Gorgeous Siren!

The tail is already so beautiful it leaves me speechless. It is rainbow-colored and glowing. More resplendent than all the stars in the sky combined. Nobler than anything I have ever witnessed. It shows elegance and pure beauty.

It is then that the whole creature emerges slowly. I can hear myself gulping audibly. My companions are probably doing the same for all I know. There is no way anyone can remain frigid with such a sight.

It finally comes out playfully sending droplets of water our way. I only have one word. Huge! So damn huge!

Any man of culture definitively knows what I am referring to. So big one could hug it for days without getting bored. Exploring every nick and cranny of that tender-looking flesh.

What about the brilliant scales? Long forgotten. For in front of us appears what can only be described as ….A pure …Heavenly …Mystical …Enchanting …Goldfish.

What is up with this situation?! I was expecting a woman with an awesome body and I get a goldfish?! Give me back my shattered hopes and dreams!

This is not how it should be happening. This is immoral! Calling a motherfucking goldfish a siren is against the rules!

This much should be common sense. I feel like crying now. I turn back toward my beastly companions.

[You guys are sure this is the siren?]

They are all nodding.

[This is a joke, right?]

Apparently not. The old ghost did say she is a self-proclaimed siren. This should be illegal. This is simply too cruel. * Sigh * I guess we have problems that are more urgent than this.

"Human what brings you to my humble abode. Are you here to listen to this Siren's alluring song? Or are you perhaps here to feast your eyes on my transcendent beauty?"

Her voice is truly charming, but still. How about none of the above. I truly feel like eating sashimi right about now. I wonder why.

[No, the old ghost told me you might be able to help us. These guys are now silent no matter what they do and ….]

"Human, what do you mean by silent?"

[Just look at them. No matter what they aren't producing any sound.]

"How peculiar and scary! Sound magic is my specialty and I have never seen something so uncanny before! Usually, one would accomplish such a thing with a barrier. Mostly a static one, in some cases using a medium as a formation core to move it around. This should be quite impossible. At least for sound magic.

Curses could easily make such a thing happen at first glance, but that wouldn't affect the surroundings too. Yet it only affects the sound they directly produce and not anything else no matter the range."

This fish seems to know what it is talking about. Guess I'll just wait for it to be done thinking aloud.

"What if it was the result of advanced magic that combined both sound magic and illusion magic? The sound barrier could be present but there could be some measure preventing us from realizing its existence. This would mean that whoever did this is definitively a powerful archmage of some sort."

That is so off from reality. I have no clue what the hell I was doing back there.

If I had to say I feel like an idiot that got mistaken for a genius after finding the answer to an unsolvable equation on the internet.

Finding as in looking for porn and stumbling upon some guy bragging about solving it in the comment section. Then bringing that shit to a pro to prove him wrong only to have him misunderstand you.

Then you try to come clean, but he misunderstands even more. Then some really cute chick talks to you because she is interested in smart guys and then …. you end up in hell. I kinda skipped a few details there.

Anyway, that's how I feel right now. Getting praised for an achievement that isn't mine.

"Whoever cast this spell might very well be a threat to the very forest and ….by the way human who are you?"

[Oh, I'm just a friend of Yggdrasil don't worry about it….]

I see the bear and the tiger giving me puppy eyes on the sidelines.

[…As well as these guys' teacher for some reason.]

Now they are looking proud and happy.

"Is this true?! Wow! This is perfect! I will need your help to figure out who did this. Have any of you seen his true appearance or any medium he might have cast his spell through?! The more information we can gather the less unprepared we will be. We also need to convoke the guardians as soon as possible. This is an extreme danger that cannot be ignored under any circumstances!"

How should I break the news to her? What about the other two? They are looking at me proudly.

Somehow, I get the feeling they are thinking something along the line of isn't our teacher amazing! He is so strong the siren instantly wants to call a guardian meeting because of one tiny spell he used!

I can't let that happen. After all, these guys already got disturbed once because of me. Also, who knows if the spider is done recuperating from her intense fight with the training dummy. While it does sound ridiculous it is a serious concern we should have.

[That won't be necessary, we already know who caused it.]

"Seriously human?! What kind of scary creature was it? Did you guys manage to deal with such a being by yourselves?! How? Amazing?! I was getting worried there for a second. HAHA."

[I'm the one that did cast the spell that rendered them mute.]

She freezes. That much is understandable, she was thinking about all these over-the-top possibilities while ignoring the obvious one. The simple case of a misfire. Still, I won't make fun of her for that. I just want to get them back to normal as fast as possible.

[You see the thing is I did that by mistake while…]

"B-by mistake human?"

Why is she shaking now?

[Yes, by mistake. Why are you asking? What does it…?]

"NOOOOO!"

*SPLASH*

This huge goldfish is now swimming away faster than I would have believed possible.

Why does it look like she's running for her life?

Eh, swimming I mean.

But seriously, why such an extreme reaction?!