Want to Put Your Forehead Against Mine, Little Brother?

"Dohwang, what are you doing? Let's go eat."

Hmm. Has it already gotten this late?

This is Noco Corporation's underground marine spirit-creature management facility.

The corridor is surrounded on all sides by floor-to-ceiling glass tanks—not only along both walls, but overhead as well.

Marine spirit creatures leisurely swim through the rippling blue-lit tanks.

It's practically an aquarium.

You could call it a hidden healing spot among the Seedlings.

Splash.

A temporary tank that had been moved to one side.

Inside it, a palm-sized, pitch-black creature had its legs stuck to the glass wall and was staring up at me with bright, unblinking eyes...