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.

write his name, so he had probably lived with the merfolk for more

open to the boy. He wanted

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

ten years that another human being cared so much for him. Philip patted him on the back

clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw Philip and the two creatures and quickly reported this matter to his

He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes, “My

felt the emotion the

will it cost for us to buy your friend?”

of him coldly and said, “Call

isn’t on duty today, and you don’t call the shots here. Trespassing on private premises makes you look like a terrorist

that Philip refused to budge, the man said to the people

those people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down

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

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