Abyssal Moonlight-Chapter1 Demo

"Those who can breathe underwater, and those who cannot."In the nation of Claris, a human child is given the Aquatic Serum at the age of three and is reborn as one of the fishfolk. Those who transform can live in the open water with nothing but their own bodies. — The serum, however, is far too expensive. Those who never receive it are gathered in Abyssaria: a city on the seafloor where half-collapsed domes stand in disordered rows, and nothing but darkness stretches between them.

Its people are never granted names — only registry numbers — and they are made to do the work the fishfolk refuse. In a world where you cannot swim a single meter without an air tank and a hand lamp. Shion and his childhood friend Calen are two such children. When morning classes end, they head for the labor dispatch office; only by completing the job they are assigned do they earn their ration coins. Calen, who has no left arm, dreams of one day becoming one of the fishfolk and finding happiness down here in the deep.

Shion lives to make that dream come true. Today's assignment: sea slug harvesting. The eastern reef, where the current runs so hard that even the transport mantas can't be used. There, among the white and crumbling bones of dead coral, the two meet a young girl working the site alone.…