Chapter 62 I love you, whether you are human or mermaid
Ariel's room in the palace.
Ariel, the mermaid princess, waits tremblingly for the arrival of the victorious soothsayer, the sage of the Kingdom of Lolth who is responsible for revealing her life experience.
Her slender little hands were stroking, her heart was pounding, and her newborn feet kept rubbing against the ground, as if she was about to step onto the execution ground.
"Ariel!" The prince pushed open the door and hugged her in his arms.
He hugged her so tightly that he didn't dare to let go for a moment, as if the other person would disappear if he relaxed a little - because the prince knew that she was also so tight when she hugged him on that nightmare night when the storm was raging.
"My girl, I know, I know it all, I know all the things I should know - and my God I didn't know them until today!"
The prince was so excited that he could not speak coherently. He wanted to say something but didn't know where to start.
Ariel was so confused that she didn't understand what the prince meant at all. She felt her face was a little moist, and then realized that it was the prince's hot tears that were stuck to her face.
"My Highness, what did you say? What do you know?" Ariel was excited and panicked.
The next moment, she suddenly realized that what the prince called out when he entered was her name "Ariel", her real name when she was the princess of the sea kingdom.
——This was the first time she heard the prince call her name since they met.
"Ariel, that foreign magician told me everything about you. I know your life experience and that you are a mermaid in the sea and a princess! Hahahaha, I said it when I first met you, you look like A princess from a foreign country, I guessed it right.”
"I saw the mermaid kingdom under the sea, your father and sisters, and the majestic palace under the sea - your kingdom in the sea is much more beautiful than the kingdom on land. An ordinary pearl decorating the palace is just More round and beautiful than the jewels in my mother’s crown.”
"I know you were the one who saved me on that stormy night. You are the girl I have longed for, the girl who saved me!"
"I also know what kind of risks you took in order to walk on this land and grow this ugly, deformed pillar of human flesh!"
"..."
The prince was talking incoherently, wanting to tell everything he knew to prove to the girl in front of him that he finally understood her and had the qualifications to be with her.
"So, you know everything? You know it in such detail. Your Highness Eric, my Highness!" Ariel was so surprised that she could not speak.
She felt her cheeks were wetter than before. But this time, it was her own tears that wet her face.
Ariel couldn't help but think:
"Who is that foreign sage? What a great magician he is. He can actually reveal all my past. He can even peek into the kingdom of the sea under the waves!"
"The magician hasn't seen me yet?"
She hugged Prince Eric's neck and stroked the handsome boy's face with her fair and slender hands. She stared at the prince's dark and shiny eyes and said word by word:
"My Lord, after knowing that I am a mermaid, don't you discriminate against me? Don't you fear me? I am not even a human being, just a monster from the deep sea. In your world, mermaids are regarded as the embodiment of shipwrecks .”
"Of course not," the prince said tremblingly, "I have known for a long time that those are all rumors slandering you and your people!"
He didn't say he found out today.
"What's the difference between humans on the ground and mermaids in the deep palace? What distinguishes races is just the physical structure, but what determines whether we can be together is the resonance of our hearts!" The prince hugged Ariel tighter, "Everyone in this palace is a member of my race, but no one is more similar to me than you. From my father, , to the princes and ministers who flatter me duplicitously, all they focus on are things that I am not interested in. But you are different from them, you will discuss the romantic stories in the novel with me, and talk to me about my hunting in the forest. Passed. Because we are all romantic children, not those adults.”
Before the choking Ariel could reply, the prince kissed her lips:
"I love you, my girl, my princess, my Ariel!
"Whether you are a human or a mermaid, whether you have a fish tail or legs, I love you! Let us be together and never be apart forever.
"I will walk into the marriage hall with you, in the presence of a priest, put my hand on your chest, and pour all my affection and love into you. In this way, you can get an immortal soul.
"Dedicating an immortal soul as a gift to your lover, even if I exhaust all the stories, epics and fairy tales I have read, there is nothing more romantic than this!"
He kissed the girl's long and beautiful eyelashes again, and the girl kissed him too.
"Finding a suitable time, I will go to see my father and ask him to allow us to be together." Prince Eric said.
"But how should you describe my life experience to your father?" Ariel worried, "Even if you can accept me, will your father allow you to marry a mermaid from the deep sea?"
"I will try hard to convince him!" the prince said in a very firm tone, "I don't want to marry the princess of Ender and make an eternal vow with a person I never know! I will not fall in love with her, I only love her. You, my princess.”
At this moment, the prince cast his eyes behind Ariel and saw the young man's figure at the open door.
"You're here, your esteemed magician!" the prince said excitedly.
"Ariel, turn around and look at him. It's him who lets me know you so well, and he tells me everything I should know. Let's thank him!"
Ariel was a little nervous and apprehensive, and slowly turned her head. "What will the final winner of the soothsayer assessment, the sage of the Kingdom of Rose, the powerful magician who can reveal my identity be like?"
"Will it be an old man with gray hair and a beard?"
The mermaid princess's head turned completely.
Reflected in his pupils was a boy wearing a light-colored cloak who looked like he had stepped out of a fairy tale book. She saw his bright silver short hair wrapped in a hood, his delicate face, pale and almost translucent skin, and eyes with a cold light.
Ariel's mouth opened wide and she almost screamed.
That foreign sage and great magician was actually him!
The human friend she just met not long ago, the kind-hearted magician who allowed her to grow human legs and land on land!
No wonder, no wonder he knew so much... Ariel understood everything instantly.
Rhine waved to his mermaid friend, put a finger on his lips and made a "shh" gesture.
The mermaid princess immediately closed her mouth and pretended that she had never seen Rhine before.
Seeing the prince on the ground and the princess in the sea hugging each other tightly, Rhine smiled.
This warm scene feels like eternity.
Of course, after a while, this beautiful silence was interrupted by the sound of voices outside:
"His Royal Highness, the envoy from Ende is here. His Majesty the King asked you to go to the hall quickly and said that he wanted to discuss your marriage with Princess Ende.
"Also, His Majesty reminds you to bring that amnesia girl with a beautiful singing voice. She will be responsible for singing a song for Ender's mission!"
End Germany!
Upon hearing this enemy country that had invaded the Rose Kingdom, both Rhine and Aurora, who had just walked in from the door, raised their eyebrows.
As far as Rhine knew, Ender was one of the countries with the most powerful military power on the Western continent.
And their mighty warships on the sea are more famous than their cavalry and chariots on the ground.
This empire robbed its neighbors like a bandit, plundering materials and land. Their royal pirates took the privateering license issued by the royal family and dominated the sea, plundering the merchant ships of all countries except their allies.
Ende deliberately spread the truth about the curse, plunging the Kingdom of Rose into civil strife, and took advantage of it. Aurora has always held a grudge against this.
Although Aurora, as the commander-in-chief, finally defeated the invaders, she only defeated one of the troops. Ender realized that the war was unprofitable, so he naturally retreated. It does not mean that the Kingdom of Rose has the ability to fight against such a powerful military empire.
Moreover, in that war, not only Aurora, who charged in as the commander-in-chief and stabilized the morale of the army, and the three big dogs summoned by the tinder box participated in the battle, whether it was Rhine, the sage of the kingdom, or the 12 good witches, more or less Help was provided more or less, explicitly or covertly.
In such a fantasy magical world with supernatural powers, if Ende can become a powerful empire that dominates and is feared by other countries, it must have its own super warriors and magicians. But in that small-scale war, none of them appeared.
"I'm sorry, Dear Magician, Ariel and I have to go to receive the delegation from Ender, and we are temporarily unable to entertain you."
The prince arranged for his subordinates to prepare a luxurious guest room for Rhine and Aurora in the palace, and then hurriedly led Ariel away.
Just by seeing the worried look on the prince's face when he and Ariel left, Rhine knew that to successfully bring the two together, it was not enough for the prince to be in love.
A member of the royal family cannot choose whom to marry at will.
Aurora sighed:
"It is said that the marriage partner arranged by the King of West Asia for Prince Eric is Princess Ender. How could such a thing happen? Why is Ariel so unlucky?"
She looked at Rhine again:
"Teacher. Since Prince Eric's father, the king of the Kingdom of West Asia, is particularly interested in Ariel's singing, is it possible that he will agree to her marriage to the prince?"
Rhine shook his head:
"The king does not need to be bound by marriage to keep Ariel in the palace to serve him - at least he thinks so. If he wants to get His Majesty the King to agree to this marriage, Ariel must prove that she is better than German princesses have greater political value ”
"Sure enough, it's not enough for Prince Eric to know Ariel's mermaid identity, understand her, and accept her." Aurora said slightly sentimentally.
She doesn't know when she started, but she has become more and more concerned about Ariel's future. From the bottom of her heart, she doesn't want her mermaid friend's heart to break and turn into foam in the sea.
Aurora seemed to have thought of something and asked again:
"Teacher, do we need to avoid Ender's mission? Will they come to us and cause trouble?"
(End of chapter)