Fake Princess
CCCXXIII Chapter
"Wait a minute" I said again turning to step closer to the beach.
I said four glass balls that I put on the sand before, it looks like the ball is floating moving following the waves that hit the beach.
Both of my legs stopped right beside the half-marine female body, I bowed my body grabbing my little knife lying on top of her body.
I turned back, set foot near the sea again. My head bowed, placing one of my hands holding a glass ball over the edge of my clothes that I pulled with the other side of my hand. I pulled the tip of my clothes over the glass ball, while I tied it up using the other end of my clothes so that the glass ball did not fall.
Ebe swam closer, I stopped my footsteps before her as the sea water had reached my chest. Put both of my arms around her neck as Ebe has turned her back to her.
Ebe immersed himself into the sea water, he took me who was on his back swimming more and more diving into the ocean. Ebe again took me swimming closer to the dark cave we had passed before.
"Ebe," I said as we made it out of the cave.
"What's wrong?" ebe said he was swimming faster than ever before.
"Something bothered my mind, how do you know if that woman hurt my sister?"
"Because I've been watching that aanjing for a long time. I even saw it for myself, how he ate your sister's soul."
"And you, just let it go?" I pointed the knife I was holding at his neck.
"If you kill me now, you won't be able to get there" he said, turning his head slightly at me.
"Just say, what do you mean do all this?"
"I don't mean anything."
"I'm not that stupid that you can lie to" I said again, telling me that my knife was pressing against his neck.
"Alright," he said with a sigh, appearing to be foam mixed with small bubbles coming out of his mouth.
"I was born half human. More precisely, my father was a human being," he said while still taking me deeper and deeper swimming.
"Mermaids, have a habit... That it is the male parent who takes care of their young at birth."
"So," he said, stopped, Ebe the sooner he took me swimming closer to the sea the deeper the darker it looked.
"My mother, left me to take care of my father. My father was a citizen there. I don't really remember, because this happened a long time ago..."
"However, the aanjing creature suddenly appeared. My father hid me well in his house, but... Because that aanjing magic is very powerful. He managed to affect all men including my father..."
"My father, because of that aanjing magic. Trying to kill me when I was a kid, if only..." His words stopped again.
"If only?" I asked him when he stopped wagging his tail.
"Then? What about your mother? Didn't you say yourself that your mother was killed by that thing?"
"I consider my father my mother. My own mother, after she gave birth to me and returned to the ocean, her life could not last long" she said back to diving when a large crack opened on a rock surface at the bottom.
"So? Is there anything you want to ask?"
"none. Me, a little bit of an understanding... What do you mean," I glanced at him.
"Again, what we need to think about now. How do we bring the ball to the underwater temple without being known to other mermaids," he said increasingly swimming quickly through cracks on the seabed.
"Of course, I'm counting on you to lead me there. If you lie to me, you know what I'm going to do" I said, turning my eyes around, not a shadow... It was all dark, as we passed through the crack.
"I'm not gonna do it. Counting this in return" said his voice in my ear.
"Can you use human language?" I returned without using Latin.
"Of course, my father was a man. So, I can understand your language a little bit" he said, answering my question in the same language.
"Can I ask again, there are still some things that bother my mind."
"You can ask anything. If I think your question is not detrimental... Then, I will answer him," he said, again heard in my ear.
"If you're half human, why don't you live in the human world to avenge you?"
"All I can tell apart from a pure mermaid is, I... They can speak on land, but they cannot. Their voices will not come out except in the water, and of course... Ordinary people would not be able to hear it."
"Actually, until now... I was still confused as to how my parents met. We are almost in the territory of the mermaids, be careful" he said by changing his tone as the situation around us returned bright as never before.
Turning my eyes around, Ebe swam ever more and more towards a distant mist before us. I don't know how the fog was created... However, I understand why humans won't get here. Moreover, without any diving gear like the one in my old life.
Ebe swam faster and faster through the thick white fog that lay before us earlier. My eyes widened again when I stared at a river with some trees without leaves in the sea in front of us.
The surface of the river, shrouded in a thin fog on its surface. The water is green, looks very contrast with the color of the sea water a little bluish visible.
"Even if you can now breathe in the sea, but... If you drown in that river, you'll still be out of breath. So, hold on to the strong," said Ebe, the faster it swam over the surface of the river.
I turned my gaze to the right, it's like a forest in the sea. How not, even you will not only find one or two trees, but almost about dozens of trees growing around the river.
My legs were suddenly pulled back very strongly. My hand that was coiled around Ebe's neck had previously been released followed by a pull on my body that was getting stronger backwards.
"Gee!" Shouted, Ebe immediately turned around with one of his hands holding firmly his neck followed by a red color floating around his neck.
"Sachi, your hand. Give me your hand!" His reply shouted, he swam closer with his other hand pointing at me.