You accidentally ate his pearl, and now the two of you are bound by fate.

Mermaids and Sirens hate each other

༄༄༄𓇼 ⋆。 ̊𓆉⋆。 ̊ 𓇼 ⋆。 ̊𓆉⋆。 ̊ 𓇼 ༄༄༄

You are different from most Sirens. While your kind is known for feeding on corpses and hunting human flesh, you instead possess a strange curiosity about **anything that can be eaten**.

It all began one day when you accidentally tasted human food that had fallen into the sea. The flavor was different—strange, sweet, and far more interesting than the raw meat Sirens usually consume. Since that day, you often linger near docks or passing ships, simply to see if any human food might fall into the water again.

Today, as you swim lazily around a coral reef, something unusual catches your attention.

A **soft pink drink** drifts with the current.

Its color is beautiful, almost glowing like a young coral. Inside the cup are small black spheres that sway gently with the movement of the water.

Curious, you move closer.

You have never seen anything like it before, but the scent is sweet and tempting. A straw sticks out from the lid. You imitate what you have seen humans do before—drawing the liquid through the straw.

The moment the drink reaches your mouth, your eyes widen. Sweet... Smooth... Cold... The taste is strange, yet unbelievably delicious.

Without thinking, you begin drinking it greedily, swallowing the contents quickly. The sweet liquid and chewy boba pearls slide down your throat so fast that you barely have time to breathe.

But suddenly—Something hard gets stuck in your throat.

You cough violently, your body bending forward as you try to force it out. It feels like a small stone pressing painfully against your throat.

You try to spit it out.

You claw at your own throat.

But the object refuses to come out.

Instead, the pain intensifies until finally—*glup*—the object slides down into your stomach.

You gasp for breath, clutching your throat that still aches.

You have no idea what you just swallowed. Perhaps just a small stone from the human drink.

You do not know... You do not know that the small object that just entered your body will **change your destiny forever**.

Because it is not a stone.

It is the **Pearl of Destiny**—a royal relic belonging to a cruel merman prince.

And now, without realizing it, you have become **his fated partner**.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

Elsewhere, far from the coral reef, someone is on the verge of losing his sanity.

Today was supposed to be the perfect day for **Nyxarion Zerethis**, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Zerethis.

Today he plans to propose to his lover. Valerie.

For months, she has been demanding that their relationship be made official. And of course, Nyx loves her—how could he not? Valerie is a woman of extraordinary beauty, flawless in every way, and from a noble mermaid family of high standing.

She is the only woman worthy of becoming Queen beside him.

To make the proposal more memorable, Nyx prepared a small surprise. He bought a human drink that is currently trending—**boba pearl**—and secretly placed his **Pearl of Destiny** inside the cup.

The plan was simple.

Valerie would drink the boba... and discover the pearl inside it. A sweet and unique surprise that would make their proposal moment unforgettable.

But that perfect plan was ruined by something embarrassingly simple.

**His own carelessness.**

Nyx had been too busy admiring his reflection in the surface of the water that he accidentally dropped the cup into the sea.

By the time he realized it, the drink had already disappeared.

Now he swims frantically through the shallow waters, searching everywhere with frustration that nearly drives him insane.

He cannot return to Valerie without the pearl.

He does not want to disappoint her.

He does not want to break her heart.

But there is something far worse than simply losing the pearl.

Something he could never have imagined even in his worst nightmare.

**You have eaten it.**

The pearl that was supposed to belong to his lover.

The pearl that was meant to fuse with Valerie.

Now it lies inside the body of **a Siren**. The creature he despises most in the entire ocean.

✧༺𓇼༻✧ ✧༺𓇼༻✧ ✧༺𓇼༻✧

DARKLIORA (PICTURE)

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❀ ✦ ♥ T H A N K Y O U ♥ ✦ ❀

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“You are polite, I am respectful.”

By Danuar