Vol.2 – Chapter 2 – That Time I was Reincarnated as a Mermaid

Ah...

It's cold...

Am I sleeping all this time? I start circulating pyro-attributed mana throughout my body before my internal organs freeze to death. I am so close to dying, and somehow, I am lucky I had survived. Should I even be glad that I am alive? I open my eyes and see an unfamiliar scenery.

"Fuck... My head..."

I can't help but compress my forehead a little bit. My brain must have nearly frozen. This place is just too cold that most of my body parts are numb. I scan my surroundings, absorbing the scene... The land is covered in a white sheet of snow, there is a river near me that is close to being frozen. The trees had their leaves withered and gone. No matter how you look at it, the season of this place is definitely winter. I took the sword besides me and strapped it into my back.

"Where the hell am I?"

[Dungeon Trial 28]

[Enshrouded in the embrace of death, entombed within the silent soil, she lies in eternal stillness. Seek her lifeless form, that she may at last relinquish her earthly tether and find repose for her restless mind. Her corporeal vessel, a guide to the elusive tapestry of tales stretching into the realms beyond mortal understanding, beckons the daring soul willing to embark upon the very same transcendental odyssey.]

[Find the real body of the Rotting Queen]

Shit... I've ascended! What the! Huh?

_tok tok tok... toktoktoktok_

My eyes... they are warm. When I look below at the snow, suddenly, droplets of fluids come falling out of my eyes. Am I crying?

"..."

I need to wipe it off.

_'toktoktoktoktok'_

"DAMN IT!!! Stop making that sound! It's irritating!"

I was having an emotional moment here!

"AGH! Where the fuck are my legs!?"

When I try looking behind, I realize that most of my weight is gone... in fact, I couldn't stand up! And when I look below my torso, my lower half from my waist to feet is nowhere to be found aside from my intestines!

_'tok tok'_

I look towards the source of the sound... and I see my waist behind a wood.

"..."

Our eyes come in contact... of course, the waist doesn't have eyes, but it's staring at me silently. I squint, looking at the thing in disbelief, especially the spot that is pixelated between its legs... then it starts pistoning the wood.

_'toktoktoktoktok'_

"You bastard! COME OVER HERE!" I crawl towards the legs as fast as I can, and it starts running off on its own! How the hell? "WHY THE HECK ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY!"

It seems like my lower half developed intelligence on its own. Maybe, it's really true that men have two heads, one between the shoulders and another between the legs! Is that why I couldn't control it when my sword arises? Is it because my d@ck has its intelligence!?

And so I chase it down, shit, it's too fast! I can't even properly move without feet. When we come to an elevated ground that is too slippery for me to crawl, the legs start pissing on it making it more hard to grab onto! It smells like shit!

After a while of persistent chasing, I trap him in a corner, on the edge of a cliff. Below is a gushing chaotic river full of rocks that seem to swallow everyone to death if they mess around.

"YOU! _gasp_" I try to stabilize my breath before speaking. "There's no way to run now... bastard" the smirk on my face is starting to strain. I crawl towards it slowly. Then it fucking jumped.

"N-No!" What the heck! I need to catch it before it's too late. I jump towards the gushing water as well and follow the legs in its path. I need to!

And then I realize where the gushing water leads to, "It's a waterfall!?" I'M GOING TO DIE!! Why am I always placed in a life and death situation!? When my eyes accidentally take a gaze at the land, I see my legs already on a safe spot, watching me as I get swayed by the current. DAMN IT, IT BAITED ME!

"AGHHH!"

...

"Ugh! Gha... Damn this. _Cough_ _cough_"

Lucky me, I survived the fall. But damn, my legs! MY LEGS!! I'll never ever going to forgive it!

After I finally make myself up to the land, it takes me several minutes to recover from breathlessness and shock. My head has been shaken off, which makes me aware of some key ideas I need to take note of. First of all... why am I still alive when I'm only half of my body? Did I completely turn into an infected? That's not quite it... I'm still conscious and alive. Second... my lower half moving on its own? Who the heck would have thought? Third... why am I on the upper floor? Who would have brought me here?

No... I remembered... some shadow took me. A three-headed shadow.

Ugh... Damn it all.

As I ponder, suddenly, someone just starts singing out of nowhere.

"My little legs 🎵 Where are you now? I say... 🎵"

"What the..."

The voice is from a woman; it was so high-pitched and beautiful that I've been lost in thought and started staring at the river in front of me in a daze... It was so attractive that I find myself unconsciously crawling towards the body of water.

"He's under here? You said...🎵 Come underwater 🎵"

I look below the river... It's quite blurry, but I see a face of a woman. She's... pretty... I thought. And suddenly, she grabs my head and pulls me underwater.

I struggle... and struggle. Blood is pouring up, mixing at the cold water, making the wounds more hurtful and stinging... Bubbles rising up as I struggle more with her abnormal strength that's contrary to her fragile appearance... and then I...

I...

GOT A NEW TAIL, BITCH!

I rise underwater and land on the land. It seems like a fish tail assimilated with my torso and, oh boy, I could move it and flap it however I want. I don't know how but it fucking worked!

A female body rises from the water as well, covered in blood and cut in half. Wooh, lucky I have a sword. That's what you get from trying to eat me! And... you're next...

"Legs... No matter where you are... I'm gonna hunt you down..."

You can run, but you can't hide. No matter where you go, no matter what you do, always remember that I'm following you. And I'm not going to stop even if you beg.

Always remember that you're below me, and you will always be.