Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 385 Siren and Murloc

My expression?

Faced with the girl's accusation, Angel was a little puzzled for a moment. Not only was she wearing a lady's hat with a veil, but she was also facing the porthole. How could she see her expression?

What's more, I didn't do anything weird...

At this moment, she suddenly thought of her first encounter with Triss in Backlund. During the conversation, the other party suddenly changed to a completely different expression from before, but she was completely unaware of it afterwards.

Could it be that I...

She subconsciously looked at her palm. The strange sapphire ring was not in her finger. Instead, she sealed it with a spiritual wall and threw it into her luggage.

"Denton, I told you not to go there!"

The girl's voice woke Angel up from her thoughts. She found that the little boy broke free from his sister's hand, walked up to her again, and looked up at her curiously.

"Sister, are you a mermaid?"

This sudden question amused Angel. She knelt down so that her eyes were level with Denton's and asked:

"Why do you think so?"

"Uncle Cleeves said that there are many mermaids on the sea. They will use their beauty and singing to lure passing sailors and adventurers and trick them back into their homes... Me, I want to be an adventurer too!"

Why does this legend sound weird? Couldn't the Clevis he was talking about be the bodyguard chatting with Klein... It seems that this little boy asked such a strange question because he has listened to too many sea legends. question.

Angel was thinking, and suddenly had the idea of ​​playing a prank in her heart. She took off the lady's hat on her head, showed her face in front of the siblings, and asked with a smile:

"So do you think I'm a mermaid?"

"Hey, yes, it's the Siren!"

It was Denton's sister who reacted first. She suddenly pulled Denton over and took a few steps away. She stared at Angel with her big eyes, more surprised and curious than panicked.

In some legends, another name for mermaid is siren.

"Donna, Denton, I remember saying that the lower body of a mermaid is not a leg, but a tail."

A rough voice came from the side. The middle-aged man who was talking to Klein just now walked over and reached out to gently touch Denton's head.

"Cleves, the bodyguard of these two children."

He turned to look at Angel and made a gentleman's salute, acting unfamiliar and casual.

"Hello, Mr. Cleeves."

Angel originally wanted to state his name, but remembered that he was a companion of "Crazy Adventurer" Sparrow and should have similar personalities and traits to him, so he responded coldly.

Cleeves didn't take it seriously. He was just here to pick up his employer's precious child. Seeing that Angel made no other moves, he nodded lightly and took Donna and Denton away from the porthole.

The girl, who was about the same age as Melissa, took two steps and turned back to look at Angel, her eyes still full of curiosity.

Then the expression on her face turned to horror and her eyes suddenly opened wide.

Because Angel stood up again and raised the hem of her skirt slightly, the place where her legs should have been was empty, as if this tall, beautiful lady was suspended in the air...

Kraken!

Donna's whole body stiffened, and her eyes slowly moved up to look at Angel's face, only to find that she put her right index finger in front of her mouth, signaling the girl who had "seen through her secret" to keep it secret.

The girl nodded with a horrified look on her face, closed her eyes, turned around, and followed Clevis out of the entertainment room obediently.

Angel, who had lost his invisibility effect, returned to Klein with a smile on his face and sat across from the card table. The latter watched the whole prank with a faint smile on his face.

"If you scare children like this, they will have nightmares at night."

His eyes followed the three people as they left the entertainment room door, then looked at Angel and joked.

"The little boy Denton said he wanted to be an adventurer. After seeing the legendary mermaid, he should have a sweet dream that his wish would come true at night, and Donna...she might have a sleepless night, just treat it as a discovery 'Siren' secret punishment, who makes her always think that I am a monster who attracts adventurers with my beauty and singing?"

"Aren't you?"

boom--

Angel kicked Klein from under the table, causing the adventurer to stand up from the table with a grin on his face, attracting the curious eyes of several passengers who were fighting evil around him.

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After the novelty of boarding the ship wore off, the journey soon became boring and boring. Klein tried to blend in with the other gentlemen and gathered a table to "fight evil". Unwilling to use divination to cheat, he quickly lost 5 Pound, with a dark face, said he would not participate in similar games again... at least not today. Angel found a book about various treasures and legends at sea from the bookshelf in the recreation room. He read it carefully by the porthole and soon discovered that the book was full of vague and specious rumors. Even the "mermaid" she was mistaken for just now has no less than five different descriptions. The only thing they have in common is that they have amazing beauty. It's no wonder that the Donna siblings think she is one of them.

After having the same sumptuous dinner in the restaurant, the two of them wandered around on the deck for a while, until the sea breeze turned cold at night, and then they returned to their suite.

Thinking of spending the next week like this, Angel's stomach twitched a little as he digested the food.

……

Hua Hua, click——

A discordant tone suddenly appeared in the sound of the waves that seemed to never stop. Angel, who was carving a "Gathering of Storms", stopped the carving knife in his hand and looked at the half-closed porthole.

It was already late at night, and the crimson moonlight outside the window shone on the sea, turning the deep blue sea water into a strange red during the day. There was another "click" sound from below the porthole.

She curiously walked to the window and looked down. On the deck below, a sneaky figure squatted on the edge of the ship, smearing something on the dagger in his hand. The smell of blood mixed with a strange fragrance penetrated Angel's nose. middle.

It was the bodyguard named Cleeves during the day... What was he doing? Returning to your old career?

The behavior of adventurers at sea who work part-time as pirates has always been a hotly discussed topic in various legends. Angel immediately thought of this possibility, but her dark vision soon discovered several other people hiding nearby, one and Cleves was accompanied by the female bodyguard, and the object of the afternoon prank, the Donna siblings.

This strange combination allowed her to dispel the above doubts.

Klein also walked out of the bedroom at this time, neatly dressed, holding a revolver, and looked at Angel curiously.

……

After a while, the two came to the deck below and saw Cleeves sprinkling peppercorns on several pieces of cattle and sheep offal dripping with blood.

"The fishman, the lone fishman," Cleeves patted the pepper on his hand and pointed to a corrosion mark on the side of the ship. "It should have tried to get on the ship, but failed to find the target of the attack and returned to the sea. , there’s a good chance it’s still hanging around, which gives us a chance to make some extra money.”

"So you lured it with raw offal?"

Angel asked curiously, noticing that the Donna siblings in the corner were leaning towards this side. They pricked up their ears and listened carefully, not even caring about being afraid of her "sea monster".

"They love to eat offal, and of course they love humans the most... and pepper will make fishmen feel intense excitement, lose their sense of balance, and then become severely exhausted," Cleeves pointed to the beef liver on the ground. "And what I smeared on the dagger was Pulitzer Port's specialty sweet, peppermint paste. They are deadly poison to mermaids."

"You know them well?"

Klein interjected.

"Essential knowledge for adventurers."

The former adventurer replied calmly.

"Sounds interesting, can I participate?" Klein showed the adventurous spirit of Gehrman Sparrow at this time, patted the revolver on his waist, and asked.

Clevis and the female bodyguard looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay, your... female companion will help Cecil take care of the Donna siblings so that she can join the battle without being distracted. You can get 10% of the profit from selling the fishmen after they dock."

Compared with the number of people on both sides, this is obviously a low ratio, but Angel and Klein did not bargain. They joined midway, and it was not surprising that Clevis, who had already made complete plans and preparations, refused to join them.

After the assignment, Angel came to the inner corner of the ship's side and stood next to Donna and Denton. The female bodyguard named Cecil was holding a single-shot rifle. When he saw someone taking his place, he nodded and came. Go to Cleeves' side and stand guard with a gun together with Klein.

Cleeves hung a piece of beef liver on the boom and threw it into the sea. The remaining pieces of offal coated with peppercorns were scattered beside the side of the ship. He was holding a dagger in one hand and a revolver in the other, hiding on the other side. , at an angle with the other two, surrounding the boom.

"Hai, Miss Siren..." Donna beside Angel suddenly said softly, "Will the fishman really take the bait?"

"My name is Angelica, not Siren." Angel reached out and patted the girl on the head. The height difference between them made it easy for her to win. "Listen carefully, it's already here."

A grinding sound that made one's teeth hurt came from the side of the ship. Soon, a monster covered with dark green scales crossed the railing and turned over to the deck.

Under the crimson moonlight, this "fish man" revealed his true appearance in front of everyone. There were not many "human" parts on his body. It was like an upright fish with deformed limbs, and where the fingers should have been. Webbed, two bulging eyes are located on both sides of the face, and there are gills that are constantly opening and closing below.

The nearly two-meter-tall monster looked around warily, then squatted down impatiently, grabbed the offal of an animal on the ground, stuffed it into its big mouth open to the gills, and chewed it.

The deliciousness of the offal and the additional peppercorns made the monster soon make a satisfied "pop" sound, its eyes began to wander, and the fish's mouth opened upward.

This reminded Angel of a certain famous dish from his hometown.

"boom--"

There was a loud noise in the night, and seeing that the time had come, Cecil opened fire with his rifle in hand.

(End of this chapter)