"Ah, takoyaki! Delicious!"
At the Tide-Chasing Festival, a man in a silver-white diving suit covered in futuristic tech stuffed a takoyaki through the one-way opening in his mask and into his mouth. He hissed and gasped from the heat, but still wore a satisfied expression.
The man had a carefully styled buzz cut, and even his eyebrows had been shaped with a shaved slit. He was fairly ordinary-looking to begin with, but at that moment, he had his mouth stretched wide as he constantly adjusted the scalding ball with his tongue, making him look rather comical. It was also obvious that he was the impatient and hotheaded type.
Beside him, a handsome young man in gray sportswear sighed.
"Oh no, why did 'Order' pair me with an idiot teammate?"
He wasn't wearing any diving equipment, but for some reason, there wasn't even a centimeter of seawater around him, as though a thin membrane covered his body.
Hearing that, the hotheaded young man immediately objected. He quickly chewed the takoyaki twice, then forced himself to swallow it despite the heat. (Author's note: Do not imitate dangerous behavior.)
"'Mountain Sparrow,' why are you suddenly insulting people?!"
The young man called "Mountain Sparrow" was clearly from the Night Watcher. Hearing the other man's words, he showed an apologetic expression.
"Ah, sorry, Captain 'Mad Saber.' I didn't mean to. I just shouldn't have said what I was thinking out loud... Although you said we were here to look for clues, you've done nothing but eat at the Tide-Chasing Festival. But that doesn't mean I should've voiced my complaints about you."
Hearing Mountain Sparrow's words, the hotheaded man called "Mad Saber" felt even more stifled, but he couldn't vent his anger for the moment.
As the captain of Order's second team in Sea City, Mad