I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1193 - 1091: Manipulation?

"Your Majesty, Wendy."

After listening to Miss Salty Fish recount the general situation over the past two days, Leon's good-natured expression suddenly turned into a frown.

"You mean... your grandfather plans to flip the Sea Eye and throw all those problematic icebergs from the Tidal Realm into reality?"

"Yes!"

Miss Salty Fish nodded and said:

"And not only that, but he also plans to collaborate with the heads of two other great sea descendants, regardless of the Sea Race aside from the main three. Once the flip is complete, they intend to completely seal off the Sea Eye and entirely divide the Tidal Realm from reality!"

"I see..."

Leon frowned and said:

"I have a question I don't understand and want to clarify."

"Go ahead and ask."

Miss Salty Fish nodded, secretly determined that, at this final chance to stop her grandfather's recklessness, she would lay everything out no matter what Leon asked.

"What exactly is the Sea Eye?"

"???"

Uh, aren't you a director of the Cleaning Bureau? I even mentally prepared for this, and your question is too basic, isn't it?

Seeing Miss Salty Fish's somewhat bewildered expression, clearly not expecting this question, Leon coughed slightly and said earnestly:

"I really don't have much contact with the Sea Race. You and Madam Evangelin are the only two sea folk I've met, and I'm even less informed about other things, so you'll probably have to explain in more detail."

"..."

Alright then... although the question is a bit too basic, the fact that he's willing to ask shows that he's inclined to help, so that's good news.

After comforting herself mentally for a moment, Miss Salty Fish took a deep breath and began explaining:

"Simply put, the Sea Eye is the source of ocean water. Every sea in reality originates from its own Sea Eye."

Does every sea have its own Sea Eye?

Hearing this, Leon pondered for a while and then asked:

"Based on what you're saying, there should be at least dozens of Sea Eyes in reality. So why is there only one left now?"

"Well..."

Hearing this, Miss Salty Fish hesitated for a moment. The mermaid beauty eavesdropping from afar responded loudly:

"It's fine, Wendy. You don't need to cover for the ancestors, just tell it like it is."

"..."

Alright...

Sighing internally, Miss Salty Fish, who hadn't yet figured out how to respond, began:

"In the past, when the Ten Descendants of the Grand Court were competing with your Cleaning Bureau for reality, our Sea Race, being slightly weaker, fell into a disadvantage..."

"Not a disadvantage, completely unable to win."

The mermaid beauty corrected Miss Salty Fish's words while guiding the shell ship on its course without concern:

"Saying we suffered huge losses would be an understatement. Your Cleaning Bureau was terrifyingly powerful, and several times our ancestors suffered serious defeats at your hands.

It was only the fear of pushing too hard and forcing us into a do-or-die situation, directly starting to destroy reality, that stopped things from becoming final, otherwise, Wendy and I might not have even been born."

"..."

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Seeing her daughter looking over speechlessly, the mermaid beauty blinked and said:

"We lost, plain and simple. No matter how you cover up, weren't our ancestors driven into the sea?

Besides, we're not the only ones who like to record history. Humans do it too. You can try and beautify it now, but if he checks later and finds discrepancies, wouldn't that be more embarrassing?"

"Mother!"

"No matter how many times you call me, a loss is a loss."

The mermaid beauty said indifferently:

"Just answer Leon's questions honestly. There's no need to keep thinking about covering it up. I mean, I'm a pureblood Sea Race and I don't find it embarrassing. Yet you're a half-blood and are getting defensive... I guess you were just too lacking in love as a child!"

"???"

Wait... how did you end up talking about that?

With Miss Salty Fish's somewhat collapsing gaze, the mermaid beauty sighed and said:

"It's Mom's fault, letting you stay in the Kingdom of Saio for so long, always feeling excluded. After your blood spoke awoke and people finally started accepting you, it made you feel more attached to the Sea Race than I do. Yet that old fossil's mouth is so foul, and you still acknowledge him as your grandfather..."

"..."

I'm trying to hold ground for our ancestors because this time it's the Sea Race inviting the Cleaning Bureau for collaboration. We can't look too lowly on the surface, or else we'll be taken advantage of by the Lion. Why have you turned it into family conflict again?

"I see..."

Looking sympathetically at Miss Salty Fish's collapsed face, Leon raised a hand sympathetically and said:

"So Her Majesty Wendy still has... um... quite a bit of filial piety? But shouldn't we finish talking about the Sea Eye first?"

"Yes, yes!"

Feeling overwhelmed by the mermaid beauty's excessive honesty and gratefully glancing at Leon again, Miss Salty Fish quickly grasped the opportunity to steer the conversation back, rapidly explaining:

"Our Sea Race ancestors couldn't defeat your Cleaning Bureau, so they took advantage of the Bureau mobilizing lots of manpower to hunt extradimensional beings in the Astral Realm, connecting almost all the large seas, linking all the ocean waters together.

Since then, although each sea still retained its original name, all major bodies of water became interconnected, effectively turning into one ocean. Consequently, the other Sea Eyes slowly dried up and closed off, leaving only the Central Sea, the largest Sea Eye."

So it's your Sea Race's lack of martial ethics that caused the disappearance of the other Sea Eyes, right?

Understanding Miss Salty Fish's explanation, Leon frowned and pursued: