Desharow MermanChapter 90

Translator || Jade
Editor || Cheonsa, [Majorly unedited]

Chapter 90 RxyWAm

Damn it!

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I didn’t dare to recklessly move my hands around, and looked at Agares like a convict who had a gun pressed against their head to show that I didn’t dare to display any unbridleness. I couldn’t act too rashly. I don’t want the current Agares to hate me for my improper behaviour, that would be a big loss to me——however the person who’d have to transfer the information and be pressed down was me! (And of course all this happened because I didn’t have the guts to go against Agares, and generally I wouldn’t even win if I tried to pounce him.)

While lost in my wild imaginations, his caudal fin slowly brushed past my nose bridge, like he was deliberately warning me, even giving me a few not-light-or-heavy pats on my cheek. This action practically should be accompanied by a series of ruthless words, like, “Hey kid/little demon, if you keep provoking me, your ass is gonna get it’ and so on. I nearly laughed out loud because of my amusing association, however I didn’t dare show it because I knew Agares wasn’t playing with me. tqIL6T

That terrifying weapon finally shifted away from my body, while Agares propped up and placed his webbed claws on my thigh once again, caressing it downwards to my kneecaps. I originally thought he was going to be rough, but I noticed that he was merely observing the structure of my legs, like he was looking deeply into my skin, completely ignoring other places. I ought to say that right now, I was not wearing anything from head to toe.

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I oddly observed where his claws touched my skin, trying to figure out what on earth he was mulling about. At this moment, I realised that the place where his hand had stroked over seemed like it went through a UV tester, with faint lines appearing densely packed, looking like the outline of scales but it disappeared just as it appeared. One would miss it if one weren’t paying attention.

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Once I finished, his eyes suddenly turned cold and he retrieved his hand, and looked out toward the sea. Within the night mist, Shinichi’s ship was sailing northwest in our direction and not far from us was an outline of a faintly discernible small island. My breath hitched, thinking that it couldn’t be Hiroshima right? If it was, then we are even more ‘lucky’ than winning the lottery, dear God, we are right at the core of his upcoming disaster!

It seemed that Agares somewhat believed what I said and held some trust in my words, I immediately stressed that, “You must close the passage without delay. However, before that, you have to do something else first…” My voice flattered as I reached this part, stuttering here and there., “You have to… you have to…”

Agares threw a cold glance my way, and my mouth became like a clam shell. What, what was I gonna say? Fuck me? Mount me? Mate with me? what happens if Agares doesn’t successfully retrieve the information before the passageway closes, what would happen then? If so, who knows what will happen to the Agares in the other time and space. Would he disappear completely? I couldn’t help but repeatedly think of this, upsetting myself. Agares really gave me a big problem to solve. How could I make him interested in me? Just keep on bothering him to no end like this? Or think of a way to give him a dose of anesthetic? Of course, veterinary “hormonal catalysts” may be more effective, I don’t know if Shinichi has these things on their boats.

I never expected myself to ever have these kinds of ridiculous thoughts, but it seemed that I have to include them into my range of thoughts now. I scratched my head roughly, quickly feeling the skin of my scalp about to be torn off by annoyances. PLOsvM

Then at this moment, I suddenly saw some blazes across the distant dark horizon, followed by subsequent echoing of explosions, and lighting up a part of the island at the same time, abruptly giving the sea surface a brilliant shade of red. I jumped up in fright, my hair raised at its ends, thinking that the nuclear bomb had been dropped but I realized it was just a few bombers and that the island was fighting back with firearms.

The illumination from the island allowed me to clearly see that the shoreline was not long at all, and one could see that its area was not as large as Hiroshima. That wasn’t Hiroshima, it was just another island. I couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief that Agares and I weren’t in the center zone of the nuclear explosion, but just where was that island? Why do they bring the merfolk they captured to the place where they were waging battles?

I looked towards the distant soaring and blazing inferno in bewilderment, Agares who was beside me left the rock reef at this time, his tail becoming like some sort of fish-shuttle as he swam towards that direction. I stood there stunned for a second before finally reacting and immediately plunged into the water, but with my human form, I was far from catching up with Agares who was swimming at mach speed. Within a blink of an eye, he had already thrown me off about a hundred meter. This instantly gave me a sense of abandonment, I threw a fist in the water angrily and shouted at him, “Hey, Agares, come back, bring me with you. You can’t just leave me behind like this! Hey! You bastard!!”

I chased him while calling out, furious, unease, and rather frustrated. Inside the heart of the current Agares, I had no value, it seems that he rather go rescue the younglings captured by Shinichi, then try to close the passageway. iJmQkO

After a while, I felt a little strenuous in the dragging of the water and gradually became sluggish. I understand that I have to find a way to change back into my merman form, if not it’ll be too dangerous to stay in the vast ocean. The unfortunate thing was that I had no idea when the next opportunity for me to change would arise, everytime it always caught me off guard, just like a computer system suffering an attack from a hacker, it isn’t something that I could control. What do I have to do to provoke it? Mental or physical? I recalled what had just happened, and dived forth within the sea, hoping that the sense of drowning and the pressure of the water could help it.

However, my head had only just gone underwater when my line of sight was swept to something peculiar: under the wobbly and mottled moonlight and through the twisted wave patterns, I noticed several long shadows coming towards me from all directions below. I squinted and found that they are dozens of Mermaids!

My heart screamed out loud, and I quickly moved my hands and feet, praying that I would be faster than them. I’m in my human form, and I undoubtedly attracted those younglings who were looking for a mate. Damn it, just how long before I could transform into a merman!?

Before I could even swim a good few meters, I was surrounded by dozens of Mermaids with their carnivorous eyes resting on my body, making hair raise all over my body. I knew that my naked appearance to them was no different to facing a delicious skinned meat. 1lYUmo

A few among them couldn’t resist it anymore and swam into my vicinity, I looked at them in alarm. Through the water, I came to find that these merfolk’s tails had hints of blue and green to them, their tail shorter than mine when I’m in my merman form, which meant that they were just a group of younglings. However they are just as threatening as those hooligan teenagers that are just coming of age. I clenched my fist, ready to fight them. My physical strength may be better than before, but I don’t have any confidence in fighting off a dozen juveniles.

Damn it, I’d rather die than to let them take turns to vent out on me, I don’t want to meet the same ending like what Henry did. I could sense sweat perspiring out from my forehead, I swear that my brain was already crammed tight from the amount of panic that it was on the verge of suffocating.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

None of the juveniles near me had touched me, they merely surrounded me from all sides, with equal distance between each of them. They were hostile and locked in a stalemate with each other, all of them emitting a high-pitched sound like a declaration of war, making me feel like I was going deaf.

I covered my ears and surveyed the cracks in my surroundings, intending to swim out of this terrifying enclosure when I had the chance. This felt like a person trying to defend their virginity, oh, fuck, but Agares, this incompetent mate, had ran away without a trace! HltYvS

Out of nowhere, my arm was grabbed by a dripping wet webbed claw, I turned back and saw that it was a fellow who had been dormant behind the other merfolk. He greedily sized me up and down before dragging me into his arm. I immediately clutched at his throat, and kicked him away with one leg. His webbed claws came at me again, but I quickly avoided, leading him to collide and fight with another merman who tried to catch me also.

In the middle of the chaos, I became aware that I was able to fight off two to three merman like this, however immediately, my hands and feet were grabbed one after another as the whole herd of merfolk threw themselves at me, like they wanted to dismember me into pieces. My mind seemed to be tearing at the same time. I struggled hard, twisting my body here and there, trembling, hoping that the transformation would happen as soon as possible.

Suddenly, there was a scream in the sky, and I immediately looked up and saw an airplane being blown to pieces in the night sky. Large patches of black shadows scattered like hail, and ball of flames, small or large, soared on the surface of the sea

My mind was wiped blank right away from the loud explosions, and the younglings huddling around me scurried off in an instant. My surroundings become exactly like flaming Hell but underwater. Like a floating volcano, the ruins drifting on the water were emitting black smoke, shrouding my vision. For a moment, I lost my sense of direction and became frightened that I was unable to discern where to go for a while. UfAkmQ

I could only submerge myself and view it from the bottom, the flames made the night sky red like dawn, black debris dropped continuously into the sea, like the whole sky was falling, I swam desperately to avoid being hit by the debris of the plans. Simultaneously I spotted mutilated corpses plunging into the water, and there was even one that crashed into me. At once I noticed that on the corpse’s body was an army’s insignia—it was the symbol for the US Air Force.

I faintly recalled the records of islands that had been overrun by the army in WWII and couldn’t help but to realize that here, this island may be the Iwo Jima island that the US army couldn’t take over even though they had been fighting for quite some time. Did the Japanese capture the mermaid in an attempt to use them against the US Army? They were going to use them as biological weapons? To use them as cannon fodder?!

With this train of thoughts, I hurriedly tried my best to swim toward the island, however in the turbulent flames and the falling debrises, I saw a figure approaching me.

TBC oStOT2