Oh?
Hearing such a "greeting," everyone was left somewhat stunned.
Was that how anyone greeted people?
Looking closely, they saw that the divine envoy looked like a delicately featured girl of average height, dressed in white with white hair. She wore black trousers and a black cloak, and held a black wooden staff. Overall, she actually looked fairly normal. The strange part was the enormous black hat on her head, its shape incredibly bizarre—like a round-headed giant fish with an enormous mouth.
"Her features are quite proper, but isn't that hat too weird?"
"Yeah. Does she really need to wear such a strange hat?"
"Look carefully—if she took off the hat, she ought to be quite a beauty..."
"But that hat is still way too strange! Even if she had to wear a huge hat, it should at least be a jellyfish."
"What nonsense are you all talking about? Whether she's beautiful or not isn't important, and neither is what she's wearing. What matters is her combat strength!"
Watching everyone chatter away, Sui Xiong smiled and snapped his fingers. "Show them what you can do."
"Oh."
The divine envoy, who looked like a pretty young girl, answered with that inscrutable utterance, then raised her black wooden staff.
At the tip of the staff, a scarlet light as red as blood lit up. It was not particularly bright, yet everyone present felt an intense sense of danger.
A few seconds later, the hat on her head suddenly made a muffled sound, like bubbles being blown, and opened an incomparably huge mouth.
"Ah?!"
"It... it opened its mouth!"
"Is it really a fish?"
"Why are you wearing a fish on your head?"
Everyone stared in dumbstruck amazement. Inside the mouth of that round-headed giant fish being worn as a hat, scarlet light