148 Ch. 148 Nikens Plan (2/2)
Flynn smiled wryly at this. ”How long haven't we seen each other?”
”I think I just met you and Merylin yesterday.”
”Exactly. You feel like we met yesterday, whereas I… We haven't met for nearly five hundred years. A lot has changed, and I'm not the Flynn you once knew.”
Niken lowered her head with a sad heart. She had realized it but didn't want to admit it. She knew there were so many changes between the present and the previous years. But the happy memories with Merylin and silly Flynn still felt fresh in her mind. That's why she was not used to the silent and expressionless Flynn.
”So, what don't I know?”
”The royal throne of Mermaladia is not in the lake.”
”Wh… What? How is it possible? Did they take it too? ”
”Yes. A few days after you disappeared, the Elementalists teamed up to take the throne based on the lord's orders.”
”We have to take it back. Do you know where that throne is?”
”No, I don't. But I'm sure it's inside the current lord's underground chamber.”
”We have to tell Sir Lionel and the others. I'm sure they can help us regain the throne.”
Niken spontaneously rose to her feet to call the three men outside, but Flynn prevented her from walking with a severe grimace.
”We can't trust them. The pureblood wizard was the one who poisoned the lake with dark force. He is that mixed-blood's father.”
Niken was shocked beyond words to hear this. ”That... that's ridiculous!”
”The one who made me a pet slave is also that mix-blood wizard family.” continued Flynn with a disgusted tone in his voice. ”They will not help us because they would be at a disadvantage if the mermaid kingdom is back to its glory. The current lord wouldn't let it happen.”
”Why? Why this country's lord was so cruel?”
Flynn smiled sarcastically as he answered Niken's question, ”The current lord is many times worse than five hundred years ago. He tortured the remaining mermaids to extract the mermaid's tears, and they were skinned alive to sell the scales as food before they were left to die.”
Niken was shocked to the bone at this news. Niken was only staying with Merylin and the other mermaids for a week, but Niken still felt furious hearing someone so viciously tortured and killed the mermaid.
Niken ball her hands into fists as she felt an enormous emotion wrestling inside her chest.
”Flynn, no matter who becomes my enemy, I will still fulfill my promise to Merylin. If there are still mermaids being detained, I will also save them. For that, I need your help as well as others. I can't do it alone — we can't do it alone, and you know that.”
”...”
”Don't worry. Sir Lionel and Kazuto are people who can be trusted, while sir Zehell ... I also want to believe him because he is my man's master. So try to trust him.”
Flynn still did not respond to Niken's proposal, but he did not deny or reject the girl's suggestion. Niken couldn't find any lively sparkle from the daemon's eyes. It felt as if the daemon had become a dead body possessed by the evil spirit.
It was very worrisome.