The First Heir

Seeing that the distance between them was quite appropriate, Philip took out a notebook. With a pen, he drew waves and a few figures that seemed like merpeople on it.

The mermaid became excited, but the boy did not react much.

Was the boy not a merman?

Philip slid his pen and notebook across the floor.

The boy picked them up and started to draw as Philip did. His drawing was quite sloppy, but Philip could still see a few key things, such as the symbol for highly toxic chemicals and a few words that were vague but still legible, which spelled Sammy.

Philip called out tentatively, “Sammy?”

The boy looked up at Philip, his tears uncontrollable. The message contained in those eyes included pain, loneliness, indignity, and deep homesickness.

Philip had some idea now. This boy probably became like this after being exposed to toxic substances. As for knowing the merpeople’s language, he was probably taken in by the merfolk.

and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for more than ten

down and spread his arms open to the boy. He wanted

to look at the mermaid and hesitated for a moment. The mermaid kept encouraging him.

years that another human being cared so much for him.

clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw Philip and the two creatures

the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes, “My friend, thank you for giving

at him but felt

will it cost for us to

in front of him coldly and said, “Call your manager over,

today, and you don’t call the shots here. Trespassing on

Philip refused to budge, the man said to the people around, “Tie

down

stood in front of the boy, and

him reminded the boy of his father who often carried him on his back when he was a child, and his eyes began