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The white-haired little bundle threw herself around Zerg's body, trying to stop him from walking toward the person across from them.

Then the tiny Swarm Overlord dragged the white-haired accessory clinging to him toward the source of that delicious scent.

The feeling of fear suddenly intensified.

It was the Sea God's consciousness that was afraid.

Skadi could not understand it.

But she sensed the danger as well.

As an Abyssal Hunter, Skadi ranked among the best even in Ægir. Otherwise, she would never have been able to deal the Sea God a fatal blow.

And now—

She felt threatened by a tiny child.

And that sense of threat was rapidly escalating.

"Want to eat!"

The tiny Swarm Overlord raised his head and looked at the white-haired woman across from him.

In his eyes, she was no longer humanoid, but a gigantic fish covered in white scales.

The scent was growing richer and richer.

If he could eat her, perhaps he would not be hungry for a while—

And he could gather enough Biomass for the Drones to build a nest and develop the Swarm.

"Gah!" (Food!)

"Woo!" (Offer it!)

"Kah!" (Eat!)

At that moment, three tiny Drones burst onto the scene, each dragging a twisted creature's corpse in its claws.

But the Swarm Overlord's attention was completely fixed on the big fish across from him.

The white-haired little bundle clinging to Zerg noticed the Drones' arrival.

She hurriedly grabbed one of the creature corpses from a Drone's claws.

"Zerg, food!"

Kiana held the strange creature's corpse up before Zerg.

"Food!"

Zerg immediately swallowed the food before him in one bite.

He did not even spare the lingering taste left on her pale fingertips.

"..."

Kiana Kaslana's face turned bright red.

But she still forced herself to endure the embarrassment and fed him the other two creature corpses.

"..."

Once the little child changed targets, the oppressive feeling Skadi sensed immediately weakened considerably.

She looked at the "food" held by those purple creatures—

The Abyssal Hunter's eyes widened sharply.

"Seaborn!"

Even Skadi could not help crying out.

There were actually creatures that treated Seaborn as food?

Was he not afraid of being assimilated by the Seaborn?

Based on past experience, every living thing that consumed Seaborn would eventually be assimilated into part of the Seaborn.

Before the Abyssal Hunter could stop Zerg from eating, Kiana had already fed him all the Seaborn corpses.

"Zerg isn't hungry anymore!"

Rubbing his belly, the tiny child cheered again.

His hunger had temporarily vanished. Those corpses could at least keep him going for a little longer.

"..."

The soot-covered Kiana let out a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, those creatures called Drones had come through!

"Good job!"

She praised them without thinking.

Zerg had almost eaten the orca.

The three little Drones immediately waved their claws, looking delighted.

"You... ate Seaborn?"

Skadi's voice slowly rang out.

She looked at him as though she were seeing something utterly unbelievable.

"Seaborn?"

Zerg tilted his head.

"Tasty food!"

Then he understood what the Abyssal Hunter meant.

So those tasty things were called Seaborn!

The tiny Swarm Overlord had learned something new.

"..."

Skadi understood why the Sea God's consciousness had been afraid.

After Zerg ate the Seaborn, his body showed no signs of mutation whatsoever.

As an Abyssal Hunter possessed by the Sea God, she could sense even the faintest trace of Seaborn aura.

And nearly every creature that consumed Seaborn would bear its aura within a short time, until it was eventually transformed completely into a member of the Swarm.

But on Zerg—

There was not the slightest trace of Seaborn aura.

That pointed to a terrifying fact.

Ægir's greatest enemy, the ocean's calamity, Skadi's nightmare—the Seaborn were merely food for some creature.

Were the Seaborn frantically attacking Ægir's cities because predators like Zerg were hunting them?

Was that why the Seaborn desperately expanded, trying to find a safe place to live?

Skadi gradually understood everything.

Even the Seaborn's god was afraid. It remained completely silent and showed no reaction at all as its own kin were devoured.

A question arose in her mind.

If the Seaborn were hunted to extinction—

Then what would become food for these creatures?

Electrician Girl Skadi

"Skadi, you don't smell as tasty anymore?"

After eating the Seaborn corpses offered by the Drones, Zerg looked at the white-scaled fish from before. He found that she had turned back into a human, and the scent of food had become much fainter.

"So strange."

The tiny Swarm Overlord moved close to the Abyssal Hunter and stared at her curiously.

"..."

Skadi sensed the Sea God's decision—

It had directly fallen into a deep sleep to avoid the predator's gaze.

It seemed that the Sea God's fear was precisely what had caused Zerg to fixate on her.

"Now you know who's stronger, right?"

Kiana picked up the tiny child.

She looked at Skadi, who had narrowly escaped death.

"Zerg is the strongest!"

The tiny child raised his head and declared it.

Then the white-haired little bundle could not help scratching his exposed chin.

"Purr, purr..."

Zerg comfortably narrowed his eyes and made sounds like a cat.

"..."

The Abyssal Hunter was at a loss for words.

After all, a terrifying predator capable of hunting Seaborn—was displaying the same habits as a Feline.

Skadi had seen how those Felines reacted when their chins were scratched.

It was exactly the same as Zerg right now.

"Hehehe..."

Feeling the joy of petting Zerg, Kiana wore a goofy smile.

No wonder that silver-haired girl liked doing this.

Seeing the adorable child make that expression improved her mood considerably.

"What are you planning to do next, Skadi?"

Kiana no longer felt hostile toward the Abyssal Hunter.

Mostly because the other woman had nearly been eaten by Zerg.

"... I want to explore this Ægir city."

After thinking for a few seconds, Skadi gave her answer.

She had never been to this Ægir city.

But it might have been one of the Ægir cities already overrun by the Seaborn.

After all, those tiny purple creatures had dragged out Seaborn corpses.

As an Abyssal Hunter, she had never mistaken the presence of Seaborn.

Perhaps some data that the Ægirians had failed to take away or destroy still remained in the city's ruins.

To be honest, the Abyssal Hunter had wandered the land for far too long.

And this time, she had finally returned to her homeland after so long.

"Explore? Zerg wants to join too!"

The tiny Swarm Overlord's eyes lit up when he heard that.

In the past, only the Drones had accompanied him. But now Kiana and Skadi were with him too, and Zerg was very happy.

The three little Drones were infected by their Overlord's emotions and began dancing and waving their limbs.

"Then I'm joining too."