Deep sea mermaid head-to-head strategy

Klein said he was helping Lisa, but in fact Lisa took control of the entire kitchen, and he was at most helping out.

Lisa took care of the store at home very early, and has seen any lively scenes. She is very organized, fast and not chaotic, and she can be distracted to chat with Klein in the interval.

"You looked out no less than five times in five minutes. If you care about her so much, why don't you go out and sit with her."

Lisa's tone was not very straightforward, and Klein looked away, thinking: Has it been so many times?

"She couldn't speak, and her feet were hurt, so she couldn't move," he explained.

What Klein said was the truth, Lisa accepted it with a "hum" and looked outside.

Mephides sat on the sofa, looking down at a book, calm and elegant.

Not being able to speak is not a shortcoming for her, but it adds to her sense of mystery and alienation.

A flower that blooms alone in a high place exuding a cool fragrance, no one will think that it is only out of helplessness, but will think that it deliberately left the noisy crowd because it was bored.

Even though Lisa regards her as a potential rival in love, she has to admit that she has superior appearance and temperament.

Turning her eyes to Klein behind her, and imagining the scene of Mephides and Klein standing together for a moment, she bit her lower lip in frustration, unable to ask what she originally wanted to ask.

In order to bring this topic up, Klein asked Lisa about the store, and Lisa cooperated with the conversation. Both of them intentionally speeded up, and lunch was ready and served soon.

Dick came back from the outside, and after washing his hands, he and the three sat at the table to taste Lisa's handicrafts.

On the table, Dick told some anecdotes he encountered on the way out this time. After hearing a few words, Lisa waved him to shut up, and asked Klein to talk about the customs and customs of the Toust Kingdom in detail.

Klein was not good at telling stories, but seeing Mephides looking up at him, he had no choice but to talk about his experience of going to the Wizarding Forest with the crew.

"I heard that the queen of Toust Kingdom is a male elf?" Dick asked.

Klein nodded: "Yes, it's a light elf named Xiquan."

Dick didn't understand: "Why choose a male elf? I heard that elves, regardless of gender, are beautiful. If I were the king of Toust, I would choose one..."

He glanced at Lisa, "Just find a red-haired female elf!"

Lisa didn't pay attention to what Dick said, she focused all her attention on Klein, and said: "This alien race seems to be very beautiful. To be honest, if Mephides didn't know magic, I thought she was Where are the elves!"

A flash of inspiration flashed through Klein's mind, but he failed to catch it. He looked at Mephides from across the table and thought to himself: Yes, Mephides and Sweet's looks are indeed too superior. Somewhat beyond the scope of human beings.

There are often elves who go to other countries to do as the Romans do, lose their long hair, do not use magic, and live like ordinary people.

He grew up in Port Paloi, where news circulated quickly, and he knew all these things well. When he first saw a handsome man like Sweet, why didn't he ever doubt his race?

When the topic came to Mephides, Dick answered, "If Mephides is an elf, her feet won't be injured. Even if she is injured, just use the healing magic, and she will be healed immediately."

"Of course I know, I'm saying that Mephides is as beautiful as an elf."

"Oh——" Dick took a good look at Mephides, didn't dare to look more, touched his chin, and said, "It's not only elves who are beautiful, aren't mermaids also born beautiful?"

He came up with this idea, and continued, "Besides, the mermaid's lower body is a mermaid's tail, which is not as strong as a human's natural feet. If Mephides is a mermaid, can she be injured?"

Klein had never thought about it from this angle before, but now thinking about it according to Dick's thinking, it seems...does it make sense?

Mephides didn't respond to the words surrounding her. She couldn't open her mouth to respond immediately, so she put down her knife and fork to listen politely. When she felt that Klein was looking at her, she raised her eyelids to meet him. .

Mephides's ocean-like pupils reminded Klein of the mermaid he saw on the rocks in the sea when he went fishing for the first time.

In my memory, the gilded light reflected by the mermaid's golden fishtail in the sun is similar to the pulsating light on Mephides's blond hair.

Is it—

"Speaking of which, have you ever seen a mermaid?" Lisa's words interrupted Klein's thoughts.

Dick shrugged: "Maybe I've seen them before, but I didn't know they were mermaids. After all, mermaids are no different from humans on land except for being pretty."

Unlike seven years ago, when the existence of mermaids was only spread by word of mouth among fishermen in the port, most residents living inland believed that the existence of mermaids was just a legend.

But in recent years, maritime shipping has become more and more developed, and fishermen, sailors and pirates frequently see mermaids playing at sea.

Until five years ago, a passenger ship ran aground due to an accident. When the passengers on board thought they were about to die in the sea, a large group of beautiful aliens with human bodies and fish tails suddenly appeared and sent the passengers who fell into the water back to the shore.

At that time, there was a writer who traveled around the world on the ship, and fell in love with the mermaid who sent him back to the shore.

The beautiful mermaid came to the shore from the sea for the sake of the writer, and changed her fish tail into human legs, but after a while, she was weakened by leaving the seabed where she lived for a long time, and had to return to the sea.

As a result, the writer suffered from lovesickness, and wrote many timeless love stories about human beings and mermaids, which spread to many countries.

Since then, novels of the same type have sprung up one after another like mushrooms after rain.

Nata likes to read such novels very much. There are still a few in Klein's study, and he showed them to Mephides a few days ago.

As Dick said, merfolk were only recognizable when they were in the sea.

Once on land, the mermaids transform their tails into human legs, with no distinguishing features other than their beauty.

Could Mephides be a mermaid?

Sweet stayed on the shore for several months, not only did not become weak, but his body got better and better, probably... he was just too handsome.

Sweet is not, Mephides is her sister, of course it cannot be.

Speaking of this, Lisa showed concern and asked Klein, "I heard from customers in the store that sometimes mermaids will intentionally capsize ships sailing at sea. Is it true?"

Klein replied: "There have been such incidents. Most of the accidents were large fishing boats. There were not many fishermen on board. Most of them returned to the shore alive."

"Why are they doing this?" Lisa was even more worried: "Then you still have to go to sea? It's too dangerous!"

There are indeed dangers, but for those engaged in shipping, mermaid wrecks are the same as storm wrecks. As long as you are sailing at sea, it is difficult to avoid these situations [-]%.

The crew on the Pearl were also horrified when they first heard these rumors.

But over time, when the crew realized that no matter what the cause of an accident, the result was the same, and there was no need to fear one reason in particular.

Sailors have seen many winds and waves, and most of them are calmer than ordinary people.

It was difficult for Klein to dispel Lisa's worries, so he kicked Dick's foot under the table, telling Dick to quickly change the subject.

When retracting the foot, the toe accidentally touches another person's shoe.

Mephides on the opposite side paused slightly, her gaze fixed on Klein's face. Klein realized who he had kicked, immediately retracted his legs, and nodded to Mephides in apology.

With Dick lubricated from it, a few words about merfolk and sailing were debunked.

The three chatted a little more, Lisa couldn't leave the store for too long, Dick had just returned to Port Paloi, and he wanted to go home to accompany his sister, after lunch, the two got up and left after packing up the tableware.

Mephides went back to the bedroom to take a nap, while Klein went to tend the flower beds for a while, and finished the finishing work of tidying up the yard.

When the sky turned red, the busyness of this period of time finally came to an end.

The dinner was very simple. There was extra soup that Lisa specially made at noon, and Klein's freshly made salad was added, which was light and refreshing.

After dinner, the two sat on the sofa in the living room on the first floor and read a book to pass the time before going to bed.

Klein was reading a copy of "Customs Tax Rules of Various Countries", and he was engrossed in reading it, when he suddenly heard a rustling sound.

Looking up, she saw that Mephides put down the book at some point and was writing on the notebook.

He pressed the pages of the book and waited, but after Mafides finished writing, she didn't show it to him immediately, but thought for a while, put the book aside, and picked up the book again.

Klein: "?"

Don't you want to talk to him?

Klein was about to lower his head when he saw Mephides pick up the notebook again, her delicate brows twitched slightly, revealing a trace of displeasure.

The blue eyes are like the surface of water touched by reeds, with ripples appearing in layers.

"Do you have anything to ask me?" Klein asked proactively.

Mephides put her thin white hands on the edge of the book, and after a long time, she stood the book on her knees:

【Are you lovers? 】

The author has something to say:

Mephides: I can't hold back anymore