Deep sea mermaid head-to-head strategy

On the way home, neither of them spoke for a while.

Sweet's outer hand was in his pocket, and the distance between the other shoulder and Klein's shoulder was less than ten centimeters. Pay attention to Klein's emotions.

The road was not long, and when there were still tens of meters away from the house, Klein looked up and looked ahead, and said without warning: "At that time, what was Mephides thinking?"

Sweet raised his eyes and followed his line of sight to see the houses standing under the night, and said, "I'm thinking, you are someone worth relying on."

"So that's the case." Klein smiled wryly.

Sweet's eyes slid to the end of his eyes, swept across his side face, and said: "I said I don't regret it, but now I regret it a little."

"?"

He half-jokingly said: "If I were still Mephides, perhaps someone else would come to our wedding today."

"..."

Not really.

At that time, Klein thought that Mephides would leave, return to her family, and marry a well-matched nobleman.

He even thought about giving Mephides something as a dowry.

At least, before Mephides disappeared, he always put himself in the position of his brother.

At most, the night when he was drunk by Heyman... he must have been dazed for a while.

The first time I calmly talked about Mephides with Sweet, I felt quite strange, Klein smiled lightly and shook his head.

"Have you ever thought that you are only attracted by illusions? You were Mephides at that time, and I knew you would not live long, so I took care of you patiently. If you were the same as nine years ago from the beginning There is a high probability that I will take in...a young man who is alone, but I won't be so careful, and you may not feel that I am worth relying on."

"No," Sweet said firmly, without a trace of hesitation, "the problem is not with you, but with me."

Klein's behavior patterns are all engraved in his bones, and he will not change himself because of one or two external factors under the predestined circumstances.

When he was still Mephides, when Klein mentioned him, he never mentioned the harm he did to him, and only emphasized to Mephides repeatedly: Your brother has helped me a lot.

Klein is self-disciplined to the point of being strict, and he is not a person who can feel at ease and lighten the weight of his kindness just because the other party doesn't care.

"Even if I reveal my identity to you that day, you will take me in because you want to repay me?"

"..."

"If you are willing to take me in, the ending will be the same." Sweet said self-deprecatingly.

"You don't seem to understand your own charm."

In fact, many of the behaviors that Klein is accustomed to are rare qualities among humans and mermaids. In the crowd, they are so dazzling that they look like a night pearl falling into the sand.

"I used to be too arrogant and ignored many things. Once I have enough time to face you, it's hard not to be attracted to you."

Ever since he came to Paloy Port and bumped into Klein, he was destined to like Klein.

It's not just him, it's impossible for anyone who spends time with Klein not to have a good impression of him.

"You don't need to do anything special. Even if you don't take care of me like Mephides, I will fall in love with you for other reasons. You are very charming, Klein."

"..."

Klein has heard a lot of compliments, but it's rare for someone as straightforward as Sweet.

Hearing that his face was hot, he felt uncomfortable.

Before that, he didn't expect to talk to this situation, and he forgot what he was going to say, so it's not embarrassing to be stuck here.

A bud sprouted somewhere in my heart, and I thought vaguely: Do you want to try——

While thinking about it, the two walked to Klein's house.

At this moment, Sweet suddenly stopped Klein behind him with one hand, and turned to the shadow of the bushes by the door.

Klein was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Why—"

Sweet put a hand to his mouth and whispered, "There is a sound of breathing."

Breathing?

The previous warnings from Heyman and Sweet echoed in his ears one after another, Klein's expression turned serious, he put away his thoughts, and looked towards the bushes.

The wind was strong by the sea, and the forest leaves on the roadside kept rattling.

Some people don't feel much when they talk, but once they quiet down, they feel that the voice is very loud and continuous, like the scratching sound caused by something shuttling in the dense forest, which makes the people who pass by tremble with fear.

It was probably Klein's sudden stop that aroused the vigilance of the people in the bushes. Before they could move, the bushes shook violently, and a black figure suddenly sprang out. The cold light suddenly flashed under the moonlight!

Klein wondered if Sweet had heard it wrong, until he was dazzled by the cold light. His rich experience allowed him to quickly realize what the source of the cold light was. wrist.

However, Sweet, who was standing in front, took a step faster than him, turned to one side, dodged the extremely sharp blade, grabbed the man's arm and pulled it in his direction, and kicked the man's knee, The person who attacked suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground with a plop.

Under the moonlight, the person who fell to the ground was wearing a tattered burlap dress, with branches and leaves hanging between the seams, messy hair, beards all over his face, and an unpleasant smell from his body , like a beggar.

Although the figure has shrunk a lot, it is not difficult to see that this person is Hook who escaped from prison some time ago.

Sweet kicked away the knife that fell on the sand, and stepped on his wrist mercilessly. With a crisp sound, Hook screamed: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—"

His cry was penetrating, but his gaze was fixed on Klein as if it had been poisoned. If gaze could kill, Klein might have been hacked to pieces by him long ago.

Turning his head and seeing the knife falling not far away, Klein realized that he was very lucky - if he hadn't come back with Sweet tonight, it would be impossible for a normal person to notice the subtle breathing Voice.

In a crisis situation, he may be able to avoid fatal injuries, but he must suffer other injuries.

Even though Sweet gave the warning in advance, they took precautions, and it was not so easy for Hook to dodge the sudden attack in the dark.

In case Sweet couldn't dodge just now, it wouldn't be easy given the sharpness of that dagger.

Thinking of this, Klein felt a little angry in his heart.

He leaned over to pick up the dagger, his eyes flicked over the sharp point of the knife, and he turned his head and walked in the direction of Hook.

His intentions were too obvious, the sharp edge of the dagger was dazzling, Hook's eyes overflowed with horror, and he wanted to retreat, but his back was stepped on by Sweet, so he could only hold the injured wrist, twisting wildly to escape, There was a whoosh in the rising dust: "Help...I was wrong...don't...don't..."

"Klein," just as Klein knelt down in front of Hook and stuck the knife to Hook's throat, Sweet stopped him, "Just hand him over to the sheriff."

Klein didn't speak, but the hand holding the dagger didn't retreat.

"Don't get into unnecessary trouble because of him, it's not worth it."

According to the laws of the Kingdom of Havre, prisoners cannot die at the hands of anyone other than the executioner.

Even if appeals can be made under special circumstances, the appeal process is relatively long. During this period, the behavior of the person who killed the prisoner must be controlled until the verdict is over.

Klein can kill Hook, and based on Hook's past behavior, there is a high probability that he will be acquitted after appealing.

However, once it is under control, it is very likely to miss the next voyage of the Pearl.

Hook's life is indeed not worth that much.

"..."

The blade pressed against Hook's throat was slightly moved away, and the hand holding the dagger was still tense.

Sweet's restraint gave Klein time to think. After half a minute, he lowered his head and let out a breath. He suppressed the anger that surged just now, calmed down, and stood up to back away.

"Leave it to me here, you go to the sheriff." Sweet comforted.

This is the best arrangement right now.

Leaving Klein here, he couldn't guarantee whether he would do something because of a certain action or sentence of Hook.

Klein snorted secretly, glanced at Hook coldly, turned and walked towards the port.

In the following months, Klein always regretted that he didn't end Hook on the spot——

When he walked not far away and passed the low bushes on the side of the road, Hook suddenly yelled: "What are you waiting for!! Kill him quickly!!"

Sweet looked up at Klein abruptly, and Hook took advantage of the moment of uneasiness. He used his other uninjured hand to pull another dagger from his boot, and wedged it into Sweet. calf.

Klein backed away vigilantly when he heard Hooker's roar, but there was no one hiding in the bushes. When he turned his head, he saw Sweet kneeling down, and another cold light rose and fell towards Sweet's neck. The blood fell to the soles of the feet, and the scalp was cold and numb.

The sharp pain from the calf rushed straight to the top of the head, and there was another kind of burning sensation mixed with the pain.

While still injured, Sweet escaped Hooker's second knife, and a large opening more than ten centimeters long was cut on the outside of his arm.

When the third stab came down, Klein had already arrived, kicked Hook's dagger flying, followed by kicking Hook's jaw, and kicked him over, holding the previous dagger straight at him. Hook stabbed down, still unable to understand his hatred, and when he couldn't help but want to stab Hook in the heart, Sweet snorted.

Klein's raised hand froze, and the blood on his head dissipated instantly. He threw the knife away and ignored Hook, and immediately turned back to check on Sweet's situation.

The blood gushing from the wounds on the arms and legs had stained a small patch of sand black, and in the moonlight, it could be seen that the color of the edges of the wounds was not right.

Sweet's forehead was covered with cold sweat, leaning on Klein's shoulder, he was about to lose consciousness.

At that moment, all the anger and anxiety were far away from Klein. Except that his breathing rate was much higher than usual, he was terribly awake.

Finding something wrong with the wound, he immediately retrieved the dagger that stabbed Sweet, held it behind his back with one hand, picked up Sweet, strode to the fork in the road, called a power car, and headed to the Elven Hospital.

On the way, Sweet passed out.

When he got out of the car, Klein carried him into the hospital with his arms and arms. The light elves in the hospital used magic to levitate Sweet and put him on a bed. He cut open his clothes and touched the halo to heal his wounds.

Klein seemed to be watching calmly, but the hand hanging by his side was actually trembling slightly.

Seeing that Sweet's wound was healing, his brows softened slightly, but as soon as the halo in the elf's hand left, the healed wound split open again, like a piece of paper that was ignited from the center, and the skin at the wound wrinkled It sank down, and a blue color appeared, and the blue color spread towards the surrounding area, and the scope became larger and larger.

The light elves had to check the dagger Klein brought, "This is——!"

She was startled, turned around and waved to the bookshelf, a book flew out and landed in her hand, flipped through it, and stopped on a certain page.

The light elf moved his finger to the side of the page, looked at Sweet's wound, then looked at the book, and said solemnly: "The knife is coated with the juice of thorn algae."

Sweet's wound was still expanding, and Klein's chest froze. He held his trembling hand and asked in a low voice, "What is that?"

"It is a kind of seaweed that grows in the sea. It is non-toxic to humans, but it is extremely poisonous to mermaids. Once it touches a wound, it will quickly seep into the blood, and it is highly corrosive to skin tissue and internal organs."

The elf apologized: "Sorry, my healing magic can only restore his injured part temporarily, but it can't delicately peel off the thorn algae juice that has seeped into the blood."

"Is there no way?"

The light elf hesitated: "Perhaps, his fellow tribe has a way to counteract the toxicity of the thorn algae?"

Klein swept across Sweet on the hospital bed, gritted his teeth, and said, "Please control his injury before I come back, and don't let his wound spread."

The light elf said: "I will try my best."

Klein took a step back, took one last look at Sweet, turned around and walked towards the outside of the hospital with a gust of wind.

Dick and Lisa's wedding banquet ended at ten o'clock in the evening, but when Klein finally returned home, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

He didn't turn on the light, went to the sofa and sat down. After a long while, he spread his hands and stared at the palms under the moonlight--

A few hours ago, he used these hands to help Sweet to the power car.

After he came out of the Elven Hospital, he was about to go to the port to look for the mermaid, but he just happened to run into Butler Parton who was returning to the shore—this was probably the only thing that went well tonight.

Butler Parton learned that Sweet was injured, and rushed to the elf hospital with Klein, asked the light elves for immediate treatment, and rushed to the beach together in a powered car.

He stood on the beach and watched Patton and Sweet sink into the sea. Before he could recover, he was taken back to the security station by the patrol officer.

It was the patrol officer who was notified by Patton nearby. Hook was dying when he was brought back to the security station, and recovered under the treatment of the light elves.

Then came the lengthy interrogation session.

Although Klein lived by the port, no one passed by. No one but Sweet could confirm his words.

Three or four investigators questioned him successively, and he repeated the incident three or four times until Heyman got the news and rushed to the public security station to interrogate Hook himself.

Heyman's interrogation style was brutal.

Klein kept hearing Hook's screams from the next door, and Heyman's order to the light elves: "Cure him."

After being tortured repeatedly, Hook was finally pried open. After escaping from prison, he waited for an opportunity to take revenge on Klein. He had been hiding in Port Paloy. On the eve of Dick and Lisa's wedding, a mermaid found him he.

The mermaid's family was exiled by Sweet because of the tsunami incident in Port Paloy.

He escaped in the middle of his exile and returned to the waters of Windsor, hoping to find an opportunity to attack Sweet and avenge his family.

But as a mermaid, he couldn't hurt Sweet, whose bloodline was far purer than his own, so he asked Hook to be his helper.

Klein's mixed-race identity could not be concealed from the mermaid. He gave Hook two daggers stained with thornweed juice, and assured Hook that even if he failed to hit Klein's vitals, as long as the dagger hurt Klein, Klein would Die from exhaustion.The condition is for Hook to stab Sweet with this dagger.

After the interrogation, the investigators drew a portrait of the mermaid based on Hooker's description, and Hooker himself was transferred to the most guarded prison in the Kingdom of Havre under the personal escort of Heyman, waiting for trial.

After everything came to an end, Klein came out of the security station and walked home step by step.

The scene of Sweet kneeling down on the road was played back repeatedly in his mind. The bright red blood flowed onto his hands, meandering along his palms to his arms, and everywhere on his back and neck. It was very cold, not fishy, ​​but rather There is a strong frosty smell, like a handful of snow rushing towards you.

During the interrogation, Heyman gave Klein time to wash and change his clothes.

Obviously the blood on his body had been washed clean, but he had the illusion that Sweet's blood was still in his palm.

He sat in the living room for a long time, motionless like a statue.

Sometimes I think of Sweet’s casual glance from the balcony when he first came to Port Paloi, and sometimes I think of the beautiful words written by Mephides in the notebook with her head down.

The hut in Port Paloi spread out like water waves, and came to the Pearl again. At dawn, Sweet sat on the railing, looked up at the observation deck and met him...

In the end, only Sweet was left lying pale on the Elven Hospital bed.

It wasn't until the sky above the sea level was pale and the grandmother's clock in the living room struck four times that he seemed to be touched by something and changed his posture slightly.

Something hard hit him in the pocket of his trousers.

Klein reached into his pocket and took out a bunch of keys.

When driving Sweet to the beach, Butler Patton handed him the key and asked him to take a look in Sweet's bedroom.

He stared at the key in his hand, tightened his fingers, shook it when he got up, took a slow breath for a moment, walked out of the house steadily, and came to Sweet's house.

The two houses are very close to each other, but Klein didn't come here many times. Except for a few times nine years ago, most of the time he stopped in the yard.

As for Sweet's bedroom, even when they had the closest relationship back then, they never stepped into it.

Pushing open the door of Sweet's bedroom, turning on a light ball placed on the cabinet by the door, everything in the room is illuminated by a soft halo.

The furnishings in the room were similar to those seen when Klein climbed the balcony with Dick and the others when he was a child, only some furniture was replaced with the current style.

Klein originally wanted to go to the balcony to take a look, but a man walking past the bed was windy.At the side, he was attracted by a bulge of dark color, and turned his head to look, only to see a navy blue conch lying quietly on the bedside table.

At first, Klein thought it was another conch.

When I approached and picked it up, I found that there were many cracks on the conch, as if it had been hit, and some black fine sand was stuck in the cracked gaps.

It was fine sand from the mines of the ore city of Bugatina.

Klein's pupils shrank slightly, but he still held a skeptical attitude. He tapped the conch shell twice and put it in his ear. Sure enough, Sweet's voice came from inside.

The message spanned a year and a half, from the first time he delivered the conch to Klein on O'Leary's high seas until yesterday.

It turned out that during the days when they stared at each other on the deck, Sweet didn't spend it in silence. Every day, there were several messages.

【I never regarded you as a pet. For me, you are the object of admiration... I am too self-righteous to make you sad. I am sorry. 】

【I didn't want to replace Mephides, I just thought that you would be happier seeing Mephidess. 】

[I lied, even if you throw the conch where I can't perceive it, I will get it back. 】

[I am very happy to see you today. 】

……

Klein sat by the bed, ringing the conch over and over again.

In the huge room, the cool and gentle voice continued to spread evenly in the room, and then it sounded again.

Yesterday Sweet said that he said he had no regrets, but Klein couldn't understand it until he heard the message that should have been heard a year and a half ago——

【I was wondering if you would forgive me if I chose to become Mephides.Maybe I really chose wrong, but I don't feel sorry, because I want to hug you more than to be hugged by you. 】

[If I ask you again, will your answer be the same as before, Klein? 】

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I put the occasional drops into the evening update~ I am so tall!

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