Bonus Chapter [3] - 480 Power Stones
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At the moment Rigel received the ability, he seemed unchanged, but to the women around him, Rigel appeared more attractive, as if their tastes had been altered to the point where Rigel seemed like a suitable partner.
Sure, that was all, none of them started taking off their clothes right there, but Rigel still looked around and went further towards the shore, standing on a large rock so that those mermaids couldn't reach him.
When the three girls landed, he created three anacondas to stop them if they tried anything.
Satisfied with his preparations, he looked at the group with strange eyes and pursed his lips, wondering what song to sing.
It should be a positive song, not something that makes you feel sad, even if there is sadness, even if there is sadness, it should be a sadness based on a positive emotion like love.
Rigel thought for a long time, then sighed, choosing a romantic song to sing.
First he pulled a small, empty potion vial from his pocket and tossed it to Elizabeth. "Use it to collect the tears."
Elizabeth was still confused, as were the other girls and the mermaids, but soon they stopped being confused.
Rigel didn't know how to play any instrument, but he didn't need to, surrounded by the silence of the night and the waves of the sea, he began to sing.
[A/N: I spent 3 hours, yes, 3 hours looking for a song that fit, something that clicked with me, but... I wasn't satisfied. In the end, I simply gave up and picked the 'best' I could find at the time. With that, I discovered that I'll never write a story about a musician.]
[A/N: Music -> In the Name of Love - Bebe Rexha/Martin Garrix]
"If I told you this was only gonna hurt. If I warned you that the fire's gonna burn. Would you walk in? Would you let me do it first? Do it all in the name of love?" Rigel began to sing, his voice echoing across the sea, at that moment, even the waves calmed down, they were listening.
His voice was soft and childlike, but there was a deep weight to it, even though Rigel had never been in true love before, he seemed to feel a tremendous passion as he sang. It echoed in his voice, like magic, so much so that even the mermaids' eyes widened.
"Would you let me lead you even when you're blind? In the darkness, in the middle of the night. In the silence, when there's no one by your side. Would you call in the name of love?" Elizabeth, Anna, and Anamaria's eyes widened as they swallowed hard, feeling that their feelings for Rigel were starting to seem strange!
"If I told you we could bathe in all the lights, would you rise up, come and meet me in the sky? Would you trust me when you're jumping from the heights? Would you fall in the name of love?" Rigel's voice seemed to be working even on himself, those loves he had in his past life, the reciprocated and the unrequited, he seemed to remember them all, like an avalanche causing emotions in his mind. "When there's madness, when there's poison in your head, when the sadness leaves you broken in your bed, I will hold you in the depths of your despair. And it's all in the name of love."
"In the name of love, name of love. In the name of love, name of love. In the name of..." Rigel's voice was amplified, magically, not consciously, but intuitively, and could be heard for miles around. Even the animals on the island and the marine life seemed to calm down at that moment, all focused on listening to that voice.
"I want to testify. Scream in the holy light. You bring me back to life. And it's all in the name of love." Rigel was completely swept away by emotion, even forgetting what he was doing in the first place, tears streaming down his face. "I want to testify. Scream in the holy light. You bring me back to life. And it's all in the name of love... In the name of love, name of love. In the name of love, name of love. In the name of..."
He wasn't the only one, the girls were crying, the mermaids were crying, even the pirates at sea were crying.
When Rigel finally finished singing, he finally remembered where he was, feeling his face still wet, and he was dumbfounded.
However, before he could say anything, he saw a swarm of crabs emerging from the water before joining together and taking the form of a human woman.
Calypso.
Calypso looked at Rigel with tears falling from her eyes. She wasn't smiling, she wasn't running to play with him. She walked calmly, ignoring the mermaids and the women, stopping just below the rock that Rigel had climbed. She spoke.
"Yes." Her voice came out incredibly soft. "Yes to everything."
Rigel blinked, looking at Calypso's serious face, he remained stunned for a long moment.
He just wanted to say: 'What?'
However, he wasn't stupid, Calypso thought that song was for her. If he said he was singing that song randomly or thinking about another woman, wouldn't that be asking her to sink his ship?
Swallowing the denial in his throat, he gave a sad smile.
His current thought was: 'Can I pretend I've never sung anything?'
The wind blew, and when Rigel realized what was happening, he was already being tightly embraced by Calypso. Due to his height, he only touched her breasts. Calypso didn't move, hugging him like a boa constrictor and refusing to let go.
Rigel felt that his problems had increased again.
"I knew you felt that way too, and your voice... as magical as a mermaid's, even more so." Calypso said, loosening her grip and making the hug gentler.
Rigel remained silent, still stunned. He had made the mermaids cry, but Elizabeth was more concerned with listening to the music than collecting anything. Instead of getting the tears, he found himself bound to Calypso once more.
His eyes went empty as she embraced him, he sighed wearily, then pulled away from Calypso, looking at her with vacant eyes, he spoke. "The tears of the mermaids..."
Calypso chuckled softly, waving her hands toward the sea. A few drops flowed from the water, just like the bottle in Elizabeth's hand. The drops entered the bottle as Calypso handed it to him.
"You did a good job, those tears are pure." Calypso winked at him, then lowered her body and placed her head close to his, speaking. "But don't sing like that to another woman besides me in the future."
Rigel saw the danger in Calypso's eyes when she said that.
She had seemed kind a moment before, but now she was fierce again.
She was truly a sea goddess. A Greek sea goddess.
Rigel picked up the bottle, with mixed feelings, shaking his head, he closed the cap and put the bottle in his bag.
As soon as he put the bottle away, he also saw the Adventure book open in front of him, but he ignored it for now. He just wanted to finish this quickly.
The mermaids were all frightened by Calypso's sudden appearance, to be more precise, some of them were already plotting how to kidnap Rigel, such a beautiful voice must belong to them!
However, upon seeing Calypso, the mermaids remembered who Rigel was, especially seeing the woman's 'playful smile' directed at them, trying to touch Rigel would have very serious consequences.