The Azure Serpent swam overhead, the turbulent currents it stirred flipping up nearby fish.
"Black Pig, don't run around! Don't look around! If you ram into a great serpent, we won't be able to bear the consequences!"
Spiky Head yanked back the Fat Catfish, who had been looking everywhere.
That Black Fellow had come to the central court as though he could no longer walk. Its two eyes rolled about, each somehow turning in a different direction, and before it knew it, it had fallen behind.
"Spiky Guard, you too!"
Spiky Head pulled back another Pufferfish, utterly exasperated with his own team members.
The Dragon Palace.
The dream of countless small fish and shrimp—once they arrived, they could barely move on.
They proceeded cautiously for half a day.
More and more great serpents appeared along the broad avenues in every direction. Some lay sprawled across low hills, seeming to blend into their surroundings. If one accidentally bumped into them, they would suddenly open their eyes and raise their scales, danger gleaming from their vertical pupils, scaring fish half to death.
Only after they had vanished without a trace would those gazes finally leave them.
Had they not possessed travel permits, the Pufferfish within the grounds truly suspected they might be treated as food on a platter.
Then an ancient coral tree, orange-red throughout and shining brighter than gold, came into view.
Five fish, ten eyes, all widened in unison. Reflected in the multicolored light, it was as though an upright golden pupil had appeared out of thin air within each of their eyes.
"Fire Tree Silver Flower!"
"So bright!"
"There really is such an enormous coral tree in this world?"
Fire Tree Silver Flower.
The Dragon Palace's one-and-only emblem! Spiky Head introduced it excitedly. "It is said that when the