Mermaid Effect

"It was literally a murder."

Rogers stood in Rand's living room and said to him.

There was going to be a good basketball game on the night, and Rodgers knocked on Rand's apartment door with a beer and asked if he wanted to watch it.Rand's answer to this is naturally "of course", but this also means that Rogers saw the brand new aquarium when he was caught off guard.

His face was full of disbelief and grief, and his eyes fell on the aquarium that could be said to have saved Rand. Obviously, Rogers had a completely different view from Rand on such a big thing.

"A murder of aesthetics."

He took a step back, as if he couldn't control his emotions, he couldn't help repeating.

Rand held a small plate of sliced ​​chicken breast in his hand, and he smiled wryly at Rogers.

"Oh, come on, Rogers, I just... I just need an aquarium, and who knows that the original one will suddenly break."

He did know that the aquarium was not very beautiful, but Rogers' reaction was completely unexpected.

"...and, I don't think it looks that bad..."

Rand added weakly.

Rogers covered his face in pain.

"God... straight man."

He muttered resignedly, and then completely gave up on trying to correct Rand's aesthetic deviations.

He approached Rand, frowning as he fed the odd aquatic creature with chicken breast.

Munster has settled into his new abode, and the spacious surroundings seem to make it livelier than before.Rand was worried about the tentacles on its head, but on the second day, there were two small bumps in that place. The color was slightly lighter than before, but it might look like new tentacles, and its scales became more colorful than before. It is bright, and sometimes it even looks like it is emitting blue fluorescence. That unusually rich color may prove its health from another angle.Just like all people who keep pets, Rand feels at ease and happy about Munster's current situation - after all, no one would like to see any adverse reactions from their pets, even if the pet looks No matter how strange, no matter how annoying the personality is.

However, just like every coin has fronts and backs, while Munster has become more active than before, his appetite has also become stronger than before.Rand now feeds him as much as a pound or so of chicken breasts (sometimes discounted beef) almost every day. He used to worry about Munster's problems with overeating, and he even witnessed it one day. After it devoured half a chopped turkey, he boldly put his hand into the aquarium and touched Munster's stomach.

He was really afraid that this little monster would die suddenly from eating too much—just like some people on the Internet complained that their goldfish ate and died.

Of course, in the end he found that Munster was well adapted to the amount of food, and Rand's worries were just superfluous. In addition, there was another sequelae, that is, since then, it fell in love with letting Rand touch its belly.

——Munster didn't seem to understand at all, it's just a fish!

At this moment, when Rand approached the aquarium, Munster quickly surfaced.With almost its entire head out of the water, its tail slapping the water in excitement, it grinned at Rand, revealing a row of fine, white teeth.

"Chirp - chirp - chirp~"

It begged Rand eagerly for food.

Even from the perspective of a bystander like Rogers, this scene can really be described as horror.Our hidden Mr. Killer is almost about to open his mouth to prevent Rand from approaching the aquarium. According to his rich experience, Munster's broad jaw and mouth full of sharp teeth prove that it has enough strength and tools like a shark. In the same moment, Rand's hand was bitten off.

but……

Rogers took a quick look at Rand. The latter looked at the ugly and weird creature in the aquarium, and there was a kind of love in his eyes that he had never noticed.He lowered his head, picked up the chicken from the plate, put it in his palm, and then brought his hand to Munster's mouth.

The little monster immediately ate Rand's hand with the excitement of a large dog.

This scene made people sweat down their backs, but the person involved, Rand, was unaware of it.

"Do you have to feed it like this? It might hurt you."

Rogers didn't hold back, he spoke to Rand, during the process he kept staring at Munster's mouth uncontrollably, a sense of crisis from instinct made Rogers completely unable to move his eyes away ——Even if Munster had incredible dexterity when eating from the palm of Rand's palm, those terrifyingly sharp teeth didn't even break his skin.

For a professional killer who takes pleasure in nipping any danger in its infancy before it arises, watching Rand feed his pets in such a dangerous manner is an ordeal.

But from Rand's point of view, this ordinary man who always thought he was living an ordinary life obviously couldn't understand Rogers' painful mental state at this time.He even showed a comforting smile to Rogers.

"I know it looks a bit scary, you know I was startled by its teeth at first, but Munster is very smart, he knows not to bite me ... in fact, he has never hurt in this way Me, you don't have to worry."

Rand comforted Rogers.

Of course, there were some things he didn't tell Rogers.

For example, since Munster discovered that he could eat meat from Rand's palm, he never touched the chicken breasts that Rand put in the aquarium, and he didn't even bother to give them a look.On several occasions, Rand even had to scoop up the swollen chicken breasts from the bottom of the aquarium himself to prevent them from spoiling and polluting the water.

Due to the size of the aquarium, Rand was extremely embarrassed by this tragic errand, so now he would rather make a little trouble than relive that nightmare.

As if to match Rand's words, after his voice fell, Munster suddenly raised his head and yelled at him twice.

Rogers involuntarily raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, that's really cute."

He said to Rand without any sincerity, then pretended to be nonchalant and picked up a piece of chicken breast, put it in his palm, and handed it to Munster's mouth.

"Uh……"

Rand turned his head to look at him, hesitated, as if he wanted to say something.

However, Rogers didn't have extra leeway to explore Rand's thoughts at this time, which was exactly the same as his casual and relaxed appearance. When he put his hand in front of Munster, he felt that the hair on the back of his neck was all stood up.

This is a purely physiological reaction that is not under any control.

The last time Rodgers felt this way was when he was targeted by a sniper rifle.

Floating on the surface of the water, Munster quietly looked up at Rogers, those two black bean-like eyes were embedded in that funny head, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Rogers did not dare to relax at all, but deliberately made a sound on his mouth: "Haw—eat? You little monster."

He pretended to be a real ordinary person and said to Munster.

"puff--"

A water arrow suddenly hit him.

Rogers, who was concentrating on it, quickly turned his shoulders and avoided the water arrow in a very dangerous way. Immediately afterwards, Rand's angry roar sounded in his ears: "Mun-s-t!"

He pulled Rogers away from the aquarium, and after checking that he only got a drop or two on his shirt collar, he immediately turned his head and snarled at the smug little bastard who rolled over and fell back to the bottom and kept circling. .

"I told you, don't do this!"

cried Rand.

Munster made a big figure 8 in the water, and then he came up to the surface, slapping his pectoral fins hard, making more splashes.

Accompanied by that burst of rapid "chirp" sound, this is simply a demonstration.

"You bloody little bastard!"

Rand's entire face contorted.

"Come on, it's okay, it's just a drop or two of water." Rogers felt the corners of his eyes twitch, as if he had a headache, and he couldn't help interrupting this funny scene.

"Sorry, I never thought it would do that again."

Rand blinked, his face flushed for a moment... He was completely unprepared to show such a stupid side of himself in front of Rogers-for example, arguing with a fish.

When Munster seemed to be unhappy (for example, when Rand refused to let it eat in his palm at first), it was very happy to tease people in this way. Rand simply hated it to the extreme, but even If you don't look at Munster from the perspective of a fish, its character can also be said to be bad-naturally it won't listen to Rand.

All in all, the meeting with friends was interrupted awkwardly by Munster—Rodgers decided to go back to his apartment to change into a new suit—and then returned to watch the ball game with Rand.

After sending Rogers away and closing the door, the dry smile on Rand's face quickly disappeared.He rushed back to the aquarium, and at a glance, he saw Munster yelling "Jiujiu" and rushed over. It thought Rand wanted to continue feeding.

"bad guy."

Rand said to it, and held his forehead, regretting for the thousandth time why he had such a weird little monster.

As a punishment, he decided to postpone Munster's meal a little bit later.

Seeing Rand's behavior of turning around and leaving, Munster finally realized what was wrong. It screamed behind Rand, trying to save his dinner.Seeing that the hard-hearted Two-legged beast showed no sign of being moved, Munster vigorously swung his tail fin in excitement, jumped straight out of the aquarium, and then...

He fell straight to the ground.

"Oh, hell!"

Rand immediately heard the sound of water splashing from behind, and naturally he would not miss the heavy muffled sound.He turned his head and saw the little monster falling on the carpet at a glance.

It even bounced on the ground twice.

Rand rushed back and lifted Munster off the carpet.He observed Munster's body surface, and there was no wound, it just looked a little dizzy.Rand quickly put it back into the aquarium, but it didn't immediately jump into the bottom of the water as Rand imagined.Before this, this little monster would do this every time it was frightened, but this time it was obviously an exception. It floated on the water, its small claws on its pectoral fins gently hooked the edge of the aquarium, and its head hung low. .

Rand squinted at it carefully.

"Oh, you must have been hurt somewhere else."

He tensed up almost immediately, and he reached out to try to lift Munster's head.

As soon as his hand was stretched out, however, Munster opened his mouth.

A small, hard object landed in Rand's palm.

It was a small, small tooth.

"Did you make a mistake..."

Rand looked at the teeth in his palm in shock, then looked up at Munster.

He didn't hold back, and gently opened the latter's mouth with his hand, and found that there was an obvious gap on the right side of its upper jaw... and behind the gap, a larger and sharper tooth was protruding.

"..."

Rand was stunned to realize that he had harvested a fish's baby tooth.

——It never occurred to him in his life that fish (or amphibians?) in this world also need to replace their teeth.