The Old Man and the Mermaid

After packing all the luggage in the villa, Aigre checked again in each room to make sure they didn't miss anything.During the process of packing up their things, Professor Nice kept a straight face, so those guys who committed crimes did not dare to be as presumptuous as before, and the volume of their occasional conversations with each other was unbelievably low.

After the inspection, Aigre stood next to the stairs on the second floor of the villa and looked at the hall on the first floor. Seeing those guys huddled in the corner all the time, obviously not recovered, he couldn't help shaking his head .

He hardly ever had the chance to have a normal friendly conversation with them.Although the usual tone of these guys didn't appear to be very impolite, their impression in Aigre's heart was still not very good.

What's more, Eigre can't go back to school for the time being, and basically won't see them again.

Professor Nice contacted the car that helped them move the equipment in advance, and the person in charge who had received him at the pier also followed the car to the villa, probably to send them away.After talking with him for a while, Professor Nice left the small town with those utensils first, leaving several other young people to go directly to the entrance of the town to take the bus.

Royce followed Eigre in the forefront, keeping a distance of several meters from those young people, and after walking for a while, he turned his head and whispered in Aigre's ear, "So you just talked to me?" What I said is real?"

"I don't seem to have any reason to lie to you, do I?" Aigre asked back, and then said: "What I told you is the truth...although the process is a bit subtle."

"Understood, understood! It was only after I came to the island this time that I realized that Mr. Aigre Payer, who has always been serious, also had an embarrassing experience." Royce laughed a few times before lowering the volume again. He hooked Aigre's shoulder and said, "Everyone in the town—especially the sellers in the market—they seem to like you very much? But since I'm your best friend, they are Tell me everything."

"About what?"

"It's about you wearing red underwear the day you got back from school," Royce said.

Aigre: "...do you want to fight?"

Royce took two steps back holding back a smile, and politely refused: "No, no, thank you very much for your kindness."

Aigre stared at him again, then sighed inaudibly.

The older residents of the town watched him grow up, so they didn't have any scruples when talking to his friends, which caused the few embarrassing things about Aigre to spread almost all over the place. Everyone on the island knows that.Although he himself doesn't mind much, every time he hears it, he still feels more or less reluctant to meet people.

"Don't be like this, man. Don't worry, I won't say it." Royce thought for a while after comforting him, and added: "I won't say anything about you falling in love with a gentleman." Tell it to anyone—including the girls who ever had fantasies about you."

"Please feel free." Aigre rubbed his forehead and decided not to discuss this issue with him too deeply, "Let's go, I'll take you aboard."

After arriving at the pier, Professor Nice boarded the boat with several of his students first, then finished talking with the person in charge, and walked towards Aigre and Royce.

"Is there nothing you forgot?" Aigre glanced at the cargo ship that was docking,

"Yes, of course there is—the speedboat that was hit and sunk by them on the bottom of the sea." Professor Nice said dissatisfiedly, "The value of that speedboat is not cheap at all, and they lost a lot this time. But this is also good , to save them from causing trouble outside all day long. The speedboat belongs to that kid Robertson’s family, and that brat usually lives by the sea. Now that he has no means of transportation, it will probably stop for a while.”

Aigre nodded and reminded: "Professor, please be as careful as possible. If you feel unwell on board, remember to take some anti-vertigo drugs."

"Don't worry about this. Although I think I am healthy, I am not young anymore. I will pay attention to this." Professor Nice raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said with emotion, "If every student can It would be nice to be as obedient as you are...but you basically don't talk much, brat like you, if everyone is as taciturn as you, it would be too boring."

After listening to Professor Nice's words, Eigre unconsciously remembered what he had talked with Mr. Mermaid before. He couldn't help but smile, nodded and said, "It's better to have some energy when you get along with friends."

After talking to them again for a few words, the professor said goodbye, turned and walked towards the boat.

Royce did not follow immediately, but stared at Aigre seriously for a while before asking: "Do you know that you just smiled like a pussy cat? It's also a bit like seeing a cute little girl." The wretched big guy."

Aigre: "..."

Is there any resemblance between a cat in spring and a wretched man who meets a cute little girl?Aigre glanced at him with a headache, and slowly gave a final warning: "If you want to fight, just say so, you don't have to be so polite."

"No, it's really unnecessary." Royce turned his head quickly, and couldn't walk in the direction of the boat. "Thank you very much for your hospitality these days, I have to go."

Only then did Aigle sneer slightly, and followed behind him to say goodbye to his professors and alumni for the last time.

In addition to the staff on the pier, Mr. Mermaid who was lurking under the sea surface was also paying attention to this huge cargo ship.

After finishing the conversation with the lively girl, he quickly checked around the island a few times to make sure that there were indeed no other suspicious creatures wandering around.

He wasn't quite sure if the phantom seen by the old man mentioned by Aigre was someone from the mermaid clan, but since the girl said it wasn't her, the black shadow exposed on the sea must not be members of their family.

They never lie.

That's why Mr. Mermaid was puzzled by this, and it took him a while to confirm the tranquility of the waters near Twilight Island.The sea is so vast that even the mermaids can't figure out its corners and boundaries. Occasionally, some creatures living in the deep sea rush into the shallow sea area rashly, intersecting with humans.Their fate is generally not very good, so no matter whether the shadow the old man saw is a mermaid or not, he needs to find a positive answer.

But Dusk Island is surrounded by the sea, and the sea area in every direction is too wide to be completely explored, so even if Mr. Mermaid has a keen sense, he can't find it among the countless creatures inhabiting this area in such a short period of time. The so-called "Sea God".After searching for a few circles to no avail, he temporarily returned to the coast next to the lighthouse to rest for a while, and then found the pier along the edge of the island.

His estimated time was fairly accurate, so he happened to see Aigre standing on the pier talking to the professor.

In addition, he also saw Egreel hugging and saying goodbye to his friend.

It reminded him of many human storybooks he had read before.

For example, the story of a rich businessman's daughter and a farmer.The farmer went through untold hardships to pursue the daughter of the rich businessman, and finally got the approval of the rich businessman's father, and happily married the girl back home.Afterwards, they lived happily ever after, until one day the farmer chose to cheat without warning, and with a guilty conscience told the rich businessman's daughter how beautiful and kind the new girl was.

The rich businessman's daughter cried and complained: "You were the one who pursued me like crazy in the first place, why are you betraying me now?"

The farmer also cried and complained: "Because you always put too much powder on your face! I will never be able to kiss your real lips!"

When Mr. Mermaid saw this short story for the first time, he once questioned human's views on love and society, until he saw another true story that broke his three views even more.

The story is about a human who fell in love with the goldfish he raised, and told the goldfish his feelings and admiration day and night, taking care of it meticulously.Until that goldfish finally dies one day, that human being starts to cry again, despising himself like a collapse, thinking that he has spent too much time and money on a guy whose memory is always only a few seconds.

... These are some messy love stories going.

He knows that Aigre won't like other normal humans because of his scales, just like... just like he doesn't like Aigre because he wants to provide him with a set of underwear after being drunk. Ray has changed.

Mr. Mermaid put all these inexplicable memories to the back of his mind with a blank face.

After thinking about it for a few days, he realized that he really wanted to spend all the next time with this human being whom he had not known for a long time.He has lived for too long, so long that his lifespan is only nearly 100 years, which is almost the same as that of human beings. If he wants to find the happiness and meaning of living in this last period of time, he believes that It is something that only Aigre can do.

His emotions have been worn down by countless days and nights of solitary actions to a degree of weakness that even he himself can rarely feel.His emotions have become quite difficult to grasp, even impossible to detect, but even so, he can still feel the emotions and touches that he has accumulated slowly but continuously for Aigle during this period of time.

It is true that he has not experienced any emotional baptism, but he can feel peace and a subtle sense of happiness by Aigre's side.After spending such a long time alone, he probably just wanted to meet someone who could keep everything from each other.

When his thoughts reached here, he suddenly remembered that Aigre didn't seem to have told himself the full story about the underwear.