Chapter 107 Two Hearts
The locomotive blue cloth has a soft, glutinous and refreshing taste. Vespera twists the pieces one by one and puts them into her mouth. It feels like Naga's knife skills are a bit too good.
She is a mermaid with a dull brain who always fantasizes about being the Little Mermaid, but unexpectedly, she knows a lot of things.
Vesperia twisted a piece of sashimi and stuffed it into Naga's mouth.
"...Thank you." Naga paused and said, "Prince, dear, you can't just put things in my mouth like that. What if I don't react in time and bite you? My teeth are very sharp."
“Will you?” Vespera asked, spreading the sea grapes evenly over the fish fillet. “Will you bite me?”
"Of course not!" Naga retorted loudly, as if he had been questioned to the point of being grieved to death. "How could I bear to hurt you? I love you so much!"
"Isn't that enough?" Vespera smiled as he stuffed the sashimi wrapped in sea grapes into his mouth. The salty, fresh flavor, like fish roe, made him squint his eyes happily. He fed the naga again, "Go on, I'm listening."
"Okay," Naga muttered, "You're always right—and then, that dead bird, Siren, made you fall into the sea..."
"...I was too far away from you. Even though I swam towards you the moment I saw you fall into the water, the Noctiluca scintillans, those little bioluminescent creatures that illuminate the deep sea, also made it difficult for me to find you. You weren't injured, you weren't bleeding, and there was no smell of blood, so I couldn't spot you the first time."
"In fact, I've been looking for you all night."
Upon hearing this, Vespera's expression froze, and he was shocked.
What does it mean to search for a whole night?
No one can stay at the bottom of the sea for a whole night unless he is dead.
"Am I dead?" Vespera asked. But he soon realized that he was still alive, sitting on the shore eating sashimi. His flesh and blood were real, at least he was alive now. So Vespera asked again, "I mean, did I die once that day?"
"Yes." Naga replied softly, "When I found you, the sun had just risen, and you were no longer breathing... At that time, I remembered that in the book I read, a shipwreck also happened at night, and the little mermaid rescued the prince at dawn, and the prince was still alive. But why, when I rescued you and brought you ashore at the same time, you were cold all over, without breathing or heartbeat."
Vespera saw that the way the Naga looked at him contained many things that he had once disdainfully thought were human qualities that non-humans like the Naga could never possess.
It is sadness, love, and happiness.
It turns out that Naga actually has emotions that are just as rich as mine, perhaps even richer than mine.
"So I'm really dead." For Vespera, saying this was not as difficult as he had imagined.
Because he knew that he was still alive - obviously, Naga did something that day that made him lucky enough to have a third life.
Naga replied: "Yeah. But it doesn't matter, you are alive and well now - is the locomotive blue-cloth delicious? Do you want another salmon or something..."
"No need." Vespera interrupted him. "I want to know how I was resurrected. Did you do anything?"
Vespera's tone was gentler than ever before.
He guessed that Naga must have done something extraordinary, or paid a huge price.
What could it be?
"Are you sure you want to know?" Naga sighed.
He looked a little anxious and swam around the lake before returning to Vespera.
"I'm sure. I deserve to know what happened to me, and I deserve to know what you did for me." Vespera's voice was gentle yet firm.
He raised his hand, reached out to Naga's chest, picked up the aquamarine and weighed it, thinking, now it seems that this gem is not enough to thank Naga for what she has done for me.
I should have given him a bigger reward.
Like the crown I didn't give away last time? Or maybe something else he wants that I have?
To be specific, it depends on the process - sometimes, the process is more important than the result.
Seeing Naga still looking conflicted, Vespera thought for a moment and asked with a smile, "Could it be that there is actually a witch in the sea, and you exchanged your voice with her to give me a second life? No wonder your voice..."
"My voice isn't bad," Naga muttered. "Okay, okay, I'll tell you."
He took Vespella's hand and led her into the lair.
Because those changes allowed her to breathe freely underwater, Vespella did not resist being pulled into the water.
Even his heart began to beat violently, and it felt like a lemon was being squeezed out of its juice in his chest.
I feel very excited and thrilled, but at the same time, I feel a little nervous about knowing the truth. It's very sour.
What would that be?
Naga took Vespera's hand and led him to the shell bed.
On the left side of the bed was a bedside table made of a large wooden box, and on the right was an object about two meters high, thin and covered with a piece of cloth.
Vespera guessed that it should be a wardrobe.
When Naga lifted the red velvet cloth, Vespera discovered that it was actually a mirror.
The mirror reflected the two of them, somewhat too intimate at the moment—the blond, blue-eyed prince, like an elf, floating in the water. Beside him, a man with a face too beautiful to be real, a muscular body, and a treacherous snake tail in the lower half, tightly hugged the prince's waist, his lips trying to kiss the tender new organ behind his ear, while the snake tail stirred restlessly, trying to wrap itself around the prince's thigh.
"...Naga, what are you doing?" Vespera asked with a dark face.
Every time, every time, as long as he was a little gentle to this shameless mermaid, the mermaid would become more and more presumptuous and secretly do some tricks to his body.
Just like now——
"You said it yourself, my fins are very sensitive, don't try to lick them again!" Vespera twisted his body to dodge, his face a little red, but fortunately it was not very clear in the water. "If you do this again, I don't want to listen to you anymore, I want to go back to camp!"
"Okay, I won't lick it anymore. I swear... Don't move." Naga simply used her big tail to fix Vespella's body and said shamelessly, "Don't move. I'm trying to tell you that it's because you move around that your cute fins are tempting me to kiss them...hiss——"
Vesperia slapped Naga in the face with her backhand.
The slap was quite strong, and it was obvious that Vespera was really angry.
Naga quickly shut up, he didn't dare to really anger his prince.
Moreover, perhaps due to her complete adaptation, Vespella's body shape and strength, which had been fixed after adulthood, had improved slightly, causing Naga's nose to feel sore after the slap.
"Now I'm going to let you go and take off your clothes. Don't get too excited." Naga said seriously.
"..." Vespera said angrily, "You're about to take off my clothes, and I'm not excited? You're not still thinking about mating with me, are you?"
"Well...I really want to, but I don't have it right now. I have to tell you the truth now."
"Anyway, if you dare tease me again, you're definitely dead."
The Naga's tail retracted, releasing Vespera.
Vesperia's shirt is a pullover, flowing style with a delicate drawstring on the chest for adjusting the size.
Naga was fumbling with the knot at his collar.
During the process, for some reason, Vespera did not stop his behavior, nor did she say anything like "Don't move, I'll do it myself". He let Naga move on him.
I stared at the mirror in front of me, watching myself being undressed from another angle - it was really pleasing to the eyes.
It was more pleasing to the eye than many movies he had ever seen.
In the dim water with only a hint of moonlight, she was very close to a seductive-looking man, who was concentrating on untying the strings of his clothes, as if he was performing some extraordinary bedtime ritual.
What truth can I only know by taking off my clothes like sleeping?
Vespera looked a little distracted.
He decisively lowered his head and stopped looking at the tempting picture in the mirror.
Just at this time, Naga also completed his work.
"Raise your hands a little."
"Um."
The pullover shirt was completely removed.
Vespera didn't even have time to feel shy about his naked upper body, as he was quickly turned over by the Naga.
"Vespera, turn around and look in the mirror."
With a nervous heart, Vespella turned around and saw in the mirror his smooth back and a scar that was twisting and crawling in the reflection of the water.
It was very long and pink, and must have grown out not long ago. The new tender flesh protruded from the skin, forming a horrible scar hyperplasia.
Vespera was stunned.
He was sure that when he first came here, this pampered body belonging to the prince had no scars at all.
It must have been caused by a shipwreck.
According to the mirror reversal, this long scar should be on...
Vespera guessed something, and it was an answer that left him at a loss for words.
He touched his chest, feeling the heartbeat that was stronger than a normal human's. After a long while, he softly asked Naga, "Is my heart okay?"
"It's fine. With my help, it can continue beating for many, many years." Naga replied.
He looked at Vespera with gentleness and tenderness, as if he was looking at a piece of art that he was extremely satisfied with.
In fact, this work of art happened to be created by him.
"What about you? Is your heart okay? How many hearts are still inside your chest?"
Vespera remembered that in the high priest's popular science, he had mentioned that sirens had two hearts, which were the source of their power.
Now, a heart belonging to the Siren is beating in his chest.
"I'm fine. I only have one heart, and I can be fine. Sirens are a very powerful species, so don't worry about me."
“…”
"Don't resist it, it won't bring you any harm, I swear."
Vespera completely believed Naga's words.
How could it be bad to have an extra heart, especially the heart of the sea overlord Siren?
It gave me a second, no, third life.
Naga gave me a heart.
It turns out that the completely overlapping heartbeats between Naga and I that day were not an illusion - his heart is now in my body, leading my failing heart to beat together.
Plop, plop——
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