Chapter 198 – Volume 40 – The Sway of the Calm Waterside (3)
“Huh, but there are fewer people today than yesterday.”
The woman understood the situation itself, as it was to buy a new comic by the popular artist Shiwoo.
Still, she thought that standing in line for a manga for two days in a row was a bit difficult after all.
The new work by artist Siwoo, ‘Sleep at Calm Waterside’, was sold in a rather unusual way.
One common book that can be purchased no matter where you stand in line.
There was a difference between the two individual books that could only be obtained by standing in a specific line.
Each volume 2 is a different story, but each is a continuation of volume 1.
If you wanted to see what the other choices were, you had to watch the second volume, which had different characters.
The problem was that the volume was not released so much that two volumes could stand in line twice a day.
“Ah, just give me two books. Yes, thank you.”
Therefore, if you want to choose two more books instead of the two books you picked by standing in line in advance just by looking at the pictures on the first day.
I had to come out today, the next day, and stand in line again.
Perhaps, like her, someone who wants to see all of her 2 books would have to queue up for 4 days.
“It makes me feel good, though.”
I don’t know if the manga I read yesterday wasn’t even interesting.
The four mermaids, who are all illuminated more than once in Volume 1, are all cute and charming.
The second volume of Bikini, whose lively smile was the charm, was the exact opposite of what she initially expected, but it left a big aftertaste in its own way.
‘Well, if you say it’s just my taste. It wasn’t…’
She wasn’t too fond of such a dark personality.
Of course, I definitely felt it was a reversal, and with the help of the main character, Mizugi, the scene slowly brightening touched my heart.
In the end, she was transformed into a really lively personality that she seemed to be on the outside, and it was an ending that she could also be satisfied with.
But she wanted to see a little more sparkling story than that.
Thinking that this work is a work with such a twist, I chose One Piece as the 2nd volume to watch today.
The reason was that the bikini, which was so lively and friendly, had a self-loathing personality, so her blunt-looking one-piece might be unexpectedly cheerful.
‘Because, like the bikini that showed a sneaky scar in Volume 1, One Piece puts on a cute expression when it’s embarrassed.’
Anyway, for that reason, one piece was drawn in the second volume she picked today.
A mermaid wearing a swimsuit that clings to her body, the closest to the concept of a swimsuit she knows.
Although the area covered by her body is quite large, the back is so steep that only her flesh can be seen, which has its own dizzying charm.
One Piece is a character who is alone in Volume 1 and does not get along well with other mermaids.
She is at least moderately acquainted with Bikini, who is close to everyone.
She had almost no conversations with Sling or Micro.
Mizugi, who was worried about her one-piece dress submerged in the water all the time, talked to her steadily.
There were many scenes where he responded with an expressionless face each time.
However, when she is surprised sometimes, that expressionless expression is broken, and she remembered that the dress at that time was quite cute.
“When she picks out a bikini, she’s here and she’s almost minding a bikini… Have you seen her self-injury?”
This time, Mizugi pays more attention to the movement of the dress rather than the bikini.
The more Mizugi gets to know One Piece, the more various expressions of One Piece, which seemed to be expressionless, begin to appear.
However, when she realized that the expression she had made on purpose, she hurriedly returned to expressionless while feeling embarrassed when she realized that she was making a different expression.
‘…Is it cute?’
It’s cute even though it’s embarrassing.
As they get closer to each other to the extent that their shyness decreases, their original lively and bright personality begins to emerge.
Of course, it’s not a level that emphasizes her cheerfulness like a bikini, but I thought it was pretty good because she naturally showed that kind of personality.
Even if the bikini was her ending part, her personality in the beginning was close to acting.
Right now in One Piece, being expressionless is rather acting, and that appearance is the real personality.
As she likes to be like that, the story had to be more suited to her taste.
And as time passed, One Piece began to show its bare face in front of Mizugi.
Especially when the relationship between the two of them is so strong that they even have sex.
She couldn’t hold back her admiration as she watched the one-piece dress, which was trying to put on an expressionless face out of embarrassment, unraveled like an idiot every time she reached orgasm.
Mizugi broke through the iron wall expressionless that One Piece showed.
He succeeds in winning love pretty quickly.
While she was hugging him, the one piece that made her cute expression slowly started to tell everything about herself.
“…Swimming competition?”
Just as they train their swordsmanship, mermaids train their bodies and learn swimming skills.
Through it, there is a competition to compete for the time to swim a set section.
It seems that the contest is incredibly honorable among mermaids.
One Piece liked to swim enough to want to win the competition.
It is said that the reason why he usually maintains an expressionless expression was to prevent his competitors from reading his expression.
She nodded her head, thinking that this was like a swordsmanship contest, and that there was some kind of strategy.
“Ah, I’m sure we share water…”
Of course, the line is set, and you can’t go beyond that line.
It is only the area of the body, but water is connected to each other.
So, in addition to swimming herself and moving forward.
It is said that there are tactics that hinder the opponent with the flow of water itself, but it was not good for the strategy to be revealed on the face as much as there was such a tactic.
“Five…”
For the sake of her own dream, she even tried to hide her personality.
The dress sparkled more than she expected.
She thought that a story of working hard for her dream like this was better than a dark and negative story.
It’s because she lives as she flows, without saying that she is her dream right now.
Although I was envious and jealous when I saw those who ran towards their dreams like that.
More than that, she found beauty in them.
And the more Mizugi gets involved with One Piece, the more the story about the swimming competition comes into the main story.
At this point, it was completely different from the manga she read yesterday.
It was so different that it was unbelievable that these were the same two volumes of the same work.
“They’ve become more than just lovers, they’ve become a family.”
And Mizugi started working alone to help One Piece in her quest for victory.
He, who had miscellaneous talents, draws rails on ordinary seas.
Creating waves with simple magic, recreating specific strategies to help practice, and so on.
She naturally helped me with what would have been a waste of time to do alone.
Received domestic help as if the relationship between men and women was reversed, One Piece’s swimming skills improved day by day.
Of course, things weren’t always so good.
Things get out of hand, or you run into a wall where your skills don’t improve.
The strategy that the two of you worked hard on failed and you lost…
There were several setbacks, but they weren’t as serious as during the bikini days.
The two brushed off the situation coolly, overcame it ignorantly with practice, and moved forward little by little.
Eventually, they will compete in a competition to select the best swimming skills among all mermaids.
“I’m rooting for you…”
They are lovers with affection for each other, but more than that, as colleagues and family who came together to this place.
The two of them were partners who shined brighter than anyone else.
While alternately showing the practice and the victorious scenes as a result of the practice, he beats strong prospects one by one and goes up to the final…
“Under…”
Even though it was a happy scene rather than a sad one, it still touched her.
In the last final, while describing the scene of the match in detail.
The fight against a close rival is depicted very dynamically.
She’s not actually watching the finals, she’s just watching the cartoon.
I was so immersed and nervous about this scene that my hands were sweating as I turned the page.
“Championship…!”
And really, in the end, the strategy that the two of us had worked out worked, and we turned around by a narrow margin and finished.
The expressionless expression that One Piece had been forcing until just now, fearing that One Piece’s strategy would be discovered.
The cartoon ended with an expression of joy.
The length of the cartoon itself must have been similar to yesterday.
Perhaps because a lot of her content was focused on her portrayal of the tournament, the amount itself felt by her was smaller.
Rather, she put down her book, feeling that there is a different kind of emotion that a comic like this can give.
‘No, beyond being apart… I like this much more.’
Maybe tomorrow I will buy another book and read the story of the remaining two mermaids.
To be honest, the flame of emotion I felt right now was so intense.
She wasn’t expecting it to be greater than the story of One Piece.
“Swimming anyway…”
Competing in swimming itself is a play culture that has been around for a long time.
Like her swordsmanship, the story of her sincere devotion to her swimming, risking her whole life, came to her quite strangely.
Of course, it is the story of a mermaid, a non-existent or unknown race, but…
‘Isn’t there anything that a person can’t do?’
As long as this work is released anyway, swimsuit products will increase tremendously in the aftermath.
Before that, demand will also increase drastically.
‘…Then, you need a place to wear that swimsuit, right?
She must have seen the story of One Piece as deeply as she did.
Then, how about creating a place where those people can experience something similar to One Piece?
And what if the number of people who really like swimming increases, and even small competitions can be held later…?
‘This sounds like fun?’
It was the moment when something she wanted to do for the first time came into her mind.
