Chapter 505 – #107_Fishbowl (5)
#505
One.
I had a vague intuition.
Siwoo’s four weeks are eventful itself.
It is a constitution that gets caught up in trouble even if you breathe.
It was expected that it would not be a package tour with my mother-in-law from the point when I was caught up in a suspicious incident out of nowhere.
The expected developments in the future will be the appearance of a homunculus with dubious abilities, or the appearance of a public enemy targeting Siu, a male witch.
And as expected, there are signs of blue in the distance.
Shadows dye the blackened night sky even blacker.
If you look closely, each one is a large fish.
Schools of flying fish, whose long pelvic and pectoral fins are connected, spread wide like a glider, and sometimes flutter at breakneck speed.
There is a scene that naturally comes to mind when you see a monster in the form of a fish.
A group of bizarre piranhas that were neither a homunculus nor anything.
A massive massacre at COEX by a cowardly witch while Siwoo was staying in the present world.
When the nightmare of that time comes to mind, the expression naturally hardens.
“What happened?”
Deneb also jumped up on the roof and saw the same scene.
The sight of flying fish flapping their wings all at once, which seemed to be easily crossed by tens of thousands, was spectacular if anything spectacular.
“Count, what should I do? Perhaps they are targeting us.”
It is a pity that he did not take care of the red branch that is usually kept in the laboratory of the Mansion of Jemoni.
If she had known this was going to happen, she would have kept it a little closer.
Siu asked, making a long spear out of her shadow.
“For now, if it were me, I would avoid tracking as much as possible and run away while taking a peek at the situation.”
Even if I thought it was a crisis, my heart was surprisingly quiet.
Even before he became a witch, the number of times he fought for his life risking his life was over 5 times.
In two of those cases, I almost crossed the Nether Road with my heart stopping.
And the fight that he risked his life brought strong strength to Siwoo.
If it was now, he could catch the homunculus in the form of a giant wild dog that he had barely caught with Sharon like a dog.
No matter how many there are, I think it’s worth trying if you catch that much.
Besides, isn’t there Deneb who can use 20th tier magic by himself right now?
“Count?”
However, Deneb did not respond to the call, staring at the other side of the sky with his mouth half open.
Are you nervous?
I heard that both Deneb and Albireo are witches with combat experience.
However, the force of the flying fish flocking like the Chinese army is at a level that can shrink for a while.
The situation was urgent to wait leisurely until the mother-in-law, who had an unexpectedly cute corner, came to her senses.
“I will take the avant-garde. Fall into the chapel and face the wall with your back to it. Count Deneb will support you….”
“… No!”
Suddenly, Deneb interrupted Siu with a loud noise.
Siwoo looked back in surprise.
Deneb tousled her hair and touched her forehead, expressing her confusion.
“If my predictions are correct…. That’s not really dangerous.”
“Does that fly?”
“It’s not a flying fish! That, too, is a monster created by the witch of the deep sea!”
Deneb bit her lip and pounded her chest in frustration.
“The witch of the deep sea….”
Seeing that ominous tone, Siwoo frowned involuntarily.
The sense of déjà vu that came to mind after seeing the flying fish came true.
“The Witch of the Deep is dead. However, the code she left behind still exists and some witches are abusing it. You will know.”
“I know that far. Like Paola Xochitl?”
“Okay. The Witch of the Deep has created her own familiar by weaving her legends and her lore that has been handed down in lore.”
Before the development of science, the sea, which engulfs ships with whimsical winds and storms, was an unknown place to sailors.
Not to mention the deep sea where the sun’s rays never reach.
Since humans are afraid of the unknown, the unknown means fear.
Human imagination inflated with fear created countless imaginary sea monsters, and the Witch of the Deep materialized the tales of a total of five monsters and used them as her familiars.
All of them were mighty and notorious monsters.
However, unlike the homunculus, the monster of the witch of the deep sea had neither the ability to create a pocket dimension to hide her body nor the ability to cross dimensions.
The monster, which grew larger and more threatening with each passing day, caused an unprecedented disaster just by releasing it for a while.
Five ‘fish tanks’ were created to isolate the monster and take it out whenever necessary.
“This is her fishbowl. This city itself is a tank for storing monsters and a hunting ground.”
A world of closed loops, created in a day and destroyed again in a day.
To fill the bottomless empty stomach.
Also, false prey scattered randomly in order not to forget the sense of hunting.
In a world where everything is just a lie, two ‘real’ foods that give off the delicious scent of magical power.
The predator lying in the abyss noticed its existence.
“We have become prey.”
-Koo-goo!!
There was a huge roar.
As soon as Deneb concluded his words, the sea in the distance parted.
Not.
Something just surged through the black surface of the water.
However, because the size was so huge and overwhelming, it only caused a disaster comparable to a tsunami with a small movement.
It seemed that another island had risen in the middle of the sea.
Although the monster had never been seen before, for some reason it had a unique appearance that made it immediately identifiable.
Kraken, a cephalopod-like sea monster resembling an octopus.
Tentacles stretched out with great force and snatched the sailboat flying into the sky.
The mast of the sailboat, which used to show off its magnificent majesty, is broken like a can of millet, and the fuselage folds like a piece of paper.
The flying fish, which had not yet escaped, was no exception.
Even the diameter of the sucker alone exceeded 5M, and the tentacles swiftly snatched the flying fish at an unbelievable speed.
The monster shoves crushed flying fish and wreckage of sailboats into its mouth with tens of thousands of pairs of sharp teeth and roars.
Kuo—!!!
A low-frequency sound that had already transcended the realm of sound and converted into a shock wave resonated in my heart.
At that moment, Siu felt goose bumps all over his body.
For the cries sounded like the terrible screams of thousands of mouths from a group of dead who had sunk into the abyss.
“It looks like we have a main dish.”
Siwoo squeezed the window tightly as he tried to shake off the cold talk with a joke.
“First, let’s run away and see the situation.”
“That would be nice.”
Deneb and Siu spurred on the roof to avoid the flying fish that had reached a close distance before they knew it.
2.
The swarm of large flying fish, fleeing from the Kraken, swallowed everything in sight.
Like a hungry locust with its snout wide open, it bites everything in sight.
When their flight passed the city, all that was left was the wreckage of a building collapsed as if it had been hit by carpet bombing.
An adult male-sized, omnivorous flying fish raiding a medieval port town.
It can’t be a scene that feels like a B-grade cosmic horror.
After that, like a killer whale slowly pursuing a school of sardines, the Kraken steps on the broken wreckage and steadily closes the distance.
The bigger it is, the slower it is for sure.
It was the agility that would allow Siu and Deneb to run away if they made up their mind.
However, they are trapped together in a net where all sorts of troubles arise.
Siu and Deneb had no choice but to shake off the giant flying fish colony before discussing the Kraken’s countermeasures.
-Charleureuk!
Siwoo’s spear, which rotates in an instant, gnaws at the flying fish that rush at him without hesitation.
A flying fish that had been neatly cut in half landed on the roof with a fishy smell stinging the tip of the nose.
– So-so-so-so
Even though only half of her body was left, Siwoo threw a tired gaze at the head of a flying fish that gnawed at the roof with his mouth open.
“It’s very jingling.”
One of Siwoo’s predictions was right, but one was wrong.
One right thing first.
As you might have guessed, this school of flying fish did not pose a particular threat to Siu and Deneb.
It was easier to subdue than the black wild dog that the mother dog mass-produced.
Siwoo’s feet, which were seeping through without even a chance to breathe, had no space to step on with the body of a flying fish in pieces, and in Deneb’s case, a hole was opened in the dense crowd whenever a purple reflection flashed.
In the first place, they run away and bite anything in sight, not specifically targeting Shiu and Deneb.
Just one of the things that didn’t go as expected.
Still, the flying fish are very annoying.
It was just a prediction to think that there were only tens of thousands of them.
Even at this moment, the number of flying fish constantly rising from the sea has exceeded six digits at first glance.
The flying fish flying from all directions without end even after killing them tells us the horror of the mass offensive.
Not only is the range of movement extremely limited, but wear and tear accumulates step by step, like getting wet in drizzle.
The Kraken, which is slowly advancing while turning the ruins of the city into powder, is also a problem for which there is no immediate solution.
“Count! How strong is that octopus!”
Little by little, he moved towards Count Deneb and asked as if shouting loudly.
Because otherwise, your voice will be drowned out by all the roars and flapping of wings.
Noticing that, Deneb waves his hand, and a line is seen connecting the two.
Then, Deneb’s quiet voice came through, not being drowned out by the surrounding noise.
“I will attack first. You can’t just run away like this anyway.”
“Are you okay?”
“If you don’t have an older sister, there will be problems in many ways…. It will be fine though. She is a witch of the depths, but she was definitely a powerful witch, but she was killed by the Duke of Keter 300 years ago. At that time, she was said to be in the 21st rank, so it wouldn’t be difficult for me alone to have at least one familiar.”
The strength of the familiar is generally proportional to the strength of the witch.
Even though the witch of the deep sea in the past was strong enough to sink a country alone despite the resistance of countless witches, at this point, she is just one of the witches that were quite strong.
Deneb made a request after saying trustworthy words.
“Buy me a minute.”
“All right.”
There are no red branches.
However, if you mobilize the number of ribbons that have increased dramatically after subjugating Bianca, it will not be difficult for about 1 minute.
I’ve been through all sorts of hardships so far.
Even if you eat it raw with your mother-in-law’s Carrie at least once, no one will say anything.
“Bloom.”
A ribbon bloomed behind Siwoo’s back and started defending the flying fish.
