The Merman, My Man
The song of her flute unfurled over the sea’s surface in tune with the waves, a picturesque scene of Shangri-La that left me spacing out for a moment.
Still, I quickly came to my senses—I knew very well that this was a trap tailored for merpeople.
Mary had mentioned before that her family had used her as bait to lure Asura, and this was that occasion.
I quietly pushed myself out of the water to look around, and just as expected, a dozen other merpeople did the same. One of them was just several feet away from Mary’s ship, and there was no question it was Asura—his purple hair and purple tail glimmered in the moonlight, and was sprawled over the hull of the ship with his webbed claws. He seem