“Was her name Ani?”
The mother and daughter I met today.
Of course, we still hadn’t even fully introduced ourselves by name.
“Sorry, but I’d like to change my name. It might be hard to get used to, but…….”
Lucia kept repeating the rule she had set in her mind, pondering about her name as she chewed on it several times.
‘Dirty Ani! Stinky Ani!’
No matter how much she thought about it, it wasn’t a pleasant memory.
Like shaking off the series of memories from the orphanage, the child quickly nodded before Lucia even finished speaking.
In fact, even if that hadn’t been the case, the child had resolved to listen to whatever Lucia said.
“So. From now on, your name is…….”
That’s when it happened.
Knock knock.
“Shh.”
Lucia put a finger to her lips as she looked at the child.
It seemed that Berl had found out about her leave of absence. Since it was obvious that he would be annoying, she decided to ignore it.
The sound of footsteps was heard for a while, and then it disappeared.
‘Did he finally leave?’
As Lucia was about to straighten her tense back along with the child, a sound of a window opening was heard somewhere.
Reflexively, Lucia put her hand on her sword.
She remembered that occasionally, neighboring kingdoms sent assassins to keep their new sword masters in check.
With a rustling sound from the living room, Lucia drew her sword and aimed it at the man’s neck that she found.
The man was startled and raised both hands, shouting.
“What?! Captain! It’s me! Me!”
She recognized the face at the tip of her sword.
A tall figure with light blue hair and drooping eyes.
Judging by his use of “Captain,” he must be an old comrade, but his young, unfamiliar face made his memory vague.
“Eh? You won’t even put away your sword? Just because we haven’t seen each other for 5 years? Vernon. It’s Vernon! Vernon Javier of Concealment!”
“Concealment…. Vernon?”
Lucia’s memory was revived by the nickname Vernon was whining about.
The Black Knight’s intelligence officer, third ace. Vernon Javier.
Certain he was a friend, Lucia sheathed her sword.
“Phew, I almost had to change my pants.”
Vernon said, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with a roguish smile.
That’s when it happened.
Someone else appeared behind Vernon.
“Eh? What’s this?”
A very fierce female voice.
Someone leaped roughly out of the window Vernon had entered through.
Red hair, short stature, thick muscles, and strong strength was her specialty. The second ace of the Black Knights, Gilliana Olivia.
“There’s someone who looks just like the real captain!?”
Gilliana, with her catlike eyes wide open, shouted as she looked at the child hiding in the corner of the living room.
And then, one more.
Like sausages linked together, a boy with stark white hair entered, staring at the child and Lucia with empty eyes, mumbling,
“…Small.”
This boy was a genius of alchemy, coveted by Matop.
The Black Knight’s first ace. Heis.
The sudden appearance of these three, casually roaming the training camp lodging as if it were their own.
“…You guys. Where the hell are you entering from, ignoring the door?”
Lucia was annoyed by these three, who had completely ruined the relaxed atmosphere with the child.
And yet, they were…
“Pfft. Just like the ViceCaptain said, you really do sound like an old woman.”
Unsurprisingly, Vernon spoke, unable to contain his burst of laughter.
“Eek!! It’s true. What happened to our captain in 5 years? Her speech has aged so much!?”
“…Old woman.”
A raccoonlike Vernon, a rough catlike Gilliana, and an inscrutable boy, Heis.
Yes.
Although Lucia was not one to follow etiquette, these guys surpassed even her in audacity.
She looked at these fearless people, remembering the last time she met them after her retirement.
Even then, she thought their speech was so oldfashioned that they lacked manners, but coming back, they were the same as always.
Still, it wasn’t just empty talk.
“Talk. So it does stand out. It’s no good, so I’ll have to fix it.”
No matter how much he had returned to his youth, it wasn’t easy for a man over 90 to suddenly speak like someone in his 20s.
Lucia, who was indifferent, had not even realized that her way of speaking was strange until now.
Then,
Suddenly, Gillyana grabbed the child’s armpit and lifted him up.
“Whoo~! Isn’t it fun?! Little captain?”
“……!!”
The child was thrown precariously like a flying scrap of paper.
Without a sound, he turned pale, almost fainting.
Anyone could see that the child was not enjoying himself.
Lucia hurriedly snatched the rigid child from Gillyana’s hands.
“Oh? Why, captain? This makes our niece go crazy.”
“Tsk, tsk. Gillyana……. To incur hatred from the chief’s child. Like me, like this.”
Vernon slyly winked and pulled out a candy from his pocket.
But it was useless to offer it to the already rigid child.
Lucia shook her head at them in disdain, examining the state of the child she was holding.
The child’s head drooped weakly in her arms.
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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