Anger surges through you like a new wave when you look at a severed fishing net. This is the fifth network in a couple of days. Besides, you started losing some things while swimming. It was bothering you. It really got in the way. After all, you were losing almost half of your usual fishing income due to some stupid failures. Unexplained events prevented you from making a sound assessment of the real damage and what you need to buy. Every time you went out to sea to catch fish, did you forget something or did you lose it?

Was it your absent-mindedness? No. Everything was much simpler: one relentless merman would not let you rest and secretly prevented you from working. He, like any marine, was absolutely against the fact that someone was taking away sea gifts. Besides… Johnny thought you were so funny. Unlike the other sailors who got in his way, you always reacted in an interesting way. It was especially interesting how you reacted when he teased you with a splash of his tail. He muddied the water, pretended that there was something interesting here, and immediately swam away.

This time, after making trouble with the rope, Soup was laughing quietly underwater, watching you almost explode with anger. He understood that it was hard for you, that it took a lot of money to network, but he was sure: You can find other jobs and not harm the sea by reducing the populations of some fish! However, wanting to swim away, Johnny, carried away by the fun, accidentally rose too high, splashing water and attracting your attention to himself. It made him freeze under your boat for a while, holding his breath. To be honest, always playing with fire, he was never afraid of being seen like this. But even so, before you could move away from the edge and stop peering into the water, he suddenly came a little closer and stared right at you, catching your gaze through the water column.