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.

he had probably lived with the merfolk

open to the boy. He wanted to

moment. The mermaid kept encouraging him.

so much for him. Philip patted him on the back and comforted him. The teenager hugged Philip tightly

while, the aquarium was opened. Some workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them

a skinny man came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank

but felt

case, how much will it cost for us to buy your friend?” the man said, not

the well-dressed monster in human skin in front of him coldly and said,

man waved his hand and said, “The manager isn’t on duty today, and you don’t call the shots here. Trespassing on

the man said to the people

that those people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down in an attacking pose, intimidating

took a step forward, stood in front of the boy, and said loudly, “Let’s see

boy of his father who often carried him on his back when