Mermaid Toilets? The Gorosei's Thoughts

Before long, the Li Family's banquet began.

For most of the servants, it was their first time meeting the head of the family.

It was also a banquet to welcome their mermaid guests, so the affair was lavish.

"This is so delicious!"

The mermaid girls couldn't stop praising the food from the surface.

Queen Otohime kept trying to stop them, worried they would make themselves sick.

After all, most ingredients from the surface were rare delicacies unavailable on Fish-Man Island.

And having only just arrived, they could easily fall ill from the unfamiliar food and surroundings. That could cause trouble.

"Little Shyarly, why aren't you eating?"

Queen Otohime suddenly noticed that Shyarly had no appetite and looked deeply troubled.

"I can't shake the feeling there's a plot..."

Shyarly bit her purple lip as she spoke.

"We can't trust that man too much."

"He just appeared on Fish-Man Island out of nowhere. We've only just met him, haven't we?"

Queen Otohime followed Shyarly's gaze and turned her head.

Li Huode was on the phone nearby. Whatever he was saying, he kept laughing.

He was also tracing a shape with his hands that looked like a woman's backside, wearing an unexpectedly lewd expression.

"Lord Huo De is a man, after all."

Queen Otohime didn't think much of it. She had four children; she wasn't like a young girl such as Shyarly, who didn't understand such things.

Li Huode hung up, said something to Tesoro, and the two went out together.

Shyarly's curiosity stirred, and she decided to follow them.

She watched them go straight into the underwater rooms prepared for Queen Otohime and the mermaid girls, then enter the bathroom.

"Something's wrong!"

Shyarly's face went pale.

"Are they setting a trap for us?"

Li Huode made another lewd gesture and even said,