The Whole Thing Has Turned Into a Major Disaster ( "-ω?? )

The manta ray, also called a devil ray, was also known as a devilfish or blanket ray.

It belonged to the cartilaginous fish class and the manta ray family...

Normally, manta rays had diamond-shaped bodies that could grow more than six meters wide. Their bodies were generally blue-gray, though some were blue and white... Their heads were enormous, with eyes on the underside that allowed them to look sideways and downward. On either side of the head were a pair of cephalic fins formed from their pectoral fins, which jutted forward. Their dorsal fins were tiny, almost nonexistent, while their pectoral fins were wing-shaped. Their tails were long and whip-like, tipped with sharp barbs. In the sea, they looked like enormous bats spreading their wings.

This creature had already been listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and was one of the marine animals protected from fishing.

Of course, little Annie had no idea whether this creature was actually endangered!

In any case, she had seen plenty of these creatures in the underwater world, in the waters around the marine capital of the Atlantis Kingdom. They even wandered leisurely through the city and its outskirts in groups, like patrol soldiers... Eventually, unable to resist her curiosity, she followed a team of supposedly "wild" manta rays for quite a while before finally finding her chance in an uninhabited stretch of sea outside Atlantis. There, she caught the biggest one.

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"Tibbers, tell me, is this thing really tasty? Why does it smell just like those disgusting great white sharks?"

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Before catching this enormous manta ray, which had a diameter of at least a dozen meters after spreading its "wings," little Annie had followed behind it drooling for a long time. But