For the record, Cha Yisol, who had been kidnapped—
“Eunha, your eyes are amazing.”
—was not worried in the slightest.
There was a reason he got along so well with Gio.
“They’re all sparkly.”
“Ha….”
“Like a dragon’s!”
“A reptile’s, ultimately.”
“No, they’re much cooler than that!”
“Dragons are a kind of reptile too.”
“Gasp, really…?”
Cha Yisol asked with a grave expression,
“Then, Eunha, do you hibernate when it gets cold too…?”
“I do not. Technically, I’m a fish.”
“But there’s no fish.”
“What do you mean…?”
“You’re not a fish, though?”
“Ah….”
It seemed he meant that it was difficult to find any “merfolk” traits in Iser’s appearance.
“…Then did my eyes look human to you?”
“A merfolk has those, doesn’t it? The, um, legs… legs… fish legs….”
“…….”
“You don’t have them.”
“…I do….”
Human children truly had so many questions.
“I can explain that part.”
“Ah, Noona.”
“Taking care of a child is hard, isn’t it?”
“I can’t deny that.”
The Iser before him now did not look like the “Eunha” Cha Yisol remembered. Iser was plainly in the form of an adult, which should have differed from the Eunha Cha Yisol knew, yet the boy was too distracted by his strikingly familiar manner of speaking and behaving.
He was brave, considering that this was still a kidnapping even if they were treating him gently. When Iser stepped aside, his sister Aria approached.
“Good…