Desharow MermanChapter 97

Translator: Heaven
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Chapter 97, AWaSz

Yukimura let out a low cry of surprise, lifting an unconscious Shinichi to examine him while Asura looked back at us in a panic, seemingly lost to have broken our ‘good thing’ between Agares and me, not knowing what to do.

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Agares glared at him darkly, holding me tightly in his embrace as he used his body to shelter my exposed and bare parts. At this moment, faint sounds of our pursuers could be heard in the distance. Damn it, my heart complained, it seemed that my union with Agares in my human form for the last time couldn’t be accomplished, because if we finish it here, it’ll make both Agares and I weak. Withdrawing my hands and feet, Agares supported my limp body, relying on his pair of strong arms, climbing up to the cliff that led to the vast ocean. Looking down, intense smoke from guns wafted up, making me feel suffocated. The intense feeling in my body had miraculously eased a lot.

Burning ruins were dispersed around in the dark boundless sea, it was like the stars in the sky had died with the fire as grey fog silently pervaded the air, weeping about the cruelty and bitterness of war while Agares and I were about to jump into the sea filled with the scent of death, but right now, I don’t feel scared at all. SgJVAn

“Desharow, don’t be afraid.” Agares said my name in a low voice, shifting closer to my ear, embracing my body and headed closer towards the edge of the cliff.

“Hold on.” I grabbed his arm, unable to resist looking back at Yukimura and the others, I saw Yukimura had already lifted Shinichi up, a complicated expression on his face as he looked towards the mottled flames in the distance, like he was hesitating about something.

Asura’s webbed claws held one of his hands, pointing towards the edge of the cliff. They weren’t that far away, and, mermaids voices had a penetrating strength to it. I could hear him stammering softly in shaky Japanese;“Yuki…mura… Let us go… into the sea…”

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“Don’t… go back!”

Half of Asura’s body was on the grass, both of his webbed claws wrapped around Yukimura’s calves, like a child who was about to lose his beloved treasure, his eyes were blown open, there was a flicker of panic in his eyes, accompanied with rays of constraint and anger in his eyes, and for a moment, I couldn’t believe that him versus the bloodied Asura who was on the ground to be the same person. I wouldn’t have thought of him to be like this, from this we can say that mermaids aren’t inheritably evil from the start like how that old woman and Shinichi had depicted them to be, but because of Shinichi and these fascist destructive nature that forced them to turn into vengeful devils.

Yukimura’s shoulder trembled a little before he stiffly looking back, his beautiful black eyes were misty with tears, looking straight in my direction as though he was afraid to look back at Asura, he bit his lower lips, his teeth punchering it like blades before raising his voice shakily,”Mister Desharow, please quickly leave this island and take Asura with you. I can’t betray my family, I have to go back and take responsibility.” C5yutd

I froze for a bit, my mouth gaping unable to say a word. Damn it, what can I do to convince Yukimura to leave with us? There’s a famous saying that Japanese were full of prejustice, and especially since Yukimura in the period of militarism where he was burdened with the pressure of family ‘missions’, and with a father like Shinichi, damn it, I don’t know how much unimaginable things he had crammed into his head when he was young. My father liked to use violence on me, but at least he wasn’t as cruel as Shinichi, who would sacrifice his son at his own expense.

Asura gripped tightly onto the hem of Yukimura’s kimono, trying his best to get up from the grassy slope, Asura’s tail coiling around Yukimaru, making him unable to take a step. Yukimura stumbled a bit, looking at him with a pale complexion before saying something to Asura, but I couldn’t hear them clearly. I could only see Asura’s eyes burning in the nightlight, seeming like he could burn Yukimura into ashes. And in the next moment, to my surprise, Asura stretched out his hand to grab Shinichi’s nape and toss him aside, before whining in a low voice to Yukimura as a warning, “Go… leave with… me”

“Asura!” Yukimura cried out in a panic and tried to block Asura’s wrist in a flurry, but was instead pulled into Asura’s embrace suddenly and dragged up the cliff, him not letting go despite how much Yukimura struggled. But at this moment, I was surprised to see Shinchi, who was lying at the side, wake up unexpectedly, but as soon as he saw Asura and Yukimura, he reacted extremely fast that before I could even warn Yukimaru, I saw Shinichi gearing up, getting ready to pounce on them. I yelled out, “Careful!”

“Father!” Yukimura looked at him and cried out in shock, while at the same time, a cold gleam shone from Shinichi’s hands, firmly stabbing whatever it was into Asura’s tail. Asura burst out in a miserable screech and ruthlessly swung his tail at Shinichi, but he used the advantage of being on land and dodged it, taking the weapon out from Asura’s tail with his backhand, striking at Asura’s head. The sudden change of events left me flabbergasted, and at that second, I thought he was as good as dead, but Yukimura grabbed Shinichi’s arm just in time, using his body to block Asura from the stab. I could clearly see the sharp weapon penetrating through Yukimura’s body and the ghastly sight of red blooming on his kimono. Immediately, Asura let out a heart-piercing cry while Shinichi looked in shock at the tragedy he had caused with his own hands, staggering backwards and getting caught off guard when Asura’s tail knocked the wind out of him, and swept him down the hill. mlwHv

I stiffly looked upon how the situation had suddenly changed, everyone was frozen on the spot, staring blankly at Yukimura as he fell down helplessly. Asura frantically tried to hold Yukimura in his embrace, trying his utmost best to carry him, who was in and out of consciousness, up the hill towards the cliff. His injured fishtail made it harder to move every inch Asura took, then he lifted his head and wailed at us, it was the same pitifullness and denial he had when Yukimura died, causing my heart to tighten. I never expected the tragedy between Asura and Yukimura to be irreversible, they were obviously so close to each other.

I felt uneasy and moved without thinking, wanting to help Asura but Agares grabbed my arm. He stared at Asura and furrowed his eyebrows, it seemed that he also felt compassionate but he whispered a warning in my ear; “Keep your distance from them, if not you’d be attacked.”

As he spoke, I felt Agares tightening his grip on my arm, pulling my entire body under his before suddenly leaping, I barely had time to squeak out a sound before my entire body felt completely weightless, the instant sensation of wind brushing against my skin and the feeling of my body, soul and internal organs being torn apart.

I felt that even my soul couldn’t keep up with how fast Agares and I were falling. It felt like time had stopped at a standstill while we were in midair, stretched to infinity and crushed by the wind. As the sky spun around me, I could neither see nor hear anything clearly, except for how firmly Agares was holding me. I felt like we were an arrow that had been shot and punctured through time, through death, through darkness, and into the world that belonged to us. LKEAfS

In the end, following the deafening sound of water collision, icy but comfortable seawater embraced our bodies as the pace of us falling slowed down. The gushing sound of seawater stimulated my ears as I blinked a couple of times, seeing the hazy and dim underwater environment, my nape was being held onto by a large webbed claw before I finally looked up into the pair of long narrow eyes. Mottled moonlight and the blaze from the flames circled around my Agares, and with his silver hair coated in the dim glow under the water, it made him appear to be a God from the underworld.

But it’s not to the underworld where he wants to bring me to, but to a place where he and I belonged, but even if we did go to the underworld, aha, I would still prepare my heart to follow like a moth to a flame.
With this in mind, I extended my hands to embrace the one I call my beloved. Both my feet were coiled up by Agares’s tail, gentle yet firmly, as though he wanted to rub me into his flesh and blood inch by inch. I caressed the side of his face, while he pressed into the bridge of my nose before kissing me deeply. In an instant, I had the sudden urge to cry——because Agares and I had finally reunited with each other.

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“Thump——”

The sound of water splashing above my head broke me out from my train of thoughts. Looking up within the water, I could see the scattered moonlight falling upon a pair of shadows knitted together, I couldn’t tell if Yukimura was alive or dead, but I could see Asura holding him tightly, his tail swaying through the burning ruins, swimming deeper through the seawater, eventually disappearing from my line of sight. nF9aeX

“Can Yukimura survive, Agares? Can the mermaids’ mother nest heal…humans who haven’t changed into mermaids?”
I clenched my fist involuntarily, my heart felt like a stone sinking in the sea. I look towards Agares, to see that he has the same pensive face while looking in the direction of where they went, not answering my question but instead tightening his grip on my waist, bringing me towards the surface at a fast speed, swimming till the bony reef under the cliff.

Agares carried me towards a flat rock, propping himself on it as well before lying down while embracing me. He was frantically gasping for air, his chest undulating like an earthquake, damp heavy breaths hitting my cheek. I knew that after all that tossing, my omnipotent Chief was far more drained, and of course, my energy in comparison to him was also drained, even the strength to breathe was considered hard.

Curling up in his arms, I despondently gazed upon the sunrise as it met the sea ub the distance. Dawn was slowly breaking over the horizon of the sea and the sky, the brilliant rays of light seeping through the dark blue curtains, dispelling the greyish veil of fog that permeated the sea, brightening everything up, aside for the reef where it’s overshadowed by the cliff. I felt extremely safe, damn it, I realised that after getting together with Agares, I gradually became fond of the night, just as obsessed as his swamp-like affection.

I closed my eyes, my lips resting on Agares’s heart, lightly kissing his chest that smelled of seawater, like a devoted disciple, unable to resist the urge to stick out my tongue, because this is the only way that I could be certain that he was really by my side before I surrender to sleep, that he had really went across time and space and had merged with his past self, to become my ‘sashimi’ again. Maybe because I had witnessed Asura and Yukimura’s unpredictable ending, my heart was full of uneasiness. The high after falling into the ocean only lasted a short minute, in a blink of an eye, it was replaced with an unnerving feeling of unease. Damn it, I keep thinking that everything feels like a dream, that it’s just my imagination. E4Y1sW

“Desharow? What’s on your mind?”

His deep voice travelled through his throat and reverberated into my ears. Damp webbed claws circled my nape, his fingertips lightly combing through my messy wet hair, pushing back my bangs covering my eyes. He looked at me with downcast eyelids, his damn eyes were gentle and seductive, almost making me cast my doubts to the back of my mind. I lowered my head near the bridge of his nose, stared into his eyes and asked in a low voice. “Can Yukimura survive in Atlantis?”

Agares went silent for a bit. “I can’t say for sure. The mother nest is able to heal all younglings, but no humans have ever entered it.

“I pray the fates be kind to them, dear Heavens.” I sighed deeply and buried my head in his neck, drowsiness hitting me in waves. I was about to sleep but once the wind hit, only did I feel the uncomfortable wet and sticky fabric remaining on my body. 4SN9ha

It was a struggle to lift myself from his body, but I managed to take the tattered clothing off my body before sliding back onto his body. This skin-to-skin contact seemed to make him quite happy. His eyes were half open, like he could fall asleep any moment, his webbed claws were rubbing my back gently, like he was caressing a cub, his tail slapping my ankle at a comfortable pace, splashing water onto the back of my calf from time to time like tiny sparks, making me think back to the crazy night I had with the younger Agares on the reef.

I seduced the younger him, while he remembers mentally, it could be said that he hasn’t experienced it physically. I wonder how he’d feel if he recalls what happened that night. In a daze, I took joy in my guesses, tracing the outline of Agares’s face with my fingers but my wrist was then caught by his webbed claws as he bent down and licked my earlobe fervently. “Desharow, whenever you are thinking of me, I can feel what you’re thinking about.” His voice was low and hoarse, “I’m happy about your initiative, so when your heat comes around again, let me experience it again.”

“You insatiable bastard! I scolded in embarrassment, my ears aflame. I grabbed his ears, but Agares bit my chin, his throat rolling with suppressed laughter, rubbing his webbed claws carelessly on my head. I lowered my head and cheekily bit his earlobe with no energy at all, he then pressed my head against his chest, murmuring coaxingly. “Go sleep, Desharow, before we leave this timeline and close the channel, there is something important that we need to settle.”

“What would that be?” el1rmQ

“An unexpected intruder, I didn’t account for his vitality to be so strong,” Agares closed his eyes, “He came from our original timeline, and it might be possible for him to break the development that happened in this timeline.”
My heart thumped for a second, “You’re talking about… Rhine?”
TBC