"Those guys actually didn't leave?"
A moment later, Delanlai stared at the ship in the distance, unable to hide his surprise.
When the other person mentioned a place where they could bandage wounds, it wasn't hard to guess they meant the ship.
But seeing the size of the merfolk gathering around them, the fact that the poaching vessel was still drifting nearby was genuinely astonishing.
"Who said they did? Take a closer look."
Fu Qian kept walking, carrying Delanlai the same way Delanlai had carried the mermaid.
"There's not a single person... Where did Lan En and the others go?"
Prompted, Delanlai made himself look again, summoning what little energy he had.
The closer view revealed a new detail.
And this guy calls himself a druid?
Fu Qian flew across the sea, grumbling inwardly.
For the sake of symmetry, he'd already tossed away the shoe on his other foot. Now he strode barefoot across the waves, which had its own particular charm.
When he reached the poaching vessel, Fu Qian leaped lightly, dodged a current surging beneath his feet, and landed precisely on deck.
"Take care of his wounds."
Meeting Rachel's puzzled gaze, Fu Qian casually dropped Delanlai at her feet and gave her the instruction.
Without pausing, he leaped back into the sea and landed beside a merfolk.
She had just finished summoning a current and was about to dive beneath the surface.
Faced with Fu Qian suddenly appearing right beside her, the caster who'd been caught off guard showed impressive ferocity and immediately opened her mouth wide.
The song's soothing effect had its limits. Fu Qian's brief passage nearby had still stirred her urge to attack, and now was no different.
Crack!
Unfortunately, the moment the needle-like projectile formed in her mouth, it shattered along with her skull