Chapter 85 The Prince Becomes a Mermaid
Rhine's words were calm, yet they revealed a confidence that made people trust him unconditionally.
"Why? Rhine said I would be fine? Why did you speak so quietly?" Ariel couldn't understand what Rhine said, but chose to believe it.
"Teacher!" Aurora looked at Rhine anxiously, "I am at a loss as to what to do now. Please help me!"
Rhine said calmly:
"At that time, when I was trying to see if I could successfully mix a medicinal wine that could transform human legs into fish tails, I suddenly received a revelation from fate. Fate is so unpredictable, and it occasionally gives random hints..."
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In the mirror world, inside the replica temple.
Festive music filled the air, and behind the bride and groom, many oil lamps emitted warm light, like stars in the night.
Everyone looked at the prince and princess on the altar and blessed them sincerely.
——Today's wedding was too hasty, and many people who were supposed to witness the marriage of the prince and princess did not arrive in time. The people at the wedding were mainly the musicians who played music, the temple priests who presided over the ceremony, and some noble guests who were brought in by the old witch to make up the numbers.
"Next, let the bride and groom drink the celebratory wine," the priest announced.
Eric was still in a daze, and had not yet recovered from the mental shock of losing his memory. He acted almost instinctively. He poured the brown wine into the glass and drank it all.
"Wait a moment, Eric." The little princess suddenly realized the problem and kindly reminded, "You seem to have the wrong wine."
"I took the wrong one..." Prince Eric murmured the words in confusion, and he looked at the empty wine bottle on the table.
The bottle, which had once contained the brown medicinal wine, was now completely empty.
Prince Eric didn't remember who gave him the wine, but when he saw the bottle, he felt an inexplicable warmth and familiarity.
"If I have encountered something, I should drink this wine..." Prince Eric thought so instinctively. It was this instinct that made him drink the medicinal wine.
Suddenly, Prince Eric lost his balance and fell to the ground.
"ah!"
“Help!”
"What happened to Prince Eric?"
Panic shouts rang out among the crowd.
Even the priest who was in charge of reciting the blessing turned pale with fear.
He found that everyone was looking at him in surprise. The little princess of Endeavour was also screaming with fear on her face. Prince Eric was stunned at first, then lowered his head and looked down.
His legs had disappeared at some point, and his lower body had turned into a fish tail! He looked exactly like the legendary mermaid.
"Monster, monster!"
"Mermaid? Why did Prince Eric become a mermaid?"
"Oh my god, what happened?"
The musicians stopped playing, the best man and bridesmaid hid in the corner, and people looked at Prince Eric who had turned into a monster with fear.
Only the little princess of Ende remained standing there, her eyes filled with shock but still as gentle as before:
"Eric, what's wrong with you? You... must be hiding some secret?"
Prince Eric trembled all over and grasped his fish tail with both hands, feeling the smoothness of the fish scales and the touch of his hands on the fish tail - this made him sure that it was his own tail.
He just stared at the beautiful fish tail, completely stunned.
It was not until his vision became blurred and the world seemed to be shrouded in a hazy fog that Prince Eric realized that his eyes had been filled with tears.
He remembered it! He remembered it all! In the past, people on earth also viewed that girl and her kindred in the same way, right? Prince Eric remembered another girl with the same fish tail. He remembered the scene he had seen in the crystal ball - the girl bypassed the broken bed board and mast, completely ignoring the risk of being hit, and saved him in the raging waves; I remembered how the girl swam into the coral forest with determination and asked the sea witch for the potion; I remembered the hand of the girl I held, walking in the corridor of the palace, and every passerby praised her for her lightness, because those legs were transformed from the fish tail.
All the forgotten memories came back to life.
Because those memories are not traces on the beach that will disappear after a tide, but the bitterness and joy engraved on the hard rock, which can only be covered up but not erased! "Ariel, my Ariel!"
Prince Eric screamed.
"Where is Ariel? Where am I? Why am I here?"
He was confused and horrified, looking around.
The confused memories of the past hour or so came flooding back - mainly the hasty and ridiculous wedding, which seemed like a horrible dream.
Hearing Prince Eric calling out a stranger's name, and thinking of his strange behavior and inconsistent words before, the little princess vaguely guessed something and felt a little sore in the corners of her eyes.
"I remember now, I understand everything." Prince Eric shouted, "I was under a spell, someone made me forget my lover, in order to let me attend this wedding!"
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Prince Eric moved his unfamiliar and difficult-to-control fish tail a little on the ground towards the little princess.
He said, half to himself and half to the Ende Princess:
"I'm sorry. As I said before, the one I love is another girl, the other girl who saved me with you. She is a mermaid.
"For my sake, she drank the potion that made her fish tail split into two legs, abandoned her familiar homeland, and met me on earth.
"In order to be with her, we found a great magician and asked him to make a potion that would allow us to turn into mermaids and go to the sea together."
The little princess was stunned.
She could barely process the amount of information contained in Prince Eric's brief statement.
It sounds like something out of a fairy tale book.
Even stranger and more bizarre than those stories! The little princess murmured:
"It is true. The witch added drugs to the wine that disrupt your mind and memory."
She rushed to the prince who had turned into a mermaid, straightened Eric's unstable body, and stared at the prince's dark eyes with guilt: "I'm sorry, Eric, I really didn't know that I let you drink the drug!"
"So that's it. This is a scam, a huge scam." Prince Eric clenched his fists. "They would rather modify my memory than let us get married. There must be some conspiracy hidden in this!"
He tried to stand up, but without his legs he was unable to do such a simple task.
And then Eric thought:
When Ariel first wanted to come to land, she might have encountered the same situation. So, when Ariel pushed him to the shore, lying unconscious like a dead body, the little mermaid could only watch him from afar in the sea. The land and the sea are the natural barriers separating humans and mermaids.
The little princess covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes complicated, and no one knew what she was thinking.
"No, I can't stay here. We have to leave here and end this absurd wedding farce!" Prince Eric used his hands to dig the ground and tried to move his body towards the gate of the temple.
Meanwhile, the others in the temple were too panicked to listen to Eric's story.
Some people tried to open the temple door and escape, but found that the door was welded shut.
"It's so weird, the door won't open! " "We're all trapped in here!"
(End of this chapter)