Notice 1: Again, apologies for the massive delay. I’ve been really busy in real life these days and haven’t had the chance to get around to it.
This is probably the weirdest side story we’ve had so far. At this point, the author’s probably drunk and just writing whatever pops into his mind (for the first half of the chapter)…
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(Author note)
Originally, I had been planning to publish this chapter during the sumr, but I procrastinated so much here and there that by the ti I noticed it, the sumr had already ended.
So this chapter is a bit of an out-of-season beach episode.
(Author note end)
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On that day, the “Fish” Pisces felt extrely excited.
To clarify, he wasn’t jumping or screaming in excitent like a monkey. He simply felt very excited.
It was midsumr. Under the pretext of it being hot day in and day out, he had taken the opportunity to invite Ruphas and the others to co have a dip in the sea.
Although there was no such thing as the four seasons on the Moon, because he had received a positive reply back from them, he believed that they were probably going to co.
Putting the personalities of Ruphas and the other mbers of the Imperial Thirteen Heavenly Stars aside, in terms of looks alone, they were a brilliant line-up of beautiful won.
Just imagining them wearing swimsuits that exposed a lot of skin made him drool with happiness.
Needless to say, his preparations to receive them were flawless.
He had completely rented out an entire beach, along with a line-up of stores that sold refreshnts.
He had even prepared finely shattered ice covered in various kinds of syrup – apparently, this was known as shaved ice in another world.[1]
Yeah! My preparations are flawless. Co whenever you want.
Just as Pisces thought that, his comrades ca down from the Moon through an X-Gate.
“We’re here, Pisces!”
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
The first person to speak up was Castor, who was already wearing board shorts.
The individual next to him was Sagittarius, who, as usual, was not wearing anything to cover his bottom half.
Looking aside, Pisces also saw… Leon, Taurus, Aigokeros, Karkinos, Orm, rcurius and Terra.
In fact, he even saw Phoenix, Hydrus and the Three Winged Knights there.
“Yo, so we’re at the right place?”
“Grrr…”
Following them was the forr hero’s party, whom Pisces had not intended to invite in the first place.
Apparently, after being invited by Pisces, Ruphas had figured that she might as well also invite them over too.
The people who had arrived as part of that group were Jean, Ricardo, Nick and Shu. There were also Gants, Friedrich, Kaineko, Sarjes and the rfolk.[2]
Behind them, the ranger squad, which had supported the hero’s party from the shadows, was posing.
“Oh, so this is the place. I guess it’s not too bad to forget about work every once in a while and take a swim.”
“Right.”
grez and rak were coming by from the opposite direction.
Almost as if purely to mock Pisces, Benetnash had not co with them.
As a matter of fact, even though Aquarius had not co, Ganydes had co here on his own.
“–”
Crack. Just like that, sothing inside Pisces shattered, creating a crack that ran all the way through him.
What shattered might have been his expectations. Or perhaps, it might have been his ambitions or desires.
Regardless of what it was, Pisces had a strong sense that sothing was about to shatter and scatter into bits and pieces.
“…… Oi…… whatabout Ruphas-sama? Wh, what about all the ladies…?”
“Ruphas-sama said seawater makes her wings sticky and it’s too much of a hassle to wash it afterwards, so she decided not to co. Dina’s busy working. Alovenus-sama spent one million on a gacha ga, so she ended up getting her smartphone confiscated by Dina and is currently depressed.
I don’t think I need to ntion Scorpius, but she said she was going to pass because Ruphas-sama wasn’t going. Libra never had any interest in playing around to begin with. Pollux and Parthenos also said it was too much of a hassle, so they decided not to co.
As for Virgo, she’s gone ‘over there’. Oh, and Aries was sleeping.”
After being shot with that despair-inducing explanation that was fired out of Castor’s mouth, Pisces’s face looked as if the world was about to end at any mont.
It seed that the Moon’s forces had been annihilated for many different reasons.
No, it was not just the forces from the Moon. Looking at the other factions, Pisces felt as if the entire female gender had been annihilated.
Not even the gorilla had co.
Well, I guess she doesn’t really need to co.
And Castor had just casually ntioned Aries, but he’s a guy.
“Ga… ga… aa! Impossible… sothing like this… aa! Why… why…! Only the n… of all things… there are only dudes here…! Sothing like this can’t possibly… sothing like this… it’s unfair…!”
In response to the only-dudes-unexpectedly-appearing-all-at-once show (with the exception of Aries), Pisces’s face distorted as if it was ice cream that was lting, and he fell down on his knees in despair.
This is far too much.
Even though we’re at a beach, why are there only n here…? As if such a hell can be permitted in this world!
Nobody benefits at all from this! This whole situation is no different from spitting at heaven after not being able to understand the wonderful things that were promised to you.
It would be an understatent to say that Pisces’s face looked ugly at that mont. There was a limit as to what qualified as foul.
What was happening right now was a lot worse than Leon, Taurus, Gants, Sagittarius and Orm being together in one place.
But because all of them were very muscular, the atmosphere was just hot and stuffy either way.
Even the others who had ended up coming to the beach were looking around at each other and had expressions that said, “How did things turn out like this…?”
“A, anyways… shall we go for a swim now?”
As nothing would change if things were left as is, Orm made a suggestion to the others, and they all stiffly nodded.
A beach that was completely rented out and full of stuffy n… Such a bad dream would not have existed anywhere else.
However, after having gone through the trouble of coming to the beach, it did not make sense to just go ho without doing anything.
As a result, everyone there ended up deciding to go into the water with a darkened expression.
Even though there were no flowers here, the act of swimming in the sea was in itself still a fun activity.
Although they had initially just been ssing around with gloomy expressions, after a while, the atmosphere lightened up and everyone was able to enjoy their ti.
While the way they were playing around was a little out of norm, since they were doing activities such as dividing the sea up in a way similar to a certain The Ten Commandnts, running on top of the seawater or diving to the bottom of the sea, they were certainly enjoying their ti.
As they were doing so, sothing huge appeared from the ocean.
“Hyahaha! I am the one who inhabits the sea, Tentacle Octopus! Now, where are the lovely kitty cats whose swimsuits I’ll be stripping away!?”
The thing that appeared in front of them was a giant octopus which embodied what it ant to be an erotic monster.
It was squirming its tentacles unpleasantly while at the height of its mood.
A beach ant beautiful won. Beautiful won ant lewd troubles. That was how the scripts usually flowed.
If what you were reading right now was a nocturne novel, this octopus would have played a big role.[3]
Unfortunately… yes… how rciless. Was such a thing even allowed?
Even though it had risen up from the bottom of the sea, the only thing that the octopus could see was hell.
– There were only stuffy bastards.
“………”
The perverted octopus was petrified and looked around for the second ti.
Wherever it looked, it only saw n, n and more nightmare-inducing n.
Every single one of them was far too muscular and far too hot and stuffy.
As a matter of fact, when it ca to Sagittarius, even before he could be forcibly stripped, he had already stripped. The entire thing was far too unsightly.
Once the perverted octopus saw this, it withered. It quite literally withered and shrunk down.
“…… Let just say this… are you guys idiots? This is a beach, why did you guys even co here if there were only going to be guys here? You know what a beach normally entails, right? Would you get what I an if I say that what should be here right now are cute girls wearing flimsy swimsuits that are only a string away from revealing everything and are monts away from causing trouble? You know… I showed up because I wanted to strip swimsuits from so ladies and I was fully prepared to get beaten up by the protective male protagonists of the story, but what even is this…? Why are there only guys here, huh?”
“… Umm, we’re sorry about that, I guess?”
“… I see… so you’re also a miserable man like .”
The one individual who could relate to the soulful cry of the perverted octopus the most was Eros.
He too was shouldering the sa misery that the perverted octopus was shouldering.
Even though I’m here at the beach, why am I swimming together with this all-star line up of hot and stuffy bastards? Right now, I just want to go back to heaven.
Eros and the perverted octopus crossed their arms and tentacles together and embraced each other without saying anything more.
Because the two of them shouldered the sa pain and misery, they could understand each other and thus felt a sense of camaraderie.
At approximately the sa ti, on Earth.
On that day, Minami-Jyuji Sei and Virgo were walking down the beach.
Swimming together in the sea… unfortunately, was difficult.
Although Virgo was wearing the stealth bandage that Ruphas had once used to hide her wings, if she were to enter the water, it would beco undone.
On this planet called Earth where science, rather than fantasy, dominated everything, Virgo’s wings would stand out quite a lot.
Despite that, they at least wanted to have the right atmosphere, so they were currently walking on the beach together.
Sei was solidifying his resolve as he looked at Virgo, who was walking beside him.
… It, it should be about ti, right? It’s fine for to take one more step forward, right? If she tells that she’s actually not interested in , or that we should just stay friends, I won’t be able to recover though. I think that there’s a thread… or at least, there should be… please let there be one… I’m going to say it. Today is the day…
Sei and Virgo could be said to be dating each other. – Sei believed that was the relationship between the two of them.
At the very least, he believed that they had passed the point of re friendship.
Unfortunately, human beings simply did not have enough ti to let such a fleeting relationship continue on indefinitely.
Even though it had already been over five years since the incident, Virgo still looked the sa. In all likelihood, she would continue to look the sa far into the future.
But that was not the case for Sei. In the past, his facial features had the traits of a young man, but after rely five years, he now looked like a mature man.
He had grown taller and his body now looked a lot stronger and sturdier.
By now, he had finished growing. From now on, he could only grow old and start to decline.
Which was why… while he was strong and young, he had to take a step forward and bridge the gap.
“Umm… Virgo. There’s sothing important that I want to talk to you about. Can you hear out for a bit?”
In response to Sei’s words, Virgo simply smiled back without saying anything.
She was also waiting for it. For those words to co from Sei’s mouth.
Interpreting the situation as such, Sei placed his hands on Virgo’s slender shoulders.
“My… lifespan is different from yours. Soti in the future, I’m going to leave you behind and pass on. But if you’re fine with soone like … would you–“
In the middle of Sei making a once-in-a-lifeti confession, the sea abruptly swelled up.
When the two of them turned to look at what was happening, they saw the top half of a giant grotesque monster sticking out of the water.
It was an embodint of insanity. A god sent away from another world.
The Mutant God, Thulhu.
That monster had appeared next to them at the worst possible timing… It looked at the two of them and sensed that it had appeared at a bad mont.
“■■■■■■■…”
Oh. Don’t mind , feel free to continue.
As if it was saying such a thing, Thulhu shook its arms, then sunk back into the ocean.
What did you even co here for?
“………”
“………”
The atmosphere that they had established had been ruined. While it might have just been their imagination, the ocean that had been sparkling under the setting sun since just a mont ago now appeared to be dark and stale.
Although Sei and Virgo were glaring at the sea, half in anger and half in exasperation, there was unfortunately no sign of Thulhu coming back up.
“… Sei-kun, shall we go ho?”
“… Yeah.”
If he were to confess despite the mood having been completely ruined, it would not have been a good mont.
While it was unfortunate, Sei’s once-in-a-lifeti confession would have to be postponed until the next ti.
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(Author note)
Q: What did you even co here for…?
A: Thulhu: “■■…”
Reason: Taking a stroll.
(Author note end)
TpstT: Poor Sei, even in an after-story, he can’t catch a break.
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[1] “snippon/en/guide-to-japan/fnn20180727001/”.
[2] I don’t think we’ve ever been given a na for this rfolk.
[3] Nocturne novels (ノクターンノベルズ) refers to R-18 novels. “noc.syosetu/”.
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