"Uh? Why did she faint so quickly?" Brook, in his soul state, felt a little awkward. He had prepared all sorts of things, so how had Princess Shirahoshi fainted in just one second?
"Forget it. The mission is complete anyway, so I'd better get out of here!" Seeing that Shirahoshi's scream had already caused a commotion, Brook hurriedly transformed into a wisp of soul-smoke and drifted away.
Soon, the maids stationed outside rushed into the room.
At once, cries comparable to those of two thousand ducks erupted.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, what happened to you?"
"Hurry and send someone to inform His Majesty the King!"
"Right, and a doctor! Hurry and bring a doctor over!"
"Right, and have the guards go catch... uh!"
Just then, all four of them collapsed.
A hideous-looking man with an extremely long tongue dripped down from the ceiling.
"Heh-heh-heh, merfolk have a market price of seventy million Beli, and they're practically impossible to buy. The four of them together would be... would be, uh, an uncountable amount of pocket change!" The man, mud dripping from his body from time to time, laughed as he looked at Shirahoshi. "And if we add this super-sized Mermaid Princess, heh-heh-heh, that would be an unimaginable fortune!"
The swamp continued spreading, quickly swallowing all five of them.
"I'll grab a fortune and get out of here immediately. After all, I don't want to go up against that Fleet Admiral!" Caribou's sinister laughter suddenly stopped. He poked his head out of the window in confusion and looked outside. "Why did the sky suddenly turn dark?"
However, that glance nearly froze his soul. "W-what is that? Has Fish-Man Island been targeted by monsters?"
Above Fish-Man Island, countless enormous monsters had gathered. What frightened him even more was that all those monsters had