That thing.
Mysterious Creature
"WT... glugluglug~"
The instant I saw that thing, I almost cursed on instinct, but the sound was immediately drowned out by a rush of bubbles rising
and a mouthful of bitter, salty seawater surged into my mouth.
My right foot was pulled free, and the thing that had clamped onto it... how should I describe it?
It looked like a centipede shaped like a... well, whatever that shape was.
Its mouth was half open. Strangely, two things like teeth, with hooks growing inward, extended from inside its mouth,
and its
mouth kept writhing as the two hooks slowly retracted into it. Was it trying to swallow me along with my foot?
What the hell was this thing?
Its whole body was segmented, like a centipede, but... it was too long!
The moment I'd struggled, I'd jumped half a meter away, but the lower half of this long worm was still
buried in the dirt, and it kept
trying to drag my leg back into that hole!
"Gluglug~"
I wanted to grab the worm, but for some reason, I instinctively felt a wave of disgust
toward bugs like this. Just thinking about grabbing this many-clawed bug made all the hairs on my body stand on end. I didn't have any hairs, of course, but it was just a figure of speech;
the shiver ran straight from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.
Feeling my body being slowly dragged along, I instinctively grabbed the thing beside me, and that thing was slowly pulled
into the hole with me.
But... wasn't the thing beside me the dead crab?
Wait! A crab!
I whipped around and immediately spotted those two gleaming pincers, facing each other like a pair of mighty claws!
I reached out, grabbed