On the deck, the fishy, salty sea breeze blew past. Master Pride's one large and one small eye narrowed at the same time.
There was someone—or rather, two someones—approaching him simultaneously and appearing behind him, yet he had not sensed them at all... This gave Master Pride an unexpected sense of terror.
Along with that terror, he also realized that after falling into this subworld, he had been suppressed far too severely by the subworld's World Will.
But soon, the displeasure caused by the subworld's suppression was swept away by the peerless beauty before him.
Without a doubt, Master Pride was absolutely the type who indulged in luxury and lust. His greed for pleasure was practically the driving force that had propelled him to the peak of the subworld he originally inhabited—and it had been his only driving force.
To possess boundless desires and be willing to stop at nothing to fulfill them also meant that he could put forth effort beyond ordinary people's imagination.
"Well, well, I never expected this... I truly never expected this..." Master Pride split his mouth into a grin, causing his ugly cheeks to tremble a few times. "I never expected that Charles had been hiding such top-grade merchandise, yet had never handed her over for me to enjoy."
The eyes of Master Pride, who had come from another world, shone brightly. Saliva that he could not suppress because of his desire seeped onto his lips—but beneath that gaze driven by desire, one could faintly see a trace of Cold Light.
Driven by desire but not enslaved by it, and even able to turn endless lust into motivation—this was precisely what made Master Pride terrifying.
In the past, countless opponents had believed that women were Master Pride's only weakness.
Yet more often than not, besides