Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure - Chapter 1949

Chapter 1949: Ancestral tomb (4)

The Merman King walked into the room without a word.

The moment that he did, there was this light that suddenly appeared.

Before this, there had only been a faint light that was in this place that didn’t seem like natural light. It was just that it was too faint to actually determine where the light was coming from, but it was also bright enough to see everything.

Only the light that was in this room was completely different.

It was clearly a kind of magical light that lit up the entire room so that it was easy for us to see everything that was here.

There were a bunch of items that were here that were giving off mana fluctuations, which showed that they were all magic items.

It was just that the Merman King wasn’t here for any of these items.

He ignored everything that was in this room and seemed to walk in a certain direction.

It was as if there was only one thing that he was interested in.

Following his gaze, I could see that there was this chest that was hidden in a corner of this room. It didn’t seem like this chest was anything special with how it appeared and it even seemed like it had been abandoned in the corner because of how normal it was.

Only this seemed to be the thing that the Merman King was heading towards.

I couldn’t help wondering just what this chest was, so I started looking carefully at it.

But no matter how I looked at it, it really seemed like it was just a normal chest.

There wasn’t even a trace of mana around it, which showed that there wasn’t even anything that was actually protecting this chest. So it really didn’t seem to make sense that this thing was so important to the Merman King.

When I looked at Ariel, she just shook her head to show that she didn’t know anything either.

I figured that this was the case since the expression on her face showed that she had never even been in this room before.

So all I could do was wait to see what the Merman King would do.

Once the Merman King was in front of the chest, he just stopped moving and looked at the chest with a complicated look on his face instead of opening it. It was as if he was almost afraid of opening this chest.

I had already figured that there was something important in this chest if the Merman King cared about it that much, but it seemed that it was much more important than I thought it was.

After a moment of silence, the Merman King said with a sigh, “When I became king, my father brought me to this room and showed me everything. That is the right that one obtains when they become the king of the Merman Empire.”

Slowly his expression became even more complicated as he said, “But this thing…he warned me to never open this thing unless our empire was in mortal danger. He said that the things in this chest should remain sealed forever unless there was something that risked tearing the empire apart.”

With another sigh, the Merman King muttered, “He said that even he didn’t know what was inside of this chest and that it contained a secret that came from the foundation of our empire.”

No matter how one listened to this, it really seemed like this was the information that had been hidden that Aestum mentioned previously.

It seemed like there was a much more complicated story behind all of this…

“We’ll step out then while you look over this.” I said all of a sudden, but I didn’t get a chance to move.

“No, stay here.” The Merman King said in a firm voice.

There was an awkward look that appeared on my face, but I still listened to him in the end.

It was clear that this was a moral dilemma for the Merman King, which was why I wanted to give him space to figure this out.

But the way that he told me to stay was as if he wanted me to be here just to be a witness.

It seemed like he wanted me here just so that there would be someone objective that could make a final call.

It was an awkward position to be put in, but he was my father in law…

“Hmph, making a big deal over all of this. This is your hidden history, it’s your past crimes. There’s no running from it.”

The kraken didn’t seem to hold back at all when it said this, but all of us just ignored it as we waited for the Merman King to open the chest.

After a long silence, the Merman King’s expression changed as if he made up his mind. With a deep breath, he said, “I’m opening it now.”

He didn’t reach out towards the chest right away and instead reached into his chest pocket to pull out a key. This key seemed to have been placed right in front of his heart, showing that he had kept it safe for the longest time.

I knew that this had been there the entire time since we had never separated after coming back.

This key was most likely something that the past king, his father had handed to him when he became king and he had protected the entire time.

The Merman King had probably never expected to ever use this key, but it seemed like he had no choice but to use this key now.

After taking out the key, he didn’t hesitate to open the chest.

Once the chest was opened, it didn’t seem like there was anything that came out of it.

The only thing that was in the chest was a bunch of carved stones that had been soaked in water. However, these stones didn’t seem to show any signs of being deformed.

It was clear that they had been made of something that was resistant to decay to have been passed down this long.

“It’s all here…” That was the first thing that the Merman King said when he picked up one of those stone tablets.

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