Chapter 9: The Mermaid
"Huh...... Huh...... Hahh......"
Fusse Mamet was now running as hard as she could through the gloomy woods, as if some abyssal beast was chasing her behind her.
Shady water tank...... Inhuman torture...... Scales...... The scales are scraped off!
No!
She tried not to think about what had happened, but the tears still flowed down her breath, and they were blown away by the cold wind.
She's running away! Escape!
But the tail ...... Tail...... It hurts!
Fluffie held back tears, and in the drizzling rain, her body was already soaked, and bursts of biting ice kept coming.
She doesn't have any resistance to the cold now......
A pair of slender white legs loomed under the wide and shabby robe, but if you looked closely, you would see that there was sticky and disgusting mucus attached to the legs, like fish!
And the mucus will continue to flow down and fall to the ground, which is not only extremely fishy, but also very disgusting.
"Quack-quack-"
There were pitch-black crows circling in the sky all the time, and Foxie listened to their strange screams, and her heart became more and more panicked.
"Ahh
Accidentally, Flexie tripped over a raised rock on the ground and fell heavily on the muddy ground.
Her legs began to emerge with layers of royal blue scales, glistening in the rain.
"Oops...... Oops! Can't walk......"
She knew that she had broken her foot and could not move forward, so she could only look back in despair, her pupils full of unwillingness.
But instead of seeing the night watchmen who wanted to get her back, she saw a silent black umbrella slowly walking towards her.
Foxie's pupils suddenly pricked up, although she didn't know if the person in front of her was a night watchman, but she still instinctively felt threatened, a great threat.
Under the black umbrella, a pleasant snort sounded, and Foxie's hostility disappeared inexplicably.
-- "Unknown".
She stared blankly at the amiable gray-haired gentleman in front of her, Sissel Niedin.
Sissel smiled and crouched down, not caring if the hem of his clothes fell into a filthy pool.
He looked at the green-haired woman in front of him, stretched out his big hand, which was a little rough, and asked gently:
"Hello, you look like you need help?"
In a trance, Foxie nodded with a sob, and put her hand on it.
The rain just stopped, and the dappled sunlight reflected through the clouds, looking very comfortable and warm.
"Your name?"
“…… Foxy Mamet. ”
……
"Huh?"
Leonard looked at the nervous and overwhelmed Foxie in front of him, and couldn't help but ask his soul:
"Daddy, do you really want to hire her as a maid? She's so ......"
So beautiful, is it really a maid, is it...... Leonard looked at Flcy with a strange expression, and then suddenly became startled, startled by his own thoughts.
"Daddy, you, you—"
Leonard's emerald eyes widened, and his mind was now in a mess as if he had drunk the wrong potion.
Paris, who had been full of children and grandchildren, didn't feel anything, and he said in a slow and leisurely tone:
"Hehe, what's wrong with people wanting to find a partner, although the age difference is indeed a bit big for ordinary people."
"Is that a little bit called?! What do you mean, old man! ”
Leonard became more and more irritable, and Sissel saw this, so he had to explain:
"Leonard, don't think about it, she's just a babysitter for me......"
Seeing that Leonard opened his mouth to say something, Sissel quickly said in a somewhat aggrieved tone:
"Don't you believe me?"
"Uh......"
Leonard pursed his lips slightly, a little uncomfortable.
Well, okay! He admitted! He's just jealous! He was just afraid of losing Sissel's favor! If the old man likes to laugh, laugh at it!
Sissel was a little surprised when he received this information, after all, he had thought that Leonard was mature enough......
He shook his head helplessly and gently rubbed Leonard's head, this action he had done many times, but he still didn't get tired of it.
Leonard was stunned, as if he had returned to the time when Sissel's sideburns were not yet gray and he had not yet grown up......
"Alright, alright. I'm sure you can't. ”
Leonard came back to his senses, turned his head arrogantly, and stretched out his hand to Foxie on the side, and said:
"I'm just laughing at you, I'm Leonard Mitchell, his adopted son."
"Oh oh good! I'm Fusse Mamet! Glad to serve you! ”
Flosie hurriedly took Leonard's hand and swayed it up and down excitedly, and the tremendous force almost made Leonard fall to the ground in a very ungentlemanly manner.
What the heck! Why does she have so much strength?! If I hadn't been the 'Sleepless', I'm afraid I would have been thrown to the ground by her......
Leonard helped his waist in pain, and suddenly understood the reason why Sissel asked Fussey to be a maid - great strength.
But just because she's strong doesn't mean she's a good maid!
"Ahh I'm sorry! ”
Foxie hurriedly withdrew her hand and looked at Leonard in a panic, then at Sissel.
She really didn't want to go back...... Back in that gloomy tank......
Foxie thought so, her eyes filled with tears again, and the whole person looked even more beautiful.
Tsk, troublesome lady...... Leonard complained, looked at Sissel again, and asked:
"And how long are you going to be hired?"
Sissel spread his hands, took out 3 train tickets to Tingen, and said:
"I don't know, anyway, it's 7 suckers and 7 pence a week."
You have bought all the tickets and I don't know what to say, and this week's salary is not cheap, right...... Leonard rolled his eyes and went inside.
Seeing that Leonard had indeed entered, Sissel smiled and sealed off the space between him and Flusie.
"Okay, then let's talk about your identity."
Sissel pulled a chair and sat down, and when he saw that Flcy was still standing stupidly, he pulled another chair, smiled at her playfully, and asked her to sit down and talk again.
Fluse sat down reservedly, pursing her lips, obviously unnatural.
"Don't worry, I'm an extraordinary one, and I won't burn you like a witch."
Sissel comforted her, and Flcy finally mustered up the courage to say to the benefactor who had given her identity and freedom:
"I, I'm a mermaid, I'm sure you know that, sir. The reason why I have grown legs and lost my scales...... It's because ...... Because ......"
Her emotions suddenly became excited, and she said with some crying:
"They're doing an experiment! And I was the victim of that experiment! ”
"Experiments? The Church of the Night Goddess has never been in this style......"
"Nope! You don't understand! ”
Fluse slapped the table excitedly, and when she realized her faux pas, she quickly sat down and continued:
"They taught me a lot of human common sense and language through a seal of the 'reader' path, and they stripped me of my scales through secret techniques, making me grow legs as if I were a real 'human'!"