Chapter 1

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Chapter 1: This is a fish

Translator: yuzu

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You are standing in front of the stairs of a very luxurious yet dubious store. A light blush covers your pale face, and you pinch the hem of your skirt nervously with your fingers, looking extremely uncomfortable and embarrassed.

There is a handsome-looking youth dressed like a waiter, with a pair of curved black horns growing out of his temples and a pair of pointed black bat wings folded behind his back. The tips of his wings hang close to the ground. A cute triangular devil’s tail is raised behind him, swaying from side to side, as if slightly excited.

The young man who looks exactly like a demon grins at you, flashing a seductive and teasing smile. “Lovely Miss Human1, are you here to play?”

“U-Um…”

You back off a few steps in panic, your voice weak and almost trembling. “M-My sister is inside… Could I bother you to pass along a message, and tell her to come home soon?”

“Ai, that’s not okay.2” The young demon seems to find this amusing, and he touches his chin as he watches your helpless distress with a smile. “Even though you’re very cute, we’re only responsible for serving guests. Passing messages for others isn’t part of our job description.”

You bite your lip in disappointment.

“But there’s no problem with letting you in.”

When you hear the young demon’s words, you immediately lift your head and look at him hopefully.

The young demon laughs, and the smile on his face deepens a little.

“As long as you’re a guest of our store, it’s fine if you come in and splurge a bit.”

You look at the unspeakable sign board that hangs casually in front of the store, and fall into a silence, unable to say a word.

Even though you’ve lived in this world for many years, you still haven’t accepted how abnormally promiscuous this world is.

When you were first reborn in this world, you were also unbelievably thrilled by the novelty of a fantasy universe filled with elves, demons, vampires, merfolk, and many other unimaginable species that lived together peacefully. But as you grew older and became more familiar with this world, your initial curiosity and intrigue turned into deep embarrassment and awkwardness.

For instance, the multiracial and fully legal male brothel in front of you even had a selection of elves, angels, mermaids, and more. Based on your impression, weren’t these pure and virtuous races supposed to lack carnal desires? If they came here to be prostitutes at a male brothel, it could only mean one thing, and it totally ruined your image of them!!

“Poor little Miss, why do you have such strange thoughts? If they didn’t have carnal desires, how would they reproduce for the next generation? Besides, don’t you think that having sex with non-human races is very thrilling? Come, come, have your sister show you the world, and the first time will be my treat!”

When you are reminded of your sister’s boldness, you can’t help but cover your face in shame.

This is because your sister is a frequent customer of this brothel.

Although she is a high-level swordsman with a hefty salary, most of her monthly income goes into the pockets of prostitutes. She frequently needs to come to you in order to have something to eat.

What makes you even angrier is that sometimes your sister will beg to borrow money from you, and then immediately run to the brothel to throw it all away. You often worry that your sister will be detained in the brothel for running out of money, and then be forced to sell her body to repay her debts. As such, you came here looking for her.

After all, she is your sister. No matter how frustrating she is, you still worry about her.

“Is this Little Miss’s first time coming to this type of place?” The young demon leading the way in front of you suddenly speaks up.

You don’t know how to answer, so you respond with a vague “umm.” You lower your head, your ears flushing slightly, and you don’t even dare look around.

“No wonder… you smell delicious.”

The young demon suddenly chuckles. He licks his lips, his deep voice seductive and low.

“…I really want to eat you up.”

You are shocked witless, and you frantically look up, only to find that the young devil stopped walking at some point. He stands in front of you, staring mysteriously at you.

“It’s illegal to eat humans!” You stare at him warily, and subconsciously clench the staff in your hand.

Although this city allows other races to live here legally, human beings are also protected as the original inhabitants. If a nonhuman individual is discovered attacking or killing a human, they will be driven out of the city, added to the blacklist of all major cities, and be forbidden from stepping into the human world again.

The young demon stares blankly, but then he covers his mouth and laughs softly. “Little Miss is too cute. I didn’t mean eating you in the way that you’re thinking.”

You suddenly understand what he means by the other way of eating.

Since you are as innocent as a blank sheet of paper and have absolutely zero love experience, your entire face suddenly turns red.

“Sorry, I…” Just as you are about to tactfully decline the young demon’s ambiguous invitation, you suddenly encounter an enormous glass tank of water right against the corridor. It looks to be about as large as a private swimming pool.

Of course, what attracts your attention more is the incredible creature that slowly swims inside the water tank, beautiful and breathtaking like a living dream.

It has a long fish tail lined with silver-blue scales, silky silver hair, and ears like fins. Its skin is pale without the slightest trace of veins. A nearly transparent webbed membrane fills the gap between its fingers, which is otherwise nearly human.

A mermaid!

A legendary mermaid!

This is the first time you’ve ever seen a real living mermaid. Your eyes widen in awe, and you press your hands against the glass like a child that has never seen the outside world, staring at the mermaid inside.

As if it noticed your gaze, the mermaid swimming in the water suddenly turns around. It faces you from straight ahead.

Your gaze crosses its flat chest, and then stops at the mermaid’s face.

This is a male mermaid.

Then you feel a little dizzy.

When the huge yet delicate silver-blue fish tail glides towards you, you suddenly recover your senses. As the merman’s impossibly gorgeous face gets closer and closer to you, you can’t help but to blush.

He’s seriously too pretty!

It makes sense why mermaids are legendary fantasy creatures. They are the embodiment of beauty from head to tail, and just by watching the way this one swims, you think that these creatures must be blessed by God.

As for the merman in front of you, you stare at him as if entranced by a perfect work of art, without any indecent or other evil thoughts. You innocently admire his beauty.

But unlike you, his eyes are hardly so “innocent” as they look at you.

You had forgotten that no matter how beautiful this merman was, he is still male, and he is a man who works at a male brothel.

It isn’t until the merman swims in front of you that you realize that he is quite big. If you include the length of his tail, he’s almost three meters tall. In order to match your height, he leans down, blocked by a layer of glass. His ice-blue pupils dart around as he examines you.

You feel a little shy as he looks at you. You can’t help but reveal a friendly smile, trying to be nice to this beautiful mermaid.

The male mermaid is stunned by your smile, and he stares at you directly. Those cold ice-blue eyes gradually melt into a deep and dark glimmer.

His lips move a few times, as if saying something.

You cannot hear his voice, but you can’t help but move closer, the tip of your nose almost touching the glass.

The merman also draws closer to your face. Then he touches the glass over your lips.

Even though you are separated by a layer of glass, you feel like you’ve been kissed. Your face flushing, you push away as if shocked with electricity.

The merman seems to find teasing you amusing. He licks his fingertips, but his eyes are still locked on you, harboring a certain vague and hardly disguised gaze of scorching desire. It’s full of lust and obscenities that make your blood run cold.

You suddenly have a weird vision. If it weren’t for this layer of glass blocking him, this merman already regarded you as a female that he wanted to mate with. He’d use his strong and powerful tail to bind your body like prey, and then sink his sharp teeth into your neck. After you lost your strength struggling, he’d drag your limp body back to his lair for his wanton enjoyment.

“Ai, Segon is actually in estrus with you?”

The surprised sigh of the young demon comes from behind you.

You don’t quite understand why he is so surprised. The young demon smiles at you, somehow understanding your confusion. “Mermaids are a dispassionate race. Aside from having sexual desire during breeding season, they rarely enter estrus.”

He reaches out with his hand, picks up a strand of your black hair, and sniffs it slightly. “Little Miss is very attractive.”

You feel a bit uneasy with the demon’s sexually ambiguous and teasing behavior. Just as you are about to pull your hair back from the demon, there is a loud and violent crash from inside the water tank.

You turn around in a panic, and find that the mermaid is furious. He slams his tail against the glass, as sharp claws extend from his webbed fingers. Brimming with aggression and anger, his burning eyes glare hatefully at the young demon.

“Oof, I told the manager a while ago that it was a bad idea to recommend a race like mermaids, who are highly possessive towards their mates.”

The young demon sighed in vexation, “This is a bit troublesome.”

Facing the mermaid’s rampage, you are a bit at a loss. Since the mermaid struck the glass so hard, some beautiful scales on his tail shattered into pieces, and a faint trace of blood floated in the water. This makes you feel a little disturbed.

“Um… can you please calm down?” You look at the merman, and plead quietly.

Actually, you don’t think that your words will make any difference. You simply just can’t bear to watch this.

But to your surprise, this merman really seems to understand your request. He gradually recovers from his berserk state, but his eyes remain deeply and passionately fervent as they stare at you.

Author’s notes:

My brain has a bunch of plots.

Translator’s notes:

Miss Human (小妹妹): In the raw, the demon refers to the protagonist as “Little Sister”, which is a common way for people to refer to younger girls in an endearing way in China. For localization purposes, I’ve translated this as “Young Miss” or “Little Miss”.The demon has a casual style of speech. Incidentally, the protagonist speaks formally.

This is a teaser right now! There will probably be some more chapters, but I’m not translating this as my main project right now.

Do you want an otome game recommendation? If you like this “brothel” setting, The Men of Yoshiwara games are similar~

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