Chapter 951: Always repay our debts


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    There was a tense silence that hung in the air before the Merman King and Queen finally let out sighs and just took a step back to give Ariel and me space.


    It was only then that Ariel put her arms down, but she didn''t move away from me.


    She just stood there in front of me as if she was protecting me.


    But the only thought that was on my mind was...


    "Can you please not involve me in this family drama?"


    I wasn''t even part of that family, so how could I be included in this family drama in the first ce?


    I didn''t want the Merman King and Queen to have the wrong idea about me...


    Though if they didn''t have the wrong idea, the right idea didn''t seem that good either. After all, the reason that I had approached Ariel in the first ce was because I wanted to use her as a defensive measure against the Tide Empire.


    I didn''t approach her for a good reason in the first ce.


    Of course, I wouldn''t say that out loud.


    After another silence, the Merman King just said, "Alright, let''s not talk about that for now." He turned to look at the Merman Queen and she nodded beforeing forward to ask Ariel, "What kind of contract did you sign? Is it the old pact or the new pact?"


    "Which one?" Ariel had a confused look on her face when she heard this.


    It was the same for me since there was no such thing in the game either...


    Both the Merman King and Queen knitted their brows when they heard this, but the Merman Queen kept asking, "Yes, which one did you make?"


    Ariel was still confused, but she slowly said, "I just used the one that I read about before. The one where if we exchange flesh, we''ll be able to take the form of each other."


    The Merman King and Queen both had ugly expressions when they heard this.


    It seemed that we had chosen the worst of the two options...


    But that wasn''t what I thought since this was the kind of thing that was easily broken in the game.


    In the game, all we had to do was travel to the territory of the sea witches and do a quest to break the contract. It was actually quite the simple quest that it didn''t seem like it would be a problem to do.


    After all, this was just how it was in the game or else the yer wouldn''t be able to ess the Merman Kingdom.


    With a cough, I said, "Isn''t it easy to solve this problem with the help of the sea witches?"


    Both the Merman King and Queen immediately red at me.


    Even Ariel was looking at me with a strange look when I made this suggestion.


    After a long and awkward silence, the Merman King finally said in a slow and deliberate voice, "You want to cooperate with the sea witches?"


    I slowly gave a nod even though I felt strange about the way that he asked me this. "There''s a reason why we banished those sea witches from our Merman Empire in the first ce!" The Merman King suddenly roared which made me take a step back in surprise.


    I waspletely caught off guard by how intense the reaction of the Merman King was.


    It seemed like he thought that this was something that absolutely couldn''t be epted which was just strange to me.


    In the game, there was no problem for the yer to travel between the Merman Empire and the territory of the sea witches. It was something that was easily done after the territory of the sea witches was unlocked on the map.


    Even if there were a few things in the lore of the game that talked about the bad rtionship between the Merman Empire and the sea witches, it didn''t seem bad enough that there would be such an intense reaction.


    It really didn''t seem to make sense at all...


    Or at least that was the case for a person like me who had knowledge from the game.


    As I slowly thought about it, I figured that this wasn''t the case for the people that lived in this world.


    It seemed that this was another one of those ces where there was a disconnect between this world and the world in the game. This piece of lore seemed much more important than it did in the game.


    Ariel stepped forward and pulled me aside before giving me a lecture on the sea witches.


    It seemed that the history between the Merman Empire and the sea witches was much deeper than I thought. With the way that she was exining it, I could understand why the Merman King had such an intense reaction.


    But the problem was that the help of the sea witches really was the easiest way to solve this issue.


    This didn''t seem like it would be a viable option, so I guess we could see what other methods there were.


    It wasn''t that important right now.


    The Merman King and Queen seemed like they had a few more things to say about the sea witches, but they eventually calmed down once they finished their rant.


    After they calmed down, they turned to see the royal mermaid guards who wereing back to report.


    They went forward close to the Merman King and Queen so that they could report without us hearing what they had to say.


    The Merman King gave a nod in response before saying, "Go and contact the Tide Empire. Tell them toe here so we can talk about this."


    The royal mermaid guards nodded before heading off to follow his orders.


    The Merman King was silent for a bit before turning to me to say, "Human, remember that we will always repay our debts."


    Then without waiting, he turned and took the Merman Queen''s hand before heading towards the buildings. It seemed like they were nning to stay here for the night.


    But as he was leaving, he stumbled when he heard...n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    "Dad, his name''s Zwein!"