Following Mobius along the way, Kokomi had discovered over the past few days that although Mobius could be rather strange at times, she was, for the most part, very easy to get along with.
If one ignored some of her strange remarks...
And that tone of hers—if Kokomi did not know that it was simply her habit, she might have thought Mobius was deliberately flirting with her.
"Lady Mobius, I heard that our ancestors once lived in the underwater palace of Enkanomiya, and that it was you, in the past, who brought them to the surface."
"I was wondering, was that palace beneath the sea very dark?"
Since the two had already become quite familiar with each other, Kokomi did not stand on ceremony and voiced the question that had been on her mind.
"Would an underwater palace be very dark?"
Mobius looked speechlessly at Kokomi beside her. How would she know? She was no longer Orobashi.
Of course, she could not answer that way!
"Not exactly. Beneath the sea... there is still some dim light. There are also luminous creatures and decorations. That was enough for the people of Watatsumi at the time!"
Though she did not know the exact circumstances back then, as a biologist, she was quite familiar with marine life. It was easy enough for her to reason out an answer.
"They were not like people today. Even in dim light, they could still see their surroundings."
"So, the people now living on Watatsumi Island have degenerated because of their comfortable lives, especially in terms of eyesight."
With a faint sigh, Mobius actually wanted to see what the people of Watatsumi had been like in the past. Had they truly been like mermaids or fish-men?
After living on land for so long, it was difficult to