Chapter 205
“What kind of dreams is everyone having?”
“Happy ones.”
“Happy...?”
“So they won’t try to wake up.”
Eunha sat on the marble stairs bathed in golden waves, his face tired. Cha I-Sol followed and sat beside him. Just a few steps above them sat Gio.
They looked down into the Pope’s chamber, submerged in seawater, where the sanctified humans lay dormant.
“As the years go by, wounds only accumulate.”
The world wasn’t as beautiful as dreams.
“I know how humans behave. When they’re in a disadvantageous situation, they struggle to fix it no matter what. My sister and teacher called that ‘growth.’ It’s a vague term to a mermaid...”
“Mermaids don’t grow?”
“It varies by dimension, but on my planet, mermaids aren’t born inside a creature’s womb — they’re born from the sea. At a certain moment, the ocean gathers and gives form to a mermaid.”
“Uuhhh...”