Aiming towards where the voice came from, Raven lunged and swung his dagger swiftly.
The blade caught on something, and he heard the sound of fabric tearing.
For a moment, the concealed assassin revealed herself.
It was none other than Talia.
“How did you know where I was? I made sure my voice echoed from all directions.”
“…I don’t know. Why should I?”
A part of Talia’s mask was torn, and she looked down at Raven as if intrigued.
Seeing her composure infuriated Raven.
“If there were more of your Vennian kind, it would’ve been worth recruiting you into our tribe.”
“I don’t understand what you’re babbling about.”
“I’m not usually talkative. It’s genuinely regrettable.”
Talia eyed the young boy who was instinctively backing away.
The numbers of her assassin tribe were dwindling, and new blood was desperately needed.
If they could gather kids with such talents, they could reclaim the glory of their tribe from hundreds of years ago.
“Kid, as a token of respect for your talent, I’ll make sure your death is as painless as possible. Prepare yourself.”
“Quit talking and come at me!”
The one who initiated the attack this time was not Talia, but Raven.
Talia pulled out a concealed weapon from behind her back, parried his attacks a few times, and thrust her sword towards his abdomen.
But when her attack narrowly missed once again, an exclamation involuntarily escaped her lips.
“Very interesting. But can you dodge this?!”
“Ugh!”
With a slicing sound, a large wound opened up on Raven’s leg.
He momentarily dropped to one knee and tried to dodge immediately, but the sharp weapon was already flying towards his face.
“It’s over now!”
Snap!
The moment he gave up on everything and tightly closed his eyes, a tremendous light flashed all around.
The surrounding space, which had turned completely white, slowly began to regain its color. Raven opened his eyes.
“Bella…?”
Two figures appeared in his still blurry vision.
Raven was confused, alternately looking at a small child with a familiar silhouette and Talia, who had been wounded by a sharp ice shard.
‘What on earth happened?’
As Talia clenched her teeth with a face that seemed to admit defeat, Bella spoke coldly.
“What are you guys doing here?”
As I got closer to Raven’s room, I sensed something was off.
‘What’s that? I feel something similar to a barrier up ahead.’
It couldn’t be that a spirit I didn’t summon had suddenly appeared.
Why would such an energy be felt near the child’s room?
Panicked, I ran with short strides and quickly arrived in front of Raven’s room.
And when I flung the door open, I witnessed an unimaginable scene.
Someone dressed in black was attacking Raven.
‘I have to stop this now!’
Summoning my inherent magic power in an instant, I cast an ice spell towards the unidentified intruder.
At the same time, a flash of light burst forth as the intruder’s barrier, which had been serving as a sort of boundary, was destroyed.
The next moment, finding Raven unharmed, I sighed in relief.
‘Who on earth is this person?’
From head to toe, the intruder was entirely in black, and part of their mask had been torn off.
Although I only saw about half of their face, I knew I had never seen them before.
‘But something feels… familiar.’
After a few seconds of narrowed-eyed contemplation, I realized the unique energy exuding from the intruder was exactly like that of Rina, whom I had met earlier in the day.
All the pleas from her to keep her secret while mentioning her family were lies.
“What are you guys doing here?”
Looking at Rina, whose face was unrecognizable from what I knew, and the wounded Raven, I put my hand on my hip.
Never had I felt so enraged since taking over this body.
“Rina, you. You lied to me. Unforgivable.”
“…You’ve even discovered my true identity. Truly impressive, Princess Bella.”
While she admired, I stood in front of Raven.
To protect him.
“Raven, stay back. I’ll handle her.”
“Maybe we should call for someone else…”
“No. She picked the wrong day to mess with me.”
As I glared with my eyebrows furrowed, she gripped her incantation and assumed an attacking posture.
“Fine. Then I have no choice but to kill both of you.”
“Try it if you dare!”
Whizz.
As the intruder threw a projectile weapon and attempted to approach, I raised the magic power I hadn’t used for a while to its limit.
“Freeze solid!”
Thud, thump.
As I commanded, the solidly frozen projectile weapons fell to the floor without force, and even the furniture in the room started to freeze with a crackling sound.
But somehow, she thrust her sword accurately towards me even as part of her body was covered in ice.
‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’
In an instant, a bead of sweat ran down my forehead and goosebumps arose on my arms.
“Die, princess!”
It was a crisis.
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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