The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 192
The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 192
To be honest, I wanted to kill this demonic Nazi who had destroyed my academic career and my future. However, even as I aimed my gun at his head, I realized that murder was not as simple as it seemed, and that I couldn‟t be a cold-blooded killer.
My hand was shaking even as I unlocked the gun‟s safety and shoved the barrel at his temple. I knew how much trouble this man would be if I didn‟t resolve myself to kill him, but I restrained myself because I could hear the occasional movement outside.
The soldiers outside would definitely hear it if I fired my gun. Once they rushed in to find that I had killed Gary, they would definitely double their guard on me, and there was no chance for me to escape.
Indeed, I felt relief when I realized that I didn‟t have to kill. Then, to ensure that Gary would be out for a while longer, I bludgeoned his head heavily with the butt of my gun, before picking up the syringe just now and injecting him with the sedative.
“Enjoy your rare moment of respite, Gary.“
I kicked him and hit the gun on my hip, looked outside the window, and waited for the right moment.
It was midnight, and as the patrolling soldiers nearby appeared drowsy, I kicked open the window and climbed out agilely like a monkey, and landed softly on the deck.
I was stunned right then by what I saw beneath my feet.
There was a glass deck over the cargo hold, inside of which contained countless captured merpeople —the ones I saw being captured.
What surprised me more than that was who I found among them. The girl whom Bob had been using—a mermaid, to be precise—was right beneath me, and I was sure that she must have turned into a mermaid like I had.
She clearly noticed me, and was pushing against the glass to stare at me warily, but as I leaned down to meet her gaze, her eyes suddenly widened, before she put up a hopeful and respectful look. She pressed her paw against the glass, as if begging for me to release her.
I looked around. The darkness just happened to cover my figure, and I dropped prone to study the handle of the cargo hold, which was secured by a gigantic metallic lock.
Taking out Gary‟s keys, I tried every single one, but somehow there wasn‟t a single one that fit.
Right now, there was no option other than to break the glass, but causing a major disturbance like that would definitely draw the attention of the soldiers. A t that point, I would be able to free a few merpeople a t best before the armed guards shot me dead.
Be that as it may, I wasn‟t familiar enough with the layout of Lemenland, and needed at least one merperson to help me find Kalimadi and act as a translator.
That was why the best idea right now was to free the mermaid in front of me. Since she used to be a human before, she could talk to me, and we could help each other out since she also knew that Bob and the others were conspiring.
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