Chapter 882: Mermaid princess
Chapter 882: Mermaid princess
After a moment of hesitation, the two of us both sliced off a tiny piece of skin from our arms. There was a small spurt of blood, but it didn’t last long since Moon was there to heal us with her magic.
The wound wasn’t that big in the first place since we had only cut off a small piece, so it healed almost instantly with Moon’s healing magic. In no time at all, there was no trace of the cut left behind.
When it was done, we exchanged the piece of skin that we cut off, but…
Neither of us put it in our mouths.
After all, it wasn’t as if we had ever eaten something like this.
A piece of skin wasn’t something that could be considered appetizing, especially when it was raw skin that was cut off a person right in front of them. Doing something like that definitely made things less appetizing.
It was like seeing your meat being butchered and prepared in front of you.
It wasn’t a good sight for one’s stomach.
After a moment of silence, I took a deep breath and put her skin in my mouth.
I didn’t even bother chewing as I forced myself to swallow, but it wasn’t as if I could ignore the taste of it that spread through my mouth.
Fishy, that was the taste of her skin.
Though she was a mermaid that spent most of her time underwater, so it wouldn’t be strange if her skin had a fishy taste to it.
There was also a slight taste of iron, which came from the blood that was on her skin. That just went to show how fresh it was, so fresh that it had been a part of a living being just a minute ago.
After seeing me eat her skin, the mermaid didn’t hesitate to do the same thing as me.
The twisting of her face made it clear that she didn’t appreciate the taste of me and I couldn’t help feeling strange about this. There was a part of me that even wondered why I didn’t taste good.
Was that normal for when someone ate a piece of you?
I had no idea, but there was that thought that passed through my mind.
After she swallowed the piece of my skin, there were bubbles that appeared on her skin…or rather on her scales. These bubbles only seemed to appear on the scales of her lower half.
Neither the mermaid nor I panicked when we saw this, but my wives couldn’t help panicking. Moon was the one that stepped forward in the end.
She had her hand raised and there was already mana gathering in her hands, as if she was prepared to use a healing spell. At the same time, she asked, “What’s wrong?”
There was no hiding the concern in her voice which touched the mermaid, but the mermaid calmly said, “Don’t worry, this is normal.”
Though she said this, she didn’t really know if this was normal since this was her first time doing something like this. She had only heard about this contract magic before, she never knew if it would actually work or not.
But she didn’t want to give up the chance to chase after her dream, so she seized this chance when it was offered to her.
After the bubbles came from her for a bit, the scales seemed to disappear.
It was as if the scales were turning into bubbles themselves.
Then the tail seemed to split in half before turning into a pair of legs that didn’t have a single scale on them. All of the scales that had been on her tails had turned into bubbles and disappeared without a trace.
Finally, the bubbles completely disappeared and all that was left were a pair of human legs.
The mermaid didn’t move after all of the bubbles disappeared.
It wasn’t that she wasn’t able to move, it was that she didn’t know how to move.
She was a mermaid, so it wasn’t as if she had ever used human legs before.
None of us moved forward to help her since we didn’t know what she needed right now, or if we could actually help her. It seemed like it was better to leave it to her to slowly figure out how to use those new human legs of hers.
And that was what she did.
The mermaid slowly reached down to touch her human legs before revealing an excited look.
The first thing that she did after revealing that excited look was swing her legs around. However, since this was just a small rowboat…
“Ow!”
That was her scream of pain from kicking the bottom of the rowboat with her legs swinging at full force. She naturally wasn’t able to crack the boat, but there was no doubt that she hurt her heel from that.
Seeing this, I shook my head and gave a look to Moon.
She understood the look that I gave her and went forward to use a healing spell on the
mermaid’s foot.
Feeling the pain disappear, the mermaid looked up with a grateful look to say, “Thank you.”
Moon just gave a simple nod before moving back over to where we were.
The mermaid played around with her new legs a bit longer before turning to me to say, “Thank you for helping me with this. If there’s anything that I can repay you with, then don’t hesitate to ask.”
A faint smile appeared on my lips when I heard this before I said, “Well, truth be told, I didn’t help without any expectations.”
The mermaid narrowed her eyes to look at me for a bit before relaxing them and giving a nod to say, “Well that’s to be expected. There’s no free meal in this world.”
She slowly stood up and reached her hand out before saying, “I’ve never introduced myself before. I’m Ariel, the princess of the Merman Empire.”
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