Chapter Three Hundred and Ninety-Nine: "Aren't You My Dog?

In the instant when the King of Sea Monsters swung down that claw, her form instantly shifted from transparent to deep red.

Blood exploded from her fingertips, flowing into her body along her arm, the thick redness beginning to circulate about her, making her fiery red eyes even deeper in hue.

"Aiske—!"

Clifford's nearly hoarse scream resounded amidst the shrieks of the sea monsters.

But where was the blond young man who had been jokingly offering to treat them?

Turned into fragments of flesh and blood, they fell among the pale claws of the King of Sea Monsters.

By now, what was scattered on the ground, drifting in the air, was almost all Aiske.

He was gone.

Under the control of the King of Sea Monsters, those frenziedly attacking sea monsters became more intelligent, and among them even appeared a few with solid bodies indistinguishable from humans, catching the entire team off guard in an instant.