Despite shouting with a sense of urgency, Kieran remained immobile.
“…Strange. If someone from the Worei lineage couldn’t wake up to such a loud noise, he would’ve been abandoned and discarded by his family long ago.”
Ashton also showed a skeptical reaction.
With a wishful heart, I asked Benedict.
“Benedict.”
“Why… yes.”
“Could you possibly ask the spirits to douse Kieran Worei in cold water?”
It was a bizarre request and somewhat ludicrous, but Benedict nodded obediently.
“It’s doable.”
“Spirits, come out.”
As the crowd gathered, the hidden spirits responded to the summoner’s call.
【Benedict called us.】
【What’s going on this time?】
【What can we do to make you happy?】
To the naive questions of the spirits, Benedict responded.
“Can you sprinkle a bucket of water on that man in the video? Very cold ice water, with salt.”
‘…Oh.’
Benedict was a devilish guy. He even added salt to the ice water that he planned to pour over the head. I was flustered as I hadn’t made such a request.
The spirits, who liked mischievous acts, chuckled.
【Looks like Ben wants to play a prank!】
【This will be fun!】
【Where is this person? Far away?】
Benedict replied.
【Far. He’s in a region called Linstead.】
【Still doable?】
After a brief consideration, the spirits scattered sparkles from their wings.
【No problem!】
【We can move anywhere through nature.】
【If that’s your wish as a contractor, we’ll gladly oblige.】
【So, cold saltwater, right?】
【Yes, with lots of ice.】
【Got it.】
The cheerful spirits sparkled and then disappeared.
“Phew… done. Since we’ve done as Duchess Keaton wished, all we have to do is watch now.”
“Really?”
“Spirits don’t break promises. They’re stupidly innocent, yet more evil than demons when they want to be, so just watch.”
‘You seem pretty devilish too…’
Looking back, none of the male lead candidates, including this guy, should’ve had good feelings for Kieran.
‘After all, he threatened Siena, the world’s bastard.’
Still, they were silently following my request.
I didn’t hear any rude comments like, ‘What’s your scheme? You didn’t cause the zombie situation, did you?’
‘Wow… am I actually being recognized as a comrade?’
When I was told I had to recruit party members for the quest, I just accepted it.
I thought it was a formal team. Turns out, the candidates I had to recruit were genuinely willing to cooperate, or else it wouldn’t have been possible.
‘Hey, Zero. Was my guess correct?’
“Did you just realize that?”
‘What a unhelpful assistant… You should have told me sooner!’
“I assumed you’d know. The way the original sub-male leads look at you has changed, hasn’t it?”
‘Now that you mention it… you’re right.’
He consistently used honorifics, and followed my instructions in urgent situations.
It was a major improvement from being treated like trash as a villainess.
‘Ah, I’m proud.’
It’s sad that I have to be this happy about being treated like a person, but it still made my heart flutter.
The fact that he trusted me was tear-jerkingly pleasing.
So, I gently poked Benedict in the ribs and whispered.
“…Thank you, Benedict. For actually helping.”
At my words, Benedict’s brown eyes widened in astonishment.
‘What, what. Don’t be so surprised, it’s embarrassing for me too.’
“…Did you hit your head or something?”
Ah, shoot.
My brief sentimentality crumbled at Benedict’s question.
‘Ah, so be it. I must’ve been deluding myself thinking you were being nice to me.’
“Never mind. If you didn’t hear me, forget it.”
Reacting to my cold response, Benedict scratched the back of his head.
“I thought you said ‘thank you’…”
‘No repeats, hmph.’
Ignoring his mumbling, I turned my attention to the emerging footage.
Within it, an elemental burst forth, cutting through space and circling around Kieran.
It was a blue-winged elemental, summoned at Benedict’s request.
【Water, pour down like rain!】
As the elemental shouted, a small dark cloud formed on the ceiling, and a cold downpour of hail and rain descended.
Kieran had no time to dodge; the icy water splashed all over him.
“Chilling to watch. An elemental that can conjure natural phenomena from anywhere.”
Rus watched the spectacle in awe. Sherry and Jacqueline also looked on curiously, wondering how Kieran would react.
“……”
However, Kieran remained still, unmoved by the cold ice water.
Like a statue in prayer, he just stayed soaked.
【Eh? Why isn’t this human startled awake?】
Even the elemental found it strange and poked him with a small stick.
【Human, human? Why no reaction? Do you enjoy pain?】
At the moment the elemental poked Kieran a bit harder with the stick.
Thud.
Kieran Worei’s body tilted to the side.
Still in that praying posture.
No, unable to break out of it.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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