Chapter 956: How do you want to settle this?


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    No, it didn''t matter if this person was rted to the Tide Empire or not.


    The reason that the Merman King brought out this person must mean that he was nning on using this person to negotiate something with them.


    The Tide Emperor had no idea what he would want to negotiate, but he knew that it wouldn''t be a good thing.


    It would never be a good thing if someone was pulled out like this.


    But why?


    Why did the Merman King suddenly do something that would clearly hurt the rtionship between them?


    Did something happen that the Merman Empire didn''t hesitate to break their rtionship like this?


    The Tide Emperor was deeply bothered by this since the link to the Merman Empire was the greatest thing that the Tide Empire was relying on. While they wouldn''t lose everything that they had if they lost that connection to the Merman Empire, it would still hurt them very much to lose that connection.


    So that was the worst case scenario that had to be prevented at all cost.


    Only...who was this person?


    There wasn''t a single member of the Tide Empire group who recognized the person that had been brought out.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    All of them even started to wonder if this was some kind of trap that was set up by the Merman Empire to get something from them.


    After a long silence, the Tide Emperor slowly shook his head to say, "I have no idea who this person is." Then after a pause, he added, "Has this person offended you in some way, your majesty?"


    The Merman King calmly looked at the Tide Emperor as if he was scrutinizing him.


    The Tide Emperor could see this, so he calmly looked right back at the Merman King as if he was proving his innocence.


    The Merman King suddenly said, "He''s someone who caused trouble to my daughter."


    The entire Tide Empire group took a cold breath when they heard this.


    Since they had dealings with the Merman Empire, they naturally knew some things about the Merman Empire. The most famous rumour of all from the Merman Empire was...the


    dotingness of the Merman King towards his daughter.


    This was something that everyone in the Merman Empire knew, but at the same time, it wasn''t as if they didn''t understand. The love for the princess in the Merman Empire was something that was widespread.


    Everyone loved Ariel and would fiercely protect her, so there was no one that dared to provoke the Merman Empire''s princess in the Tide Empire.


    This was someone that they had made sure to recognize so that they wouldn''t identally offend her. This was someone that had been put on the top of the danger list just because of how they treated her.


    They couldn''t believe that someone would dare to offend her.


    However, the Tide Emperor wasn''t just willing to ept this usation without a fight.


    With slightly knitted brows, the Tide Emperor said, "Your majesty, this is not someone that I recognize, so how can you say that they are from the Tide Empire? Are you trying to me us for something that we haven''t done?"


    This time, it was the Merman King''s turn to knit his brows.


    He looked at the Tide Emperor and said, "Are you trying to deny responsibility for this matter?"


    The Tide Emperor couldn''t help being taken aback by the way that the Merman King said this.


    It was almost as if he had concrete proof that this person was rted to them.


    The Tide Emperor didn''t dare say too much, so he said, "If there is responsibility, we will ept it. But you cannot me us for something that isn''t rted to us."


    The Merman King gave a nod before reaching his hand out towards one of the royal mermaid guards.


    That guard handed over some papers that the Merman King took before he threw them on the table in front of him. Throwing these papers down, the Merman King said, "This one is an illegitimate child of your Tide Empire''s royal family and you want to deny all responsibility?" The Tide Emperor and the rest of his ministers were all shocked to hear this.


    He quickly picked up the paper that had been thrown onto the table and looked through them with his ministers.


    As they read through these reports, the looks on their faces became uglier and uglier.


    That was because these reports had clearly stated who Viper was and how he was rted to the Tide Empire.


    He was the son of one of the dukes of the Tide Empire, who was also the former second prince. When the crown prince took over as the emperor of the Tide Empire, that former second prince had be the duke.


    Viper was one of the sons that he had with a maid and that had been sent away because the duke didn''t want anything to do with him. Though the duke had already had plenty of illegitimate children with other maids before.


    It was just that these illegitimate children had never caused a mess like Viper had.


    With those ugly looks on their faces, the Tide Emperor and the ministers slowly looked up at Viper.


    When the Tide Emperor looked closer at Viper, he could see traces of his brother in Viper''s face. He hadn''t looked at Viper closely before, but now that he did... he could clearly tell that this person was rted to his brother.


    As such, he really was rted to the Tide Empire''s royal family.


    This was a very big international incident!


    Seeing the way that the Tide Emperor and his ministers looked at Viper, the Merman King could tell that they were seeing the resemnce between him and the duke.


    There was no denying the ims anymore, so there was no need for him to hold back


    anymore.


    The Merman King pped his hand down on the table and shouted, "How do you want to


    settle this?"