About to Be Crushed to Death!

"At this depth... if the bubble coating ruptured, the water pressure would crush us to death, wouldn't it?"

"Mm—your concern was valid." Lin Nuo put away his joking expression and spoke seriously.

"We left in a hurry, and it was nighttime. I really hadn't considered that much."

He looked up at the bubble coating shimmering with flowing light.

"But now that we're already down here, are we supposed to turn back?"

"After all this time, Imu must have noticed that something was wrong.

"Although I used some means to temporarily conceal your presence, that concealment has a time limit and might not be completely reliable.

"I finally got you away from Imu. Before the contract is lifted, I can't let you run back."

Gunko looked at him without saying anything.

She increasingly felt that this man was strange.

It seemed that his relationship with that so-called "old friend" of his was truly very good.

Good enough that, in order to help a friend, he would not hesitate to make an enemy of the most powerful force in the world and rescue a "friend's old acquaintance" he had never even met.

How deep did their bond have to be for someone to go that far?

Gunko lowered her lashes and did not ask any further questions.

The silence lasted for a moment.

Lin Nuo suddenly raised his head and looked into the darkness outside the ship.

His Listening to All Things had caught a subtle change.

The ocean currents were becoming more active.

At first, there was only a slight disturbance. The ship barely swayed, and the bubble coating remained stable.

But soon, the current began to accelerate.

After a series of rhythmic surges, the ship's rocking gradually became more pronounced, and ripples began appearing along the edges of the bubble