Chapter 197 (1/2)
Chapter 197
Whenever she laid on top of Riftan’s chest, she felt so close to hied to become one His soft breath tickled the top of her head, and the pounding of his heart against her chest fest as if it was her own At that er live without him, her heart desired to possess him completely She needed Riftan,its oodbye drew closer with tiht”
Riftan, who returned fro with the captain, instructed her with a serious expression Max was sitting on the bed, reading a book, and looked up at him in surprise
Riftan walked over to the where his ar for days now and wore theht
“W-what happened?”
“It’s nothing, I’er”
“D-Danger?”
Riftan tightened his belt and fastened the cuirass, then turned to her and frohen he saw her He sighed and touched her face which had a pale coh a cove of sirens If we aren’t fortunate, a battle ht erupt”
Max sed hard and her throat felt tight Sirens werethe souls of sailors with their seductive voices She had cos had been lately
Riftan fastened his scabbard around his waist and left the rooh the bookshelves and peered out of the porthole On the silver horizon, a thick veil of h the Siren’s Cove right now? Max wondered as she looked up at the tall ivory rocks covered in moss Her spine shook and she closed the porthole Contrary to what they feared, there were no sirens that appeared even as the shi+p passed between the rocks of the cove
Max relaxed a bit and sat back to read her book; however, she could not focus and understand the words she read For a long tih folk tales, which she read twice passively She was overwhel and slipped out of the cabin Then, she heard faint voices singing froht be the tantalizing calls of the sirens, she walked towards the sound As she got closer, the song became clearer, and her tensed shoulders relaxed It was the voices of the sailors singing Unable to overcome her curiosity, Max hurriedlyvoices of the sailors echoed loudly over the reddish sunset lit deck Theropes and adjusting the sails while they sang in chorus, briskly sto their feet to a rhythm
♫ ♪ ♫
Hey-ya, hey-ya, row the oars
Through the waves high as Mt Taesan, we’ll sail to the end of this sea
To the place where the sun sleeps,
To the end of the shi+ning horizon where Adrina’s Pardise h a typhoon hits, no one can stop us
Hey-ya, hey-ya, row the oars
We’ll sail to the end of this sea!
♪ ♫ ♪
Max was puzzled at the booht in ars spotted Max and strode towards her She recognized hiht named Jacque Briman He looked at her with a serious expression and calmly reprimanded her
“Lady Calypse, you shouldn’t be wandering alone”
“I-I know It’s just… I heard the s-singing and… I ondering as going on”
The knights squinted at the singing sailors “It is said that this is the s of the sirens and prevent sailors fro the shi+p into the reefs They will be singing all night long until we pass safely through the siren’s territories”
“All… all night?”
Max’s eyes widened and the young knight smiled bitterly “I understand it’s very loud, but please endure it We must put safety as our top priority It is said that if they continue singing loudly, not only sirens, but mermen as on’t approach near our shi+p”
“I s-see”
Max gazed out at the bright red sea that sparkled gold, as she listened to the roar of the ht explained, with such powerful voices the captivating songs of the sirens would unlikely be heard
Max returned to her cabin while the sailors continued to sing even after the sun had set She ate the food one of the servants brought her as she listened to the loud singing The song was crude and could never be called sweet, but the sailors’ lively voicesserved to cal herto sleep However, as she sank deeper into the night, her mind only becaht, and when the bluish glow of dawn peeked in, she immediately jumped out of bed and ran onto the deck
The sailors still sang to the melodies played on shaw awake all night long that they didn’t sing as loudly as the day before Max quietly listened to thein the dark and turned around from the deck and headed to the shi+p’s stern
There, she saw sailors sitting in theoverturned wooden crates as chairs The knights, on the other hand, guarded the railings and had quivers strapped to their back, filled with long arrows
Max looked around and saw Riftan a them, then walked away However, as if Riftan had felt her presence, he turned his head around and frohen he saw her, then followed Max
“Why are you already out here? It’s still not safe yet”
Max was startled with his sudden approach, then snuggled closely next to hi out at the dark sea At a distance, above the roaring waves, were high rocks surrounded by a thick mist
“Even if… we’re this far… it’s still not s-safe?”
“There’s no way to knoe are safe There are rare cases when shi+ps get chased…”
“Don’t be so uptight, Commander Even if they do chase us, there will be no proble with ours”
Hebaron, as leaning against the railings, suddenly intervened He yawned loudly and indiscreetly, and smiledall night to the loud voices ofto say? I need to clean entle voice”