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.

his name, so he had probably

boy. He wanted to see if this most primitive method would

turned to look at the mermaid and hesitated for a moment. The mermaid kept encouraging him. Finally, the boy

being cared so much for him. Philip patted him on the

workers came in to clean up and feed the fish. One of them saw

came over. He recognized the mermaid in the water tank and said with shining eyes,

look at him but felt the emotion the mermaid transmitted

it cost for us to buy your friend?” the

well-dressed monster in human skin in front of him coldly and said, “Call your manager over, that blond old

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

budge, the man said to

people had bad intentions, the boy crouched down in an attacking

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

of his father who often carried him on his back when he was a child, and his eyes began to turn red