Free! Eternal Swim Chronicle - Complete Diary Collections
フリー！エターナルスイムクロニクル – 完全なダイアリーコレクション
偉大な王の悲しみ - Sorrows of a Great King
Featuring: Tooru Oikawa
#1
Agh, darling, so do really you care to know about me? Hahaha, what a joke that I am even bothering to write this down at all. However, if Hajime were to come across this love note, well…I hope he can only forgive me after he sees my true colors.
I suppose I have to start somewhere, right darling? Well, I was born in the early sites of the desert a bit to the east of the eventual megacity of Sportsbrooke where the town was nothing but shacks and recycled ruins from eons ago (you really don't want to see this place unless you're ready to die).
A fitting king like myself would be ashamed to live in such ratchets and trashcans as I prefer to live by class and a true ruler with an iron fist.
Thankfully though, my older sister, Kotone was able to get in contact with someone in that early megacity town who successfully brought us to this growing paradise. From there, I was enrolled at the Karasuno Middle School and began my volleyball dreams or so I thought they were. (Things got a bit out of hand later on but that's for another story darling.)
#2
The first days at the Elementary School darling were nothing too special but it was obviously better than trying to fight and stay alive back in the shackled homes. At least here, there is plenty of service for goods, food, emergency, and other wild things. Thankfully though, I am only here at this school for a few months and I will be proceeding onto the Middle School.
I ran into this one darling who at first seemed to have fear my presence but then he shrugged and minded his own business. However, I later discovered that he was also taking some volleyball lessons. He seemed to have known some talents in him but not as fabled compared to the Small Giant's legacy.
When I saw him again in the hallway, I asked for his name. At first he was a bit speechless but said that he goes by as Iwaizumi. I called him Iwa-chan and he was blushing a little despite not wanting to admit it.
From there, we began to take lessons together with the Coach for a bit and those last few months went fast as before we knew it, we were in middle school together.
#3
And so we began the Middle School and also the Kitagawa Daiichi Volleyball Club. It was finally official and we were enrolled as soon as we started taking our classes.
There were a bunch of other darlings too including Yuuarou Kindaichi, and Akira Kunimi who knew Iwa-chan-darling from Elementary school in other little league teams. A few new students were also enrolled too including Lev Haiba, Tobio Kageyama, and Yuutarou Kindaichi.
At one point, the famed legend of the Hinata siblings, descendants of the Small Giant visited to our team. However, it was at the time we were moving onto high school soon. But I gave them a few pointers to begin with.
Oh, they were quite adorable…almost worthy to make them my darling servants. However, I could not rupture their fortune so I gave him a few lessons on volleyball. For once, I felt like I was doing something right but little did I realize how much power they had.
I should've kidnapped them when I had the chance but those plans were thwarted thanks to Kei.
#4
This daring darling named Kei discovered some interesting tunnels below Sportsbrooke. I was able to recall a group of foreigners that one day came to Sportsbrooke during a terrible drought that was almost at its peak. These people were able to create an underground reservoir for us but it somehow caused the city to go in utter chaos.
Anyway, he discovered these tunnels that led to the reservoir but were a lot of small chambers that had who knew what inside. One of them had this strange fluid leaking in and out of the ground. I was recruited by him along a few others to observe this and we discovered that this substance was dangerous.
Through a deal with Theagenes, we managed to get hold of someone who knew about this substance and said it was called "Energized Protodermis" or whatever the hell they called it. Quite fascinating stuff if you asked me.
Then of course, Kei had to play around with it as he said something about getting even with the Hinata siblings. I can honestly care less about politics but Kei was determined to find means of overthrowing him and take over the city. (I wouldn't mind having the city to myself but I didn't want to get my hands into that kind of dirt, not as long as that red-head was still in absolute power).
We took samples of them back to a secret location in one of the villages for some experiments though for the first time in years, I was a bit frightened. The next thing we know, BOOM! Fires broke out and it was like walking in hell.