Forgotten Sea: Chapter 7
MC: You…! I…!
MC: You can’t… You at least should…! Say a greeting first…
Rafayel: If I took the time to greet you, you’d probably already be on your way to meet the previous Sea God.
Rafayel: In addition, look at your own hands and legs, where exactly are they placed..
I lower my head, only to discover that my entire being is curled up in Rafayel’s arms, like a hermit crab that has just moved into a new shell.
MC: …. How embarrassing, I’ve left marks on your arm again.
Rafayel: All right, give me your hand.
Rafayel takes the mask off my face and tosses it into the ocean, then takes my hand and gently lifts me.
My body suddenly lighter, my feet steadily standing on the surface of the sea, ripples spreading under us one after another.
Just like this, he escorts me on foot across the surface of the ocean towards the sky. Behind me, the islands one by one become black silhouettes in the slanted rays of sunlight.
He lightly lifts a hand, and waves bloom beneath my feet.
A school of fish dives, a white seagull circles overhead, lightly calling out as it lands on my shoulder.
MC: …
Rafayel: We spent half a day getting here, wasn’t it to see the sunrise? Why aren’t you speaking?
MC: No… I just… have never seen such beautiful scenery in this lifetime.
I pull Rafayel down to sit on the calm surface of the ocean, and carefully stick my legs into the water, allowing schools of fish to curiously circle us.
Rafayel’s eyebrow quirks, and he gently nudges little fish that leap out of the water with his finger.
Rafayel: My childhood and your childhood were not that different.
Rafayel: The previous Lemurian prophecy said, Lemuria only has one last Sea God remaining.
Rafayel: Many years after that Sea God fell, they finally found me in the flames where dawn and dusk collide.
Rafayel: But the deep sea is a place where the , and it’s dangerous everywhere…
Rafayel: So the furthest place I could go to was just the surface of the ocean.
MC: Then you’re… happy? You’ve never thought to run away?
I gently grasp his fingers, my gaze involuntarily drawn to him.
Rafayel: Where do you think the gap in the wall behind the school came from?
MC: …
The sun is out!
The sun pushes aside the clouds, showing its face.
He lifts his gaze to the sky, looking at the crystalline blue light reflecting off the ocean’s surface.
Rafayel: Mmhmm, the sun is out.
Since our secret trip onto land, it has been a long time.
This seems to have become my second home, and I am gradually used to life at the bottom of the ocean—or said another way, days in Whalefall City.
The day before the Sea God’s Ceremony, when the night is deep and quiet, Rafayel secretly drags me to the Temple. Behind us, the flame within the niche flickers, like the even breathing of a dream.
Rafayel: During tomorrow’s ceremony, the Sacred Flame will go out, and the Tome of the Sea God will once again show Lemuria’s prophecy.
Rafayel: Once the Sacred Flame lights up again, the ceremony will end.
MC: What is the Sea God’s Ceremony like?
Rafayel: When the ceremony begins, we’ll sit on thrones adored with shells and pearls, be carried on a hundred golden crabs, and parade through the entire ocean.
MC: Wow! But wouldn’t that be too much trouble for them…
Rafayel: All right, then it’s canceled. Because that was something I just made up.
Rafayel: I don’t know what the Sea God’s Ceremony should be like…
Rafayel: But at least, it shouldn’t be like those you see on land.
Rafayel: Everyone who participates in the festival will receive this ocean’s blessing.
MC: Then what about you, will you also bless me?
Rafayel: Tomorrow’s blessing is for everyone, the blessing right now is for you.
Rafayel: It is the Sea God’s messenger. In the future, no matter what danger you meet, you won’t need to be afraid.
Rafayel: … and there’s one more important thing, I wish to ask you once again.
Rafayel: Are you willing to become my follower?
MC: You want me to offer the most devout faith… you’ll have to offer something unique and special in exchange for it.
Rafayel: Then I’ll give you my heart, you want it?
The moment we each other, as if suddenly startled awake, the heart of the Sacred Flame pulses uneasily, and the shadows on the wall shake along with it.
A few seconds later, it suddenly dims again.
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