Chaos
Sheera panicked and immediately pulled her hand from Keith's grip. She didn't want it to be discovered that she wasn't human. She was very afraid that this bad disaster would happen again and affect all the mermaids in the ocean.
"No...! You're wrong! I'm human just like you, I'm human!" She shouted in panic. Her body trembled. She acts to prove that she is human.
Her attitude made Keith smile, he knew that Sheera's efforts to prove that she was human actually made her look even more suspicious. Keith couldn't help but laugh, this was really funny to him.
"Yes, okay, you don't need to panic like that! Besides, it's strange, your kiss tastes like sea water."
"M-maybe it's because I drowned in the sea and-"
"Listen, we'll be in town soon. We only need to walk about a mile. It's already two in the afternoon and you still don't know where to go. My house is in town, if you want for a while you can stay at my house, how about that?"
"Is your house like a palace?"
"Oh my god, you're a materialist too, aren't you? I don't live in a palace, I'm sorry, I'm a poor man. So you can't expect much from me. If you want to live in a luxurious mansion or palace, you can stay in someone else's house!"
"But I don't know anyone there!"
"Then don't protest!"
"I-I was just asking, why are you always angry?"
"Never mind, let's walk quickly! Listen, I don't want to carry you anymore! So don't pretend to be weak or something! Use your own legs, do you understand?"
"O-okay!"
The grumpy Keith decided to walk first, this time he tried not to care about Sheera even though in fact his eyes occasionally glanced behind him just to make sure Sheera was really following him.
"Keep following me!"
"Okay!"
Sheera is innocent, even though her mouth says "Ok", her mind and eyes cannot be separated from curiosity every time she sees something interesting around her.
"Keith, what creature is that?"
"Monkey!"
"What about that one?"
"Squirrel!"
"What is that over there?" She asked while pointing at a spider that was making its nest among the bushes.
"Spider!" Patiently, Keith continued to answer the questions that Sheera asked.
"His face is scary, just like yours."
"What did you say?"
"Hahaha...I'm kidding! Hmm...what if this is?"
"That's a poisonous mushroom, don't touch it!"
"How about this one?" Sheera asked while holding a poisonous snake. Keith, who was not very enthusiastic at first, was immediately surprised to see how Sheera held a poisonous snake so calmly.
"Tch, you idiot! Throw that! That's a poisonous snake, you want to die, don't you?"
"D-dead?" In panic, Sheera immediately threw the snake at Keith.
"You idiot, why did you throw it at me?" Keith, who panicked, immediately threw the snake back into Sheera's hands.
"I don't want to die before I meet Ethan!" She said as she threw the snake back at Keith.
"I don't care...!"
Keith felt so stupid, even though it should be easy to get rid of a small snake like this. However, having to face a girl who was too innocent and stupid made him look like a stupid man.
He threw the snake into the bushes before the snake got really angry and bit him.
"W-why was it thrown away? What if it bites another creature?"
"Just leave it alone! That's the law of nature, so it's none of our business. Look now, because of your stupidity a lot of time was wasted. You're really troublesome!"
Keith, who was annoyed, walked at a fast pace, leaving Sheera who felt guilty. She knew that she had troubled Keith. But she also didn't know where she was going.
She was too reckless, coming to Lioti just to get a magic potion that could give her a pair of human legs. She even confidently promises to get back the pendant with the emerald gem that she gave Ethan 80 years ago. She came to the human world with only courage and a strong belief that she would definitely meet Ethan again.
But when she managed to get out of the forest and saw what the real world was like, she was stunned. Houses, buildings and mechanical vehicles never crossed her mind about what real human life was like.
Cars passed by on the streets, there were almost no horse-drawn carriages like the stories she had heard. Her eyes barely blinked and the more she walked, the more she entered a world she had never imagined.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you look so surprised?" Keith asked as he and Sheera walked on the sidewalk. Sheera's behavior, which was exactly like a villager who had come to a big city for the first time, made him feel embarrassed.
"It's so strange, everything looks amazing!"
"You come from the village, right?"
"What?"
"It's okay, forget it-"
Braaakkk...
A bus that lost control crashed into three nearby cars. Everything happened so fast that the vehicles and people around them didn't have time to escape. Except for Keith who quickly carried Sheera's body and carried her away as quickly as possible.
Sheera didn't even realize it, since when did Keith carry her like this? For a moment, the atmosphere felt so quiet as if time had stopped for five seconds until finally terrifying voices could be heard filling the entire place.
The screams of women, the sound of police car sirens and the sound of car horns could be heard responding to each other. Eight bodies lay strewn in the middle of the road covered in blood. The bus that hit three cars was wrecked after hitting the wall of a shop. Meanwhile, the three cars hit by the bus were destroyed and all the passengers inside died on the spot.
Sheera's eyes widened as she saw the stunning view of the city change in an instant into a very terrifying sight. Her body trembled, cold sweat drenched her body. Without realizing it, she hugged Keith very tightly and sobbed.
She heard the sound of strange footsteps and for some reason she felt uneasy. She realized there was a man walking beside them and she immediately glanced at the man.
A black-haired man with sharp blue eyes, wearing a black coat. His face was flat without emotion and when everyone looked so panicked and hysterical, he actually looked so calm and just walked away, leaving behind the tense chaos in the middle of the city.
At a glance, Sheera remembered the mysterious man who appeared in her dream shortly after she drank Lioti's potion. A mysterious man with a cold face who had a gun pointed at her head. Yes, that man looks so similar as if they were the same person.