My heart swelled up with hot emotions. I subconsciously latched onto his waist, inhaling his scent deeply. No matter how strong the water current was, nor how much my arms ached, I wasnât going to let go. Whether he remembered me or not, this was still my Agares. There was nothing anyone could do to tear him from my side, be it time or space, disaster or war. Even if it was the end of the worldââ
So what of it? We have crossed the entire ocean to be with each other. We have mixed our flesh and souls to love each other. Even if in the end we werenât able to walk together, to spend such a moment like right now together, then there was nothing to regret. 4AldOE
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Even though I knew this happened in the past, an uncontainable and indescribable anger still rose from the bottom of my heart. I wholeheartedly sympathize with Yukimura, but I still loathe Shinichi and their cruel behaviours. Agares dragged me to a particular spot at the side of the reef and stopped. Leaning against the reefâs tilted surface, he turned his body to face upwards, looking up to the sky while taking in a few rough breaths.
His angular face was drawn tightly, pain expressed clearly on his wet face. My nerves jumped, looking down I discovered that under the water surface, his webbed claws held onto the left side of his tail. Blue blood diffused into the water around, dying a small part of the water. YfKbri
âYou⌠are hurt?â I hurriedly pushed away his webbed claws and looked down to carefully inspect his body, only to see a ghastly rupture. The originally close-knitted overlapping fish scales were now sticking up like a broken tooth. The messed up flesh inside had gotten burned so badly, you could even see the outline of his bones. Never have I encountered something that could injure Agaresâs tail to this extent. This was definitely from a bomb. I suddenly recalled the scene where Agares had been protecting me while shuttling through the sea of explosions. He had used his body to block the falling wreckage, so I could be unscathed.
âHow hateful!â I cursed with distress in my heart. I clenched my fist and lowered my head into the water, approaching his wound with gentle caution. The second my mouth touched his tail, Agares tensed up his abdomen. His sturdy muscles instantly formed into a physical armor and the end of his caudal tail suddenly rose up. I could sense that circular sector murder weapon pressing against my back. Ice-cold water trickled down my spine as if silently warning me that if I still dared to cross the line, he would cut off my head.
This situation resembled how I would usually treat him, but his reaction was completely different. I looked into his eyes that were brimming with hostility, and my heart constricted. I took in a deep and heavy breath and bit my lower lip. âWhether or not youâre going to kill me, I will continue to treat your wound.â
That being said, I continued to lower my head, plastering my lips onto his wounds without any hesitation. Extending my tongue, I slowly licked at his exposed flesh underneath his fish scales. At the same time, I could feel Agares webbed claws pressing onto my head and his sharp fingernails grazing the nape of my neck. The sharp pointed end of his caudal fin was still aimed at my spine, and it seemingly brushed past my skin, leaving behind a trail of tingling pain. He could still kill me at a momentâs notice, but he apparently seemed to not harbour any of that sort of intention. TDGgx2
Agares once had absolute trust in me, he would expose his most vulnerable flaws to me, letting me look at his formidable side as well as showing me his frail side. I believed that I could make him trust me againâto make him love me again.
When he came looking for me in the sea of explosions, I felt confident in this belief again.
As if for the purpose of proving this, I sensed Agares lowering his caudal fin, moving it around the reef about a few inches before sitting upright, in order to show the wound above the water for a more convenient treatment. I corresponded by propping up his big tail. My tongue licked across his wound, sunk into it and sucked out the flesh where it had been scorched. I cleaned the place bit by bit, since Agares was hurting so much that he was irritable and uneasy. I could clearly feel his vigorous body trembling, and was swallowing a low hiss with an unknown meaning, yet he didnât lift a hand to hurt me again. I thought, âAha, this is worthy of celebration, I finally took a step forward in the plan of âHow to get Agaresâ.â
Under my careful administratives, gradually a protective layer of membrane formed over his lacerated wound, forming new fish scales like scabs under the old and damaged scales. One could tell the wound would heal up quickly. Yet I didnât know whether these newly formed scales would be blown away after a single strike, like how a snake would be when it had just shed its skin. That would be very bad. I inspected the new scales like a professional doctor. Extending my hands to touch his scales, they were indeed soft, caving in just by touching it gently. I glanced at him with worry, âThis thing, how long must you wait until it returns to normal?â pIDxhJ
âVery fast.â Agares stared at me. I wasnât sure if it was my imagination or not, but a flicker of tenderness flashed in his eyes. I held onto this glimmering feeling and slowly climbed the reef on edge. Only after seeing that he didnât have much of a reaction then did I give a small sigh of relief and lay beside him like a cat who was guarding his food. And perhaps it was because my actions were too comical that Agares looked at me through half-lidded eyes, with interest shining in them. Like a monarch bestowing a reward to his subject, Agares placed his webbed claw on my back and gave a couple gentle pats. However his eyes were drifting down my back, like he had finally taken interest in my ass.
My ears felt somewhat hot, and my heart beated wildly. I daringly shifted a little closer to his body by a few inches. Then I stretched my hands out like a thief and placed it on his chest, cold sweat appearing on my back. However, Agares didnât seem to pay heed to my actions, he only just continued to look ahead at those soldiers who were carrying around the younglings, causing his fishtail to lightly tap against the reef with anxiety. I pressed his shoulders and whispered into his ear, âWe canât move for now. The human armies are fighting. We can wait until they cease fire to secretly enter.â
Agares was silent, giving me no response. He just laid on his back, his eyes half opened, only exposing two deep cracks, and looked up to the sky. It was like he was thinking about something, perhaps conjuring up some sort of plan.
I slightly propped up my body and looked around the bright red horizon that surrounded the island. Blazing and flickering, the haze-like smoke enshrouded the entire cape. The whole place was full of hissing which came from the aircrafts and the booming sound of gunfire. Apparently, it seemed that only the reef we were situated at behind the cliff was a safe area. In such a battle, for us to just rush into battle and confront those troops would only be a road to ruin. If this island was really Iwo Jima, it would definitely be littered with Japanese firepower. Even the U.S. plane was supposedly taken down without a hitch, let alone with just me and Agaresâit was simply biting off more than what we could chew. It was clear that he was also aware of this. If only the future Agares who had already experienced all of this were hereâthings would be much easier. qz4E5h
Right now was an opportunity that was hard to come by, I know I have to seize the momentââdamn it, I had to set aside my pride and give it my allâŚFacing a guy like him, having pride, this annoying thing, was absolutely unnecessary.
So with this train of thought, I softly and quietly gripped onto his wrist, placing my chin onto his shoulder. Agares immediately lowered his head, his eyelids hung low while staring at my face. However, he didnât shake me off like he did so many times before, this was a sign. I held my breath and placed his wide and clearly pointy webbed claws onto my cheek, slowly sliding them down my neck to my chest. As I gazed steadily at him while doing so, I stretched my tongue out to lick my lips.
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His eyes widened a little. Reflected in his pupils were the distant soaring of flames of the ongoing war. His breathing had also clearly become erratic. He turned over his webbed claws to hook my wrist, however, he made no movements to stop me from going down but instead he pulled my hand closer to his nose, carefully smelling it sniff by sniff. He gave a cautious and prudent expressionâthat of a child who was eating a honey cake for the first time but was unable to hide his excitement.
I had the sudden realization that before meeting me, Agares really was a pitiful âOld Monk Fish.â No wonder why he had such a big reaction when I approached him. He had never touched a human being before, and that was why he held such a hungry and thirst crazed expression back at the deep sea laboratory. Agares once told me before that he would only enter entrus when he dispersed his merfolk spores. Therefore, perhaps he couldnât mate before that, like it was a special taboo for him as a leader. He must have held it in for a few hundred years⌠Oh my God! OGAjtH
I joyfully rejoiced and resisted the urge to laugh. I approached his ears and whispered, âHey, how about you let me comfort youâŚâ
Hoi guys, sorry for the late update and thanks for being patient with us ;-;Unfortunately I wasnât able to complete the whole thing so we spilt it into two parts, the first part being this. However, the second part would be uploaded tomorrow, so do stay tune! Thanks for waiting <3 *The next part is gonna be kinda nsfw, or very..?*The chapter would be heavily unedited for now, however it has only been looked through for plot line sake so nothingâs out of place.\n