Chapter 158 Family
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A mechanical sound rang out, and at the same time, there seemed to be some prompt sound.
When my consciousness sank into darkness, I seemed to see a lot of things, but I couldn't remember anything.
I woke up half a month later.
Next to him is Villar.
I felt no different than I had before I went to bed, except that I was in the bathtub.
"Sawyers brought you in as a fish yesterday, during the full moon."
He said so.
Thank you so much for putting the key words.
When I lay down, it was still two weeks before the full moon, and now the full moon has passed.
So… is Sawyers crazy?
I looked at Villar and asked him in my mind.
[…Crazy, but not completely crazy.]
What's the meaning?
[He's acting like a manic patient right now, personally selecting the 'products'.]
I:?
What else can Monster Alliance sell besides monsters?
[They are from the sea—some seabed creatures that have never existed before.]
I understand.
He went swimming frantically. In this era when humans had not yet mastered any advanced submarine technology, he could travel between the deep sea and land at will.
The reason why mermaids are a fantasy species is largely because no one has ever been able to travel to the deep sea before.
He wouldn't have gotten a real mermaid, would he?!
[…Yes, he got it.]
Villar's eyes wandered.
[But it may not be what you think of as a mermaid.]
I:?
Now that you say that, I'm even more curious.
Veral looked at me for a while, then picked me up, dried me, changed my clothes, and put a black ribbon on me.
“…Why not use a pendant?”
Villar: "I think it's better for you to take this with you."
Thank you. Your blindfolding behavior is really abstract. What kind of mermaid is this?
Then I followed him out of the bathroom and into the glass greenhouse in the back garden of the manor - this was built by Sawyers later, planted with roses and with a pool in the middle.
I think he might be missing the glass house from his childhood. As for the roses, these are not ordinary roses, they grow out of his body.
So this is the safest place in the entire manor.
In the pool of this glass house, I saw a mermaid.
A turquoise fishtail, seaweed-like hair, and bluish skin.
——It’s closer to fish than to people.
It was completely different from what I imagined, with a grassy smell, and no different from other monsters - also, for non-humans, human aesthetics have nothing to do with them.
I understand why Villar blindfolded me. It's okay to see it vaguely, but it might be uglier if you look closely.
The mermaid floated to the surface when he heard the sound. It was a male mermaid. He looked at the person who came with some caution. There was an iron chain on his hand connected to the bottom of the pool, which forced him to stay in this pool.
"...You are not the man who arrested me, who are you?"
It is the familiar ultrasound.
The mermaid's language is not as organized as that of humans, and even I can only understand the general meaning of his words.
Respectful but wary of Sawyers.
Is this pure wild?
I can’t imagine what kind of language system Sawyers would have if he were also purely wild. He now prefers to use ultrasound when talking to me.
"He is my brother."
"I just heard there's a new... guest at the manor, so I'm curious."
This is my answer.
Then I prepared to leave.
They are not the same kind as Sawyers and I.
Sawyers probably thought so too.
…
When Villar and I walked out of the glass house, we saw Sawyers standing at the door. He was not surprised to see me.
"It's a bit ugly."
I said this to him.
He nodded.
"But I can use him for some experiments."
"What experiment?"
"...Sangsang and I both have followers, but Sensei and Boros are both one-of-a-kind, and there's no way to mass-produce them."
"Then can we have our own clan?"
Villar: ...Is it possible that I can hear what you are saying?
If Villar could mass-produce this world, it would be destroyed without my help.
but……
I thought of Nilgara.
The mermaid who claimed to be "my" family.
A mermaid who looks very much like us.
——A mermaid that looks nothing like the big grass carp inside.
"So, brother, you feel lonely and want someone of the same kind?"
I asked him and he shook his head.
"...I don't like humans, but we are short of manpower."
"It's clearly the Monster Alliance—why are there so many humans?"
He asked this.
"Because this is the human world, even if you deny it, humans are the masters of this world and this era. That's the rule."
I told him so.
Sawyers said nothing.
"Why do Sangsang and I have different ideas?"
He switched languages.
"...It sounds like you're favoring humans."
This was the first thing he found strange when he saw Sindra after she woke up.
The smell of him changed.
He became more gentle, different from the previous one with a bit of madness. This one was more like the original him.
He felt it was very strange, yet also took it for granted.
This is how Syndra should be.
The brothers are like two poles, one black and one white.
If he represents "evil", then Syndra should be "good".
Just like what the old guy from the Divine Court said before.
But why now?
So what happened during the half month of sleep?
However, the idea of the previous experiment became stronger. If they had a clan, would Sangsang transfer his preference for humans to mermaids?
Of course, I don’t know what Sawyers is thinking. I only know that the fish in front of me is getting stuck in a dead end again.
I patted his head and said, "Don't think too much. There will always be a world where monsters rule."
For example, overlapping space.
It was a world where humans struggled to survive.
Moreover, many of Sawyers' ideas were successful. What I can't figure out now is why there is something in this world that needs me to save - he doesn't seem to have the urge to destroy the world!
At most, you can be a big boss in the infinite flow, which is nothing. In so many infinite flow novels, many of the protagonists are big bosses.
System, come out and explain, you have been pretending to be dead since I woke up.
[…Host, I am now forbidden by the main system from communicating with you too much.]
Huh? Why?
[There are quite a few issues with your physical examination. This is all I can say.]
[In short, you're in danger now. I must reduce spoilers and backdoors... because some of the "shortcuts" I used before created some loopholes and led to bad consequences.]
[So, host, just consider everything as temporarily mute. ]
I:?
You only tell me such an important thing after I ask you?
Wait a minute, could you please tell me specifically what the problem or danger is?
[I can't tell you, but don't worry, I will protect you.]
"What happened to my brother?"
Sawyers noticed my abnormality.
"No... nothing."
I shook my head.
This is the first time the system has been like this - what did the main system say?
And what exactly happened to me?
From the moment I woke up, my body felt very light, and a lot of negative emotions were cleared away... This is something I wouldn't notice unless I consciously recalled it.
If it were me before the physical examination, I might have agreed with Sawyers when he said what he said before.
But now I subconsciously refuted him.
I looked at him. "Would you be mad if I favored humans?"
"You've never shown any concern for humans before. I just find it strange." He was a little confused.
I:……
How should I put it? I'm now a little confused as to why I could have been so...disregarding of human life before?
Before, I just relied on my conscience to maintain my sanity and not kill everyone, not because I really felt something was wrong.
Is this also a weird part of my body?
From this perspective, this problem of subtly influencing consciousness and cognition is indeed a serious one.
"Maybe it's because I'm young and ignorant."
I said this to him.
"So, what about the clan?"
I looked towards the glass greenhouse behind me and changed the subject, "How on earth did you manage to get him back?"
"I'm already reforming him."
He stretched out his hand, and a vine grew out of it. On the vine were black seeds, and two of them were missing.
"This will take quite a while. After all, our strength... is a bit too strong. We can't handle it in the short term."
I nodded.
Isn't it just... I guess there are already failed experiments.
But forget it, if the child doesn’t want to talk, I won’t ask.
There are morals, but not many.
Sawyers said I had a partiality for mankind, but in fact I had the greatest partiality for him.
——After all, I came into this world for him.
"Three years, at most."
He raised his head.
"I will create the clan before Sangsang succeeds the Saint."
His eyes sparkled like the sun.
It's at times like this that I act like a child.
I couldn't help but touch his head again.
I know what he means.
...After I succeeded the Saint, I could no longer leave the Holy City at will. The Holy City was a forbidden area for monsters, so the Monster Alliance could not move there. Even Sawyers would feel uncomfortable there.
So we won't meet as often as we do now.
"Don't work so hard..." I said, "I'm different from Yomel. He didn't leave the Holy City because he has almost no ability to protect himself."
I held out my hand, my nails growing longer and sharper, and waved it in front of Sawyers's face, flashing a cold light.
"Even Remonsis is no match for me without the help of divine light."
What I mean is, if I want to escape, I can still escape, it’s just a matter of making a phone call.
But Sawyers shook his head.
"...I don't want anything to happen to you, even if the chance is almost zero."
"I will wait for you until the gods leave this stage, when humans, when the world no longer needs the gods to maintain order—or, when this world no longer has order."
He said softly.
"We won't die."
He is right, but I have to escape to the next world.
But I definitely can't tell him this.
I nodded.
[Xiaoyu, sometimes you really are a bit of a scumbag.]
I:……
"If you hadn't packed me up and taken me away, I would have always thought you were dead in that world, and then one day I would have found out the truth and come to settle the score with you."
Shut up, you know I'm going to take you away!
I've already taken you away, what else are you dissatisfied with?
I glared at Villar calmly.
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Three years later, the Holy City——
My succession ceremony is in three days.
In three days, Jomel will die.
"I will dissipate on that day, and the miracle will strike you, and you will become an eternal saint in the divine court."
Yomel, who already had difficulty walking, sat on a chair and said to me with a smile.
He no longer looks like his youth. In just ten years, he has gone from a twenty-year-old young man to an old man who looks a hundred years old.
"That sounds like a curse."
I sighed and started to fan him. Organ failure and aging had made his physical condition very poor.
In contrast, I also entered a period of growth, or rather, Sawyers entered a period of growth.
I don't know how Sawyers has grown in recent years, but when I was thirteen, he was already 1.7 meters tall. When he dressed a little more maturely, he looked like he was sixteen or seventeen.
"I'm sorry to have you shoulder such a heavy burden."
Yomel said this, but there was no apology in his tone.
Anyway, I have seen through him. This man does not look like the boss of the Divine Court at all - his piety is fake, and some rumors and anecdotes about the gods are made up by him. Even the work of the Divine Court has been thrown to me since five years ago.
The reason why it has persisted for more than two hundred years is its love for peace and pursuit of order.
Powerful in a sense.
"If you're really sorry, please don't quit when I'm thirteen."
He looked at me with a smile, and there was a bit of fatherly love in his eyes.
I choose to turn a blind eye.
"I can't hold out for another five years."
"So if Sawyers and I hadn't been there, you could only have lasted ten years?"
I asked him.
He nodded.
"But fate has destined you to appear."
"Just like on the battlefield back then, fate destined the appearance of God."
I pursed my lips.
What a destiny.
It was me, the diligent Party B, who was pulled into the work by Party A's father.
Cattle and horses go wherever they are needed.
#Sangsang...I sent you a gift.
#I succeeded.
Sawyers' voice suddenly rang in my head, and then I heard a commotion outside.
Yomel and I looked at each other, he waved at me, and I ran out quickly.
There is a holy pool in the garden square in front of the white house in the center of the holy city. It is groundwater that gushes out from the ground. Believers usually use the water in the pool to bathe and rinse when they pray and make wishes. At the same time, because it is bathed in divine light, the water here is almost holy water with a purity of more than 90%.
——The water that Lemonsis used to splash people came from here.
But now.
There is a golden mermaid inside.
Golden fishtail, golden hair, and golden eyes.
The moment I came out, he jumped out of the water and looked at me.
"Sir, I am your gift to you."
"My name is Nirgara."
Everything went dark before my eyes.
Sawyers is a truly terrifying person. How could he cultivate a monster that is not even afraid of holy water?
He definitely chose this color on purpose.
It is a perfect match for this glittering holy city.
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