Lucas got up and went to get another bottle, to the deck, he looked at the door of the cabins as if thinking about going to bed, but then he gathered strength and went back to the rail while muttering something to himself.

"Come on, Maximo, the water is beautiful!" He yelled the siren at her from the water, somewhat worried that his prey would escape.

"Yes, I'm going to jump, it's a great day for sailors to jump into the water, in the middle of the ocean, at night, to swim with an old acquaintance who swam to the ship..." Lucas said with irony .

Seeing that the siren came closer to the surface as if waiting for her to launch herself, Lucas quickly stopped speaking ironically, otherwise this would never end.

"But first, I need you to tell me what happened..."

"Mmmm... I don't know, Maximo, if you weren't a liar, I'd believe you" Amanda said, hesitantly.

"Well, that's it!" Lucas shouted, tired and drunk.

"I'm tired, I'm going to sleep, bye Amanda"

Seeing the prey move away, the siren got scared and quickly said, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you, but I want to look you in the eye when I tell you..."

"Hey!" Lucas, somewhat incredulous at the change in the mermaid's attitude, hurried back to the edge with his wobbly steps.

"But first, I want you to answer me, what do you suppose happened?" The siren asked, trying to catch the victim off guard even more.

"I think I fell asleep in the tavern, you left, and a slaver took the opportunity to kidnap me when he saw me sleeping drunk" Lucas said, with his usual muffled voice, which had not been heard since the change in attitude.

"What I always wanted to know is why you went away and left me alone in the tavern"

"Oh, well I just considered you annoying, you were always stuck next to me waiting for me to solve the problems of your life" Amanda said looking at Lucas, while she opened her arms, waiting for Lucas to launch himself.

Seeing that it didn't work, she continued, "You know I wanted to be a pirate again, to feel free and powerful like I was before I came to prison."

"But having you by my side just reminded me of those shitty days"

"Also, our goals were different, you just wanted to live a quiet life on the island and I wanted to sail the oceans"

"But you had promised me that we would always be together after the escape..." Lucas refuted annoyed.

"That was your other problem, you always acted like an idiot and followed me like a parasite, it was impossible to make you understand things normally" Amanda said looking at him angrily.

"Having helped me in that prison doesn't make me your slave for life, Maximo..."

"So when I had the opportunity to get rid of the parasite, I did it without hesitation!!" Amanda yelled annoyed.

"But you would have died if it wasn't for my help, I was the only one who helped you in prison..." Lucas answered, while he cried because of the drunkenness or because of the woman's words.

"You see Maximo, even now you don't understand the problem..." Amanda said looking at him with contempt

"You were only looking for someone powerful to help you escape, you did it, but you made me a kind of slave"

"Like a fool, I followed you, abandoning my dreams for a few years, but you only became more and more dependent over time..."

"But…" he tried to refute Lucas, but was violently interrupted by Amanda.

"But nothing!!, I don't understand how you managed to stay alive for so long, being an idiot who could never achieve anything by himself!!"

"Maximo, you made me your slave for years!!"

"I saved you and…" he tried to refute Lucas, but was interrupted by Amanda's increasingly loud screams.

"You didn't save me, you idiot!! You only helped me to be your slave! You wouldn't even have helped me if it wasn't because I seem to be stronger than an ordinary person!!"

"You ruined my life, Maximo..."

"And I paid you back with the same coin!!" Amanda screamed with all her lungs while she cried.

"I never left that tavern, I drugged you and sold you to the slaver to get the money for my first ship!!"

"You should regret…" Lucas tried to say with disgust.

"I don't regret it, moron!!" Amanda yelled, splashing water in Lucas's face.

"The times where I was your slave were the worst times of my life!!"

"The only thing I regret was meeting you in prison!!"

"Stop making excuses, you owe me..." Lucas tried to defend himself again

"The only thing I owe you is a bullet in the balls, Máximo!!" Amanda yelled, spitting in Lucas's face.

"You see what an idiot you are and the worst of all is that you don't notice it, it's like no matter what happens or what I tell you, you still see me as a slave!!"

"Fuck you, Amanda!!" Lucas shouted angry.

"I saved your life, and you betrayed me, you're trash like the rest of the people!!"

Lucas turned around, ready to go to the cabins to sleep, he no longer wanted to argue with this ungrateful woman.

Lucas got off the ship's rail angrily, unfortunately he stepped on an empty bottle and slipped backwards, falling off the deck.

The last thing Lucas could see as he was falling, was the 'inexperienced' mermaid, opening her arms to receive her long-awaited prey.