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Up is the blue sky and white clouds, and down is the vast ocean.

"Is it this kind?" The boy plunged out of the water and lifted up a cluster of beautiful corals.One person responded repeatedly and went up to meet him.

That day the boy set off early and swam to a sea area far away from the island. The pirate followed him with two younger brothers, and the two big ships followed him from a distance, ready to speed to the target at any time.

The teenager picked the coral he wanted for himself, and they were discussing what kind of jewelry to make into it to please the girls.Another person went to the pirate to gossip: "Boss, why do you think he is looking for a prince? Now that even a small place dares to call itself a country, which prince is he looking for?"

"how could I know?"

The pirate glared at him, thinking that the boy himself didn't know about it.

The boy's persistence is unimaginable from the beginning to the end. No one knows whether the death he is looking forward to is the only way to go home or the real demise.

Why can't he believe it?

The pirate looked at the boy who was smiling happily, and sighed several times, and finally realized the bitterness of the younger brother who is married and raising a child.

"coming!"

The little brother yelled while pointing at the sea in the distance, there was a small black spot the size of a thumb.The boy flicked his tail excitedly, said "I'll go and see", and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The pirate shook his head helplessly, and heard the people around him muttering: "This kid is so handsome and loves to laugh. If it's a... brothers, you should come to him if you want to grab your head."

The pirate punched him backhand: "Don't hit him!"

The younger brother quickly confessed: "I'll just think about it! Think about it! Who would dare to rob someone from you..."

"I can't even think about it!"

The pirate quarreled with the little brother for a long time, and didn't stop until the boy came back, watching him dance and describe the appearance of the sail: "...half of it is red, half of it is green! There is a yellow sun with sharp horns in the middle...it should be sun……"

The pirate imagined it casually, and suddenly his face darkened: "It's not what you're looking for, let's go back."

The boy looked up at him suspiciously: "But I clearly saw..."

The little brother reacted belatedly, and winked at the young man desperately: "It seems to be the boat from the hometown of the boss..."

If you can live in your hometown, who is willing to go to sea to make a living by robbery.He eats and sleeps in the open, and is notorious far and wide. When he sees the symbol of the motherland, he responds with horror.

The young man stopped talking, looked at the ship in the distance, then at the pirate's face, and then turned to look at the ship, his face full of reluctance.The anger in the pirate's heart endured and endured, but he still couldn't hold it back, as if it was about to erupt in the next second.Before he could speak, he stretched out his upper body from the sea, stretched out his hands to grab the side of the boat, and looked at himself carefully.

"I'm hungry, let's go home."

Before the fire started, it went out with a "crash", pitifully smoking white smoke.The pirate touched his face and smiled.

"Sorry, breakfast didn't fill you up."

10

The boat docked.

The pirate was about to push the trolley, when suddenly the hem of his clothes was slightly grabbed.

"I'm not hungry anymore, let's go swimming!"

The boy's tail flicked back and forth.

The pirate took off the necklace around his neck, buried it in the sand, turned around and went into the water.The place they went was not very deep, and the pirates couldn't hold their breath for too long.

The young man swam very fast, but he would come back and circle the pirates before he swam far.The pirate reached out to touch his tail, but he nimbly dodged it and made a funny face to himself.

The pirate couldn't help laughing, choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and hurried out of the sea to take a breath.

Dive down again, the seabed is still the scene he is used to.Schools of fish, coral, and mysterious little creatures with many names.The boy shuttled among the strangely shaped stones, his tail was more eye-catching than the beautiful little fish swimming by in groups.Like a playful child, he picked up shells, sea cucumbers and other small things, and stuffed them into the pirate's pockets when they couldn't fit in his palm.

Later, they floated on the surface of the sea and competed without any suspense. The pirates were so focused on changing the fastest swimming position that they didn't pay attention to the things in their pockets, and unconsciously missed most of them.The boy was so angry that he whipped him with his tail, but he didn't bother to pick it up, so he just said some good things, trying to get away with it.

Finally, they collapsed on the beach to rest, letting the sea wash over their bodies.The boy turned over a few times, and suddenly said that he felt like a salted fish.The pirates were busy digging the necklace out of the sand.After listening to it, she laughed at him: "I will send you to the dinner table tonight."

"You have the guts to say it!" The boy exploded, "It's you who let my lobster go, I still want to eat lobster pie!"

The pirate yelled wronged: "Only the lobster has nothing to do with me! It ran away by itself, and even pinched me with its pincers."

The young man hummed and chirped, but didn't speak for a long time.

The pirate didn't bother him, his thoughts were wandering, and he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have coaxed him like this: "When you are unhappy, go to the sea for two laps, and you will be happy after swimming."

The sea breeze blew on his body, bringing a burst of coolness, but the pirate felt a sudden warmth rising from the bottom of his heart.

11

That night the boy still stayed at the pirate's house.Because the pirate was playing tricks, he wouldn't let him go after dinner, picked him up and threw him into the pool.

In the middle of the night, he ran to the edge of the pool again in the dark, and put a bracelet made of shells on his wrist.

"Where did this come from?" The boy raised his arm, shaking it again and again.

"You picked it up, you ate the meat, so don't let the shell go."

"did you do it?"

"No, they have to make a hole for themselves to let the rope go through."

Seemingly thinking this statement was very interesting, the boy laughed.

"Have you ever thought," the pirate laughed with him for a while, and then began to brainwash him, "If the prince really fell in love with you, but you asked him to kill you with his own hands, wouldn't it be too cruel?"

"But," the young man blinked, the small piece of light blue was like a cloudless sky, clean and clear, "The little mermaid fell in love with the prince, but the prince abandoned her, and she would be sad."

This is a relationship similar to karma.

The pirate looked at him steadily.

He really is very different from humans.He doesn't think too much about problems, and always relies on the most intuitive feeling to find the most direct solution.Sometimes very childish, and occasionally surprisingly sharp.

"Okay," said the pirate, "you stay here first, and we will go out together in a few days."

He seems to have really compromised: "This time there is reliable news."

12

Even though he had obtained reliable information in advance, the boy still failed to achieve his wish this time.

In fact, the beginning was as smooth as the countless robberies experienced by the pirates. He and a large number of younger brothers successfully boarded the ship of the hapless royal family, and fought with the sailors who tried to repel them.The pirate confronted a sailor near the edge, and during the fight, the sailor's knife was thrown into the air by him and fell into the sea.

The pirate was startled when he remembered that the boy was still near the boat, quickly put down the person in front of him, and ran towards the boat with a knife in his hand.

Sure enough, the young man was wandering around here, lowering his head and not noticing his gaze. The air was filled with the smell of blood. Knowing that the smell was mostly from the fighting on the ship, he still became more nervous.

The young man was slightly injured by the "Horizontal Sword from the Sky", and he was a little dazed when suddenly a big guy fell from the sky, which startled him.

"Are you hurt?"

"Rub a little bit."

Hearing this, the pirate hurriedly dived into the sea, choking on several mouthfuls of water inadvertently.

There was a faint smell of blood in the sea water, which seemed to carry some mysterious power, which made him a little dizzy, and he had to work hard to see the wound on the boy's tail.

The wound was not big, but the snow-white flesh was covered with some blood.A little bit of flesh that was almost detached from the body swayed slightly under the washing of the sea water, which made his heart throb with pain.

"Go back quickly, I will help you treat the wound."

"It's okay," the young man said casually, obviously still thinking about the prince he had never met, "it doesn't hurt."

The pirate stared angrily, and asked loudly which was more important, his body or his return home.When he raised his face, there was an aura of calm and prestige, which looked quite bluffing.The boy hesitated, but finally nodded reluctantly.The pirate turned and told him to lie on his back.

The young man was surprised: "I can swim, just a little injury, it's fine."

The pirate was not in the mood to coax him slowly, and urged, "Hurry up."

The boy lay on his stomach, feeling a little delicate.

That hole is nothing to his good healing ability, and it is estimated that he will be back to normal tomorrow.The pirate was extremely nervous, as if he had suffered a great crime.

Under the cover of exaggeration is deep concern.

13

The pirate's back was generous, and the boy lay on it, feeling the long-lost peace of mind of returning to his hometown.

He was silent for a while, seeing that the pirate's swim was not as easy as usual, he suddenly realized and suggested: "Let me down, I will take you to swim, this place is too far from home."

"Walk a little longer and you'll be able to bump into the boat at home. You won't be exhausted."

The young man responded in a low voice, and heard him mutter again: "Isn't it good here? Why do you have to go back?"

The arms around his neck tightened, and the mermaid boy answered irrelevantly: "I seem to be in a little pain."

The pirate reprimanded him softly: "I don't know how to hide."

Because some people care, it seems that they have become preoccupied with those things that they didn't care about before.

14

The pirate got off the boat, picked up the young man and was about to move forward, but the young man struggled to no avail, so he had to turn his face to his chest so that no one could see him.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw a few chest hairs jumping out mischievously from under his open skirt, fluttering slightly, very eye-catching.The young man quietly raised his hand, and grabbed it secretly and quickly, but did not pull it out.

There was a sound of breathing above his head, and the boy quickly diverted his attention: "You haven't shaved clean."

The pirate thought it was funny, and didn't expose him, but followed his words and asked, "Where is it?"

The boy stroked his smooth chin and said seriously, "Here."

The pirate chuckled shamelessly: "Little liar."

Being caught doing something bad, the young man felt embarrassed, and shifted his gaze to his chest, only then did he notice that there was a pendant in the shape of a sun with sharp horns tied to the end of the necklace he didn't often play with.

"He misses his hometown occasionally."

The boy thought.