← EpisodesI Learned Magic 11,000 Meters Under the SeaEP001 · SinkingThat night, the storm arrivedearlier than forecast.RRRUMBLE...Attention, passengers.Due to worsening weather,please return to your cabins.TAP TAP TAPWHOOOOM—To nine-year-old Daon,the sea was still an adventure.A blue light outside the windowwas following the ship.Daon, pack your things.Step away from the window.Mom, look over there!The water is—it's glowing.It's been following us!Probably plankton.Come over here.But the light movedagainst the waves.KRA-BOOM!!CRASH!Daon!This is no time to stare.Get out here, now!GROOOAN—Icy seawater swallowedthe end of the corridor.Don't push!My foot...!Their wet handsslowly slipped apart.And then, their last fingertipslost contact.Mom?!DAON—!!People and rushing watercut between them.Where... is Mom?THOOM!CRACK......No.KRRRASH—A nine-year-old bodyfell into the black sea.SPLASH—!!The harder he tried to rise,the deeper he sank.Depth: 200 mDepth: 1,000 mA place beyondboth light and sound.Mom...Two hundred meters. One thousand.Three thousand...Depth: 3,000 m...So cold...A depth where no humancould survive....I'm scared...Then a blue lightapproached Daon.A vast shadow gentlywrapped around the boy....A living thinghas fallen down here.Cholong Halmeom,guide of the abyss.SHHH...The pressure will kill him.I should take him with me.For the first time, Daon sleptin the embrace of the deep.How much time had passed?Everything that looked like a starwas alive.Huh? I can...breathe...?Aah!W-what is that?!What else?I'm the one who saved you.What a rudelittle brat.The place he thought was death's floorwas overflowing with life.Is this... a denof monsters?Monsters, you say.Then what are you?You're breathing wherehumans cannot.That light from before...What's your name,little one?...Daon.Daon. If you want to live here,you must endure this pressureand learn to turn itinto your strength.From today onward...you are the abyss's last pupil.And so began fifteen yearsin the life of a nine-year-old boy.I Learned Magic11,000 Meters Under the SeaEP001 · Sinking — EndContinue from the series page.Back to episodes
