Team villains except me

Chapter 397: Nameless Past

“That was the first time I ate grilled fish. It was piping hot, with a slightly burnt, smoky smell, and cooked.

I discovered at the time that having a full stomach reduced despair. I thought being human wouldn’t be so terrible if I could eat grilled fish more often.”

Menelo took a sip of water from the cup.

"Without Carol, it would be difficult for me to integrate into human society. I am a marginal person in the third world. I am not a mermaid because I don't have a fish tail. I can't dive into the deep sea. I am not a human either because I don't have the rules and concepts of human society and I can't speak the common language.

I am a monster abandoned by the world. I stand on the edge of a cliff, not knowing whether to wait to be eaten by a falcon or to jump off the cliff directly.

Carol helped me at this time. She didn't comfort me, she didn't even ask me what happened, she just told me after I finished eating the grilled fish that it was my turn to go fishing tomorrow.

I said I couldn't, and Carol threw me into the sea. She bit the twigs she used to grill the fish, and her tone was terrible.

She said, 'Mermaids can't swim? You can learn now. You've only been ashore for a few days. '"

"I struggled for a long time. After I failed to turn into a fish tail, I didn't dare to touch the sea. But I am a mermaid. Once I touched the sea water, I felt like I was back home. I learned to swim and stayed in the sea for a long time. Carol stayed with me all the time, and finally, she took me back to the house she rented.

It was a very simple house. There was only a bed and half a sofa in the house. The bed had no quilt and the sofa had no support. On the day I met Carol, I curled up on the sofa, and when I woke up, I found myself in bed.

Carol is a really good person. In a way, she replaced my mother. She made me integrate into the human race from the beginning. She told me the unspoken rules of society, what the law is, and how humans interact... She provided me with choices for the future.

She gave me a future.”

Meniluo's tears never stopped. She was in so much pain that Norvia sat beside her and felt that her pain had solidified into something that she could touch with her hand.

"…I'm really not smart. Carol mastered the human language very quickly, and she seemed to understand everything. But I just couldn't learn it. I couldn't write Common Language well. No matter how many times I learned it, I couldn't tell the difference, because many words in Common Language had no clear equivalent in Merman Language. If I didn't understand it, I couldn't learn it.

The whole human society, the whole world above the deep sea, makes me feel strange, strange and frightening. I want to go back to the ocean, but it is not realistic, but human society is too difficult for me to integrate into. I often lose my temper. I told Carol that I would not learn anymore, I was just not smart, and I was an outlier among the white-tailed mermaids.

Carol never comforted me.

She reacted calmly to all my violent actions. I said I didn't want to learn the common language, and she didn't dissuade me, but she asked me to pay because I lived in the house she rented. Carol was responsible for my food, clothing, housing and transportation.

I would do anything to avoid studying. I went to the small town to find a job, relying on the half-understood common language and the facial expressions of people to guess what they meant. I found a job, but all my jobs were not going well. I was not adapted to human society, I had no emotional intelligence, I lacked common sense, and I made many mistakes.

The only thing I can do is sing. Carol said that I sang very well, and even if she wanted to beat me, as long as I sang, she felt that I could still be saved.

Then Carol carefully analyzed the possibility of returning to the sea and becoming a human being. She gave me a long list of careers I could choose as a human being.

I still don't understand why Carol was so good to me. I used to think that the human society I lived in was troublesome enough, but after Carol left, I realized that Carol had tried her best to give me the best. This world is worse than my worst imagination, but before Carol left, I had grown strong enough - perhaps Carol waited until I could experience setbacks before leaving.

In short, I had tried many different professions, including a magic show salesman, before I could even speak the common language well. Carol just let me try as much as I wanted, and she always supported and protected me behind my back. I had no pressure in life, no external oppression, and I was experiencing different lives every day.

Finally, I told Carol that I wanted to do opera.

Carol still didn't react. She nodded calmly and asked me if I wanted to be the heroine.