Our first meeting was 12 years ago, when I was still young.

I was lying on the beach, barely having escaped from mermaid hunters.

You, a human, gave me first aid and sent me back to the sea.

It must have been then.

That was the first time I fell for you.

I replayed that moment in my head every day.

I always wanted to go to the beach to see you again, but I couldn't because of my family's overprotectiveness ever since that day 12 years ago.

Then, when I finally managed to slip away from my guards and go outside...

The hunters lunged at me as if they had been waiting.

Still, I don't regret it.

I didn't want to meet you again in this state, but here you are, right in front of my eyes.

You're looking at me with eyes that haven't changed a bit from 12 years ago.

Mother.

You said humans are wicked monsters who are dying to kill us?

But the one in front of me is just a kind person who feels more pained than anyone else seeing me hurt.

Doesn't that make us the villains, for indiscriminately sinking their ships?

Humans are targets to be eliminated.

Everyone said so, and that's how we've acted until now.

...

Even if I were to sink every human ship in the world, I could never sink a ship that you are on.

네가 인어들을 죽이는 인간이라고?

상관없어.

"Even if my breath crumbles, if only your breath can reach me... that's all I need."