"Eh?"
(?Д?≡?д?)!?
"Is that the shortcut?"
(??????)????
Annie had originally been following the crowd ahead, walking behind the mermaid king and his ministers and guards toward the banquet hall in Dragon Palace, but when she saw a huge murloc pushing a massive food cart pass by, her pace unconsciously slowed until she gradually fell to the very back of the procession.
That was because she had noticed that the food cart pushed by the big murloc seemed to be piled with all kinds of delicious food, giving off tempting scents that were completely different from the food on land.
"All right!"
(?????)
"That must be it!"
?('ω')?
And so!
Annie thought the murloc was taking the food to the banquet hall and that the other way was surely a shortcut. She first glanced at the people ahead, then at the murloc pushing the cart in the opposite direction. After thinking it over, she decided not to miss out on whatever appealing food was on that cart, so she resolutely turned around and followed him.
Before long, Annie followed him to a huge tower made of hard shell. Taking advantage of the murloc guard opening the door to carry in the food, she brazenly slipped inside.
The murloc was too busy putting away the food and hurriedly closing the door to notice her. Compared to him, she was simply a little too small.
Creak~!
Bang!
Very quickly, the murloc guard hurriedly shut the strange palace's sturdy door.
"..."
(⊙x⊙;)
Even though the place was somewhat dim, Annie immediately saw that this did not seem to be the shortcut she had imagined. It was even less like a banquet hall. Instead, it seemed to be nothing more than the boudoir of a huge mermaid young lady.
Indeed, she saw a gigantic mermaid