"With your eloquence and wisdom, Su'er, it should be easy to trick their queen into doing something with you, right? Isn't spreading your seed throughout the world the dream of you males?"
This pink-headed Flügel was really a bad influence. She always used the mindset of a beast in heat to speculate on Su'er's intentions and plan his route.
Su'er pretended not to hear Jibril, who was swimming at the front of the Unsinkable and glowing faintly with blue light in the water. Wait, that didn't seem to work.
Jibril was furiously kicking the back of his chair.
"...I'm not interested in mermaids," Su'er had no choice but to answer with a blank face. "Also, what do you mean by 'trick'? I'm not that kind of person. Do you have a prejudice against males... Also, don't use the phrase 'spreading your seed throughout the world' randomly."
In the past two years, Su'er had also reminisced and talked about some of the novels he had read before, of all kinds of genres.
Is it an illusion? He always felt that this Flügel had become even more of a bad influence in her already uninhibited state.
"Oh? Doesn't Mr. Monkey like mermaids very much?" Think added lightly. "The queen of the Siren is also the strongest among them, you know? The amount of water spirits in her body is far more than that of other Siren. If you subdue her, everything will be much easier, won't it?"
"...Why are you also getting involved?" Su'er said with a speechless expression. "It's just that I read 'The Little Mermaid' when I was a kid and was a bit resentful of the ending. Hmm... and that 'Mermaid in a Manhole' that I watched when I was older was also quite resentful. So I'm just very curious, and it's a way to fulfill my nostalgia."
Although that nostalgia had been shattered to the point where not even a speck was left, now that he knew more about the Siren.
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Of course it is."
Think asked lightly, and Su'er answered without hesitation.
He seemed to hear Jibril's snickering from behind.
They didn't choose to let Jibril directly teleport them into the Siren's capital with spatial magic. On one hand, it was due to their resistance to the discomfort that would still occur even with a protective spell. On the other hand, Jibril was on the verge of a full recovery, and Su'er wanted her to save her strength and recover to her complete form, with the highest output.
Although the Siren's God seemed to have fallen into a long sleep, Su'er was still a little uncomfortable with the three of them going alone to an unknown race's base. In this situation, a Flügel with full power was much better than a young girl with limited output.
He wasn't looking down on Think. If this seemingly stupid Siren was just pretending to be dumb and had a trap set up in the capital, then Jibril would be an important force for the three of them to escape.
Sailing in the pitch-black and lightless deep sea, they couldn't see the way forward or the way back. It was like they had fallen into a sea of ink. Besides the occasional glowing jellyfish or some deep-sea fish that would emit light in the distance, the only thing they could see was the Unsinkable itself.
A sense of panic that spread from the bottom of his heart, due to the darkness and the silence. Su'er unconsciously tried to find a topic to talk about. Only then could he get a sense of unconscious peace of mind.
The environment was too depressing. To be honest, if Su'er was alone, he wouldn't have chosen to come here... and he wouldn't have been able to.
"That, it's just a guess, not necessarily right..." After a sporadic silence, Su'er still couldn't help but speak. "Siren probably don't need to specifically separate a space without water when they're in the water, right? And according to what you said about their habits, they also... uh, reproduce in the water. So in that case, whether they open their mouths or breathe, wouldn't the water they suck in be... It's just a possibility!"
As he spoke, he saw that Think's face seemed to have become unpleasant. When Su'er turned his head, he saw that even Jibril's expression had become strange. He quickly emphasized.
"...Don't say anything like that after this."
"Ah, okay, okay."
After a moment of silence, Think said in a low tone. Su'er wisely shut his mouth.
But, what if he suddenly didn't want to go to those guys' base anymore?
The Siren in front of the Unsinkable had no idea about this. She seemed to be humming happily as she led the way, and would occasionally circle the ship. If she could just not talk, she would truly deserve the praise of being a spirit of the ocean.
Finally, this not-so-long and awkward journey finally came to an end. At the very front of their sight, Su'er could already see the things that were glowing blue in the darkness, constantly floating up and down. They were living lights, jellyfish.
Not only that, but there were also some glowing seaweeds and corals that were decorating the reefs, illuminating this underwater world.
But that was all.
It was so simple that it didn't even look like a capital of a race. The only thing that could be called spectacular was a huge, circular shape with a neat edge, and Su'er recognized whose work this strange thing was in an instant.
He couldn't help but glance at Jibril. The traces of her atrocity were still there, like a very eye-catching monument that would incite hatred just by looking at it. Su'er was sure that under Jibril's impulsive attack, the Siren would definitely not have no losses. Even if there were no casualties, what about their houses and property?
This could be considered as slapping someone's face and then dancing a samba on it, couldn't it? It seemed a little too much to not treat the other side as people.
In this situation, would the Siren really welcome their arrival?
As... guests?
Su'er was skeptical of the blue-haired Siren's words, but with the confidence to get away at any time, he still quietly watched as the Siren waved to him and then swam to her tribesmen. Her approach had been discovered, and Su'er could see Siren from scattered stone caves swimming towards her.
She seemed to be quite popular?
Or was this Siren quite high in status among her own kind? Su'er guessed based on the scene in his vision. The Werebeasts they had captured before had also been handed over to her tribesmen. Su'er could see two Siren taking those poor guys away in bubbles.
Their lives were already set. After a probably seductive process, their bones would be buried at the bottom of the sea.
It didn't take long. It seemed that after a simple negotiation, the blue-haired Siren and her compatriots swam towards Su'er and the others.