Eternal Island, the villa where Eos and her family lived.
The indoor pool lay as still as a mirror, pale blue ripples gently shimmering beneath the lights.
Vapor rose from the pool, leaving a thin mist on the floor-to-ceiling windows. Lami emerged halfway from the water, her wet white hair clinging to her brown shoulders. With a light shake of her black wings, she scattered the droplets from her feathers.
She had grown much taller since entering the Time Spirit Room. The Lunarian bloodline she had acquired through the Disease-Disease Fruit's genetic rewriting had brought her height to five hundred and fifty centimeters, giving her a long, powerful figure.
Wearing a snug, skimpy swimsuit, she leaned against the pool wall and watched the figure who had just emerged from the changing room.
Shyarly wore a swimsuit of a similar style. Barefoot, she stepped onto the nonslip mat and approached the edge of the pool.
Her actual age had now reached thirty. What had once been her tail had transformed into a pair of long human female legs, their skin smooth and delicate.
She was a little shorter than Lami, roughly five hundred and twenty centimeters tall, but her figure possessed the supple, flowing lines unique to merfolk.
Her eyes had gained a composure that only time could bring.
"Shyarly, have you decided to join us?"
Lami looked her over with a smile, climbed out of the pool, and slipped an arm around Shyarly's shoulders with practiced ease.
"Yes."
Shyarly lowered her head, a face she had not seen in more than ten years appearing in her mind.
That face always wore a lazy smile, its ice-blue eyes like a frozen sky.
She remembered how those eyes had looked at her, as though she were an interesting toy.
Lately, she had