In the morning, Nobi Hiroshi woke up from the warm embrace of the young girl, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and got out of bed to put on his clothes.
He was a bit too energetic, but Tian Mei had played too late last night, and he certainly didn't want to trouble her, so he had to find Madam Jingyu to help remove the morning sun's fire.
"Phew, refreshed. I'll go back and treat myself to a good meal."
"On a day like this, can we have a barbecue in the yard? I hope it doesn't rain later."
Looking up at the cloudy sky, Nobi Hiroshi mumbled softly as he walked out the door.
He bought some barbecue sauce and skewers on the street and happily headed home.
Passing by the empty lot, Xiao Fu and Zheng Tai were sitting on a concrete pipe, chatting about something.
"That's how it is, it's truly incredible, a shark actually flying in the air…"
Zheng Tai recounted his experience from last night with a horrified expression, gesticulating with his hands and talking incessantly, a drop of cold sweat on his temple.
"Zheng Tai, I think you had a nightmare. If there really was a shark, you would have been eaten long ago. How could you still be sitting here?"
Xiao Fu bit into his ice cream, looking at Zheng Tai speechlessly, certain that he must have been hallucinating from too much stimulation.
He had seen Zheng Tai secretly stimulating himself in the corner of the school before, so something must have gone wrong.
"It wasn't a dream! I really saw a shark, and it was that big!"
Zheng Tai still insisted on his point of view, but after seeing the ice cream with greedy eyes, he changed his tone: "Ahem… Xiao Fu, your ice cream looks so delicious."
"No way, this is a limited edition ice cream my mom bought me, I can't give it to you."
"Don't be so stingy, just let me have one bite, just a small bite."
"Let go, Zheng Tai, my ice cream! Half of it was bitten off in one go, boo hoo hoo!"
Poor Xiao Fu was bullied again.
Enemies always meet. Nobi Hiroshi glanced indifferently, then continued to walk, returning to Nobi.
In the basin in the bathroom were the crabs, lobsters, squid, hairtail, sea bream, and unknown fish caught yesterday.
They would die if not eaten soon.
Therefore, for their sake, he could only reluctantly put them into his stomach.
"I love eating lobsters and crabs, after eating them I feel so good I'm going to heaven…"
Singing a similar tune to a certain scholar, Nobi Hiroshi brought out a wire rack and charcoal, set up a grill, and prepared for a barbecue in the yard.
Yuzi wanted to help, but he refused. Barbecuing just feels better when you grill it yourself.
Brushing oil on one side, sprinkling cumin, then brushing seafood sauce and chili powder, it was perfect.
Although the operation was a bit unskillful, causing the seafood to be slightly burnt, it was all harmless, the main thing was self-satisfaction.
"Delicious! Delicious!"
After finishing the small seafood, Nobi Hiroshi patted his stomach contentedly, tidied up the mess with his telekinesis, and prepared to go back to his room for a nap.
But the corner of his eye seemed to catch something. The bushes under the big tree in the courtyard emitted a faint rustling sound.
"Hey, what's that…"
Zheng Tai curiously peered over. On the bushes, a small and cute fishtail came into view, followed by gently bulging hills, and further up was blue hair, and an exquisitely delicate and beautiful face appeared vividly.
"A… mermaid!"
"How did she get here?"
"Thanks to nature's bounty, but… can this tail be eaten?"
He reached out and touched the delicate tail. There was no unpleasant fishy smell, and like a normal young girl, she carried a faint body fragrance.
Nobi Hiroshi got addicted to touching it. The cool scales were incredibly smooth.
However, she seemed to be injured. There were bloodstains on her wrist and near her cheek. She must have fallen from the top of the branch above.
Do mermaids fly these days?
"A mermaid, but unfortunately, only the tail."
"Forget it, meeting is fate. Even without legs, she can still repay me."
Withdrawing his hand from exploring the fishtail, Nobi Hiroshi carefully picked up the unconscious mermaid.
Her body was very light; holding her didn't feel heavy at all, but rather made him feel more energetic.
It was like a ton of gold and a ton of rocks; you couldn't lift either, but you would still choose to lift the ton of gold.
Back in his room, he took out the futon from the closet and spread it out. Nobi Hiroshi carefully placed the mermaid on his bed.
He was just about to look for the iodine and cotton swabs in the cabinet when a magical scene suddenly appeared!
Her original fishtail had somehow transformed into human legs, tender, slender, and petite, truly top-grade ingredients.
Now he had no choice but to save her.
Although the mermaid tail was also beautiful, it ultimately couldn't compare to beautiful legs like tender lotus roots.
Most importantly, with legs, she could do some meaningful things.
"Ahem… see no evil…"
Nobi Hiroshi carefully helped the mermaid treat her wounds and wrapped them with bandages, but his eyes always involuntarily looked at places other than the wounds.
The fishtail turned into legs, so… naturally, she was bare, and like her blue hair, the grass was shallow, so the horse's hooves were not submerged.
As expected of the two-dimensional world, in the real world, there would certainly be no natural ones, and even if there were, they would be dyed with pigments.
"Hmmph~"
The unconscious girl let out a muffled grunt from her nose, perhaps the pain stimulated the wound, and slowly opened her blue eyes.
The beautiful stranger was wrapping her in white cloth, and the girl's mind instantly cleared, her eyes filled with vigilance.
Out of instinct, she pushed Nobi Hiroshi away and rewarded him with a jade bamboo flying kick.
Zheng Tai, who had no time to react, only felt his chest sink, and he flew backward, hitting the bookshelf and sitting down, books falling all over him, and in the blink of an eye, he was submerged in a sea of books.
"Ouch, damn it…"
Emerging from the books, Nobi Hiroshi couldn't help but curse. It truly was a case of no good deed going unpunished; he had been beaten for no reason.
Perhaps it was because he ate jade feet every day that he finally suffered a backlash today.
Though it didn't hurt much when she kicked him.
"Gulu Nano, Wu Nage Yi Yo?" (Who are you, where is this?)
The awakened mermaid adopted a fighting stance, speaking in a completely incomprehensible language, looking down at Nobi Hiroshi.
Hmm, just enough to see a beautiful sight.
Especially with her legs positioned one in front of the other, the gap widened, and everything was fully exposed.
"Hey, Miss Mermaid, I just saved you, you know? Is this how you repay (reward) me after waking up?"
Standing up by leaning on the bookshelf, Nobi Hiroshi tried to communicate with her, but unfortunately, their languages remained incompatible; it was like talking to a brick wall.
However, fortunately, the girl did not launch another attack. Looking at the gauze in her hand and her wounds, she finally understood what was going on.
"Mo Ying Luo, Duo Ga Li Ya." (Thank you for helping me, I'm really sorry about earlier.)
The mermaid girl bowed respectfully as if apologizing, her two blue twin ponytails swaying up and down with her head.
I think I understand your apology, but… could you please find some pants to wear! Isn't staying like this just tempting people to make mistakes?
"Alright, you…"
Nobi Hiroshi subtly changed the subject, trying to continue the conversation, but before he could finish speaking, the girl collapsed onto the floor again.
"Jiu~ Jiu~" (Water~ Water~)
Her nimble brows furrowed, and one hand clutched and twisted Hiroshi's collar, her expression looking extremely pained.
"What's wrong with you? Let me think!"
"Mermaid! Mermaid!"
"You need water! Right?"
A light bulb went off, and Hiroshi quickly ran downstairs, grabbed a cup full of water, and rushed back up.
The girl, as if seeing a savior, snatched the cup and drank the water in large gulps.
"Gulp… gulp…"