"Damn, she ate all the bait!"
Mu You stared speechlessly at the bait pouch inside the fishing net, now completely empty.
He had specifically saved this sleeping drug-laced bait for catching magical fish. He had dreamed of catching a whole netful, only for a single fish to eat it all-and a mermaid, at that...
If ordinary fishermen or slave traders had caught this mermaid, they would probably have gone wild with joy.
A Nicarro Merfolk who resembled a human and did not eat people would absolutely fetch an astronomical price at auction! Even the poorest fisherman could get rich overnight from this one mermaid and reach the pinnacle of life.
But to Mu You, she was not such a lovely prospect. Instead, she was a hot potato.
In his hands, the most this mermaid could offer was some scales for brewing potions. She had no other use.
Killing or selling her, the two choices an ordinary person would make, were both out of the question for him. Anyone who killed merfolk would acquire a scent only merfolk could detect, and if other merfolk discovered them, they would exact frenzied revenge.
Selling her was the same. Once discovered, he would earn the merfolk's lifelong hatred. That meant he would have to stay away from the ocean forever, or the merfolk, as the rulers of the seas, would never spare an enemy in the water.
Mu You had only just inherited the Ghost Ship and would inevitably spend a great deal of time at sea. He certainly could not cut off his own future like that.
His only remaining choices were to take her home and keep her, or release her here.
But looking at the unconscious mermaid in the net, Mu You had no idea when she had eaten the bait