10/10 is a pretty overwhelming ending; all the drama and anxiety of the previous chapters makes you feel like everything is going to end badly. When June jumps overboard and Jeon follows her into the sea, it made me doubt whether the ending was truly happy (i.e., if they ended up together), whether they both died, whether Jeon would drown. After thinking about it more carefully, June never actually wants to kill or drown her in the sea. She says she's going to protect her, and although one might think that perhaps for June, drowning her in the sea but being together forever would mean protecting and loving her, it's shown that this isn't the case because June is willing to die instead of stabbing her and drinking her blood underwater. If she intended to drown her and be together as a loving act, shouldn't she have chosen to stab her and stay underwater together as a final act of love? Instead of deciding to die herself on land and let Jeon live and spend her last moments with her? This is why I think that when Jeon and June fall into the water, they survive. June is saved thanks to Jeons trust and love, and Jeon also gets to live under the sea. I think the author wanted to portray the sea not literally, but as leaping into the unknown with the person you love. It shouldn't be taken as if June and Jeon are literally going to build a house out of sand and shells and live in the sea. I believe the whole story alludes to taking risks and leaving everything you've built behind to be with the person you love, hence June being a mermaid and the sea representing the unknown, the possibility of death. The author, in a way, makes us consider whether jumping into the sea, whether that decision, means dying or living. Jeon and June decided it meant living, and it's up to us whether we see the unknown as death or as a life of love. Personally, based on what I've said before, I think they live, because the story isn't meant to reflect something literal but metaphorical.
10/10 is a pretty overwhelming ending; all the drama and anxiety of the previous chapters makes you feel like everything is going to end badly. When June jumps overboard and Jeon follows her into the sea, it made me doubt whether the ending was truly happy (i.e., if they ended up together), whether they both died, whether Jeon would drown. After thinking about it more carefully, June never actually wants to kill or drown her in the sea. She says she's going to protect her, and although one might think that perhaps for June, drowning her in the sea but being together forever would mean protecting and loving her, it's shown that this isn't the case because June is willing to die instead of stabbing her and drinking her blood underwater. If she intended to drown her and be together as a loving act, shouldn't she have chosen to stab her and stay underwater together as a final act of love? Instead of deciding to die herself on land and let Jeon live and spend her last moments with her? This is why I think that when Jeon and June fall into the water, they survive. June is saved thanks to Jeons trust and love, and Jeon also gets to live under the sea. I think the author wanted to portray the sea not literally, but as leaping into the unknown with the person you love. It shouldn't be taken as if June and Jeon are literally going to build a house out of sand and shells and live in the sea. I believe the whole story alludes to taking risks and leaving everything you've built behind to be with the person you love, hence June being a mermaid and the sea representing the unknown, the possibility of death. The author, in a way, makes us consider whether jumping into the sea, whether that decision, means dying or living. Jeon and June decided it meant living, and it's up to us whether we see the unknown as death or as a life of love. Personally, based on what I've said before, I think they live, because the story isn't meant to reflect something literal but metaphorical.