A blond young woman was sitting by the ocean on a stone, waiting. She looked at the distance into the ocean and the blue sky that merged on the horizon. The sunset was adding to the clouds and to the surface a golden glow.
A faint breeze smeared her hair and her beautiful face.
It was a nice evening, but she was feeling lonely waiting there by herself.
She hadn't seen him last few days. The whole event seemed to her like it was just a dream.
Do mer-humans really exist?
Or maybe that was a result of her being unconscious for a while, so she made up the whole thing.
Young woman didn't know that for sure.
She had seen him only twice since that event, but he would always disappear without a trace after only a few seconds. And he was always naked, at least on his upper half body. That she knew for sure, but his other half was always in the water, so, who knows what he was hiding there..? He could also be naked overall, because he was just swimming, but he could also hide his tail. She blushed at that thought, and giggled a little, and had fun playing with those thoughts.
Is it possible that he really is a merman?
She had planned to find out for once.
As she was deep in her thoughts, she jumped when she suddenly heard a voice behind her: "Princess Misa?"
"Oh! You scared me, Rem."
"I'm sorry, princess Misa, but you need to get home, the queen is already worried."
The young woman sighed, but obeyed. Ever since the incident happened, the king and queen had been acting overprotective towards her, and they had reason to do so, at least she had to admit it.
"Did you manage to see him again?"
"No..." Misa replied, with a sad look on her face as she stepped in front of her personal maidservant.
"Maybe it would be a good idea for you to give up now, while it's not too late, Princess. Who knows who he is and where he is from. Your parents certainly wouldn't approve of your relationship if he wasn't some royalty, which I doubt he is... this village is big after all, and new people often come here to live."
"Eh, Rem, it's easy for you to say..."
"But I know what I'm saying. I'm just trying to think reasonably, you know."
"I know, but what can I do when he is so pretty... and you know, Rem, that I don't give up so easily. This incident shouldn't have happened a few days ago. I was desperate and mad, but maybe I wouldn't have met him otherwise."
"Anyway, I'm just trying to give you the best advice. You have to be careful. You don't need a new heartbreak."
...
"Oh my God! Ryuk, she is so beautiful!" A young merman watched the princess from a safe distance. "It's just a shame, that I'm not a normal human being, so I can go after her. I just wonder what it's like to be human and walk on the shore..."
"Eh, so what now... You'll easily find one of your kind. Many sirens are after you anyway."
"True, but I don't want any of them..."
"So you're stuck for what you can't have."
"Don't remind me of that."
"You asked for it yourself."
"..."
"You don't even know what true love is anyway."
"And you know?"
"Well, I already have some experience unlike you who are young and inexperienced."
Light glared at Ryuk, when he noticed that the princess is leaving. "She is leaving..."
"Then let's go home, Light, your father will worry." Merman reluctantly plunged into the water and his companion followed him.
Life underwater was exciting and Light was happy, living with his family, but in some ways he was always drawn to the expanse above the ocean. He was eager to see and know the world above, and curious about the life on the earth. He loved to learn new things, and he wanted to explore the world on the ground.
His mind was hungry for knowledge, and life underwater he has already explored for the most part, so he had an urge to explore and experience something new. That is why he often stayed by the coast, and watched people from the distance, hidden among the rocks.
Then one day he saw a pretty girl standing on a cliff. He was enchanted by her beauty and watched her, until the girl suddenly jumped into the water. Light saw, that she had not emerged from the water for a long time, and reacted quickly, and swam in her direction to take her out. When he pulled her out, she was unconscious. He was trying to bring her back as good as he knew. Ryuk mostly advised him what to do. And when he finally succeeded, the girl was confused. When he made sure that she was no longer in life-threatening danger, he has gone quickly back into the water.
From that moment, he was fascinated by her beauty, and since then he had even stronger desire to become a human being, though he knew that wish is nearly impossible to fulfill.