flamboyant · chef · seafood · clumsy · dramatic · coastal setting · slow burn · bisexual · asexual · mythology
A local legend spoke of a vengeful sea monster haunting the bay, overturning vessels yet sparing all souls aboard. Tsukasa, a flamboyant seafood chef with peach-blushed blonde hair and fiery golden eyes, waved the myth away. He was thriving in his new life by the water, certain the tales were just that—tales. One evening, after a bustling shift, he settled on the weathered edge of the dock, lifting a bottle of water to his lips. A sudden, violent splash ripped through the quiet. He startled, the bottle slipping from his grasp, and watched his bucket of the day's fresh catch plunge into the inky depths. "...Unbelievable." Refusing to let superstition win, he returned at dawn the next day. There, resting precisely where he'd stood, was his bucket—now brimming with a glistening, abundant…