Translator: Cheonsa
Editor: pigeon
***Please try not to skim. There are important info along with switching of past and present talks!
Chapter 87
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After a good while, I was still stuck in Agares powerful arms, wallowing in the tiredness that came after the ebbing pleasure. Agares nipped at my lips, kissing me, wishing to continue. However, he had no means of going further. After I had vented, all affectionate actions ceased. However, I could feel how stiff the muscle of his fishtail was, which was between my legs. He was obviously restraining his own impulses. Being a man myself, I knew very well how unbearable that kind of feeling was. If circumstances permitted, I would’ve used any means to help him release without the slightest hesitation, even if it demanded me using my lips and tongue.
But in fact, it was impossible for us to even enjoy ourselves for the last time, before the arrival of our upcoming parting. I closed my eyes and forced myself not to think of what was coming. Just the thought of it made my heart feel prickly as though scratched by a cat. Like a fish that couldn’t live without water, I intimately rubbed my head against his. My nose and my eyelids were turning flushed and heated, but my mind was churning uncontrollably like a washing machine. I couldn’t stop myself from starting to imagine scenes of me meeting Agares in another time and space. What Agares was like in the past, whether I had already appeared at that time, and how he would treat me, etc… All kinds of doubts came into my mind one after another. Then suddenly, my logic was obstructed by one bad notion, and my heart seemed to stop beating.
With that thought, I promptly pushed Agares away a few inches, stared dead into his eyes and earnestly questioned him carefully. “The you in the other time and space, would that still be the real you, Agares? When I travel to another reality and meet you there, will the you here remain in this world forever, and then completely mutate or die? What’s the point of going to another space and time then? Damn it, so I’ll be abandoning you here and be together with the other you in another world?”
When I elaborated this notion, I couldn’t help feeling a burst of heartache, which made my voice tremble, but at the same time, I was so glad that I thought about it! Agares was silent, appearing tacitly in agreement with my conjecture. I bit my lower lip and shook my head resolutely. I firmly squeezed Agareth’s shoulder with my hand and said in a deep tone. “I can’t do this… Even if they are you.”
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He lowered his head, his forehead lightly pressing against mine, but his lips curled slightly, and his webbed claws touched the back of my head, holding it in his broad palm and rubbed the area with affection. “No, Desharow. The way you’re trying to ponder my life pattern right now is the same way you have been thinking for humans. You are carrying the core system of my life. When you hand it over to the other me in another time and space, it will enter the body of that past me and they will continue my current life. I will indeed die in this world—”
My breath tightened, but then I heard him speak closely in my ear, “However, this body here is just a body eroded by dark matter. , You are the key to another destiny between me and Atlantis. Do you understand?
“Yes I do, just like copying data through disk, restoring factory settings and then re-installing the system, it will be another form of a new future.” I muttered softly to myself in a stunned manner. (I’m sorry that I am comprehending something so miraculous as this in such an unromantic way. But indeed, I am just a pragmatic borned scientist.) Agares obviously couldn’t understand the meaning of this sentence and raised an eyebrow in puzzlement. Feeling skeptical, I pouted and inquired as I stubbornly pressed against his lips. “You have to swear that you aren’t deceiving me.”
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”You are being jealous of yourself like this…” I mumbled as I wriggled my body uneasily in his bosom. However, at this time, I felt a sudden rumble under my feet, and I almost toppled into the skeleton pile nearby. Fortunately, Agares’s tail wrapped around my body in time and pulled me back into his arms. But then next an ear-splitting sound of something like an acute tool scratching across the metal surface broke out above us, and the submarine instantly rocked violently. Agares half-dragged and half-carried me into the cockpit directly facing the channel entrance. Through the glass screen, I immediately saw a huge strangely shaped black shadow floating above the submarine. I couldn’t tell what it was, but it was similar to a jet of ink mist sprayed out by cuttlefish.
”What is this thing!” I felt a burst of chills as I stared nervously at the lump of things. All of a sudden, Agares grasped my hand. From my pocket, he took out the scale he had given me as quickly as possible and pressed it on my chest. I immediately felt a slight burning heat and when I looked down, that fish scale had already merged into the birthmark on my chest, forming a deeper blue spot.
”That’s an ‘egg nest’ that had been eroded by dark matter. Before, it was used to produce and nurture younglings. However, now, it has become a parasitic den for polluters. It was avaricious and instaitable, and now, it was already trying to swallow me. ” Agares narrowed his eyes, a grin drew upon his gloomy complexion, and his white fangs flashed a murderous sharpness. “When I go ward it off, Desharow. You need to take the opportunity to enter the passage without any delay.”
My heart felt like it was stabbed by a sharp knife as my whole chest contracted with fear and uneasiness. But I clenched my fist, knowing that any hesitation at this time may cause a failure on all the effort Agares had out through. Thus, I nodded and straightened my back, ready for action, and like a soldier waiting for the commander’s order, I quietly waited for Agares’s guidance.
”Release the powers I bestowed to you as much as you can. You can do it….”
Agares held my waist, pressed against my ear, and let out a heavy low cry. His hug felt so strong and sturdy that the tears I had been trying to hold back rushed forth from my eye sockets. I suddenly felt like this was just like our final embrace. But I did believe the truthfulness of what Agares said about his life transfer, and I believed that he was more eager than anyone to reunite with me again in another time and space.
I nodded again and bowed my head to deeply kissed his web claws, simultaneously forcing back the overflowing liquid in my eyes, “Yes, my Lord Chief.”
When I finished saying this sentence, Agares’s hug on me tightened a bit more. Immediately after, he grabbed one of my arms and in a split second, like an arrow released from its string. We penetrated through the glass and hurriedly rushed out. The extremely cold seawater from all directions surrounded us, while at the same time, hordes of black nets attacked toward us in succession from all sides. The moment when I was only a short distance away from the entrance of the channel, the strength of Agares holding me suddenly disappeared.
”Leave here. Don’t look back, Desharow!” Agares’s voice at once sounded from the pager. The buzz of the static currents were like bombs exploding in my chest, but I merely dug my teeth deep into my lips and desperately paddled with my body. I shuttled quickly amidst the grotesque spider-like shadows that were constantly coming at me. Their disgusting, sharp, insect-like legs scratched across my body, and there were countless claws grabbed at me in attempt to hinder me. I even caught sight of my comrades’ badly mutated heads and limbs in my surroundings. However, none of it compelled me to stop.
I persisted in swimming, and while I was moving at a speed that exceeded human limits, my two legs gradually transformed into a fishtail. Like a lightning bolt in the water, I tore my way through the suffocating darkness and rushed into the entrance of another world——
Upon entering, I was engulfed by a sheet of expanding bright light. Then I felt my body being instantly thrown into a whirlpool with an indescribable and immense force sucking me towards the bright light. I subconsciously turned my head to look at the direction I entered; Agares was imprisoned in the darkness in an entanglement with this creepy monstrous shape-thing that sprouted countless heads and long black limbs. His fishtail swept across like a black hurricane, constantly aiming toward his mutated people. The fins that grew from Agares’s back were like a pair of death wings, spread wide open, and his posture resembled Lucifer who had fallen into hell in those myths and legends.
I tried my best to open my eyes, wanting to engrave this scene firmly into my memory, but the blinding white light gradually surrounded my entire world, completely erasing Agares’s figure. Immediately after, my consciousness plunged into a blank slate, and my brain turned stagnant. I seemed to have forgotten where I was, where I came from, and where I was supposed to be heading. All that remained in my body was my sensory with no line of thoughts at all.
I sensed a strong wind blowing across my ear, sometimes it was hot, sometimes it felt cold as it swept through my entire being. My interior body was gradually depleting like it was drying up, yet it once again recovered. It appeared like in a short time, I had already passed through all parts of the world and had experienced the fate of mortality, and then once again been brought to life to only ultimately fall into the crack that suddenly split open in the white light .
“Glug….glug.”
Stream of water flitted across my body, reviving my rigid body slowly, and my rationality seemed to have returned into my brain. I found that I was still underwater, but my surroundings were no longer a sheet of darkness. Not far away above my head was the shining daylight. Straightaway, I moved my arms and nimbly flailed my fishtail to swim upward with ease, as if I had already been accustomed to this new body.
Just as I was enjoying the freedom of swimming in the sea, suddenly, a large shadow came down from the top. Before I could react, my back felt a penetrating burning pain. It seemed that a bullet had hit me. I instinctively fled upward, but in a split second, a shadow enveloped me head on, completely blocking all my routes of escape. My surrounding became bound into a ball and I was lifted up ward. It was at this moment that I clearly saw that it was a fishing net!
With a loud splash, I was fished out of the water by an astonishing force. What appeared before me was something giant and a steel monster like mechanical arm was suspending me in mid-air. I turned over my body, feeling dizzy. I shook my head. Aside from shock, I also felt this to be exceedingly ironic—this situation was exactly the same as when I met Agares on the ship, but it was just that we had changed positions!
”Hey! Look, another Mermaid! This one actually turned out to be a silver tail. I’ve never seen one like it before!”
Not far away came a string of exclamations, turning out to be Japanese. I immediately adhered to the sounds and turned around, seeing a dozen black-haired and black eyed Asians looking at me in amazement. However, what I couldn’t believe was that among them, there was a young man with outstanding appearance. It was Yukimura.
What did you guys think of this twist!? Did you guys ever thought of this?
Now my question is, Do you guys wish for Desharow to help the past Yukimura?
(…if helping means losing Agares or even his own life?)
Again, if you see any errors, let me know. If confused, feel free to comment! There are parts that I TNed, they might solve your confusions!
— Cheonsa
Agares is always priority!!
+1
Thanks for the chapter!!! Wow, what a ride!
God, what nerves >w< thank you very much for the chapter!
Help yes, unless it poses any danger to Agares.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
If he can, he should. If it means dying or losing agares, I don’t think he will help.
Thanks for the chapter <3
Wow, i always love thos kind of plot where past meets present😍. Thank you for the chapter
Thank you for the chapter❤
I never cried so hard in my life…
I would rather he help the one who’s going to be with him forever, Agares… Yukimura is already a past
Oh gosh jist the idea of Agares dying is making me cry TT