My expression?

In the face of this girl's accusation, Angel was a little puzzled for a while, she was not only wearing a lady's hat with a veil, but also facing the porthole, how could she see her expression?

What's more, he didn't make any strange ......

It was then that she suddenly remembered her first encounter with Triss in Beckland, who had suddenly changed to a completely different expression during the conversation, and was completely unaware afterwards.

Am I ......

She subconsciously looked into her palm, and the strange sapphire ring was not between her fingers, but was sealed by her spiritual wall and thrown into her luggage.

"Denton, I said don't go over!"

Angel was awakened from her thoughts by the girl's voice, and she found that the little boy had broken free from his sister's hand and walked up to her again, looking up at her curiously.

"Sister, are you a mermaid?"

Angel laughed at the sudden question, and she crouched down so that her eyes were level with Denton, and asked:

"Why do you think so?"

"Uncle Cleves has said that there are many mermaids in the sea, and they will use their beauty and singing to lure passing sailors and adventurers into their homes...... I, I want to be an adventurer too! ”

This legend sounds weird, and he said that Cleves couldn't be the bodyguard who gossiped with Crane...... It seems that this little boy has heard too many legends from the sea to ask such strange questions.

Angel thought about it, and suddenly had a prank thought in her heart, she took off the lady's hat on her head, showed her face in front of the siblings, and asked with a smile:

"And do you think I'm a mermaid?"

"Hey, yes, it's a Kraken!"

The first to react was Denton's sister, who slammed Denton and took a few steps away, her big eyes staring at Angel, amazed and curious more than panicked.

In some legends, another name for a mermaid is a Siren.

"Donna, Denton, I remember saying that the lower half of a mermaid's body is not a leg, but a tail."

A rough voice came from the side, and the middle-aged man who had been talking to Klein just now paced over, reached out and gently touched Denton's head.

"Cleves, the bodyguard of these two children."

He turned his head to look at Angel and made a gentlemanly salute, acting rusty and casual.

"Hello, Mr. Cleves."

Angel wanted to give his name, but remembered that he was a companion of Sparrow the "crazy adventurer" and should have a similar personality and traits to him, so he responded coldly.

Cleves didn't care, he just came to pick up his employer's baby child, and seeing that Angel didn't make any other moves, he nodded lightly and left the porthole with Donna and Denton.

The girl, who was about Melissa's age, took two steps and looked back at Angel, her eyes still full of curiosity.

Then, the expression on her face turned to horror, and her eyes widened suddenly.

Because Angel raised the angle of her skirt slightly, the place below her legs was empty, as if this tall, beautiful lady was suspended in the air......

Kraken!

Donna's whole body stiffened, and her gaze slowly moved upwards to look at Angel's face, only to find that she was holding her right index finger against her mouth, signaling the girl who "saw through her secret" to keep the secret.

The girl nodded in horror, closed her eyes and turned back, and obediently followed Cleves out of the recreation room.

Angel, who had lost his invisibility, returned to Klein with a smile on his face and sat across the table, who had watched the prank the whole time with a faint smile on his face.

"If you scare children like this, they will have nightmares at night."

He chased the trio out of the recreation room door, then looked at Angel and quipped.

"The little boy Denton said he wanted to be an adventurer, and he should have a dream come true at night after meeting the legendary mermaid, and Donna ...... She may have spent a sleepless night as a punishment for discovering the secrets of the 'Siren', who always made her think that I was a monster who attracted adventurers with my beauty and singing? ”

"Aren't you?"

Bang –

Angel kicked Klein from under the table, causing the adventurer to stand up from the table with bared teeth, attracting the curious glances of several of the surrounding passengers who were fighting evil.

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After the novelty of boarding the ship passed, it soon became a boring and boring journey, Crane tried to blend in with the other gentlemen, gathered a table to "fight evil", and he quickly lost 5 pounds unwilling to use the divination cheat, and said with a black face that he would not participate in similar games again...... At least not today.

Angel found a book on the shelves of the recreation room about the treasures and legends of the sea, and read it carefully by the porthole, and soon found that it was full of vague and specious rumors. Even the "mermaid" she had just mistaken for had no less than five different descriptions, and the only thing they had in common was her amazing beauty, and it was no wonder that the Donna siblings thought she was one of them.

After an equally hearty dinner in the dining room, the two wandered around the deck for a while, until the night breeze became chilly and returned to their suite.

The thought of spending the next week like this made Angel's stomach twitch a little as she digested the perfect meal.

……

Whoa, whoa—

A hint of dissonance suddenly appeared in the sound of the waves that seemed to never stop, and Angel, who was carving a "storm gathering", stopped the carving knife in his hand and looked at the half-hidden porthole.

At this time, it was late at night, and the crimson moonlight outside the window sprinkled on the sea, turning the deep blue water during the day into a somewhat eerie red, and there was a "click" sound under the porthole again.

Curiously, she walked to the window and looked down, and on the deck below, a sneaky figure crouched on the edge of the ship, smearing something on the short dagger in her hand, and a smell of blood mixed with a strange fragrance burrowed into Angel's nose.

It was the bodyguard named Cleves during the day...... What's he doing? Back to your old business?

The behavior of adventurers and part-time pirates at sea has always been the subject of various legends, and Angel immediately thought of this possibility, but her dark vision soon spotted several other people hiding nearby, a female bodyguard who was traveling with Cleves, and the object of the afternoon's prank, the Donna siblings.

This strange combination dispelled her doubts.

Klein also walked out of the bedroom at this time, neatly dressed, holding a revolver, and looked at Angel curiously.

……

A moment later, the two of them reached the deck below, where they saw Cleves sprinkling peppercorns on several pieces of blood-dripping offal.

"Fish-man, lone fish-man," Cleves patted the pepper on his hand, pointing to a corrosion mark on the side of the ship, "it should have tried to get on the boat, but it didn't find its target, and it was back in the sea, most likely still wandering around, which gives us a chance to make some extra money." ”

"So you lure it with raw entrails?"

Angel asked curiously, noticing that the Donna siblings in the corner were leaning over here, pricking up their ears and eavesdropping carefully, not even caring about being afraid of her "kraken".

"They love to eat offal and, of course, human ...... Pepper, on the other hand, causes the fish-people to feel a strong sense of excitement, loss of balance, and then a great deal of exhaustion," Cleves pointed to the beef liver on the ground, "and what I smeared on the dagger was Pritz Harbor's specialty, peppermint paste, which is a deadly toxin for merfolk. ”

"You know them well?"

Klein interjected.

"Essential knowledge for adventurers."

The former adventurer replied indifferently.

"Sounds interesting, can I participate?" Crane showed the adventurous spirit of Gelman Sparrow at this point, patted the revolver on his waist, and asked.

Cleves and the female bodyguard looked at each other and nodded.

"Yes, your ...... Female companion, help Cecil take care of Donna and her siblings, so that she can join the battle without distraction, and you can get 10% of the proceeds from selling the fishman after docking. ”

This is obviously a low ratio compared to the number of people on both sides, but Angel and Crane are not bargaining, they are already halfway through, and it is not surprising that Cleves, who has already planned and prepared, refused to join them.

After the assignment, Angel went to the corner of the side of the ship, and stood next to Donna and Denton, the female bodyguard called Cecil was armed with a single-shot rifle, and when she saw that someone had replaced her, she nodded and came to Cleves's side, and guarded with Klein.

Cleves hung a piece of beef liver on the boom and threw it into the sea, scattering the remaining pieces of peppercorn-coated entrails on the side of the ship, while he himself hid himself on the other side with a dagger in one hand and a revolver in the other, and surrounded the boom at an angle to the other two.

"Sea, Miss Kraken......" Donna beside Angel suddenly whispered, "Will the fish-man really take the bait?" ”

"My name is Angelica, not the Kraken," Angel reached out and patted the girl's head, the height difference between the two sides made it easy for her, "Listen carefully, it's already here." ”

A tooth-aching grinding sound came from the side of the ship, and soon, a monster covered in dark green scales crossed the railing and rolled onto the deck.

Under the crimson moonlight, this "fish man" showed its true face in front of everyone, and there was not much "human" part on its body, like an upright fish with deformed limbs, the original fingers were webbed, two bulging eyes were located on both sides of the face, and there were gills that constantly opened and closed below.

The monster, nearly two meters tall, looked around vigilantly, then crouched down impatiently, grabbed the internal organs of the animal on the ground, stuffed them into its large mouth next to the gills, and chewed it.

The delicacy of the offal, as well as the extra peppercorns, made the monster quickly let out a satisfied "poof" sound, its eyes began to drift, and the fish's mouth opened to the sky.

It reminded Angel of a famous dish from her hometown.

"Bang-"

There was a loud bang in the night, and seeing that the time had come, Cecil opened fire with his rifle in hand.

(End of chapter)