Chapter 12: A Storm is Coming

“A storm!”

“A storm is coming!”

The crew shouted from outside. The ship started shaking even more violently than before.

It seemed that Gary had exited the bathroom, so I quickly got dressed. I hid in my cabin and locked the cabin door from the inside.

The storm came too suddenly, even professional sailors couldn’t predict its arrival.

With the chaotic winds outside, the rain droplets slammed onto the windows and its trails could be seen against the clear glass.

Suddenly, I saw a dark silhouette speed past my window. Its speed was shocking, unlike the speed of a normal human being. I thought it was just something being blown away by the wind.

All of a sudden, I saw a hand similar to a human’s appear on the window, the spaces between its five fingers were connected with a transparent membrane.

That was a merperson’s webbed claw!

But the moment I blinked, the hand disappeared as if I had hallucinated it. I attentively looked at the window and traced the area where the hand