After Transmigrating, I Became the Male Lead's Jellyfish - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

When the apocalypse descended, every plant and animal on Earth mutated to some degree. What followed were towering tsunamis and famine, until eighty percent of the land was swallowed by the sea.

I knew nothing about any of that. All I knew was that one day, my tank suddenly became many, many times bigger, big enough for me to drift through the whole home.

At first, I couldn’t see anything clearly. Later, bit by bit, I began to make out the furniture.

After painstakingly dredging up the intelligence from my previous life, I determined that this was the home of a single man. Before the apocalypse, it might have been a very nice place to live. But now, the wide floor-to-ceiling windows had all shattered, and wooden furniture floated in a jumble beneath the ceiling, along with countless medals, creating a strange underwater spectacle.

Along the way, I also found a photograph of someone who was probably my Owner.

The photo had been laminated. In it was a handsome man with a buzz cut, his white lab coat arrogantly hanging open. He wore a very strange pair of goggles and was frowning at the camera.

…With such a kind-looking face, he had to be a good person. Mm.

I gently touched the photo with my little tentacles, and my body began to glow faintly.

I had to find him. An Owner who abandoned his pet was not a good human.

Besides, I was really, really hungry.

Once I found him, I should be able to eat lots of little shrimp again.

Chapter 2

The first time I tried to go out, I crashed into the furniture and nearly bruised my head, or rather, my umbrella handle.

For Little Jellyfish, the outside world was far too dangerous.

After who knew how long, I tried my hardest to transform myself into the shape I had had in my previous life. A jellyfish’s body was mostly water to begin with, a boneless planktonic creature. As I continuously absorbed the water around me, I gradually, somehow, actually managed to become a faintly translucent human figure!

Having burned through a massive amount of energy, I felt even hungrier.

Dizzy and disoriented, I pushed aside the wildly overgrown seaweed and shells, then “swam” out through the floor-to-ceiling window.

Before me lay a brilliant, deathly silent underwater city.

Countless schools of fish passed through the high-rises that had once towered over the streets. Many sets of clothing drifted scattered through the water, wrapped around bodies that had been gnawed down to nothing but skeletons. I noticed that even the fish that used to be harmless were completely different from before. Some had evolved enormous bodies, some had evolved lethal toxins, and even their colors looked extremely dangerous.

No matter how glorious human civilization had once been, in seawater like this, it was fragile enough to shatter at a touch.

And the moment I slipped out of the house, dense, dark schools of fish immediately turned toward me, while the seaweed lunged at me in a frenzy!