novelonline Chapter 2397 Persistence (Additional Updates Requesting Votes)
Chapter 2397 Persistence (Additional Updates Requesting Votes)
Chapter 2397 Persistence (Additional Updates Requesting Votes)
A brand new scene appeared in the fog again, and the black light in the picture even dyed the edges of the white fog black.
This time, the little mermaid's actions were not shown. The scene was directly in darkness. The "witch" Granny Siamnode, hiding behind the table, was talking to the little mermaid who was shaking her tail.
The wiggling tail can show the little mermaid's anxiety and panic.
Granny Siamnode had the look of a typical kind old lady, but now she was wearing a black robe and a hood, with a boiling black pot with green bubbles coming out of it beside her, which made her look like nothing like a good person.
The two seemed to be talking, because bubbles kept coming out of their mouths. But Shad, who was sitting by the campfire, couldn't hear their voices, so he said:
"The determined Little Mermaid Princess prayed to the omnipotent witch for the potion that would give her legs. She wanted to go into the human world to meet the prince. But the witch, smiling sinisterly, proposed a trade condition - I want your sweet voice.
After a brief hesitation, the mermaid, who longed for sunshine, agreed to the condition. Before the transaction was completed, the witch gave a final reminder - if you don't get the love you want, this magic potion will turn you into foam in the first ray of sunshine in the morning.
In the scene in the white fog, the gloomy Granny Siamod took out a bottle of dirty green potion from under the table. She talked with Miss Sandel for a while before the latter took the potion with a resolute expression.
The "witch" then reached out her hand with long black nails to her throat.
The picture froze again, and then turned into a lonely little mermaid swimming upstream in the ocean again.
Sitting alone by the campfire, Shade continued:
"After getting the magic potion, the little mermaid princess said goodbye to her sleeping parents and sisters and swam to the sea again alone. She arrived at the shore on a sunny morning. After drinking the magic potion and undergoing a painful transformation, she lost her fish tail and had a pair of beautiful legs."
In the picture, Miss Sandel stumbles out from the reef, and she looks quite uncomfortable in human form.
"She met a kind fisherman and his family, and took a cargo carriage to the capital of the human kingdom on the seashore. The human world dazzled her eyes, and the world under the sun was so fresh.
But in the capital of the human kingdom, she was shocked to hear the rumor that the prince was about to marry the princess of a neighboring country.
In the picture, Miss Sandel follows Shad's story all the way from the seaside to the prosperous city surrounded by city walls. She looks left and right, and then hears the "bad news" from the herald surrounded by the crowd.
"She stayed in the city, and on the third day she entered the palace with the inhabitants of the kingdom to celebrate the wedding of the prince and princess."
Miss Meister finally appeared. In the night picture, there was only a full silver moon in the bright starry sky. Miss Knight in a tuxedo held the hand of Miss Meister in a golden dress, and walked on the red carpet and passed through the arch decorated with flowers on the beach amid the celebrations of the people.
I have to admit that Miss Meister looked even more beautiful after taking off her dancer's outfit and putting on a formal dress.
In the foggy picture, Miss Sandel in the crowd showed a "sad" expression, but this expression was still so stiff, and her soul was still made of stone.
"At night, the married princess and prince boarded a cruise ship and sailed to the ocean with the citizen representatives. The little mermaid princess, who also came on the ship, heard a familiar call in a daze.
She followed the sound to the edge of the deck and saw six heads poking out from under the water. Those were her sisters, the anxious mermaid princesses, who gave their poor sister a blood-red dagger.
In the scene, a cruise ship, which is unusually bright due to gas lamps, is sailing in the sea. There seems to be a party taking place in the cabin, so Miss Sandel is the only one on the dark deck.
There was still no sound in the picture, so when Miss Sandel grabbed the blood-red dagger held up by the waves, Shade continued:
"'Our poor sister,' the six princesses said together, 'we have heard your sad story, but we cannot let you die. We gave the most beautiful scales to the witch in exchange for this dagger. Pierce it into the prince's chest and let his hot blood spray on your legs. Then you can become a free mermaid and come back to us.'"
The six heads in the dark waters shrank back beneath the water, leaving only Miss Sandel with an expressionless face, looking at the dagger in her hand that was wet by the sea water.
At the end of the story, Miss Sandel's soul still shows no signs of being touched.
"The dance on the ship lasted until dawn. Before the first ray of sunlight rose, the little mermaid met the princess and the prince on the deck who were ready to watch the sunrise together."
On the ship in the fog, Miss Sander stood with Miss Knight and Miss Meister. Miss Meister wore a wreath on her head, which was the one that Granny Sienord brought out from the illusion, which was also arranged by Shade.
He did not continue to tell the ending of the story, but wanted to see if everything in the picture would evolve on its own.
But the three of them just stood together, and the sky that looked like it was about to rise did not yet show the first ray of sunlight.
Xia De could only speak:
"The little mermaid princess endured the pain in her heart and blessed the wedding of the princess and the prince. Then the beautiful human princess gave her wreath to this innocent girl; and the handsome prince gave her a stone heart that looked like a work of art to thank her for her blessing."
Miss Meister took off the wreath and placed it on Miss Sandel's head; Miss Knight also placed the stone heart that she brought out of the illusion in her hand.
"Then, the little mermaid princess did nothing but turned around and said goodbye to them. She came to the empty stern of the ship alone. The persistent girl always insisted on her own ideas. She had seen the sunshine she longed for. Even if she was about to die at dawn, she would not regret it. Just like even if she went deep into the dangerous desert to search for treasure, she would never stop until she reached her goal."
Shade paused, listening to the sound of seagulls and waves in the fog. He did not wait for the blue-haired girl to be moved by the story, so he added:
"She threw the dagger into the sea."
After a pause, seeing that Miss Sandel, who was staring blankly at the red clouds in the picture, had no reaction, he continued:
"She wears a wreath on her head and holds a heart of stone in her hand. Her perseverance is not inferior to that of the elves on land, let alone the humans on land. The young princess may not understand what freedom and love are, but since she has chosen to do this, she will not regret or hesitate. She will not stop until she reaches the end. The sun is about to rise. The scorching sun may be the end, but it may also be hope. She will make a choice in the end."
Xia De sighed softly:
"Then the sun rose from below the sea level, and when the first ray of sunlight shone on Miss Sandel, she turned into colorful bubbles alone amid the celebrations of the people on the bow."
The sunlight passed through Miss Sandel's body, and she disappeared in loneliness, leaving only the wreath and the stone heart lying in the bubbles that sparkled with colorful light in the sunlight.
Xia De pursed his lips as he looked at the scene, but he would not give up so easily:
"Let's start the story from the beginning again."
He did not hear Miss Meister's voice, but the fog enveloped the scene until only Shad was left sitting alone by the campfire.
So the story repeated itself, and Shad once again told and watched the story about the mermaid princess.
Although the details are different, when the second narration comes to the end, when Miss Sandel sits alone at the stern, looking at the first ray of sunlight that is about to appear from behind the clouds, no matter how much Sandel pauses, she still does not move.
Finally, in the first rays of sunlight in the morning, Miss Sandel turned into colorful bubbles. The wreath and the heart of stone fell into the bubbles, and together they glowed slightly in the rising sun.
"Again."
The cycle continued, and at the end of the third cycle, Miss Sandel still did not move. The final ending, the wreath, the stone heart and the colorful bubbles, still sparkled in the rising sun.
The fourth story, the fifth story, the sixth story. Even though the Tree Father gave a full hour this time, and even though the previous actions did not take too long, time is still passing.
Even the bored cat curled up in Shade's arms stuck its head out to see what Shade was doing, but after watching the story once, it lost interest in it.
Shad has always been looking forward to Miss Sandel being able to think of herself from the story of the Little Mermaid, and think of her feelings and persistence that led her to this point step by step.
But even though the wreath and the heart of stone continued to resonate with the bubbles as Shad had expected, Miss Sandel never once raised her hand to stop the first ray of sunlight from shining on her for the sake of her own life.
Xia De could feel that in the interpretation of the story, her expression was gradually becoming natural, and the emotional changes described in the story were gradually becoming real. But even if the stone became warm, it still could not completely turn back into a living person.
As the thirteenth reenactment of the story draws to a close, Shad's time is running out in this sea of sand.
He finished telling the end of the story, and then watched the first ray of sunlight shine on Miss Sandel's face. Then the colorful bubbles, flower crowns, and stones fell onto the deck again, and the story once again came to its original ending.
This time, Shade did not ask to start over. Instead, he frowned and thought over the bonfire. After a moment, he muttered to himself:
"Am I really being a little arrogant to want to use Miss Shandel's persistence to fight against the fate and power of the ancient gods that have already appeared?
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