Chapter 133

The mermaids entered the banquet hall carrying food.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Get out! Get out! Get out!!!

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Fireball! Fireball!

【Handsome Licker】─LOL, these guys are going crazy. *Lick*.

【Qkrnfl892】─Look at that chest bouncing. Gye Se-hoon’s eyes are gonna rot.

【Big Girl】─Since Gye Se-hoon is a man, wouldn’t he like women’s chests differently than us?

【Jujijoa】─Yeah, men don’t say it outright, but I heard they like women’s chests too.

【Meng Yao】─It depends on the man.

The last mermaid to enter looked slightly different from the others.

Compared to the usual mermaids, her body was about 1.5 times larger, and her tail was covered in dazzling golden scales. Her hair was also the same golden color.

【Min Ji】─Shiny shiny mermaid. So dirty.

【Yoho】─Looks like a golden carp.

Her appearance was also much more beautiful than the other mermaids.

It was an unreal beauty, as if she had jumped out of a fairy tale.

Perhaps because her appearance was so outstanding.

Her delicate face contrasted with her rugged, muscular body, making her even more attractive.

Well, I’ve always liked muscular bodies.

【Qkrnfl892】─But honestly, the last mermaid to enter is freaking gorgeous, right? Gotta admit it.

【Big Girl】─Yeah, I guess.

【Drifting AI】─I’ll say it. She has a rare, perfect appearance.

【Yoho】─I’m prettier though. Heh.

【Min Ji】─Shut up.

【Jujijoa】─Is that golden fish the mermaid princess?

【Meng Yao】─Yeah, seems like it. The other fish called her princess.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Not a mermaid prince, but a mermaid princess? What the hell?

The identity of that mermaid was presumed to be the mermaid princess.

The other mermaids who entered earlier called her “princess.”

And fitting the title of princess.

She adorned herself with lavish jewelry and wasn’t serving alone.

“Maehwa, is that last mermaid the mermaid princess? Or is she more like a mermaid prince?”

I lowered my voice and asked Maehwa, who was sitting to my left.

The probability was low, but maybe her name was just “Princess.”

“Yes. Among the countless mermaid groups, only her group has allied with us exorcists.”

Maehwa answered.

So she really was the mermaid princess.

It seemed that every mermaid present here had formed a cooperative relationship with the exorcists.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─So she’s a damn traitor. Let’s roast her.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─A treacherous mermaid? So she’s a bad yokai. Tsk.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Traitor? She just chose the right side.

Maehwa continued speaking while glancing at the mermaids.

Listening to the story.

Even after the mermaid queen was released from the seal, the mermaid princess didn’t follow the queen like the others and instead joined hands with the exorcists.

She never disliked humans and had never hunted them.

Instead of consuming human souls, the mermaid princess hunted yokai who preyed on humans to gain strength. In other words, she was a yokai who preyed on her own kind.

By the way.

Before the mermaid queen was defeated.

A few mermaid princes had already been captured and executed by the mermaid princess, and the remaining princes and mermaids were scattered and on the run.

“Well, it’s only a matter of time before they’re caught. Without the mermaid queen, they’re just insignificant yokai.”

Maehwa said this and took a sip of water from her cup.

It was a strange sight to see someone drinking water underwater.

【Big Girl】─Listening to Maehwa, the mermaid princess doesn’t seem like a traitor. She was never on the mermaid queen’s side to begin with.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Shut your mouth.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Gills.

【Handsome Licker】─LOL, these guys start cursing the moment their opinion is denied. *Lick*.

While listening to Maehwa.

The mermaid princess swam over to me, wagging her tail.

[Hello.]

The princess smiled and greeted me, then naturally took a seat to my right.

Maehwa narrowed her eyes and glared at the elder, sharply asking.

“Elder, what are you doing now?”

“What do you mean? Just like women, men would enjoy having a charming companion by their side, right?”

“Sigh… I’m already by Gye Se-hoon’s side.”

Maehwa sighed and spoke in a stiff tone.

It seemed.

She thought her appearance was more beautiful than the mermaid princess.

【Handsome Licker】─Maehwa’s self-esteem is through the roof. *Lick*.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Stupid bitch. LOL.

【Yoho】─The mermaid princess is lower than me but higher than Maehwa. Heh.

【Min Ji】─Yoho, stop showing off.

Seemingly uncomfortable.

Maehwa made a displeased expression.

The mermaid princess ignored Maehwa and leaned closer to me, starting a conversation.

[Shall I pour you a drink…?]

And then.

[Back off! Don’t come closer!]

Min Neong cut off the mermaid princess’s words and shouted angrily.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─LOL, Min Neong, nice!

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Gye Se-hoon’s protector. LOL.

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wow! So fierce!

【Min Ji】─So reliable. Is it because she shares part of my name? Heh.

【Qkrnfl892】─Min Ji, you were throwing a tantrum earlier about not comparing yourself to her. LOL.

【Meng Yao】─Maybe it’s fine now because she’s a dragon.

[You dare sit at the same table as him? Get lost!]

At Min Neong’s continued scolding, the mermaid princess looked at the elders in confusion.

The elders awkwardly smiled and spoke to me.

“Oh dear… Come to think of it, we should’ve asked Gye Se-hoon’s opinion first. We’ve been rude… If you’re uncomfortable with the princess sitting next to you, we’ll have her move to another seat.”

“Yes, please do.”

“…Understood.”

Honestly, I wasn’t uncomfortable.

What man wouldn’t want a beautiful woman sitting next to him?

Not to mention the men from the previous world.

Even the original men from this gender-reversed world would welcome it with open arms.

Regardless of the world or gender, being attracted to a charming companion is a natural instinct.

But the reason I refused was simple.

Because Maehwa, Min Neong, and the other viewers were uncomfortable.

That was all.

‘If it were a normal situation, it’d be fine, but right now, it feels a bit like being entertained… It’s a bit awkward.’

To exaggerate a bit, it’s like a female streamer I enjoy watching going to a host bar and being entertained by a handsome man.

Of course, as I said, it’s an extreme analogy.

By the way, I’m not just pandering to the viewers.

I plan to keep streaming however I want.

But still.

I try to avoid doing things that might upset my regular viewers as much as possible. They’re not just viewers I’ve been with for a day or two, but precious viewers I’ve spent almost half a year with.

[Then I’ll take my leave…]

The mermaid princess stood up, looking dejected.

As the mermaid princess left, dragging her tail, Min Neong looked triumphant.

[Hmph! If any shameless female tries to approach, I’ll block them right away!]

【Drifting AI】─I’ll say it. She’s more reliable than a maid.

【Maid】─Yeah yeah yeah.

【Balloon Gum Collector】─Wow! The maid’s pissed! She’s chugging cola angrily!

【Jujijoa】─Looking at it, Gye Se-hoon doesn’t seem interested in women.

【Meng Yao】─Nah, he’s not uninterested. He watches adult videos.

【Big Girl】─He probably refused out of consideration for us.

【Qkrnfl892】─This time it’s a bit surprising. There really are men who don’t look at women’s faces. Other men always say they don’t look, but the moment a top-tier beauty approaches, they unzip their pants like it’s nothing.

【Yoho】─The room master has seen my face before. That mermaid is uglier than me. Heh.

【Qkrnfl892】─You’re really more narcissistic than me. Go see a doctor.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Min Neong, if possible, get Maehwa out of there too. Her face is disgusting.

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─Right. What gives her the confidence to sit next to Gye Se-hoon? LOL.

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Ah! That was Maehwa? I thought it was an octopus!

【Se-hoon Defense Team】─LOL, for real.

【Min Ji】─It is an octopus. Maehwa the octopus.

【Handsome Licker】─LOL, these guys are roasting Maehwa hard. *Lick*.

【Maehwa Tree】─You wanna die, you crazy bitches?

【Cheerful Hyeon Ji】─LOL, Maehwa, hang in there. They’re jealous because you’re pretty. They don’t mock truly ugly people like this.

【Min Ji】─Really? Are they really ugly? Tsk.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─Hyeon Ji, stop sucking up to Maehwa.

【Handsome Licker】─Gross.

After the mermaid princess moved seats.

The banquet hall became lively again, and food and drinks kept coming.

As time passed, the banquet was in full swing.

*Boom!*

A loud noise shattered the joyful atmosphere of the banquet.

“What’s that?”

Suddenly, silence fell over the banquet hall.

Everyone, including me, naturally turned their gaze toward the source of the sound.

[I’ll… kill all of you…]

Where a palace pillar had collapsed.

A grotesque-looking male mermaid was breathing heavily.

‘He looks similar to the mermaid prince I saw at the beach… Could he be a prince too?’

If that mermaid prince had successfully transformed his body, he might’ve looked like that.

“How did he get in?”

“Is that a prince? It looks like he’s undergone a body transformation…”

“A mermaid prince? Didn’t those guys all run away?”

“Is he an idiot? Coming to his own grave.”

“He must’ve gone crazy.”

“More importantly, we should pause the banquet for now.”

The exorcists put down their food.

With fierce expressions, they began to stand up one by one.

[What? What’s going on?]

Min Neong, who had her face buried in a plate of food, suddenly looked up.

After chewing and swallowing the food in her mouth.

[Ptoo!]

She suddenly spat out a black orb.

The orb flew swiftly and hit the intruding mermaid right between the eyes.

At that moment.

[W-What is this…?!]

The mermaid’s body began to twist.

It contorted grotesquely, as if being sucked into a black hole, and was absorbed into the black orb.

[AAAAAH!]

With a final scream, the mermaid was completely absorbed into the orb.

Simultaneously, the mysterious black orb also vanished.

Regardless.

[Om nom nom.]

【Reverse Rape Mania】─Wow. Min Neong is amazing. So strong.

【Gyeongsaeng Guburi】─I win.

Min Neong continued eating as if nothing had happened.

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