, but an old man in his twilight years, “But there is no story to tell, there’s only a lie and the price to pay for that lie. ‘Asura,’ that’s what I call him by. But do you know why he became the ‘Asura’ that was vengeful?

I shook my head. Yukimura closed his eyes, the black feather-like eyelashes trembled slightly, as if  he was sinking into a nightmare, “Because as a ‘fish-bait’ myself, I had coerced him and  had also led the raging massacre and our evil plots to the merfolk species. My family clans had  killed hundreds of merfolk and used them to do extremely cruel experiments, therefore, we too paid the same price . ” XImvYg

Following Yukimura’s whisper, the extremely disturbing scene reappeared before my eyes. I once again saw the purple-tailed merman, standing in the flames, like an‘Asura’ with it’s blood-soaked appearance. Yukimura was looking back at his own nostalgia with pained eyes. In the end they fell into the sea like two broken birds, full of despair in each other’s arm.

I couldn’t help sucking in a cold breath, my chest, as though pressed by a rock, felt heavy. Remembering the terrible appearance of what that merman looked like now, I became afraid to continue asking because it felt like I was holding a scalpel to cut open the old wounds sealed by time to dissect the bloody past. y8K3Ma

Such questions would be too cruel for Yukimura to answer.

“You are much braver than me.” Yukimura’s webbed claw was suddenly placed gently on my head, just like a benevolent old man to his descendants, “You dare to admit your love, dare to fight for him alone even if you are a different race. I think our leader did not choose his successor wrong, you are the one who is capable of saving the existence of Atlantis.” CJWhdT

“But I’m not his successor, how can I become the leader! I’m his…” I scratched my head, not knowing how to go on, but at this moment, there was an unusual movement behind me. Yukimura’s facial expression changed instantly.

I turned around and immediately froze in fright. On the cabin’s wall behind me, a small crack was splitting open and from inside, two pairs of pale webbed claw extended out, tearing the crack wider and wider apart. Along with gushing sea water, a thick black fishtail  came slithering out. Following that, like a resurrected zombie emerging from its grave,  the owner of that tail slowly exposed his equally pale upper body next from the widened black hole. Kil1JC

Soon a pair of  horrifying eyes filled with blood lust was staring longingly at me. “Desharow……”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

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Being scared out of my wits, I  accidentally fall into the pool beside me. After his variation, Agares actually also possess this terrifying four-dimensional ability! Oh gosh, this was something I didn’t think would happen, even in my nightmare!

In the water, I retreated backward in horror and stuck closely to the pool wall behind me. Just like how Agares was climbing up the pool like a lizard, a chill crawled into my bone marrow, freezing all the bloods coursing through me body.

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TBC

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For this chapter, it’s not my best work as I was in a very tired states when translating this. I will make revisions as soon as I start feeling better. It would be a lot of help if you guys could point out any mistakes, or weird sentences for me as well. Thank you for your patience, Please keep on supporting Desharow!

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