A few days ago, the fisherman, Mori Ougai, was on a fishing trip when he caught a four year old mer child in one of his fishing nets. It wasn't particularly surprising - mers were common knowledge all around the world, and accidentally catching young mers was extremely easy. The younger mers tend to swim closer to the surface, meaning, while it was on the rarer side, a lot of fisherman ended up getting mers in their nets.

After getting over the initial shock of being dragged up from the water and being fed a fish, the mer settled down considerably, and shockingly, seemed to grow attached to Mori. The common procedure when fishing up mers were to get them settled into the mer domestication program. Mers weren't like humans and usually end up alone in the ocean, abandoned by the one who laid them before they even hatch from their eggs - so integrating them into society seemed the most humane option over throwing them back.

An official at the domestication program told Mori that getting the mer in the program was a process that would take up to a week and to name the kid and care for it in the meantime. It was already decided that Mori and his husband, Yukichi, would adopt the kid after it finishes it's classes at the program center, so, with that, he named the boy Osamu.

Thankfully, mers were extremely intelligent, and in no time, Osamu was speaking broken sentences and had already figured out how to shift to a human form all on his own. This one was definitely smarter than your average mer. So, that's how Mori ended up with a little boy who was all but attached to him, always following Mori around and biting... a lot.

He didn't expect the mer to be so clingy, yet here he was, sitting in the bath and attempting to bathe his soon-to-be son, but the other was clinging to him. Mori gasps as sharp teeth suddenly sink into his shoulder - Osamu's unfortunate way of showing his love apparently. "Osamu! Will you please let me clean you??" Mori all but pleads as he rubs Osamu's tail to calm the boy.