Mermaid Feeding Rules

"Garcia."

"Garcia?" Boyce repeated its name. "My name is Boyce."

"Boyce..." Compared to this unfamiliar name, the mermaid is more used to calling him "sofia".

"What does sofia mean?" Boyce heard the word from the mermaid many times, but he couldn't guess the meaning.

"Every merman will find a destined mate when they reach adulthood..." In the merman's language, their mate is called "sofia".

The word sofia is a destined companion in the language system of the mermaid...

And the "sofia" in Garcia's mouth refers to himself...

Boyce did not expect to get such an almost absurd answer.

However, after knowing the meaning of "sofia", some of the previous behaviors of the mermaid can be understood.

The mermaid looked at the humans around him. It came here from another distant sea area, and finally found its sofia.

"I'm here for you..."

"Wouldn't it be wrong?" Boyce asked.

Garcia was stunned for a moment, and replied affirmatively: "My sofia will only be you."

It doesn't think that it will find the wrong person, the instinct engraved in its body tells it that the human being in front of it is its partner, and every cell clamors to occupy this human being and drag him into the deep sea.

He is unique and belongs only to his partner.

The mermaid's eyes were hot, revealing a faint possessive desire for her, Boyce subconsciously looked away.

Maybe he shouldn't have brought it up, Boyce thought.

Boyce hadn't thought about it until the mermaid said what the word "sofia" meant.

Although Ive heard the case of an experimenter in the research institute falling in love with a mermaid before, Boyce never thought that one day he would be regarded as a "destined partner" by a mermaid.

To be considered a mate by a merman seemed odd to Boyce.

In particular, the "destined partner" of mermaids is difficult for humans to understand, especially since they will travel through distant seas to find a person they have never seen and know nothing about.

This kind of behavior looks more like a behavior engraved in genes and under the control of reproductive instinct.

The research institute has never found juvenile mermaids, but most of the adult fish they found have the habit of living alone, and the "destined mate" seems to be more like an instinct for the continuation of this race.

Boyce suddenly thought, does the mermaid who is dominated by instinct really have liking or love for the so-called "sofia"?

His eyes on Garcia, the mermaid's eyes are full of strong and pure possessiveness.

But Boyce subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. It may not know what liking is, and its previous behavior was just out of a natural possessive desire.

"You want me to be your partner?"

Garcia nodded.

"Do you like me?"

like?

A trace of confusion flashed in the mermaid's eyes.

Boyce added: "Do you want me to be your partner because of who I am or because I'm 'sofia'?"

What's the difference?

It only wants the human in front of it as its partner, the mermaid thought.

Every mermaid knows 'sofia' from birth

They wandered in the ocean for the first half of their lives, looking for their destined mates, and then left their own offspring.

Every mermaid seemed to be like this, so Boyce's question seemed strange to him.

Human pupils looked over, earnestly waiting for an answer.

Garcia felt that the correct answer to the previous question was liking.

but……

"What is like?"

Then the mermaid saw a faint smile in the human's eyes, and he seemed to relax completely.

"Humans are different from mermaids." The mermaid heard him say, "Being a partner is something only people who like each other can do."

Garcia heard a message of rejection from the human's words.

but……

If being a partner is something that only people who like each other can do...

"I will like you..."

Boyce, however, had moved on to the next subject.

"Do you remember Zoe?" Boyce thought, maybe Garcia would know some clues about Zoe's death.

Zoe?

Who?

"The breeder before I came here, do you remember him?"

Garcia finally remembered some impressions of him.

It only cared about its human Sofia, so it didn't care much about other humans. After listening to Boyce's reminder, it matched the name with the young man in his memory who was always chattering on the lifting platform.

Zoe did appear in Garcia's breeding room that night, but the mermaid stayed at the bottom of the water and didn't go up. It was not interested in humans other than Sofia, and it didn't attack him because the attitude of this human was better than other breeders. Not a lot.

Zoe, who didn't get a response, left the breeding room not long after, and then, in the middle of the night, a dead body was thrown into Garcia's pool.

That's all Garcia knew. After hearing what it said, Boyce was going to ask the others if anything special happened that night.

The mermaid watched him stand up: "Are you leaving?"

Boyce lowered his head, and the mermaid didn't try to keep him, but Boyce felt inexplicably guilty, especially when he knew that the mermaid had always regarded him as a partner in the past.

He subconsciously stretched out his hands to cover his hot ears.

But there's no way I'm going to be with a merman, Boyce thought.

He looked at the mermaid, his lips parted slightly,

Just as he was about to speak, the mermaid in front of him suddenly changed his appearance, and turned into that of s-19.

The red-tailed mermaid smiled maliciously, and stretched out a paw to grab Boyce's ankle.

"You're dying..."

"Sofia?" Garcia's doubtful voice suddenly sounded next to Boyce's ear.

"what happened to you?"

The mermaid in front of Boyce returned to its original appearance. He pressed his temples, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. Maybe it's because he's had a late night's rest recently?

He looked at Garcia, the mermaid appeared here because of him: "Do you want to go back to the sea?"

The mermaid shook her head, now she can't go back and take Sofia back, but it wants to take him back to the deep sea.

-

Boyce quietly inquired about Zoe in the laboratory.

However, most people in the institute have the deepest impression on him that he fell in love with a mermaid.

Matthew was chatting with Boyce when he suddenly remembered another person.

"Speaking of which, the previous breeder of S-5, the one who committed suicide, has been said that he fell in love with that mermaid."

"What do you think?" Matthew asked Boyce.

"Maybe." Boyce replied vaguely.

Matthew didn't care, and continued to gossip with Boyce: "However, S-5 seems to have always been special to him. At that time, some people in the laboratory thought it was because some people were special to mermaids."

Boyce had seen this in previous experiments, too, but the research was later terminated.

"It is said that Beard stopped the experiment." Matthew said, "He has always been an opponent of this theory."

"But this is also normal." Matthew raised his eyebrows, probably because of Beard's death, so Matthew didn't have much scruples when he mentioned him, "I heard that after S-19 entered the research institute, the most annoying thing is he."

-

When the time was up, Boyce went to feed the two mermen.

Probably because of the fight with Garcia last time, when Boyce went to feed the s-24 in the morning, it stayed in the pool with an ugly face, but it didn't take the initiative to attack Boyce.

When Boyce appeared in the breeding room in the afternoon, Garcia felt the breath of S-24 from him again.

Probably because he felt that he had spoken to Boyce, Garcia did not hide his emotions in front of Boyce.

"Did you see him again?"

Garcia looked a bit displeased with this.

"He wants to kill you..." Garcia's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he flicked his tail guiltily.

The teal merman really wanted to kill its sofia, though Garcia knew it wouldn't.

But he did have this idea, and the mermaid glanced at Boyce's face secretly. It felt that he was not lying, but was only hiding a small part of the truth.

"They're all going to want to kill you."

The mermaid said, "Only I will protect you."

Seeing that there was no response from humans, Garcia continued to speak.

"He is not as strong as me, his claws are not as sharp as mine, and the scales on his tail are also bald..."

The mermaid said, showing her thick and beautiful tail to Boyce.

Boyce's eyes fell on Garcia's bald tail after the fight with S-24, probably because the bald part was in the blind spot of Garcia's vision, and it was neither painful nor itchy, so the mermaid had already forgotten That little piece of bald existence.

At this moment, when the mermaid showed its tail like a courting male beast, the somewhat abrupt piece of skin was exposed in Boyce's field of vision.

Beyce thought a little out of place, a little like a peacock with its tail open, showing its bare buttocks behind it, but it didn't know it.

"sofia?"

"Your tail seems to be bald too."

Hearing this, the mermaid froze and subconsciously hid its tail back.

"But..." The mermaid seemed to be changing the subject.

"His face is not as good-looking as mine."

Boyce heard it speak with certainty, expressing his conclusion after observing the experimenters around him for a year: "You humans prefer a face like mine."

The author has something to say:

It's so hard to pick a name qaq

Before naming: I want a name of balabala (a bunch of unknown requirements) ╮(‵▽′)╭

When choosing a name: Although I don’t know the specific requirements for this name, I still think these names are not good enough ╮(??ω??)╭

Then I found out that it is so difficult to get a name, but our fish can't have no name until the end!Claw.jpg(っ╥╯﹏╰╥c)