Mermaid Effect 《人鱼效应》 Chinese BL Translation by: 黑猫白袜子

Chapter 12

(TN: Blergh first time I've ever felt so disgusted by just mere words lol. I'm not always going to put warnings before stuff like this because it's a horror story lmao check the tags. I'm like a baby with body horror...)

Rand did think about taking that disgusting thing out of the aquarium. He made a few attempts, but when he tried to put anything in the water, Munster seemed to perceive his thoughts and rushed over, using its mouth to lightly nibble Rand's finger.

Going through it again, this feeling was simply dreadful.

And Munster seemed very attached to that "cocoon". After a while passed, Rand observed that the lumped thing gradually changed from colorless to a translucent milky white. Rand couldn't help but poke that thing with the sifting net meant to be used for cleaning the fish tank residue and found it to be soft and full of elasticity, resembling some kind of rubber-like stuff.

Munster expressed extreme dissatisfaction with his prodding, and its red membrane appeared again. Rand had no time to react before it rushed over at a speed that was a bit fast for a fish, it then bit down on the plastic rod of the sifting net. The sifting net's plastic rod was easily bitten into two halves by it.

   ......

Rand blinked. He examined the clear and neat teeth marks on the pole, and his back burst into numbness.

  For a split-second, he felt that he was simply a true warrior for daring to stick his finger into the water.

  but...

  "Maybe my finger should be thanking you?"

  He was still unable to help but to speak to that little thing in the aquarium with a trace bitter smile on the corners of his lips.

It's very stupid to speak to the fish, he knows, and it's almost impossible for it to understand what he was saying, but Rand still didn't restrain himself.

You have to admit that the behaviors that Munster sometimes exhibited were truly very humanlike.

At least it hasn't bitten Rand's finger off.

Rand thinks that it might be a kind of domesticated ornamental fish that was inadvertently stranded on that beach.

A stray fish and what not...

   Therefore it will perform such humanlike actions...

......

  Rand's wild train of thought was finally cut off by a ringing.

Calling him was the apartment building's manager. The other party said that the residents downstairs complained that there was fluid seeping out from the drainpipe of the toilet. The stench was maddening. He gently asked Rand to confirm whether his sewer was normal.

  Rand had a type of ominous premonition after hearing the pleading of the apartment manager. He rushed to the bathroom and painfully discovered that sure enough, his sewer was blocked.

    In the past, he often encountered such a thing in his old apartment, but he did not anticipate that he would still have to deal with this thing now.

Rand crouched down on the gray floor tiles and looked at the inconspicuous whirlpools in the current, and somewhat embarrassedly confirmed that the issue really stemmed from his place.

He had already become accustomed to preparing to be met with the manager's roars and curses (in his past days, the manager and the landlord were usually two-in-one, and they almost always possessed the same bad temper of the devil), he did not expect the other party to continue using a gentle voice to say that he will send a plumber up to look at it.