A Big Fish Feast

Alvin spent the entire night on the yacht's lower deck, gripping the Golden Vine wrapped around the Megalodon's tail and keeping it swimming nearby.

When necessary, Alvin also let the Golden Vine act on instinct. It would instantly drain the Megalodon's Vigor, making it behave.

The reason Alvin kept watch on deck was that, without his control, his vines would kill the Megalodon that had practically delivered itself to them.

The Golden Vine looked cute and harmless, but it was far more ruthless than the Corpse-Eater Vine.

Besides, vines that had left the soil needed an anchor point. He couldn't let them wreak havoc on this luxury yacht while it was underway. Alvin couldn't accept the idea of swimming all the way to shore from here.

The morning sun shone across the deck. Fox came over with a cup of coffee, holding little Ginny's hand as she brought breakfast to her dad.

Alvin had the Golden Vine loop around his leg to free up his hands. He took the coffee from Fox and sipped it, then crouched down and opened his mouth wide so little Ginny could stuff in two slices of toast with bacon between them.

Fox leaned over to look at the Megalodon darting back and forth beneath the yacht. She watched Alvin with amusement and said, "How much longer are you going to keep this up? If it's really dangerous, why not just kill it?

You don't exactly seem like an animal rights activist..."

Alvin chewed vigorously, then hugged little Ginny and gave her an affectionate kiss amid their giggles. He smiled and said, "There's a valuable drug that can be extracted from its brain to treat Alzheimer's disease. I promised Norman I'd catch the big guy for him."

As he spoke, Alvin put an arm around