Chapter 189 – Dayte (5)

Rapid again grabbed my sleeve and walked slowly after me.
Walking with Rapid in an aquarium without many people, I felt a great pleasure that made me shudder.
I’m dating Rapid.
That sense of reality gradually comes and turns into pleasure.

[This is the evacuation route when the monster appears! Everyone please check it out! If you calmly evacuate, I will come to rescue you!]
“Oh…”

A video of Rapid lifting a large sign appears on the screen at the entrance of the aquarium.
Evacuation routes from the CG-processed aquarium are drawn on the signboard.
It is an evacuation guide video that can be seen anywhere, not produced separately by the aquarium.

I reflexively blocked Rapid and looked around.
I see a few people nearby, but no one is looking at me or Rapid.
As I looked around, Rapid pulled my collar and said in a low voice.

“Excuse me… Are you okay.”
“Ah… Is that it?”
“Yes, it is interfering with perception.”

For sure… Was it magic that distorted the space and made it difficult to recognize… ?
Rapid is now keeping everyone else from recognizing him.
That fact gave me a strange pleasure again.

Secretly going on a date with a recognizable magical girl who appears on the monitor right in front of you…
You may think that rapid is not a date, but it is a very stimulating experience for me who thinks it is a date.
I slightly pulled on the sleeve of Rapid’s clothes and walked a little further inside.

“Wow…”

Perhaps because it was properly planned and made from the beginning, the inside of the aquarium was gorgeous from the start.
A large cylindrical tank in which many tropical fish, which are hard to see now, are released, runs from the ceiling to the floor, scattering numerous tropical fish like flowers.
Rapid, who saw the fish shining like colorful stars in the dark room, approached the tank with slow steps, eyes shining like a child.

“Hi… ?”

When Rapid waves his hand at the tank, the tropical fish swim and spread out at the same time as if responding to the greeting.
I thought it was running away, but it’s a little different.
Tropical fish from a little distance cautiously approached and bumped their mouths against the glass window of the tank with Rapid’s hand.

“Hmm… Am I mistaking my hands for food?”
“Is it… ? Are you hungry?”
“I probably won’t be hungry.”

This aquarium is not just a place made for viewing.
An animal protection project that was urgently executed after the appearance of a monster active in the sea… Now it is a place to raise fish that may have already disappeared from nature.
That’s why they are thoroughly managed, so they won’t starve.

“What name is it? ? It’s heart-shaped, so it’s a heart fish… ?”
“Uh…”
“This kid is a blue heart, so maybe he’s a blue heart… ? Is this Yellow Heart?”

It doesn’t look like a heart to me, but it seems to be a heart to Rapid.
Heart fish, that’s a cute idea.
But the name of the fish was not like Blueheart.

“Looking at the description, it says it’s a fish called Discus.”
“Discus… What does it mean?”
“Looking at it, it’s a disc-shaped fish, and it’s from the word disc.”

Discus because it resembles a circular disc.
Unlike Rapid, scholars must have thought that this fish resembled a disc.

“It’s not a heart…”
“… It still looks like a heart.”
“Oh, right?”

It doesn’t look heart-shaped to my eyes either.
Even so, when I told him to match Rapid’s thoughts, Rapid smiled broadly and liked it.
Rapid continued to search for Discus and passed the area where there were tropical fish, as if he liked Discus even though there were many other tropical fish.

“These are the fish that live in the river.”
“Wow…”

Although it says so… I don’t know anything except salmon.
I walked through the dark side by side with Rapid and looked around the tank slowly.
Rapid watches the fish in the tank, and I watch Rapid watch the fish in the tank.
It is a satisfying date course.

“Next… Animal?”
“Ah, a penguin!”

The next course is Turtle, Penguin, Frog… You can see animals moving between water and land.
There are also large snakes, seals, otters and sea otters… And for some reason there were hippos.
Aren’t hippos supposed to be in zoos?

“Hi? How are you?”

Rapid waved and greeted each animal he saw.
At first, I thought it was just an innocent and naive act, but when I saw all the animals that Rapid greeted react one by one, I thought something was strange.
It really does seem to understand and respond to Rapid’s greetings.

Because I’m a magical girl… Could it be that he was using magic to say hello?
It may be that you are sending a message that you are happy to see you through something other than language.
All the animals focused their eyes on Rapid every time he greeted him, and the hippopotamus even made waves by shaking his head several times in the water.

“… Are you saying hello to animals?”
“Yes… Ah yes? No, ah… Uh… Do you do it? Hmm… Yes…”

Rapid was taken aback by my question, then stammered at him as if he was troubled.
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he started talking in a quiet voice.

“Hmm… The magical girl is… You probably don’t understand, but there’s a thing called territories. It was also called the personal area… These days, there is an interpretation that Territory is more word-wise… Ah, anyway, that’s a sensation that ordinary people don’t have.”
“Yes…”
“That is… Well, if you extend the territory like this, and cover the animals… I can vaguely share some of my senses, but it’s kind of like telepathy…”

Telepathy… ?
I’ve seen the word Territory in an article written by a 2nd dong doctor.
Personal area… Private space… Sensations that ordinary people don’t have…
By Territory, are you talking about the unique senses that only magical girls have…? ?

“Uh… Then, if I put that territory on me, can I send telepathy?”
“Oh, that’s not okay. It’s not that Anger doesn’t have a territory… Ah, I’m sure you’re confused when I say this… What should I say… You can do it, but it’s trouble-prone and dangerous…”

Something… I was trying to understand what I was curious about, but the story suddenly got twisted.
Territory is a sense that magical girls have, and I have it too.
But I can’t feel…

“Eww… It’s taken for granted to me now, but it’s hard to explain this in words.”
“Because it’s a feeling I don’t have…”
“Anyway, Mr. Anger and I have different densities in the territories… Maybe if I cover it up, it will be a big deal. It’s easy for animals because they’re not that structured, but for humans… That’s because there’s a difference between passing through a net with large holes and passing through a dense net…”
“Hmm… Okay. I roughly understood.”

I really barely understood.
There is something magical girls call Territory, and people are more complex than animals, so Rapid can put Territory on me, but… That means I could be broken.
I don’t know what… Anyway, I know it’s great.

“Ah, magical girls can briefly overlap territories, so they communicate through that. Very quickly, with thoughts, not sentences… Although this takes quite a bit of training.”
“How amazing…”

The image of Grape and Rapid linking up automatically came to mind.
The high-speed connection, which would be difficult no matter how long we matched, was it because we were sharing our thoughts for a while…
That sounds great, but I know it’s not as simple a skill as it sounds.

After all, what Rapid is saying is that if you connect the territories, you can make a formidable connection, and the more magical girls there are, the stronger they become.
If that was easily possible, all the magical girls would have already defeated the ignorant enemy by connecting the territories.
If that happened, the negatives would have already disappeared, and now the negatives keep attacking… Of course, it is said that this technology is not easy to do.

“… Sorry, talking about magic… I only know this… Isn’t that funny?”
“No, I like magic stories.”

I listened to what I was genuinely interested in and answered honestly, but Rapid stiffened when he heard my answer.
I think he thought I just answered because he was considerate of Rapid.
Rapid, who was nervous for a moment, said with a wider smile on purpose.

“Me, we… Shall we talk about romance novels? Because we have the same hobbies…”
“Ah, um…”

I’d rather hear about magic than that.
But since I’ve already imprinted myself on Rapid as a man with a hobby of reading romance novels… I can’t say I hate it.
I couldn’t help but nod my head slightly.

“Does the scene of going to the aquarium often appear in romance novels?”
“Oh, no… It doesn’t come out often. Come to think of it, why doesn’t it come out… ? It is so pretty.”
“Well, maybe it’s because it’s hard to write… ?”

The appearance of various fishes dancing, the colors shining, the dark yet psychedelic feeling… The lights dyed purple, orange, and blue to represent the depths of the seabed.
Reflected light in the form of ripples that appears when light shines on the waves, the curves of the body that the light reflects on the opposite sex, and the face that looks more beautiful when covered in darkness.
A quiet and low-pitched room, a dark space where no one can see if you hide a little, and the smell of water that you cannot easily smell in everyday life.

It would be difficult to express all of this in writing.
I feel like it might not come out easily.
With that thought in mind, Rapid and I passed from area to area and moved on to the next area.

“Wow…”

The next section is the most famous part of the aquarium, the glass tunnel section.
I don’t know the exact name… It was a walking trail under the sea where you can see the ecosystem of the sea in a huge main tank.