Chapter 947: Doting parents (1)
Chapter 947: Doting parents (1)
As soon as Sebastien said the word ‘princess’, all of the others who had been pointing their tridents forward suddenly shook in shock.
All of them looked at Ariel before slow looks of recognition appeared on their faces.
Even though Ariel now had human legs, it wasn’t as if they would fail to recognize her top half since her top half had never changed. Mermaids were humans from the waist up after all.
After looking at Ariel for a bit, Sebastien suddenly said, “Princess, where have you been? We’ve been searching far and wide for you all this time!”
Ariel just waved her hand casually before saying, “Don’t worry about that right now. Can you just go and call my parents? There’s something important that I want to discuss with them.”
Sebastien and the other merman soldiers all had strange looks on their faces, but he eventually nodded in agreement. Though he didn’t go back into the sea after agreeing to her request and rather came to her side as if he was protecting her.
It was one of the other soldiers that went back into the ocean.
When I looked closely at these soldiers that were now guarding Ariel, I was surprised to see that they actually had feet. Instead of having a large tailfin like Ariel did when I first met her, these people actually had human legs.
If they could have human legs, then why did Ariel need me to form that contract with her in the first place?
It was the same for in the game, why did they put that kind of setting in?
Was it because it seemed romantic, like in the Little Mermaid?
I couldn’t help feeling that I really didn’t know this world as well as I thought I did as I found all kinds of different surprises the more that I explored this world. It really seemed like what I had encountered in the game was nothing more than the tip of the iceberg…
Still, that knowledge from the game had given me quite the advantage in this world, so it wasn’t as if I could complain.
It took around half an hour before the water burst once more and people appeared.
During this, the soldiers that had been protecting Ariel hadn’t even let their guards down for even a second as they looked at us with wary looks. Even when Ariel tried to convince them that we weren’t bad people, Sebastien just wouldn’t accept this at all.
Finally, there was a large group that appeared from the sea.
When they landed, I saw that all of them had human legs…
It seemed that the mermaids really did have a way to gain human legs.
But it also wasn’t strange the more that I thought about it since they had built the facilities on this island for a reason. If they couldn’t gain human legs to come up here and negotiate, then this island was built for no reason.
It seemed that the event with Ariel really was nothing more than the bad design of the game. After this group appeared, the first thing that happened was…
There was a large man and a delicate and slender woman that came forward. The two of them immediately pushed aside Sebastien and his guards to head to Ariel’s side.
Sebastien and his guards didn’t say a thing and just let themselves be pushed aside, which showed the authority that these two had.
But there was nothing better than…
“Mom, dad!” Ariel said in an emotional voice when she saw the two of them running over to her.
As expected, these two were the Merman King and Queen.
After the two of them pushed past the guards, the first thing that they did was grab Ariel and pull her into their arms.
The beautiful and slender woman said, “My baby, where did you go all this time?”
The large man just simply cleared his throat and said, “Ahem, it doesn’t matter. It’s just good that you’re back.”
The two of them seemed like they didn’t care about a single thing other than their daughter. There were tears that appeared in the corner of Ariel’s eyes as she said, “Mom, dad…”
But then she calmed herself down and said, “It’s all because you were trying to set me up with someone I didn’t know at all! Did you think that I wouldn’t find out about this?”
The Merman King and Queen were surprised to hear this before the Merman Queen said, “Darling, who said that we would do that? We were just listening to what those people from the Tide Empire were saying, we never had any intention of accepting this.”
The Merman King cleared his throat again before saying, “Ahem, if there’s anything that my precious baby doesn’t like, of course we won’t go through with it. All you have to do is tell us and we’ll never force you to do anything you don’t want to.”
Ariel was surprised to hear this as she slowly looked up at her parents, as if she was seeing if they were being serious or not.
Seeing the way that they looked at her, she had no choice but to admit that they were indeed telling the truth.
Though it didn’t seem like she was about to accept this that easily and give up on her plan to be free.
Ariel just slowly nodded before moving away from her parents.
The two of them looked a bit disappointed when they saw her acting this way, but they didn’t force her to stay in their embrace. Instead, they just followed her as if they wanted to make sure that she was safe.
Ariel walked back over to where we were standing and then said, “There’s something that I want to tell you.”
The moment that the two of them heard this, they immediately narrowed their eyes and looked at me.
There was a bitter feeling that filled me when I saw this as I thought to myself…
“Please, can you not say it like that?”
Saying something like this to parents that were as doting as these two…it was a recipe for
disaster!
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