The Little Mermaid Dream [Mermaid Sea Map]

We rested for a few days at Edgewater Harbor and then headed to the beach of the Mermaid Sea.

The beach of the Mermaid Sea was a mix of sandy shores and massive rocks.

But trying to find a mermaid without a plan felt daunting.

Lucy-nuna was worried.

“Kyle. We don’t even have a map of the Mermaid Sea. How are we supposed to find a mermaid in this vast place? Haa…”

Since all the Tentacles and Lime-sensei can breathe underwater, I suggested,

“That’s true. How about we go into the water first?”

We went into the Mermaid Sea and wandered around until nightfall, but we couldn’t find any traces of mermaids or other intelligent life in this vast ocean, so we came out of the water.

“This is really hopeless. Let’s come back tomorrow.”

We were all exhausted, so we returned to the hotel.

———————-

Mermaids actually lived in the Mermaid Sea.

Mermaids are a representative light race that lives in the sea.

The Mermaid Kingdom is located in the center of the Mermaid Sea, and the King’s name is Poseidon.

It is said that when King Poseidon holds the trident passed down from ancient times, he becomes invincible in the sea.

The Mermaid Sea was also home to the Sahuagin and Krakens, dark races.

The mermaids suppressed the dark races to maintain peace and order in the Mermaid Sea.

It is thanks to the mermaids that humans can safely trade above the Mermaid Sea.

King Poseidon had one son and one daughter.

The son’s name was Kliman, and he was skilled in combat and showed the qualities of a king, which pleased Poseidon.

But his daughter, Ariel, had a head full of flowers and always wanted to date humans on land.

Princess Ariel was humming a tune in her room today, thinking about how to get to the land.

Like in a famous animated movie, Ariel had red, luscious hair, a cheerful face, a moderate C-cup bust, a slim body, and a green mermaid tail.

Since she was young, Ariel would occasionally go to the shore and secretly watch the humans working.

When Ariel was young, she encountered a boy on the shore.

The boy was Brizo, the son of the Edgewater Harbor manager.

Ariel peeked her head out of the water and greeted him first.

“Hello?”

Brizo was surprised.

“Are you a mermaid? It’s my first time seeing one.”

“Yeah. I’m a mermaid. Am I scary?”

“No! I’m not scared. Do you want to talk to me?”

“Sure. But I can’t get caught by humans…”

“I’ll keep it a secret! If you go behind that big rock, you won’t be seen from outside.”

The two became very close, talking to each other with childlike innocence.

Ariel and Brizo often met and played together.

Ariel had a beautiful voice and loved to sing, so she would sing sweet songs to Brizo.

But King Poseidon found out that Ariel was meeting with a human and imprisoned Ariel, ending their relationship.

Ariel cried and apologized to Brizo, and Brizo went to the place where he had met Ariel and waited endlessly before eventually giving up.

But Ariel was in a good mood today.

A few days ago, she heard that a storm had sunk a ship in the Mermaid Sea, and when she quickly went there, wasn’t it Brizo, grown up so handsomely!

Brizo was floating on the water, unconscious on a small plank.

Ariel woke Brizo up and took him to the shore.

Brizo was still single and remembered their old connection, so he thanked Ariel for saving him and asked her to meet him again.

The fact that Ariel’s face was prettier than he remembered also played a part.

As Ariel returned to the sea, Brizo shouted loudly.

“I’ll be waiting! I’ll keep waiting at the place where we first met when we were young!”

Ariel thought about it for a few days and eventually decided to go meet Brizo.

Ariel put the prettiest shell in her hair, dressed up, and swam to the place where Brizo was waiting.

Looking up from inside the water, she saw Brizo sitting under a big rock, reading a book.

“Hehe. He really waited.”

Ariel quietly swam underwater and popped up in front of Brizo.

Brizo was surprised.

“Oh my gosh! Ariel. You came!”

Ariel replied in a cheerful voice.

“Yeah! I came because I wanted to see you!”

“Thank you so much back then. How have you been?”

“Dad keeps telling me to act like a princess, and every day is just the same.”

The two met after a long time and had a good time talking.

———————-

We were walking aimlessly towards the Mermaid Sea again.

Then Melissa sniffed her nose.

“Sniff! Sniff! Oppa. There’s a different smell.”

I asked.

“What is it?”

“It smells like a mix of human and fish and human combined.”

We all stared at each other’s faces.

I was sure it was a mermaid.

“It’s a mermaid. 100% a mermaid.”

I was about to run when Lucy-nuna grabbed me.

“Kyle, wait a minute. What if we rush in and the mermaid runs away?”

“That’s true. Then let’s go around and approach from underwater.”

“That would be good.”

Winston and Lime-sensei slowly approached from the land, and me, Lucy-nuna, and Melissa entered the water away from the place where the mermaid was expected to be.

Because it was a Tentacle suit, the clothes stuck tightly to my body and didn’t get wet.

We quietly went around and approached the place where the mermaid was.

In the distance, we could see a mermaid talking to a human outside the water.

It was really a mermaid with a human upper body and a fish lower body.

Melissa shared the plan.

“Oppa. Let’s just catch the mermaid. Winston-ajusshi and Lime-sensei will catch the human.”

“Do you have a plan?”

“I’ll turn into a Tentacle and shoot a Slow curse and a Freeze curse. Oppa, you wrap her up with your Tentacles.”

Lucy-nuna asked.

“What about me? Me?”

“Unnie, can you block the mermaid from escaping with ice magic?”

“Okay.”

It was strange that as soon as we found the mermaid, we didn’t even think about talking and just thought about catching her, but I thought that if we caught the mermaid, all the problems would be solved, so I did as they said.

As we approached, the human noticed us first and shouted.

“Ariel! Something’s coming from underwater!”

“What? Brizo, save me!”

Ariel didn’t have any combat abilities, so she hid behind him, and Brizo took out a sword from his waist and surrounded it with weak aura.

Brizo wasn’t at the level of a regular knight, but he could handle a weak aura.

We had already been discovered, so we swam towards Ariel at a fast speed.

Lucy-nuna used ice magic to create walls of ice around Ariel to prevent her from escaping to the side.

Black rays of light were shot at Ariel from the back of Melissa, who had turned into a quadrupedal beast.

Brizo splashed into the water and swung his aura-covered sword to deflect some of the rays, taking the rest on his body.

“Keuk…”

“Brizo! Brizo! What do I do!”

“I can still endure it.”

No matter how I looked at it, Brizo’s body was trembling from the cold, and he didn’t look okay with his slowed speed.

When the three of us swam to the front of Brizo, Winston jumped from the big rock on the shore and fell on top of Brizo, crushing his head.

Pajik.

Ariel screamed.

“Kyaaaaak! Brizo! Brizo! Aaaah!”

I scolded Winston.

“Ah. Winston. You have to check what kind of human he is before killing him!”

“My Lord. I seem to have been too hasty.”

“It’s okay. We already killed him, so there’s nothing we can do. Winston can eat the human later. Let’s take care of the mermaid first.”

Ariel was trembling and chattering her teeth, saying.

“W-What are you going to d-do to me?”

I ordered Winston.

“Winston. Catch her.”

“Yes.”

Winston grabbed Ariel’s shoulders tightly from behind with both hands, and Ariel couldn’t move even if she tried to twist her body due to the overwhelming difference in strength.

“Lime-sensei. I’m counting on you for the brain parasite Tentacle.”

“Okay~”

When Lime-sensei spread out her palm, the brain parasite Tentacle came up from inside her flesh, which was the space ability of the space Slime.

As Lime-sensei brought the Tentacle to Ariel’s nose, Ariel screamed while crying.

“Kyaaaak! Save the mermaid! Don’t come near me!”

As the Tentacle touched her nose, Ariel lost consciousness with a stinging sensation in her sinuses.

We congratulated each other on achieving our goal.

I encouraged everyone.

“We finally caught the mermaid. Good job, everyone.”

Lucy-nuna also encouraged everyone.

“Good job. Kyle. And everyone else too.”

I decided to control the mermaid’s brain.

Ttiring.

[The experience of connecting to the brain so far and the effect of being a dark race champion are combined to become Brain Connection (True). You can control the brain of any living being.]

‘Oh! Totally free!’

I laid the unconscious Ariel on the floor.

I took out a thin, thread-like Tentacle from my hand and penetrated Ariel’s brain through her nose.

And I read Ariel’s memories.

“Hmm. I’ve got a good idea.”

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Ariel opened her eyes among the seaweed.

Ariel thought about why she was here.

Ariel recalled that she had taken a nap because the seaweed looked fluffy.

“Aish. Am I stupid? Why did I sleep here when I could have slept in my room?”

Ariel was about to turn her body towards the Mermaid Kingdom when she suddenly thought of a man.

“That’s right! I came all the way here to see him. Look at my mind.”

Ariel quickly swam to the place where she had promised to meet the man.

There was a man sitting there, staring blankly at the sea.

“Hehe. He really waited.”

Ariel quietly swam underwater and popped up in front of the man.

The man greeted Ariel happily.

“Oh! It’s Ariel!”

Ariel replied in a cheerful voice.

“Yeah! I came because I wanted to see you! But what was your name again…”

“What? You forgot? I’m Kyle.”

“Ah! It’s Kyle. Sorry, sorry. I’ve been out of it lately.”

“We met a long time ago, and you even saved me back then. Are you going to make me sulk?”

“No~ I just got confused for a second!”

“Okay. How have you been?”

“Dad keeps telling me to act like a princess, and every day is just the same.”

Ariel happily talked to Kyle about how she had been living in the Mermaid Kingdom, what she liked, and so on.

When she looked at Kyle, she kept feeling affection and wanted to say anything.

Looking closely, Kyle had become so much more handsome compared to the old days.

The two talked and parted ways before they knew it.

Ariel greeted him.

“Kyle! Today was fun! Let’s meet here again tomorrow!”

“Okay.”

The two waved their hands and parted ways.

Ariel felt a great affection for Kyle and vowed to come again tomorrow.

Tomorrow, and the day after that, Ariel came to the beach and talked to Kyle.

Kyle told Ariel about the delicious foods, clothes, and news of the land, and Ariel told him about the foods, beautiful seashells, and news of the Mermaid Kingdom.

Ariel sang beautiful songs to Kyle in her beautiful voice, just like she used to.

Today was the day that Ariel and Kyle had been meeting for a week.

Ariel, who was already deeply in love with Kyle, was lying with her head on Kyle’s lap.

Ariel, whose heart was heavy at the thought of parting with Kyle again today, grumbled.

“I don’t want to go home. Dad and Oppa just nag at me.”

“Do you want to live with me?”

“What? You’re a human and I’m a mermaid. If only I had legs…”

“Actually, I can live underwater.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“I can breathe freely underwater and I can swim well too.”

“I’ve never seen a human like that before?”

“I can do it.”

Ariel clapped her hands and got excited.

“That’s a relief! That’s a relief! Let’s come to the Mermaid Kingdom and live together. I’ll talk to Dad.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah! I want to be with Kyle.”

Ariel, whose head was full of flowers, was in love and didn’t care about things like the kingdom’s location being revealed.

Kyle asked Ariel.

“Ariel. When can we go together?”

“Right now?”

“Maybe. Can we go tomorrow?”

“Uuung. Why?”

“It’s late today. I’ll come here tomorrow morning.”

“Okay. If you come out even a little late, I’m leaving.”

Kyle stroked Ariel’s hair and said.

“Don’t worry.”

Ariel waved her hand at Kyle and disappeared into the Mermaid Sea.

—————-

The next day, Ariel went early in the morning and Kyle was waiting, but there were several people around him.

Ariel felt bad for a moment, but as soon as she saw Kyle, the bad feeling disappeared completely.

Ariel decided to listen to what he had to say first.

Ariel swam and appeared in front of Kyle.

“Kyle! Why did you bring other people!”

“Ariel. I’m really sorry. These people are my companions.”

“You just have to come! Why are you bringing so many people?”

I knelt on the shore and begged Ariel.

“Ariel. Please, can you just give me a chance? These people are my companions who have been through life and death with me. I can’t leave them behind.”

“Ugh… Ughm.”

Ariel hesitated when Kyle, whom she trusted and liked, suddenly knelt down.

In Ariel’s mind, the scales tipped in favor of granting Kyle’s request.

“Okay. But you have to meet my dad, the King of the Mermaid Kingdom, first. I’ll help you!”

I grabbed Ariel’s hand tightly and thanked her.

“Thank you! Ariel!”

Ariel’s cheeks turned slightly red.

Ariel looked away for no reason and said.

“Then let’s go now. You guys come too.”

Ariel was still holding my hand and fidgeting with it.

I swam next to Ariel.

Lucy-nuna, Melissa, Winston, and Lime-sensei followed behind us.

Ariel said to me with a happy face.

“It’s like a dream to swim with you. How can you swim so well? Wait a minute. Then why did you fall into the water last time? Keueuk!”

As Ariel had a question, she suddenly got a headache.

I explained.

“Actually, after meeting you, I worked hard to change my body so that I could live in the water.”

Ariel believed my words completely.

Ariel’s headache disappeared.

“You worked hard for me. Thank you, Kyle!”

After we swam for a while, there was a huge hole in the land ahead.

When we entered the hole, we saw a huge Mermaid Kingdom.

There were huge structures built on the bottom, and mermaids lived with sea creatures such as fish, seaweed, and barnacles.

Soldiers guarding the hole approached us.

The soldiers were wearing armor and holding tridents.

The soldier stopped us.

“Stop! Aren’t you Princess Ariel? Outsiders stop here.”

“Yes. Let my friends in.”

“Outsiders cannot enter.”

“It’s my order. Kyle here is my lover, so he’s definitely going with me.”

The soldiers were embarrassed because they couldn’t use force on the princess who was being stubborn.

Eventually, one soldier went to ask the King and came back.

“The King wants to see you.”

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