When the sun set, the bonfire lit up the beach brightly.
There was fish monsters and the dismantled beasel meat roasting next to the bonfire, and on top of the IH magic circle drawn in the sand, there was a boiled fish dish being made.
Seth put the food on plates and then left on large smooth leaves so that everyone could eat whatever they wished.
Placing the smooth leaves on the water’s edge, we brought the plates over.
Would the sirens, who hadn’t shown themselves, come up to the water’s edge?
“They’re shy towards strangers, so it’ll take them a bit longer to come. Since they shouldn’t miss such delicious food.”
Bori-san explained about his wives.
“Is that so? Do you want to take some to the person on the boat?”
I saw it with my Search Skill, so I asked Bori-san about the person on his boat.
“Huh~? You noticed?”
I didn’t see it at first, but when I was searching for Bori-san’s wives I happened to see a blue lighted person on the boat with my Search Skill. I’m guessing he has the Stealth Skill.
He’s hiding, so he might not want to meet people much. Like, he might be a slave’s child or something.
“Is that bad? No, well, I was just thinking it was a bit pitiful even though everyone else is eating dinner together.”
“So it’s useless to hide from Naoki-kun, huh? I’ll call him over. Eating with everyone makes it more delicious.”
Bori-san went towards his own boat and,
“Cory-! You don’t need hide anymore~. Come eat dinner with everyone else!”
He called inside the boat.
A small boy wearing shorts came out from inside the boat, timidly disembarking from the boat. Bori-san took his hand and brought the boy over. The boy’s white skin, nearly transparent, and light brown hair seemed to glow when the light from the moon and the bonfire hit it. When they got closer, I could see that his face was like that of a model, and his gender was ambiguous. His clothes were a large T shirt and shorts, with bare feet.
“This is my son Cory. Cory, say hi!”
“I’m Cory da-yo.”
So saying, Cory waved his hand next to his ear.
“I’m Naoki da-yo
I also wave my hand next to my ear.
Hair color is about it when it comes to resembling the darkly tanned Bori-san, so I was thinking that it might not be his own child but an adopted child, but when I turned at the sound so a splashing wave, everything was made clear.
There was a white-skinned, beautiful woman that I couldn’t have imagined existed in this world at the water’s edge. That woman was just wearing a T-shirt, her long blonde hair tied up, smiling gently. I could see fish scales on her lower body. I heard that “sirens use their singing voices and gorgeous appearances to board ships and trick sailors,” but with this I’d want to be tricked. But this woman is married. Her face looks a lot like Cory’s.
I understand that the fact that Cory has two legs as a human and looks like the siren in front of me means that he’s Bori-san and the siren’s son.
After that, beautiful sirens wearing T-shirts appeared in front of the food on the water’s edge one after another.
“Bori-san …, please teach me how to court a siren.”
I said, stunned from seeing Bori-san’s wives.
“I don’t suggest it. Marrying a monster is something that goes against God, after all.”
God?
“Ah, if it’s that it’s probably fine.”
“Amazing. You had a son? This is the first time I’ve seen him. Dry goods vendor.”
Shiose-san, who had showed up next to us at some point, muttered. Shiose-san looked at Cory.
“My Charm Skill isn’t much, naa.”
Rucio with Charm Skill 10 said as he looked at the sirens.
“Is it okay if I ask your wives some questions?”
Velsa asked Bori-san.
Before I knew it, everyone had gathered at the water line.
“Aah, their voices are a little loud, and they can’t speak anything but broken human language, but it’s fine with other women. As for men. No matter what, it seems they want to drag them into the ocean.”
Bori-san said, taking some of the food from a dish together with Cory.
“Is it fine for Bori-san?”
“Yeah, I’m married, see.”
Bori-san held a hand up towards the sea, and a tennis ball-sized water ball floated up from the sea, getting bigger and bigger. Bori-san moved his held up hand towards the bonfire, and the large water ball moved above the bonfire.
“Water magic is my specialty. Even in a domestic argument, I can run away with water magic. And my wives are happy when I warm up the water like this from time to time.”
The water ball seems to be gradually warming up. Bori-san must have a lot of magic power since he can manipulate a large water ball.
Bori-san sent the water ball in the direction towards his wives and, “Now isn’t the time for this,” they refused with their hand. His wives are having girl talk with Velsa, Ayl, and Merumo.
“Timing more than anything is important if you want women to praise you.”
Bori-san laughed, sending the water ball flying far into the ocean.
“Is Cory-kun a human?”
I asked.
Cory and Rucio were watching Seth grilling fish together. They seem to want to eat it freshly grilled.
“I wonder. He’s good at swimming, and also good at water magic. There are some scales at around his hip socket, so would he be part of the beastman category? It’s just he’s probably a rare species, so I want to avoid people being able to find out. You don’t talk about it to anyone either, Shiose.”
Bori-san said to Shiose-san, who was holding a liquor bottle.
“Understand. That said, there’s only Shiose and me on this island, so we don’t have anyone to tell.”
Do I also have alcohol? I searched my item bag, but I realized that all the alcohol went into Ayl’s item bag.
“Ayl-! Alcohol-!”
I called out to Ayl, who was in the middle of the girl talk.
“Ah! No way, President! Do you want to get drunk again!?”
Merumo, next to Ayl, said.
“Don’t talk about that~!”
“No way! Naoki didn’t work that much today!”
Looks like Ayl won’t give me alcohol either.
“Then it’s fine if I work. Al-right-! Bori-san, your siren wives like warmed water, right?”
“That’s right? What are you going to do?”
“Eeh, I was thinking of doing some work and getting alcohol as a reward.”
I turned the remaining wood scrap from the bonfire into planks with a knife. Making a number of wood planks, I burnt reinforcement magic circles into them, and brought them to the beach.
Stabbing the wood planks into the sand, I made a large rectangular frame.
After that I hollowed out the frame interior, affixed planks with heating magic circles in the bottom floor, and made an impromptu bathtub.
“Excuse me, Bori-san. Can I have you use water magic to fill that frame with water?”
“Ooh, that’s fine. Let’s see, what are you making?”
So saying, Bori-san floated water balls from the ocean, filling the frame with water.
“It’s a bath.”
I became clad in just my pants, entered the water filled bathtub, and poured magic power a little bit at a time into the IH magic circle on the bottom.
When it had been warmed up to hot water, I asked Bori-san about how hot the water was.
“It’s fine if it’s a little hotter.”
“It’s fine even for your wives?”
“I see, so it’s for my wives’ use. Then about here might be better.”
“Well, if you want it hotter, please pour a magic power into the bottom a little at a tine.”
“Got it. My my, to make a bath on the beach.”
I got out of the bathtub, heading towards the women.
“O-i! The bath’s done~!”
“What the, I was wondering what you were doing, so it’s a bath? Shall we enter?”
Ayl asked the siren wives.”
The siren wives said, “Bath?”, and don’t seem to know what a bath is.
I dug in the sand with a shovel, making a path from the sea to the bath. Crude Ayl was going to split the beach with a sword strike. It would break the bath so I stopped her.
“Ha ha-! What is this-!!??”
“Kyahahaha~!!”
It seems the bath is popular with the siren wives. With the beauties making merry in the baths, I thought, “Are they angels!?”
“And so, I worked, so liquor please!”
I held my hand out to Ayl.
Ayl took one bottle of alcohol out of her item bag and threw it to me.
“Don’t drink too much.”
When I snatched it out of the air, I replied with a vague, “U-n.”
With the liquor bottle, I sat next to Bori-san and Shiose-san.
Because Velsa had been questioning the siren wives, she said, “I missed dinner,” and came over.
“How interesting. Sirens ‘seal the deal’ on nights with a new moon, they said.”
Velsa stuffed her mouth with a lot of fish dishes, coming out of left field.
“Is that so?”
“Don’t ask me about it~ It’s embarrassing~.”
Bori-san drank his liquor, embarrassed.
“I see, it’s difficult for God to see on a new moon.”
Shiose-san understood somehow.
I don’t know if the new moon has any relation, but in the first place, I think that God doesn’t care about humans and monsters having intimate relations. In fact, isn’t it possible he’d call Evil God and and peek in?
By the way, Seth, Rucio, and Cory went to go night fishing on the rocks at a place we could see from the beach.
“Ah, and also, Shiose-san was my former master’s boyfriend, apparently.”
Velsa surprise attacks aren’t stopping. Velsa’s master was Lisa the monster scholar, wasn’t she?
“Eh!? Is that so?”
“No, we just cohabitated in the past. Although thanks to that influence, I ended up protecting gagapo on this island. Hey, but enough of that talk?”
Shiose-san also scratched his head, swigging alcohol in embarrassment.
“Master’s a weird person, so along those lines, she might not come back, but at that time, I’ll be relying on you.”
Velsa bowed her head towards Shiose-san.
“I don’t know where she went, but I think it’s fine as long as she doesn’t die.”
So saying, Shiose-san smiled.
“I think Master probably left this archipelago to Shiose-san. She hates researching anything anyone else already is, after all. Scholars aren’t interested in anything other than what others don’t know. So you could say they know a lot of weird things. That’s why we’re somewhat similar to Naoki.”
While chomping on the tail of a fish monster, Velsa said it like it was troublesome.
“For me, I’m actually interested in what others know. That’s right! Bori-san, we want to go to the eastern continent, so anything’s fine, but please tell us about it!”
“I was there 20 years ago though. I don’t know how it is now.”
“That’s fine too, so please tell us about it.”
“I see, I see. What probably hasn’t changed is …”
Bori-san told us about the reef zone in the sea around the eastern continent, to beware of the jungle that’s inland, as well as about the waterfalls you can’t see the distance of, and the large country on the plains.
“Ah, and also, just in case, there might also be discrimination still.”
“Discrimination?”
“Yeah, there might be people who look down on beastmen with ears. Most of those guys are beastmen who have scales. It’s ridiculous talk, but be careful to avoid getting your comrades caught up in it.
Seth’s a cat beastman and Merumo, who is currently covered in bubbles in the bath, is a sheep beastman.
“Humans shouldn’t be discriminated too much against. Well, I hope that weird culture has changed, though.”
Bori-san said, his eyes distant. There might be a reason for him to abandon his country in that area and become a free dried goods vendor in this archipelago.
“Are there a lot of countries in the eastern continent?”
話題を変えることにした。話したくないことまで引き出すことはない。
I changed the topic. I don’t want to drag what he doesn’t want to talk about out.
“No, that’s not the case. There should have been a lot to the north and east, but when I was there there was the Water Hero, so there weren’t so many wars.”
I met Velsa’s gaze and nodded.
Seems like there’s the Water Hero on the eastern continent. So that means the Water Spirit should be close by.
“What kind of person do you remember the Water Hero being?”
At my question, Bori-san said, “Are you interested in the Hero? Let’s see … what kind of person? Hm~…” and he was silent for a while as he remembered. Bori-san began speaking with a heavy tone.
“He was quite the horrid person. The Water Hero is a Hero that passes it on to his children for generations. The Hero of that time was very selfish. A person with power won’t listen to other people, after all.”
Bori-san said with a wry smile. I wonder if Bori-san was someone close to the Water Hero.
“As for his face. He wasn’t a handsome guy at the time. I assume he’s middle-aged now, so I don’t know how it is. He also wasn’t that tall. However, he had the Spirit’s blessing so he was unbelievably good at water magic, and so I think that kept the other countries in check.”
If he’s better than Bori-san, then he might be quite the amazing Hero. It seems that it’s not a fun story for Bori-san.
“Sorry, did we make you remember something bad?”
“No no, I was wondering what that Hero was doing now. I haven’t met him for many years, but I wonder if he’s doing well. Well, I’m someone who left the country so it has nothing to do with me.”
Bori-san might be the Water Hero’s rival or childhood friend.
“If he’s still the Hero even now, he should be in the country on the plains past the jungle.”
For now, we know where the Water Hero’s place is. It seems Margaret-san’s information was correct.
“Thank you very much.”
I gave my thanks to Bori-san and poured liquor into the bowl being used as a cup.
The wood that constructed the bonfire began to crumble.
The siren wives in the bath sang, Cory fished up a big catch, and Rucio livened the place up with a naked dance.
The night grew long, and the conversation extended late into the night.
“I haven’t had this much fun before.”
Bori-san laughed, his face bright red.
I’d fallen asleep on the beach before I knew it, waking up before the night broke.
The blue lights of the sealights gathered in the still dark sea. Within that, four siren wives swam in it like they were dancing.
The people still awake on the beach just watched that silently.
“For the sirens, the sealights are the souls of their ancestors. By doing that, they converse with their ancestors.”
Ayl, watching next to me, told me.
Together with the dawn, the sealights dispersed as if disappearing to the bottom of the sea.
“Yaa-awn, I should sleep soon too. Ah, Naoki, it seems we were found out from the beginning.”
“The beginning?”
“Yeah, it seems the siren wives saw when Naoki threw the sound bomb in.”
Is that so?
“It seems there were a lot of sea monsters that wanted to check where the sound came from. They were wary of us. Good grief, you make all sorts of weird things.”
Ayl walked towards the ship.
The bonfire had become completely smaller.
The sun appeared in the eastern sky, and the sea’s waves glistened gold in the reflection.
When the sun set, the bonfire lit up the beach brightly.
There was fish monsters and the dismantled beasel meat roasting next to the bonfire, and on top of the IH magic circle drawn in the sand, there was a boiled fish dish being made.
Seth put the food on plates and then left on large smooth leaves so that everyone could eat whatever they wished.
Placing the smooth leaves on the water’s edge, we brought the plates over.
Would the sirens, who hadn’t shown themselves, come up to the water’s edge?
“They’re shy towards strangers, so it’ll take them a bit longer to come. Since they shouldn’t miss such delicious food.”
Bori-san explained about his wives.
“Is that so? Do you want to take some to the person on the boat?”
I saw it with my Search Skill, so I asked Bori-san about the person on his boat.
“Huh~? You noticed?”
I didn’t see it at first, but when I was searching for Bori-san’s wives I happened to see a blue lighted person on the boat with my Search Skill. I’m guessing he has the Stealth Skill.
He’s hiding, so he might not want to meet people much. Like, he might be a slave’s child or something.
“Is that bad? No, well, I was just thinking it was a bit pitiful even though everyone else is eating dinner together.”
“So it’s useless to hide from Naoki-kun, huh? I’ll call him over. Eating with everyone makes it more delicious.”
Bori-san went towards his own boat and,
“Cory-! You don’t need hide anymore~. Come eat dinner with everyone else!”
He called inside the boat.
A small boy wearing shorts came out from inside the boat, timidly disembarking from the boat. Bori-san took his hand and brought the boy over. The boy’s white skin, nearly transparent, and light brown hair seemed to glow when the light from the moon and the bonfire hit it. When they got closer, I could see that his face was like that of a model, and his gender was ambiguous. His clothes were a large T shirt and shorts, with bare feet.
“This is my son Cory. Cory, say hi!”
“I’m Cory da-yo.”
So saying, Cory waved his hand next to his ear.
“I’m Naoki da-yo
I also wave my hand next to my ear.
Hair color is about it when it comes to resembling the darkly tanned Bori-san, so I was thinking that it might not be his own child but an adopted child, but when I turned at the sound so a splashing wave, everything was made clear.
There was a white-skinned, beautiful woman that I couldn’t have imagined existed in this world at the water’s edge. That woman was just wearing a T-shirt, her long blonde hair tied up, smiling gently. I could see fish scales on her lower body. I heard that “sirens use their singing voices and gorgeous appearances to board ships and trick sailors,” but with this I’d want to be tricked. But this woman is married. Her face looks a lot like Cory’s.
I understand that the fact that Cory has two legs as a human and looks like the siren in front of me means that he’s Bori-san and the siren’s son.
After that, beautiful sirens wearing T-shirts appeared in front of the food on the water’s edge one after another.
“Bori-san …, please teach me how to court a siren.”
I said, stunned from seeing Bori-san’s wives.
“I don’t suggest it. Marrying a monster is something that goes against God, after all.”
God?
“Ah, if it’s that it’s probably fine.”
“Amazing. You had a son? This is the first time I’ve seen him. Dry goods vendor.”
Shiose-san, who had showed up next to us at some point, muttered. Shiose-san looked at Cory.
“My Charm Skill isn’t much, naa.”
Rucio with Charm Skill 10 said as he looked at the sirens.
“Is it okay if I ask your wives some questions?”
Velsa asked Bori-san.
Before I knew it, everyone had gathered at the water line.
“Aah, their voices are a little loud, and they can’t speak anything but broken human language, but it’s fine with other women. As for men. No matter what, it seems they want to drag them into the ocean.”
Bori-san said, taking some of the food from a dish together with Cory.
“Is it fine for Bori-san?”
“Yeah, I’m married, see.”
Bori-san held a hand up towards the sea, and a tennis ball-sized water ball floated up from the sea, getting bigger and bigger. Bori-san moved his held up hand towards the bonfire, and the large water ball moved above the bonfire.
“Water magic is my specialty. Even in a domestic argument, I can run away with water magic. And my wives are happy when I warm up the water like this from time to time.”
The water ball seems to be gradually warming up. Bori-san must have a lot of magic power since he can manipulate a large water ball.
Bori-san sent the water ball in the direction towards his wives and, “Now isn’t the time for this,” they refused with their hand. His wives are having girl talk with Velsa, Ayl, and Merumo.
“Timing more than anything is important if you want women to praise you.”
Bori-san laughed, sending the water ball flying far into the ocean.
“Is Cory-kun a human?”
I asked.
Cory and Rucio were watching Seth grilling fish together. They seem to want to eat it freshly grilled.
“I wonder. He’s good at swimming, and also good at water magic. There are some scales at around his hip socket, so would he be part of the beastman category? It’s just he’s probably a rare species, so I want to avoid people being able to find out. You don’t talk about it to anyone either, Shiose.”
Bori-san said to Shiose-san, who was holding a liquor bottle.
“Understand. That said, there’s only Shiose and me on this island, so we don’t have anyone to tell.”
Do I also have alcohol? I searched my item bag, but I realized that all the alcohol went into Ayl’s item bag.
“Ayl-! Alcohol-!”
I called out to Ayl, who was in the middle of the girl talk.
“Ah! No way, President! Do you want to get drunk again!?”
Merumo, next to Ayl, said.
“Don’t talk about that~!”
“No way! Naoki didn’t work that much today!”
Looks like Ayl won’t give me alcohol either.
“Then it’s fine if I work. Al-right-! Bori-san, your siren wives like warmed water, right?”
“That’s right? What are you going to do?”
“Eeh, I was thinking of doing some work and getting alcohol as a reward.”
I turned the remaining wood scrap from the bonfire into planks with a knife. Making a number of wood planks, I burnt reinforcement magic circles into them, and brought them to the beach.
Stabbing the wood planks into the sand, I made a large rectangular frame.
After that I hollowed out the frame interior, affixed planks with heating magic circles in the bottom floor, and made an impromptu bathtub.
“Excuse me, Bori-san. Can I have you use water magic to fill that frame with water?”
“Ooh, that’s fine. Let’s see, what are you making?”
So saying, Bori-san floated water balls from the ocean, filling the frame with water.
“It’s a bath.”
I became clad in just my pants, entered the water filled bathtub, and poured magic power a little bit at a time into the IH magic circle on the bottom.
When it had been warmed up to hot water, I asked Bori-san about how hot the water was.
“It’s fine if it’s a little hotter.”
“It’s fine even for your wives?”
“I see, so it’s for my wives’ use. Then about here might be better.”
“Well, if you want it hotter, please pour a magic power into the bottom a little at a tine.”
“Got it. My my, to make a bath on the beach.”
I got out of the bathtub, heading towards the women.
“O-i! The bath’s done~!”
“What the, I was wondering what you were doing, so it’s a bath? Shall we enter?”
Ayl asked the siren wives.”
The siren wives said, “Bath?”, and don’t seem to know what a bath is.
I dug in the sand with a shovel, making a path from the sea to the bath. Crude Ayl was going to split the beach with a sword strike. It would break the bath so I stopped her.
“Ha ha-! What is this-!!??”
“Kyahahaha~!!”
It seems the bath is popular with the siren wives. With the beauties making merry in the baths, I thought, “Are they angels!?”
“And so, I worked, so liquor please!”
I held my hand out to Ayl.
Ayl took one bottle of alcohol out of her item bag and threw it to me.
“Don’t drink too much.”
When I snatched it out of the air, I replied with a vague, “U-n.”
With the liquor bottle, I sat next to Bori-san and Shiose-san.
Because Velsa had been questioning the siren wives, she said, “I missed dinner,” and came over.
“How interesting. Sirens ‘seal the deal’ on nights with a new moon, they said.”
Velsa stuffed her mouth with a lot of fish dishes, coming out of left field.
“Is that so?”
“Don’t ask me about it~ It’s embarrassing~.”
Bori-san drank his liquor, embarrassed.
“I see, it’s difficult for God to see on a new moon.”
Shiose-san understood somehow.
I don’t know if the new moon has any relation, but in the first place, I think that God doesn’t care about humans and monsters having intimate relations. In fact, isn’t it possible he’d call Evil God and and peek in?
By the way, Seth, Rucio, and Cory went to go night fishing on the rocks at a place we could see from the beach.
“Ah, and also, Shiose-san was my former master’s boyfriend, apparently.”
Velsa surprise attacks aren’t stopping. Velsa’s master was Lisa the monster scholar, wasn’t she?
“Eh!? Is that so?”
“No, we just cohabitated in the past. Although thanks to that influence, I ended up protecting gagapo on this island. Hey, but enough of that talk?”
Shiose-san also scratched his head, swigging alcohol in embarrassment.
“Master’s a weird person, so along those lines, she might not come back, but at that time, I’ll be relying on you.”
Velsa bowed her head towards Shiose-san.
“I don’t know where she went, but I think it’s fine as long as she doesn’t die.”
So saying, Shiose-san smiled.
“I think Master probably left this archipelago to Shiose-san. She hates researching anything anyone else already is, after all. Scholars aren’t interested in anything other than what others don’t know. So you could say they know a lot of weird things. That’s why we’re somewhat similar to Naoki.”
While chomping on the tail of a fish monster, Velsa said it like it was troublesome.
“For me, I’m actually interested in what others know. That’s right! Bori-san, we want to go to the eastern continent, so anything’s fine, but please tell us about it!”
“I was there 20 years ago though. I don’t know how it is now.”
“That’s fine too, so please tell us about it.”
“I see, I see. What probably hasn’t changed is …”
Bori-san told us about the reef zone in the sea around the eastern continent, to beware of the jungle that’s inland, as well as about the waterfalls you can’t see the distance of, and the large country on the plains.
“Ah, and also, just in case, there might also be discrimination still.”
“Discrimination?”
“Yeah, there might be people who look down on beastmen with ears. Most of those guys are beastmen who have scales. It’s ridiculous talk, but be careful to avoid getting your comrades caught up in it.
Seth’s a cat beastman and Merumo, who is currently covered in bubbles in the bath, is a sheep beastman.
“Humans shouldn’t be discriminated too much against. Well, I hope that weird culture has changed, though.”
Bori-san said, his eyes distant. There might be a reason for him to abandon his country in that area and become a free dried goods vendor in this archipelago.
“Are there a lot of countries in the eastern continent?”
話題を変えることにした。話したくないことまで引き出すことはない。
I changed the topic. I don’t want to drag what he doesn’t want to talk about out.
“No, that’s not the case. There should have been a lot to the north and east, but when I was there there was the Water Hero, so there weren’t so many wars.”
I met Velsa’s gaze and nodded.
Seems like there’s the Water Hero on the eastern continent. So that means the Water Spirit should be close by.
“What kind of person do you remember the Water Hero being?”
At my question, Bori-san said, “Are you interested in the Hero? Let’s see … what kind of person? Hm~…” and he was silent for a while as he remembered. Bori-san began speaking with a heavy tone.
“He was quite the horrid person. The Water Hero is a Hero that passes it on to his children for generations. The Hero of that time was very selfish. A person with power won’t listen to other people, after all.”
Bori-san said with a wry smile. I wonder if Bori-san was someone close to the Water Hero.
“As for his face. He wasn’t a handsome guy at the time. I assume he’s middle-aged now, so I don’t know how it is. He also wasn’t that tall. However, he had the Spirit’s blessing so he was unbelievably good at water magic, and so I think that kept the other countries in check.”
If he’s better than Bori-san, then he might be quite the amazing Hero. It seems that it’s not a fun story for Bori-san.
“Sorry, did we make you remember something bad?”
“No no, I was wondering what that Hero was doing now. I haven’t met him for many years, but I wonder if he’s doing well. Well, I’m someone who left the country so it has nothing to do with me.”
Bori-san might be the Water Hero’s rival or childhood friend.
“If he’s still the Hero even now, he should be in the country on the plains past the jungle.”
For now, we know where the Water Hero’s place is. It seems Margaret-san’s information was correct.
“Thank you very much.”
I gave my thanks to Bori-san and poured liquor into the bowl being used as a cup.
The wood that constructed the bonfire began to crumble.
The siren wives in the bath sang, Cory fished up a big catch, and Rucio livened the place up with a naked dance.
The night grew long, and the conversation extended late into the night.
“I haven’t had this much fun before.”
Bori-san laughed, his face bright red.
I’d fallen asleep on the beach before I knew it, waking up before the night broke.
The blue lights of the sealights gathered in the still dark sea. Within that, four siren wives swam in it like they were dancing.
The people still awake on the beach just watched that silently.
“For the sirens, the sealights are the souls of their ancestors. By doing that, they converse with their ancestors.”
Ayl, watching next to me, told me.
Together with the dawn, the sealights dispersed as if disappearing to the bottom of the sea.
“Yaa-awn, I should sleep soon too. Ah, Naoki, it seems we were found out from the beginning.”
“The beginning?”
“Yeah, it seems the siren wives saw when Naoki threw the sound bomb in.”
Is that so?
“It seems there were a lot of sea monsters that wanted to check where the sound came from. They were wary of us. Good grief, you make all sorts of weird things.”
Ayl walked towards the ship.
The bonfire had become completely smaller.
The sun appeared in the eastern sky, and the sea’s waves glistened gold in the reflection.
