Fairy empire

04. The fourth mermaid

Tanaka has not been in a good state of mind these past few days.More and more business transactions are a good thing, but so many orders swarming up at the same time, it is still a test of his mental endurance.Data, analysis, planning and organization... The more important the project, the more worried he is to hand it over to his subordinates, and the more he will do it himself.In this way, although there were few problems, it still tested his mental ability very much.Tanaka has not slept well for a week.

But as long as he thinks that others have more wealth than him, Tanaka will cheer up, drink a cup of coffee and continue to stay in front of his laptop to get into work—he can’t stand others being better than him, whether it’s life or spirit, what he wants It is to stand at the top of the business world and look down on others, or to put others under their feet.

From childhood to adulthood, Tanaka relied on his bloodiness to stand out among outstanding talents from all walks of life. His brutal methods and strong spiritual support allowed him to win spoils that others could not get.Decades have passed, Tanaka is old, but he still refuses to admit defeat, and still likes to compete with young people for something, such as now.

Florence can be regarded as a subtle turning point in his life—before the appearance of Florence, Tanaka's business was not bad, but it was definitely not very good; after the appearance of the beautiful Florence, Tanaka's business It was so good that he couldn't believe it, and the wealth, prestige and connections that followed were innumerable.

Once again, Tanaka believed that Florence must be his goddess of luck, and she had brought him many benefits, which showed that it was worthwhile to spend a lot of money to buy this mermaid in Earl D's pet shop.In just a few months, Tanaka not only made back all the money spent on buying the mermaid, but also doubled his own income several times.

——That was an experience he had never had in so many years.

Orihara Rinya's door-to-door warnings lingered in his ears from time to time, but when there were too many things, Tanaka simply put all these words behind him, and treated Florence, a creature from mythology, with his greatest love.Florence, who is loved by thousands of people, doesn't understand human feelings, nor does she know how much Tanaka loves her. She just cares about how much delicious meat can be eaten for today's lunch.

Florence loved beef, especially fresh beef with blood on it.

This is the conclusion drawn by the person who fed Florence after many days of observation.In order to prevent Florence from getting tired of eating too much meat of the same flavor, Tanaka specially ordered that the three meals a day must be different meat, and the same meat cannot be repeated.When feeding, they found that Florence's expression would be more colorful and soft when eating beef, as if an innocent child got a toy he had dreamed of for a long time; when feeding other meat, Floren Si, on the other hand, showed a lack of interest, and sometimes even couldn't finish half of the beef.

Tanaka was even happier, and customized all kinds of high-grade beef dishes for Florence, patted the glass fish tank, and smiled happily: "Florence, please bring me more wealth."

Florence, who was full, was half lying on the bottom of the fish tank, looked up at Tanaka next to the glass tank, blinked playfully as if understanding what he said, flicked her tail, and the bubbles of joy continued The ground surged up from the bottom, floated to the surface of the water, and disappeared without a trace with a "pop".

A mysterious and weird smile appeared on his lips.

Under the night, the bell rang, and the ancient and heavy voice seemed to come from an ancient myth.

****

Mrs. Tanaka was very dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction was only limited to her husband's attitude towards the mermaid, which was far better than her real wife.She has been with Tanaka since she married Tanaka at the age of 20. She has been his best right-hand man. Although she doesn't understand business matters, she has never made any mistakes in the things Tanaka explained. When she is with customers for dinner They have always given Tanaka enough face. From the outsiders' point of view, the relationship between the two is so good that Mrs. Tanaka is envied and envied by others.

But □□I am afraid that only the two parties know that Mrs. Tanaka did marry him with admiration for Tanaka at the beginning, but over the years, Tanaka has not left a little love for her.They are the best couple, but they are not in love. Love has always been unilaterally and unreservedly given to Tanaka by Mrs. Tanaka.

Of course, Tanaka is also a good husband, and all material and spiritual needs can be given to Mrs. Tanaka, except for love.Many times, Mrs. Tanaka even wondered if Tanaka was a guy without love.Now, decades have passed, and their children are all married. Tanaka suddenly bought this inexplicable mermaid home to take care of him carefully. Not to mention Mrs. Tanaka, even their daughter has never been so kind.

The more Mrs. Tanaka thought about it, the angrier she felt, but because of Tanaka's face, she couldn't say anything. In addition, since the mermaid came to their house, it has indeed attracted a lot of business.Thinking of this, Mrs. Tanaka could only grit her teeth silently to swallow her dissatisfaction, and continued to toss and turn in bed at night, unable to fall asleep.

Once, Tanaka had a big case to discuss and went to New York for a few days on a business trip, so the task of comforting Florence and talking to her every day fell to Mrs. Tanaka.And Mrs. Tanaka, who never liked Florence, would give her a good look. Standing in front of the fish tank, she glanced at Florence in disgust, then sat down on the seat belonging to Tanaka with her head held high, and opened her hand habitually. When the speaker is turned on, smooth music flows out of it.

Florence, who was quietly dormant at the bottom of the fish tank, moved her ears, and suddenly realized something, she jumped up from the bottom and almost jumped out of the fish tank, but still dangerously stopped at the edge of the fish tank.Florence grabbed the edge of the fish tank with both hands, her shoulders were exposed, her head was tilted, and her eyes were half-closed, as if she was enjoying the wonderful music.

Mrs. Tanaka noticed Florence's movements, snorted coldly and cut off the music viciously, walked in front of Florence, and resisted the urge to grab her neck: "It's just a mermaid, after all, it's just a mermaid. It’s just a pet, one day he doesn’t like you, he will throw you away at any time, don’t think too highly of yourself.”

Florence looked at Mrs. Tanaka with a half-smile, and the sideways look seemed to be mocking Mrs. Tanaka's self-righteous remarks, or...declaring war on Mrs. Tanaka.

Mrs. Tanaka was like a cat whose tail had been trampled on. She almost jumped up and wanted to strangle Florence, but in the end she endured it and could only stare at her, and then said, "Wait for me." "He walked out angrily.

Florence straightened her long, silky hair, and sank into the water leisurely, humming a very familiar tune. After careful identification, it could be heard that it was the music played by Mrs. Tanaka just now.

She has never made a sound before, but the sound coming out of her mouth at this moment is like the most beautiful scenery in the stories of ancient times. One hand grabs your heart and chokes your throat, allowing you to experience the most wonderful enjoyment while suffocating, and let such a beautiful melody stay in the depths of your mind forever.

After hearing her voice, everyone will believe that as long as it is sung from her mouth, no matter how ugly the music is, it will become extremely pleasant.

Florence closed her eyes, and opened them suddenly a few seconds later. The coquettish red color spread throughout the eye sockets. It looked like solid blood had been stuffed into the eye sockets, which looked extremely weird.But combined with Florence's glamorous face, no matter how you look at it, you feel that there is a sense of beauty that is approaching death - weird but not scary.

She smiled slightly, and tears of blood flowed from her eyes:

"Jealousy is a felony."

****

It was a normal night—the wind and rain of the previous few days had just stopped, and the weather had turned slightly warmer, but the night was still chilling.Heavy clothes can resist the invasion of the cold, and the coolness of the night can affect people's hearts.There was no moon on this day, and the electric poles outside the window were no longer so lonely under the light of street lamps, and the crows singing on the electric wires had already flown away without a trace.With the light in the room, Mrs. Tanaka could vaguely see the fallen leaves that were trampled on the side of the street.

Tanaka will be back tomorrow, and Mrs. Tanaka is in a better mood just like the weather.

As the night gradually deepened, Mrs. Tanaka also felt tired, so she lay on the bed and closed her eyes.There was a small gap in the window, and the howling wind poured in through such a gap, blowing a corner of the curtain.The white curtains float faintly in the air, like a ghost standing by the window watching Mrs. Tanaka fall asleep.

Between half-dream and half-awake, there seemed to be a distant singing sound in my ears.

At first, Mrs. Tanaka only thought that this tune was familiar and nice. The soft voice hummed the tune like the song she sang when she was playing with her playmates when she was a child; The lullaby sung beside the bed was the same... Mrs. Tanaka was gradually drawn into a strange world by the singing.

She saw many things—

Green grass, on the green hillside, her mother speaks softly to her who is still in the belly with her big belly; beside the golden wheat field, when she was young, she and her friends were chasing and fighting; How many times did she look at the figure of Tanaka in a trance in the youthful campus; at the romantic wedding, Tanaka leaned down to kiss her...

Everything is so beautiful, Mrs. Tanaka can't help showing a happy smile even in her dream.

After connecting all the good memories together, it is the so-called paradise.

However, in the next second, all the beautiful images disappeared, like a scene in a stage play was suddenly blacked out.All the puppets performing on the stage faded away their smiling expressions, and stretched their hands down on the stage expressionlessly.The only beam of light hit the doll, and the patches at the joints were fully exposed, showing traces of being torn apart and patched together.

Mrs. Tanaka hurriedly reached out to grab it, but the last beam of light disappeared without a trace.

In the space where you can't see your fingers, only the original singing still penetrates the thick darkness, but it is not as soft as before, but faintly floating in the ears, as if floating from hell, the voice of ghosts .Mrs. Tanaka shivered violently, and in the next second, she felt a pair of cold and slippery hands covering her shoulders.

Mrs. Tanaka's back stiffened and she wanted to turn her head subconsciously, but her body seemed to be controlled by something, and she didn't obey her control at all.

A cold breath blew from her ears, as if someone had blown into her cochlea. The cold breath was no less than the temperature of a dead person.Cold sweat dripped down unconsciously, Mrs. Tanaka felt that the person behind her was constantly approaching her, and the icy breath approached with the movement of the other person.

The soft touch touched the pinna, the temperature was still icy cold, but the pleasant voice was not as gentle and peaceful as that temperature: "Do you like these memories?"

——It was a girl's voice.

"like."

Mrs. Tanaka didn't want to speak, but the words ran out of her mouth disobediently.

The person behind smiled: "Your childhood, your youth, like others, had its own beauty, even though you didn't say it, you miss it very much, right?"

Mrs. Tanaka murmured: "Yes."

"Remember how you got together with Tanaka?"

"Remember……"

I remember, of course I remember, how good Tanaka was at that time is something she will never forget in her life-good grades, good personality, strong ability, and good looks, such Tanaka was always the school girls. In the end, Mrs. Tanaka chased her. This kind of good luck made many people turn red with jealousy.

The voice seemed to be sighing softly: "It's a pity that Tanaka doesn't like you."

Mrs. Tanaka trembled violently, she pursed her lips but could not utter a rebuttal sentence.

"You must remember the girl named 'Ya'," the voice was closer, almost whispering between lovers, "the person Tanaka likes is her."

...No, no!Tanaka, he likes me!

"You like Tanaka, you like it almost crazy, you like it so much that you want to drive away all the women who get in the way around him, just like driving away the flies that get in the way."

Ha... can't you?is it not OK?This is love!This is my most sincere and unreserved love for him!

"So you killed Ya, when you were a junior high school student."

Sharp memories crawled into my mind involuntarily like worms, struggling, screaming, crying, begging for mercy... All kinds of messy pictures kept repeating, repeating, repeating in my mind... Warm blood, soft Limbs, broken expression, slack pupils, all these are reflected in Mrs. Tanaka's eyes.

And she stood holding the knife on one side, covering her forehead with the other hand, smiling like a madman.

Back then, she killed the person Tanaka liked with her own hands, and then threw the body into the sea. Ya disappeared without a trace. Ya's relatives and friends always thought that Ya was missing, but after so many years, even though No matter how firm she was at the beginning, the belief that "she is still alive" has long since disappeared without a trace.

Mrs. Tanaka just took advantage of Tanaka's emotional trough and stepped in, and she stood by Tanaka's side logically, and she has stood by her side until today.

"Whether he loves you or not, you know best."

"You're jealous of everyone he loves."

"You killed everyone who wanted to get close to Tanaka, quietly threw their bodies into the sea, returned home and continued to dress up as the most good wife and mother, Tanaka's good wife," the voice seemed to carry something Like magic, the singing voice became high-pitched, stinging her ears like the chant of the Bible, "But in fact, you are jealous, jealous of everyone who can get Tanaka's gaze."

When all the truth was in front of her, Mrs. Tanaka calmed down instead, with crazy emotions burning quietly in her eyes, and the phoenix on fire was about to jump out.She evoked a smile: "Yeah, so what."

So what?

He is destined to have only me by his side!Anyone who wants to take him away deserves to die!Those people deserve it!

"Did you kill them all? You also know how many women he has raised outside?" The girl began to mock, "What kind of belief do you have in order to firmly believe that you can be the 'Mrs. Tanaka'? Location?"

no one can take it away...

"The best way to keep Tanaka by your side is to kill him, only the dead will obey obediently."

——Only the dead are obedient.

——Do you not want him to leave you?Cut off his legs.

——Don’t you want him to look at others with tender eyes?Goug out his eyes.

——Don’t you want him to talk sweet words to others?Pull out his tongue.

——Don’t you want him to have undeserved feelings for others?Imprison him, torture him, kill him, eat him, and then he will be yours completely and completely!

Come on, do it, only you are his favorite.

Mrs. Tanaka's pupils gradually dilated.

****

The business negotiation went smoothly, and Tanaka came back half a day earlier than expected.While on the road, there was a sudden gust of wind on a fine day, followed by a burst of rain. Finally, when we got home, the house that was supposed to be brightly lit was completely dark. Tanaka complained a few words and fumbled to turn on the light. No matter how many times, the light did not come on.

Looks like it's tripped?Tanaka thought for a while, then walked towards the living room, and bumped into a person within a few steps.

He staggered a few steps before he could stand still. Tanaka was startled. He hurriedly raised his mobile phone and looked at the person standing in front of him through the light on the screen. It was his wife whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Mrs. Tanaka.He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief like a deflated ball, with a rough voice and a very dissatisfied look: "What are you doing standing here in the middle of the night? How is the Florence I asked you to take care of?" ?”

no respond.

Raising his eyes strangely, Mrs. Tanaka's stiff expression looked ghostly in the dark. Tanaka's body trembled when he saw it, but he still maintained the look that the head of the family should have: "I'm asking you something, talk."

The line of sight moved down involuntarily, and the reflection of the shiny blade flashed under the light of the mobile phone.

After his eyes widened in disbelief, Mrs. Tanaka finally showed a gentle smile that made people creepy: "Ashin, I love you."

"—I love you so much that I want to kill you."

The thunder that exploded outside the window covered up the screams in the room, and the lightning as bright as daylight illuminated Mrs. Tanaka's crazy and satisfied expression, and illuminated the girl standing in the far corner of the room quietly watching all this.

The rain was heavier than before, and the cold air invaded the body, and it might not stop for a while.

Well, by the way, let's wash this filthy world.