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.

years old, and he could only write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for more than ten years. He was

to the boy.

moment. The mermaid kept encouraging him. Finally, the boy could

be the first time in more than ten years that another human being cared so much for him. Philip patted him on the back and comforted him. The

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

skinny man came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining

but felt

us to buy your friend?” the man said, not giving

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

and you don’t call the shots here. Trespassing on private premises makes you look

to budge, the man

people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down in an attacking pose, intimidating the people approaching him

stood in front of the boy, and said loudly, “Let’s see who dares

carried him on his back when he was a child, and his eyes