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00:01Please, let me see Grandfather one last time
00:04You're the one who killed Sienna
00:06But he had gone mad
00:07You're going to the grave with her
00:09Sienna is my sister, I would never kill her
00:11I tried to explain, but Hunter wouldn't listen
00:14I could only struggle desperately toward the shore
00:17Yet Hunter dragged me back in the end
00:22And tortured me to death
00:26When I opened my eyes again
00:27I was back on the day of the pearl draw
00:30Those who drew a red pearl
00:31Would become the first female commander of the Royal Title Guard
00:36Those who drew a white pearl
00:37Would be sent to the Abyss Trench
00:39To serve as low-ranking scouts
00:41In my previous life, I drew red
00:44And married Hunter Sloane
00:46The son of the Merman King
00:49What followed was ten years of betrayal
00:51Every night while I slept
00:53They tangled together in the guest chamber next to mine
00:57Between my sister and me
00:58Whose body do you prefer?
01:02Is that even a question?
01:03Come here, baby
01:06Later, my sister was ambushed during a mission
01:09Abyssal demons tore her scales apart
01:11Hunter blamed me for choosing the red pearl
01:13Claiming it led to her death
01:15He falsified a wartime report and sold me out
01:18The Abyssal demons captured me
01:20And ripped my tail down
01:23Then he used his family's power to frame my grandfather for treason
01:27My grandfather died in chains
01:29Now, staring at the two shells holding the pearls
01:32I already knew my answer
01:34Lowering my head
01:35Tail curled beneath me
01:37In the most respectful posture, I said
01:39I choose the Abyss
01:40Let Sienna be the commander
01:42My grandfather stared at me in shock
01:44Giving up the command means giving up your marriage to Hunter
01:47Are you sure?
01:48Before I could answer
01:49The door was slammed open
01:51Hunter slipped in without warning
01:53He pulled Sienna straight into his arms
01:55Sienna
01:56Thank the gods you're alive
01:58Hunter Sloan's voice was hoarse
02:00He looked at her like she was a priceless relic he had nearly lost
02:03In front of my grandfather
02:05Hunter dropped low, tail coiled tightly beneath him
02:08His forehead touching the ground three times
02:11Lord Calloway
02:13The one I truly want to marry is Sienna
02:15I know I'm already engaged to Quinn
02:17But I don't love her
02:19Please, let me form a true bond
02:22With Sienna
02:23That was when it hit me
02:24Hunter had been reborn too
02:26Even hearing it from his own mouth
02:28My chest still burned as if scorched by salt water
02:30I hid my shock and reached out to help him up
02:33He slapped my hand away
02:35His voice thick with disgust
02:37Don't touch me
02:37I've only ever loved Sienna
02:40Don't get the wrong idea
02:41My grandfather cut in
02:43Quinn is going to the Abyss
02:44You two can set a date for the ceremony
02:47Hunter froze for a moment
02:49Then broke into a wide smile
02:50Pulling Sienna closer
02:52I can finally bond with you
02:54The tenderness in his eyes was so full it was almost overflowing
02:57I watched silently
02:59That warmth had once been mine fine
03:01It didn't matter
03:02I already had a better plan they'd see soon enough
03:05Once the hall fell quiet
03:06I escorted my grandfather back to his room
03:09Grandfather
03:10If I meet someone suitable on the front edges
03:13I'll marry there
03:14He was silent for a long time
03:16Just stay safe
03:17He finally said
03:18That's all I ask
03:19I looked at his bent back
03:21And before I could stop it
03:22My eyes began to sting
03:24In my last life
03:25He'd kept me close after the wedding
03:27So he could look after me
03:28This time
03:30I was the one who was going to protect him
03:33I quickly completed my registration with the National Guard
03:37On my way home
03:38I stopped by the coral market to buy my grandfather's favorite sweets
03:42And began planning what came next
03:44A war was about to erupt in the abyssal trench
03:47With heavy casualties
03:48I had to use my memories from my past life to change the outcome
03:52And the key to that was finding the fat shark working in the seaweed kitchen
03:56Jess Sheridan
03:57Just as I was wondering how to locate him
04:00I ran into Hunter and Sienna at the open market
04:03When Sienna fawned over the newest Tide Mirror
04:05He didn't complain once
04:07In my previous life
04:09I had begged him for weeks to come pick out a wedding dress with me
04:12Every time
04:13He brushed me off
04:14Saying he was busy serving the guard
04:16In the end
04:17I bought everything myself and carried it home alone
04:20Yet here he was
04:22Leisurely strolling through the market with Sienna
04:24Hunter
04:25Nobles shouldn't show off
04:27But I love these veils so much
04:29What should I do?
04:31Hunter's expression was gentle
04:32Without the slightest resistance
04:34Sienna
04:35If you like them
04:36I'll buy them all
04:37I gave a bitter smile
04:39Everything I had done for him before
04:41Completely worthless
04:42I turned to leave
04:44But Sienna spotted me
04:45She pulled Hunter along
04:47A smug smile on her face
04:49Quinn!
04:50What are you doing here?
04:51Grandfather already picked the wedding date
04:53You're my sister
04:55You have to come
04:56I avoided looking at their clasped hands
04:58And kept my tone steady
05:00I still need to prepare for deployment
05:01I think
05:02If you don't come
05:03I'll burn your mother's memorial conquer
05:06My vision went dark
05:07Sienna and I shared the same father
05:09But not the same mother
05:10After my mother died
05:12That conch was the only thing I had left of her
05:14Sienna knew that
05:16That's why threatening it always worked
05:18I nodded
05:19Just as I was about to leave
05:20She called out again
05:21Her gaze flicked to the pearl pendant at my neck
05:24She smiled sweetly
05:25Hunter doesn't quite have enough for the moon prism
05:28Why not use your little pendant as collateral?
05:31My face went cold
05:32My voice hoarse
05:33If you can't afford it
05:35Don't buy it
05:35This pendant is old
05:37It's worthless
05:38Hunter spoke up
05:40Sienna
05:42We can use a shell harp instead
05:43Same effect
05:44So Hunter wasn't completely without feeling toward me
05:48He knew exactly what that pendant meant to me
05:50Quinn
05:52Are you upset because Hunter and I are close?
05:55But Sienna's eyes welled with tears
05:57I just wanted a gift from you to bless our bond
06:00Her voice trembling
06:01You can't even give me that?
06:03She turned away
06:04Shoulders trembling
06:05A heartbreaking sight
06:06Hunter couldn't stand to see her upset
06:08His expression turned cold instantly
06:10Ordered me
06:11Give it to her
06:12I refused instinctively
06:14Hunter lashed out with his tail
06:16Striking my ribs
06:17I crashed into the coral
06:19He ripped the pendant from my neck
06:21And shoved it into Sienna's hands
06:23A cold smile curled at her lips
06:26She opened it
06:28Took out my mother's photograph
06:29And crushed it into powder right in front of me
06:32I lunged forward but it was too late
06:35My mother's image flickered in the current
06:37Then scattered into nothing
06:39Something inside me snapped
06:41I slapped Sienna hard
06:42She clutched her cheek
06:44Feigning shock
06:45Then began spinning lies
06:47Quinn!
06:48Why would you give me a memorial photo as a wedding gift?
06:51I know you love Hunter
06:52But you can't use something like that to sabotage us
06:55A crowd gathered
06:56As whispers
06:57Pointing fingers
06:58She's after her own sister's fiancé?
07:01Disgusting!
07:02What kind of mermaid curses her sister's engagement day?
07:04I heard none of it
07:05I collapsed to the ground
07:07Scooping up the drifting dust with trembling hands
07:10Hunter stood over me
07:12Looking down
07:12Don't think I'll pity you Quinn
07:14You know what I'm capable of
07:16I didn't answer slowly
07:17I lifted myself into the water and addressed the crowd
07:20I, Quinn Calavan, swear here and now
07:23I have no feelings for Hunter Solon
07:25I'm going to the Abyssal
07:26From this day forward we go our separate ways
07:30I went to a healer to have my wounds treated
07:33By the time I returned home
07:35Sienna was already in the dining hall
07:37Grandfather wasn't there
07:39He had gone to the Sloan estate to handle the marriage arrangements
07:42Sienna looked up at me as if nothing had happened
07:45She looked happy
07:46As though the scene she had staged at the market an hour ago didn't exist at all
07:50I walked straight back to my room
07:52The pearl cabinet stood open
07:54A sense of dread hit me instantly
07:56The conch was gone
07:58I lost control
07:59I rushed out
08:00Grabbed Sienna by the collar
08:01And slammed her to the ground
08:03My vision went black
08:04I punched her once
08:05Twice again
08:06I screamed
08:07My hands clamped around her throat
08:09I wanted her dead
08:10Where is my memory, Conant?
08:12Burned it
08:12Blood traced a thin line from the corner of Sienna's mouth
08:15Brewed into the seaweed furnace
08:16But her eyes gleamed with triumph
08:18Your mother was such a kind woman
08:22Even when she was dying
08:23She still lit fires to keep me warm
08:26Rage blooded me
08:27Why?
08:28I've already given you everything!
08:31It felt like my blood was burning
08:32What more do you want?
08:34Sienna shoved me off and gasped for air
08:37What I want?
08:38Do you want to know what I went through in my last life?
08:40You deserve to suffer what I did
08:42One hundred times over!
08:44So she had been reborn too
08:46I spat out blood and glared at her
08:48Last time, grandfather didn't cheat
08:49You died because of your own stupidity
08:51Still talking tough, huh?
08:54Sienna forced out a twisted sound
08:56Before I could react, she yanked me closer
09:00And struck me hard across the face
09:02Before I could pull back
09:03A kick slammed into my spine
09:05I crashed onto the reef
09:07A heavy stool came down on my head
09:09Blood ran down my face
09:10Hunter's eyes were bloodshot as he loomed over me
09:13Cursing
09:14I couldn't hear a word
09:15He pulled Sienna into his arms
09:17His hands trembling as he checked her injuries
09:20Then he slammed a shell bowl onto the table
09:22Pressed a jagged edge against my throat
09:24The dizziness faded
09:25At last, I could hear him
09:27Quinn, don't fool yourself into thinking I still love you
09:31Touch Sienna again and I wouldn't mind killing you again
09:34I lay on the floor, watching them cling to each other
09:37Nausea churned in my stomach
09:39I crawled toward the furnace
09:40The seaweed flames had already gone cold
09:43Hunter dragged Sienna over and stomped hard on my already broken hand
09:46Did I say you could leave?
09:49Apologize to Sienna
09:50Now
09:51The pain was unbearable
09:53I lifted my head, looking at Hunter's twisted face
09:56I muttered
09:57The bandage on my head was soaked through
10:00My conch
10:01He didn't hear me
10:02He just kept demanding that I apologize
10:04I gave up, I collapsed
10:05Darkness swallowed everything
10:07Eventually, Hunter lost interest
10:09He left me in the ashes and swam away with Sienna
10:12When I woke, Grandfather still hadn't returned
10:15I did everything I could to bandage myself
10:18Then dragged my battered body into the current
10:20Rushing toward the abyssal trench
10:22Time was running out
10:24I had to find Jess Sheridan
10:26The current carried me to the trench outpost
10:28And then I blacked out again
10:29When I came around an ugly overweight shark man was sitting beside me
10:34My heart pounded as I called his name
10:36Jess Sharon
10:37The shark flinched
10:39Its dark eyes fixed on me warily
10:44Catching my breath, I told him about the coming war
10:46Describing it as visions from a dream
10:49In my last life, I had learned from Sienna that he was the son of the sea god
10:53An accident had drained him of his power
10:56And sealed him inside the body of a shark man
10:58To keep him safe, the sea god had arranged for him to blend in among the frontline kitchen crew
11:04While a solution was sought
11:05Nobody here knew his true identity
11:08Behind his back, they called him Fatfin
11:10Or just the Pudgy One
11:12Right now, the most important thing was to earn his trust
11:15And get him to take me to the true god of the sea
11:18Will you marry me?
11:19The moment the words left my mouth
11:21Jess narrowed his eyes
11:23The next second, he turned to call for the guards
11:25Panicking
11:26I grabbed him
11:27And fell off the bed
11:28My wound split open
11:29But I didn't care
11:30My name is Quinn Calloway
11:33My mother was an ocean witch
11:35I know a way to restore your true form
11:37Jess studied me with suspicion
11:38And put me through question after question
11:40Until he was satisfied I wasn't an enemy agent
11:43I'll need to think about it
11:45A few days later, Sienna and Hunter's wedding took place
11:48Hunter sat in the room, distracted
11:50Constantly asking who had arrived
11:53After the guests had left, he went to find Grandfather
11:55Trying to keep himself composed
11:57Lord Calloway
11:58Where is Quinn?
12:00Today is her sister's engagement ceremony
12:02Why didn't she come?
12:03Grandfather looked around the empty hall and sighed
12:06You expect her to sit here and watch the man she loves being intimate with her own sister?
12:12Hunter's heart dropped
12:13He suddenly remembered that night
12:15The argument, the way I had crawled toward the furnace
12:18Before he could ask anything else
12:20A messenger fish rushed in
12:22Waving a scroll wrapped in the current
12:25Lord Calloway!
12:26Official orders from the Abyss Command!
12:28Quinn is married!
12:30Hunter could hardly believe it
12:32He snatched the scroll
12:33Who is married?
12:39The little courier fish grinned, innocent as ever
12:42Why Big Sister Quinn's?
12:44There's a command seal on it and everything
12:47Brother Hunter, what are the odds?
12:50Both your weddings on the very same day
12:52Hunter felt his heart skip
12:54He turned the scroll over and over
12:56Read that name again and again
12:58Then collapsed onto the coral floor
13:00The girl who had once sworn she would never love anyone but him
13:04Had turned around and bound herself to someone else
13:07He remembered that night
13:09Me on the floor, covered in blood
13:11Dragging myself toward the seaweed furnace with a sickly look on my face
13:15And in a flash the image overlapped with one from his last life
13:18Me on the ground, my torn tail trailing behind me
13:22Prostrating in front of him and begging
13:24She has someone she loves now
13:26Hunter sat there muttering to himself, gazed
13:28How can she marry someone else?
13:31Hunter cut his own finger and sent the blood out
13:34A forbidden tracking spell
13:36But the ocean didn't answer
13:38He'd forgotten that I was the daughter of an ocean witch
13:41The forbidden tracking spell was one I'd taught him in our last life
13:45And I had long since erased my own traces
13:48And then, while Hunter sat there in despair
13:50He saw Sienna
13:51Sienna was drunk, her eyes glassy
13:54She pulled him up off the floor with a soft voice
13:56What's wrong?
13:57What are you doing sitting down there?
14:00Hunter stared at her, dazed
14:02Then something cool flickered in his eyes
14:04The next second, his hand cracked across her face
14:07Quinn's mother's memory conch
14:09Where is it?
14:10It can find Quinn!
14:14Sienna sobered up instantly
14:15She held her cheek
14:17Staring at Hunter in disbelief
14:19What? Hunter?
14:20I've never even seen that thing
14:22Hunter knocked her hand away and slapped her again
14:24I'm asking you where the memory conch is
14:26Where did you hide it?
14:28Sienna was speechless
14:29She covered her face
14:30Tears poured down
14:32Why would I ever touch anything of Quinn's?
14:34She said this place wasn't her home anymore
14:37She must have taken it with her
14:39Hunter's vision blacked out
14:40He pressed a hand to his chest
14:42She...
14:43She isn't coming back
14:45Suddenly he staggered to his feet
14:47Didn't even go back to the bridal chamber
14:49Swam straight to the Sloan estate
14:51Grabbed a travel pack
14:53And tore off for the Tideway station
14:55Sienna chased after him in a daze
14:57And threw herself in his path
14:58Hunter, where are you going?
15:01This is our wedding day
15:02Hunter wouldn't even spare her a glance
15:04Move
15:05I want to see with my own eyes who Quinn married
15:07A flash of resentment crossed Sienna's eyes
15:10She clamped onto his tail fin and refused to let go
15:13You're still thinking about her?
15:15You regret marrying me?
15:16Hunter shook her off impatiently
15:18I don't have time for this
15:20Move
15:20When force didn't work
15:22Sienna changed her face in a heartbeat
15:24And started packing his bag for him
15:26Fine
15:27I'll go with you
15:28I was wanting to see Quinn myself anyway
15:30At that, Hunter's face softened
15:33He let her come along
15:34But they'd barely reached the entrance to the Tideway station
15:37When a squad in silverscale armor stopped them
15:40At the head of the squad was Hunter's father
15:42General Sloan himself
15:44The general's quiet authority made Sienna shrink her tail back
15:47And even Hunter didn't dare open his mouth
15:50Go home
15:51I won't say it twice
15:52Hunter didn't dare defy his father
15:54He and Sienna had to slink back home
15:57Frustrated
15:58Soon after
15:59The front in the abyssal trench grew so unstable that they couldn't have gone even if they'd tried
16:04Meanwhile, Jace and I were spending busy but fulfilling days down in the abyss
16:09In the beginning, marrying Jace really had been a partnership and nothing more
16:13It was the fastest way I could think of to earn the Sea God's trust
16:17That war in my last life had killed half of our kind down here
16:21I had to save them
16:22Marriage of convenience or not
16:24Jace still gave me a grand ceremony
16:26After we wed, I told the Sea God every detail I remembered about the coming war
16:31He was skeptical at first
16:33But I correctly predicted several events in a row
16:35And eventually he chose to believe me
16:37In the end, we won decisively
16:40After that battle, I was made battalion commander of the Northwest Forces
16:43The Sea God set up a coral cottage just for the two of us
16:47So Jace and I could look after each other
16:49I took the risk of going down into a deep sea volcano
16:52To find a fairy herb that blooms only once every hundred years
16:56And I poured power into it using my witch's soul pearl
16:59Day after day of treatment, his shark seal broke
17:03And his Sea God's power slowly returned
17:05I had never seen a more perfect male merman in my life
17:08That kind of sea witch craft tears at the body especially hard
17:12And I took the backlash from treating Jace
17:15I needed a full month of recovery to come back to myself
17:18Through all of it, Jace stayed by my side
17:20Day after day, Jace was careful and gentle
17:23The sea greens chowder he made tasted like nothing else
17:27I only learned later that he had been secretly feeding me a sacred elixir
17:31One meant only for the Sea God
17:33Under his care, I grew stronger
17:35And my battlefield records kept getting better
17:37When we first married, people at the front called us
17:41The beggar and the fat pig
17:42But no one laughed at us anymore
17:44Now they all said we were meant for each other
17:47The nickname for Jace had gone from fat shark to big bro
17:50I was still not entirely thrilled with that one
17:53But Jace just laughed
17:54Don't worry about them
17:56In my eyes, you're a goddess
17:57Quiet days like that went on for half a year
18:00Until I happened to see Hunter and Sienna outside the outpost
18:03I just picked up medicine from the healer
18:06When I ran straight into the two of them
18:08Prowling around outside the outpost
18:10Our eyes locked
18:11Hunter sprinted toward me at once
18:13He didn't spare a thought for the Sienna right beside him
18:17He just pulled me into his arms
18:19Quinn!
18:20I knew you weren't married
18:21You still care about me
18:23Sienna's face went dark in an instant
18:25Hunter didn't notice a thing
18:27I stepped back quickly
18:28Putting space between us
18:30Sorry
18:31My husband is at home waiting
18:33I need to go
18:34Hunter's body locked up
18:36He stared at me, blank
18:37Just then a few of my comrades swam past
18:40They spotted me and grinned
18:41Throwing me casual salutes
18:43Commander Quinn?
18:44Who are these two?
18:45Big bro wasn't feeling well today
18:47So he wasn't in the kitchen
18:48I am dying for that sea greens chowder of his
18:52The moment Sienna heard big bro
18:54She clapped a hand over her mouth
18:55Like she'd seen a ghost
18:57Sis, your husband isn't the
18:59That fat shark from the seaweed kitchen is you?
19:02I frowned
19:03Watch how you speak
19:04He is not a fat shark
19:06Sienna scoffed
19:07Her eyes dripping with contempt
19:09Quinn, everyone knows there's a fat shark in the seaweed kitchen
19:12Grinning like an idiot all day
19:14Came out of nowhere
19:15Some country nobody
19:16Sure it stings that you didn't get to marry Hunter
19:19But is it really worth degrading yourself like this?
19:22My expression hardened
19:23The comrades who'd been passing by stopped walking
19:26They didn't look pleased
19:27And who exactly are you two?
19:29How do you even know big bro?
19:31These two are newlyweds
19:32They're happy together
19:33Don't you think you're going a little too far?
19:36Watching everyone take my side
19:37Sienna ground her teeth in fury
19:39Hunter stepped forward
19:41His voice catching
19:42You really did marry someone else?
19:44You're really not coming home?
19:45I looked at his wounded little face
19:47And felt nothing at all
19:49Hunter, my parents are gone
19:50This is my home now
19:51You're the one who said you only ever loved Sienna
19:54So what are you doing here?
19:56Last life and this life both
19:57He never knew what he actually wanted
19:59Hunter clamped down on my arm and wouldn't let go
20:02Just as we were locked in that standoff
20:04A comrade swam up supporting Jace
20:07Who was burning with fever
20:08When Jace saw me hemmed in like that
20:10He tensed up at once and pushed his way over
20:13The Jace of today had long since shed the bloated body the seal had given him
20:17He stood tall and lean, sharp-featured with a brilliantly shimmering tail
20:22I touched his still-hot forehead, my chest aching with worry
20:25You're sick, and you're out wandering around?
20:28Sienna rushed up and stared at the tall, broad-shouldered, sharply-chiseled Jace
20:33So shocked she could barely speak
20:35Who are you?
20:37Where's the fat shark?
20:38Jace fixed her with a wary stare
20:40And who are you?
20:41You forced your way into the outpost
20:43You're crowding the battalion commander
20:44I am well within my rights to treat you as a spy
20:47Sienna seemed to crack right there
20:49Screaming in disbelief
20:50You're the battalion commander?
20:53How are you the commander?
20:54You should have been caught by the abyss demons
20:56Torn apart, broken
20:58How can you possibly be the commander?
21:01Everyone stared as Sienna came apart
21:03Her ranting growing more deranged
21:05Their faces darkened
21:07Hunter looked at Jace standing beside me
21:09And turned green with jealousy
21:10Quinn
21:12You
21:12My husband is sick
21:14You'll have to excuse us
21:16Jenny, could you deal with these two for me?
21:18I'm taking J home
21:19With that, I took Jace's hand and turned for home
21:22Hunter tried to follow
21:24But the others closed in around them with practiced ease
21:27Armed and ready
21:28Mindful of his father, Hunter didn't dare push it
21:31Back home, I brewed up Jace's medicine and fed it to him a careful spoonful at a time
21:36He blinked at me, sneaking glances, testing the words out before he spoke
21:40Those two who came today, are they relatives of yours?
21:43My hand stilled, I nodded
21:44Yes, my sister and her husband
21:46Probably came up from back home
21:48Jace hesitated
21:49But you said you didn't have any family
21:51I was quiet for a long moment
21:53Those terrible scenes from my last life crowding back in
21:56I didn't know how to explain
21:58Jace saw my mood drop
22:00Just pulled me gently into his arms and told me it was alright
22:03I tilted my chin up and kissed the corner of his mouth
22:06Thank god I have you
22:07Right then, a commotion broke out beyond the door
22:10I tucked him in and swam out to look
22:12The guards had let Sienna and Hunter into the courtyard
22:15Both of them were looking at me with that smug tilt of the chin
22:20Commander, Officer Sienna says she'd like to see you
22:23It was only then that title registered
22:25Sienna was in the Royal Tide Guard now too
22:27Hunter glanced toward the window
22:29Then took up that won't be questioned tone again
22:32Quinn, you can't be eating well or sleeping hell in the abyss
22:36Come home with me
22:37What good can a quarter man man from the seaweed kitchen possibly do for your career
22:42I'll talk to my father
22:43Get you transferred back
22:45You'll live with us
22:46I looked at him in disbelief
22:48The whole thing was absurd
22:49I turned to walk away
22:51And Sienna sidled up and gripped my wrist
22:53Whispering against my ear
22:55Mom's memory conch
22:56Don't want it back anymore?
22:58My gaze sharpened
23:00I turned my head and stared her down
23:02You said last time you'd burned it
23:04You were lying?
23:05Sienna straightened up and pitched her voice back to normal
23:08When you've made up your mind
23:10Come to the black coral forest
23:12I'll be waiting whenever you're ready to come home sis
23:14She took Hunter's arm to leave
23:16Hunter cast a complicated look at me
23:18But in the end he followed Sienna out
23:21I stood rooted there
23:22My thoughts running in a thousand directions
23:25I glanced back in at Jace
23:27Fast asleep
23:28Dropped a soft kiss on his forehead
23:30And turned in the direction of the black coral forest
23:33The whole way there the water was empty
23:35Hardly a soul in sight
23:37I gripped the trident Jace had forged specially for me
23:40Pushing forward by the moonlight
23:41Filtering down through the surface
23:43Every nerve tight
23:44I reached the mouth of the black coral forest
23:47Still no one in sight
23:49Just as I was about to turn back
23:51Something heavy slammed into my tail fin
23:53My body twisted on instinct to dodge
23:56And I tumbled down into a wide coral pit
23:58I looked up
23:59And there was Sienna that eerie smile on her face
24:02And the water blade spear she had leveled at me
24:05I made myself sound calm
24:07What do you think you're doing?
24:09Killing a fellow officer this close to command?
24:11Do you understand what they'll do to you?
24:14Sienna stared down at me
24:16The jealousy and disgust in her voice impossible to hide
24:19You should have been dead in the first place
24:21Why is it that even with a second life
24:24Everything still comes easy for you?
24:26Hunter is still thinking about you
24:28What is so special about you?
24:30All I need is for you to die
24:32And everything is mine!
24:34She swung the spear and the currents around her
24:37Twisted hard, fish scattered
24:38The water churned at the reefs
24:41And pulled itself into a blade that lanced toward me
24:46I twisted aside and stared at her in shock
24:49Are you out of your mind?
24:51Doing this could pull the enemy right down on us!
24:54I could see clearly now
24:55Sienna's hatred for me had reached its peak
24:58The most important thing for me to do right now
25:00Was get my mother's memory conch back
25:03I'll ask one more time
25:05Where is the concha?
25:07Sienna laughed coldly and crouched down
25:09So she could look at me from above
25:12You actually believed that?
25:14The conch was burned that very day
25:17Oh, and by the way, I should mention
25:20Grandpa hasn't been doing too well while you've been away
25:23Hearing about Grandpa made me see red
25:25This life, I've given you everything you wanted!
25:28Why would you go and hurt Grandpa?
25:31Sienna's face turned dark in an instant
25:33Her eyes burning
25:34Not enough
25:36You know what I was thinking right as I died last time?
25:39If I can't be happy, none of you get to be happy either
25:43So I used my last breath to write a forged letter to Hunter
25:47I told him you and Grandpa had been pulling strings together
25:51Just to get the Sloan and family to hand you a rank
25:55I told him the reason Hunter's grandfather died expectedly
25:59Was that you switched out his medicine!
26:01Sienna, you've lost your mind
26:04Is there one word of truth in your mouth?
26:07Sienna laughed almost manically
26:08So what if there isn't?
26:10So what if I did it?
26:12I was jealous
26:14I was jealous of you
26:16Why should every single person love you and worry about you?
26:21In any case
26:22Hunter has always believed every word out of my mouth
26:26I listened to her rave
26:28My heart aching for the Grandpa of my last life
26:30And pulled in a deep breath
26:31You think Grandpa didn't know it was you?
26:34You think General Sloan couldn't have tracked you down if he'd wanted to?
26:39Grandpa specifically sent you to the Abyss as a scout
26:44So the Sloans wouldn't be able to reach you
26:46And this is how you repay him?
26:49You have no idea how much my father and Grandpa left behind
26:53Just to keep you alive
26:55You know nothing
26:56You haven't come home a single time to ask
26:59Sienna listened
27:01Slowly going still
27:02I was panting
27:03Do you have any idea where Hunter dragged Grandpa in my last life to torture him?
27:10How dare you?
27:11She wrapped her arms around her head and shook it desperately
27:14But it didn't last
27:15She slid right back into that sneering look
27:18Her eyes full of murder
27:19I don't care!
27:21I never imagined Jace would turn out so good looking this time around
27:26Once you're dead
27:27I'll divorce Hunter
27:28And marry him!
27:30Her water pistol leveled at the center of my forehead
27:32I raised my trident too
27:35Our eyes locked
27:36Sienna
27:37We're sisters
27:38Does it really have to come to this?
27:40She laughed wild and loud
27:42Sisters?
27:43Fine!
27:44Then surely Big Sister wouldn't mind paving the way for her little sister!
27:50The moment she said it
27:52The currents twisted again
27:54I shut my eyes tight
27:55But in the end I couldn't bring myself to strike her
27:59And yet the one who fell was Sienna
28:02She crumpled stiffly into the coral pit
28:04Blood spreading from between her scales like ink through water
28:08I stared frozen
28:09Calling her name over and over
28:11But the one who pulled me up out of that pit was Hunter
28:17In his hand was a bow
28:18The same bow I had once made for him by hand at the Ocean Academy
28:22The one I'd worked at until my fingers were raw
28:25Just to win his favor
28:26Watching Sienna's blood keep flowing
28:28I scrambled to lift her
28:30And get her back to the outpost medical bay
28:32Hunter blocked my way
28:34Quinn
28:34She owes you a life
28:36She doesn't deserve to be saved
28:38I glared at him
28:39My eyes broke
28:39You're the one who owes me a life
28:41Why isn't it you lying there?
28:44In that moment I looked at him with the same kind of hate Sienna had aimed at me
28:48By the time Jace and a few of my comrades arrived
28:51Sienna had already stopped breathing
28:53I sat on the coral floor cradling her body
28:56The eyes that had been so steady a moment ago were full of tears
29:00Jace came over
29:01He didn't say a word
29:02He just pulled me gently into his arms
29:05My comrades pinned Hunter to the ground, ready to deal with him right there on the spot
29:09I shook my head and looked up at Jace
29:12I want to see the sea god
29:13Jace blinked, then he nodded
29:15Our whole group moved as one, swimming for the royal court
29:18Meeting Jace's father this way was a scene I had never pictured
29:22I told the sea god everything, start to finish
29:25I also told him who Hunter really was
29:27The sea god stepped forward and looked Hunter in the eye
29:30What came out of his mouth surprised everyone
29:33You have failed your dead mother, Hunter
29:36Hunter stared at the sea god and broke apart completely, sobbing
29:40It wasn't until later that I learned
29:42The sea god General Sloane and Lady Sloane had been comrades through life and death
29:47In one of their fiercest battles, Lady Sloane had thrown herself bodily in the way to save the sea god's
29:53life
29:53He'd meant to visit General Sloane ever since
29:56But court affairs and constant reassignment had kept him from it
30:00Who could have imagined that when he finally laid eyes on Lady Sloane's only son again
30:05It would be to send him to judgment in the sea god's own court
30:08I watched Hunter quietly
30:10In the end, I didn't speak a single word in his defense
30:13Whatever else she was, Sienna had been my flesh and blood sister, two lifetimes
30:18And in both of them she had died because of him
30:21The day Hunter was executed, Jace and I watched from far away
30:26He seemed to sense me there
30:27He lifted his head, his gaze searching me out
30:30The next second, the smile at the corner of his mouth froze in place forever
30:34A few years later, the abyss war finally quieted down
30:38I brought Jace back to my old home
30:40Grandpa was more stooped than he had been a few years ago
30:43He spent a lot of time alone in the coral courtyard
30:46Holding an old picture of me and Sienna, just staring at it
30:50Not long after Grandpa slipped away quietly one morning
30:53And just like that, the great old house held only me again
30:56I bowed before each tablet in the family shrine
30:59My eyes touching every one of their names
31:02Father, mother, grandpa, sister
31:04All of them, left behind in yesterday
31:06Jace was waiting outside the door
31:08When I came out from offering incense he wrapped me up in his arms
31:13This time, they really are all gone
31:15I buried my face in the curve of his neck and spoke into it
31:18Voice muffled
31:19He shook his head and led me by the hand into the small room
31:24Our daughter lay sound asleep in a seashell cradle
31:27You still have a home
31:28You still have me
31:29And our daughter
31:30I met Jace's gentle eyes and couldn't help smiling
31:33My eyes were brimming
31:35Yeah
31:36I still have a home
31:37I still have a home
31:37I am
31:38I am
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