The sea on a summer night is bitterly cold.

It's like a cold winter that freezes three feet in ice, and it's a winter in the south,

Clammy and icy is not something clothing can resist.

The cold invades Aono's body with "physical damage" and "magic damage".

- This is by no means a normal temperature!

Aono lowered his head.

Because of the distance, the silver moonlight on the sea beneath us was no longer so bright.

Instead, it's a deep, inky color.

That color belongs to darkness!

And it is impossible for Aono, who has been dealing with the unspeakable for so long, not to know.

Darkness is the most dangerous thing in the real world!

Aono suddenly found that he had fallen into a misunderstanding, the danger of the sea was not only because it was rarely visited, but also because it had been in darkness for many years under the surface of the sea.

It's not like in the city, even at night, there are lights on.

God knows if in such a long time, there has been an indescribable lurking in the darkness of the sea, quietly waiting for food to arrive.

Like a pinprick warning, an early warning appeared in the bottom of my heart.

The slightest unusual touch began to come below Aono's ankle that was submerged in the sea.

Slippery and cold.

'Scales? ’

Aono sensed the touch coming from his skin.

Like the scales of a fish.

It's just a lot harder.

Aono's gaze can be seen clearly through the dark water

An ugly mouth!

The fine sharp teeth are ugly and unevenly distributed.

Several of the jaws are extraordinarily thick and sharp, as if they were used for cutting.

I can vaguely see the facial features, which are somewhat similar to human beings, but according to human standards, they must be extremely ugly.

The bloody mouth occupies almost half of the entire face.

The most obvious are the protruding, never-closing eyes, which are the most striking features of fish.

It stared at Aono deadly.

Immediately after, he jumped out of the sea.

The jaw opened.

Its target is Aono's head!

Looking at this action, it seems like trying to swallow his whole head.

A fishy smell creeps into the nasal passages.

Aono habitually lifted the gray stick and swept it directly.

"Bang!"

There was a dull sound.

The strange fish was shot out and landed on the beach.

It was only then, in the moonlight, that Aono was able to see it in its entirety.

Aside from its surprisingly ugly face, most of its body was not much different from that of an ordinary fish.

There are gills and fins, all of which are purple-black.

But there are also some things that ordinary fish will never have.

On its lower body, two frog-like legs flutter on the sand.

The legs are about half as long as its body, but just looking at it makes it feel stunted, with atrophied muscles, webbed on one foot, and halfway through the other.

Extremely deformed shape.

It looks like an amphibian with incomplete metamorphosis.

"Huh? Not dead yet? ”

Aono was slightly surprised.

The strange fish on the beach withstood Aono's full force, but it was still trembling and struggling gently.

This alone is not something that ordinary living beings can do.

Aono didn't have the idea of mercy from his subordinates, so he walked in front of it and smashed it again!

"Bang!"

The strange fish finally fell silent.

After leaving the sea, the dark blue shimmer on the gray stick gradually dimmed, but the blood-colored thin line at the bottom stretched out again.

And the magnitude of killing this so-called "descendant of deep divers" is slightly more than usual.

"Deep divers?"

Aono whispered the name.

"Creatures that dive deep under the sea?"

The word "descendant" is easy to understand, and at the moment this strange fish is completely underdeveloped.

This can happen when the blood of the "deep diver" in the body is not very strong.

But

Where did it come from?

Aono first glanced at the corpse of the descendant of the Deep Diver, which was half an adult's size.

Look at the beach where it just popped up.

You know, it's on the beach.

Aono didn't rush into the deeper sea water to do experiments, and the place where the gray stick was inserted was also shallow.

The sea water just barely touched Aono's calves.

Where is there room for the descendants of such a large deep diver to survive?

Not to mention, before this, Aono didn't notice the slightest strange aura.

Don't doubt Aono's inspirational acumen, which was a great substitute for the visual senses during his blindness.

If there was something unusual on the beach, he would have noticed it at the first time.

"Is it it?"

Aono stroked the cold, solid gray vertebrae.

The touch from his hand was the same as ever, but I don't know if it was his hallucination, after coming into contact with the sea water and absorbing some special substance, the gray stick had a faint bit of temperature on it?

It was as if a space had been opened, causing the guy to leap out of the sea.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

Aono has the heart to experiment again.

But when the stick touched the water again, there was no change in the slightest.

The emotions that were revealed before are also gone.

It's like entering the so-called "sage time", no matter how much the sea water teases, there is no response.

'It's only been a few seconds?' Too fast, right? ’

Aono complained dissatisfiedly in his heart.

It's a very hard stick, but it doesn't last long.

Aono is not in a hurry, their original travel plan was five days, but it doesn't work today, they can try it another day.

So I went back to the villa and prepared to rest.

Of course, the corpse of this descendant of the deep diver will not be wasted, and after cutting off the head, he will take it back - the main reason is that its head is too ugly, and Aono doesn't even have the desire to cook, in order to avoid affecting his appetite, this is also a good method.

By the way, Aono accidentally discovered.

The indescribable repulsion of the world did not work on the carcass of the strange fish.

I don't know if it's because there are too few abnormal traits in its body, or if it's something else.

It was Aono who put it in the refrigerator and prepared it as an ingredient for tomorrow.

Early the next morning.

Three high school girls were awakened by the smell of the kitchen.

"Hmm"

Yukie Kanda rubbed her sleepy-eyed eyes and walked out of the room.

( ̄▽ ̄)

"It smells so good."

They slept late last night - since they came out to play, and finally lived in the same room, if they didn't talk about some exclusive topics between girls, could it still be called tourism?

Aoi Izuhara first teased Yabuki Maho, saying that she had a lustful heart and no lustful guts, and she didn't say a word to Amamiya Hitomi.

Kanda Yukie feels that Yabuki Maho's interest in Amamiya Hitomi is actually off track.

Aoi Izuhara said again, just because she is a rotten girl doesn't mean she has no ideas!

Zhenfan must still be greedy for the body of the rain palace pupil!

Yabuki Maho: "You don't want other people's bodies?" ”

Then the fire of war inexplicably burned to Kanda Yukie, mentioning Aono and her, and then the little girl could be "provoked", the kind that was shy enough to blow up the hair, and then they started to fight, and they started a pillow fight.

I didn't fall asleep until late.