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FMS Episode One 28
🕑 Added 2024-01-22 13:00:04 +0000 UTC"Puff, puff"
"Puff, puff, puuff"
Back at the cabin, they put their heads side by side on the surface and breathed heavily.
"Soo nourishing. After all, humans need air, right?"
Aya gasped. Her face flush red, even the free diver girl seemed to be in distress.
“You bet, Aya. Where, were, you?”
Chihaya wasn’t all that well either. Little did she think she would ever almost drown twice in the same morning.
Chihaya’s wristwatch timer stood paused at 4 minutes and 7 seconds. If it had been ticking till just now, it was quite a record breath hold time.
"I went down and then tried to get back up from the bottom bay, but the hatch was closed.”
"Huh? What bottom bay?"
"But I did get our glasses, and also I have a new gift."
"A gift?"
Aya opened her right palm that had held Chihaya's swimming goggles. There she had a firefly shell with glossy, translucent sheen. It must have been in the sandy bottom of the sea.
"···Wow"
Forgetting that she was out of breath, Chihaya stood staring at Aya’s shell for a moment. The faint bluish glow of the sea seemed to add an element of serene beauty to the small creature. Was the world of sea full of such mesmerizing treasures?
“Aya-chan, I’ll go down to the bottom of the sea, like you.”
"Oh," Aya seemed surprised. “I don’t think you can.”
"Why not?"
"Cos you’re not a very good diver. Slow and blowing bubbles a lot.”
“I’m not?" Chihaya pretended her rage. Because she had been so worried earlier, being able to chat with Aya was particularly comforting.
"Well, let me tell you I was on the swim team. I was actually the fastest freestyle in my class."
"Ha," Aya was not impressed. "Well, if you want to get better at diving, you just need to practice. A dive camp.”
"A dive camp?"
"Right. Follow-me, Chihaya." Aya said, and immediately her body slipped under the dark surface.
"Right now?" Chihaya followed suit. She wondered if she will ever get back up to the surface in one piece.
Comments
umibuta
The next scene is one of my top favorites among all UW stories I've read those years...and as already been said above, I really wish to see more of their training
Didrik Svahn
So it’s now that Aya’s infamous diving training of Chihaya begins. I’m so looking forward to see what trouble and misadventures Aya will put her in ^^
