After the carcasses were collected, the merfolk worked quickly and efficiently, gathering every last piece into their nets before swimming off toward the only store in the entire nation of Aquis Vanlur.
From what I had gathered so far, it acted as both a market and a storage facility for the community's hunts.
I didn't follow them. Instead, I stayed with Denus. He led me back to his home—The same old cottage we had talked in before.
We settled at his dining table, where a meal was already prepared. The food? Fishes—of course. A fish eating fish… I might have found it strange once, but now that I really thought about it.
It was just another fact of life here. In the ocean, the big fish ate the small fish. That was the unchanging law of the food chain.
Naturally, there was no fire for cooking. The fish was raw, sliced into neat, bite-sized pieces for easy eating. As a side dish, there was something green that resembled kelp, though Denus told me it wasn't.
