As the adrenaline from the reunion began to fade, Su Qinglan finally noticed something moving beneath the surface of the clear water.
She looked down through the waves, and her eyes widened in shock.
Beneath Lan Yue's waist, there was no longer a pair of legs. Instead, a long, beautiful, shimmering blue tail was gracefully sweeping back and forth, cutting through the water with ease.
"Lan Yue! Your legs!" Su Qinglan gasped, splashing slightly in her surprise. "You have a tail!"
Lan Yue's face immediately turned a bright shade of pink. She looked down at her fins and then back at Su Qinglan, feeling very shy.
"Oh... Qinglan-jie, I forgot you hadn't seen this before," she whispered, her voice embarrassed.
"We mermaid females can turn our legs into tails when we touch the sea. It is only a partial transformation, though. We cannot turn fully into a marine form like the male beastmen can. We always keep our upper bodies like this."
