How to become a mermaid

Chapter 97 My Son Called Daddy!

In a world dominated by the ocean like Auer Star, on most islands, men have more voice than women, which is a patriarchal society.

The reason is simple, because the ocean is vast, and most ordinary people make a living by fishing. Men with stronger physical strength can create more value, and naturally have a higher right to speak.

The word father represents authority in a human family.

However, this is not the case for mermaids, or even the complete opposite, because most of them are brought up by their mothers.

Male mermaids are more thoughtful than females. Simply put, they are unreliable. They like to take their children to various places for fun (to die), instead of caring for their cubs carefully like females.

It is more difficult for female mermaids to give birth than humans, and it takes at least ten years from conception to recovery, so they will give birth at most two to three times in their lifetime, and most of them will only give birth once.

The growth period of mermaid cubs is still very long, which causes every mother to have an almost paranoid desire to protect the cubs she has worked so hard to give birth to.

Even the father of the child is a source of danger in the eyes of the female in the parenting period, and the risk factor is not small, and it is something that needs to be kept away.

However, judging from the tens of thousands of years of development of the entire ethnic group, this approach seems to be correct, so this kind of tradition of raising children by mothers alone has been formed.

The role of father becomes dispensable during the development of merfolk, and most merfolk pups never get the chance to say the word until they reach adulthood.

Being able to hear a child call father is not a symbol of family authority for a male mermaid, but an honor, a kind of honor that only high-quality male fish can get!

Boqi wanted to hear Shamanlell call him father, just to get this honor.

"Son, call Dad!" Boqi hugged Shamanlael tightly, and said enthusiastically.

According to his posture, it seems that Shaman Lair will not let go if he doesn't call him father today.

"..." Shamanlael was a little speechless.

How should I put it, Boqi's character is too lively, and his appearance is too young, which doesn't make Shamanleer feel like facing his father, but like facing a "good big brother".

"Son, can you call me daddy~" Boqi saw that Shamanleir was slow to speak, and even started a soft offensive.

"Just one call, just one call! Let me listen to it, okay?" Boqi urged one after another, wanting to hear his son call daddy so much that he kept humming.

Hearing Boqi's urging, Shamanleir felt a little helpless, his father was too "fatherless", what father would beg his child to call him father!

However, this feeling does not seem bad.

Anyway, he was an orphan with no parents in his previous life, since this is the case...

In a place that Pochi couldn't see, Shamanlael's expression was tangled for a while, his mouth opened and closed, hesitating between speaking and not speaking.

"Son, don't you like me? Because I haven't grown up with you, so you hate me..."

Because he couldn't wait for his son to say what he wanted to hear, Pochi's tone obviously dropped.

As if he had given up, he let go of Shamanleir's hand in frustration, and muttered to himself: "Poqi is a failed father..."

"Boqi doesn't deserve to be called Dad, Boqi is too useless..." Boqi murmured, and the whole fish wilted down.

He swam forward in a daze, his tail flicked weakly, and the whole fish seemed to have lost its soul.

"Boqi is a useless fish, no fish would like him..." Boqi even cried out.

The voice was sad and low, as if he had suffered great misfortune.

Happy Pochi is not happy anymore.

He swam forward depressedly with his head down, but after a short swim, his figure stopped suddenly.

He felt his tail fin was caught by something, and his strength was not weak, which prevented him from swimming for a while.

Pochi looked back and found that it was his son who grabbed his tail fin.

Shamanel grabbed Pochi's tail fin with one hand, and his whole face turned red, as if he had been boiled in a pot.

He opened his mouth, but it was hard to speak.

"Son?" Pochi asked tentatively.

Under his surprised and expectant eyes, Shamanleir finally opened his mouth and whispered, "Father."

"What?! Say it again!"

The voice was so faint that Pochi almost thought he heard it wrong.

"Nothing! I didn't say anything just now!" Samantel shouted trying to cover up.

He didn't want to repeat it all over again.

Anyway, he has already yelled out, and he doesn't care if Pochi hears it clearly!

"Okay, my son is called Daddy!" Seeing Shamanlael's reaction, Pochi was sure that he had heard correctly just now.

He cheered suddenly, and jumped around in the fish tank as if he lost his mind.

All the way downriver from Moni's room, every time he passed a place, or even saw a crew member, Pochi would yell, "My son is called daddy!"

Hearing Boqi's yelling all of a sudden, the people on board were still puzzled, not understanding why the captain's mermaid went crazy.

Boqi didn't want to explain to these people either, he just wanted to inform them.

"My son is called Daddy!"

"My son is called Daddy!"

"Pochi is a great father!"

Hearing the bursts of cheers from a distance, Shamanlael's face turned blue and white.

Damn, fooled!

Shamanleir should have known earlier that Boqi had a lot of little thoughts, but when he saw Boqi's distraught back, he still couldn't help but soften his heart.

"Boqi! Don't talk nonsense! Come back!" Shamanlael swam forward vigorously, trying to stop Boqi before he announced "my son is called daddy" to the whole boat.

But Pochi is free after all, even humans can't catch him, how could he be caught by mere son!
Shamanlell chased him all the way, and Pochi slipped all the way, completely immersed in the joy of being called his father.

When Samantel passed by the infirmary, he even ran out to watch the excitement when he saw Planck.

"Doctor Seal, my son is called Daddy!" Pochi excitedly said to Plank.

He had temporarily forgotten Planck's name, and only remembered that the seal was the ship's doctor.

Seeing that Boqi told Planck about this, Shamanlell, who was chasing after him, blushed even more, and shouted angrily: "Shut up, Boqi! Don't say any more!"

It's a completely different feeling to lose face in front of strangers than to lose face in front of familiar seals.

"Boqi is an excellent father! La la la la la~" Bo Qi pretended not to hear the voice behind him, humming a little tune and continuing to run around in the fish tank.

Although he didn't quite understand what happened, Planck, who was watching this scene, still let out a burst of laughter: "Hooh~hooh~"

This simple-looking seal gave Shaman Lear a thumbs up and said with a smile:

"You...you...two...feeling...feeling...really good!"

(End of this chapter)