Hai Zei (海贼) - Pirate

16th–18th centuries
Hai Zei is a lone pirate; he mostly raids small islands or abandoned ships.

And so today, as usual, he cast a net into the sea to catch some fish for his dinner. But when he began to pull the net up, he felt that something large had been caught in it. "Could it be a dolphin or a shark?" Zei wondered.

But when he hauled the net in, he saw a merman.
Zei had read myths about merfolk, but he never thought they actually existed.