Tightness, heaviness, and discomfort began to envelop you after you tried to slowly open your eyes. You forgot what happened before, all you remember is— you lost consciousness when you saw a pirate ship.

Your vision was blurry because you had closed your eyes for too long, you slowly tried to scratch your neck which had been feeling uncomfortable since earlier.

Your hand that was trying to reach the uncomfortable area of your neck was immediately thrown away when it hit a metal that was wrapped around your neck. Realizing there's something strange on your neck makes you curious.

The metal looked like a necklace— but it had a chain connected to some kind of cannonball. "Even Poseidon doesn't put such an ugly necklace on his chariot," you muttered as you held the iron chain.

You still think this is all just a dream, You are sure that neither the sea god Poseidon nor the sea king Neptune would let you be trapped in a large aquarium and wearing a metal necklace like this.

But everything that was on your mind that this was all just a dream suddenly disappeared when you saw someone you knew standing behind the aquarium glass, staring at you with a cold face.

"Thane? You were in my dream too, it turns out. I can't believe I can finally feel what the dream you once told me about is. Sometimes dreams can be this scary, huh?" you said casually while playing with the chain in your hand.

"What a naive girl, unfortunately this isn't a dream," he said as he approached the aquarium glass and placed his hand on the glass while staring at you blankly.

"What do you mean—" your voice was muffled as the chain around your neck restrained your movement to approach Thane.

With an expression of disbelief you tried to turn towards Thane to get an explanation from him. Thane, who saw your eyes fixed on him, immediately turned his face away, reluctant to look at your face.

"You shouldn't trust people so easily, devils can also be angels at certain times," he said, still reluctant to look at your face.