I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1213 - 1103: Stride of Magnificence

"This... this?"

The elder mermaid was immediately taken aback upon clearly seeing the situation inside the ice chunk.

"Why is it you guys?!!!"

Hmm? You know them?

Upon hearing the elder mermaid's words, Leon's eyebrows slightly raised, and then he immediately reacted.

"Are these two the Tidal Chief and the Tsunami Chief?"

"..."

Without answering Leon's question, the elder mermaid, looking anxious, bent down and tried to touch the ice chunk encasing the other two chiefs, only to find a thin layer of frost forming on his palm.

Hurriedly withdrawing his hand, he looked around, then took a few steps back, pulled out the staff that he had casually stuck into an ice pillar earlier, and began to diligently scrape away the ice surrounding the two chiefs.

Could it be that these two heard I came to the Tidal Realm, so they followed on purpose?

Through the vague cover of the ice chunk, Leon roughly checked the body shapes inside, confirming one was a siren and the other a naga. After contemplating for a moment, he not only didn't stop the elder mermaid from saving them but also actively asked:

"You're too slow like this. Want me to help you?"

Upon hearing Leon's words, the elder mermaid's actions paused slightly, but he quickly resumed scraping with a tense expression.

"No need! I can get them out myself!"

Okay~

Facing the elder mermaid's resistance and precaution, Leon shrugged and said nothing, instead considerately moving a bit away, giving the elder mermaid space to "work."

This Cold Spring Realm... oh no, this completely unknown new realm, seems to have a vast ocean. If I want to find the Scorpio Director and Cancer Director quickly, the three old Sea Race members with water control abilities should be able to provide significant help.

Though these two new chiefs, like the old mermaid chief, probably harbor considerable hostility towards humans and may have come to deal with me, as long as they can't beat me, it won't stop them from helping me. Compared to the impending assistance, a little impoliteness is entirely forgivable.

Under Leon's patient gaze, the elder mermaid carefully scraped with the pointed staff for quite a while, finally managing to "sculpt" the heads of the two chiefs out of the ice chunk without injuring them.

"What on earth is going on!"

Like an ostrich hatched from an eggshell, stretching its neck to knock off the ice "eggshell" covering its head, before the elder mermaid could speak, the snake-haired Tsunami Chief quickly asked first:

"After passing through the sea eye, we should have arrived at the Cold Spring Realm directly, right? Where is this place?"

"I'm not too sure either..."

The elder mermaid shook his head and said:

"I only realized something was off after I got here... By the way, what's with you guys? Why did you suddenly follow over?"

"We..."

Hearing the elder mermaid's words, the Tsunami Chief hesitated slightly, stealing a glance in Leon's direction with the corner of his eye, and after him, the Tidal Chief, who also broke out of the ice chunk, retracted his bat-wing-like ocean-blue fins and explained:

"We heard you were going to check the seabed ice layer again and were worried you'd encounter danger, so we came especially to see you."

"Yes, yes!"

As the Tidal Chief finished speaking, the Tsunami Chief quickly nodded in agreement:

"We just wanted to follow along to take a look, but the moment we entered the crack in the ice layer you broke open, we were frozen solid by the sudden surge from the sea eye... By the way, what's going on with you?"

With his glowing yellow snake eyes slightly sweeping, concealed from Leon's view, the Tsunami Chief shot a suspicious glance into the distance and whispered:

"Weren't you taken—very resolutely—with ropes by that one? Why does it seem... off?"

"???"

Who told you I was tied by the Food God?

Seeing the puzzled faces of the other two chiefs, the elder mermaid was momentarily stunned, then asked in bewilderment:

"What nonsense are you spouting? Am I someone who would yield to humans? Where did you... where did you get this information from?"

"???"

Hearing the elder mermaid's question, the other two chiefs were also taken aback, then looked at each other.

"Your daughter said."

"Message from Evangelin's people."

Evangelin? She sent this message?

Upon hearing this, the elder mermaid pondered for a moment, and then his heart twisted tightly.

Oh no!!!!

However, just as the elder mermaid was shocked and prepared to inquire further, Leon, who had been waiting off to the side, stood up and walked over, greeting the other two chiefs with a peaceful expression:

"Tidal Chief, Tsunami Chief, I didn't expect you two to follow as well."

"..."x2

Seeing Leon, who took the initiative to greet them, the two chiefs who weren't entirely free from their predicament immediately froze slightly, one giving an awkward nod nearly smaller than a mosquito's wingbeat; the other murmuring inaudibly, voice buzzing like a fly.

Heh.

Facing the rather impolite response from these two "insect tribe" chiefs, Leon didn't mind and smiled before turning to the anxious elder mermaid:

"Flowing Vortex Ancestor, should you have finished your discussion? Could you help me with something next?"

"???"

"The purpose of my visit to the Sea Race should be clear to everyone."

Ignoring the surprised and resistant looks of the three Sea Race elders, Leon calmly continued:

"Regarding the freezing issue in the great sea, we've almost pinpointed the problem. We just need to seal this sea eye temporarily. But our investigation board directors, Scorpio and Cancer, are still missing, so next, I hope you three can help me..."

"I refuse!"

"This... I'm afraid it's not possible.

Before Leon could finish, the other two chiefs shook their heads, refusing in succession.

After calming slightly, the snake-haired Tsunami Chief raised his head first, with dozens of snake eyes staring directly at Leon, resolutely saying:

"While we don't wish to oppose the Bureau, it doesn't mean I'm willing to help you!"

Next, the Tidal Chief nodded, with a hint of fear in his expression but still speaking firmly:

"Same here. Whether it's me or my tribe, we've been harmed by you humans before, so I absolutely won't..."

"I'll help you!"

"???"x2

In the astonished gaze of the other two chiefs, the most steadfast anti-human figure among the sea tribe, their "rescued" target on this trip, and the elder mermaid, who was suspected to have been kidnapped by the Bureau's Food God, gritted his teeth and said:

"As long as you send these two back immediately, I'll stay and help you find your people!"