160 – 160 – Mermaid Sea Potion # 2
160 – Potion of the Mermaid Sea #2
After Elder Calypso drank the stew.
The body reacted immediately.
“Nuh… ! Mom, I feel strange… !”
Calypso twisted his body, not knowing what to do.
Then, after grabbing his chest with his hands, he screamed in agony.
“My heart, my heart is hot… !?”
Is the poison less neutralized?
As I looked at the serious situation, Nike said.
“Let’s watch a little longer!”
Nike seemed to be confident in the dishes she cooked.
Isn’t this the first Nike to be so confident?
I decided to trust Nike.
After watching for such a long time, uuu – isn’t the elder Calypso’s body flashing with a strange light?
Even more surprising was what happened next.
“Ah-! Everyone sees that… ! The siren’s octopus legs… !”
Like Arnoi’s cry, the Siren’s octopus legs were transforming into a strange feeling.
Their eight legs were called ‘curse’.
Maybe the curse is lifted and they return to their original legs.
Woo woo woo-.
Finally, the light-emitting octopus leg disappears and reveals itself… .
Flutter, pulsate.
“fin… ?”
I was a little taken aback.
Eight legs disappeared and a fish-like tail fin appeared.
Isn’t this the same as a mermaid with a human on top and a fish on the bottom?
It was when I met Nike’s eyes in case the curse had not been lifted.
“Now, Elder’s legs are back to normal… !”
“Now I am Calypso, the killer whale mermaid again… !”
The sirens really liked it.
Only then did I understand that Calypso’s original lower body was shaped like a killer whale’s tail fin.
“… … .”
no.
What’s the difference between octopus legs and killer whale fins?
Can it be said that the curse has been lifted?
I couldn’t understand it with my senses.
But Calypso liked it very much.
“My tail fin is back… ! God, I never thought I’d see this sleek figure again… !”
Seeing her burst into tears, what should I say?
It got better.
* * *
Sirens were called mermaids in many ways.
Originally, they were slender, smooth, streamlined people with tail fins.
“Everyone is very excited… !”
Nike shouted, looking everywhere.
As Nike said, the cursed sirens were flapping their fins on the floor.
“Look at my fins… ! Shining gold… !”
“Goodbye suckers now… !”
That’s right.
There were many things I wanted to say in many ways, but everyone was being too noisy, so I just held it in.
Still, Nike seemed very excited.
“It really jumps up a lot… ! It’s like a fish market… !”
It’s a fish market.
I remembered the aquarium I saw on the cruise ship, but I nodded my head because the fish market didn’t seem to be wrong.
“Yeah.”
So, is the problem all solved now?
No, not all.
Because we haven’t gotten out of this island yet.
Also, I couldn’t join the group that might be somewhere on this island.
Calypso said while thinking about this.
“Your party is most likely in the temple. The only place the monster Skilla couldn’t approach was the temple of the goddess Charybdis. Please guide me there.”
“i get it.”
I did answer
How would you like to guide me?
It would not be easy to move on land with fins.
“Should I carry it?”
It was when I asked Calypso.
Calypso, the killer whale mermaid sitting gracefully on the floor, giggled as if she had heard a funny story.
“Puhahahaha, do you carry it?”
Soon, all the mermaids laughed along with Calypso.
“Up?”
“You say something funny… !”
“Because our legs are fins?”
Are my words funny?
Do you have a chance to laugh?
The mermaid and me and female and male jokes seem to have very different senses in many ways.
So while I was thinking about how to carry this mermaid on my back, the elder Calypso opened his mouth.
“———.”
It was a strange tone.
weird song.
Soon, several mermaids sing along to the song.
The song the mermaids sang with their beautiful voices was like a great BGM.
After an episode ends, the ending scroll that rises with the music seems to flicker in front of my eyes.
“… awesome. The song of mermaids is romantic! I feel like a mermaid princess from an old story!”
Nike seemed to admire this wonderful song.
Even guys like Enio and Victorica readily acknowledged, saying, “It’s a rare experience” or “She sings well.”
The dawn began to rise above the heads of the people who were listening to the song.
The starlight of the night that embroidered the sky is now slowly fading into yesterday’s night.
Today’s sun rising from the far horizon is very beautiful.
When you’re looking at the dawn like that.
someone grabbed my shoulder
“Let’s go now.”
She was Calypso, tall enough to meet my eyes.
Looking at what was going on, I saw Calypso’s long, sleek legs stretched out from under Calypso’s lower body.
Same with other mermaids.
“Look at my legs. It is very long.”
“I have ten toes, too.”
“It’s thanks to the curse being lifted… !”
The mermaids were very happy to see their legs.
Cristina, who was watching the situation soon, added a word.
“I heard that mermaids often came ashore and lived with people in the old days. I think I know what happened.”
indeed.
It felt like you were transforming into human legs when you sang.
It was clear that now they would be able to live among really normal people.
You can fall in love with ordinary people, get married, have children, and avoid the downfall of the species.
They walked the ground on their free legs.
Sabaksabak – Steps on the sand go ahead.
“The temple is this way.”
After the mermaids enter the jungle where the dawn shines.
There was a corner that didn’t feel real.
feels like a dream.
Every time like this, I can feel that I am in the game.
“This is the temple.”
The place where Calypso stopped walking was a space where a strange-looking statue of a goddess had been erected.
Seeing that the goddess statue is covered with vines and moss, it looks like a space that has been abandoned for a long time.
I said towards the inside of the temple.
“I am Victor. If anyone is in the temple, answer me.”
Soon, Christina, who was next to me, also shouted a word.
“Hilde, are you here?”
Are people and animals less wary of female voices than male voices?
As if that was true, people slowly appeared from behind the pillars of the temple.
“This voice, Cristina… ?”
“Hilde, you were here too… !”
It was Hilde who appeared in the old temple.
Soon after, clerks like Shady and Milone appear with scruffy faces.
“Victorica senior, I missed you… !”
“Hey, Milone. Why did you go to Viktor when you said you wanted to see him? Aren’t you coming?”
“Oh, sorry.”
“Arno, it’s nice to see you again… !”
“Ariol, Puipui and Poipoi all survived safely and well… !”
The time everyone was apart was only about two days.
It was as if people who had not met for a long time were reunited.
* * *
“This happened.”
I briefly described what we had been through.
Shadi, who had been listening to the story for a while, nodded several times before answering.
“We have nothing too. I was pushed by the waves and arrived at this island. You came all the way to this temple by avoiding the monster you met on the island.”
All the missing people were on the other side of the island.
Looking at the crowd, Arnoi tilted his head.
“To think that all these people survived the storm… . It is truly amazing… !”
Even I thought so.
It is fortunate that many survived, but how could this be possible?
About that, Calypso said.
“There is still the energy of the goddess around this Ssangwol Island. It must have been thanks to him that he was able to survive the storm.”
According to Calypso, the goddess of the sea originally liked to rescue people from wrecked ships.
Also, sometimes they sang on the reef to lure ships to run aground.
You can save it, or you can drown it.
She is a very capricious goddess.
The sea must be like that.
“Now is the time to put everything back on track. I’ll go back to the temple and stabilize the current. Originally, I don’t show it to anyone, but if it’s you guys, you can come and take a look.”
At Calypso’s words, we all followed into the temple.
I walked step by step through the dark stone corridor, relying on the light of torches, and before I knew it, a large square appeared.
In the center of the plaza, a map was engraved on the floor, and the shape of the map is quite familiar to me.
“It’s the Ludens-centered sea area.”
“You know? This is the Goddess’ playground. The Goddess rolled the dice and decided the weather of the sea around here. And now that the Goddess is gone, it’s up to us to be in charge of the dice.”
Calypso held a dice as large as a soccer ball in his hand.
It was an impressive die with a deep blue color like the color of the sea.
Are the eyes of the dice pearls?
“Did you say Victor? Catch the dice on the other side. And throw it with my signal.”
As Calypso said, there was another dice as big as a soccer ball at my feet.
When I was amazed that there were two dice like this, Calypso simply said,
“All games are played with a pair of dice. It’s a rule set by the gods. Isn’t that obvious?”
“… A pair of dice.”
“Okay then throw it.”
Degur.
Degur.
Me and Calypso’s dice roll over the map.
The die I threw was a 3 and Calypso threw a 2.
“Five people. At this rate, it will be windy weather. Now the waters near Ludens will be peaceful for a week.”
that’s interesting.
The weather at sea is determined by this dice.
It was when the other guys looked around, wondering how to react to this situation.
I noticed Enio staring at the walls of the temple, obsessed with something.
“What are you looking at?”
“Victor-kun, look at this. It has an interesting story written on it.”
“interesting story?”
I approached the wall and looked at the letters written on it.
The contents are as follows.
「The second player, Charybdis, the goddess of the sea, felt bored. So he decided to make a bet with another being to bet his place. The one who became her opponent was——」
“─── threw two strange eight-sided dice. The goddess Charybdis, who had only six dice, could not beat the number of 16 and eventually lost the bet and was submerged in the deep sea.”
Is it a myth engraved on a mural?
It was an interesting story in its own way.
Maybe it’s like a hint to the story.
However, what caught my nerve was the damaged part.
Someone’s name was cleverly covered.
And the mark is a star with an X attached to a cross.
Yes.
It is the mark of the Genesis Church.
Did someone from the Genesis Church come and go here?
boo woo woo-.
Then a loud horn sounded.
As if we were all possessed, we left the temple and headed for the beach.
From the far side of the rising sun on the horizon, a huge ship was approaching this way.
It was a lifeboat headed for us.
It also signaled the end of our bizarre island survival.
“Everybody get on board!”
We boarded the huge rescue ship “Kitanic”.
The name of the ship was a bit unsettling for some reason, but there must be a different option.
“Come back to play before summer ends! Because Ssangwoldo is a beautiful island… !”
“Victor, I’ll give you a ride on your back and swim…” !”
“You are our saviors… !”
The mermaids greet me with a warm feeling.
I wonder if this is the end of the episode, and while I was laughing with satisfaction, someone pinched my side.
“Victoria.”
“Are you okay? Are the pretty mermaids waving? If it’s that good, why don’t you live here.”
“I can’t.”
However, if I retire later, I think it would be nice to live a leisurely life on an island like this.
anyway.
boo woo woo-.
The ship honked and departed.
plop, plop.
Mermaids and dolphins follow around the ship.
The sky is clear and the weather is good.
“Are we really heading to the Rash Guard Forest now?”
It was then.
“Cyrol, where is our sister, Ciriol?… ?”
Arnoi looked around.
It seemed that he wanted to leave the island with the newly discovered nymph, but it was because he couldn’t see Siriol from a certain moment.
Didn’t you get on the boat?
I answered lightly.
“Since she is a sea nymph, she must be in the sea.”
* * *
Wave-like blue hair.
A nymph girl with eyes like the glittering night sea walked lightly somewhere.
She appeared in a strange room with a map under lights.
Everyone was surprised when she appeared.
“You lost the bet and cannot participate in the game.”
At the words of Vulkan, the man holding the hammer, Siriol, the nymph of the seawater, looked around instead of answering.
Then he sits in an empty seat nearby.
At the same time, bubbling bubbles bubbled up from her body, and when everything finally exploded, a thick and mature figure appeared, not a girlish one.
Siriol, the nymph of the sea, or rather, the goddess Charybdis said lightly.
“The game stopped? Then I don’t have to carry out any more penalties. The stupid nymph acting is over now. so where is everyone? What about chaos? Love is?”
“Everyone went looking for dice. Grim Reaper lost his dice. Well, that’s what I said, but I’m sure everyone is going down somewhere in Ludens to have some fun.”
“Well, it’s a rule that says you can’t interfere with Ludens only while the game is in progress. so i came back like this It seems to be true that the game has been discontinued. I can’t believe I lost the dice.”
Charybdis thought of a strange eight-sided dice.
Even if I hadn’t been fooled by that terrible thing, I wouldn’t have had to pretend to be a stupid nymph in the deep sea.
The Siren, the tribe that followed them, would not have been defeated by Skilla, the clan of Chaos.
But it was good.
“It was kind of fun.”
I also met an interesting guy.
A member of the sea, he was a man worthy of being his great warrior.
Although I was a little reticent.
It was rather nice to have a part like a pirate’s safe sunk deep in the sea.
“This man named Victor. How about making it my great warrior?”
Vulkan, the blacksmith god, shook his head at the words of the goddess Charybdis.
“That made it a little difficult. He’s already someone’s champion. You know there’s a rule that a great warrior appointed by another god cannot be taken away.”
“what? who the hell Appointed first? love? Or chaos?”
Charybdis felt the presence of Freyja, the god of love, in the man.
And everyone knows that the god of chaos that appeared at the end of the island likes that stiff man.
Otherwise, there would be no way to kill Scylla, who was his favorite animal.
However, the blacksmith Shin Vulkan looked around and spoke in a low voice.
“… that is. The one who sat in the eighth chair. The guy who brought the 8-sided dice.”
“That guy… !?”
Charybdis felt the rage boiling.
puzzled at the same time
“That one-eyed guy, you’ve never appointed a great warrior in hundreds of years.”
“It was. I suddenly left the place and left. Thanks to that, we also had a hard time choosing a new 8th. When I pulled it out, I went crazy and quit without being able to even throw the dice.”
“Huh… . It seems that the fact that he chose a human king as his proxy was real. Did you say Gilgamesh?”
“It was. The eighth seat is still vacant because he hid the crown in Ludens.”
“Well, after all, it’s not human, it’s the one-eyed guy’s fault.”
Charybdis remembered the one-eyed man.
A strange and strange man.
I had heard rumors that he had abandoned his place of entertainment and permeated this world.
I hope it’s real
‘I became a character in the game board as a penalty. That man gave up his position as a god because he wanted to, and became a character in a game. He’s a complete madman.’
omnipotence.
immortality.
It was a being that was crazy about amusement, play, and entertainment to the extent of choosing to abandon the absolute throne and become a weak mortal.
therefore.
Who is he now, where and what is he doing?
– Craps, crabs.
“Yes, Krepnoya. I think so too.”
Pooh-.
The bubblegum the man gave him swelled up and exploded.
Is it victor?