I thought it was just a mermaid who likes fluff and a polite leviathan, but apparently there was more to it than that. There seemed to be a reason.



　I was going to focus on May, but the conversation didn't go anywhere, so I told her to be quiet for a while in exchange for letting me touch Lucky, and she was happy, drooling, so I sacrificed Lucky.



　I'm sorry Lucky.



　For the first time in my life, Lucky's face was extremely tight, but I guess it's okay if you just touch him.

　I told him that if he ever did anything he didn't like, I would just blow him out to sea.



----Rocky, are you sure you want me to blow him away? ----

"Of course I can. Lucky is the best. I know you don't like it, but bear with me."



　It's hard to imagine anyone on land scaring Fenrir so much.

　In a way, May seems to be a formidable opponent.



　We leave May in Lucky's hands and go talk to San.

　Unlike the bad mermaid, San was very calm and competent.



"Thank you for making time for a stranger like us.

　After this introduction, he began the following story.



　The first incident took place about three days ago.

　There were many villages and towns in the sea, and Sun and Mei were living happily in one of them.



　Sun was not a mermaid, but she had been connected to the village since she was a small child, and it is said that she was a guardian deity.

　Because of this, no one has attacked the mermaid village in the last few hundred years.



　Mei is a very unusual child, a girl who is a little too much like the fluffy things she saw on land when she was little, but she has been told emphatically that she does not represent the mermaid tribe.



　Among the mermaids, Mei is said to be particularly unusual.



　The other mermaids are more reserved.

　I guess it's just like humans, some are strange and some are not.



　Back to the story, three days ago, the mermaids from a nearby half-mermaid village suddenly attacked us.

　Mermaids and half-mermaids look similar, but they are completely different species. Half-mermaids are covered with scales all over their bodies, and if mermaids look like humans, half-mermaids are strongly descended from fish and squid and have a human-like appearance.



　Until then, the two villages had never been hostile to each other, and although they occasionally bartered with each other, they were basically independent.



　When they were suddenly attacked with weapons, the mermaids resisted, but they were almost conquered without much of a fight.



　San fought, of course, but he had never been involved in a battle before and was unable to protect the mermaids.



　However, San said that he felt something strange about the half-mermaid's movements at that time.

　The half-mermaids were not as bad as the Mei, but they were friendly and liked to drink.

　They were not good at group activities, but this time they moved in a controlled manner.



　Many of them are a little bit mischievous, but they are not the kind of people who would attack you out of the blue.



　However, the attackers crept silently into the village and suddenly started capturing mermaids in the village.

　At first, some mermaids put up a good fight, but they were overpowered by the coordinated movements of the half-mermaids and had no choice but to flee.



　Sun, of course, fought for the mermaids, but he was gradually cornered, and finally, when Mei's family asked him to take her with him, he could only escape by dragging her along with him.



　The mermaids also scattered and escaped, so there may be more mermaids who escaped somewhere else, but it is not known at this time.



　Mei had been in a state of depression until she saw Lucky, but the stress of being on the surface, being a mofu, which she had longed for since she was a little girl, and having to find her friends and recapture her family, may have caused her to lose her head a little bit.



　I decided not to listen to him when he blurted out that it might have been just him.



"So you want us to help you get rid of these half-fish people, is that it?"



"That's right. The half-mermaids aren't very strong, but there are too many of them. I'm outnumbered and I alone don't stand a chance. The leader of the other side had a reddish-black ball that changed the behavior of the half-mermaids every time it glowed, and I wish I could take it away from him, but my body is not strong enough to do so.



　Leviathan's serpentine body seemed suited to swimming fast through the water, but working something with his hands seemed difficult. It had a beard-like tentacle-like structure, but it didn't seem suited to wrestling or fighting dexterously for anything in close proximity.



"That being said. Who among us can fight underwater?"

　Domorte and Mr. Gargoyle raise their hands, but there is no one else who can fight underwater.

　It seems a bit difficult.



"We can't breathe underwater either, even if we wanted to fight.

"Then there is no problem. There are plenty of air plants that humans can use to fight underwater.



　San deftly removes the clear, round grass attached to his body with his tentacles and holds it over my head.



"What is this?"

"This is air grass. It will allow you to breathe underwater.



　I do as he says, and when I put my face down in the water, I can breathe underwater.

"Wow, this is amazing. There is such a grass?

"Yes. This is a special grass that can be found in the mermaid village, so I don't think many people know about it. I found it growing on my body, and I'm glad it's useful.



"Can I get extra of these?"

"Not much, I want to use it for fighting now, so I don't have much extra, but I think I'll be okay if I can retake the mermaid village. ......"



　I've never seen this grass before, so there are a lot of things I could do with it.

　I could plant it in a box garden and multiply it.



"Papa!　I'm so sorry, I'll help you!"



　Patra seems open to helping them.

　The other members of the group were not opposed to fighting.



"Patra is very kind."

"How long does this airweed last?"



"If you use it normally, you can use it for an hour or so. I'll carry the sea to the mermaid village, so it won't take much time for the battle.






　Worst-case scenario, if it doesn't work out, the followers can go into the box yard and I can escape on my own.

　While Sun and I were talking, May was blown out to sea.

　She must have pissed Lucky off.



　I don't know what the hell she did.