Chapter 40 part1 (2/2)
“I don’t want Gale to be taken away, I don’t want you gone. You mustn’t ever think that I would want you gone.”
Knowing that the mermaid cub must have overheard and understood Zarad’s remarks just now, Xie Tao slowly said this. As he explained, he extended a finger and extremely gently wiped away the tear tracks on the cub’s small cheeks.
Golden tears, that at the time had not yet turned into crystals, had left wet marks on the little cub’s delicate face. Even though the cub had now stopped crying, his eyes were still glazed over and a glittering tear rested in the corner of his eyes, on the brink of falling. Unless they were heartless people, seeing the mermaid cub’s current appearance would without a doubt soften people’s hearts.
After witnessing the cub’s reaction, Zarad no longer had any doubts about keeping the cub. Previously he had just considered the possibility that once the mermaid cub grew up and understood the allure of power and wealth, then he might want to return to the Houdie family.
However seeing how the little mermaid was so afraid that the youth would not want him, showing such an intense reaction and even being able to pronounce the word because of it— Zarad was convinced that the cub would much rather grow up with the youth as his parent than having the position as master of the Houdie family in the future.
Originally, when he had said those words, Zarad had just considered the cub’s best interest and objectively analyzed the situation. But watching the cub cry so pitifully and how the youth was patiently coaxing him, Zarad could not help but feel guilty for a second.
He really didn’t want the cub to cry. He hadn’t expected that… the cub actually could understand him. Although he might not necessarily have understood it completely, it seemed that he certainly understood a part of it… enough of it…
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Translator’s note:
Many thanks to anon (mysterious spirit) for the coffees! ????????
As the majority of you felt that the font size was a bit too small I have changed it to 17 px like Superum suggested. It’s a little smaller than originally but larger than last week (had it on 15px).
On another note, I will be publishing some things later tonight or possibly tomorrow. A translator’s website got shut down a while back and as I saved some of their translations for my own offline reading, I plan to upload them as I don’t want their hard work to go to waste.
(I will give you more information later, for now I will just say that I have marked my blog as mature in preparation for this so if you didn’t get a chance to read them while they were up, you have something to look forward to~~)