episode_0206

My body relaxed because of the sudden release of air and the feeling I was experiencing for the first time in my life, yet somehow felt familiar.

I couldn’t hear anything.

Everything around me felt distant.

The sound of the water flowing from below seemed to sweep everything away.

I slowly raised my hand and touched my lips.

It was still hot, as if the sensation of being underwater had not gone away.

Wet fingers caress soft lips.

But unfortunately, I couldn’t get the same feeling as before.

My gaze turned to Shine’s lips, which were smiling playfully.

“Are you kidding…?”

“Yeah. You were trying to prank me. So I pranked you back.”

As Shine moves her legs, my body sinks slightly.

The legs, which had lost their strength, could no longer support the body.

As long as I’m standing there with my legs held against her, if her legs give out, I’ll sink into the water.

The body moved according to instinct.

The hand that stretched out to avoid falling into the water held tightly onto Shine’s body in front of me.

His face touches her chest.

Her soft chest was too hot.

I was startled and fell away from Shine.

I still had no strength in my legs, but it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t control my body like before.

As I was putting some distance between myself and Shine, I couldn’t help but stop walking when I felt a hard sensation on my back.

There was nowhere else to retreat.

Shine looked at me like that and approached me with a leisurely smile.

Shine, who got closer as I got further away.

Her head was getting too close.

I avoided eye contact, touching my hot cheek.

“You couldn’t breathe inside?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“How did you feel? When you couldn’t breathe.”

I slowly opened my mouth, observing Shine’s expression.

I hope she can’t hear my heart pounding loudly.

“Oh, it was so hard. I couldn’t breathe and my vision was blurry…”

Thud – The small waves tickled my chest.

Shine reached out to the waves and placed her hand on my chest.

The hand clinging to her damp swimsuit moves gently upward.

The sensation is so ticklish that it makes my body shiver.

Shine was laughing as if she was enjoying my reaction.

The hand that was slowly rising reaches the area around my lips.

The damp fingers move slowly.

The place I passed by was as hot as if it had been burned.

I couldn’t move.

I was naturally swept away by the atmosphere that Shine created.

My body’s reaction was also strange.

A faint sense of anticipation blooms in the corner of my chest along with a familiar feeling.

“How did it feel when I gave you breath?”

The little finger presses lightly over the lips.

The soft texture makes your mouth open on its own.

Shine’s fingers entered so naturally.

The tongue moved as if it had been waiting for the familiar intruder.

I opened my mouth to answer her.

But the finger in my mouth kept bothering me.

I moved my tongue and pushed her little finger away.

The fingers that had been exploring various places in the mouth easily withdrew following the movements of the tongue.

“Ha-.”

A sticky string stretched from his mouth and touched his fingers.

She said with a small smile.

“Tell me quickly.”

Everything around me felt distant.

It felt like only me and Shine were left in this space.

“Tell me everything you felt when I breathed into you.”

I nodded in response to her words.

It was hot and sticky.

My chest felt stuffy.

It was ticklish and the area below my belly button was throbbing.

The more she spoke, the deeper Shine’s smile grew.

She asked me again.

With a brighter smile than before.

Same question as before.

“Was the prank fun?”

Time passes without an answer.

Shine, who had been waiting for a long time, slowly reached out with both hands and grabbed my cheeks.

A hand continues to gently run through wet hair.

Shine looked into my eyes and said.

“Shall we do it one more time?”

I couldn’t answer.

The girl reflected in her eyes was greatly embarrassed.

A face flushed red and a chest pounding with breath.

A faint moan escaped from her slightly open mouth.

But that was it.

Before I could answer, Shine slowly backed away.

The hand that falls from my cheek and the breath that is exhaled at close range slowly disappear.

And at that moment, as if waiting, someone jumped out of the water.

“Hey!”

It was rain.

She had a strange plastic thing hanging from her head.

“Rain, Rain?”

I had a rough idea of where that long, wide thing would be used.

Rain, who had suddenly popped out, dove once again and began circling around us.

At first glance, it looked like a real shark was swimming, thanks to the black plastic she was wearing on her head.

If I hadn’t seen the lane below, it wouldn’t have been strange to think that.

Rain, who had been circling around, slowly poked his face out of the water when we didn’t respond.

“I am a shark!”

Rain shouted confidently.

Where on earth can you find a shark with long, golden hair?

Wouldn’t a cute dolphin be better than a scary shark?

I let out a small laugh when I saw that lane.

The heat that had been wrapping around my body had already disappeared.

The feeling of longing that I had felt until just before had long since disappeared like a dream in the middle of the night.

Shine reached out to the rain shark.

But the rain shark went back into the water without being caught by her.

And so the game of tag began.

Shine moves as if trying to catch Rain, but no matter how good her athletic ability is, she can’t beat Rain in the water.

I also tried to catch Lane by following Shine, but Lane, who swam like a real shark, easily escaped our grasp.

Rain, shaking off all hands, turned into a shark, sticking his fin out of the water and spinning around.

The sight seemed like it was taking medicine.

If she were out of the water, she would definitely be looking at me and Shine, sticking her tongue out with a smug expression.

I took a deep breath and went into the water.

With a gurgling sound of bubbles, everything around becomes quiet.

As expected, Rain was swimming hard in the water with a smug expression on his face.

She looked slightly surprised at my sudden attempt to dive.

But soon she started to swim, wiggling and smiling mischievously.

Rain’s small body cuts through the water and approaches me.

I waited for her quietly.

There was one rule to our play among ourselves.

Do not use your abilities.

If you use your abilities, the game becomes no fun.

Rain seemed to have momentarily forgotten that fact as he was underwater.

Rain’s mischievous smile gets closer and closer.

She opened her mouth wide as if she was going to bite me like a shark.

I’ve been waiting for you, Rain-

I let out a small voice under the water.

I don’t know if she heard me, but even I couldn’t hear my own voice properly.

A lot of bubbles pour down, confusing the view.

I put my hand out between them.

Dismissal-

A blue light flashes from the outstretched hand.

Just like you did for Appleton.

It brings out electric currents that have a relaxing effect on the body.

A little stronger.

So much so that I couldn’t exert any strength in my body.

So much so that I lost all my strength and floated in the water.

I laughed ferociously and used my power.

A flash of blue light dazzles my eyes.

Rain’s astonished expression was visible through the scattering bubbles.

Rain shivered as if he had been shocked.

A gentle smile then appears on the face that had been shocked.

Like someone having a happy dream, she slowly began to rise to the surface.

But here a problem arose.

The point is that he used his powers underwater.

Contrary to my intention, the blue lights stretching out in all directions caught my attention.

I quickly turned my head to the side.

Shine, who was standing next to me, also seemed to have lost all strength and was floating in the water.

I quickly came up to the surface.

“Gasp.”

I looked around and covered my mouth.

All the students who were in the water, like Rain and Shine, were floating.

The water in the pool was slowly turning a strange color.

I grabbed Shine and Rain’s bodies and quickly got out of the pool.

The two people with their heads hanging down trembled intermittently.

“Huh, hueeeng-”

Rain’s condition was not good at all.

He was wriggling with a happy smile, like he was drunk.

“Jeff-.”

Shine must have felt the same way as Rain, but she was panting and frowning.

“Mi, sorry. I forgot we were underwater.”

Shine looked up at me without saying a word.

No, I can’t say anything.

“So, was the joke fun?”

I could only say that with an awkward smile.

There was a commotion at the swimming pool.

It was natural that the children who were playing nicely suddenly floated on the water.

I dragged Shine and Rain into the locker room, avoiding the gaze of the kids around me.

The two people, whose bodies had lost all strength, still had no intention of getting up.

“Uh, what should I do…”

I looked at the two people who were pressed against each other and muttered.

A rain that spouts water intermittently with a hissing sound.

The water flowing from his mouth was wetting the surroundings.

Shine was desperately trying to move her body.

Shine flinched, her face reddened.

She eventually sat up and leaned against the cabinet.

“Just now. What was that?”

“That, that?”

“Yeah. What you did to me and Rain.”

I answered Shine’s words, my hands twitching.

“That, there’s something you used to do for Appleton… to relax his body.”

“Isn’t that relaxing?”

Shine said that and let out a sweet breath.

Haat- Her small chest flinched with a weak groan.

Shine desperately tried to get up.

But she continued to slump to the floor, her trembling legs seemingly losing their strength.

“Jeff.”

“Yeah…”

“Don’t use this on me.”

“Uh… Okay.”

“And…”

Shine’s gaze turns to Rain.

Rain still hadn’t come to his senses.

“To Rain too.”

“Oh, okay. Then what about Appleton?”

Shine’s expression became complicated.

She opened her mouth again, slowly catching her breath.

“You said you were doing that to Appleton?”

“Yeah, I changed it a bit stronger, but…”

“If it’s something you usually do, it’s okay.”

“Oh. Yeah.”

I was overcome with a strange feeling as I watched the staggering Shine.

When I thought about how it had changed under my touch, something, something felt strange.

I wiggle my toes in a tingling sensation.

“Let’s go back.”

Shine said in a weak voice.

“Then what about the swimming club?”

“Not really.”

I quite liked it, but it wasn’t that great.

I let out a small sigh and carried the trembling Rain in my arms and headed to the shower room.

The shower room was empty.

It was natural since class was still in progress.

First, I washed my body, then I cleaned the fallen rain.

The atmosphere became strange because of the rain that squeaked every time I touched it, but I couldn’t just leave the rain that had sagged like this.

Rain, who had been continuously hit by warm water, began to slowly come to his senses.

“Jeff?”

“Yeah. It’s Jeff.”

Rain’s blurry gaze began to look up at me.

I held the shower head over her face.

Swaaaah – Rain was smiling as he was hit by the cool, pouring water.

“Is this a dream?”

“Why do you think it’s a dream?”

“Jeff is washing me.”

I laughed slightly at Rain’s words and applied a generous amount of body wash to her body.

After I had been washing Rain’s body with such care for a while, Shine, who had finished showering first, approached me.

“Until Shine?”

“Rain.”

Shine poked Lane’s armpit.

Then, Rain jumped up from his seat in shock.

“Rain could you move?”

I looked at Rain, who had suddenly gotten up, with a surprised expression on his face.

I thought she still couldn’t move because she was lying there limply, but she was just hiding the fact that she could move.

Rain, covered in foam, awkwardly smiled and went under the shower.

After I finished showering, I changed into my original clothes.

I looked down at my damp swimsuit.

What me, Shine, and Rain wore.

Where should I put this?

While I was standing there thinking for a moment, Rain suddenly reached out and grabbed the swimsuits.

Then, all the water that had been in the swimsuit drained away in an instant.

Rain stuffed her now lightweight swimsuit, which had lost all its moisture, into her pockets.

Rain, who was patting his pocket with a satisfied expression, noticed my gaze and smiled awkwardly.