Chapter 282: CH.279 The mermaid’s second banishment

“... why are you here again?” I asked the merfolk girl, who had come to interrupt my picnic with Alice and Lua. 

She was, at least I’m decently sure, the same merfolk whom I helped return home yesterday, so why is she back here?

Also, she looks even worse than she did yesterday. Yesterday, she was just dirty and disheveled, now she looks like she has been whipped or something, with visible bleeding wounds all over her body. 

 

“... Cailie? Why are you here?” I asked again.

“I … I …”

“Brian, this isn’t the time for that.” Lua interrupted. “Let me heal her first.”

 

Lua quickly rushed to the water, not caring that her feet were getting wet. 

“Get over here! We need to get her out of the water.” Lua called to me.

I quickly snapped out of my crazy thoughts and did as ordered.

 

“Cailie, do you mind if I lift you?” I asked.

The girl didn’t verbally answer, but did nod her head a bit, so I took a hold of her and lifted her into my arms. I then used telekinesis to give her some additional support, so that her tail or head would be hanging limp.

“Alice, can you clear the blanket?” I asked, as we walked back to where our picnic blanket was set up. 

Alice did as I asked, putting everything away in Storage. She even put the blanket there for a second, before bringing it back out, probably to instantly clean any breadcrumbs and other dirt from it.

I then brought out my water buffalo travel pelt and had Alice spread that on top of the blanket, just to add some softer, and more waterproof, material between the merfolk and the ground. I must have been smart when I actually bought a waterproof travel pelt. 

I set Cailie down on the pelt, and let Lua do her thing. Maybe I should try to get a healing skill as well? Mana Healing should at least be possible. Sure I have my cards, but having a skill might be good as well. 

 

As Lua was healing the girl, I began asking her some questions.

“Cailie, why are you back here? Didn’t you make it home?” I do have an idea, but I’d really rather confirm it. I don’t want to jump to conclusions.

“Brian. Not now.” Lua interrupted my questioning. 

 

“... no. I can… tell him.” Cailie said. “... I was … banished again.”

Yeah. I kind of guessed that part.

“They said… I didn’t do… my punishment… because I got… help from you…” Cailie explained. “So they sent me… here again…”

“... Brian, what did she say?” Alice asked.

 

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I quickly told what Cailie told me to Lua and Alice.

 

“... that still doesn’t explain these wounds.” Lua said, as she kept healing Cailie. “She didn’t have any last time, right?”

“Not that I saw.” I responded, before I asked her about it. “Cailie, the wounds… how did those..?”

“... I … I got… beaten up… by my sister…” She answered.

 

… wow. Some sibling rivalry right there. I don’t think whipping someone bloody is just beating them up. Also, how does a mermaid even use a whip? Wouldn’t one be extremely awkward to use under water? Are those even whip marks or are they something else?

 

“I see. I’m so sorry.” I told her. “... may I ask something. Why were you banished in the first place?” Admittedly, this was something I probably should have asked the first time we met, but I didn’t think it was something that mattered at that time. I didn’t need to know her story, I just needed Cailie to stop attacking fishermen.

“... they said it is… because I’m useless. … because I hide away… and don’t earn my food.” Cailie admitted. “Coming here… and having to hunt… was supposed to teach me how to be useful. … but instead… I cheated… so I was banished again.”

“I see.” So that’s the reason. Sounds… dumb, but also something that someone might do. “I suppose that means I can’t just send you back again.” I told her. But still. Calling someone useless is just … well, actually I do that quite a lot with some of my cards, so I really have no right to say anything, but at least I can offer her an alternative. “Then, if they don’t want you, would you like to come with us?” I asked.

 

This had actually been something I considered the first time I met Cailie in the dungeon, but I didn’t know if I could do it. She was still trapped by the dungeon and I just didn’t know enough about the slave dungeon system to do anything but play by the rules. But I did have Laura search the system for info about them, and that led to me figuring out a few things. One of them being a way I can get people that are trapped in prison style slave dungeons free.

I did also figure out a few things about merfolk. Some of the info came from a book I analyzed in the Sawyer family library, back when I did that analysis raid on it.Happened in  There were a few things I wanted to know, like do merfolk actually have to live in water and so on. The quick answer is, no. But they do need to keep their skin relatively wet, because their skin dries out a lot faster than … surface beings. But there are no breathing issues, or otherwise. There was something about their gills weakening if they never swam, but as long as they swim a few times a week, this shouldn’t be an issue. Yes. Merfolk have both lungs and gills, so they can breathe either on land or in the water.

 

“... I … can’t … the dungeon … will just … summon me back.” Cailie answered.

“Don’t worry. I can deal with that problem.” I told her.

“But… if I get monsters again… it will just… teleport me back… and they will … banish me again.”

“If we do it like we did last time.” I told her. “But we don’t have to do it that way.”

“???” Cailie just looked at me confused.

“I’ll show you.” I told her. “After Lua has healed you, let’s head into the dungeon.”

 

After the healing finished, Cailie was looking quite a bit better. Lua even used her water magic to wash away all the dirt and grime from her body, so I got a good look at her.

Her hair was black, with maybe just a hint of dark green mixed in. I thought it was just black previously, because the dirt and grim had hid all of the green. Her tail was also dark green in color. 

 

I summoned myself a Amphibious Bugroth, while Alice summoned her MK-3. I also gave Lua and Ria a MK-3. Agunan can’t use my cards, well he can the ones that don’t have toploaders or sleeves, but he cannot use ones with those, so I asked him to stay here and protect the carriage. Sure he probably could just dive, but I'll leave him in charge of protecting our stuff.