Chapter 22

“What the hell…?” 

I turned my head in fright the moment I felt the head of a very large king cobra which had suddenly come alive behind me. It didn’t seem offended by my nasty behavior but rather hissed and slithered, spreading its large hood. In a split second, the last mermaid appeared, pushed me back into my chair, and snarled at me to stop disgracing myself. 

“You are now a member of the Marine Brothers Society. That’s the chair your invisible double will sit on whenever he comes here. You’ll be able to invoke that king cobra into the physical world to deal with anyone you desire. 

A Marine Brothers Society initiate should not be afraid of his ‘pet.’”

She cast a look of disdain on me and soon shoved a katana from thin air into my shaky hands. While I