Onmyoji, a nobleman in Heian-kyo

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Kyosuke Kosaka looked at the pair of rabbits jumping around happily, his face serious.

"Don't worry, you'll have yours tonight."

"Mmmmm~"

Su Chang nodded without hesitation.

Kyosuke Kosaka believes that this is probably why Su-i is always unhappy.

It's okay. I'll have a serious talk with Suyi before I go back later.

"Wow! It's a whale!"

Su Chang pointed to a spot.

Kyosuke Kosaka looked over and saw a giant whale, the size of a small mountain, dancing in the sea seven or eight miles away, its movements graceful and agile, with huge splashes of water blooming brilliantly in its wake.

"it is good……"

"It looks delicious!"

Kyosuke Kosaka slowly swallowed back the words, "So beautiful."

He almost forgot that Su Chang was a predator who believed in the survival of the fittest, and was the strongest tyrant even in the mountains.

She is a formidable figure who even monsters would kneel down and call her "Big Sister".

"This one is too big; we probably can't eat it."

"Oh."

Fortunately, they were obedient enough.

Kousaka Kyosuke muttered secretly.

After watching the whales dance for a while, the two prepared to leave.

Since the whale's movements scared away all the fish, they naturally had to find another place to catch fish.

Still somewhat reluctant to leave, Su Chang took one last look.

Kyosuke Kosaka completely ignored him.

He didn't have much malice towards whales, which are mammals.

I had learned from my teachers in class and from other sources that whales are friendly animals to humans.

Kyosuke Kousaka wasn't sure if he was genuinely friendly.

However, he was well aware that its physiological structure, which made it unsuitable for eating people and almost incapable of doing so, was quite appealing.

If it were a large, man-eating animal that harbored malice towards humans, Kyosuke Kousaka would intervene.

That's the truth.

Kyosuke Kosaka was also somewhat tempted just now.

After all, even if whale meat is unpalatable, it can be fed to the people on the estate as a substitute for grain.

Fat can be rendered into oil, fish skin can be used to make leather and special clothing, and bones can be made into handicrafts.

Every part of them is a treasure.

"Huh? A person!" Suddenly, Su Chang, who was about to turn her head, opened her eyes wide and her mouth involuntarily gaped open.

Kyosuke Kosaka froze, then quickly looked in the direction of the whale.

The whale had a person in its mouth, and it was about to swallow the person whole.

The tables have turned so quickly?

Is this the kind of society we live in?

Just as Kyosuke Kosaka was about to make a move, he noticed that the whale had simply vomited the person out.

"Human head and fish tail...it's a mermaid!"

"You are very knowledgeable."

Kyosuke Kosaka raised his hand and summoned the person who spat out the whale—or more accurately, the merman—to his front.

"Hehe, my older sister has been telling me all sorts of stories since I was little, so I know that people with human heads and fish tails are mermaids, and that eating them can grant you eternal life."

"You dare to eat it?"

"No way, how can you eat people?" Su Chang rolled her eyes at Kosaka Kyosuke.

My husband loves to tease people.

“Then wake her up,” Kousaka Kyosuke said with a smile.

Men and women are not intimate with each other.

He had no idea that merfolk had a tradition of getting married as soon as they met.

In his mind, he was thinking that this merman must have come from the "Sea of ​​Immortality".

The so-called "Sea of ​​Immortality" is the homeland of the merfolk, the end of the ocean.

It is a beautiful sea area.

I don't know how beautiful Kyosuke Kousaka is, I'm just curious, but I'm not planning to go.

It would be better to send Yaobikuni and Suzuka Gozen there according to the rhythm of the Onmyoji storyline.

He shouldn't go.

It's not a friendly place for men; it's ultimately a world where women are superior to men. Why would you go there and make yourself uncomfortable?

"Hey, wake up, wake up." Su Chang gently shook the female mermaid floating in front of her.

The mermaid woke up shortly afterward. She was pretty but of average looks, not particularly beautiful.

If we say there's any difference between them and humans...

It's mostly that his legs are fish tails and he has fins around his ears. Apart from these two features, it's hard to see any difference between Kousaka Kyosuke and a human.

“You were just eaten by a whale, we’re here to save you,” Su Chang said.

"My name is Naoko... I'm grateful to both of you for saving my life..."

The merman looked at Kousaka Kyosuke and Su Chang, then looked around, and was startled to see himself suspended in mid-air.

Kyosuke Kousaka felt a sense of déjà vu, like a dream shattering.

That's actually true.

Merfolk don't seem to be anything special.

There are too many legends about it, which gives people the impression that it is very powerful.

Judging from the plot, they can't be said to be very powerful; the only one who seems to be powerful is Princess Senhime.

The problem is that Senhime's performance doesn't seem particularly strong.

The only powerful one is Suzuka Gozen, who inherited the bloodline of the shark dragon and is the master of Suzuka Mountain. She is currently trapped in Sai no Kawara by Yamata no Orochi.

If this person could come out, many things wouldn't be so difficult.

The problem is that, considering the extremely high possibility that he was being tricked by Orochi, Kyosuke Kosaka decided to ignore it.

Furthermore, the ability to "predict the future" would undoubtedly make Orochi more cunning in his schemes, perhaps even setting up larger traps.

For your own safety, it's best not to do that.

Protecting yourself is the top priority.

Ignoring all that, the merman named Naoko seemed quite flustered.

Su Chang finally couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"I was... I was swept here by the waves... I want to go back to the Sea of ​​Immortality..."

"The Sea of ​​Immortality? Can't you go back there yourself?"

“I can go back, but my travel speed can’t keep up with the rate at which my life force is draining away. Once I leave the Sea of ​​Immortality, I will immediately age… and I’m doomed…”

"I see. How far is it?"

"It would take several days to swim, so forget it... I'd rather travel around and see the sights, so I won't regret it before I die."

"Huh?!" Su Chang couldn't keep up with Cai Zi's train of thought.

Kyosuke Kosaka almost couldn't keep up either.

After recalling the plot, I immediately remembered that many of the merfolk also longed for the outside world, even though, as Naoko said, they would die after leaving the Sea of ​​Immortality, they still wanted to see the world.

"He probably stayed at home and never went far from home, so he wanted to see the world before he died," Kousaka Kyosuke explained as he leaned closer to Su Chang.

Su Chang immediately understood, her face filled with emotion.

"Then I'll take you to play! Don't worry, we don't eat merfolk where I'm from."

"The way you put it makes it even more suspicious, doesn't it?"

Kyosuke Kosaka finally made a comment about Su Chang.

Naoko was deeply moved: "Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be able to see other places in the last moments of my life."