WTYTIAAN Chapter 215

“Eh~” Bessie’s trailing voice twisted and turned, falling into Cornelia’s ears like the whisper of a devil.

Ugh, scary humans.

“Okay, okay, you’re not a mermaid princess, no, no, you’re not.” Bessie shook the little mermaid baby in her arms, as if teasing a little infant.

Cornelia cried for a while, and found that this scary human girl didn’t seem to want to catch her ashore, just still holding her, soaking in the sea water.

“Don’t cry, okay?”

Seemed to be… coaxing her to be happy?

With keen observation, Cornelia saw the panic that Bessie was not very good at hiding in her eyes, and the other’s gradually pale face.

Cornelia gradually stopped crying, staring at her with watery eyes.

This human… doesn’t seem so scary?

Although Bessie was the best swimmer among the young people in the small fishing village, maintaining a floating posture for a long time, while holding a mermaid baby who was not considered light, her physical strength inevitably drained quickly, and her face also turned pale.

The weight of that big tail was a bit too heavy for the fourteen-year-old Bessie.

However, she didn’t show her exhaustion, still smiling and teasing the mermaid baby, wanting to make this little mermaid, who started dropping small pearls as soon as she saw her, and was so scared her scales were about to explode, happy.

It’s just that the faint pain from her calf made Bessie’s face even paler.

Seems like she’s cramping a little.

As a child who grew up on the sea since childhood, Bessie had enough experience with cramps in the water, and she was also a bold and careful person, so she didn’t panic.

She first released Cornelia, then didn’t struggle too much, ignoring her cramping left leg, and used her two hands to float, leaning back to give most of her weight to the buoyancy of the sea water itself, huffing and puffing as she paddled to the side of the reef.

The position they were just in wasn’t deep, and when Bessie paddled to the side of the reef, she could already feel the sand under her back, she rolled over, and accidentally pulled on the cramping leg again, finally being able to put down all her thoughts and not worry about drowning, Bessie’s face was twisted.

“It hurts so much–”

Cornelia watched in a daze, everything happened too quickly, so that she hadn’t quite recovered, she was still a little afraid of humans, but because Bessie had never meant to hurt her, she still cautiously leaned over.

Then her sea blue hair, as curly and soft as the seaweed in the depths of the sea, was held down by a hand, and rubbed hard.

The voice that was still wailing just now cheered, “Just like I imagined! So soft!”

Cornelia: !

Cornelia widened her eyes.

Cornelia stretched out her hand to refuse Bessie’s method of rubbing her like a puppy.

Cornelia tried her best but couldn’t win.

“My name is Bessie, what’s yours?”

“…I, I don’t want to tell you.”

“Okay, then what should I call you? Little mermaid princess?”

“…I’m not a princess.”

“Eh? But my mother said that only mermaid princesses secretly run to the shore to shed tears, because they want to go ashore but don’t have a pair of legs to walk on.”

“No… mermaid princesses… not all mermaids want to go ashore.” Cornelia retorted softly, she secretly glanced at Bessie, and found that the other party was looking at her with a very focused gaze, and couldn’t help but shrink her neck in fright again.

She mustered up her courage to tell Bessie the reason: “The elders all say… the shore is very dangerous, humans are very scary.”

If this statement were placed when the mermaid Your Highness was still alive a thousand years ago, it would never have been possible, because at that time the Sea Clan and the mermaids were also the masters of this continent, with the powerful mermaid Your Highness as their backing, those cunning humans would never have dared to plot against them.

However, times have changed, the eternally equal empire has disappeared in the long river of history, the empire belonging to humans has risen, and other races have retreated, and humans have become the masters of this continent.

The mermaid clan inevitably made changes, once it was common to see kind-hearted mermaids sending drowned fishermen back to shore, but now it’s almost impossible to see a few mermaids emerge from the sea, even if there are, it’s in places where humans can’t see them.

Because scary humans will use various means to catch mermaids, perhaps adult mermaids still have a chance to fight against the strange methods of humans, but young mermaids have almost no ability to protect themselves when they encounter them.

Once they are caught ashore, they completely lose the ability to fight back.

“I don’t want to be caught by humans.” Cornelia said softly, “No mermaid wants to leave the sea forever.”

Bessie thoughtfully said, “Come to think of it, indeed, I’ve always heard that merchants send people to catch mermaids, and last time someone even offered money to people in our village to go out to sea to find mermaids.”

Hearing this, a few traces of horror immediately appeared in Cornelia’s eyes, and the water blue eyes looking at Bessie were immediately covered with a layer of mist, looking like she was about to cry again.

Seeing this, Bessie quickly waved her hand, “You misunderstood, the people in our village didn’t take this job! Our village won’t catch mermaids, don’t worry!”

“After all, our village has always made a living by fishing, and we have encountered several shipwrecks, all of which were helped by mermaids.” Bessie bent her eyes, “We are not the kind of people who repay kindness with enmity.”

Cornelia was stunned and lowered her head.

After a long time, she gently opened her mouth: “Cornelia.”

“Hmm?” Bessie didn’t understand.

“My name.” Cornelia said softly, almost inaudibly, “This was given to me by my father… my king.”

Bessie’s hearing was very good, even if Cornelia’s voice was as thin as a mosquito’s wing, she still heard it clearly, she blinked her eyes.

“Eh–you still say you’re not a princess?”

Cornelia: !

“…I really am not!”

Thus, fourteen-year-old Bessie and six-year-old Cornelia met, and became very, very good friends.

*

“Eh, so my mother was like this?” Alice’s eyes sparkled, “I thought she would be like Mama Fannie, a very gentle type.”

Mama Fannie was the palace maid who took Alice to raise after Bessie’s death. She was also taken into the harem by the philandering Bato King, and the tenth prince William, Alice’s brother who grew up with her, was Fannie’s child.

Seeing the others looking at her, Alice added, “Because in that person’s harem, many are like Mama Fannie… um, gentle and pitiful beauties.”

Fannie, who raised Alice, didn’t really understand Bessie, she had only met her a few times, and there was nothing to tell Alice, so Alice’s fantasy of her mother as a child was basically based on Mama Fannie’s image.

A gentle woman who would tell her children bedtime stories, would only silently shed tears and endure when encountering difficulties, but would also muster up the courage to stand in front of her children when they were hurt.

Cornelia touched Alice’s head, every time she saw Alice’s face, which was almost a one-to-one copy of Bessie, Cornelia couldn’t help but be in a trance.

It was as if her memory had returned to more than ten years ago, to the days when Bessie was in the small fishing village, telling stories to her who secretly came ashore.

“Yes, you and she are very similar.” Cornelia said, “Whether it’s appearance, or personality.”

…

Cornelia and Bessie became friends.

Hiding it from everyone.

Cornelia’s fellow mermaids didn’t know that she had become friends with a human girl on the shore, and Bessie’s family, friends, and the villagers of the small fishing village didn’t know that she had made a special mermaid friend.

During the day, when Bessie went out to sea with her parents to fish, Cornelia would secretly catch several fat fish and put them in the fishing net cast by Bessie’s father, and then quietly circled to the other side, floating out half of her small head to silently ask Bessie on the boat for credit.

And Bessie would also generously give her a thumbs up, silently praising her as the best mermaid.

At night, Cornelia would quietly come to the reef near the shore, waiting for Bessie, who had worked hard all day, to appear, they shared the interesting things they had encountered today in the moonlight, Cornelia gave Bessie carefully selected conch shells, and Bessie would read a section of human children’s fairy tales for Cornelia.

The friendship between the two little ones grew like this.

“Why has that mixed-blood always been out of sight recently?”

After the mermaid cubs in the deep sea frolicked, suddenly a mermaid mentioned, “She disappears every time after the elder finishes class, isn’t she secretly doing something bad?”

“I saw her near the coral cave xue last time.” A mermaid recalled, “It seems like she was picking up shells and conch shells or something.”

“Huh? What’s she picking up that thing for?” The other mermaids didn’t understand.

“Maybe it’s for making shell skirts, after all, she doesn’t seem to have any clothes to wear.” Another mermaid chuckled, and poked the arm of the golden-tailed mermaid in the center of the mermaids, “At least she’s your sister, how come she doesn’t even have a tide yarn dress.”

The golden-tailed mermaid flicked her tail dismissively, “She’s just a mixed-blood mermaid, I don’t admit to having such a sister, she’s actually picking up shells to make a skirt herself, she really is a motherless bastard.”

Hearing this, the other mermaids looked at each other, not knowing who laughed first, the laughter grew louder and louder, almost reaching the shell of the mermaid elder next door.

The fertility rate in the mermaid clan is not high, but it is not as difficult to reproduce as the dragon clan.

It’s just that all species have good patience and care for their cubs, and after the mermaid cubs are born, their parents will naturally prepare enough clothes for them to wear for a long time.

And at the position of the mermaid princess, every year the most skilled weaver in the clan will take the tide and sunset glow to make soft and special fabrics, and make dresses for her.

However, Cornelia, who was also a child of the mermaid king, was not so lucky, as a mixed-blood mermaid, she was ignored and discriminated against wherever she went.

The race’s natural genes made them reject the existence of mixed-bloods, and Cornelia naturally wouldn’t have much good treatment.

“Do you want to go see what that bastard has been doing these days?”

After the wanton laughter, a mermaid made this suggestion.

Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and their eyes unconsciously fell on the golden-tailed mermaid.

“What are you looking at me for?” She snorted, “Then let’s go see, if she does something stupid, we can also teach her a lesson.”

“She’s just a despicable mixed-blood.”

And Cornelia over there was picking out beautiful coral stones near the coral reef, wanting to give her best friend a beautiful gift.

Little did she know that some mermaids were already eager to move, preparing to make trouble for her.

*

“Ah! Won’t something happen?” Alice was a little nervous.

Clearly Cornelia’s story wasn’t told very well, many times she just flatly reproduced the past, but Alice listened with great interest, and even her heart was raised for Cornelia, who was about to be troubled by the mermaids.

Cornelia was silent for a while, not because she felt embarrassed to mention her embarrassing past, but just facing this face that was almost exactly the same as Bessie’s, she couldn’t help but miss her, “That didn’t happen, she was beaten back by Bessie.”

“…Ah?”

“I said, your mother is a very powerful person.”

Cornelia said with a wooden face, “Those bastards… oh, I mean those mermaids, followed me ashore, discovered Bessie’s existence, at that time they wanted to tell the elder about this to threaten me, but Bessie beat them back.”

Using bamboo poles and stones.