Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure - Chapter 1961

"There’s nothing wrong with those people."

The Merman King had sent his people to watch over the other races after what I told him.

During this time, there wasn’t a single report that there was anything strange about those people. In fact, they spent most of their time exploring the Merman Empire as one would expect.

With the enthusiasm that they demonstrated, it really seemed like they were kids at the fair for the first time.

I calmly replied, "I already said that it isn’t as if they would do anything. It’s just that something feels off about all of this."

"Are you alright? Is something wrong with you?" The Merman King asked in a strange voice.

A bitter feeling filled me when I heard this since I knew what he was implying.

It was just that I knew that I wouldn’t be able to convince him of this since it seemed like he already had an idea of me.

Ariel was the one that spoke up for me by saying, "You know that he isn’t like this at all. If he is asking you to do this, then there must be something important."

The Merman King’s expression didn’t change, but at least he didn’t say anything else on this matter. Since it was Ariel that was saying this, he chose to accept her words as the truth.

Though a part of this was the trust that I had built up with the Merman King.

"Please just keep watching over them for me." I said at the end of this.

The Merman King looked at me with the same strange look as before, but he eventually gave a nod of acknowledgement. It seemed like he had his doubts about all of this, but at least he would listen to me on this matter.

"What are you so worried about?" The Merman King couldn’t help asking in the end.

It was just that I really didn’t have an answer for him.

"Reporting in, there’s been an incident."

The moment that the guard came in, I immediately said, "What is it? What happened?"

The guard was caught off guard hearing me ask this and he couldn’t help looking at the Merman King as if he was asking for permission to speak. After all, this was the Merman Empire and the Merman King was the one in charge.

It was a bit out of place for me to act like this.

But in the end, the Merman King just gave a simple nod to show that it was alright.

It was only then that the guard said, "It’s just that one of the guests got a bit too excited and felt a bit faint, so we escorted them to a place for them to rest."

The way that the guard made this report was as if this wasn’t a big matter at all and it really shouldn’t have been big enough to report in. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Merman King had given the order for everything related to these guests to be reported to him, they wouldn’t have even reported this matter in.

Once the report was over, the Merman King looked at me as if he was waiting for me to say something.

With an awkward look on my face, I said, "Just make sure to help them as much as you can to make them feel comfortable."

The guard didn’t leave right away as he looked at the Merman King once more.

It was only when the Merman King gave a nod to confirm this that the guard gave a salute and left. Though when he left, there was a strange look that was cast in my direction.

After the guard left, the Merman King asked, "Well? What do you think? Do you think that something worse than this will happen?"

There was a bit of a teasing tone in his voice when he asked this, but I knew that it wasn’t anything serious. It was just his way of changing the mood because of how awkward I had made it.

With a sigh, I said, "I might have been a bit too sensitive..."

Though I said this, I didn’t really feel that this was the case.

There was still this feeling inside of me that felt like there was something wrong about all of this...it was just that it was hard to say it now with everything that was happening. It was even harder since there was no proof at all that there was something off.

The Merman King just patted me on the shoulder before saying, "I know that this matter has been stressful for everyone and you’ve also felt your fair share of stress, so I don’t blame you. Perhaps it would be best if you just relax for a few days."

I shook my head at this before saying, "I still have somewhere to go during this time."

This was something that I had already told them a while ago.

The only reason that I had stayed this long was because I felt uneasy about the way that the two gods had acted.

However, there were still two more god’s messengers that I had to go and find.

So in the end, I couldn’t stay here any longer than this and I was about to head out tomorrow.

But before leaving...

"Please just keep watching over them for me and make sure that they’re alright."

That was the last request that I made of the Merman King.

He looked at me with a look of doubt since everything seemed normal from what we had seen over the past few days. But since he could see the firm look that was in my eyes, he gave a nod of agreement in the end.

That was all that I needed from him.

"Then I’ll leave it up to you."

There was this strange mood that filled the air that made things awkward when this was all settled, but I really couldn’t do anything about it...

I hoped that I was just thinking too much about this...