Deep sea mermaid head-to-head strategy

Klein came back from the direction of Paloy Harbor with a basket of fish. When he was almost at the door of his house, he saw a lot of people gathered outside the big house next door.

Those people wore coats that some decent people in the town could afford, and under the direction of a middle-aged man, they went in and out of the big house, throwing out a few pieces of furniture, and carrying a carpet from the carriage.

The big house next door had been vacant for many years. When Klein was a child, he would often climb through the iron gate with his friends to the balcony on the second floor of the big house and look inside through the French windows.

The decoration inside is very luxurious, with thick carpet covering the whole room, and a big bed exuding pearly light is placed in the center of the room.

There are various oil paintings hanging on the wall, and a beautiful white and gold grand piano stands by the window.

Klein had never seen a piano before, so he didn't know what it was. He and his companions babbled that it was a very powerful fishing tool. Most of the people living in Paloy Harbor were fishermen. For fishermen, there was a handy The fishing tool is a big deal-immediately attracted envious exclamations from the friends.

Later, the Duke of the Kingdom of Havre held a charity performance for fishermen in the town. Klein and his friends all went to watch the fun, and heard the musicians making beautiful music when they pressed the keys.

After asking, I realized that it was an expensive musical instrument called a piano.

For this reason, Klein was ridiculed by his companions for a long time.

Since then, the owner of the house has become a preoccupied unsolved mystery among the young children of Port Paloi.

Klein's good friend, Dick, once swore that the owner of the house was a vampire, who lived in a coffin in the basement all these years, only appearing at night, and the dead fish on the shore were bitten to death by this vampire while hunting for food in the middle of the night. .

Klein asked seriously, "Do vampires eat fish?"

Dick thought that Klein was questioning him, and stammered, "Then, that's a wizard from the East who fled here to take refuge. He was afraid that someone would catch him, so he never showed up."

Klein asked again: "Is it too conspicuous to hide in such a big house?"

"I know!" Dick put his hands together: "The mermaid princess lives here! Because the mermaid princess usually lives in the underwater palace, this place is abandoned!"

The port of Paloy faces the Windsor sea area, and everyone knows about the mermaid in the sea area. The mermaid is born beautiful and can manipulate the tide, and is the master of the sea.

Many stories about mermaids have been circulated in Paloi Port, and their images have changed a lot——

Sometimes they are the patron saints of those who fell into the sea, pulling the fishermen out of the abyss of death and sending them back to the shore;

Klein had seen a mermaid with his own eyes. He was very excited the first time he went fishing with a fishing boat. He ran around excitedly on the deck, and boldly stepped on the side of the boat to look out.

Then I saw a beautiful girl with long blond hair and a smooth back, showing her upper body in the sea, singing on the reef.

At that time, Klein thought it was a fisherman who accidentally fell into the water, and was about to call for help, when he saw a golden fish tail thrown out of the sea.

Under the sun, the gracefully curved fish tail slapped the sea surface, stirring up snow-like waves, and the scales of the fish tail glistened, almost burning Klein's eyes.

The mermaid noticed Klein's gaze, and her singing stopped suddenly. She turned her head and glanced, then plunged into the sea and disappeared.

Klein stood on the side of the boat in a daze for a long time, and hurried to the cabin to tell the incident to the fishermen on the same boat, but no one believed him, and even joked that he had hallucinations.

"I have been fishing for so many years. I have seen white, red, blue, green, and purple fish tails. I have never heard of a fish tail with a golden color. You boy, the sun is too bright to see the eyes!"

"It's not blind, it's true!" Klein argued.

Someone next to him said, "Don't you see the mermaid royal family?"

Klein hurriedly asked, "What is the mermaid royal family?"

While weaving the net, the fisherman said: "It's just a legend. It is said that the mermaid royal family is of pure blood, has a golden fish tail, and lives in the palace under the water. The palace is full of gold and silver treasures, and the night pearl is as big as a human head. !"

At first, the fishermen who said that Klein was blind also joined in the fun: "I heard that the mermaid royal family can transform three times in a lifetime, and each time they can freely choose their gender.

"Hey, if you want me to say it's all fake, how can it be possible to change the gender? Can the things that grow out be plugged back?"

His words drew laughter from the fishermen in the cabin.

"There are quite a few people diving into the sea to salvage pearls these years. If there is a royal palace under the water, how could no one have seen it in these years? It's all just rumors."

After the fisherman finished speaking, he waved his hand and sent Klein away.

Klein was young at the time, and at first he was convinced that he really saw the golden tail, but as he grew older and experienced more and more sea trips, he never saw a golden tailed mermaid again, and his childhood memories became blurred. Gradually, I also thought that I was wrong at the time.

Hearing Dick say that the mermaid lived in this big house, that beautiful image flashed in his mind, he shook his head and said, "The mermaid princess lives in the underwater palace, what do you want a house on the shore for?"

"..." Dick exhausted his imagination, but still failed to solve this unsolved mystery, and asked angrily, "Then who do you think is the owner of this house?"

Klein said, "I asked Grandpa, and Grandpa said that it might have been bought by a big shot in the royal city. The things inside are very expensive, and even if a fishing boat is damaged, they won't be able to pay for it."

"Ah!" Dick gasped.

He was originally sitting on the handrail of the balcony on the second floor, but when he heard the words, he quickly jumped off, patted the handrail lightly, and was relieved to find that the handrail was not broken or damaged.

Urging Klein: "Let's go, let's go, my family only has one fishing boat, and if it is lost, my old man will throw me into the sea to feed the sharks!"

Klein's grandfather was a well-known fisherman in Paloy Harbor, and his words were very credible.

The fisherman's children saw their parents working hard and became sensible since they were young. They were afraid of harming their own families. Since then, they no longer dared to explore the big house, but only dared to watch from afar.

The big house has been vacant all year round, and the children are growing up, and this unsolved mystery is overwhelmed by new things that continue to emerge.

Unexpectedly, ten years later, the answer to this forgotten mystery was revealed in front of 17-year-old Klein——

Klein went out to help with Dick's family's fishing boat today, and got a basket of fish when he returned to the port. Although he was curious about the big house, he also wanted to go home as soon as possible so that his grandpa could have a look at today's harvest and have fun.

When he was about to turn around with the fish basket in hand, he saw a handsome young man with short blond hair appearing on the balcony on the second floor holding a white gold-rimmed cup.

It is no exaggeration to say that the blond boy is the best-looking person Klein has ever seen, even more beautiful than the Duke's son who came to town when he was a child.

His hair was golden, like the dreamy scales in Klein's memory.

He is a bit thin, and his standing posture is relaxed and casual, but he has an elegant and noble temperament. His exposed neck is slender and fair, and his lips are very thin and light in color. He looks like a type who cherishes words like gold and is not easy to approach.

He casually lowered his eyes to see the busy people downstairs, holding a cup in a very calm manner, as if it had nothing to do with him.

He seemed to be observing another species, and he became more and more alienated and cold.

Probably because Klein's gaze was too blatant, the blond boy looked up——

Those were a pair of azure blue eyes, as deep as the sea, with displeased inquiry in their gaze.

In an instant, the sounds on the beach disappeared, and even the people who were busy moving in the middle lost their colors. Klein was holding the fish basket awkwardly, held his breath unconsciously, and stared at him frozen in place. .

The blond boy's eyes only stayed on his face for a moment, as if he saw a stone, he looked away indifferently.

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