My Little Mermaid | JK

Chapter 18 : Can't Be Relieve

"Now, first we have to cross the ocean." Yugyeom explained to her but she was busy looking around.

"Everyone said the North Kingdom is the place to go for anything magical. We'll have to go a little further along the coast to get there." Yugyeom rambled, as he turned his head to his right, Nayoung wasn't there anymore.

After a few minutes searching for Nayoung...

"No, please. I would like to just watch..." Nayoung said.

"Nayoung! What are you doing here!" Yugyeom barged inside the room full with hungry pack of men and lifted her bridal style.

"Haaaa...." Yugyeom let out a long sigh. "Listen Nayoung. Don't you ever do that again!" Suddenly Yugyeom was silent. "What am I saying.. She doesn't have any sort of obligation towards me. I'm only a fellow traveler, not a lover or a guardian..." He thought to himself. "If I wasn't around to give life energy, she'd be free to get it from someone else. Why am I so angry..?"

"Ah..U-um, listen Nayoung-ah.. I-" Yugyeom stuttered.

"Yugyeom.." Nayoung suddenly cut him.

"Hmm..?" His left eyebrow was arched up.

"Kiss me, please." Nayoung commanded.

"Why do you want me to kiss you now?! I don't understand you at all!!!" Yugyeom said while placing both his hand on his head.

"I don't understand it either, I just wanted you to kiss me now." she lowered her head.

"Why?!" Yugyeom was shocked. This girl is really a peculiar one.

"When that other man touched me, it was extremely unpleasant. I was just going to watch, since I don't understand all this stuff." Nayoung grabbed Yugyeom shirt. "Yugyeom... You're much more gentle..."

"There there." Yugyeom patted her head then hugged her, "It must have been quite scary."
Yugyeom thought she was some incomprehensible woman, but she'd just an innocent girl.

"Now you won't do something like that again, right?" Yugyeom asked her, with Nayoung still in his embraces.

"Yes.." She squeezed her hand.

"Good." Yugyeom then close his eyes then kissed her. "Here's your prize, then."

Nayoung blushed hard, her face was red as a tomato. Then she said, "It's a good thing she had Prince Jungkook by her side. If she'd had to do it with someone else. I'm sure it would have made her feel terrible."

"Haha you're right." Guilty conscience hits him.

"Yugyeom?"

"Y-yes?" Yugyeom were anxious.

"Could it be that you gave the princess life energy at one point?"

Yugyeom bowed down as fast as he can, "I'm so sorry! But let me explain, too! At the time it was... She would have been in big trouble if I hadn't given it to her. She hated it so much I had to hold her down. I'm really sorry! O-only to save her life! Jungkook was angry too, until he realized that. Afterwards, I decided on my own that I would help them be together as a form of repentance! I know you, who love the princess so much would be mad, but Nayoung-ah..."

Nayoung whacked him out of the room and slammed the door hard. She laid her back on the wall and was puzzled by her own emotion.

"What is this? I don't understand this feeling..."

"It's very unpleasant." She said with her hand against her heart.

The next day...

"Are you still mad?" Yugyeom rubbed his neck.

"I am merely sorting out my emotions. But I'm not talking to you until I finished. Otherwise I don't know what I might say." Nayoung said walking in front of Yugyeom.

"Ugh-hh Okay.." Yugyeom said, feeling guilty.

***

"I've been waiting for you." The witch greeted them.

"Huh? This isn't the one I saw that day.." Nayoung thought to herself.

"I am acting as a substitute for today. Please ask me anything you wish." She cleared.

"Did the witch have a substitute..?" Nayoung asked herself.

"In that case, we have two questions." Yugyeom asked.

"First, we want to know where my brother is, and if the pearl he's carrying is safe or not." he continued.

"understood." said the witch.

*Flip flip* the book on the witch's hand flipped on its own page.

"He is in the mountain west of here, in a village named, "Achiara Village" That is where he had been transported. The pearl is safe."

"I see." Yogeum sighed, he was glad that both of them were safe.

"Can the princess be retrieve?" Nayoung asked, curious from all the possibilities

"It happened a long time ago, but there was a girl were just like the princess. A mermaid who married into a human family and have her own pearl."

"huh? I thought the princess is the first one to do that."

"Go there and you will receive a certain magic item. Don't you think that would be helpful?

Nayoung bowed down to the witch and leave, "Let's go quickly, Yogeum."

"Okay." He nodded at Nayoung then looked at the witch, "Thank you, white witch." Yogeum thanked her.

Lifting her head towards the sky, the witch said, " You shouldn't torment those in love quite so much, V...."