Of course, you killed it! There were too many things no one had expected.
Or rather, there really were plenty of things in this world that no one could imagine.
So after seeing that the Fantasy Tree existed inside Kesuya's body, all Lan Qingyou had left was a bitter smile.
"What's wrong?"
Noticing something off with Lan Qingyou, Alisa asked.
"The Fantasy Tree we're looking for is inside that thing."
"..."
Alisa's face darkened.
"I was wondering how a specimen suddenly came back to life. I thought something had gone wrong with that Viscount's summoning."
"And it caused the summoned creature to merge with the specimen."
"Now it looks like the Fantasy Tree was behind everything."
As she spoke, Alisa turned her head to look toward the water pillar.
In just that short while, the water pillar had slowly scattered, revealing Kesuya's true form.
It was a creature with two Big Eyeballs, no nose, and a mouth and chin made entirely of freely swaying beard-tentacles.
These beard-tentacles were exactly the same as the ones Lan Qingyou had seen in Beard Forest.
Though later, they had been directly shattered by something.
But there was no doubt that back then, the things Lan Qingyou had fallen victim to were that clump of stuff.
Of course.
According to what she now understood after being "enlightened" by the Star Dragon King, those beard-tentacles had been killed off by that fellow Gross's phantom, which had also saved her life.
Earlier, she had said the water pillar was a hundred meters wide.
But only when she saw the other party's true form did she realize that this was merely one part of Kesuya's body.
The other part was still hidden beneath the pitch-black surface of the sea.
Moreover.
From Lan Qingyou's observation, this thing's size seemed